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

CIP4

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

I priced one for a 2015 Transporter the other day, a primed one was €35 and painting locally was €50, a painted one from VW was €120.

The commercial stuff is generally a but cheaper across the board but it gives you an idea. It may be worth the extra for handyness.

Yes I’ll give them a ring and see what the price difference is. Thanks.

vintagevrs

Are they for your car?

JoeA3

CIP, if it’s your car you’re talking about you’ve a few options:

1. If they have to be body coloured, then you can only buy them primed from VW and then you’ll need to get them painted. Last time I checked it wasn’t possible to get them pre painted. If it was you’d pay well for it and it would definitely be cheaper to get painted yourself.
2. You can buy the gloss/matt black as per the Clubsport/TCR or the silver (R) caps off the shelf.

Augeo

Augeo wrote: »

SUV (mock 4x4s one of my friends call them) mpg chat

The Sorento is doing 40mpg overall for me............

This thing ticked over the 50k kms mark a few weeks ago ...... serviced at 20k kms and 40k kms ...... €200 & €226 respectively.......... due again at 60k kms where it'll get a new set of shoes too....... 37.5mpg is the overall average.

Really pleased with it ........ plan to run it for another 4 years at least. My requirements should be different then so maybe the EV route might make sense.

ELM327

Augeo wrote: »

This thing ticked over the 50k kms mark a few weeks ago ...... serviced at 20k kms and 40k kms ...... €200 & €226 respectively.......... due again at 60k kms where it'll get a new set of shoes too....... 37.5mpg is the overall average.

Really pleased with it ........ plan to run it for another 4 years at least. My requirements should be different then so maybe the EV route might make sense.

faux by fours I call them - horrible yokes - delighted I got rid of the xtrail I had a few years back. 2.2 diesel, you'd struggle to get 800km on a tank or 35mpg

ELM327

ELM327 wrote: »

faux by fours I call them - horrible yokes - delighted I got rid of the xtrail I had a few years back. 2.2 diesel, you'd struggle to get 800km on a tank or 35mpg

yeah, as I said, I'm really pleased with mine
And I find 37.5mpg more then palatable to the pocket all considered.

ELM327

I had 350k km on mine when I traded it in for an Ioniq EV so I think it had more than earned its keep at that point all the same

vintagevrs

ELM327 wrote: »

faux by fours I call them

Ha, I'll remember that one.

Last year we had a drop of snow and a relation that lives near by contacted me to offer me a lift in their "4x4". I politely declined and said i'd chance it on my own. Didn't have the heart to tell her it's not a 4x4, as it was almost brand new at the time.

Marcusm

ELM327 wrote: »

faux by fours I call them - horrible yokes - delighted I got rid of the xtrail I had a few years back. 2.2 diesel, you'd struggle to get 800km on a tank or 35mpg

Too try, a real 4x4 shouldn’t Get more than 15mpg, 20 absolute max.

James Bond Junior

Marcusm wrote: »

Too try, a real 4x4 shouldn’t Get more than 15mpg, 20 absolute max.

Currently driving a 3.8 V6 Pajero and it is barely scraping 15mpg. It is slower than a wet week to add insult to injury.

CIP4

vintagevrs wrote: »

Are they for your car?

Yes it is my car.

JoeA3 wrote: »

CIP, if it’s your car you’re talking about you’ve a few options:

1. If they have to be body coloured, then you can only buy them primed from VW and then you’ll need to get them painted. Last time I checked it wasn’t possible to get them pre painted. If it was you’d pay well for it and it would definitely be cheaper to get painted yourself.
2. You can buy the gloss/matt black as per the Clubsport/TCR or the silver (R) caps off the shelf.

Yes I am just looking for white ones to match the cars colour.

OSI wrote: »

On a metallic white GTI I’d go the gloss black route.

I have black ones although I would say they are more matt than gloss. They aren't great as I can only assume the previous owner tried to paint them themselves. Terrible finish to the point that they clearly used masking tape in places and actually aligned it wrong so you can still see a bit of white in places. It's just put me off the whole black thing just want to go back to white. Not trying to make the car stand out at all.

CIP4

James Bond Junior wrote: »

Currently driving a 3.8 V6 Pajero and it is barely scraping 15mpg. It is slower than a wet week to add insult to injury.

You'll find it with most of the jeeps out in the middle east not sure what engine technology they are using but seems way behind the times big V6 petrol engines and they are just so dead and absolute pigs on fuel.

The heat would be a large factor in the various cars seeming nowhere near as peppy as they should be.

UK 3.5l v6 shoguns were 200bhp ish iirc.

James Bond Junior

CIP4 wrote: »

You'll find it with most of the jeeps out in the middle east not sure what engine technology they are using but seems way behind the times big V6 petrol engines and they are just so dead and absolute pigs on fuel.

It makes a nice noise in fairness. That's it though.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

A/C will be the bane of my existence.....


Who does the reconditioned a/c compressors in Dublin folks ?

Esel

CIP4 wrote: »

I have black ones although I would say they are more matt than gloss. They aren't great as I can only assume the previous owner tried to paint them themselves. Terrible finish to the point that they clearly used masking tape in places and actually aligned it wrong so you can still see a bit of white in places. It's just put me off the whole black thing just want to go back to white. Not trying to make the car stand out at all.

Why don't you just get the existing ones repainted?

tossy

OSI wrote: »

On a metallic white GTI I’d go the gloss black route.

I've gloss black on the R, look much better than the silver ones or white ones would. IMO.

Interslice

The only thing id want in the middle east is one if those old boxy patrols with a rb25 skyline engine and a big turbo.

CIP4

Esel wrote: »

Why don't you just get the existing ones repainted?

Just the way they were done is crap enough so I don’t think spraying over them in white they will look right. So it’s best I think just to buy two primed ones and get them painted. Plus that way I can drop them off to be done and collect them whenever they are done without being down the car.

hooch-85

Any decent panel beater will be sanding them down before repainting anyway, especially if changing them from matt black to white! I recently had to replace a rear bumper on my car, got a second hand bumper in the same colour but it was still prepped and painted again.

beertons

Enthusiastically took off from traffic lights earlier, haven't driven the car in a week, and I just needed the essentials from the shop. Washing detergent, softner, boring stuff. Great big puff of black smoke and away I go. Smoke clears, and I see these blue lights coming through, on the other side of the road. Still below 60, couldn't be me. I'm taking a right at the roundabout, check the mirrors, lights gone. Nothing behind me, so I turn and look. That unmarked golf r is beside me. I didn't want to be taking up anyone's time, so I pull off, and continue on with the shopping. When I checked the mirror again, he was gone back down the way he came.

CIP4

hooch-85 wrote: »

Any decent panel beater will be sanding them down before repainting anyway, especially if changing them from matt black to white! I recently had to replace a rear bumper on my car, got a second hand bumper in the same colour but it was still prepped and painted again.

Yes I rang a VW parts garage so worked out at like 100 quid odd for both primed so just bought them. The guy I get for painting doesn’t live near me so will be handier just to have the set to be able to get to him and leave them there for a few weeks. Plus even if they put a good bit of prep into them I’m not convinced the paint finish would be as good on repainting the existing ones. In other words I am not arguing it would be cheaper to paint the existing ones but meh in the grand scheme of things it’s fairly negligible.

CIP4

The Seat Leon at home went in for its first NCT today. We gave it a quick look over last night checked the lights, fluids, tyres, took off wheel nut covers that was about the extent of it. We don't have NCTs too often but once the car is well maintained there isn't much to worry about and it passed.

SCOOP 64

CIP4 wrote: »

The Seat Leon at home went in for its first NCT at home today. We gave it a quick look over last night checked the lights, fluids, tyres, took off wheel nut covers that was about the extent of it. We don't have NCTs too often but once the car is well maintained there isn't much to worry about and it passed.

My opel is well maintain serviced at opel, but the nct will find something wrong, if they look hard enough.

wotzgoingon

CIP4 wrote: »

The Seat Leon at home went in for its first NCT at home today. We gave it a quick look over last night checked the lights, fluids, tyres, took off wheel nut covers that was about the extent of it. We don't have NCTs too often but once the car is well maintained there isn't much to worry about and it passed.

Is that the Leon you have at home? :pac:

CIP4

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Is that the Leon you have at home? :pac:

Haha I’ll just edit that there :pac:

Noccy_Mondy

Anyone have experience with the old 2.8 engine in the late 90s pajero? Have a few questions!

E36Ross

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Anyone have experience with the old 2.8 engine in the late 90s pajero? Have a few questions!

I have a 1994 2.8.

Fairly bullet proof, Just need to keep on top of the cooling system. (They use OAT free coolant.)

If the head goes it'll need a new one, They've ceramic inserts so not easy skim like a normal one.

There's 2 types, 125 and 140bhp.

ofcork

Hit the passenger mirror off a pole indicator lens missing a small piece also bit of plastic near the glass gone too would it pass nct replacing lens and covering hole?

Noccy_Mondy

E36Ross wrote: »

I have a 1994 2.8.

Fairly bullet proof, Just need to keep on top of the cooling system. (They use OAT free coolant.)

If the head goes it'll need a new one, They've ceramic inserts so not easy skim like a normal one.

There's 2 types, 125 and 140bhp.

I'll pm you