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* Motors chat - round 12 *

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This thread is for motoring topics which you feel are not worthy of starting a new thread for, banter from a meet or general motoring related chit chat.

Keep it clean, be nice and helpful.

Motors charter applies.

Round 11 is HERE

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colm_mcm

Do they have a separate shoe for the handbrake?

Alanstrainor

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Our Bimmer who art in the driveway
Hallowed be thy vanos
Thy NCT come, my will be done
In the test centre as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily NCT cert
And forgive us our failure points
As we forgive those NCT testers who fail us
And lead us not to buy more parts
But deliver us from pricey repairs
Eamonn

Loved this!

Unfortunately it was a fail this time! But it wasn't so bad, failed on handbrake imbalance which is something I've known to be an issue for a long while now. So I'm going to jack the car up over the weekend and tighten it at the offending wheel. I do think it might be a case of having to replace the shoes, but I'll try the easy option first!

On the plus side, the fella that gave my results was super sound. He said he had an e46 and everything else was perfect. He claimed to have only done his brake shoes recently.

ShadowHearth

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Decided to replace all 4 tyres on one of the classics. They all had loads of thread but the fronts were some crap brand and all 4 were ancient. Got 4 nice Toyo's for less than 180e. The joy of having small wheels on a car :pac:

Oneofthe reason I loved my mx5 with stock wheels. Tyres dirt cheap.

I think I payed 37eu a corner for toyo T1R and my friend is mechanic who knew everyone in town and got them fitted for 20eu.

CIP4

Truckermal wrote: »

I know it would tax the wife's Audi for 8 years and she gives out mad about it but she still prefers to drive mine!

One way to think of it is how much will your wife's Audi lose in depreciation this year more than 1.5K I would bet

I know mine will anyway

Truckermal

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Thank God we dont pay too much tax on our wages in our country or else that would be robbery... Oh wait...

I know it would tax the wife's Audi for 8 years and she gives out mad about it but she still prefers to drive mine!

Truckermal

Taxed my car for the year this time as I'm using it a good bit, €1494 euros for a bit of paper...

Cantona's Collars

For anyone using the N11 between Enniscorthy and Wexford. There's new traffic calming measures being put in place at Kyle Cross (junction for Castlebridge and Killurin)
Whoever designed it obviously doesn't drive much. They've narrowed the road and coming northbound the hard shoulder/feeder lane to turn left has been done away with. Now cars turning left will have to slow to a crawl on a busy road with a 100kph limit .It might make sense on paper but in the real world it's damn dangerous.
They did similar nearer Wexford and by the grace of God nobody has been killed.
A roundabout would have been the sensible option but with road planning in this county,sense tends to go out the window.

tossy

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Our Bimmer who art in the driveway
Hallowed be thy vanos
Thy NCT come, my will be done
In the test centre as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily NCT cert
And forgive us our failure points
As we forgive those NCT testers who fail us
And lead us not to buy more parts
But deliver us from pricey repairs
Eamonn

Bravo sir

[Deleted User]

Alanstrainor wrote: »

NCT tomorrow evening. I'm nervous for this one... nothing wrong that I know of, but who knows what the test will throw up. Fingers crossed! Say a prayer for me lads! :pac:

Our Bimmer who art in the driveway
Hallowed be thy vanos
Thy NCT come, my will be done
In the test centre as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily NCT cert
And forgive us our failure points
As we forgive those NCT testers who fail us
And lead us not to buy more parts
But deliver us from pricey repairs
Eamonn

James Bond Junior

Alan, I put the 36 through in FEB. Failed on brake hoses which I didn't expect and rear tyres which I expected. Everything else was A1. A well minded car is always a well minded car.

davycc

Good luck Alan I have a test next month on my vrs and not looking forward to it!

Alanstrainor

NCT tomorrow evening. I'm nervous for this one... nothing wrong that I know of, but who knows what the test will throw up. Fingers crossed! Say a prayer for me lads! :pac:

selous

Yeah, they were cheaper, but didn't fit, the 215's were practically touching the shock, and they were manufacturer fitted, new car even Goodyears, Conti's all under 100 each. avg E80,

colm_mcm

Even changing to 225/45R17 would have seen a nice saving if they fitted.

selous

Totally agree, went from 215/45/17 on the old car to 215/55/16 less than half the price:D

James Bond Junior

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Decided to replace all 4 tyres on one of the classics. They all had loads of thread but the fronts were some crap brand and all 4 were ancient. Got 4 nice Toyo's for less than 180e. The joy of having small wheels on a car :pac:

Needing to do my at the moment. 400 a set and they will be out of date before they need to replaced I would imagine.

vintagevrs

Duff

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

It depends on the Center Bore but generally all 5x120 would be BMW 72.6 bore, only really odd one is the E39 with a 74.1 bore.

Perfect. Thanks, mate.

Foxhole Norman

Duff wrote: »

Quick question regarding wheel spacers, lads - Will any 5x120 20mm spacers fit an e60 or are there only certain types? Cheers.

It depends on the Center Bore but generally all 5x120 would be BMW 72.6 bore, only really odd one is the E39 with a 74.1 bore.

Duff

Quick question regarding wheel spacers, lads - Will any 5x120 20mm spacers fit an e60 or are there only certain types? Cheers.

Foxhole Norman

All sorted for another year, sailed through the test

bazz26

Lots of pre reges and they are giving big discounts on them with a brand new model arriving.

CIP4

I felt like I was seeing a serious amount of new focus 181 on the road compared to any other year looked it up and sales are actually back on same period last year but still overall 4th highest selling car with only the Golf, Tucson and Qashqai ahead of it in that order.

Hal1

As seen on reddit

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M50...

bazz26

Was out cleaning the car today and discovered that it has a retractable hitch. I can pull that horsebox I always wanted now. :pac:

CIP4

I walked past a 171 A6 with Triangle tyres on the front and Event on the back. That’s a fair combo.

bear1

I can clear that up.
Not a fopping chance

I'm an expert at ordering drinks though.
In all seriousness I can understand it mostly but speaking is a total failure. It's just unreal difficult.
My wife handles this which annoys the hell out of me cause I can't get a word in.
One of the many reasons why I plan to move back to Ireland.

James Bond Junior

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Just reading through this and was thinking are you fluent in Polish or what? As I would say it would be extremely difficult to deal with insurance companies and what not if you were not. Genuinely curious.

Often thought the same.

wotzgoingon

bear1 wrote: »

Just to be clear, I've only third party and so cause the other driver at fault didn't have insurance then it's being dealt with by a special fund designed to compensate these events.
I'm pretty happy knowing I'll get it back but fear how it end result will be if you get what I mean.
I'd say in retrospect I've lost a bit now come sell time as I'll need to declare this.
The absolute closest I could get as a like for like would be an older version of it and not the q4 which isn't a common model to find.
One thing that has annoyed me is that I'm footing the bill for the damaged tyre as it's not being treated as accident damage even though the wing dug a long gouge into it.
17s too which aren't cheap especially when they were pirellis.

Just reading through this and was thinking are you fluent in Polish or what? As I would say it would be extremely difficult to deal with insurance companies and what not if you were not. Genuinely curious.

[Deleted User]

CIP4 wrote: »

I am thinking this wouldn’t be a bad feature for all new cars to have. Only discovered it today as I always have auto lights switched on. There a bit too it so obviously it only pings up if it is actually dark and you have lights switched off. But let’s say you were parked in your drive and switched off the lights with car idling it won’t come on then only comes on if you start moving and exceed ~10kmh, comes on with auto door locks.

It is ones of these features that you think should a car really need to state the obvious but then you see the evidence on roads.

There shouldn't even be a headlight switch anymore with the way the EU are heading following Sweden's example

Just have all cars with front headlights and rear lights always on.

You could keep buttons for front/rear fog lights and keep the high beam switch on the indicators stalk by pulling forwards or backwards etc. All you're doing is removing the actual no headlight/sides option.