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

Leonard Hofstadter

One of teachers had an Impreza (the first generation model), was only a 1.6 though, which kind of spoiled it.

He also had a Glanza (late 90s one), I think that was a turbo model come to think of it.

Noccy_Mondy

Audi A3, A4 or A6 is what I see most teacher car parks full of.

BMW too, a lot of VW and Ford also

James Bond Junior

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Audi A3, A4 or A6 is what I see most teacher car parks full of.

BMW too, a lot of VW and Ford also

They tend to be more adventurous in secondary. The INTO car draw is for an Auris or corrolla.

Truckermal

Patww79 wrote: »

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Along with the Aventis which would be boggo spec of course!

Leonard Hofstadter

One of the teachers in the school near where I live has an E38 728i, it's in mint condition as well, and it sounds lovely with its creamy straight six!

James Bond Junior

captainspeed wrote: »

One of the teachers in the school near where I live has an E38 728i, it's in mint condition as well, and it sounds lovely with its creamy straight six!

If I wasn't driving 70 miles a day just to work I would daily a 6 cyl BMW petrol for definite. A Z4 3.0si coupe to be precise.

Duke O Smiley

A latin teacher at my school had (has) a lovely W124 E220, always struck me as an oddly nice car for a priest.

I agree with Pat about the Auris!

vintagevrs

Fellas doing rings in their car wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Often you see roads covered in tyre marks here, but at least they're not endangering other road users. I would imagine they wait until there isn't another car in sight for fear of being caught.

OldMrBrennan83

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Duke O Smiley

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

A latin teacher at my school had (has) a lovely W124 E220, always struck me as an oddly nice car for a priest.

I agree with Pat about the Auris!

I've a buddy a priest. He's a 1976 280sl and was considering an escort cisworth before he got that. His daily is a glc 220d

CIP4

Came very close to ploughing into a car today. Coming around a tight enough left corner only doing about 40kmh if even that. Car pulled in to the left, in a terrible place still had left indicator on and it was stationary so I pulled out a bit to go past leaving a reasonable amount of clearance. Guy essentially locks the wheels right and goes to pull out at same time at a serious angle basically across the road as I am not far off level with his rear I can't ever remember standing on the brakes so hard and had to swerve to the right more nothing coming towards me. My car stopped dead at this point guy stopped looked back and waved like it was nothing he clearly never checked before moving out as he would of seen me or car behind me. It was seriously close my passenger front corner would of been buried in his driver side Pillar. It funny in them really close ones its like time almost slows down to nothing in the seconds leading up to it.

Why people park in such bad places where there is double yellow lines although you shouldn't need them to tell you its a bad place.

colm_mcm

Augeo wrote: »

I've a buddy a priest. He's a 1976 280sl and was considering an escort cisworth before he got that. His daily is a glc 220d

The money just resting in his account!

colm_mcm

colm_mcm wrote: »

The money just resting in his account!

Sounds dodgy alright .......... he's well into his 50s and a shrewd man. He's a bit of a wheeler dealer. Vintage cars etc would be his thing.

Duke O Smiley

Augeo wrote: »

I've a buddy a priest. He's a 1976 280sl and was considering an escort cisworth before he got that. His daily is a glc 220d

Augeo wrote: »

Sounds dodgy alright .......... he's well into his 50s and a shrewd man. He's a bit of a wheeler dealer. Vintage cars etc would be his thing.

Surely an SJ? :pac:

GustavoFring

Augeo wrote: »

Sounds dodgy alright .......... he's well into his 50s and a shrewd man. He's a bit of a wheeler dealer. Vintage cars etc would be his thing.

He isn't the same fella that had a Capri and 318is too is he?

GustavoFring

GustavoFring wrote: »

He isn't the same fella that had a Capri and 318is too is he?

He did have a Capri......... no 318is (that I know of, I only know him 5/7 years ish), he had a BMW 2002 before the Capri.

GustavoFring

Augeo wrote: »

He did have a Capri......... no 318is (that I know of, I only know him 5/7 years ish), he had a BMW 2002 before the Capri.

If he had a gold coloured Capri the 318is was a minty silver import one.

He did my nans funeral I think:pac:

That'd be him so, Capri was indeed Gold, he might have had a 318is as a daily actually now that I think of it
He got a modern 3 series diesel a few years back as a daily that did replace an older BMW that I never saw.

Four Phucs Ache

Got stuck behind somebody today for a few miles doing 60 in 80 zone.They dropped to 50 here and there.

I thought I might try it myself to see how it feels but there was some unknown force stopping me.

Good god I tried but the car kept reaching 80 or 100.

I could actually feel, sense even hear the thoughts of the drivers behind me.

I actually couldn't do it. It felt weird even contemplating it.

On the other hand it feels good leading your commuting herd at a speed everybody is delighted with. Feels like a pat on the back when I turn off !

colm_mcm

If there’s someone behind you, you’re going too slow. If there’s someone in front of you, they’re going too slow.

EPAndlee

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

It's not unusual to see them parked up in Enniscorthy at stupid o clock on any given night. I was dropping people off to meet the early bus at 5am one Thursday morning and they were sitting in the usual spot. Obviously didn't have to get up and do a day's work.

I spent years out till 3 or 4 on weeknights parked up talking ****e then head home and up at 8 for work

Noccy_Mondy

How much would you expect to pay for an interior valet, full shampoo and dash clean. Car is in no ways bad, just the seats are slightly stained. I know it depends on the place, but I was quoted 70 off a run of the mill corner Street place. Bit steep I thought?

Foxhole Norman

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

How much would you expect to pay for an interior valet, full shampoo and dash clean. Car is in no ways bad, just the seats are slightly stained. I know it depends on the place, but I was quoted 70 off a run of the mill corner Street place. Bit steep I thought?

If it's any consolation, we charge around €200+ for full Interior Details :pac:

CIP4

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

How much would you expect to pay for an interior valet, full shampoo and dash clean. Car is in no ways bad, just the seats are slightly stained. I know it depends on the place, but I was quoted 70 off a run of the mill corner Street place. Bit steep I thought?

Local place in KK same kind of back street operation will do full outside and inside valet for less than that remember getting the golf done and was spotless afterwards. Cleaned glass, shampoo wet vacuum seats/interior/boot cleaned and shined all plastics, de tar, waxed exterior and gave the wheels a fair going over.

So I reckon it is steep for just a run of the mill cleaning place to do it.

EPAndlee

I see places charging from €35. I suppose it comes down to what quality of work you want

Noccy_Mondy

Foxhole Norman wrote:

If it's any consolation, we charge around €200+ for full Interior Details

Ah ya but that's probably a seat out and nitty gritty job?

Is 70 around the average for a normal shampoo etc? Been a few years since I got one done so may be out of tune a bit.

Foxhole Norman

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Ah ya but that's probably a seat out and nitty gritty job?

Is 70 around the average for a normal shampoo etc? Been a few years since I got one done so may be out of tune a bit.

Yeah we always take out the front seats at the very least, if we can. 70 IMO is still cheap, it takes me about 2 hours to properly shampoo Cloth seats as they're fairly tedious to do right, depends on the level they go to!

Noccy_Mondy

Have the loan of a George whenever I want. Done the Mondeo interior thinking it would be great fun, the enjoyment left after the first seat :pac: Would rather pay someone to do it!

crasy dash

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Have the loan of a George whenever I want. Done the Mondeo interior thinking it would be great fun, the enjoyment left after the first seat :pac: Would rather pay someone to do it!

Got the missus Peugeot done yesterday as it's the workhorse with the children even though I have a George just dont have the interest lol.

Local place near me has 2 guys working together so they washed and done a quick polish and cleaned interior and did seats and carpets all for 55euro I felt guilty so gave them an extra tenner .
They took about 3 hours to do it from start to finish.
To be fair it's a hard job in the heat of late and I think for 80% of Irish people they would do a grand job.

For the other 20% the likes of d and d detailing in cork and detailing shed in Dublin are on a different scale but the people who go there expect perfection and are happy to pay accordingly.

James Bond Junior

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Had a nice surprise after handing my classic to my mechanic. I initially thought it needed a new clutch as well as a possible head-gasket/head skim due to coolant loss. Turns out bleeding the clutch and a leaky coolant pipe is all it needed.

What's your classic?