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***Motors Chat Thread*** Round 1

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  • #6842
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Did he try take you into the back room to show you his torque wrench? :pac:

    Wait until you see what I have to show you....:eek:


  • #6843
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    MugMugs wrote: »
    Did he try take you into the back room to show you his torque wrench? :pac:

    Wait until you see what I have to show you....:eek:
    *cancels Saturday* :pac:


  • #6844
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Just after seeing a slightly done up Bravo and thought not a patch on my one... Why did I ever give it up!!! :(


  • #6845
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    dgt wrote: »
    Just after seeing a slightly done up Bravo and thought not a patch on my one... Why did I ever give it up!!! :(

    Was yours not as rough as a badgers a-hole?


  • #6846
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Limerick man wrote: »
    Was yours not as rough as a badgers a-hole?

    True but the main parts and bits were where they should have been. Bodywork deliberately tatty but at least not mismatched wheels, hanging plastic, blown bulbs like what I just saw...


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  • #6847
    Veloce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭Veloce


    Ferrari F40 anyone?

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3822330

    :D


  • #6848
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    I've been sat here for the last hour, waiting for my friend of the lady kind to finish her appointment....

    Soooo many tatty cars. Basic mistreatment to sheer neglect. Disgraceful :mad:

    A lot of cars missing studs. Saw an Octy with just 2 studs on the back wheel :eek:

    A Freelander began to race in traffic ie engine slowly crept up and up and up!

    Lack of people wearing seatbelts, yappin on the phone. Saw someone sparking up and yappin on the phone while moving....

    A lot of scabby modified cars about!

    As you can see, boredom.... :pac:


  • #6849
    Atomic Pineapple
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    dgt wrote: »
    A lot of scabby modified cars about!

    TDi VAG's ?


  • #6850
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Veloce wrote: »
    Ferrari F40 anyone?

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3822330

    :D
    What is it?


  • #6851
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭Hal1


    My guess would be an mr2.


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  • #6852
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Hal1 wrote: »
    My guess would be an mr2.
    OSI wrote: »
    It's an MR2 with a body kit.

    Looks cool, but you'd be an idiot to drive it?


  • #6853
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    OSI wrote: »
    Let's be fair, 90% of the people you pass won't know the difference. And a decent chunk of the other 10% would need a second look/listen.
    I'm not doubting that in the slightest!

    However, if I went up to you, and started to have a chat, and you told me it was an MR2, I'd call you a tosser...

    It's like putting an M badge on a 316 or Type R on a 1.4 or a 1.3VO


  • #6854
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Tallon wrote: »
    It's like putting an M badge on a 316 or Type R on a 1.4 or a 1.3VO

    Or a Lexus badge on a Toyota :pac:

    Why's there no internal pics? This upsets me greatly. :mad:


  • #6855
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Or a Lexus badge on a Toyota :pac:

    Why's there no internal pics? This upsets me greatly. :mad:
    If they were put on in the factory, then they're legit :D


  • #6856
    Veloce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭Veloce


    Your man selling the F40 also has a yellow fake 355 for sale. He says in the ad how he is regularly getting stopped for photos!

    I think the F40 looks pretty cool but I'd feel like the biggest sham driving it.


  • #6857
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    How does something like that hold up with the Gardaí?

    I mean, it's essentially a fake car?


  • #6858
    Veloce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭Veloce


    Tallon wrote: »
    How does something like that hold up with the Gardaí?

    I mean, it's essentially a fake car?

    I doubt they would even notice useless the ANPR flagged it in which case would cause massive confusion amongst the traffic corps personnel!


  • #6859
    Mr Simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,332 ✭✭✭Mr Simpson


    Reminds me of this :D

    audi-bmw-nope-just-a-1w.jpg


  • #6860
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    draffodx wrote: »
    TDi VAG's ?

    Nope, tatty euro stuff or bean can Civics. Bloody awful :(


  • #6861
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    OSI wrote: »
    Would be classed as a kit car I would imagine.

    I would say it's insured as whatever the donor car is, i.e. an MR2 or whatever. Otherwise you would be looking at an engineers report, etc.


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  • #6862
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,924 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    mmcn90 wrote: »
    Reminds me of this :D

    audi-bmw-nope-just-a-1w.jpg

    I still can't believe someone did that to a scooby :(


  • #6863
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Just met a runaway diesel Santa Fe on the M2. Got there too late. Dry of oil and coolant reservoir popped apart. Lady wasn't too happy to hear her car was dead.


  • #6864
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    I still can't believe someone did that to a scooby :(
    At least they put a spoiler on it...

    audi-bmw-nope-just-a-4w.jpg


  • #6865
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,836 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Why is it that I find driving around Dublin so stressful?

    Take one 15 minute period. Just now:

    Park outside Abrakebabra in Donnybrook so I can go to the new Tesco express shop. Absolutely easy, three empty spaces parking at an angle to the pavement (good size spaces too). Pay for 40c of parking as insurance, note another 3 empty spaces right beside but marked as loading bay. Get a few things come back outside to find the bus lane, 2 empty spaces and my car all blocked by an An Post van. Now it takes special skills to manage to block all that with a Transit sized van (loading bay not attractive, I guess). He's barely apologetic when he gets back. Inbound Donnybrook at 5:45pm on a weekday is not as busy as outbound but it's a major bus and other vehicle route into the city. Ah well, obviously special obnoxious points for that parking (no hazards flashing so maybe not as much as it could be)

    Chalk it up to experience, take the car out and head inbound. At next junction (barely 100 yds away) Belmont Avenue, a woman starts walking across the road. Silly of her as I was not far away so I make sure I don't get much above a crawl. There's a pedestrian refuge in the road but she stops 2 paces before it forcing my crawl to become a stop. What can you say, she needs to adjust her skirt in the middle of a busy road rather than in the pedestrian refuge. Typical of a certain south Dublin matron attitude.

    Move on, head down to Ballsbridge, along Shelboure Road and then to the 5 way junction (Shelbourne Road, Grand Canal Street, Haddington Road, Bath Avenue and South Lotts Road). I'm heading down South Lotts Road and am the first one at the junction so take my place on the right side of my lane. Stopped in the middle of the junction are two cars signalling down South Lotts Road. The front car needs to do his test again so that he can realise that he is stopped in the middle of a junction and that he is 50 feet beyond the stop line. He does not move forward so he is blocking the 5 routes (or at least the crossing ones). The cars behind him signal, m ove out and drive off in a different direction so as to avoid blocking the junction. He sits there in his brand new Corsa (12D122xx) with his kids arms dangling out of the wide open windows. He is completely oblivious to the cars using him as a roundabout. Ultimately I move behind him and down our mutual road. When we stopped,I had a very kind, subtle word about the dangling hands. He was thankful, I couldn't mention the poor driving as i'd have burst a blood vessel.

    So, new consideration lessons for van drivers, maybe a new licensing regime for pedestrians and I despair of the last guy. Hopefully none of the kids will lose a limb.


  • #6866
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    In order for my windows to work I need to....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjX4KHf_Lqg


    I don't know why!


  • #6867
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    dgt wrote: »

    I don't know why!

    Yes you do...


  • #6868
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    dar83 wrote: »
    Yes you do...

    In the process of.... Worst comes to worst I'll rewire it myself. At least I'll know who wired up the windows then :pac::pac::pac:


  • #6869
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,729 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    dgt wrote: »
    In order for my windows to work I need to....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjX4KHf_Lqg


    I don't know why!

    I've seen this before, you need to take the engine out.


  • #6870
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Now have a red Xantia :D


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  • #6871
    Jimbob 83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭Jimbob 83


    http://www.usedcarsni.com/96949379

    Wonder how long it will take for these to start dropping in price, Cheaper tax than the ST atleast :p Saw one in the flesh in Galway and i instantly fell in love :)


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