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

Yeah I do have a brother in Dublin. Problem is I need a bill of some sort in my name. Its probably gonna be a lot of hassle. Hard to quantify if it's worth it though. DL plate doesn't bother me in the slighest, and probably someone local would like to take it off my hands when the time comes so might just leave it at that.

Interesting that a Dublin car is perceived to be better cared for than a DL reg by most when most people in DL are commuting on national roads at 100kph rather than sitting in start stop traffic.

08 Mondeo 1.8tdci - over the last few days it has started to suddenly lose power. Driving at approx 100kmph and then a sudden judder of power loss (only for a second) and then back to normal. This would continue the whole journey every few minutes when at that speed. Any ideas of what could be causing this?

vintagevrs wrote: »

Yeah I do have a brother in Dublin. Problem is I need a bill of some sort in my name. Its probably gonna be a lot of hassle. Hard to quantify if it's worth it though. DL plate doesn't bother me in the slighest, and probably someone local would like to take it off my hands when the time comes so might just leave it at that.

Interesting that a Dublin car is perceived to be better cared for than a DL reg by most when most people in DL are commuting on national roads at 100kph rather than sitting in start stop traffic.

Put it in his name??

punisher5112 wrote: »

Faulty injector, dpf, EGR or another sensor.

Mine dies if I rev it over 2krevs as it's the fuel pump.

Might not be as bad as what we were anticipating. Car is still driving fine apart from that slight judder. I’ll drop it to the garage during the week! Thanks

Diabhalta wrote: »

Guys, good garage in Cork? Car running rough when warm, possible air leak I don't know what to do with it anymore..need some good mechanic please. Thanks. It's an E30. Greatest car when running right, pos rubbish when something's wrong.

I have heard very good things about Fionnsport by three separate people I know. I called into them one Saturday (I thought my car had developed a problem while I was down in Cork, although it turned out that it hadn't) and I certainly got the impression they knew what they were doing.

They certainly impressed me enough that when I'm down that way towards the end of next month I plan on availing of the opportunity to get a few minor jobs done to my E46.

That's a standard BMW issue, once you get it sorted it will have you back under that magic spell where you instantly forgive it for having wasted all your money for randomly going wrong for no good reason, they're just such nice cars to be in and to drive for the five days of the year they're actually running 100% right:D.

RX8 now running again thanks to Shadow Rotary.

And a replacement engine.

Sparkplug electrodes are not nice for an engine.

So smoking is dangerous after all

vintagevrs wrote:

It's not trying to please future owners. It's about maximising resale value, which is all about me.

You said you're holding into it for a good few years. What difference will the reg make when it's 10 or 12 years old a hundred or two? Totally up to you obviously!

I don't get this whole reg thing. Get your home reg, worry about resale value when the time comes, life's too short. There's more to it than worrying over a few dollar bills.

captainspeed wrote: »

I have heard very good things about Fionnsport by three separate people I know. I called into them one Saturday (I thought my car had developed a problem while I was down in Cork, although it turned out that it hadn't) and I certainly got the impression they knew what they were doing.

They certainly impressed me enough that when I'm down that way towards the end of next month I plan on availing of the opportunity to get a few minor jobs done to my E46.

That's a standard BMW issue, once you get it sorted it will have you back under that magic spell where you instantly forgive it for having wasted all your money for randomly going wrong for no good reason, they're just such nice cars to be in and to drive for the five days of the year they're actually running 100% right:D.

I have been going to Fionnsport now ever since Foxhole told me about him. He is a brilliant mech and has sorted my ST out for me when other places were telling me there is nothing wrong :rolleyes: I will be going nowhere else in future with any car!

Gavman84 wrote: »

I have been going to Fionnsport now ever since Foxhole told me about him. He is a brilliant mech and has sorted my ST out for me when other places were telling me there is nothing wrong :rolleyes: I will be going nowhere else in future with any car!

I should have mentioned that in my previous post, but when I said three people recommended them to me, FN here was one of them!

Drove 450km today, across 9 counties and into Norn Iron and back. The difference in road surface from county to county and even jurisdiction to jurisdiction was stark. Why can't a basic standard in road surface be applied across the island? Surely it couldn't be that hard?

Also, KFC is Komplete F***ing Crap.

250km a day 5 days a week? Wow! Thought I had it bad at 110km a day.

Augeo wrote: »

I went from Cork City to Kinsale a few weekends ago and thought the road surface from halfway to Kinsale was really poor.

That's one of the better roads in Cork. You can get a lot poorer than that if you want to