Motors Chat Thread Round 4

Ded_Zebra · 09-10-2013 08:22PM

Eringobragh I'm stumped and never was that good at I spy... I can haz clue?

challengemaster · 09-10-2013 08:23PM

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Eringobragh I'm stumped and never was that good at I spy... I can haz clue?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHR1tk5xvU

toastedpickles · 09-10-2013 08:24PM

challengemaster wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHR1tk5xvU

knardai!

Ded_Zebra · 09-10-2013 08:28PM

challengemaster wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHR1tk5xvU

But where????? It's amazing that I don't get done for speeding a lot

Not that I ever speed of course.

eringobragh · 09-10-2013 08:31PM

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Eringobragh I'm stumped and never was that good at I spy... I can haz clue?

Little white van tucked in at the top left - How many penalty points have you got! :P

Dord · 09-10-2013 08:35PM

eringobragh wrote: »

Little white van tucked in at the top left - How many penalty points have you got! :P

He was there Monday morning also. I go that way to work each morning. :pac:

Ded_Zebra · 09-10-2013 08:36PM

eringobragh wrote: »

Little white van tucked in at the top left - How many penalty points have you got! :P

None amazingly!

Your speed pic1 = 73km/h

Your speed pic2 = 47km/h :P

I put my lack of points down to good brakes when I do eventually see them :pac:

Dord · 09-10-2013 08:36PM

Actually, just remember it was a traffic corps van but in the same location.

Bpmull · 09-10-2013 08:38PM

YbFocus wrote: »

Behind a vito van today lads couldn't have been standard, he gunned it as I was behind him and he had been doing 60mph in slow traffic, all of a sudden it was accelerating as hard as the 530d could!
Never seen the like of it! Are these things notoriously fast or what?

Just looking there they could be got in 93,116,150 or 204 bhp. Most the ones sold in Ireland would be 93 or 116 bhp. But maybe it was a 2.2 150bhp version. I don't think any of the v6 204 bhp ones were sold in Ireland. With a lot of vans if there empty and driven on the acceleration wouldn't be too bad and infairness most of them company vans are driven to within an inch of there life anyway :pac: I remember driving my dads master 120bhp empty a few times and you would hit 120kph fairly generally fairly torque. Still I can't imagine any if them keeping up with a 530d.

colm_mcm · 09-10-2013 08:41PM

Got a spin in the 200hp vito once, guy was looking to trade it in for a jeep. Those things are mental. There's something great about a fast van.
I'm a big fan of the Hyundai H1 van too.

YbFocus · 09-10-2013 08:42PM

Bpmull wrote: »

Just looking there they could be got in 93,116,150 or 204 bhp. Most the ones sold in Ireland would be 93 or 116 bhp. But maybe it was a 2.2 150bhp version. I don't think any of the v6 204 bhp ones were sold in Ireland. With a lot of vans if there empty and driven on the acceleration wouldn't be too bad and infairness most of them company vans are driven to within an inch of there life anyway :pac: I remember driving my dads master 120bhp empty a few times and you would hit 120kph fairly generally fairly torque. Still I can't imagine any if them keeping up with a 530d.

He hit 120 alright but it wasn't kph! I mean this was laughably fast! He smiled and waved as I passed with total disbelief on my face!

eringobragh · 09-10-2013 08:43PM

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

None amazingly!

Your speed pic1 = 73km/h

Your speed pic2 = 47km/h :P

I put my lack of points down to good brakes when I do eventually see them :pac:

- what can I say :cool:

Bpmull · 09-10-2013 08:44PM

colm_mcm wrote: »

Got a spin in the 200hp vito once, guy was looking to trade it in for a jeep. Those things are mental. There's something great about a fast van.
I'm a big fan of the Hyundai H1 van too.

So they did sell them in Ireland. Probably rare enough. I'd imagine there quick. The 170 bhp 4 motion transporter aren't bad either although probably not as quick.

colm_mcm · 09-10-2013 08:47PM

Bpmull wrote: »

So they did sell them in Ireland. Probably rare enough. I'd imagine there quick. The 170 bhp 4 motion transporter aren't bad either although probably not as quick.

This was an import, yer man was in software or something, wasn't impressed with the 160hp the Landcruiser had or the pittance I was offering him for it.

Bpmull · 09-10-2013 08:52PM

YbFocus wrote: »

He hit 120 alright but it wasn't kph! I mean this was laughably fast! He smiled and waved as I passed with total disbelief on my face!

Sounds seriously quick. Sounds like the driver has fun everyday with people trying to keep up with him. I know a guy with a completly standard looking Laguna 99 I think. I mean completly standard looking inside and out identical to any other Laguna. But this one has a 172 Clio engine. He has serious craic in it. He said the look on peoples face when they can't keep up with him in there high power cars and of course the boy racers.

YbFocus · 09-10-2013 08:57PM

Brilliant, I love a good sleeper

Not a rare car but one with a transplant, kudos to them boys!

Dord · 09-10-2013 08:58PM

Only problem with the vito would be it disintegrating at speed. They seem to be some of the worse afflicted Mercs by rust.

Chris_Heilong · 09-10-2013 08:59PM

eringobragh wrote: »

I spy with my little eye...something beginning with g

YEP I mentioned this a few pages back, at East wall. Its part of the Road safety week, there are vans everywhere this week. I take this road going to work and in 5 years I have only seen 2 cops with hairdryers in ths location.

Bpmull · 09-10-2013 09:01PM

YbFocus wrote: »

Brilliant, I love a good sleeper
Not a rare car but one with a transplant, kudos to them boys!

I know there is something class about a car that looks standard and isn't even more so with vans. Maybe it's just the suprise the fact your not expecting it to be quick.

YbFocus · 09-10-2013 09:04PM

There's a pretty famous Cosworth transit in England that is just nuts

and the old Ford super vans, although they ain't sleepers

Dartz · 09-10-2013 09:30PM

Had an interesting day at work...

There's a property on our industrial estate which I thought was unused, and had parked near it for 12 months or more (Along with everyone else, for that matter. Trucks, jeeps, vans, anyone coming and going.). Until a Garda knocked on the door letting me know I was blocking someone's entrance and they'd called the cops to ask me to move it ....

Overreaction much?

I mean, they could've just knocked in themselves and I'd have moved it. The building was shuttered and locked - and had been for a long time. I've been reliably told that the owner was spotted marching up and down the estate counting out parking spaces and the like beforehand.

Supergurrier · 09-10-2013 09:43PM

In fairness why should they come looking for you, an entrance is usually marked.

Katunga · 09-10-2013 09:43PM

penalty points I got for alleged speeding in August have been removed. I paid the fine got a letter saying points were added to my licence and got a letter a few days ago saying that they are now removed. Will I get my money back?
What happened?

h3000 · 09-10-2013 09:58PM

Katunga wrote: »

penalty points I got for alleged speeding in August have been removed. I paid the fine got a letter saying points were added to my licence and got a letter a few days ago saying that they are now removed. Will I get my money back?
What happened?

There was something on the news a little while back about speed limits being reduced for road works without the correct paper work beign filed. I believe all points had to be revoked.

Edit:
This is the story actually http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/speedlimit-blunder-sees-1306-drivers-get-points-struck-off-29563282.html

pred racer · 09-10-2013 10:00PM

Katunga wrote: »

penalty points I got for alleged speeding in August have been removed. I paid the fine got a letter saying points were added to my licence and got a letter a few days ago saying that they are now removed. Will I get my money back?
What happened?

You were caught in a zone where the posted limit wasnt legal.

Katunga · 09-10-2013 10:04PM

pred racer wrote: »

You were caught in a zone where the posted limit wasnt legal.

It was a 50kpH in Ballyforan Roscommon my alleged speed was 64 KpH.
Will I get my money back?

pred racer · 09-10-2013 10:23PM

Katunga wrote: »

It was a 50kpH in Ballyforan Roscommon my alleged speed was 64 KpH.
Will I get my money back?

Yes, or at least thats what seems to be happening.

CianRyan · 10-10-2013 12:08AM

Is it wrong that I really want this?

I've wanted one for ages now... :eek:

Chris_Heilong · 10-10-2013 12:10AM

CianRyan wrote: »

Is it wrong that I really want this?

I've wanted one for ages now... :eek:

I thought you were extremely anti auto.

CianRyan · 10-10-2013 12:15AM

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

I thought you were extremely anti auto.

I am.

And anto anything that's not either high revving or heavily turbocharged but I just have a thing for those.

Total guilty pleasure.

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