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

Foxhole Norman

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Just used my first tank of fuel since getting the brakes sorted and I'm fairly impressed, I know the warm weather may be helping but I think that's my best tank to date. The dash says 6.2 l/100km but 628kms for 38 litres works out at almost 6.0 l/100kms exactly and that was driving without any real caution. For the last 6 months or more the best I had been seeing was around 6.7-6.8 l/100km over a tank or approx 540-550kms max before needing to fill up so there's a fair difference there*.

*not very interesting, I know.

I like yourself did my rear brakes last week, did my usual weekly commute fill to fill from Saturday to Saturday, 140 miles, 53l of petrol, I may have gotten 1 MPG out of it :pac:

CIP4

That’s good going would normally get around a calculated 6.5L/100km or 43mpg in the A4 and I am quite happy with that.

Toyotafanboi

If my commute was that small I probably wouldn't mind either

Wailin

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

If my commute was that small I probably wouldn't mind either

Is that a Honda civic?

Toyotafanboi

Yeah, a Civic.

Ardennes1944

I cant get over the 1.8 petrol engine in our Civics still, mine has returned 5.9l/100km average since last March over 24k kms.

punisher5112

Must be one if not the best 1.8 petrol and even better then most 1.4 also.

JohnBoy26

punisher5112 wrote: »

Must be one if not the best 1.8 petrol and even better then most 1.4 also.

I'd have the 1.8 dohc vtec ahead of it tbh :pac:

punisher5112

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

I'd have the 1.8 dohc vtec ahead of it tbh :pac:

Now now.... I meant as in fuel saving....

;-)

CIP4

Need to get another set of these my A4 has them presumably from new but they are starting to get a bit damaged/ corroded probably down to salt over winter etc. just see it mentions about tyre pressure monitoring I thought these newer cars use ABS sensors and compare wheel rotation to know if there is a soft tyre. What do the valve caps have to do with that ?

https://www.audishop.ie/a4/sport-and-design/valve-caps---with-audi-logo

AndyBoBandy

James Bond Junior wrote: »

Anybody bought spurious BMW centre caps? I have new alloys being fitted in the coming days and may as well replace the caps while I am at it but at nearly €10 a pop even with trade discount I am slow to shell it out. Wondering are the spurious/chinese special ones any good?

I got mine from eBay a few weeks ago and they’re grand, cost about €12 I think

Foxhole Norman

My car is gone in today to get the VANOS units rebuilt, driving my sisters 07 Corsa while she's out of the country and be god the thing is depressing. Not a mind the oil usage and rough cold idling :pac:

vintagevrs

Great thing about driving a car like that though, is that your own is all the better afterwards. I remember years ago having to do an airport run, with luggage and people in a Corsa. Nothing wrong with the Corsa, it's not meant to be quick, but when I got back into my own car after it felt like a complete rocket. Helped by the fact I was driving it aroung 5am on a summer morning.

Gavman84

Been driving the old fellas fiesta last few days. Its just so gutless. He should have got an ecoboost! I cant wait to get my own back later.

colm_mcm

Was driving a 171 1.25 Fiesta a few weeks ago (last of the old shape). It was so slow! Kinda felt like it was being artificially held back, a bit like the mk6 Golf 2.0 TDI 110 where it feels like when you put the boot down it’s programmed to not give you the full performance for the sake of emissions. Lots of flat spots.

pajor

My fiancée’s Lupo is a cracker to drive, bit of a pocket rocket. Only 75hp from a 1.4 engine, definitely doesn’t feel like anything is holding it back though. It’s not the most comfortable car though.

Dartz

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

I got mine from eBay a few weeks ago and they’re grand, cost about €12 I think

Just be careful with the badges.... there's some spurious brass ones going about that might raise some eyebrows. Or hands

James Bond Junior

Never thought I would see the motors chat thread Godwinned!

Dartz

James Bond Junior wrote: »

Never thought I would see the motors chat thread Godwinned!

Godwin appearrs in the strangests places...


Like opening an industrial cabinet to find some hardware that was, quite clearly, manufactured in 1930's Germany and still merrily working away.

pajor

Oh yeah.. I had a dream last night that I was at a junction in my Golf and it completely died. Pushed it to the side and thought ‘fûck it.. new car!’

fancy pigeon

Was in a taxi earlier, where when on the M23 at motorway speeds a lump of windscreen surround trim detached and began flopping violently on the a pillar and glass. Without thinking, I opened the window and affixed it back into position, stating it should be fine untill they get to the person that fitted the windscreen to advise further if it needed replacing. All happening while at the limit imposed on the motorway (no, not at a standstill)

It hadn't moved when I looked at it again, many miles later.

Another happy IT client! :P

Mickiemcfist

8 range rovers & 2 X5's seized by CAB from a dealer located in fox & geese Dublin 10 today. No names mentioned....

James Bond Junior

Dartz wrote: »

Godwin appearrs in the strangests places...


Like opening an industrial cabinet to find some hardware that was, quite clearly, manufactured in 1930's Germany and still merrily working away.

Ehhhhhh.......

James Bond Junior

Mickiemcfist wrote: »

8 range rovers & 2 X5's seized by CAB from a dealer located in fox & geese Dublin 10 today. No names mentioned....

Easy enough to work out with one it is. "Semi precious metal" motor company!

Duke O Smiley

Mickiemcfist wrote: »

8 range rovers & 2 X5's seized by CAB from a dealer located in fox & geese Dublin 10 today. No names mentioned....

Seized "on suspicion of Vehicle Registration Tax related offences" apparently.

Fresh looking cars too.

https://www.rte.ie/news/crime/2018/0613/970299-criminal-assets-bureau-raids/

frozenfrozen

what sort of vrt related offences are there?

Leonard Hofstadter

vintagevrs wrote: »

Great thing about driving a car like that though, is that your own is all the better afterwards. I remember years ago having to do an airport run, with luggage and people in a Corsa. Nothing wrong with the Corsa, it's not meant to be quick, but when I got back into my own car after it felt like a complete rocket. Helped by the fact I was driving it aroung 5am on a summer morning.

As those kind of cars go, I think the Corsa D (the one introduced in 2006) is very good. The interior feels very well put together (especially for an Opel), they are very comfortable for a long distance journey, they're very quiet and they have excellent seats (at least in the higher spec models). The only things I didn't like about them were the engine (I've driven a fair few 1.4s and I found them all to be quite unrefined even by the standards of four cylinder engines) and the numb steering.

The (admittedly Aussie spec) Mk2 Yaris I drove a few years ago has the honour of being the worst car I've ever driven. It's utterly horrible to drive in every aspect, spongy brakes, mushy pedals, awful gearchange, it didn't even have an engine that liked to rev, which is the one thing Toyota normally does offer the keen driver (and they usually do pretty slick gearboxes as well). And this was a 1.3, not the 1.0 litre three cylinder yoke most people in this country have!

The 206 I drove a couple of weeks ago would run it a close second, don't know how so many of them were sold. At least Toyotas have the excuse of being super reliable.

The more I drive an ordinary car the more I realise what a great car the E46 is for anyone who wants a car that drives well but is still practical and comfortable enough to be used as a daily driver.

It's such a joy to drive, the chassis is really excellent and all the controls are so beautifully weighted, the manual is so satisfying to use but of course the best thing of all is that naturally aspirated straight six - it's such a peach of an engine.

colm_mcm

frozenfrozen wrote: »

what sort of vrt related offences are there?

Dodgy crewcab conversions? that’s hardly still going on though?

James Bond Junior

colm_mcm wrote: »

Dodgy crewcab conversions? that’s hardly still going on though?

Search one of the directors of the company.

colm_mcm

Is the company one that was previously raided before and shares its name with a top of the range ford without manual transmission?