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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭shietpilot


    Serviced the Focus :) €47 for 6L oil and filter from Ford dealer :)

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    The only thing that stop a bad guy with a switch is a good guy with a switch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,888 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    The only thing that stop a bad guy with a switch is a good guy with a switch.
    Do I cut the red wire or the blue wire? Tell me fast!

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Truckermal


    For the Lexus I purchased 4 new Brymbo discs with front and rear pads plus handbrake shoes plus Brake fluid and a new Caliper!

    Luckily I got most of it around Xmas in the sales but the caliper was a main dealer job. I only got the work done last week and it included oil change for engine, gearbox and Diff plus air and pollen filter!

    NCT is Wednesday so hopefully it passes considering I spent a nice few bob on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭Colash


    shietpilot wrote: »
    Serviced the Focus :) €47 for 6L oil and filter from Ford dealer :)

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    And to think of the prices dealers charge for the same service !!!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    I'm always fascinated by how much oil goes into small European engines. Although I've usually caught up or exceeded the difference between services.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    Saw them a while ago, a colleague of mine just wanted to rid of them. I really liked the look, so decided to buy.

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    OZ King alloys, 7Jx15 ET28, made in Italy 26 years ago. :D

    Two bad things - no centre caps and (my biggest concern) it looks like polished surface is just bare aluminium, so I have to find if there's any option to protect them from corrosion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭pa990


    €634 for a main a main dealer service, I'd sit down, if it wasn't so painful ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    Motor related or not? I think it surely is.

    New old addition to my collection of more or less vintage number plates - a pair + one single = 3 approx 30 years old German export plates. Standard size rectangular plate for comparison - this is the plate from the very first car I owned, by the way. :D

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    joujoujou wrote: »
    Motor related or not? I think it surely is.

    New old addition to my collection of more or less vintage number plates - a pair + one single = 3 approx 30 years old German export plates. Standard size rectangular plate for comparison - this is the plate from the very first car I owned, by the way. :D

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    I thought in Germany the plate belonged to the owner not the car.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
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    These were export plates. :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    joujoujou wrote: »
    These were export plates. :p

    What's the point in them?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    Once you buy a car in Germany and drive it to your home country, you need plates to be road legal. As you mentioned, ordinary plates belong to previous owner, hence export plates were and are necessary. :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    joujoujou wrote: »
    Once you buy a car in Germany and drive it to your home country, you need plates to be road legal. As you mentioned, ordinary plates belong to previous owner, hence export plates were and are necessary. :cool:

    Ok. Are they a once off until the vehicle leaves Germany?


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,683 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Bought a piston compressor. Have 2 already but with 2 seized Pistons, nothing was working. Use an air wrench with the compressor and was done in 5 minutes!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,155 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    10 New Car scent Magic Tree air fresheners from a cheap seller on Ebay, I bloody love the stuff, when I die I want the coffin encased in the stuff :pac:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    antodeco wrote: »
    Bought a piston compressor. Have 2 already but with 2 seized Pistons, nothing was working. Use an air wrench with the compressor and was done in 5 minutes!

    Yea them calipers have issues. DIY not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    jca wrote: »
    Ok. Are they a once off until the vehicle leaves Germany?
    Yup.

    And they're valid only for a limited timeframe (one month IIRC).

    Newer ones have their expiration date displayed, like here:

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    Rear coil springs are very tired now - tyres rubbing against wheel arches, so it's time for new ones, not standard though - these are called "rough road spec". Additionally bought 2 tyres for next winter. :cool:

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    My little helper obviously had to take a closer look. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    You may say - how on earth Audio CD disk can be motor related? Well, it can.

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    Here's why.

    Prices on auction sites up to 150 notes. But I was patient and finally won an auction - paid 30ish. :D

    Disclaimer - I am not a fan of VW Golf. I am fan of Yello. :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,866 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    A pair of these to eliminate the negative camber at the back... Don't need the subframe mounts, have another subframe to whack in at some stage :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭Cheensbo


    Now you may lower it even more ! Get dat camber back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,597 ✭✭✭tossy


    Rubber....

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,750 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Air fresheners, various flavours. From the US for 20 quid.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭shietpilot


    2x wishbones for the E36
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    2x polyurethane wishbone bushings
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,750 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    How much for the bushings?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭shietpilot


    Diabhalta wrote: »
    How much for the bushings?

    40 euro all in for both including shipping


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    Bought meself motor related jersey. :D

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    Just when you thought nothing could top the VW USB cable, I give you Das DataPlug!

    Gave it a quick go when I got home but havn't registered for the add ons yet so access was limited, it tells you some stuff but not a whole lot. It's like they took everything car-net should have had and put it in a new, unrelated app. I like it in a gimmicky kind of way. Will probably never find an honest use for it.

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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,313 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Collecting a few bits and bobs to do some maintenance and upgrading.

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    Cam belt, tensioner, water pump and rocker cover gasket, a few bushings and a pair of camber arms and toe in arms. I generally run with original Honda parts, but these were much better engineered, adjustable and a fraction of the price. Ebay auctions for the win :) I'd always go Honda for the timing belt though.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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