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***Motors Chat Thread*** Round 1

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  • #482
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,924 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    gollywog wrote: »
    Would a remap make much difference??
    I love those cars...

    I really like it too, but damn. 2.5 and 225hp... Didn't someone had it on boards.ie one? Those can be gotten quite cheap too!


  • #483
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Limerick man wrote: »
    Tell dearest brother to just bloody well stayed away from those 1.6 diesels.

    They're are just not worth the hassle/maintenance required.


    They are fine once the DPF is given a chance to regenerate. I would have no qualms of buying a 1.6 that has spent most of its life on the motorway. Its the ones that have spent a life pottering to the shops and back are the problem ones. Much like any new diesel in the last ten years.

    We've had two of them in our family with a combined 350k miles and nothing beyond the ordinary has gone wrong. PSA know how to make diesels, people don't know how to drive them.

    TL;DR
    They are as reliable as any other modern diesel with a DPF


  • #484
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,551 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    BX 19 wrote: »
    ......
    TL;DR
    They are as reliable as any other modern diesel with a DPF

    The turbo units are a common enough failure even with service histories.


  • #485
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Parked the car in a mates house over night, came back to this.

    69437_476448765571_4503099_n.jpg

    Smart asses.


  • #486
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Parked the car in a mates house over night, came back to this.

    [otos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/69437_476448765571_4503099_n.jpg[/IMG]

    Smart asses.

    Well atleast they dident rap your car in clingfillom.


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  • #487
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Wish that had, its covered in bird sh íte again.


  • #488
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Wish that had, its covered in bird sh íte again.

    Thats supposed to be good luck.


  • #489
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    The birds made that up.


  • #490
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Wish that had, its covered in bird sh íte again.
    superstoner90 wrote: »
    Thats supposed to be good luck.
    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    The birds made that up.

    I made that up. Stupid girl believed it:D:D:D


  • #491
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    I made that up. Stupid girl believed it:D:D:D

    Aw thats just fast talker chat now.


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  • #492
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    I really like it too, but damn. 2.5 and 225hp... Didn't someone had it on boards.ie one? Those can be gotten quite cheap too!

    OPC, ewww. :P

    A couple of us here have ST's, and yes with a remap and nothing else you can get 270BHP Throw in some induction and exhaust mods and you'll be pushing 300. ;)


  • #493
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    dar83 wrote: »
    A couple of us here have ST's, and yes with a remap and nothing else you can get 270BHP Throw in some induction and exhaust mods and you'll be pushing 300. ;)


    Same as an OPC so:P


  • #494
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    Turns out my 8er is down a full bank and at least one cylinder on the remaining side.

    Surprisingly it still pulls very well.

    Looking at a fairly hefty bill but it is going to be sweet as a nut when its done.


  • #495
    conzy
    Subscribers Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭conzy


    Feckin love that 5 pot engine, sound unreal and pulls like a train.


  • #496
    Jimbob 83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭Jimbob 83


    Anyone recommend a good valet service company in Galway that don't charge an arm and a leg and give the fabric seats a good clean and the car a detarring ?

    Want to clean the Auld Octavia up real nice before i try selling it.


  • #497
    gollywog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭gollywog


    dar83 wrote: »
    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    I really like it too, but damn. 2.5 and 225hp... Didn't someone had it on boards.ie one? Those can be gotten quite cheap too!

    OPC, ewww. :P

    A couple of us here have ST's, and yes with a remap and nothing else you can get 270BHP Throw in some induction and exhaust mods and you'll be pushing 300. ;)

    Realistically what sort of mpg is possible with these?? Mostly short journeys and some long...


  • #498
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    E39MSport wrote: »
    Turns out my 8er is down a full bank and at least one cylinder on the remaining side.

    Surprisingly it still pulls very well.

    Looking at a fairly hefty bill but it is going to be sweet as a nut when its done.

    What is the fault with it?


  • #499
    Jemmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭Jemmy


    Lads if anyone has a spacesaver wheel to fit an accord you wana offload gimme a shout :)


    Or know where I'd find a set of Dc5 wind deflectors either :)


  • #500
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    What is the fault with it?

    Melted coil pack identified. Number 6 still has factory plug in there despite an invoice 12 plugs fitted among all the paperwork. Number 6 is famously hard to get at. No faults stored.

    edit: I hope its just the coil pack, leads are 360 per side plus vat !


  • #501
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    gollywog wrote: »
    Realistically what sort of mpg is possible with these?? Mostly short journeys and some long...

    I get 25 normal daily driving, that's some city and some motorway. If you stay off boost you can get more out of it I'm sure, but why would you want to do that. ;)


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  • #502
    gollywog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭gollywog


    dar83 wrote: »
    gollywog wrote: »
    Realistically what sort of mpg is possible with these?? Mostly short journeys and some long...

    I get 25 normal daily driving, that's some city and some motorway. If you stay off boost you can get more out of it I'm sure, but why would you want to do that. ;)

    That's not too bad! Was looking at golf's when I was buying but ignored the petrol ones as i was dead set on a daysul! Problem is I was driving long journeys a few times a week that time but I'm not doin that any more... So is life I guess! :p


  • #503
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    A friend of mine, got a 1.8D ford fiesta car, on NI reg.

    Its like 400 or somthing to change over the plates.

    What hes going to do is convert a 5 door fiesta into a van, by welding the back doors shut. Taking out the back seats, welding panels to the back windows. I thought you could only do this to a 3 door? :confused:


  • #504
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    Nah. Plenty of the commercials are converted 5 doors.


  • #505
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    E39MSport wrote: »
    Nah. Plenty of the commercials are converted 5 doors.

    Really, oh dear :o

    So does that mean when he has it converted, he canchange over the plates as a commercial and pay the 50 euro, I think its 50 euro.

    Or must he change the plates first?


  • #506
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    afaik, make all the required changes first then get it inspected and hand over the shillings.


  • #507
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    E39MSport wrote: »
    afaik, make all the required changes first then get it inspected and hand over the shillings.

    Right, but im just wondering can it be done that way?


  • #508
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    Not too sure man, don't want to mislead you.

    One of the super brains will chip in


  • #509
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    E39MSport wrote: »
    Not too sure man, don't want to mislead you.

    One of the super brains will chip in

    Oh right no problemo.

    Could you tell me what afaik mean though?:o


  • #510
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,551 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    superstoner90 wrote: »
    ..........

    Could you tell me what afaik mean though?:o

    as far as I know


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  • #511
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    RoverJames wrote: »
    as far as I know

    Thanks

    Im not uptodate with this cyber-lingo. :o


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