Motors Chat Thread Round 4

ba_barabus · 06-09-2013 07:12PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

Didn't some fella cover that for a sony ad?

Yep Jozé Gonzales

ba_barabus · 06-09-2013 07:13PM

Here is another, I used to play this all the time when I had my SD1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEEzbFxEbB8

toastedpickles · 06-09-2013 07:13PM

ba_barabus wrote: »

Yep Jozé Gonzales

That's the one! I might head out for an oul drive soon myself, feck all else to do

ba_barabus · 06-09-2013 07:18PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

That's the one! I might head out for an oul drive soon myself, feck all else to do

I'm off for a drink instead. Lets see how economical I am compared to my car :pac:

toastedpickles · 06-09-2013 07:19PM

ba_barabus wrote: »

I'm off for a drink instead. Lets see how economical I am compared to my car :pac:

Report back with how efficient your walking was in steps per pint :pac:

Chris_Heilong · 06-09-2013 08:05PM

CianRyan wrote: »

Still with the doctor?
Myself and 166man had only been wondering where he's been.

Was thinking the Very same thing, seems to have vanished around the same time as the RJ ban.

ba_barabus · 06-09-2013 08:06PM

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Was thinking the Very same thing, seems to have vanished around the same time as the RJ ban.

I hope you're not suggesting that RJ WAS A PORSCHE WITH A BLOWN ENGINE

dgt · 06-09-2013 08:10PM

Yes!!! Just watched a Panda cometely demoralise an A4 TDSh*te, twas a Panda 100 and then some

made a complete eejit out of it :cool:

How small does that c*nt in the A4 feel now losing to a Panda!!! :Pac:

Big Nasty · 06-09-2013 08:12PM

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Was thinking the Very same thing, seems to have vanished around the same time as the RJ ban.

You mean RJ was ND or ND was RJ? :eek::pac::D

power pants · 06-09-2013 08:16PM

two great posters who offered valuable advice compared to the google brigade. rofl

ba_barabus · 06-09-2013 08:26PM

Can someone PM me what happened ND?

Chris_Heilong · 06-09-2013 10:46PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

You mean RJ was ND or ND was RJ? :eek::pac::D

In all fairness I dont think RJ would have ever driven a skyline:D

CianRyan · 06-09-2013 11:40PM

OSI wrote: »

Had a 520D try it on at the lights coming from Blanch. Embarrassed the **** out of him, then remembered there's nearly always a speed van nearby, so eased off. Pissed off at losing, the bugger blasted past at full tilt into the distance. Come round a bend a couple of minutes later, checkpoint! And a 520D on the side of the road with a Gard hanging out the side of it... Bliss.

Beautiful.

It's like the people that take it personally when I cycle past them on my commute, queue a sweaty mother fuxker coughing a lung up just to get by me 10 minutes later.
People take this **** to heart.

Stheno · 07-09-2013 12:39AM

Cian lad, can you fill me in on the scandal, by pm if needs be.

Now lads, I've a weird dilemna

The OH (should I just call him Mr Stheno?) got the car of his dreams (he's a luddite which should explain the choice) as part of his 50th birthday.

It's an E series Merc, an E200 Elegance 00 reg.

Now he loves it, no fecking surprise there as everytime he gets in the alfa and murders the clutch I think about leaving him.

Problem is that he and my mechanic (no loyalty when it comes to gender, I introduced them) love the evil beast (I've nicknamed it the pig in private) and I fecking hate it.

He got the pig after having a C5, as a passenger I could stretch out and have my feet on the dash (cue MM dying of horror) in the pig I can't and the foot space is crap (note, I've still to drive the pig)

Am I being extreme here?

Autosport · 07-09-2013 12:48AM

Do you have to drive it ?? We're not all gonna like certain cars even to drive but Sometimes we have to take one for the team ;-)

Stheno · 07-09-2013 12:53AM

Autosport wrote: »

Do you have to drive it ?? We're not all gonna like certain cars even to drive but Sometimes we have to take one for the team ;-)

No, but as a passenger I'm comparing it and it's ****e.

I think I might have been born with the take the alternate view gene:)
My OH always wanted this car just to have one and I'm thrilled he's gotten his car, just like my gtv, but god do I hate that car,

I guess it's personal, when I was learning to drive a few E series Mercs gave me grief

Autosport · 07-09-2013 12:58AM

Meant to say in the other post that no you're not being extreme, some cars I don't like and a friend of mine has one and I refuse to get in it, she doesn't know why I never take a lift from her but its just I don't think it's a safe car and I just don't like it. She on the other hand adores it, variety is the spice of life after all

Is there anyway you can make the Merc more comfy?? Push seat back to the very end? Cushions??

Ded_Zebra · 07-09-2013 12:58AM

Can't believe you don't find it comfortable! I always find those E classes to have loads of space and supportive seats. They're pretty forgettable to drive though.

Gary ITR · 07-09-2013 02:08AM

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Can't believe you don't find it comfortable! I always find those E classes to have loads of space and supportive seats. They're pretty forgettable to drive though.

I'm piloting around in a clk at the minute, same platform as the E Class and it's amazingly comfortable and the engine isn't terrible. Goes sideways anyway

thecomedian · 07-09-2013 03:01AM

I just saw this for sale. Matt Sims (Alan's) 525i. I never knew it had an engine transplant. An old 5 series with 320 bhp, M3 engine.
I really like!

http://www.bmw-driver.net/forum/showthread.php?t=57409

Someone here buy this.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 07-09-2013 07:37AM

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Can't believe you don't find it comfortable! I always find those E classes to have loads of space and supportive seats. They're pretty forgettable to drive though.

i didnt like the Eclass either when i was looking for a car a while back,

i thought they were very cramped and uncomfortable on the inside.

volvo s80 on the other hand was fantastic for space etc.

MuppetCheck · 07-09-2013 08:40AM

Gary ITR wrote: »

I'm piloting around in a clk at the minute, same platform as the E Class and it's amazingly comfortable and the engine isn't terrible. Goes sideways anyway

They are actually a C-class platform underneath it all, but made better basically using some of the e-class tech.

EDIT - Just looking at done deal and what you can get for your money is pretty impressive.

pred racer · 07-09-2013 08:43AM

Stheno wrote: »

No, but as a passenger I'm comparing it and it's ****e.

I think I might have been born with the take the alternate view gene:)
My OH always wanted this car just to have one and I'm thrilled he's gotten his car, just like my gtv, but god do I hate that car,

I guess it's personal, when I was learning to drive a few E series Mercs gave me grief

After a c5 the space in nearly every car is ****e, including the new c5:eek:
Is it giving your auld creaky knees bother? :P

dgt · 07-09-2013 11:08AM

That lovely smooth road that those people were doing up has now been ruined with loose chippings.

F*ck the lot of them for doin that. Is it that hard to sweep the chippings off to one side :mad:

ba_barabus · 07-09-2013 11:11AM

ba_barabus wrote: »

I'm off for a drink instead. Lets see how economical I am compared to my car :pac:

My emissions are off the scale

Max Power1 · 07-09-2013 11:12AM

thecomedian wrote: »

I just saw this for sale. Matt Sims (Alan's) 525i. I never knew it had an engine transplant. An old 5 series with 320 bhp, M3 engine.
I really like!

http://www.bmw-driver.net/forum/showthread.php?t=57409

Someone here buy this.

I was considering it strongly until I saw that it was a manual and I was swayed in the meantime by americana!

dgt · 07-09-2013 11:13AM

Max Power1 wrote: »

I was considering it strongly until I saw that it was a manual and I was swayed in the meantime by americana!

You remind me of myself the morning ofthe dyno meet. The rest thought I was going to explode :pac:

Max Power1 · 07-09-2013 11:14AM

dgt wrote: »

That lovely smooth road that those people were doing up has now been ruined with loose chippings.

F*ck the lot of them for doin that. Is it that hard to sweep the chippings off to one side :mad:

Loose chippings, the scourge of my favorite roads out in the wicklow mountains these days

Max Power1 · 07-09-2013 11:15AM

dgt wrote: »

You remind me of myself the morning ofthe dyno meet. The rest thought I was going to explode :pac:

Which dyno meet was this, was it recent?
(hopefully not during my "holiday" as I will be peeved if I missed it for that reason!)

wotzgoingon · 07-09-2013 11:16AM

dgt wrote: »

That lovely smooth road that those people were doing up has now been ruined with loose chippings.

F*ck the lot of them for doin that. Is it that hard to sweep the chippings off to one side :mad:

They put them chipping down for grip on country roads, leaving them smooth would be a death trap.

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