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

CIP4

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Goodyear Eagle F1 all day

Leonard Hofstadter wrote: »

Seconded.

Plus one the new Asy 5 are a seriously impressive tyre for grip. Even pushing on in the wet in my Golf they feel well stuck to the road.

hooch-85

Agree, have the AS5 on the R and they are brilliant. Not mental money either, paid €130 delivered from tyre leader and 15 corner to fit.

colm_mcm

What are the sidewalls like on the F1.
One of my Good Year Efficientgrip asymmetrical only lasted 6 days and the first pothole it hit killed it.

CIP4

colm_mcm wrote: »

What are the sidewalls like on the F1.
One of my Good Year Efficientgrip asymmetrical only lasted 6 days and the first pothole it hit killed it.

I never had an issue and have had a few sets of Asy 3 and this is my first set of Asy 5 they are on the car 3 months at this stage.

colm_mcm

Guess I was unlucky. Went for Turanzas again as that’s all I could get at short notice.

Ciano35

Got myself an STI (the good kind)

VRT booked in 2 weeks time. Hopefully won't be too bad...

vintagevrs

vintagevrs wrote: »

I checked my rear tyres this week and was surprised they are nearly down to the wear indicators. Just checked when I got them and I've put 25k km on them so not too bad after all, I would have guessed it was a lot less.
......

Your car is x drive?
How are fronts wearing? 25k kms not too bad from a 3.0 if you are anyway heavy footed to be fair.

CianRyan

Ciano35 wrote: »

Got myself an STI (the good kind)

VRT booked in 2 weeks time. Hopefully won't be too bad...

Man that looks sick, I’ve always fancied a loud and brash STI.

vintagevrs

Augeo wrote: »

Your car is x drive?
How are fronts wearing? 25k kms not too bad from a 3.0 if you are anyway heavy footed to be fair.

Yeah xdrive, fronts have loads of life left in them.

CianRyan

Augeo wrote: »

Your car is x drive?
How are fronts wearing? 25k kms not too bad from a 3.0 if you are anyway heavy footed to be fair.

To put some perspective on that, I spend my days working on Nissans and Jules are fitted with either Continental Ecogrip (or what ever) or Bridgestone Turanzas, you’d be doing well to get 15-20k out of either of those on that particular car so to get 25k out of a high powered, torque diesel is very good going.

colm_mcm

Any Continentals I’ve had experience of didnt last pissing time.

Midnight_EG

CianRyan wrote: »

Man that looks sick, I’ve always fancied a loud and brash STI.

Buy my WRX

CianRyan

Midnight_EG wrote: »

Buy my WRX

Three weeks, is it that bad?
I’ll take it for a drive if you’re offering though. :cool:

Wibbs

Ciano35 wrote: »

Got myself an STI (the good kind)

VRT booked in 2 weeks time. Hopefully won't be too bad...

Feckin sweeeeeet C. Bags a go.

Midnight_EG

CianRyan wrote: »

Three weeks, is it that bad?
I’ll take it for a drive if you’re offering though. :cool:

Cash is King and the King needs cash :P

Ciano35

Wibbs wrote: »

Feckin sweeeeeet C. Bags a go.

Thanks Wibbs, oh it does go alright :cool:

CianRyan

CianRyan wrote: »

To put some perspective on that, I spend my days working on Nissans and Jules are fitted with either Continental Ecogrip (or what ever) or Bridgestone Turanzas, you’d be doing well to get 15-20k out of either of those on that particular car so to get 25k out of a high powered, torque diesel is very good going.

I'm quite lightfooted but got 65k kms from nexan nfera ru1 on a Kia sorento. AWD and they were swapped front to back at 40k kms. Lots of motorway miles too to be fair.

Sexual Chocolate

hooch-85 wrote: »

Agree, have the AS5 on the R and they are brilliant. Not mental money either, paid €130 delivered from tyre leader and 15 corner to fit.

90 for the fronts and 132 for the rears for mine from Tyreleader. Uniroyles are a about 10-15 cheaper a corner.

It would be a fair assumption that the Goodyears would have the better sidewalls and not ware as quick ?

eljono

I have 18" Goodyear F1 Asy5 on my GTi. Very impressed with them, excellent grip in dry and wet. However I did puncture a sidewall a few days before last Xmas thanks to a deep and cragged pothole. Wouldn't put me off buying them again though or recommending them as a good fit for Irish roads.

I am tempted to try Michelin PS4 next time, very good results vs the Asy5 in this test: https://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Article/2019-Auto-Bild-Summer-Tyre-Test.htm

Sexual Chocolate

Think the battery or alternator is on the way out. Noticed today the wipers move at a slower pace, slightly hesitant on start up and afterwards I got the red battery symbol.

What's this I hear about bmw batteries having to be re-coded ? Some online saying they do and some saying they don't.

CianRyan

Sexual Chocolate wrote: »

Think the battery or alternator is on the way out. Noticed today the wipers move at a slower pace, slightly hesitant on start up and afterwards I got the red battery symbol.

What's this I hear about bmw batteries having to be re-coded ? Some online saying they do and some saying they don't.

You can get away with it but parameters are supposed to be reset after a new battery is fitted in most modern cars.

Sexual Chocolate

CianRyan wrote: »

You can get away with it but parameters are supposed to be reset after a new battery is fitted in most modern cars.

Main dealer job ?

CianRyan

Sexual Chocolate wrote: »

Main dealer job ?

Generally unless you have a specialist who's bought the manufacture software.
If the dealer fits the battery they'll be obliged to program it too and many times with EFB's they're not too much dearer in a stealer.
Worth pricing at least, I know for my own place it's quite reasonable.

marcos_94

Sexual Chocolate wrote: »

Main dealer job ?

Not at all, can be done yourself using the likes of Carly, or any garage with BMW diagnostics can code it in

colm_mcm

I had heard of €400 from a main dealer for battery and coding on an F20

CianRyan

colm_mcm wrote: »

I had heard of €400 from a main dealer for battery and coding on an F20

Jaysus, enhanced flooded batteries are pricey enough but that seems like a reaaal german price.
In Nissan for a 720A EFB you're looking at well less than 300 supplied, fitted and coded.

cadaliac

colm_mcm wrote: »

I had heard of €400 from a main dealer for battery and coding on an F20

:eek:
I know the stop/start car batteries are ~€200 for the battery.
The non stop/start car will take a battery (€120) - at least this is what I paid a few months back.
So coding the battery on top of that - well, I don't think it should be €200 to do that.

Toyotafanboi

Yeah, an EFB for a Golf/ Passat type car would be around €350 fitted and coded. Battery alone is around €210.

wotzgoingon

Well for those that are interested. Last week I said I will get a compression test done to the car so I got it done this evening. Piston rings are a bit worn as the wet test brought it up but there is still decent compression for a 22 year old car with over 240,000 km.


Test | Cyl 1 | Cyl 2 | Cyl 3 | Cyl 4
Dry | 169 | 178 | 171 | 168
Wet | 209 | 222 | 208 | 213

wotzgoingon

It is within specs below is a screen shot of the service manual for a AE111.