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Motors Chat Thread Round 3

Alanstrainor

1.This thread is for motoring topics which you feel are not worthy of starting a new thread for, banter from a meet or general motoring related chit chat.

2.No lonely hearts (This is not a personal dig at anyone, it's how we feel is the best way to describe what we want to avoid. )

3.Keep it clean.

4.The Motors charter applies.

Had to create a new thread, as the last one was on the fritz!

Have fun everyone.

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challengemaster

MugMugs wrote: »

Looks like your car has genital warts ! :pac:

And you know what they look like from experience, eh Mugs? :pac:

MugMugs

Looks like your car has genital warts ! :pac:

challengemaster wrote: »

Some "beading" from lastnight...

CianRyan

I am very much a fan of these frozen beads.

challengemaster

Some "beading" from lastnight...

dgt

BX 19 wrote: »

My car hasn't been washed since after August at electric picnic where it got covered in dust, the rain does a great job.

The advantages of driving a low value shed of a car. I don't really have to give a damn about it.

+1

Especially with the barge I drive! It's cheap motoring in comfort

Mycroft H

dgt wrote: »

Seriously unlucky there lad do you have your own paint setup? I.e a compressor and hvlp gun?

I've decided to skip the seasonal wash after seeing how dirty the roads have gotten again. Plus the back has gone very black :pac:

My car hasn't been washed since after August at electric picnic where it got covered in dust, the rain does a great job.

The advantages of driving a low value shed of a car. I don't really have to give a damn about it.

dgt

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

May, Bought the glanza. fresh, unabused, straight, original. so hard to find.

September - goes to college

First day down there someone reverses into my unattended car, parked well out of the way, hundreds of euros of damage done to the front end. Again, October, someone reverses into my unattended parked car, rear bumper this time had to be resprayed.

I am so fussy, very particular about my bodywork, loved this glanza because all its panelwork was original and straight.

Drove 120km's early yesterday morning on damp and frosty roads, got the car filthy, literally brown with road grit, the number plate on the front was unreadable with dirt. **** it i said i have to get all that salt and grit off of the car its not good for it, took it to a topaz jet wash hand wash and was very very careful. DEEP GOUGES EVERYWHERE!!!

why me why why me, trying to do good and just done bad. 3 times in the space of 6 months my car will see paint, the poor thing. i've actually fallen out of love with it.

Seriously unlucky there lad

do you have your own paint setup? I.e a compressor and hvlp gun?

I've decided to skip the seasonal wash after seeing how dirty the roads have gotten again. Plus the back has gone very black :pac:

Northern Monkey

Just leaving this here for Test Transmission

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=26811

Supergurrier

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

i'l take a few pics shortly to give yous a look.

to be honest, its not so much heavy swirling. its more like where the hose line must have banged off the side of the car once with some grit on it. its just 5 or 6 deep deep scratches on the rear quarter. you can feel the depth of them if you flick your nail across them. they aren't down to the bare metal but they are white so possibly down to the undercoat, i'm really not sure. just i have read threads before where miracles have happened with a professional and a polisher.naturally i'd get the whole car done if i found somewhere.

i - was - so - careful :rolleyes:

Don't pull the hose when it catches

Sucks, i hate finding new little marks too, drives me apesh**e

Toyotafanboi

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Pics or GTFO!

From what he said in his description, I doubt the D/A would have any benefit at all.

i'l take a few pics shortly to give yous a look.

to be honest, its not so much heavy swirling. its more like where the hose line must have banged off the side of the car once with some grit on it. its just 5 or 6 deep deep scratches on the rear quarter. you can feel the depth of them if you flick your nail across them. they aren't down to the bare metal but they are white so possibly down to the undercoat, i'm really not sure. just i have read threads before where miracles have happened with a professional and a polisher.naturally i'd get the whole car done if i found somewhere.

i - was - so - careful :rolleyes:

[Deleted User]

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

you of all people would die if you seen it :pac:

Pics or GTFO!

MuppetCheck wrote: »

I have a Kestrel polisher you're welcome to use to see if it makes any difference?

From what he said in his description, I doubt the D/A would have any benefit at all.

Toyotafanboi

MuppetCheck wrote: »

I have a Kestrel polisher you're welcome to use to see if it makes any difference?

certaily appreciate the offer, i'm not bad with a polisher but i think this is past something that can be recovered D.I.Y. unfortunately. but thanks

its getting a little dark but i'l try take a few photos with the flash later

MuppetCheck

I have a Kestrel polisher you're welcome to use to see if it makes any difference?

Toyotafanboi

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

You weren't to know that was going to happen Andy. Just put it down to experience.

you of all people would die if you seen it :pac:

[Deleted User]

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

wish i just left it so now, a day or two under a film of grit and salt would probably have been less harmful after all

You weren't to know that was going to happen Andy. Just put it down to experience.

Toyotafanboi

wish i just left it so now, a day or two under a film of grit and salt would probably have been less harmful after all

dar83

Dartz wrote: »

There's a reason I don't use the things. I've done the same thing to my own car. And being black, it showed....

Sounds like you got too close and personal with it...

This is where Snow Foam is the absolute winner. I just washed my car yesterday due to it being practically white all up the back of it due to the grit from the roads. One layer of Snow Foam applied and it lifted most of the dist right off it, one gentle microfibre handwash later and it was all shiny again.

Dartz

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

:rolleyes:

There's a reason I don't use the things. I've done the same thing to my own car. And being black, it showed....

Our man in Havana

Ronnie Beck wrote: »

Heater core valve?

Thermostat. It was jammed closed so there was no circulation of coolant. Result no heat.

[Deleted User]

ahhhh i feel so horrible !

gotta absolutely slashed last night, boss throwing free drinks into us all night, in dicies having mighty craic, ended up back in the hotel with one of the girls i work with and we did some deeds....... she cant speak a word of English

felt the pain this morning , woke up for no reason at 7am so went and had the breakfast, woman in the restaurant was a legend and was messing with me. went back to bed, was woken at 12:30 by the maid wanting to clean the room, checked out,

went across the road to the store to get more rest, find my manager fecking dying, he walked home drunk at 5am and home at 6 and started at 10... nearly vomited in front of a customer too.. we both ended up sleeping in the office for 2 hours,

i then went off and tried to drink coffee, not a great feeling.

but still fecking great oul night so it was

Ronnie Beck

Our man in Havana wrote: »

Well that explains the cold weather inside my car.

Heater core valve?

[Deleted User]

Dartz wrote: »

Jetwash tends to drive the grit into the paint.

:rolleyes:

Our man in Havana

Well that explains the cold weather inside my car.

Dartz

Yeah.... that's why the washing machines can be better, or just being gentle with a sponge.

Jetwash tends to drive the grit into the paint.

Mycroft H

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

May, Bought the glanza. fresh, unabused, straight, original. so hard to find.

September - goes to college

First day down there someone reverses into my unattended car, parked well out of the way, hundreds of euros of damage done to the front end. Again, October, someone reverses into my unattended parked car, rear bumper this time had to be resprayed.

I am so fussy, very particular about my bodywork, loved this glanza because all its panelwork was original and straight.

Drove 120km's early yesterday morning on damp and frosty roads, got the car filthy, literally brown with road grit, the number plate on the front was unreadable with dirt. **** it i said i have to get all that salt and grit off of the car its not good for it, took it to a topaz jet wash hand wash and was very very careful. DEEP GOUGES EVERYWHERE!!!

why me why why me, trying to do good and just done bad. 3 times in the space of 6 months my car will see paint, the poor thing. i've actually fallen out of love with it.

Thats the problem with buying a nice car. It's only going to get wrecked

Toyotafanboi

May, Bought the glanza. fresh, unabused, straight, original. so hard to find.

September - goes to college

First day down there someone reverses into my unattended car, parked well out of the way, hundreds of euros of damage done to the front end. Again, October, someone reverses into my unattended parked car, rear bumper this time had to be resprayed.

I am so fussy, very particular about my bodywork, loved this glanza because all its panelwork was original and straight.

Drove 120km's early yesterday morning on damp and frosty roads, got the car filthy, literally brown with road grit, the number plate on the front was unreadable with dirt. **** it i said i have to get all that salt and grit off of the car its not good for it, took it to a topaz jet wash hand wash and was very very careful. DEEP GOUGES EVERYWHERE!!!

why me

why why me, trying to do good and just done bad. 3 times in the space of 6 months my car will see paint, the poor thing. i've actually fallen out of love with it.

Mycroft H

Ronnie Beck wrote: »

Ye vw TDI fly-by-wire. Could put it through in limp-mode...

I wouldn't know enough about them to be honest! I could imagine anything in limp mode would fail though...

Ronnie Beck

BX 19 wrote: »

They is no rev counter in a Defender and they are fecking loud so I'm not sure they would know. You talking about a VW TDI? If not on the Landy 200tdi you can fiddle around with the max fuel adjustment on the back of the fuel pump. The same with the 300tdi (except the ECU ones with the fly by wire throttle)

Ye vw TDI fly-by-wire. Could put it through in limp-mode...

Mycroft H

Ronnie Beck wrote: »

From the DOE manual:
If the fuel pump seal is missing and the maximum rpm achievable is less than 90% of the manufacturer’s stated
maximum rpm with the vehicle stationary, it may be the case that the fuel pump has been adjusted to pass the test
and the vehicle should be failed on this test.

Mine is a TDI. What are you adjusting. The throttle cable?

NCT manual
http://www.ncts.ie/pdf/NCT%20Manual%20Revise%20May%202012.pdf

DOE/CVT manual
http://www.rsa.ie/Documents/Vehicle%20Testing/LGV%20Manual%2029.02.2012.pdf

They is no rev counter in a Defender and they are fecking loud so I'm not sure they would know. You talking about a VW TDI? If not on the Landy 200tdi you can fiddle around with the max fuel adjustment on the back of the fuel pump. The same with the 300tdi (except the ECU ones with the fly by wire throttle)

Redisle

I'm not sure, Forgot to ask for the model. Pretty much all the reviews of Pirellis are pretty bad though.