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

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  • #6962
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,780 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/renault-clio-music-2010-1-1-nct-11-2021-tax-01-20/23670900

    Thanks Colm.
    Anything to look out for in those?
    Weak spots or such?


  • #6963
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,541 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Make sure everything works, do your history check, and make sure it’s been maintained. Regardless of the low mileage, it should have had a new timing belt at this stage.


  • #6964
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,541 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Ok, ownership on the Clio changed in late November 2019, which mightn’t be a good thing..

    I’d still have a look at it though.


  • #6965
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,780 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Make sure everything works, do your history check, and make sure it’s been maintained. Regardless of the low mileage, it should have had a new timing belt at this stage.

    Ok,she's coming from a 90's corolla estate which she's had donkeys years.
    It's been trouble free while she's had it but emissions is becoming a problem I believe.


  • #6966
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,541 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Tbh there are tonnes of options out there, I like that Clio because it looks like new and is low mileage.


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  • #6967
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,780 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Tbh there are tonnes of options out there, I like that Clio because it looks like new and is low mileage.

    I wouldn't be too well up on what's good and bad in that type of range.


  • #6968
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,619 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    blade1 wrote: »
    I wouldn't be too well up on what's good and bad in that type of range.

    Another Toyota?
    Megane or Clio,
    Skoda fabia or Octavia


  • #6969
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,780 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Another Toyota?
    Megane or Clio,
    Skoda fabia or Octavia
    Thanks.
    Any engines that stick out in particular or avoid even in those?


  • #6970
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,541 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I’d avoid the Fabia to be honest, the petrol engines aren’t very robust.
    Megane will be pretty much all diesel


    Nissan Note would be worth a look too, as would Hyundai ix20 and Kia Venga


  • #6971
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,780 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    I’d avoid the Fabia to be honest, the petrol engines aren’t very robust.
    Megane will be pretty much all diesel


    Nissan Note would be worth a look too, as would Hyundai ix20 and Kia Venga

    What about 09 1.4 focus?


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  • #6972
    Tazzimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭Tazzimus


    Leonard Hofstadter wrote: »
    I was always told not to use Castrol because it's supposed to be rubbish these days, people still buy it based on past glories if that makes sense.

    I know there was a time when it was the oil BMW recommended but those days are gone a while.

    If I've ever needed to top up the oil in mine, I've always used Petronas 5W40 and was always happy with it.

    Mine got an oil service recently and the garage put 5W40 Liqui Moly into it, only 800 miles clocked up since the service so far, so very early days, but it seems to be working an absolute treat in it, different engines of course but if you were happy with it before then I'd stick with it.
    I've had a few mechanics give out about Magnatec and the ****e it gunks up your engine with, so I just tend to avoid Castrol these days.
    Plenty of other options out there anyway that work just fine.


  • #6973
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,541 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    blade1 wrote: »
    What about 09 1.4 focus?

    I personally wouldn’t. They’re €570 tax and a dog to drive.


  • #6974
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,541 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Tazzimus wrote: »
    I've had a few mechanics give out about Magnatec and the ****e it gunks up your engine with, so I just tend to avoid Castrol these days.
    Plenty of other options out there anyway that work just fine.

    I thought
    edge is proper synthetic and magnatec is hydrocracked mineral oil which they’re calling synthetic.


  • #6975
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,580 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    blade1 wrote: »
    What about 09 1.4 focus?

    Honda Jazz:

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/honda-jazz-1-3-2010-new-nct-amptaxed/23509984


  • #6976
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,780 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Honda Jazz:

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/honda-jazz-1-3-2010-new-nct-amptaxed/23509984

    Cheers Jazz... I mean bazz :D


  • #6977
    Tazzimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭Tazzimus


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    I thought
    edge is proper synthetic and magnatec is hydrocracked mineral oil which they’re calling synthetic.
    Could be the case, I haven't used Edge since the Magnatec warning


  • #6978
    vintagevrs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,397 ✭✭✭vintagevrs


    Reading on a BM forum about oil and looks like Magnatec is what a lot of dealers use as posters have asked their local service departments and Magnatec was the answer given. Probably just the cheapest LL04 stuff they can get.


  • #6979
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,541 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Tazzimus wrote: »
    Could be the case, I haven't used Edge since the Magnatec warning

    I used Magnatec last time on the Civic because it was stupid cheap.


  • #6980
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,619 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    I used Magnatec last time on the Civic because it was stupid cheap.

    Yeah but you could put cooking oil in a Honda and probably not kill it.

    The VTEC is indestructible....


  • #6981
    CIP4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,657 ✭✭✭CIP4


    I thought there would be a 2020 car plans thread by now.

    I love guessing it wrong every year.


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  • #6982
    joujoujou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,281 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    CIP4 wrote: »
    I thought there would be a 2020 car plans thread by now.

    I love guessing it wrong every year.

    NYE party was way too long this time, sorry I'm late. :o

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058042622

    You're welcome. ;)


  • #6983
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    I passed my NCT retest this evening. Pretty late slot, 9.30 pm. Disconnecting the front fog lights worked and when I left the centre I puled into a garden centre car park next to it and connected the fog lights back up so the fog lights stay on all the time when the lights are on.

    Don't know if I can plug the blue LED bulbs back in as parking lights as the plastic part came off when I was unplugging them. I could order new ones but I'm still undecided.


  • #6984
    Carpentry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭Carpentry


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    I passed my NCT retest this evening. Pretty late slot, 9.30 pm. Disconnecting the front fog lights worked and when I left the centre I puled into a garden centre car park next to it and connected the fog lights back up so the fog lights stay on all the time when the lights are on.

    Don't know if I can plug the blue LED bulbs back in as parking lights as the plastic part came off when I was unplugging them. I could order new ones but I'm still undecided.

    so you are one of them ... :mad:


  • #6985
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,619 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    I passed my NCT retest this evening. Pretty late slot, 9.30 pm. Disconnecting the front fog lights worked and when I left the centre I puled into a garden centre car park next to it and connected the fog lights back up so the fog lights stay on all the time when the lights are on.

    Don't know if I can plug the blue LED bulbs back in as parking lights as the plastic part came off when I was unplugging them. I could order new ones but I'm still undecided.

    Seriously wtf.... You were already told and asked...

    Only absolute numpties drive with fog lights on when there ain't any FOG


  • #6986
    Tazzimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭Tazzimus


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    I passed my NCT retest this evening. Pretty late slot, 9.30 pm. Disconnecting the front fog lights worked and when I left the centre I puled into a garden centre car park next to it and connected the fog lights back up so the fog lights stay on all the time when the lights are on.

    Don't know if I can plug the blue LED bulbs back in as parking lights as the plastic part came off when I was unplugging them. I could order new ones but I'm still undecided.
    Please leave them off unless it's actually foggy or bad visibility, they're very annoying for cars coming towards you. Like driving towards someone with unfocused headlights.


  • #6987
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,619 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Oh by the way you look far from cool same goes for them with purple, blue, pink lights.... Ugh


  • #6988
    Wailin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Wailin


    Hook, line and sinker lads :D


  • #6989
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,619 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Wailin wrote: »
    Hook, line and sinker lads :D

    Watching die hard over the Christmas???


  • #6990
    Wailin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Wailin


    Nope.


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  • #6991
    job seeker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,127 ✭✭✭job seeker


    Hi all! So I moved closer to work and after my 5 minute commute yesterday morning, I noticed that the civic didn’t warm up fully! (I wasn’t expecting it to fully warm up in that time anyway) I know that this sorta thing is a big no-no with a diesel car. Will it be ok for a petrol?


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