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****Motors Chat Thread Round 4****

  • 16-05-2013 01:02PM
    #1
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,158 ✭✭✭✭


    Continuation from motors chat round 3






    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.


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


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    Ah sure there's no lag because the turbos are so small, he may as well have to hair dryers blowing into the engine:D

    (Alan you can make jokes like this when you have more power but we must bow to the 335i in fairness)


  • #3
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    I'm fvcking fuming!!!!!! On the way back to work an oncoming car drove over a plastic bottle and sent it into the mesh on my bumper. Lovely huge hole in it now and I have to fork out for it :mad: :mad: :mad:

    If I had left 2 seconds earlier or later, it wouldn't have happened!!

    Fvck fvck fvck!!


  • #4
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Ah that's shíte news man sorry to hear that. Nice motor an all, could you mod the hole for an air intake?


  • #5
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Hal1 wrote: »
    Ah that's shíte news man sorry to hear that. Nice motor an all, could you mod the hole for an air intake?

    LOL :D







    No!


  • #6
    TestTransmission
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    Bit of chicken wire,she'll be grand.


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  • #7
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    TestTransmission wrote: »
    Bit of chicken wire,she'll be grand.

    I'll felt her up laaaaad :D


  • #8
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    My Galaxy Note 2 kicked the bucket today. Didn't even last 6 months :eek:


  • #9
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    My Galaxy Note 2 kicked the bucket today. Didn't even last 6 months :eek:

    That sudden death thing? Mines slowing up the last few days. Checked and it's got the dodgy chip in it.


  • #10
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    MuppetCheck wrote: »
    That sudden death thing? Mines slowing up the last few days. Checked and it's got the dodgy chip in it.

    Yup. I was under the impression it was just S3's but obviously not. It's in FoneMenders now and will either get repaired or replaced and should be able to pick it up tomorrow.


  • #11
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/228512_511679312221182_1421108886_n.jpg

    I'll show you turbo lag when I put on the T25 on the XUD.... :pac:. With the K14 I can mash the pedal and when boost comes on it breaks traction :p

    On the subject of phones, getting a new one today, will see how the pictures pan out now! :)


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  • #12
    renofan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 866 ✭✭✭renofan


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    My Galaxy Note 2 kicked the bucket today. Didn't even last 6 months :eek:
    MuppetCheck wrote: »
    That sudden death thing? Mines slowing up the last few days. Checked and it's got the dodgy chip in it.

    My Wife's S2 has been freezing the last few days. Had to take the battery out to get it to work. Is this a symptom?

    On a motoring subject saw a fella in a 131 A4 estate (black) get his car washed today. In them car wash things at a filling station. :eek: I immediately thought of MM!


  • #13
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    renofan wrote: »
    On a motoring subject saw a fella in a 131 A4 estate (black) get his car washed today. In them car wash things at a filling station. :eek: I immediately thought of MM!

    Why would you think of me?! I don't do that :P


  • #14
    renofan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 866 ✭✭✭renofan


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Why would you think of me?! I don't do that :P

    I no! You'd be like :eek::eek::eek::eek::(:(:eek::eek::eek::eek:


  • #15
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    renofan wrote: »
    My Wife's S2 has been freezing the last few days. Had to take the battery out to get it to work. Is this a symptom?

    As much as I hate the phrase, taking the battery out is and isn't a symptom. For my phone re-insering the battery did nothing while for some other users on sites like XDA and Android Central it did fix it for a while.


  • #16
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    What is it with people and yellow boxes?! seriously? Because I'm not stopped in the box doesn't mean it's space for you to cut in and block both lanes of traffic in the process. :mad:


  • #17
    Jimdagym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,844 ✭✭✭Jimdagym


    I called the nct for a "priority" appointment last friday, still waiting for a text with one. Any other time I was only waiting a day or two. Anyone else getting delays? I know a couple of you got very quick ones this week.

    Looking for ballymun.


  • #18
    renofan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 866 ✭✭✭renofan


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    As much as I hate the phrase, taking the battery out is and isn't a symptom. For my phone re-insering the battery did nothing while for some other users on sites like XDA and Android Central it did fix it for a while.

    I meant the freezing, if it was a symptom.


  • #19
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Jimdagym wrote: »
    I called the nct for a "priority" appointment last friday, still waiting for a text with one. Any other time I was only waiting a day or two. Anyone else getting delays? I know a couple of you got very quick ones this week.

    Looking for ballymun.

    Exact same here rang first on the 10th got a date of July 18th in galway centre which is madness(also went in the cancellation list), got no reply/text with booking number to check dates etc or reschedule so rang again on the 14th same thing again and left here with no reply or text since.

    Absolute joke atleast if they would just text me my booking ID i could atleast be checking for dates in nearby centres, NCT is afew months out (my fault didn't get new wheels+tyres on car in time for visual retest)

    Atm just left twiddling my thumbs, not good enough really


  • #20
    renofan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 866 ✭✭✭renofan


    How come the NCT is so busy the last while? Its the same when I booked the test for the Mother, can't get a date till July no matter what centre I look at. Was there a strike or something as it was never like this before. Or is it this annual test that has messed it up?


  • #21
    Jimdagym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,844 ✭✭✭Jimdagym


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Exact same here rang first on the 10th got a date of July 18th in galway centre which is madness(also went in the cancellation list), got no reply/text with booking number to check dates etc or reschedule so rang again on the 14th same thing again and left here with no reply or text since.

    Absolute joke atleast if they would just text me my booking ID i could atleast be checking for dates in nearby centres, NCT is afew months out (my fault didn't get new wheels+tyres on car in time for visual retest)

    Atm just left twiddling my thumbs, not good enough really

    You can check on the net with the date of first registration instead of a booking id, its in the log book, but theres nothing at all in ballymun, greenhills or drogheda!


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  • #22
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    Yup. I was under the impression it was just S3's but obviously not. It's in FoneMenders now and will either get repaired or replaced and should be able to pick it up tomorrow.

    If it's under warranty bring it straight back to the shop and demand a replacement as it's a well known issue. Although, the one I'm using is an insurance replacement for a water damaged one so was a pretty new build when I got it two months ago. Annoying that it's showing the symptoms. Might ring the insurance in the morning and link a few xda threads...


  • #23
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Got the focus back this evening :)
    Final list of things it needed:
    - 2 rear axle bushs
    -2 front rear wishbone bushs
    -inner track arm
    -left drive shaft seal
    -gearbox seal
    -change gearbox oil
    -replace coolant with fresh coolant
    -tidy up wheel liners loose
    -crank shaft seal replace leaking oil all over timming belt :eek:
    -fit new timming belt kit
    -new water pump
    Man it's a sweet ride now :D


  • #24
    Pj!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    Only seen this advert just now although I see it has been around for months.
    Wouldn't be known as the biggest car fan but that's a very impressive advert! Just seen it on the tv. I actually rewound and turned the volume up for a second go. :D



  • #25
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Dunno why but the R8 just leaves me cold, last supercar i would buy if i had the money, now an AMG 6.2 V8 :p


  • #26
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Bpmull wrote: »
    Got the focus back this evening :)
    Man it's a sweet ride now :D

    That's some list, make you wonder what the previous owner put her through. Glad you got her back all sorted :).


  • #27
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Anyone here have one of these flexible grab tools? Need a lend if one would be so kind. There's a spanner that fell down the body cavity in the rear of my car that I want to get out. I tried with a magnet but the spanner isn't very magnetic.

    flex~grabber.JPG

    DGT? :pac:


  • #28
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Dunno why but the R8 just leaves me cold, last supercar i would buy if i had the money, now an AMG 6.2 V8 :p

    Same as that - don't do it for me in the least.


  • #29
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Hal1 wrote: »
    That's some list, make you wonder what the previous owner put her through. Glad you got her back all sorted :).

    I know most of the parts were wear parts. Tbh I figured there was no point in doing it in bits and pieces which the mechanic did suggest. I decided just to get it all done together. I didn't plan on spending that kind of money on it but its going to see me through college so ill have it at least 3 more years so I might as well have it right. Still I only went over to the mechanic to get one track rod arm replaced :pac:


  • #30
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,552 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Motors chat round 4!


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  • #31
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Motors chat round 4!

    Already? That went by quick! :eek:


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