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

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  • #572
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,729 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Sure a rereg will get caught within their first 10 posts most of the time.
    The super mods do be out in force.


  • #573
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    dgt wrote: »
    Right..... That's those pesky exams out of the way. Just 2 reports and a log left to do..... Then summer can commence :cool:

    I have only one exam left tomorrow then its summer :D its a great feeling to be nearly finished. First thing I'm doing is properly cleaning up the garage so theres actually space in it to work on the cars there's stuff thrown everywhere at the moment :(


  • #574
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    OSI wrote: »
    Bloody students.

    Could be worse. Your taxes pay me to take holidays


  • #575
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    Just to let you all know I had my last exam on Friday and Have enjoyed the weekend and today immensely without having them hanging over me :cool::p

    Today I also was doing deliveries of magazines all around south county dublin so I apologize to anyone who might have come across an obnoxiously parked Insignia today :o


  • #576
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Does anyone know if Gardai get much training on how to direct traffic at a busy junction? Just watched a driver get a bollocking for something that wasn't his fault after a Garda got confused over what traffic she was allowing to go.

    Incidentally I'm walking hence I has a good view of the whole thing


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  • #577
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Oh and as I'm nice the Dart crossing at Merrion gates is faulty and the road is closed if anyone goes home from work that way


  • #578
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Problem spotted. Barriers are fecked as someone cleaned them out of it and out of 13 men, 9 are standing/sitting around and 4 are trying to solve the issue.


  • #579
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


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  • #580
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    Its faulty because some clown hit it!

    Only realised that when I got down there. How'd they manage that. The whole place is at a standstill


  • #581
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    And I was supposed to go into the office today a minute from that crossing. Dodged a bullet for getting home then...


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  • #582
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Quick question guys. Does anyone have a general notion of what colour wires correspond to RR+- and RL+- on phillips head units? The current setup is a hodge podge of random wires and a rainbow of colours.

    I've gotten the car wiring back to the head unit but only the front speakers are wired up leaving me with not a notion of what wires to join.


  • #583
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Figured it out, some alp had wired the front and rear backwards. I'm now presuming the Grey and and the White are for the remaining two speakers.


  • #584
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    It's so sad to see what some people throw away and knowing you can't rescue it :(

    Moving on.... Sunny up heyor better get cracking with some daysel stuff :cool:


  • #585
    awec
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  • #586
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    Depends on how good or bad the mechanic is really. A good one will always be busy and you'll need an appointment.


  • #587
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Ardennes1944 wrote: »
    Depends on how good or bad the mechanic is really. A good one will always be busy and you'll need an appointment.

    This. Also, take no sh!t from them if you feel they're trying to make a quick buck! I had that happen in 2007. I arrived to collect my car, he said the issue was fixed, I took it for a drive up the road only for the issue to appear once the engine got hot (It was a coolant leak). He wanted €300 that time but I said not until it was fixed. I ended up bringing it to my current mechanic.

    In other news, I collected my car from my mechanic this evening with its new rear turbo, no rattle and ALL the power is back. It's like a completely new car :D


  • #588
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    This. Also, take no sh!t from them if you feel they're trying to make a quick buck! I had that happen in 2007. I arrived to collect my car, he said the issue was fixed, I took it for a drive up the road only for the issue to appear once the engine got hot (It was a coolant leak). He wanted €300 that time but I said not until it was fixed. I ended up bringing it to my current mechanic.

    In other news, I collected my car from my mechanic this evening with its new rear turbo, no rattle and ALL the power is back. It's like a completely new car :D

    www.rofl.to_twin-turbo.jpg


  • #589
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    I ****ing hate wiring looms. nothing is what it seems and at this stage it would be handier to wire my own speakers and ignore the cars wiring.


  • #590
    awec
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  • #591
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    BX 19 wrote: »
    I ****ing hate wiring looms. nothing is what it seems and at this stage it would be handier to wire my own speakers and ignore the cars wiring.

    Stop.... I had to rewire my race car from scratch, only for the help of Quazzie from here and Joe Power I'd have probably strangled myself with the wires


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  • #592
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    IMO labour differs depending on the mechanic and sometimes on how qualified the mechanic is and what kit he uses.

    What car is it and what's wrong with it? Give us that info and we can give you an idea of how long it may take.


  • #593
    awec
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  • #594
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    MugMugs wrote: »
    988823_577352665618495_832243647_n.jpg

    Better be fixed by the time I am heading home


  • #595
    vectra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,692 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    Few Pics hewre from the Classic Car show in Limerick yesterday.
    Great day, Great weather, Great craic.
    What more could a person want :cool:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/63225097@N07/sets/72157633743003779/


  • #596
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    awec wrote: »
    This issue here mate:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056957475

    Is it only a new issue yeah? Sounds like serious turbo lag ( :pac: ) or an ignition coil issue.

    If it's the coils it can be diagnosed in a few minutes. With the engine running, each coil is disconnected and if the engine runs worse, the coil is fine. If the engine runs the same, that coil is busted.

    If it's turbo related, it's possibly a split boost pipe or something along those lines but a split pipe would make the issue happen all the time.

    EDIT: I see George Dalton was posting on your thread. He knows his stuff and he's near Abbeyleix so not far for you to go.


  • #597
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Shamelessly robbed from ylyl :pac:

    wheels-on-car.jpg


  • #598
    awec
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  • #599
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    awec wrote: »
    Aye only since Saturday. Feckin thing is a pain in the arse!

    The issue seems to lessen the more I drive, but that could be me just getting used to it.

    I pmed George earlier actually asking for any mechanic recommednations, didn't realise he was a mechanic! :pac:

    LOL :D

    He is a mechanic indeed, and a very good one at that.


  • #600
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    awec wrote: »
    Aye only since Saturday. Feckin thing is a pain in the arse!

    The issue seems to lessen the more I drive, but that could be me just getting used to it.

    I pmed George earlier actually asking for any mechanic recommednations, didn't realise he was a mechanic! :pac:

    You try put the car in test mode not saying it will solve the problem but might give you some idea if fault codes were registered. How to put the car in test mode:

    1.-Put the key in the ignition do not turn it
    2.-hold down the trip reset usually on the end of the indicator stalk depending on the year of the car.
    3.-turn the ignition 2 clicks ie when the ignition lights come on
    4.-when test comes up on the odometer let go of the pressed in reset button.

    5.-then by pressing the trip reset you will flick through about 16 different screen. Some will test gauges warning lights etc. keep going until you see dtc#01 dtc#02 etc. right down the 4 digit codes after each one and post them up here or google the code with ford dtc library.
    At the end of the day this will only show if fault codes were logged and it may be of some help or no help. As mechanical faults might not cause the car to log fault codes. If none comes up then no codes were logged. Hope this is of some help.


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  • #601
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    BX 19 wrote: »
    I ****ing hate wiring looms. nothing is what it seems and at this stage it would be handier to wire my own speakers and ignore the cars wiring.

    Better off to strip the car and rewire it in some cases....

    Cue a French car:
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    Sure, that mess isn't big enough....
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    And that's why I changed my car :)


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