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

Guage on my footpump was broke.

It pegged at 32psi.

Coincidentally, right where my tyres are to be inflated to.

It also pegged at 32psi, even if there was something like 10psi in the tyre and it was visibly sagging - despite being low profile.

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Just heads up to some nerdy petrol heads. Forza Horizon 4 is out on xbox one now and its fantastic. Its based in Britain this time around.

Doing most of my races in Alfa Giulia quadrifoglio and I am in love with that thing. Its a shame cheapest petrol version is 50k ish in Ireland.
Come on Alfa! Do your thing of losing more then half of your value in first two years.

I drove past one of those, in white, on the m3 last night. Nice front to it but to be honest visually I prefer the prior 159.

And of course nothing will top the prior generation to that again 156/166, man those were special cars. Especially in v6 models but even the 1.8 twinspark was awesome, still to this day the nicest 4 cylinder engine note I've ever heard.


I've always wanted a 75 but they seem to be going up in price and rarity.


(sorry for the Alfa spiel in advance)

Eric Cartman wrote: »

I don't think its specific to teachers, but were they female ? as much as high speed late night crashes are usually men, texting while driving is usually women. Every day I'm stopped in traffic looking around and any woman under about 50 has the phone out tapping away, a lot of them continue while traffic is starting to move off.

I think the RSA really needs to step up the game on targeting people using a phone while driving and it very much needs to be targeted specifically at women just as previous ads have been targeted at men.

Targeted ads at men are "supported by statistics", whereas similarly supported targeted ads at women are "sexist", remember.

Surprised to see the new A6 is coming with a 1.8TFSI 190bhp engine for the petrol option would have assumed it would be 2.0TFSI like rest of the models I thought the 1.8 engine was dropped a few years ago at this stage or is this a newer version of it I wonder.

Gavman84 wrote: »

Finbarr in Fionnsport is an engine builder. Does race engine builds and all he be able to do that I say no bother.

Thanks Gav, will give them a shout.

CIP4 wrote: »

Surprised to see the new A6 is coming with a 1.8TFSI 190bhp engine for the petrol option would have assumed it would be 2.0TFSI like rest of the models I thought the 1.8 engine was dropped a few years ago at this stage or is this a newer version of it I wonder.

They did a 1.8 in the previous A6 as well. They might find a few buyers this time as the backlash against diesels continues, even in Ireland diesel is down to 56% of the new market compared to 74% a few years ago.

What are the 14, 15, 16 volvo s60s like?

Its a long time since Halfords did their great oil deals . I like to get a few 4 or 5 ltr cans together, must be due a sale soon.

Anyone at Cars & Coffee Bray today?
There was a purple McLaren 720s there today, phenonemal machine.
Lovely white R8 too.

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Still waiting in Insurance limbo to sort out my accident from last weekend, of course the third party is fighting it and even trying to bring charges of Dangerous/Reckless Driving against me :rolleyes: From where I was stopped at a red light, onto the roundabout when it went green and then he hit me :pac: With no CCTV footage or witnesses I think he's just grasping at straws.

Going to have a fight about value of the car too I reckon

But is there any proof the light was green when you moved off? If there's no witnesses or evidence that works both ways. Not sure if you have a dashcam or not.

I often have to use a junction where multiple cars sail through after the red light, I'm sure they'd lie through their teeth if there was a collision.

It's unfortunate but you may be correct with the 50:50.
After all, it really is a "he said she said"...
Maybe it's a good example of a reason (if you don't already have one) to get a dashcam and fit it.

Car accidents - without witnesses except for the two involved of course - are notorious examples of where people lie to save their own skin.
Have you contacted the Gardaí and given a statement etc? Hopefully the other driver's story can contradict itself or something but generally insurance companies love 50:50 settlements as it means 2 driver premiums get loaded instead of one.
Personally I am a huge advocate of dashcams, anything to get one over on a) insurance companies and their enforced monopoly and b) scammers like the guy who hit you.