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

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  • #2972
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    dgt wrote: »
    Loving this t-shirt idea :D

    Toledo with twin upturned pipes is a must for felt :p

    maybe I should base it on the recent post a pic thread, all about the ASS :).


  • #2973
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,425 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    Yesterday I was a good citizen and helped a guy push his car off the road. Very much a sheep mentality. 1 guys was helping, then I was, then 2 others. Any more and all the parked up cars would of caused a traffic jam.


  • #2974
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Cya later Tallon !


  • #2975
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Just like that?? He's gone.


  • #2976
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    YbFocus wrote: »
    Just like that?? He's gone.

    Seems so.... :/


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  • #2977
    Zcott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭Zcott


    Today I noticed that the ring road around Belfast is the A55, which certainly looks like ASS. Great name for a ring road.


  • #2978
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Cya later Tallon !

    ????:(
    His last post is very strange.


  • #2979
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    I'm not the only stalker here :)
    Yeah literally talking about closed accounts,
    although nothing about him doing it!


  • #2980
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,924 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    On topic, I need to go somewhere as the new non rattling Scooby makes me want to go and drive it lol. Maybe I will go for a snack or subway later on, but will take 15miles detour! :pac:


  • #2981
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Another one gone? :( he contributed a lot in here such as the youtube threads, various dashcam vids and news articles.....

    Tal, we will miss you :(:(:(


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  • #2982
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Sad to see another regular stop posting.

    All the best tallon bud


  • #2983
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Quite embarrassed this morning.
    Failed NCT this week on a corroded brake line.

    Spent probably 2 hours in total scraping, sanding and treating the line and sent it back in this morning for its retest. Didn't think it was actually corroded and did not like the idea of having to drop the exhaust to replace it.

    The same chap did the retest and called me over, said "did you not replace the lines". I said " they don't look corroded, it's just surface rust".

    He told me to come out into the centre under the ramp and he showed me. Low and behold one of the lines entering the hose, entering the caliper was indeed corroded.

    I was working on the parking brake line for two hours...
    The shame.


  • #2984
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Quite embarrassed this morning.
    Failed NCT this week on a corroded brake line.

    Spent probably 2 hours in total scraping, sanding and treating the line and sent it back in this morning for its retest. Didn't think it was actually corroded and did not like the idea of having to drop the exhaust to replace it.

    The same chap did the retest and called me over, said "did you not replace the lines". I said " they don't look corroded, it's just surface rust".

    He told me to come out into the centre under the ramp and he showed me. Low and behold one of the lines entering the hose, entering the caliper was indeed corroded.

    I was working on the parking brake line for two hours...
    The shame.

    Crap man that's not a great morning,


  • #2985
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    That was a walk in the park compared to the last two days.
    Replacing the original rear shocks and springs, 13 years of corrosion welded them to the wheel carrier.

    Hours upon hours upon hours of being sprayed with shock fluid, dirt, oil, blood, sweat, blow torch heat, burning rubber - you name it. But they're in!


  • #2986
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    He told me to come out into the centre under the ramp and he showed me. Low and behold one of the lines entering the hose, entering the caliper was indeed corroded.

    So its it a rigid line (which the brake hose comes out of) or the rubber brake hose (which has a metal sheath) that needs to be changed?


  • #2987
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Yup, one of the rigid lines. Pretty much the whole area where it traverses the wheel arch area needs replacing.


  • #2988
    Katunga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 659 ✭✭✭Katunga


    Think I might have gotten done by a Garda van going through Ballyforan, it really sucked after crossing the river suck.
    Before anyone ask's it was not a Gosafe van.


  • #2989
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Bet that sucked !


  • #2990
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Yup, one of the rigid lines. Pretty much the whole area where it traverses the wheel arch area needs replacing.

    Throw up a photo just so I can get an understanding of that an NCT like test considers a fail. I havent seem much rust on that area before.


  • #2991
    TestTransmission
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/this-is-not-how-you-ship-cars-912630520

    :eek:


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  • #2992
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Matt Simis wrote: »
    Throw up a photo just so I can get an understanding of that an NCT like test considers a fail. I havent seem much rust on that area before.

    Will do, it looked pretty ragged up on the ramp. Will be next week.
    How would you go about a repair, is all brake pipe the same between manufacturers?


  • #2993
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Will do, it looked pretty ragged up on the ramp. Will be next week.
    How would you go about a repair, is all brake pipe the same between manufacturers?

    It is basically yes, I replace the same type of pipe (but carried PS fluid) on the E31. I ordered the piping from BMW as it had the fittings on it, but its just delivered on a roll, you have to bend it to shape along the length of the car.

    Ive seen my mechanic fitting universal piping and if doing it again, would have someone like that do it and not bother doing it myself. Mechanic will have all the piping flaring, cutting and fittings tools too.


  • #2994
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I have years of electrical experience. In fact, I'm an Electrician by trade. I've wired the power stations that power your homes, the factories that have manufactured your laptops/car parts/medicines etc, the commercial outlets that you do business in and perhaps you even work in, CCTV, security and the public lighting systems that keep you safe and have done plenty of electrical work on many cars.

    And then there was today. Today I discovered that for the life of me, I CAN'T install the most simple, basic fcuking car alarm known to man!!! :mad: 3 hours of messing around with all sorts of shít and I just gave up in case I burst into tears and curled up in a ball on the driveway. The vans wiring has been fcuked around with so much by the previous owners that I just didn't know where to start. I've never seen anything like it!

    Fcuk this, a kill switch will do.

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! :mad:


  • #2995
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    shaaane wrote: »

    Fcuk this, a kill switch will do.

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! :mad:

    Feel for you man, there is nothing worse than getting that upset with something. You want to set the bloody thing on fire :)


  • #2996
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    YbFocus wrote: »
    Feel for you man, there is nothing worse than getting that upset with something. You want to set the bloody thing on fire :)

    I'll probably tackle it again tomorrow when I'm not wrecked tired, have more patience and hopefully won't rain this time. Up since 5am and had a looong day before I even started on the alarm. :)


  • #2997
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    TestTransmission wrote: »
    http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/this-is-not-how-you-ship-cars-912630520

    :eek:

    Now I am scared for my car, it left Japan today..


  • #2998
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    TestTransmission wrote: »
    http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/this-is-not-how-you-ship-cars-912630520

    :eek:

    Russians :rolleyes:


  • #2999
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Trying to avoid the standard backbox on the 406, I have the felt box still...... Yay or nay?

    Very hard to find a midbox big enough to do the job.....

    Also, f*ck this f*cking rain :mad:


  • #3000
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    dgt wrote: »
    Trying to avoid the standard backbox on the 406, I have the felt box still...... Yay or nay?

    Very hard to find a midbox big enough to do the job.....

    Also, f*ck this f*cking rain :mad:

    I knew I left something up there...... :o


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  • #3001
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    I knew I left something up there...... :o

    Nah I blame that thread in AH where whingey people want this crap :rolleyes:

    I just want to sit back and watch everything burn :D


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