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***Motors Chat Thread Round 2***

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  • #782
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    166man wrote: »
    Ah feck that, you have insurance go out and take it for a spin....:cool:

    The lads in the learner driver thread would love me. No tax, NCT or full licence, I think they may actually sentence me to death. Hahaha :D


  • #783
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    What an abnormal amount of E46 325i's knocking about today.... :confused:

    Washed the car, wake up to this :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
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    I genuinely don't know why I even bother


  • #784
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    MugMugs wrote: »
    +1

    Robbie, did you not already burn a clutch out in that civic this year?

    original clutch in it
    MuppetCheck wrote: »
    You appear to be the most unlucky motorist in the country.

    mileage and heavy stop go stuff... i think when i was thought to drive they didnt really care about some car parts.

    so im rethinking my driving style and so on.
    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    How did the clutch only last 80000 miles :eek::eek::eek:

    You must drive it like ya stole it :P

    i thought the average life time was 90K ?

    but again heavy stop go and traffic.


  • #785
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,569 ✭✭✭166man


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    How did the clutch only last 80000 miles :eek::eek::eek:

    You must drive it like ya stole it :P

    Clutch on my near 12 year old Alfa is still going strong with 80k miles on it too. Now that's saying something if an Alfa is outliving a Honda...:pac:


  • #786
    awec
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  • #787
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    awec wrote: »
    Why would ye wash your car if you're driving on roads like that? :P

    It'd be clean til you left the driveway.

    That's the ting, I normally never wash them. Clean the inside and that's it!

    I think I'll see how dirty I can leave it :)


  • #788
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,773 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

    i thought the average life time was 90K ?

    but again heavy stop go and traffic.

    I would expect well over 100000 but with a lot of city driving I can understand why it would be lot less than that.


  • #789
    [Deleted User]
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    dgt - forget about washing your cars and wash the roads instead. They'd stay cleaner for longer ;)


  • #790
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    Looks like your 406 has some speed holes on the bonnet :pac:

    Autumn arrived finally yesterday and knocked all the leaves off all the trees.... The Sei was playing camouflage this morning :pac:

    Ah crap that post reminded me what I was to do to that car today! :(


  • #791
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    dgt - forget about washing your cars and wash the roads instead. They'd stay cleaner for longer ;)

    Yep, tried that! It's a losing battle unless I get a road sweeper :(

    Maybe I can make my own road sweeper.... :pac:


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  • #792
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Off on holidays from today! got myself 6 bottles of corona, some junk food, good old PC with red dwarf and video games. life is great! :p


    now if i iwll manage to wash my car tomorrow.... now that would be awesome! :rolleyes:


  • #793
    awec
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  • #794
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    That's what he did last time. The lazy bleeding' baker!


  • #795
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    Off on holidays from today! got myself 6 bottles of corona, some junk food, good old PC with red dwarf and video games. life is great! :p


    now if i iwll manage to wash my car tomorrow.... now that would be awesome! :rolleyes:

    Slap a spoiler on it while you're at it!


  • #796
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,871 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

    original clutch in it



    mileage and heavy stop go stuff... i think when i was thought to drive they didnt really care about some car parts.

    so im rethinking my driving style and so on.



    i thought the average life time was 90K ?

    but again heavy stop go and traffic.
    Sorry it was the wheel issues I was recalling....


  • #797
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Sorry it was the wheel issues I was recalling....

    again that was my bad for bouncing it off the kerb ! :pac:

    no worries.. im learning ... just have to take it as it comes. :)

    but overall im happy :D


  • #798
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    Slap a spoiler on it while you're at it!

    It can dress up as a real subaru for halloween :pac:


  • #799
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    Slap a spoiler on it while you're at it!

    Or two...

    yo-dawg-i-heard-you-like-spoilers.jpg
    DOUBLE SPOILER!!!!!!


  • #800
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    challengemaster wrote: »
    It can dress up as a real subaru for halloween :pac:

    but thats not scary :confused:


    but then again neither is a young one dressing up as a slutty nurse but we dont complain there :D


  • #801
    awec
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  • #802
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    awec wrote: »

    I swore after that day I would never lift a sponge again. And I haven't. :cool:

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  • #803
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    awec wrote: »
    I will never wash my own car. Can't be bothered with that carry on. Cold, wet and incredibly boring.

    I once did work for a dealership where I washed every car at their garage and slicked every tyre or whatever the hell it is. Took me all day as they have quite a large number of cars at any one time.

    Hardest manual work I've ever done. :D

    I swore after that day I would never lift a sponge again. And I haven't. :cool:

    Someone else can clean my car, I'll be good and sit in it while they do it, and drive it forward a few feet when they ask me too.

    I see what your saying here, but if you wash your car yourself would it not be one of those things where once you have finished. You take a step back and just think "I did that."

    What I'm trying to say is, would you not get more satisfaction out of washing your own car?


  • #804
    awec
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  • #805
    awec
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  • #806
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,871 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »


    but then again neither is a young one dressing up as a slutty nurse but we dont complain there :D
    Best part of Halloween! :D


  • #807
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    awec wrote: »
    Would I feck.

    I'm the sort of person that actually hates cars. Like, the way a car works bores the tits off me. This driving to a car park and parking up and looking at cars would bore the tits off me. The idea of spending time cleaning a car, or modifying it is alien to me. I'm certainly no car enthusiast. :pac:

    Ironic given I post in motors, but I'm more interested in the non-mechanical law type threads (e.g. learners driving without licenses :P ).

    So, all I would feel after washing my own car is cold and wet. :P


    Fair enough. :P


  • #808
    awec
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  • #809
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    awec wrote: »
    I'm the sort of person that actually hates cars.
    awec wrote: »
    I'd save a clean fortune. Car payments, insurance, tax, diesel. Le sigh.... :(

    You're damn right :pac:


  • #810
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    doing the nct when I get back home from travelling.

    Looking forward (not) to what it fails on :D


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  • #811
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    OSI wrote: »
    We should do an NCT faults bingo everytime a poster is up for one. Winner get's the price of a retest in prize money :D

    Ha, good idea.

    Mines an alfa, I reckon the front suspension will be top of the faults!


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