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

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  • #2822
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    OSI wrote: »
    Using the AC at all? I've noticed a puddle of water under the car after driving it with the AC on for a while.

    Nah ac is on the blink since may its from the suspension I fear.

    Car doesn't feel right like I have a flat and creaking clonking noise when I pull up to park or turn wheel to lock


  • #2823
    Veloce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭Veloce


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Nah ac is on the blink since may its from the suspension I fear.

    Car doesn't feel right like I have a flat and creaking clonking noise when I pull up to park or turn wheel to lock

    There's only one thing you need to solve your suspension woes: spray grease :pac:


  • #2824
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Veloce wrote: »
    There's only one thing you need to solve your suspension woes: spray grease :pac:

    Nah I don't think its a silicone spray job.

    Worried a front spring had come loose or broken or maybe a shock is knackered.

    The leak has me baffled though


  • #2825
    Katunga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 659 ✭✭✭Katunga


    Right guys. I need ideas for a fancy dress costume. It's a festival event in my local town. Everyone dresses up you look out of place if you don't. I previously dressed up as the stig, Bottle Of bud, Tri colour Morphsuit.


  • #2826
    Veloce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭Veloce


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    The leak has me baffled though

    Is the leak defo not coming from the shock? Is it oil or water or unknown substance that has leaked?


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  • #2827
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Katunga wrote: »
    Right guys. I need ideas for a fancy dress costume. It's a festival event in my local town. Everyone dresses up you look out of place if you don't. I previously dressed up as the stig, Bottle Of bud, Tri colour Morphsuit.

    Dress up as an Audi A4. Drive your car there and sit in it the whole time ;)


  • #2828
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Katunga wrote: »
    Right guys. I need ideas for a fancy dress costume. It's a festival event in my local town. Everyone dresses up you look out of place if you don't. I previously dressed up as the stig, Bottle Of bud, Tri colour Morphsuit.

    May I suggest a cute bunny rabbit? :pac:

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQcnYw8CsCUIZjsokNX3JENVhXg2tM7FqiRo2kvLOQ9pS8S7M2S


  • #2829
    Katunga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 659 ✭✭✭Katunga


    Like the bunny Idea. Different but too Halloween..


  • #2830
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Katunga wrote: »
    Like the bunny Idea. Different but too Halloween..

    Dress up as a politician? just stick on a suit and make false promises all day :P

    What about the cookie monster? Or something like that?


  • #2831
    Katunga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 659 ✭✭✭Katunga


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Dress up as a politician? just stick on a suit and make false promises all day :P

    What about the cookie monster? Or something like that?

    people do that every year Ming and Mick Are popular costumes.


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  • #2832
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Katunga wrote: »
    people do that every year Ming and Mick Are popular costumes.

    Ah feck that then, How about pat mustard? and have a little speaker or something playing this where ever you go



  • #2833
    Katunga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 659 ✭✭✭Katunga


    pat mustard is also done every year. It's very hard to think of something that hasn't been done. I was thinking a horse head with a Burger.
    But I think that horse has run it's course.


  • #2834
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Katunga wrote: »
    pat mustard is also done every year. It's very hard to think of something that hasn't been done. I was thinking a horse head with a Burger.
    But I think that horse has run it's course.

    Hmm leave it with me I might come up with something :)


  • #2835
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Katunga wrote: »
    Right guys. I need ideas for a fancy dress costume. It's a festival event in my local town. Everyone dresses up you look out of place if you don't. I previously dressed up as the stig, Bottle Of bud, Tri colour Morphsuit.

    priest_costume_zps8df93abb.jpg


  • #2836
    Zcott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭Zcott


    Katunga wrote: »
    Right guys. I need ideas for a fancy dress costume. It's a festival event in my local town. Everyone dresses up you look out of place if you don't. I previously dressed up as the stig, Bottle Of bud, Tri colour Morphsuit.

    Friend of mine (definitely not me) once put on a binbag and when people asked what he came as, he said a binbag.


  • #2837
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Nah I don't think its a silicone spray job.

    Worried a front spring had come loose or broken or maybe a shock is knackered.

    The leak has me baffled though

    Drivers side could be AC, power steering pump/fluid reservoir, or possibly coolant...

    You sure it's none of those and the shock? Power steering hose or something could also be the full lock noises an what not you're hearing...


  • #2838
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Noticed a stain on the driveway under the cars front right suspension.

    Whats the consistency and smell of the liquid? A leaking shock has fluid all down around the shock assembly, it wouldnt be hard to confirm.


  • #2839
    Scortho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭Scortho


    Katunga wrote: »
    Right guys. I need ideas for a fancy dress costume. It's a festival event in my local town. Everyone dresses up you look out of place if you don't. I previously dressed up as the stig, Bottle Of bud, Tri colour Morphsuit.

    Its a bit Halloween alright but a zipper face? It's feckin simple to do as well!:)
    The looks I got with this last year made it well worth it (a zip attached to your face ain't the most comfortable)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ju9MGtbRu4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7ju9MGtbRu4


  • #2840
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    brakes1_zps3f7f734b.jpg

    Thoughts on brake pipe, sandable? Will be a bastard to replace, whole exhaust will need to come out.


  • #2841
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,729 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    My girlfriend just told me she's getting me a hard top for my birthday.
    #keeper

    She's finally buying me cars parts.

    Voodoo, give it a go first. If you **** it up, well you needed a new one anyway.


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  • #2842
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    brakes1_zps3f7f734b.jpg

    Thoughts on brake pipe, sandable? Will be a bastard to replace, whole exhaust will need to come out.

    Looks fairly corroded man but I'd give it a go and see how it goes!


  • #2843
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Could be just surface rust though. The line for the opposite side lies parallel 6 inches away and is perfect!


  • #2844
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    CianRyan wrote: »
    My girlfriend just told me she's getting me a hard top for my birthday.
    #keeper

    She's finally buying me cars parts.

    you better make the move man, they're hard come by :)


  • #2845
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,552 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    YbFocus wrote: »
    you better make the move man, they're hard come by :)

    We talking hardtops or girlfriends that'll do that?


  • #2846
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    We talking hardtops or girlfriends that'll do that?

    The Best I ever got was she snook my car to the local tyre place and shod her with 4 new tyres, good intentions. .... But they were kormorans :)


  • #2847
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,552 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    YbFocus wrote: »
    The Best I ever got was she snook my car to the local tyre place and shod her with 4 new tyres, good intentions. .... But they were kormorans :)

    Wouldn't put em on a silage pit..


  • #2848
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Noticed a stain on the driveway under the cars front right suspension.

    Could it be a diff seal. I had a differential leak the last time I brought my focus to mechanic he replaced it. One of the many seals replaced. Although if its coming right from the corner than shock absorber would make more sense.


  • #2849
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Wouldn't put em on a silage pit..

    Oh I'm the same, I'm a P Zero man.
    But what can you say.....


  • #2850
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Ordered me a ScanGauge II from Amazon. Looks quite interesting and should be better than manually calculating the mpg, plus it comes with other bells and whistles.

    As a result I've got a 2 spare OBD II bluetooth adapters lying around now. I'll bring them along when I do finally get to a motors meet. I'm sure some other boardsies could use them.


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  • #2851
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Thoughts on brake pipe, sandable? Will be a bastard to replace, whole exhaust will need to come out.
    Its deceptive, you will find if you tried to cut it with a saw your arm would tire before you got all the way through. Thats surface rust IMO.

    Sand it down (with say a flat head screw driver/scraper, then 80grit, then 240grit) till no more parts are falling off then coat it with Kurust (get it in Halfords or B&Q). Wait 3hrs, then repaint it (with Hammerite or similar). Then paint it some more.

    The only pipe I had to replace of that type was a pipe carrying power steering fluid, ran from the back to the front and it ruptured on one spot where it bended over on itself at a tight angle. Think it was moving around a bit too which likely accelerated it.

    But your example, while an eye sore, looks very salvageable. Also coat the entire area when you are down there with the Kurust.. it leaves everything a reassuring blue black, like so:

    E8806BE0-05DA-44DE-B4AD-A147831F00F5-9585-00001151541043C0_zps17460238.jpg
    No sanding there at all, just brush washed in water, dried then Kurust. Had I been worried about aesthetics I could have them looking like new, but I was just weather protecting them till I sell them.


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