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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    ondafly wrote:
    95 m3

    m3a.jpg


    Now thats a car no doubt :P, giv us a flash ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,765 ✭✭✭ds20prefecture


    Hal1 wrote:
    Got your Rover slippers on too heh :rolleyes:
    Where's the photo of your car, Hal1?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    ahh its too dark for a pic, but its a '95 polo (white) 47k on teh clock shes a beast tbh lol :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,765 ✭✭✭ds20prefecture


    Hal1 wrote:
    ahh its too dark for a pic, but its a '95 polo (white) 47k on teh clock shes a beast tbh lol :P
    I see. That's a large and fragile greenhouse you're throwing stones from....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    ¬¬


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭DirtyDog


    I see. That's a large and fragile greenhouse you're throwing stones from....

    haha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Just wait till I turn on the NOS lol :p, btw dirtydog wheres the pic of your golf
    I am consideing getting an upgrade in the new year :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭DirtyDog


    Hal1 wrote:
    Just wait till I turn on the NOS lol :p, btw dirtydog wheres the pic of your golf
    I am consideing getting an upgrade in the new year :)

    Here yah go :)
    GTIpark.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Are they all your own modifications? :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭DirtyDog


    Hal1 wrote:
    Are they all your own modifications? :o

    ?? Only mods I've done are stereo and wheels...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Ahh right. I just had a look for myself I didnt realise they where standard grills . Looks similar to the 2006 model i really want one now . :)vwgti06_01.jpg Did you see the ABT mod of your golf just different grills and lights basically.
    03.jpg
    Try on these side mirrors and she'd be dam sweet, well sweeter :p
    go5cover.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    These new Golf's look more like Seat's than VW's. The last good Golf GTI was the Mk 2. The Mk3 was a mess and I don't like the styling of the new one, it will be interesting to see what the build quality and reliability of the new one will be like.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Big Balls


    junkyard wrote:
    The last good Golf GTI was the Mk 2.

    ROFL!!!!!! You're the first person I've seen/heard say a bad word about the performance of the new GTI. You clearly have not spent 5 minutes behind the wheel of one..

    BTW the above picture is not the 2006 model, I have the 2006 model - the one above is the US version !!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Oh right, got a link to this years/next years one? I done a google and that red one showed up on a uk site so I just assumed it was a euopean model.

    o0ps :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    I've driven two of them and to be honest I've driven faster diesels.:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Big Balls


    Well it must've been a 4.2 A8 you were driving or something then...

    Trying to make out the new GTI is rubbish it just stupid.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Big Balls


    Hal1 wrote:
    Oh right, got a link to this years/next years one? I done a google and that red one showed up on a uk site so I just assumed it was a euopean model.

    o0ps :o

    Try www.volkswagen.ie

    The 2006 model has minor changes - mainly, a different ashtray lid, different knobs on the radio, a roof mounted aerial... and I think that's it!

    Sure the picture you have above is the exact same as any GTI out now, just has American style repeaters and it's missing the surround for the number plate. Everything else is the same.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    Big Balls, what's the difference between a Golf GTI and a hedgehog? Ha Ha Ha, we're quit's now.:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,142 ✭✭✭TempestSabre


    junkyard wrote:
    I've driven two of them and to be honest I've driven faster diesels.:)

    Which ones?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 741 ✭✭✭michaelanthony


    Here's my carriage


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Ernie Ball


    My chariot after my patented exterior valeting procedure yesterday:

    IMG_3490.jpg

    IMG_3489.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,436 ✭✭✭ando


    Which ones?

    my diesel has 57 more foot pounds of torque :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,142 ✭✭✭TempestSabre


    ando wrote:
    my diesel has 57 more foot pounds of torque :p

    So's a bus. He said "faster" and "diesels". So thats more than one diesel thats "faster" 0-60 and top speed. The 4.0 TDI can do it. Dunno what else. I'm not ragging, I'm just curious. I like diesels myself. But the GTI is car of the year for some of the car mags. Be interested in what he thinks beats it.

    Ernie Ball - Sexy. Did you re-touch the photo? Looks great regardless.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    I can remember driving a souped up VW Passat 130 red eye with a remapped ecu etc., I drove in England about four years ago and the thing was a rocket, 0-60 in about 6 seconds flat. The BMW 535 diesel is another car that is faster than the golf, I drove one when they came out and you wouldn't think it was diesel, I think they are twin turbo but I could stand corrected. I'm sorry but I'm not obsessed with facts and figures but I'd say they're faster.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,142 ✭✭✭TempestSabre


    Modded car doesn't count. otherwise you have to allow a modded GTI aswell. Ok the 535D and A8 4.0 TDI are quicker. But seriously more expensive. Both to run AND to buy. If I win the lotto I'll let you know what you think. But have you driven either?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    I drove the 535d and its a flyer and a great car to drive but I don't like the styling and I don't think I ever will. I have the E39 M5 and I love the design and I always did but I'm sorry to say it's going to be the last BMW car I'll ever own. I think the current 5 series just looks bland and boring just like the Lexus IS200 in many ways.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,765 ✭✭✭ds20prefecture


    Alfa 159 2.4 JTD - 200bhp, about twice the torque of the GTi, similar price. Oh, and the Alfa has been styled, as opposed to tabled at a customer clinic and not objected to.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Ernie Ball


    Ernie Ball - Sexy. Did you re-touch the photo? Looks great regardless.

    Didn't retouch it. Did adjust the contrast a bit.


  • Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭bmoferrall


    (Slightly OT...thought I'd shoehorn them here n'anyway)

    Love the rear end of the standard Brera, less so the front end.
    This, on the other hand...

    Alfa Brera GTA
    tongue0022.gif

    P1010306.jpg
    alfa_romeo_brera_gta_201.jpg
    "the GTA will be powered by a 4.2 litre V8 engine with Multiair delivering 440 bhp and no less than 500 Nm of torque"
    How much do organs, or your average gran, fetch on the black market these days? :o


    Again, not overly enamoured with the 159's face, but this looks great:

    159_black_raggi.jpg

    ...coming soon to a showroom near you


  • Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭bmoferrall


    Ernie Ball wrote:
    ...my patented exterior valeting procedure...
    Please share :)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭bmoferrall


    DirtyDog wrote:
    Here yah go :)
    GTIpark.jpg
    Great picture DirtyDog...hope you weren't waiting too long for that effect


  • Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭bmoferrall


    ...as opposed to tabled at a customer clinic and not objected to.
    Actually, the hidden rear door handles of the 156 were dropped from the 159 because of negative feedback in customer clinics :( (sorry, lost the source on this*)


    *Edit: Here it is.
    No longer are the rear handles hidden to surprise and then delight baffled rear occupants. "Our clinics told us that customers didn't like the hidden handles," says Alfa's engineering chief, Paolo Masai.
    (I've never met anyone who didn't like this feature)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭MercMad


    Well they were harder to use and they didn't really fool anyone did they !

    That 159 is a lovely progression IMO !

    BTW isn't the BMW a 530d............didn't know there was a 535d !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭Fabritzo


    Yeh, the 535 is the one with progressive turbos, one small one and then a bigger one, it was on top gear. They've released a 520d too now, 47mpg! I'll believe it when I see it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Big Balls


    junkyard wrote:
    I can remember driving a souped up VW Passat 130 red eye with a remapped ecu etc., I drove in England about four years ago and the thing was a rocket, 0-60 in about 6 seconds flat.

    A remapped 130bhp TDI will put out no more than about 178bhp. The GTI has over 20 more and a far superior chassis. Get into the real world will ya.. a Passat is a barge in comparison. 6 seconds my arse!!

    Of course there's going to be faster cars out there, it's 'only' a 200bhp hatch but it's a fantastic package and there has been a lot of hype about it and most of it justified.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭MercMad


    I was the passenger in a Golf GTtdi earlier thgis year in the UK. He said it was standard but the thing had phenomenal overtaking power, far more than the older 1.8T I drove !

    I know these newer GTI's are faster, maybe 0-60 blah blah but for overtaking I reckon the Tdi's could be faster in gear !

    I dunno more than that !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Big Balls


    That was the case in the last GTI for sure.

    The new one has diesel levels of torque which makes up for it a lot. A mate of mine has a PD150 Golf and we had a little blast not so long ago as I wanted to see if the in gear times for his would take on my yoke and when on the move he was quick but I was still ahead and the higher the speedo went the more I pulled away.

    But like I said, there's always going to be faster cars than your own.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    prospect wrote:
    Mine, Mine, Mine

    and now mine :D

    (on yellows, that's changed since... and so have the road tax and the insurance :( )

    German metal? bah! put it on that shelf next to the Italian one... :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Ernie Ball


    bmoferrall wrote:
    Please share :)

    OK. But really most of the credit has to go to a guy named Dev on the Spyderchat (MR2) message board. What I did was this:

    1. Pressure wash the dirt off the car.
    2. Wash with Autoglym Shampoo and then dry.
    3. Clay with Meguiar's Quik Clay
    4. Polish with Autoglym SuperResin polish
    5. Put on one coat of Wolfgang Sealant (imported from US).
    6. Wait a day.
    7. Another coat of Wolfgang.
    8. Wait a day.
    8. Two coats of P21s carnauba wax (imported from US but may be available in the UK).

    All of that was done at the end of the summer. Since then, I've added two more coats of P21s, one every couple of months and the most recent one on Sunday (when I took the pictures of the car).

    The Wolfgang Sealant is the business, by the way. Gives the car a very liquid-y look.


  • Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭bmoferrall


    Ernie Ball wrote:
    OK. But really most of the credit has to go to a guy named Dev on the Spyderchat (MR2) message board. What I did was this:

    1. Pressure wash the dirt off the car.
    2. Wash with Autoglym Shampoo and then dry.
    3. Clay with Meguiar's Quik Clay
    4. Polish with Autoglym SuperResin polish
    5. Put on one coat of Wolfgang Sealant (imported from US).
    6. Wait a day.
    7. Another coat of Wolfgang.
    8. Wait a day.
    9. Two coats of P21s carnauba wax (imported from US but may be available in the UK).
    Cheers for that.
    That's taking car care to a different level...I thought I was dedicated :)
    ...P21s, one every couple of months
    Do you go through steps 1 to 8 again before doing this?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭Squirrel


    bmoferrall wrote:
    Please share :)

    His valeting system is quite extensive, and the results are fantastic. I'll throw my advice in, if you can get Cherry Bomb car shampoo, get it. That stuff is fantastic. And also Car Brite wax and window polish. They're quality also.

    Squirrel (ex-valeter)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Big Balls


    Squirrel wrote:
    if you can get Cherry Bomb car shampoo, get it.

    And it smells bloody great ! :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Heathen


    Conor-Mr2 wrote:
    Ondaflys is an m3 alright. Sat in it. Extremely nice car and lovely grunt. Had an issue with a small oil leak I believe. Is that fixed yet?!!

    I love the on board computer.

    To be honest though-after I sell my mr2, my heart is set on a TT Supra. Uk Spec preferably as the vrt is a LOT cheaper than the Jap spec equivalent.

    have you got any quotes yet? and what age are ya? id be interested to hear cos i got a quote for €1100 on a supra a few months ago, but lost my job soon after so kinda put a spanner in the works.. also have to concentrate on buying a house in 2006 so it might be for my 30th that i get the TT hehe love that car so much!

    have you looked into road tax / vrt / car prices yet too? cos id love to hear some quotes.. re-ignight my drive to buy one :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Ernie Ball


    bmoferrall wrote:
    Cheers for that.
    That's taking car care to a different level...I thought I was dedicated :)


    Do you go through steps 1 to 8 again before doing this?

    No. Just wash, dry and put on the P21s. Dev (the master) says to keep doing that over the winter and then, in the spring, go through the whole routine again. The Wolfgang is fairly durable stuff and only needs applying every 6 months or so, especially if you've got a coat of wax on top of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭HungryJoey


    bmoferrall wrote:
    No problem. I'd be happy to give you a closer look, and maybe go for a quick spin.

    bmoferrall,

    Seen you again today, Around 1ish, Give or take 30 mins, Can't remember exactly what time, Going over the coolmine Railway station, I drove right by you, Well It looked like the same you as before, And the hair Doo groovy ;) But, You need to was it man, I couldnt see my reflection in it today when you drove by, Heh.


    Hj


  • Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭bmoferrall


    HungryJoey wrote:
    bmoferrall,

    Seen you again today, Around 1ish, Give or take 30 mins, Can't remember exactly what time, Going over the coolmine Railway station, I drove right by you, Well It looked like the same you as before,
    Possibly, but I'm not sure. What car you you drive anyway?
    And the hair Doo groovy ;)
    Whaddya mean? mad0177.gif It's a classic pudding-bowl confection :), so doubt it was me tbh.
    But, You need to was it man, I couldnt see my reflection in it today when you drove by, Heh.
    Well, it was washed and polished this morning so it definitely wasn't me :cool:.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭HungryJoey


    Bah, Wooppss... So there is more then 1 of them 156's going around then, Looked exactly like yours, You deffinetly didnt drive over coolmine railway station today, The one going towards Carpenters town ?

    I was in my mothers car, A champagne Pearleasent megane Coupe.

    Hj


  • Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭bmoferrall


    HungryJoey wrote:
    You deffinetly didnt drive over coolmine railway station today, The one going towards Carpenters town ?
    Actually, I did pass through there around 12:30. Did you not say you saw a dirty car though :confused:

    Did I look something like this?
    AFRO.jpg
    I swear I only put that on at night :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭HungryJoey


    Yep, Mabe it wasnt dirty, As I said I wized past you on the Blanchardstown side, Just after the junction down to roselawn ( where I live, well near ). All I can remember was it was really shinny, But seriously, Its a dull day and you flew by ;) You had scruffy hair, Is that you ? And I probably am wrong about that as you flew by, Your hair definetly wasn't short anyway :p

    Hj


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭ciarsd


    Hungry, im gettin scared! are you a stalker ;)
    I must take care around those parts - hehe
    :D


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