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

CIP4 wrote: »

Seems the car insurance refunds will come in around the €30 mark. Probably not as much as many would have hoped for but certainly better than nothing. Will be interesting to see do all the insurers go in on it. Aviva haven't committed to anything so far.

a €35 one 4 all voucher from FBD :cool: if that's all they're giving i think they need the money more than i do

here stick it!

fryup wrote: »

a €35 one 4 all voucher from FBD :cool: if that's all they're giving i think they need the money more than i do

here stick it!

I would've voted for a percentage of your premium personally

Now we're all getting 30/35 euros so regardless if your insurance cost you 400 euro or 1,400 euro you're getting the same.

Bit unfair I think

colm_mcm wrote: »

I have that on the Skoda and was told it makes no difference

Had to make some difference, otherwise it wouldn't be a feature?

https://www.carscoops.com/2015/05/study-says-vws-safety-systems-actively/

fryup wrote: »

i've been with them for 10years + and not so much as a whimper out of me, and all they give is a measly 35 quid ?? i would have had more respect for them if they gave me nothing tbh

There in lies your problem I reckon. Did you properly shop around every year and if you did then did they provide the most competitive quote on each renewal?

Tazzimus wrote: »

GF's place has seemingly been selling cars the last few weeks, despite them being closed..

How are they doing test drives and hand overs?

See some guy crashed a M4 in the UK police said his tyres were below the limit Michelin pilot sport cup,he disagrees

Picked up two Uniroyle Rainsport 5s the other day, the P7 Pirellis had gone to **** on both shoulders due to previous owner not keeping them correctly inflated as well as being 45 opposed to 40 on the side walls.

Other than the comfort improvements by ditching the run flats it's too early to tell what there like.

Anyone experience in painting brake calipers? I've decided it's my next job as they are really letting the car down. Watched enough youtube videos on it and am confident to give it a go. Just wondering what brand of heat resistant paint to use. I'm thinking of going with either black or the dark blue common on most bmw calipers.

Truckermal wrote: »

I had a P7 do the same and it deflated a few PSI for no length, I'll be very interested to see how you get on because I nearly ordered a set but decided on Kumhos after. The P7 were £170 per corner from camskill..:(

Only reason for not going ahead with the kumhos was because the rears have a poorer rating that the fronts. Uniroyles are the same back and front.

Can you still pay for motor tax online and have the disc posted out as normal ? My car tax is either expired the end of this month or next I have to check tomorrow.

Manic Moran wrote: »

EUR 1,450? He's as well off doing them himself. They shouldn't be too hard to disconnect, the issue he's going to have is making sure they are damned clean before trying to paint them.

But postage is less than a tenner!

Out of boredom decided to work out what I have spent on cars over the years. Probably wasn't actually as bad as I thought. But that is mainly because if you break it down for everything I owned up to trading in my Audi A4 the 2009 one I had actually broke even as there was a few I made money on.

Then the 161 Leon I actually think was a good buy at the time practically a new car but heavily reduced in price. If I had been doing the sensible thing financially I would have kept that as even now it would only be a 4 year old car so still fairly fresh.

But on the B9 A4 and GTI really I can't justify either whatsoever. However I don't regret buying either and if I was back again probably would buy the same over.

advertsfox wrote: »

Wanted to get a dashcam for the Karoq but didn't want anything too obvious on the glass so did a bit of hunting for OEM style ones and found these - IRO Dashcams. A bit on the dearer side for it's specification but the integration and ease of install (direct to ODB) is ticking all the boxes for me. I took a punt and went for it, should be here in 1-2 weeks. Any have experience with them? Available for tonnes of models (even Tesla).

https://www.aliexpress.com/i/4000256868810.html

Arrived and setup in 15 minutues, excellent device I must say. Auto powers off if battery gets to 11.8, 12 or 12.4V (set to the latter) and parking mode is timelapsed.