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Motors Chat Thread Round 4

Alanstrainor

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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toastedpickles

dgt wrote: »

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

I just want to sit back and watch everything burn

:pac:

dgt

Good ridance to bad sh*te, the hape is going to the yard today

unfortunately I don't get the enjoyment of seeing it getting crushed as I'm away playing soldier for the week

But if I remember I'll post pics of it on the trailer.....

Autosport

MuppetCheck spotted in Waterford

car looks gorgeous in the flesh

Ded_Zebra

Well I bagged myself a car to drive around in for the next two days:D (mah weekend, I work sat

)
Out of the MX5, the 750i, the AMG Cclass, the Saab 900 turbo and countless E class estates guess what I got.

Yep that's right, It's the ancient Opel Zafira :pac: It's showing 250K km on the clock, smells funny, has 4 winter tyres form a brand I've never heard of and it was 34ºc today.... Not quite the interesting drive I was hopping for! At least it's a 2.2 not the ****ty 1.6 (still not fantastic though) oh and the fuel gauge doesn't work

But at least it's a car, I hope to explore the Alps tomorrow:)

MuppetCheck

Nearly all autos are in the real world!

Big Nasty

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Nearly all autos are in the real world!

Yep, manual cars are for peasants and race drivers.

toastedpickles

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Yep, manual cars are for peasants and race drivers.

And autos are for the glorious master race of the driving world? :P

Big Nasty

toastedpickles wrote: »

And autos are for the glorious master race of the driving world? :P

Pretty much, yeah!

Manuals are necessary on a track where you need 'complete' control over gear changes, similarly a lot of race cars have no ABS. I just don't see the need for a manual for daily driving, hence peasants and race cars.

MuppetCheck

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Pretty much, yeah!

Manuals are necessary on a track where you need 'complete' control over gear changes, similarly a lot of race cars have no ABS. I just don't see the need for a manual for daily driving, hence peasants and race cars.

I appreciate a good auto box but there's plenty of useless ones too. There's more decent manual boxes than there is autos in this country at least.

toastedpickles

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Pretty much, yeah!

Manuals are necessary on a track where you need 'complete' control over gear changes, similarly a lot of race cars have no ABS. I just don't see the need for a manual for daily driving, hence peasants and race cars.

Well then consider me a very proud peasant :pac:

Now if you don't mind, I have fields that need to be ploughed

CianRyan

I'd have to slap someone if they bought an MX5 with an auto box.

Autos, for the lazy and the gridlock commuters.

166man

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Pretty much, yeah!

Manuals are necessary on a track where you need 'complete' control over gear changes, similarly a lot of race cars have no ABS. I just don't see the need for a manual for daily driving, hence peasants and race cars.

There may not be a need but there may be a want. IMO it depends on the car, on your 520, Id only go auto but on a 325i it'd have to be manual.

Simples

YbFocus

I went out of my way to get a manual e60, I hate driving autos. There's nothing like pushing on in a manual on a twisty Road, going up and down the box.
Even if ye auto chaps are a little quicker

Scortho

my mam has an automatic ml280.
I found my old manual polo easier to get to 50km/h than hers with 4 times the bhp.
It took all the fun out of driving as well and changed gears when you could push it much further.

CianRyan

OSI wrote: »

This is why you get one with paddle shift

You can push even more on those twisty roads when you have 2 feet for 2 pedals, and can shift in less time than it takes to blink.

As I said, lazy.

CianRyan

OSI wrote: »

I'll remember that the next time DGT is fixing your power steering pump

I decided to opt out of driver aids, no more power steering for me.

toastedpickles

CianRyan wrote: »

I decided to opt out of driver aids, no more power steering for me.

I remember when my pump went, I had arms the size of trees by the time it was replaced

CianRyan

Nice and heavy, just the way I like it.

dgt

Yep, still up since my last post in here....... Meh! Day off begins at 9am for me

pred racer

I saw a Renault alpine yesterday, no pics though.

ba_barabus

pred racer wrote: »

I saw a Renault alpine yesterday, no pics though.

I saw an old Renault 5 Gordini yesterday in Spain. Sadly no pictures. Also spotted a new Sssanyoubgggggggg Rodious.

This of all the things I've spotted over here really took the biscuit though

toastedpickles

Found a car that I'm slowly starting to adore, checked the price and I'm 700 short

Time to start selling myself again!

CianRyan

toastedpickles wrote: »

Found a car that I'm slowly starting to adore, checked the price and I'm 700 short

Time to start selling myself again!

If you're not too attached to the Astra...

Black_Knight

pred racer wrote: »

I saw a Renault alpine yesterday, no pics though.

One of those at work actually. Must check it out some day.

Supergurrier

Decided to change the plates from the plastic ones on my focus.

Any suggestions on type ?

SpannerMonkey

depends how new the car is . personally i think metal plates of any kind look god awful on modern cars , on older 90's cars they look great but anything newer than early 2000's they look crap. the acrylic ones look way more natural

Black_Knight

Where can you buy number plates anyways?
The plates (the actual sleeve that numbers are printed on) on my girlfriends car are slightly crumpled and look a bit crappy. Nothing fancy required, just some simple legal prints.

toastedpickles

CianRyan wrote: »

If you're not too attached to the Astra...

What do you think is paying the insurance? :P I must please the insurance gods so I'm offering a sacrifice :P

YbFocus

Black_Knight wrote: »

Where can you buy number plates anyways?
The plates (the actual sleeve that numbers are printed on) on my girlfriends car are slightly crumpled and look a bit crappy. Nothing fancy required, just some simple legal prints.

Any motor factors man, well most print them anyway.
Some ask for the tax book belonging to the reg mind, so they know you ain't up to no good

Black_Knight

YbFocus wrote: »

Any motor factors man, well most print them anyway.
Some ask for the tax book belonging to the reg mind, so they know you ain't up to no good

Bah. Tax book would be with herself... in Galway. Was just thinking I might sort that out for her next weekend. She mentioned it was annoying her.