Motors Chat Thread Round 4

Stheno · 30-09-2013 09:49PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

Ooooh look at me and my brain! :pac:

Apparently they are expecting to receive piles in the post

I have manflu which is much much worse if you are female, so I couldn't possibly inflict my germs on hundreds of my fellow citizens

toastedpickles · 30-09-2013 09:50PM

Stheno wrote: »

Apparently they are expecting to receive piles in the post

I have manflu which is much much worse if you are female, so I couldn't possibly inflict my germs on hundreds of my fellow citizens

No no manflu real flu is so much worse in guys :pac:

But we soldier on! martyrs to the cause etc etc :P

Quazzie · 30-09-2013 09:52PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

Legend has it that there was close to 500 people outside kildare coco today

I was number 678 today in Tullamore and I got there shortly after two. They had to turn people away at 3.30. Was mental.

Stheno · 30-09-2013 09:53PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

No no manflu real flu is so much worse in guys :pac:

But we soldier on! martyrs to the cause etc etc :P

Actually now that I think about it, I have a solicitous OH making me hot drinks, getting me clothes/blankets when I am cold.

When he has manflu I just laugh derisorily

I however have a temperature of 102

toastedpickles · 30-09-2013 10:01PM

Quazzie wrote: »

I was number 678 today in Tullamore and I got there shortly after two. They had to turn people away at 3.30. Was mental.

Jaysus that's insane

Stheno wrote: »

Actually now that I think about it, I have a solicitous OH making me hot drinks, getting me clothes/blankets when I am cold.

When he has manflu I just laugh derisorily

I however have a temperature of 102

Yeah i got the "man up for feck sake!" treatmemt too

YbFocus · 30-09-2013 10:01PM

I was in Portlaoise at 2 and fights were breaking out with people jumping the queue!
One guy was there with his 6 month old twins from 11 and was just getting in the door at that stage!
I was in the queue that took like 5 mins for keeping something off the road that had already been off.
If you now wanted tax there was a 3 hour wait!

Big Nasty · 30-09-2013 10:11PM

ba_barabus wrote: »

Offs

It seems from two weeks time I'll need a fob to get in and out of my estate however we've never been given one.

Any cheap solutions?

Depends on the type.

My zapper calfed recently and the mgt co wanted €80 for a replacement. Bought one online for a score and programmed it myself.

ba_barabus · 30-09-2013 10:14PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Depends on the type.

My zapper calfed recently and the mgt co wanted €80 for a replacement. Bought one online for a score and programmed it myself.

Now that's interesting. All I know is that it must be some sort of remote as people press a button off in the distance for it to work. You don't drive up to the gate and wave it in front of the boxes. I'm sure my description there is terrible but you get the idea. Are they hard to programme?

Stheno · 30-09-2013 10:17PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

Jaysus that's insane

Yeah i got the "man up for feck sake!" treatmemt too

He did drop a lawnmower on his foot at the weekend and I kindly taped up his damaged toe, fed him painkillers, massaged his foot with cold gel, and rotated several icepacks on it.

Big Nasty · 30-09-2013 10:17PM

ba_barabus wrote: »

Now that's interesting. All I know is that it must be some sort of remote as people press a button off in the distance for it to work. You don't drive up to the gate and wave it in front of the boxes. I'm sure my description there is terrible but you get the idea. Are they hard to programme?

Sounds similar to what I have.

Piece of piss - just shove a few switches in to place. You might have to borrow a neighbours for comparison. Find out the zapper type and get back to me.

ba_barabus · 30-09-2013 10:18PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Sounds similar to what I have.

Piece of piss - just shove a few switches in to place. You might have to borrow a neighbours for comparison. Find out the zapper type and get back to me.

Nice one. I'll try ask one of the neighbours during the week. In the mean time I'm trying to get the letting agent to get me one.

eringobragh · 30-09-2013 11:11PM

...I scrapped a car a few years ago to a local lad for parts - cars more then likely still in my name -are theygoing to look for backtax off me now?

colm_mcm · 30-09-2013 11:11PM

2 things I didn't know this morning

They're doing a 1.6 diesel honda cr-v

They've stopped making the Aston Martin Cygnet

TestTransmission · 30-09-2013 11:16PM

ba_barabus wrote: »

Nice one. I'll try ask one of the neighbours during the week. In the mean time I'm trying to get the letting agent to get me one.

Letting agent should be supplying you one FOC.Might ask for a deposit possibly to cover loss

ba_barabus · 30-09-2013 11:44PM

TestTransmission wrote: »

Letting agent should be supplying you one FOC.Might ask for a deposit possibly to cover loss

A deposit is fair enough. I've no issue with that. I've also just realised I need a utility bill to show as proof of address when the engineer is around programming the fobs. I've nothing in my name coming to this address as I get everything sent to my home address. I'm hoping the letting agent could send me out something. I doubt that would be a problem.

I've had an evening of car shyte and this is just one of those niggly issues that's getting under my skin.

Scortho · 01-10-2013 12:16AM

eringobragh wrote: »

...I scrapped a car a few years ago to a local lad for parts - cars more then likely still in my name -are theygoing to look for backtax off me now?

Yeah theyll be looking for a couple of grands worth of tax of you at this stage:pac:

If the cars ever put back on the road, it'll have to be put in his name.
More than likely it's had anything of value stripped of her, and the scrap metal sent to the crusher.

advertsfox · 01-10-2013 11:35AM

Just applied for my full driving license - €85! Lets hope the arrange it for me sooner than later.

tossy · 01-10-2013 11:37AM

advertsfox wrote: »

Just applied for my full driving license - €85! Lets hope the arrange it for me sooner than later.

I got mine inside a week,i couldn't believe it.

guttenberg · 01-10-2013 11:42AM

colm_mcm wrote: »

2 things I didn't know this morning

They're doing a 1.6 diesel honda cr-v

They've stopped making the Aston Martin Cygnet

Presumably it won't be long before they have a replacement for the Cygnet considering it's needed to offset the emissions of their bigger engines?

Ded_Zebra · 01-10-2013 12:46PM

Could someone just clear this up for me. If I buy a car several years out of tax is anyone (i.e me) liable for the back tax or can I just tax it from now on?

Scortho · 01-10-2013 12:58PM

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Could someone just clear this up for me. If I buy a car several years out of tax is anyone (i.e me) liable for the back tax or can I just tax it from now on?

Now on.

Ded_Zebra · 01-10-2013 01:26PM

Scortho wrote: »

Now on.

That would have saved a lot of trouble on Friday and Monday if I realised that. Silly me

advertsfox · 01-10-2013 01:41PM

tossy wrote: »

I got mine inside a week,i couldn't believe it.

****, I'm not prepared! Any idea how much pre-tests are?

tossy · 01-10-2013 01:42PM

advertsfox wrote: »

****, I'm not prepared! Any idea how much pre-tests are?

Opps sorry to mislead you,i read your post as applying for a license renewal,sorry dude.

advertsfox · 01-10-2013 01:43PM

tossy wrote: »

Opps sorry to mislead you,i read your post as applying for a license renewal,sorry dude.

Ahhh well that actually is better then, in no rush to do it just yet

Marcusm · 01-10-2013 05:00PM

ba_barabus wrote: »

Exactly where was this as it sounds EXACTLY like where I'm living. Would it be named after the most expensive square on the monopoly board?

That would be the one; presuming it is "The SB" and not "SB Park which is next door. Won't the fob be easier than getting in an out of the car to open the gate. Where I live in London, the car park system has run out of space for new fobs and new people have to ring up a number for access - the gate opens so long as their number is registered. I don't like that system and seeing as 9 cars had their drivers windows caved in last week (including one of mine), I'm not sure how much longer it is going to last. I see that there's a huge newbuild for sale there now too. Maybe it's finally becoming the ambassador's residence it claimed to be aiming at. I remember watching it being built when travelling on the DART in and out to work/home in 89/90. I now feel officially old (even though I was but a teenager then).

ba_barabus · 01-10-2013 05:19PM

Yep. That's the one. We are in no 15 at the back. It would be easier to have the fob but I just don't want to pay for one.

toastedpickles · 01-10-2013 06:24PM

Just a random thought but how many people would be interested in getting a boards sticker for their car, one to go in on the window or something? I seen Ded_zebra's sig and it got me thinking, could have our user names on them or something like that?

challengemaster · 01-10-2013 06:27PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

Just a random thought but how many people would be interested in getting a boards sticker for their car, one to go in on the window or something? I seen Ded_zebra's sig and it got me thinking, could have our user names on them or something like that?

It's cropped up time and time again - Basically you're affiliating yourself with boards, which if you drive like an asshole then reflects badly on them and so on so forth.

In short, It won't ever happen.

Big Nasty · 01-10-2013 06:27PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

Just a random thought but how many people would be interested in getting a boards sticker for their car, one to go in on the window or something? I seen Ded_zebra's sig and it got me thinking, could have our user names on them or something like that?

This has been done a million times dude - doubt it will ever happen and I can see why to be fair.

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