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

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Yeah, the father in law had a 2015 one, gave endless trouble. The best thing about it was the roadside assist and warranty package.

Traded in for a new Crafter in January. No guarantees the Crafter will be any more reliable :pac: but it's a savage looking van.

My brother has a Sprinter and loves it. It's been faultless to be fair and he hacks the **** out of vans with heavy loads and loads of city driving. His transporter has had about 3 clutches in 500k km.

hmm got 42k km from my fronts and the back ones still had thread on it, but one tyre got deformed and I changed back tyres at 43k km.

Not bad for baby Cupra and i do have fun driving it. I guess it helps that 90% of my driving is Motorway/N roads.

Funny thing is, a lot of these people who buy so called SUVs never thought about tyre sizes and prices. Being big bastards they eat rubber faster too.

Augeo wrote: »

There's 19s on my sorento, at 40k kms the fronts will still be legal and the rears will have at least 4mm on them, likely 5 mm I expect.

The reason I bought this particular one was due to the enhanced looks (IMO) the 19s offered :pac:

Can't wait to see you tyre bill. I got only 215/40/17 and all new rubber costed me 600eu.

My birthday is soon and Misses Shadowhearth got strict instructions to get me this as present.

https://shop.lego.com/en-IE/product/Ford-Mustang-10265?icmp=HP-SHM-P-CE-fordmu-1681-1



Edit: She ordered. Now playing the waiting game.

colm_mcm wrote: »

Can of worms here,
I loved Lego as a child, but the way they’ve gone now with specific bits makes them a bit like a **** self-build model car to me. I just don’t get it.
Not a criticism of that car, but more of Lego in general. My son is around Lego age now, age he’s got a few of the small sets already, but they seem more restrictive than the ones that were out when I was his age.

I can't really agree when it comes to System/classic bricks. As an adult, I spent about 2k+ eu on Lego and as you can imagine I built a few sets. They did added a lot of new parts, which open up more building shapes. You still have all old parts in circulation too. What I do hate about new sets: too many stickers. Very rarely printed bricks are used.
What I am not fan off, is the new Technic sets. They are really cool sets when built, but they are not as fun to build, like normal Lego. In most cases you just keep putting pins and bars together and only feel the shape come together in the end. On top of that, it's very hard to build your own stuff with Technic. You need to plan it out in advance, where's with normal bricks, you can just slap stuff together and see where it will get you.

That's why I asked for this mustang set over Technic porches etc.

Certain Topaz petrol stations are selling miles plus petrol and diesel for the same price as regular fuel. Got some this morning however the car was fairly full already so only got 20 litres in so the benefits will be diluted down but have a long drive this afternoon so will see if I notice any difference in fuel consumption or engine performance.

CIP4 wrote: »

Certain Topaz petrol stations are selling miles plus petrol and diesel for the same price as regular fuel. Got some this morning however the car was fairly full already so only got 20 litres in so the benefits will be diluted down but have a long drive this afternoon so will see if I notice any difference in fuel consumption or engine performance.

It takes around 3 or 4 tank fulls before you start seeing the benefits so I doubt you'll notice any difference.

colm_mcm wrote: »

Doesn’t the standard fuel claim to take you up to 3% further than standard petrol, so this Miles Plus is only up to 3% better than their own regular fuel?

They say it’s better and gives more power because it cleans your engine, not because the fuel is more powerful.

Snake oil.

Yes I worked it out before and to cover the 7 cent extra per litre the difference needed to be substantial enough. Like it’s all the same petrol coming from whitegate refinery just a couple of additives added at a very low dilution right at the end of the process before it hits the truck same octane and all that. Still when it was the same price no harm getting it.

I would be too mean to pay 7 cent extra per litre for petrol with the same octane rating :pac:

Marcusm wrote: »

Are they really selling it at the same price or do both hoses fill at the same price because they are both delivering Miles not Milesplus? I was chatting to a Topaz delivery driver and he said very few of the Dublin based stations (where I would expect to find the greatest number of wasteful customers, myself included) were getting deliveries of Milesplus.

No it’s on the radio and all special deal for this weekend only obviously only in stations that sell miles and miles plus fuel. Plus I am intelligent enough to be able to read miles plus vs miles off the sign and hose to realise they are different and not two of the same miles fuel :pac:

Drove a relations new model 191 ST-Line focus 1.0 ecoboost actually liked it more than I thought I would to drive the engine feels ok for 3 cylinder you can get the acceleration out of it but you do have to work it. Build quality is not hectic though paint is seriously soft covered in stone chips after a month and he would deliberately be careful keeping back from trucks etc.

The panels are very light and bend with any kind of pressure. Then the worse part is it has serious suspension creaks and noises when driving it’s going in to get new modified drop links and ball joints with 6k km on it known issue apparently. So seems Ford have some serious creases to iron out on this new model.

CIP4 wrote: »

Drove a relations new model 191 ST-Line focus 1.0 ecoboost actually liked it more than I thought I would to drive the engine feels ok for 3 cylinder you can get the acceleration out of it but you do have to work it. Build quality is not hectic though paint is seriously soft covered in stone chips after a month and he would deliberately be careful keeping back from trucks etc.

The panels are very light and bend with any kind of pressure. Then the worse part is it has serious suspension creaks and noises when driving it’s going in to get new modified drop links and ball joints with 6k km on it known issue apparently. So seems Ford have some serious creases to iron out on this new model.

And it is FUGLY.

The new Focus looks a lot like the Impreza hatchback that has been out for a few years now

Thought passing this milestone justified a post.

Not bad for a petrol yoke.

GustavoFring wrote: »

Wheels are too small on any I've seen bar one which had some aftermarket tat on it but looked better than the standard ones.

Looks small on the 17"s alright. They have a pack for ~€1300 that give's you 18" alloys, LED headlights and tinted windows. I only saw one listed on carzone with it though.

Test drove the 1.0 St line it wasn't bad up to near 100 but needs to be worked. Liked the interior and it handles well. Would at least need to be able to get the 1.5 to consider it though. Being offered way less on trade in and the 5.9% pcp rate would added a bit over €4k to the cost to change was making it a definite non runner.

Megane 1.3 130bhp I test drove was much better especially above 100 and it didn't have be worked anyway as hard.

Neither are a patch on though VAG 1.5tsi even in 130bhp version in the Leon I drove it was much livelier. Can only get the 150bhp in the Leon with the automatic but couldn't find any of them to test drive. Only got to test a manual 150bhp in a Golf and it was good improvement. Only 1.5 DSG I could find to test was a T ROC. Hate the high seating position and wallowy handling but the engine left a very good impression on me.