Motors Chat Thread Round 4

Toyotafanboi · 20-10-2013 02:15AM

whatever became of your almera Cian? know a lad looking for a fog light kit if you fancy a few quid.

CianRyan · 20-10-2013 02:30AM

He can have them for free if he fancies finding all the shards if glass and gluing them back together.

They've had it! Have a brand new light stalk there for the fogs if he needs that, no idea what that's go for.

The Almera's still sitting outside, full of food, parts and petrol.
I'll get rid of it... One day.

Maybe it'll fit on the back of a Ford F350. :pac:

YbFocus · 20-10-2013 02:32AM

CianRyan wrote: »

Maybe it'll fit on the back of a Ford F350. :pac:

I think it will have decomposed first

CianRyan · 20-10-2013 02:36AM

Yeah, better luck in dragging it to green hills by power of my legs I think.

Toyotafanboi · 20-10-2013 02:37AM

CianRyan wrote: »

He can have them for free if he fancies finding all the shards if glass and gluing them back together.
They've had it! Have a brand new light stalk there for the fogs if he needs that, no idea what that's go for.

The Almera's still sitting outside, full of food, parts and petrol.
I'll get rid of it... One day.

Maybe it'll fit on the back of a Ford F350. :pac:

sorry. knew you had damaged it just didn't know what part of the car :P

i'l pass that on! is there anything worth stripping on it? he just bought one the same as yours and is looking to jazz it up a bit.

take whats of value in it and weigh it in for scrap and cut your losses?

Esel · 20-10-2013 02:51AM

dgt wrote: »

It happened. It finally happened

Went for an auld shpinn round westmeath (anyone spot me?)

I drove down this road, then turned down this narrow country road. It got progressively narrower in direct proportion to the grass in the middle of the road getting wider and taller. The grass suddenly turned into rushes the height of my bonnet and the road narrowed further. Eventually, staring in disbelief, I saw the road completely disappear infront of me and I am now in a field..... I had to reverse a long way back :pac:

If the tops of the rushes weren't green, I believe you.

CianRyan · 20-10-2013 03:04AM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

sorry. knew you had damaged it just didn't know what part of the car :P

i'l pass that on! is there anything worth stripping on it? he just bought one the same as yours and is looking to jazz it up a bit.

take whats of value in it and weigh it in for scrap and cut your losses?

All the best bits were were up front. Haha
GTI bumper and brand new fogs just destroyed, rare as all hell! :mad:
From there back it's perfect though, if he's after parts he can have a dig through it.

Seats are almost new in it, back especially.

Yeah, I keep meaning to do that but I just never seem to get around to it. There's image issue of scumbag scrap yards that'll charge me to take it away, then make a few hundred on parts.

Esel · 20-10-2013 03:11AM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

take whats of value in it and weigh it in for scrap and cut your losses?

CianRyan wrote: »

Yeah, I keep meaning to do that but I just never seem to get around to it. There's image issue of scumbag scrap yards that'll charge me to take it away, then make a few hundred on parts.

Someone told me last night that any car is now worth €500 scrap value. Tell me they were talking bullsh!t.

Kaiser D · 20-10-2013 03:11AM

Esel wrote: »

Someone told me last night that any car is now worth €500 scrap value. Tell me they were talking bullsh!t.

They were talking bullsh!t.

CianRyan · 20-10-2013 03:14AM

Unless your car has 5 tonne of metal in it, it's pub talk.

Toyotafanboi · 20-10-2013 03:15AM

CianRyan wrote: »

All the best bits were were up front. Haha
GTI bumper and brand new fogs just destroyed, rare as all hell! :mad:
From there back it's perfect though, if he's after parts he can have a dig through it.
Seats are almost new in it, back especially.

Yeah, I keep meaning to do that but I just never seem to get around to it. There's image issue of scumbag scrap yards that'll charge me to take it away, then make a few hundred on parts.

i'l try put him in touch with you

thanks!

pajor · 20-10-2013 10:09AM

Esel wrote: »

Someone told me last night that any car is now worth €500 scrap value. Tell me they were talking bullsh!t.

Some lad in college got €100 for his near-dead 106. Could do worse.

ba_barabus · 20-10-2013 11:23AM

Esel wrote: »

Someone told me last night that any car is now worth €500 scrap value. Tell me they were talking bullsh!t.

The 2003 Avensis I've been driving around in has been sold for 850 to a large breakers yard.

Toyotafanboi · 20-10-2013 11:27AM

ba_barabus wrote: »

The 2003 Avensis I've been driving around in has been sold for 850 to a large breakers yard.

i'd asume with a car like that, it has a higher scrap value as plently of parts will be re-saleable fairly quickly.

unlike say an early 90's 106 which is just worth its weight.

when we were going to scrap our 99 punto during the summer we were offered €200 and the scrap yard would collect it too iirc.

ba_barabus · 20-10-2013 11:38AM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

i'd asume with a car like that, it has a higher scrap value as plently of parts will be re-saleable fairly quickly.

unlike say an early 90's 106 which is just worth its weight.

when we were going to scrap our 99 punto during the summer we were offered €200 and the scrap yard would collect it too iirc.

That's pretty much what I thought. All lights, panels and electrics were fine. Engine was good but gearbox was shot. I lost second in Dublin and 4th went at the toll bridge in Portlaoise but it was a complete car apart from that. Parts would be in demand for them too as people repair them to keep them going.

Interslice · 20-10-2013 12:56PM

Just seen a reno traffic broke down at the side of the road. One lad crankin the starter like mad while the other was pouring diesel in from little 5l tank.

dgt · 20-10-2013 01:02PM

Interslice wrote: »

Just seen a reno traffic broke down at the side of the road. One lad crankin the starter like mad while the other was pouring diesel in from little 5l tank.

That just reminded me of an absolute anus I saw here yesterday.....

I was heading towards the Tankard when I saw this car in the distance looking fairly strange, I go up beside it and I realised i was a broken down car. Parked in the middle of the road, bonnet up, hazards a flashing. The genius had only passed a nice place to pull in by about 10 metres but nooooo pull up in the middle of the road and block traffic from both directions.

It was a corsa too just to really irritate me :mad::mad::mad:

joujoujou · 20-10-2013 01:44PM

Yet another corolla owners meeting last friday/saturday.

L to R:

- former RUNX owner, still driving Vectra C, hopefully Avensis Verso or wagon owner soon,

- myself,

- new club member, former octavia owner, now happy owner of facelift E11,

- had TS before, last meeting Type R owner, now happy TS owner.

================================

I was really surprised - two 'rollas registered same day.

Hal1 · 20-10-2013 01:48PM

Busy enough taxi rank there :pac:.

Supergurrier · 20-10-2013 03:45PM

Just saw a 131 Terra avensis there.

Talk about poverty spec

pajor · 20-10-2013 04:07PM

Supergurrier wrote: »

Just saw a 131 Terra avensis there.

Talk about poverty spec

I was always surprised by the amount of facelift Octavia IIs in the Classic spec.

I thought even in Ireland in 2013, that basic air con and paint colour wing mirrors would be a given. Obviously not. :pac:

toastedpickles · 20-10-2013 04:15PM

Supergurrier wrote: »

Just saw a 131 Terra avensis there.

Talk about poverty spec

But don't you know? It's a 131 and that's all that matters!

I heard it runs on Flintstones technology, as in you run with it to power it, gets up to 50 blisters per mile I've heard, fabulous technology :pac:

Dord · 20-10-2013 04:30PM

Gardai out doing a speedcheck just past the RDS. I was being a law abiding citizen of course. :P

ba_barabus · 20-10-2013 04:43PM

Dord wrote: »

Gardai out doing a speedcheck just past the RDS. I was being a law abiding citizen of course. :P

They're at the British embassy. Just looking at them right now. Still nobody pulled but lots of cars braking hard. They are using a tripod. They're aiming it towards Vincent's hospital

Dord · 20-10-2013 04:46PM

ba_barabus wrote: »

They're at the British embassy. Just looking at them right now. Still nobody pulled but lots of cars braking hard. They are using a tripod. They're aiming it towards Vincent's hospital

Yeah that's it. There was a traffic corp car outside the RDS also.

ba_barabus · 20-10-2013 04:48PM

Dord wrote: »

Yeah that's it. There was a traffic corp car outside the RDS also.

Hilariously they just lifted it to put away as a 13 reg Ferrari on NI plates came down Merrion RD in full song. It sounded good.

It's gone now.

Chris_Heilong · 20-10-2013 04:52PM

ba_barabus wrote: »

Hilariously they just lifted it to put away as a 13 reg Ferrari on NI plates came down Merrion RD in full song. It sounded good.

It's gone now.

Shame I missed that, I work up that way and am in work today, better head the eastlink toll bridge home.

ba_barabus · 20-10-2013 04:55PM

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Shame I missed that

Are you trying to get stopped for speeding?

Cleveland Hot Pocket · 20-10-2013 04:59PM

Right. Weird question.
I've (and there is no other way to say this) just found out that some of the trim in my car is stuck on with blu-tack.

Does anyone know what to use to re-attach a fake wood trim to a door, that doesnt damage leather or fake wood?

Ded_Zebra · 20-10-2013 05:01PM

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

Right. Weird question.
I've (and there is no other way to say this) just found out that some of the trim in my car is stuck on with blu-tack.

Does anyone know what to use to re-attach a fake wood trim to a door, that doesnt damage leather or fake wood?

Blu-Tac :pac:

Double sided tape?

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