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***Motors Chat Thread Round 2***

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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    166man wrote: »
    If your 159 is anything like every other Alfa it probably needs a new front badge which together with a really good clean and some decent number plates can change the front of the car. Happened on my 156. Unreal difference with just €20 on a badge.

    I'd paint the callipers red too they always look good especially on an Alfa.

    I need new badges front and rear, the car would look so much better if it had them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Must get a boost gauge and turn that turbo down! :pac:

    Anyone here know what engines use a Garrett T25?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,320 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Saab 900 and 9000 did anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    dgt wrote: »
    Anyone here know what engines use a Garrett T25?

    Quick google says any 2L Saab B204 between 94-00


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,569 ✭✭✭166man


    Stheno wrote: »
    I need new badges front and rear, the car would look so much better if it had them.

    I got the front one for €30 fitted, some new number plates @20 quid each and many a hour of hard elbow grease with a multitude of polishes and waxes and the front of the car is completely different.

    Best investment of €50 ever.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Saab 900 and 9000 did anyway.
    Quick google says any 2L Saab B204 between 94-00

    Cheers! It's very difficult to find out what thy were fitted to. So I'm looking for the Sweedish stuff so... :)

    Reason being is my turbo sounds a bit iffy and have seen a few 306's running with T25 hybrids


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    AA cover?

    :D

    Chap I know lost his business and went mad on the drink, ended up in John Of Gods. Anyhow he tells this story of while he was in there, there was a chap on day release who had a couple of hours off each day. He got in to his car and it wouldn't start. He spent an hour at it and gave up. Later that evening they were standing in line for their tablets and one of the lads asked him did he get something he had planned on buying that afternoon.


    No, he says, the car wouldn't start.
    Are you not in the AA, the other dude asks.
    No, he replies, sure I'm here for drugs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,378 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Stheno wrote: »
    Makes me ill how much the OH spends on his kids at christmas :(



    I'm getting my alfa resprayed, rust ****e taken out and a few scratches sorted for less than 500

    1k should see the same guy respray your car?

    I give out about the cost Stheno, but on that morning Each smile and hug is priceless. There are several reasons it costs ME so much at christmas, none of which is appropriate for this forum, and none of which reflect well on the fairer sex ;)

    Let me know how the paintjob goes and wheather you are happy with it please.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,378 ✭✭✭pred racer


    166man wrote: »
    I got the front one for €30 fitted, some new number plates @20 quid each and many a hour of hard elbow grease with a multitude of polishes and waxes and the front of the car is completely different.

    Best investment of €50 ever.

    Strangely enough, my badges are in good shape, I have no patience with polishing, one panel will be perfect and the rest will be "sur fook it, it'll do":D

    Thanks GarITR, might stretch to that allright:p


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


    id love a diesel and just to **** off on a big road trip to europe. be some amazing thing to do id say. feck going to spain etc, straight from west to east. cherbourg to gdansk and ferry it to stockholm


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    id love a diesel and just to **** off on a big road trip to europe. be some amazing thing to do id say. feck going to spain etc, straight from west to east. cherbourg to gdansk and ferry it to stockholm

    The mini trip I had I August was bloody hilarious, filled the boot with booze and broke the electrics on the M4 :pac:

    I must go full on Europe someday, hopefully in the 406 :cool:


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


    i wouldnt have booze in mine though, more like books on rare ww2 sites to visit :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,378 ✭✭✭pred racer


    i wouldnt have booze in mine though, more like books on rare ww2 sites to visit :o

    Went to see Dachau while I was in germany, I wouldnt reccomend it,
    Horrible, horrible place (for obvious reasons)


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


    I've been to sachsenhausen and I'm going to krakow in January for 5days. I'll most certainly be going to Auschwitz. It'll do good to see how harsh things were there in winter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,100 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    I had a manky old Avensis try and "race" me earlier. I don't know how to feel right now. :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    I had a manky old Avensis try and "race" me earlier. I don't know how to feel right now. :o

    So you lost then?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,661 ✭✭✭eringobragh


    I've been to sachsenhausen and I'm going to krakow in January for 5days. I'll most certainly be going to Auschwitz. It'll do good to see how harsh things were there in winter.

    Jesus....those places are tragic my mate was just back from there, I saw the killing fields in Cambodia and it will haunt me for the rest of my life :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,100 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    So you lost then?

    To be fair to the Avensis, it did keep up with me for about 1 second. :D


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,104 ✭✭✭✭mik_da_man


    I had a manky old Avensis try and "race" me earlier. I don't know how to feel right now. :o

    I had a "Glanza" try race me in the pug a wee while ago, he got some shock :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,100 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    mik_da_man wrote: »
    I had a "Glanza" try race me in the pug a wee while ago, he got some shock :D

    It's more to do with the fact that he wanted to race me, as if he had a decent chance or something.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭Chuck_Norris


    mik_da_man wrote: »

    I had a "Glanza" try race me in the pug a wee while ago, he got some shock :D

    I'd have love to have seen the look on their faces.... :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,283 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Saw RJ on the banlist yesterday - think he's in the big house for a month!

    Not your ornery onager



  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,104 ✭✭✭✭mik_da_man



    I'd have love to have seen the look on their faces.... :eek:

    Twas pretty funny in fairness :)
    He caught up at a roundabout and was just staring at the car wondering what just happened!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,661 ✭✭✭eringobragh


    Esel wrote: »
    Saw RJ on the banlist yesterday - think he's in the big house for a month!

    What did he do..I find him quite informative on here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,283 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    What did he do..I find him quite informative on here
    Can't see any reason in his posts. He was involved in a slightly heated thread where some biker went a bit road-ragey with a 'cager' (that's what immature bikers call a car driver). It is possible that either he got banned for a post that has since been deleted, or possibly for abuse via PM. Purely speculation on my part though...

    Otoh, he could have requested that he be banned for a month for personal reasons.

    RJ, if you're reading this - we miss you already, you cranky baxtard! :)

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,100 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    Esel wrote: »
    Can't see any reason in his posts. He was involved in a slightly heated thread where some biker went a bit road-ragey with a 'cager' (that's what immature bikers call a car driver). It is possible that either he got banned for a post that has since been deleted, or possibly for abuse via PM. Purely speculation on my part though...

    Otoh, he could have requested that he be banned for a month for personal reasons.

    RJ, if you're reading this - we miss you already, you cranky baxtard! :)

    Not the place to be discussing this,cheers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭Chuck_Norris


    mik_da_man wrote: »

    Twas pretty funny in fairness :)
    He caught up at a roundabout and was just staring at the car wondering what just happened!

    I'd imagine so. Years ago, a cousin if mine had a sleeper Golf. Couple of young lads tried racing him in their Impreza. It didn't end well for the Impreza.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    I'd imagine so. Years ago, a cousin if mine had a sleeper Golf. Couple of young lads tried racing him in their Impreza. It didn't end well for the Impreza.

    Some Tdi so , lad!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    I didn't know that cars could use the bus lane along the quays. I didn't know that it also gives the driver automatic rights to bully their way in either :rolleyes: didn't work on me, I hope I woke them up with the horn
    mik_da_man wrote: »
    I had a "Glanza" try race me in the pug a wee while ago, he got some shock :D

    Snap, but not in the pug, in the blue van. Admittedly was a Glanza S but was very funny when they realised it was a hopeless case and angrilly pulled in behind me :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭Chuck_Norris



    Some Tdi so , lad!!!

    And what's worse is, it was a non spoiler edition Impreza, so you know what you've ahead of you.....lad!!!

    This was yers before he whole felt apec scene. His car was a sleeper VR6, de- badged etc. and it was probably only a 1.6 or 2.0 non turbo Impreza.


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