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***Motors Chat Thread*** Round 1

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  • #6242
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,546 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Had a neighbours friends 7 series parked back to back with my car. There must be a foot an a half in the height of the bootlids


  • #6243
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    take some rough guesses on what my car will be worth in a years time lads will ye if your bored :)
    05 astra 1.8
    70k kms atm


  • #6244
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,551 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    .......... There must be a foot an a half in the height of the bootlids

    :eek:

    Dead bodies you reckon?


  • #6245
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,546 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    What do you think it's worth now :D


    Never realised its 1.8


  • #6246
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,551 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ardennes1944 wrote: »
    take some rough guesses on what my car will be worth in a years time lads will ye if your bored :)
    05 astra 1.8
    70k kms atm

    €2800.


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  • #6247
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    ouch :(


  • #6248
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    RoverJames wrote: »
    They're a decently designed valvetrain though, I'd play timing belt roulette with an Alfa V6 if I got a cheap one. No way would I do so on a €5000 GTA of course :)

    Out of interest ND, what's the ballpark Atlas price for a timing belt change on a 2.5 V6 Alfa 156 or 166? €800 to €1000 ish ?


    Jesus no, It doesn't say 'Alfa Romeo' over our doors:eek::)

    Using the correct tools, and without knowing the price of the timing belt kit, I'd estimate around the €500 mark.


  • #6249
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,551 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That's very reasonable, not at all prohibitive :)
    Ye might get to do more of them once word gets around :P
    DGT recently mentioned the price of the kit.


  • #6250
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,551 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ardennes1944 wrote: »
    ouch :(

    I could be well off the mark.
    Although didn't you buy it for not a whole lot more a year ago :)


  • #6251
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    RoverJames wrote: »
    That's very reasonable, not at all prohibitive :)
    Ye might get to do more of them once word gets around :P
    DGT recently mentioned the price of the kit.

    Practice makes perfect and all that...:P


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  • #6252
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    RoverJames wrote: »
    I could be well off the mark.
    Although didn't you buy it for not a whole lot more a year ago :)

    bought it for 4200 16months ago :p i dunno its probably just cos i invested so much in it like a fool. of course its hard for anyone to judge on 3 bits of information :)


  • #6253
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,551 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The ole enhancements might actually reduce the market you see. The likes of wheels are required on a car so the few quid upgrading them is usually dead money unless 'tis a VAG with the usual suspects underneath ( :rolleyes: ).

    €1400 depreciation over two years is very very good though :)

    To reiterate though, I could be well off the mark.

    Not a whole lot though


  • #6254
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,706 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Nissan doctor wrote: »

    If your talking about the manifold venturi tubes(doesn't that sound posh), then there has to be 6 on a V6 too.

    I'm not sure that you understand what venturi means.


  • #6255
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    RoverJames wrote: »
    The ole enhancements might actually reduce the market you see. The likes of wheels are required on a car so the few quid upgrading them is usually dead money unless 'tis a VAG with the usual suspects underneath ( :rolleyes: ).

    €1400 depreciation over two years is very very good though :)

    To reiterate though, I could be well off the mark.

    Not a whole lot though

    ill be taking most of the shtuff out and keeping/selling it on anyway. theres no way im leaving a full vxr suspension on it for some stupid young fella to not appreciate :o


  • #6256
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,551 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Quazzie wrote: »
    I'm not sure that you understand what venturi means.

    You regularly chip in with some criticism when ND makes an error.


  • #6257
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Ah the joys of being lazy and driving 100m to the mess to avoid the rain :pac:
    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    Jesus no, It doesn't say 'Alfa Romeo' over our doors:eek::)

    Using the correct tools, and without knowing the price of the timing belt kit, I'd estimate around the €500 mark.

    A t-belt kit for my 166 is 350 pounds for the belt, 2 rollers and tensioner. Belt on its own is about 40


  • #6258
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,706 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    RoverJames wrote: »
    You regularly chip in with some criticism when ND makes an error.

    I tend to point out errors when I spot them. It genuinely isn't aimed at him, and I apologize if it comes across that way. I suppose because he states more facts than others he is more to correction, which is maybe why it might seem that way.


  • #6259
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,551 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    dgt wrote: »
    .......


    A t-belt kit for my 166 is 350 pounds for the belt, 2 rollers and tensioner. Belt on its own is about 40

    350 Sterlings ?


  • #6260
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    Quazzie wrote: »
    I'm not sure that you understand what venturi means.


    mmm I think I do, the Alfa manifold, and many others, use the venturi effect to increase air pressure into the cylinders.


  • #6261
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    RoverJames wrote: »
    350 Sterlings ?

    Yes. Frankly stupid money for the kit. The clutch is approx 220


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  • #6262
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    dgt wrote: »
    Ah the joys of being lazy and driving 100m to the mess to avoid the rain :pac:



    A t-belt kit for my 166 is 350 pounds for the belt, 2 rollers and tensioner. Belt on its own is about 40


    :eek::eek::eek::eek: I'll have to price a kit tomorrow just out of interest now.


  • #6263
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    :eek::eek::eek::eek: I'll have to price a kit tomorrow just out of interest now.

    Hence why I put it off for a bit as the car only gets started up now and again.... Thats far more than what I paid for the 406!!!! :eek:


  • #6264
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Right I'd better off this! That was my free time :(


  • #6265
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,706 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    mmm I think I do, the Alfa manifold, and many others, use the venturi effect to increase air pressure into the cylinders.

    Any link to this anywhere. I've never heard if this before.


  • #6266
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,919 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    RoverJames wrote: »
    I'd play timing belt roulette with an Alfa V6

    Confab?? Is that you??? :eek:


  • #6267
    andyseadog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,412 ✭✭✭andyseadog


    Mister Jingles wrote: »
    Well done lads, For obviously reason I'm grateful that points/CAO has nothing to do with me, I know of lots of people who stayed up all night last night waiting. PLC all the way :pac:

    I done a PLC but had to wait for the CAO.
    you must have done a level 6 or linked course did you?


  • #6268
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,551 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Confab?? Is that you??? :eek:
    .. confab chanced it with a ts that for a while he intended keeping :)
    I'm currently two years into a game of cam belt Russian roulette with the ZT :D
    3 belts too !


  • #6269
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    In other news....I very nearly lost at the fuel light roulette game today. Drove from Dublin to Ardee last night and then back to Dublin this morning with the fuel light on. The tank is 52L.......its took 51.2L when I filled it:eek:

    Did the same yesterday but more extreme, 85 litre tank, got 85.46 into it. :pac:


  • #6270
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,729 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    I've just spent a night with a North Cork lad trying to convince me that Diffing is a good thing, all it took was a watching a video of some arse diffing on Moll's Gap and me coming out with, "If you're doing it at all, would you not just do it right and drift the road?" and he gave in.
    ****ing differs... :p
    Drunk post.


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  • #6271
    Jimbob 83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭Jimbob 83


    Diffing is stupid as it serves no purpose other than causing accidents and wasting tyres.

    If you have a nice car why spin in circles when you can go for a spirited drive


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