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

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  • #8432
    tossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,597 ✭✭✭tossy


    CIP4 wrote: »
    No :pac: More a case of as it turns out owning a Golf GTI doesn't impress or interest a bank when you are going for a mortgage. I know its hard to believe apparently they care about something called savings and how much of them you have :pac:

    :D

    I thought you had F1's ?


  • #8433
    CIP4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,657 ✭✭✭CIP4


    tossy wrote: »
    :D

    I thought you had F1's ?

    I do on the front but left the Kumho on the back that came with it as they aren’t that worn once they wear down abit I will change them for F1’s.


  • #8434
    Tazzimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭Tazzimus


    I put diesel in the car for the first time last Saturday in about 5 weeks, and I spotted it was 1.09 on the Quays this morning when I was heading into work, I was raging as it was 1.18 where I filled it up.


  • #8435
    CIP4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,657 ✭✭✭CIP4


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    when it happens I'll believe it. Insurance companies are all talk

    Aviva and Liberty are two of the big ones that haven’t signed up to it.


  • #8436
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A month is 8% ish..... If lock down is 2 months then would folk expect 16% discount when still occasionally driving & their car still insured for fire, theft & vandalism etc depending on policy type?

    My mileage is down 66% but I'm not loaded much if anything for reckoning I'll do 35k kms/annum.

    A slightly cheaper policy next year would be fine IMO.


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  • #8437
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Drove by a Toyota garage this morning and went in for a peak to kill a few minutes (naughty naughty I suppose).

    These are about €44k new now including VAT for 2 seat commercials.... Tremendous residuals

    A 2017 Asking €35k after €2k scrappage applied.
    https://www.crossings.ie/used-cars/toyota-plus-ireland/a0Z0X00000Yud59?Toyota/Land%20Cruiser/Co.%20Kildare
    196a78de-6d09-11ea-987b-02099d93ff7a_default.jpg


    A 2007 with low kms asking...Asking €13 after €2k scrappage applied.
    https://www.crossings.ie/used-cars/toyota-plus-ireland/a0Z0X00000YuFh0?Toyota/Land%20Cruiser/Co.%20Kildare
    98db6173-8572-11ea-987b-02099d93ff7a_default.jpg

    A 2002 that's well broken in... Asking nearly €7k after €2k scrappage applied
    https://www.crossings.ie/used-cars/toyota-plus-ireland/a0Z0X00000YugFJ?Toyota/Land%20Cruiser/Co.%20Kildare
    7ea0f64d-832e-11ea-987b-02099d93ff7a_default.jpg


  • #8438
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,546 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    There’s residuals and there’s artificially inflated asking prices.


  • #8439
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,633 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Who the funk would pay that???? Crazy prices....


  • #8440
    ofcork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭ofcork


    Are they reliable saw an 07 on facebook for sale with a rebuilt engine.


  • #8441
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,546 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    ofcork wrote: »
    Are they reliable saw an 07 on facebook for sale with a rebuilt engine.

    Not especially, but they do get a hard life a lot of the time so it’s hard to say.


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  • #8442
    ofcork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭ofcork


    Just came across a 07 passenger landcruiser on facebook for 9750 makes the dealer one look like robbery.


  • #8443
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,546 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I sold Toyotas in a former life and what I would say from experience is that a main dealer can often spend huge money on prepping an older one of those for retail. You could spend a few grand without trying.


  • #8444
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,546 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    ofcork wrote: »
    Just came across a 07 passenger landcruiser on facebook for 9750 makes the dealer one look like robbery.

    Unless it’s a crewcab, it’s not that desirable.


  • #8445
    ofcork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭ofcork


    True I suppose passenger landys rare the germans have that market.


  • #8446
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    That 02 in the link above looks class


  • #8447
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,546 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    That 02 in the link above looks class

    Wheels and rear wheel cover are in bits, something up with the back bumper on the passenger driver side. Not up to the cosmetic standard it should be for the money IMO, but I’d say it’s on the button mechanically if they’re retailing it.


  • #8448
    ofcork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭ofcork


    Just got another ad on fb for an 01 for 3950!


  • #8449
    CIP4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,657 ✭✭✭CIP4


    What’s the purpose of the ‘idle up’ button on the 02 and 07 model ? Assuming it increase engine speed at idle but why would you need that ?


  • #8450
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Wheels and rear wheel cover are in bits, something up with the back bumper on the passenger side. Not up to the cosmetic standard it should be for the money IMO, but I’d say it’s on the button mechanically if they’re retailing it.

    Yeah it's less then pristine.
    It was that one I went it to look at, was thinking it couldn't be for sale TBH.


  • #8451
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CIP4 wrote: »
    What’s the purpose of the ‘idle up’ button on the 02 and 07 model ? Assuming it increase engine speed at idle but why would you need that ?

    When stationary but when there's a load (electrical) on engine. Loads of lights, winch etc etc I think anyway.


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  • #8452
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,546 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    The idle up on those only works when the engine is cold, so it's mainly to keep the heater working well in really cold conditions where the engine is idling, and to heat up the engine quicker.

    Original model Avensis TD had this too, but it was activated by turning the fan speed to 1.


  • #8453
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    A friendly of mine very quickly got 12k for a 07 LWB with low KMs.

    I was trying to trade in a 131 Cruiser LWB new model with the last of the 3.0 engine and I was offered a blank cheque to get it by one of the traders.

    There’s just nothing like them to sell


  • #8454
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,633 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    I've heard of them engines going bang on quite a few land cruiser....


  • #8455
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    Probably the one where the oil wasn’t changed in 300,000kms because “Its a Toyota”


  • #8456
    selectamatic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,113 ✭✭✭selectamatic


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    I've heard of them engines going bang on quite a few land cruiser....

    The 3.0d4d engine will sludge if it's not half maintained. There's a gauze on the pickup that gets clogged and will eventually starve the engine of oil. If the injector seals are dodgey this process is accelerated by carbon buildup.

    They're solid machines but need looking after. Change the oil regularly and drop the sump every so often (3rd or 4th service should do) and they'll last well.

    The mid to late 90's is the 4x4 workhorse golden era.
    3.0td Landcruiser
    2.4td Hilux
    3.1 Trooper
    2.8td Fourtrak
    2.5td Pajero

    Rust is the killer though


  • #8457
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    & Nissan Patrol


  • #8458
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    400k km 2008 that's well used looking, asking 9k.....
    https://m.carzone.ie/used-cars/Toyota/Landcruiser-LAND-CRUISER-RC-LC--LWB-GX-AUTO/202002197486747


    Same dealer has a 201 reg with 100kms on it for roughly the rrp €45k...
    https://m.carzone.ie/used-cars/Toyota/Landcruiser-LC-LWB-GX-5DR---PRICE-INCLUDES-VAT--FINANCE-ARRANG/202004178978673

    There doesn't seem to be a cheap one advertised.... I reckon the residuals are indeed tremendous, accepting there might be a bit of haggle room.


  • #8459
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    A couple of hundred quid could transform that 08. Looks a pig in the pictures I’d say it’s 10 time’s worse in person.


  • #8460
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,551 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    New v8 diesel lump for the Touareg:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZTTEvEbKlY


    Interesting decision by VW to invest in a new v8 diesel engine given the populous opinion seems to be that diesel's days are numbered.


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  • #8461
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,546 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    And considering their efforts in electric car production. It proves that one size doesn’t fit all.


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