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

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  • #7232
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,574 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    That C3 Pluriel though!


  • #7233
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,775 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    Tazzimus wrote: »
    Anything parked in the "neighbours spot" these days?

    Yeah, the neighbour. Once he moves the E60 will be relocated until it becomes one with nature.


  • #7234
    eljono
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭eljono


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    Bought a Subaru, now the garden is full... Luckily the Skyline and Silvia are in the shed :pac:

    WRX? Well wear, I've always wanted one but don't think I could get away with one as my daily and don't have space for two cars.


  • #7235
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,775 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    eljono wrote: »
    WRX? Well wear, I've always wanted one but don't think I could get away with one as my daily and don't have space for two cars.

    Yep, 2.5 one... Itch that needed to be scratched really so we'll see how far it makes as a daily. Hopefully get a year or so from it.


  • #7236
    Ciano35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Ciano35


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    Yep, 2.5 one... Itch that needed to be scratched really so we'll see how far it makes as a daily. Hopefully get a year or so from it.

    I’m thinking of doing the exact same lately. Have a Corsa opc at the moment but always wanted a WRX. But wondering is it just complete madness having one as a daily.


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  • #7237
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,619 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    What about an sti....


  • #7238
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,775 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    What about an sti....

    Last one I had left a Savage itch... Never again


  • #7239
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,619 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    Last one I had left a Savage itch... Never again

    Had a itchy feeling someone might say that...


  • #7240
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,776 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    We have reached peak stupid

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    4 wheels on a car, 10 cable ties.
    2.5 cable ties per wheel.
    Hmmm, call me suspicious but I think someone is taking the piss! :pac:


  • #7241
    Tazzimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭Tazzimus


    Chappos, would I be correct in thinking that if you re-shell a car, you need to keep and use the new shells reg, rather than the old one? Also can't get the chassis re-stamped or that, due to dodgieness of it?


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  • #7242
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    Tazzimus wrote: »
    Chappos, would I be correct in thinking that if you re-shell a car, you need to keep and use the new shells reg, rather than the old one? Also can't get the chassis re-stamped or that, due to dodgieness of it?

    Yeah, the ID stays with the chassis/shell.




    Well, it should.


  • #7243
    Tazzimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭Tazzimus


    That means I'm going to have a Donegal reg car...

    The shame.


  • #7244
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,775 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    ... Unless you're creative with a grinder, and then a welder.


  • #7245
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,574 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Is there a law about swapping over where the vin is stamped ?


  • #7246
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,619 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    Is there a law about swapping over where the vin is stamped ?

    As in cutting it out and replacing?

    Yes it wouldn't be allowed but if done right nobody would ever know....

    If done as a con job it would be an issue of course.


  • #7247
    Tazzimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭Tazzimus


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    ... Unless you're creative with a grinder, and then a welder.
    I'm not, but I might know a guy...

    Although the car will be attracting enough attention with the J's exhaust as it is..


  • #7248
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,775 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    Tazzimus wrote: »
    I'm not, but I might know a guy...

    Although the car will be attracting enough attention with the J's exhaust as it is..

    I know exactly what car you're talking about :P Send both cars to Steve Richardson and have him make the first one great again.


  • #7249
    Tazzimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭Tazzimus


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    I know exactly what car you're talking about :P Send both cars to Steve Richardson and have him make the first one great again.
    Fairly sure you helped install my front strut brace, I remember some grumbling about it :P

    Second shell shall become the first, minus all the rust :pac:


  • #7250
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,775 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    Tazzimus wrote: »
    Fairly sure you helped install my front strut brace, I remember some grumbling about it :P

    Second shell shall become the first, minus all the rust :pac:

    In Tuning Factory? **** that's a long time ago.


  • #7251
    Tazzimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭Tazzimus


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    In Tuning Factory? **** that's a long time ago.
    Yep, the Race Series 3 point one. I've had the car a while ha.

    It's been dead for the last couple of years after one of Baz's trackdays up in Mondello.


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  • #7252
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,775 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    Tazzimus wrote: »
    Yep, the Race Series 3 point one. I've had the car a while ha.

    It's been dead for the last couple of years after one of Baz's trackdays up in Mondello.

    Yeahhhh I remember that, because I remember flipping it and clocking my chin with it.


  • #7253
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,426 ✭✭✭Dartz


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    As in cutting it out and replacing?

    Yes it wouldn't be allowed but if done right nobody would ever know....

    If done as a con job it would be an issue of course.


    Wouldn't mine cutting the VIN off my '06 RX8 and putting it on a later R3.


    It happens all the time in Aviation. Most 'Warbirds' are newbuilt aircraft - but so long as you have the original maker's plate and loogbooks it still counts as the same plane - like a sort of ship of theseus.



    The VIN is the car. Everything else is just parts of it.


  • #7254
    Wailin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Wailin


    Having fun up the Sally Gap yesterday.

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    Came across a few cars stranded, inc a bmw that had no business leaving the driveway, nevermind tackling mountain roads in those conditions.

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  • #7255
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    That patrol must have pulled out a fair few cars yesterday.

    Is that an xdrive badge on the 5er too?


  • #7256
    Wailin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Wailin


    It's an f10 isn't it? So no x-drive if so. Passed an E60 530d also on the military road which had drifts on it further up. Brave lads!


  • #7257
    vintagevrs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,397 ✭✭✭vintagevrs


    Suzuki looks great! Problem with xdrive (and the likes) is it gives a false sense of security to the owner, some more so than others. My car is xdrive, but it is still sitting on wide summer tyres. Absolutely terrible in the snow and ice over the last few days. It'll do better than a rwd going up a hill maybe, but braking it's as bad as every other car on the road. Quite scary the other day watching the speed of some cars coming towards me, and when I touched the brakes as lightly as I could I could feel the ABS working.


  • #7258
    Wailin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Wailin


    Yes and the problem in those conditions with an automatic is you can't drop a gear and use the engine to slow the car rather than the brakes. Even with the paddles, dropping gears has little affect.


  • #7259
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,619 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Use to go up there in a Micra.

    Had a great laugh and would pass 4x4s stuck and in ditches....

    Many cars abandoned....

    No chains and no winter tyres but the car just glided along.


  • #7260
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,426 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Best thing about the big snow the other year was rolling past the stuck Range Rovers in my summer-tired RX8

    And rings in the carpark.


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  • #7261
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    And the dead arise


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