***** Motors chat - round 12 *****

MetzgerMeister

Alanstrainor wrote: »

NCT tomorrow evening. I'm nervous for this one... nothing wrong that I know of, but who knows what the test will throw up. Fingers crossed! Say a prayer for me lads! :pac:

Our Bimmer who art in the driveway
Hallowed be thy vanos
Thy NCT come, my will be done
In the test centre as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily NCT cert
And forgive us our failure points
As we forgive those NCT testers who fail us
And lead us not to buy more parts
But deliver us from pricey repairs
Eamonn

tossy

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Our Bimmer who art in the driveway
Hallowed be thy vanos
Thy NCT come, my will be done
In the test centre as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily NCT cert
And forgive us our failure points
As we forgive those NCT testers who fail us
And lead us not to buy more parts
But deliver us from pricey repairs
Eamonn

Bravo sir

Cantona's Collars

For anyone using the N11 between Enniscorthy and Wexford. There's new traffic calming measures being put in place at Kyle Cross (junction for Castlebridge and Killurin)
Whoever designed it obviously doesn't drive much. They've narrowed the road and coming northbound the hard shoulder/feeder lane to turn left has been done away with. Now cars turning left will have to slow to a crawl on a busy road with a 100kph limit .It might make sense on paper but in the real world it's damn dangerous.
They did similar nearer Wexford and by the grace of God nobody has been killed.
A roundabout would have been the sensible option but with road planning in this county,sense tends to go out the window.

Truckermal

Taxed my car for the year this time as I'm using it a good bit, €1494 euros for a bit of paper...

Truckermal

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Thank God we dont pay too much tax on our wages in our country or else that would be robbery... Oh wait...

I know it would tax the wife's Audi for 8 years and she gives out mad about it but she still prefers to drive mine!

CIP4

Truckermal wrote: »

I know it would tax the wife's Audi for 8 years and she gives out mad about it but she still prefers to drive mine!

One way to think of it is how much will your wife's Audi lose in depreciation this year more than 1.5K I would bet I know mine will anyway

ShadowHearth

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Decided to replace all 4 tyres on one of the classics. They all had loads of thread but the fronts were some crap brand and all 4 were ancient. Got 4 nice Toyo's for less than 180e. The joy of having small wheels on a car :pac:

Oneofthe reason I loved my mx5 with stock wheels. Tyres dirt cheap.
I think I payed 37eu a corner for toyo T1R and my friend is mechanic who knew everyone in town and got them fitted for 20eu.

Alanstrainor

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Our Bimmer who art in the driveway
Hallowed be thy vanos
Thy NCT come, my will be done
In the test centre as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily NCT cert
And forgive us our failure points
As we forgive those NCT testers who fail us
And lead us not to buy more parts
But deliver us from pricey repairs
Eamonn

Loved this!

Unfortunately it was a fail this time! But it wasn't so bad, failed on handbrake imbalance which is something I've known to be an issue for a long while now. So I'm going to jack the car up over the weekend and tighten it at the offending wheel. I do think it might be a case of having to replace the shoes, but I'll try the easy option first!

On the plus side, the fella that gave my results was super sound. He said he had an e46 and everything else was perfect. He claimed to have only done his brake shoes recently.

colm_mcm

Do they have a separate shoe for the handbrake?

James Bond Junior

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Loved this!

Unfortunately it was a fail this time! But it wasn't so bad, failed on handbrake imbalance which is something I've known to be an issue for a long while now. So I'm going to jack the car up over the weekend and tighten it at the offending wheel. I do think it might be a case of having to replace the shoes, but I'll try the easy option first!

On the plus side, the fella that gave my results was super sound. He said he had an e46 and everything else was perfect. He claimed to have only done his brake shoes recently.

Nice to get a tester who knows the cars and their foibles well. They can be the best advisors on what to do.

selectamatic

colm_mcm wrote: »

Do they have a separate shoe for the handbrake?

Ya

Alanstrainor

colm_mcm wrote: »

Do they have a separate shoe for the handbrake?

Brake shoes are inside the rear discs. A bit of a pain in the hoop to replace.

CIP4

Anyone recommend a good screenwash concentrate getting into them months of windscreen constantly covered in flys. Normally just get Halfords own brand.

Ryath

CIP4 wrote: »

Anyone recommend a good screenwash concentrate getting into them months of windscreen constantly covered in flys. Normally just get Halfords own brand.

Get the VAG one in the dealers it's only ~€5 a for 5L Ok maybe not in the Audi ones but in the rest it's cheap!

Alanstrainor

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Brake shoes are inside the rear discs. A bit of a pain in the hoop to replace.

Just looked up a youtube DIY guide. It actually doesn't look the worst. But as is always the way, when the job goes smoothly it's easy, but when something doesn't go quite as it should it turns into a nightmare.

Parts are coming in at 25 quid for the parking brake kit. I think at that price I'll have to order it.

Don't they have the adjustment wheel to tighten them up a tad? Like on the old mercs

Alanstrainor

Augeo wrote: »

Don't they have the adjustment wheel to tighten them up a tad? Like on the old mercs

Yes they do. I will adjust the offending nearside wheel at the weekend and see how it feels. However I've done this before, and I think they are as tight as they'll go unfortunately. But I'll see.

Paudee

Myself and OH have two cars, one is an old Corolla which is currently doing about 100km/month. Mostly because I'll go out of my way to drive our other car and my OH is happy to be picked up and dropped off most of the time. Issue is the second car is still probably necessary for the few times a month that one of us is gone for a few days.

I know I should be spreading out our milage across both cars as the new car is clocking up some decent enough km's.

Ah look, long story longer, I've convinced myself the solution is to spend 3.5-5k on something I'll want to get into! I was thinking mx5/mr2 which led to me wondering if paying a grand in tax would be all that bad for a z4 2.5..

I've never driven a RWD roadster but it seems like the logical answer. What would people suggest?

- I couldn't even get my missus to test drive a new mx5 when we were buying last year. But last laughs on her now that I've man logic'd my way around there anyway.

Leonard Hofstadter

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Just looked up a youtube DIY guide. It actually doesn't look the worst. But as is always the way, when the job goes smoothly it's easy, but when something doesn't go quite as it should it turns into a nightmare.

Parts are coming in at 25 quid for the parking brake kit. I think at that price I'll have to order it.

Is that genuine shoes? I had to replace the parking brake shoes on mine when I got it originally, the garage I went to put genuine BMW shoes into it and it was about three times that price! I distinctly remember being told you have to get genuine BMW shoes (well OEM at any rate), the parking brake will never be right otherwise.

Actually, I've got a bit of grief with my own one at the moment. Took it in yesterday to get the front wishbones and bushes, rear offside track rod, rear offside spring, rear diff bushing, rear upper ball joints and wheel alignment done.

Got it back today and took it up to the Sally Gap afterwards to give it a good workout, and while it's definitely a lot better and feels even more solid on the road, rather annoyingly it's still got the original symptom I complained about (vibration through the brake pedal some times) and there is still a creaking/groaning noise coming from the rear passenger's side (which only happens at very low speeds on certain kinds of bumps), so it's going to have to go back in again to get sorted. I found somewhere safe to brake test it this evening and it's definitely not the brakes and there's no heat from the discs so the calipers are good as well.

I'm 99.99% sure it's not the subframe (famous last words:pac:), there's no clunking or tearing sounds going between gears or under hard acceleration or braking etc.

Cantona's Collars

Halfords have some stuff reduced today,axle stands,ramps,oil etc.
A bit too many to put up links individually.
https://pricescanner.ie/halfords/

Harry Palmr

Yet more Takata airbag recalls - Nissan Note and Tiida. Doing some googling and it seems this has been ongoing for one side or the other for years now.

Ryath

https://twitter.com/AlanMCole/status/991321845235412994

wotzgoingon

Tbh they should have crashed into that person so it's easier to find them. Stopping in the middle of what looks like a motorway.

punisher5112

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Tbh they should have crashed into that person so it's easier to find them. Stopping in the middle of what looks like a motorway.

So much precious beer lost......

Why would anyone driving a large vehicle swerve like that.

selous

Sure it's like that every day going from M50 on to Red Cow exit!!:rolleyes:

wotzgoingon

selous wrote: »

Sure it's like that every day going from M50 on to Red Cow exit!!:rolleyes:

I wouldn't know. Never there.


But in all seriousness you are heading off a motorway so you should expect that. You never come across someone stopped in the middle lane in the middle of a motorway now in all fairness.

selous

Oh yes, hit the brakes in lane 3 because that's their exit over there now, regular occurrence, I do M50, N7 and M7 every day, and I would say 3 times a week it happens, or the guy I the middle lane, oops I need petrol, I'll spin over the few lanes here to get it, (without an indicator)

Dartz

Neighbours car got rear-ended yesterday

Caught fire in the driveway an hour ago, all on it's own.

Odd. Must've been a latent short or a loosened connection or something.

punisher5112

Dartz wrote: »

Neighbours car got rear-ended yesterday

Caught fire in the driveway an hour ago, all on it's own.

Odd. Must've been a latent short or a loosened connection or something.

Lucky didn't take the house with it.

Dartz

Dartz wrote: »

Neighbours car got rear-ended yesterday

Caught fire in the driveway an hour ago, all on it's own.

Odd. Must've been a latent short or a loosened connection or something.

Is it a petrol?
Tank might have gotten damaged ........ hot exhaust etc etc maybe.