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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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pajor

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Topping up the loan car is your first mistake :pac:

Nah it was €6 something, it had used hardly anything. Garage asks to return it full, fair thing to do for an otherwise free loaner.

Cantona's Collars

Arrested on suspicion of careless driving,you don't say.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10216643185419991&id=1470942041

Toyotafanboi

Patww79 wrote: »

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Oh yeah, sure they are a handy item to sell :pac:

On the flip side an awful lot of people do have poor wipers, they aren't not getting something for their money.

CIP4

EPAndlee wrote: »

Not many customers have the decency to put fuel in a loan car

I’d feel bad to drive one around and not put something in it at the end of the day if it was your own car you’d have to put fuel in it anyway.

First loan A4 I got had no fuel in it but they gave me a €20 voucher and said go next door and get diesel. But at that time I had brought the car to get something small checked out and turned out it needed a new clutch after only just getting it so they were threading carefully even though what fuel was in the loan car didn’t bother me. But at the same I brought it back with the same level of fuel in it as after I had put the €20 in it the first day.

OldMrBrennan83

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Toyotafanboi

colm_mcm wrote: »

Used to have customers giving out when their free courtesy car didn’t have petrol in it.

Every single day. They just don't get it, even when you explain to them they are the ones going to be using it.

So they they kick up a stink, get the car for free, fuel for free and then they don't take the bait on any add on work because "they have a guy" for that. No wipers, no tyres, no pads, just the special offer oil change please and make sure the car is valeted.

**** off.

Anyway :pac:

colm_mcm

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

That's the problem with them :pac:.

Easiest way is to hand it over near empty, just before the fuel light and make it the customers duty to fill. Give it out full and asking for it to be returnd full is a mugs game!

Used to have customers giving out when their free courtesy car didn’t have petrol in it.

EPAndlee

Not many customers have the decency to put fuel in a loan car

Toyotafanboi

CIP4 wrote: »

That loan A3 I had a few months ago was driving it a few days so put €10 diesel in it and it ended up going back with more fuel in it than what I got it with raging :pac:

That's the problem with them :pac:.

Easiest way is to hand it over near empty, just before the fuel light and make it the customers duty to fill. Give it out full and asking for it to be returnd full is a mugs game!

CIP4

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Topping up the loan car is your first mistake :pac:

That loan A3 I had a few months ago was driving it a few days so put €10 diesel in it and it ended up going back with more fuel in it than what I got it with raging :pac:

Toyotafanboi

pajor wrote: »

I topped up the tank in the garage loan car earlier for 168.4

Stop yez whinging.

Topping up the loan car is your first mistake :pac:

pajor

I topped up the tank in the garage loan car earlier for 168.4

Stop yez whinging.

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flatty wrote: »

Up like a rocket and down like a feather as they say.

We're not talking about fuel anymore are we ?

flatty

Up like a rocket and down like a feather as they say.

ShadowHearth

What kind of ecxuse we gor this time for fuel prices? Who invaded who? Or who showed a finger to someone, and he is now pissed off so much that he got the tap turned off?

I am surprised there is no mentioning of it anywhere.

Asmooh

i paid 1.359 in dundalk last week

ELM327

Big Nasty wrote: »

I think that was around 2011 maybe? Have a pic somewhere of filling up the E38 (85L tank) and it coming to €140! :eek:

I remember having to fill up an 80's american pickup a couple of years ago at 1.65 a litre. This pickup was the last of the carburetted 454ci (7.4 litre) V8 and did about 10 imperial MPG. It had the "long range tank" for ~400 miles range. The tank clicked off at 100 litres so I had to go in and pay for the first 100 litres, then resume filling. Pity - as the whole point of filling the tank was to get the photo of the total cost!

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Big Nasty wrote: »

I think that was around 2011 maybe? Have a pic somewhere of filling up the E38 (85L tank) and it coming to €140! :eek:

Most I ever paid for petrol was €1.709 in Sep 2012.

OldMrBrennan83

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davycc

Patww79 wrote: »

Anyone even contemplating M50 southbound this morning. Don't.

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Have to go from Coolock to Finglas soon hopefully it is clear ish er

Big Nasty

OSI wrote: »

Nah it was around 170 a litre around 2013 or so.

I think that was around 2011 maybe? Have a pic somewhere of filling up the E38 (85L tank) and it coming to €140! :eek:

OldMrBrennan83

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OldMrBrennan83

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vintagevrs

Had the joy of putting fuel in my car this morning....

At least my tax is cheap, oh wait, actually it's nearly a grand.

Well that's the price you pay for driving a luxury performance car. Oh wait, it's a slow 3 series.

I want a new car....

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frozenfrozen wrote: »

how long will be have the expensive fuel? paid 133 for diesel today and one forty something petrol the other day

Hard to know really. Diesel was 1.50/litre in 2013 .... it's currently a but off that

James Bond Junior

bazz26 wrote: »

Cheers buddy, I'll have a closer look at it tomorrow. I might be able to do a MacGyver on it on closer inspection.

I need it for the 36 so you can kill two birds with one stone!

selectamatic

Esel wrote: »

Front end reminds me of Peugeot 504, but pretty sure they weren't around then. Some other Peugeot maybe?

Reg is 1969 I think.

Some sort of a peugeot was my first thought too.
The 61 bit threw me though as I thought straight away it was too modern a design for late 50's early 60's.

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Its a Volkswagen 411 4 door.

Definitely not a '61 reg. '69 would be right.

Cheers duke.

I'll have to get better with old irish reg numbers its one thing I'm clueless about.

Thanks for the replies lads.

bazz26

James Bond Junior wrote: »

Bazz, call into the shop in Mungret and ask for the own brand adhesive. It might be a bit big but is resealable. It bonds anything to anything, biased or not it is unbelievable stuff.

Edit: it has occured to me that I could use it for a job I need to do so if you want a bit just ask.

Cheers buddy, I'll have a closer look at it tomorrow. I might be able to do a MacGyver on it on closer inspection.

James Bond Junior

Bazz, call into the shop in Mungret and ask for the own brand adhesive. It might be a bit big but is resealable. It bonds anything to anything, biased or not it is unbelievable stuff.

Edit: it has occured to me that I could use it for a job I need to do so if you want a bit just ask.

Esel

3M double-sided tape?