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

wotzgoingon

Midnight_EG wrote: »

It's time to make some jam :pac:

Is that for that big engined car you bought recently? I can't for the life of me remember what brand the car was. Lexus springs to mind but not fully sure.

colm_mcm

LS460 I think!

Midnight_EG

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Is that for that big engined car you bought recently? I can't for the life of me remember what brand the car was. Lexus springs to mind but not fully sure.

LS460, but no, it's for my R34

I'd supercharge the LS if I ever got the notion to mess with it

punisher5112

Anyone any ideas for a 2.0 tfsi vRS as I want to do some mods and keep her.... She is having a slight misfire seems to be cylinder 3 and think it a wiring issue in loom at plug in point at plugs.

Off the road a year now, all new tyres fitted just before, want to get it going but was also thinking slightly lower and want to do a few bits to make it sweet

Midnight_EG

punisher5112 wrote: »

Anyone any ideas for a 2.0 tfsi vRS as I want to do some mods and keep her.... She is having a slight misfire seems to be cylinder 3 and think it a wiring issue in loom at plug in point at plugs.

Off the road a year now, all new tyres fitted just before, want to get it going but was also thinking slightly lower and want to do a few bits to make it sweet

They're common for coil packs. Upgrade to R8 ones. Or just contact Daltons

punisher5112

Midnight_EG wrote: »

They're common for coil packs. Upgrade to R8 ones. Or just contact Daltons

Excuse my ignorance, Dalton's for which.....

Midnight_EG

punisher5112 wrote: »

Excuse my ignorance, Dalton's for which.....

Upgrading coils, and also some lows if you need it. He does a lot of Revo stuff too.

punisher5112

Midnight_EG wrote: »

Upgrading coils, and also some lows if you need it. He does a lot of Revo stuff too.

Where is he based?
It's all stuff on the to do list but it's a shame she is sitting in the garden.

TheShow

Anyone know what “remote controlled Toyota easy flat system” is? Referenced as a standard feature in a good few models but doesn’t say what it is???

GustavoFring

Folding rear seats.

joujoujou

All tyres instantly flat with a touch of a button.

TheShow

joujoujou wrote: »

All tyres instantly flat with a touch of a button.

The wife can achieve that without any technology 😂

colm_mcm

GustavoFring wrote: »

Folding rear seats.

Cutting edge stuff!

Their best one was ‘touch and go’ for their infotainment.
Pretty apt description of it actually.

wotzgoingon

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Souhans exhaust place. I think that's the name of them. Near you but closer to Dublin.

Just to update on this: I couldn't find Souhans. I googled about but gave up, and found a place near me called Tyrrell's that will do it.

They said a repair would cost €60, but as there's a bit of rust, they wouldn't stand over it, said it could last 3 weeks or 3 years, would be hard to tell depending on how it took. Then said he could fit a new one for €120.

I was expecting a 'new one' to cost about a grand the way he was talking. :rolleyes: So I obviously went with new for less than the price of a tank of diesel, and he said he'll fit it on Tuesday.

wotzgoingon

It's in Trim so not near you at all. Well you are a lot closer to it than me.

He was truthful anyway it may last 3 weeks or the 3 years.

Yea the silencer is about €60 and then the other 60 for the bit of welding he has to do. He obviously must think the rest of the exhaust is in good shape so.

wotzgoingon

wotzgoingon wrote: »

It's in Trim so not near you at all. Well you are a lot closer to it than me.

He was truthful anyway it may last 3 weeks or the 3 years.

Yea the silencer is about €60 and then the other 60 for the bit of welding he has to do. He obviously must think the rest of the exhaust is in good shape so.

I appreciate all your help with this, wotzgoingon. Fair play to you, man.

wotzgoingon

Damn the only time in my life I wish I had air conditioning. And it's not for me it's for my dog who is 16 years and 4 months old. I did drive back from Galway a few weeks ago on a hot day and left both windows open and ended up with a ear ache.

And the mad thing is there was A/C in the car but a previous owner removed it for weight saving.

I still don't think it's hot enough for someone to need A/C in this country unless like me they had a elderly dog or a young child.

punisher5112

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Damn the only time in my life I wish I had air conditioning. And it's not for me it's for my dog who is 16 years and 4 months old. I did drive back from Galway a few weeks ago on a hot day and left both windows open and ended up with a ear ache.

And the mad thing is there was A/C in the car but a previous owner removed it for weight saving.

I still don't think it's hot enough for someone to need A/C in this country unless like me they had a elderly dog or a young child.

It ain't just for hot weather it also conditions the air and stops the fogging up of all interior Windows

PsychoPete

My air con is on all year around. I don't get people having in their car and not using it

James Bond Junior

I read on here a few years ago that your car won't fog up inside if it's left on all the time so I did just that for the winter. Works like a charm.

I'd die without AC where I am, 35c today at 8am this morning and it was overcast.

CIP4

James Bond Junior wrote: »

I read on here a few years ago that your car won't fog up inside if it's left on all the time so I did just that for the winter. Works like a charm.

I'd die without AC where I am, 35c today at 8am this morning and it was overcast.

Yes A/C is an air dryer/dehumidifier as well as cooler so when you cool the air the amount of moisture it contains at its saturation point is lower so excess moisture falls out as condensation and is removed generally there is a drain under the car for this. The air then won’t fog the windows as it’s moisture content is lower than the ambient air originally taken in.

Tazzimus

My Aircon stays on all the time, car feels much less stuffy when I have it turned up.

_Kaiser_

Some people really don't understand road etiquette and signals.

On a N road this afternoon and there was a car with trailer moving along in the hard shoulder so as to let the cars behind pass.

Good stuff, pass him and flash the hazards by way of thanks. Then the car in front immediately moves over too so fair enough, pass it as well but can then see dirty looks in the mirror.

Hazards in that scenario = thank you. Flash of headlights = please move... Or is that just me?

Tazzimus

Don't think I've ever come across anyone that thought flashing the hazards meant get out of the way. There are some special people on the roads though.

they probably just pulled in as they knew they weren't going to go much faster then what they passed perhaps

I doubt they even saw your hazards flash.

Fair play if you can spot dirty looks in your rearview mirror.

ShadowHearth

Lads, i was wondering. If you go to a franchise dealer and want to buy one of the second hand cars, but not the brand dealer specialising in. What finance form will they use? For example going to Seat dealership and buying some other brand car they have? Would they still put me on VW bank apr and whatever deal apr they doing for second hand cars?

bazz26

I'd imagine it will come from whoever is their finance provider. If it's part of the VAG group then I'd hazard a guess it would be VW Bank

boomshakalaka

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Some people really don't understand road etiquette and signals.

On a N road this afternoon and there was a car with trailer moving along in the hard shoulder so as to let the cars behind pass.

Good stuff, pass him and flash the hazards by way of thanks. Then the car in front immediately moves over too so fair enough, pass it as well but can then see dirty looks in the mirror.

Hazards in that scenario = thank you. Flash of headlights = please move... Or is that just me?

I learned to drive in the Netherlands and the hazard lights by way of thanks was new to me when I started driving here. There's no "dutch signal" to replace it, I guess we don't say thanks?

Headlights flashing (from the car behind) means get out of the way everywhere I've driven and headlights from an oncoming car means "be careful", usually of speed vans. I say speed vans but a couple of weeks ago an oncoming car flashed headlights and turned out there was a bundle of barbed wire on the road

wonski

Eastern/Central Eastern Europe drivers who consider themselves best drivers in the world (they aren't) use hazard lights in the overtaking lane to just speed past up everything. I guess you either met some guy from Poland or further east, or it was a misunderstanding.

ShadowHearth

wonski wrote: »

Eastern/Central Eastern Europe drivers who consider themselves best drivers in the world (they aren't) use hazard lights in the overtaking lane to just speed past up everything. I guess you either met some guy from Poland or further east, or it was a misunderstanding.

I am from Lithuania originally and never seen that. Then again, i haven't been there for the last 15 years. The whole hazards flash as a "thank you" for moving and letting me pass and the light flash as a "your welcome" I learned here. Never sow this hazards on and **** you all in Lithuania or here.
If you are a tit driving in second lane of motorway doing 100km/h, i will go behind you and flash you to move to first lane, after that I will overtake and pull to first lane myself. Undertaking is illegal and if you drive 100km/h on motorway second lane with first lane empty, then you are a tit already and deserve a polite flash up your arse.