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****Motors Chat Thread Round 4****

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  • #7682
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    I can never seem to get reasonable quotes for my criteria (4 years ncb, full licence over 5 years)

    Maybe its the car being a tad in the old side


  • #7683
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    dgt wrote: »
    I can never seem to get reasonable quotes for my criteria (4 years ncb, full licence over 5 years)

    Maybe its the car being a tad in the old side

    Or the modifications :D


  • #7684
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    I'm sure they're listed :)

    Yeah my insurance was beginning to go up on my old 98 passat.
    My insurance was just €23 more for the bm!


  • #7685
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    They weren't much less without them.... The Fiesta was standard apart from some stickerbombing in the inside yet still nearly a grand insurance :confused:


  • #7686
    advertsfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭advertsfox


    Lads I just got confirmation of my driving test next Friday the 1st (license is out on the 12th, insurance due the 13th).

    My question is are you able to enable your speed limiter for the test? The C5 has this feature and I figured it could be convenient (not that I'm going to speed of course).


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  • #7687
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    advertsfox wrote: »
    Lads I just got confirmation of my driving test next Friday the 1st (license is out on the 12th, insurance due the 13th).

    My question is are you able to enable your speed limiter for the test? The C5 has this feature and I figured it could be convenient (not that I'm going to speed of course).

    AFAIK you are allowed to use any feature the car has. I used the cruse control in the passat to stop myself from speeding in a long 60km/h section :)


  • #7688
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    advertsfox wrote: »
    Lads I just got confirmation of my driving test next Friday the 1st (license is out on the 12th, insurance due the 13th).

    My question is are you able to enable your speed limiter for the test? The C5 has this feature and I figured it could be convenient (not that I'm going to speed of course).

    Does that actually work? I never tried it on mine.


  • #7689
    Scortho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭Scortho


    I remember being told that it's better to do 65 for my test than 55 in a 60 zone.


  • #7690
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Scortho wrote: »
    I remember being told that it's better to do 65 for my test than 55 in a 60 zone.

    O_o please say your friend said that


  • #7691
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    Scortho wrote: »
    I remember being told that it's better to do 65 for my test than 55 in a 60 zone.

    I failed my first driving test for speeding - as in breaking the posted speed limit :o

    In fairness I hadn't had any lessons or anything!


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  • #7692
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »
    I failed my first driving test for speeding - as in breaking the posted speed limit :o

    In fairness I hadn't had any lessons or anything!

    The most recent (and now former) lady pickles had her test cancelled due to the fact the tester "feared for his life" :pac:


  • #7693
    pajor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭pajor


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    The most recent (and now former) lady pickles had her test cancelled due to the fact the tester "feared for his life" :pac:

    There's a story behind that one that can't go unexplained now. :D


  • #7694
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    The most recent (and now former) lady pickles had her test cancelled due to the fact the tester "feared for his life" :pac:

    That is hilarious. So I'm not the most insane driver out there haha


  • #7695
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »
    That is hilarious. So I'm not the most insane driver out there haha

    Well to put a long story short imagine every rule, method of driving, y'know second gear around roundabouts, going slow between parked cars, giving way to pedestrians etc, now totally forget them

    That's essentially what she did, all the speed limits and everything, gone
    pajor wrote: »
    There's a story behind that one that can't go unexplained now. :D

    Nope! :D


  • #7696
    pajor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭pajor


    Did the tester not even go as far to fail her?


  • #7697
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    pajor wrote: »
    There's a story behind that one that can't go unexplained now. :D
    o.0
    Do tell TP!


  • #7698
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    pajor wrote: »
    Did the tester not even go as far to fail her?
    No he literally told her about 10 minutes into it to turn the car around because he feared for his life

    Instafail!
    Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »
    o.0
    Do tell TP!

    Have done!


  • #7699
    pajor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭pajor


    It shouldn't be funny.. but it is! :D


  • #7700
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    pajor wrote: »
    It shouldn't be funny.. but it is! :D

    I fell over laughing when i heard it!


  • #7701
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Scortho wrote: »
    I remember being told that it's better to do 65 for my test than 55 in a 60 zone.

    I asked my instructor this, you know keeping up with the flow of traffic etc,
    He looked at me wryly and said "if you break the speed limit, you will fail, the other stuff you might fail depending on the tester, you decide!"

    As it turns out Naas was chokker that day, so it wasnt an issue.

    I also had a letter from my doctor advising me to wear sunglasses when sunny (strange but true) but the tester wouldn't let me wear them.


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  • #7702
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,729 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    My test booked for the 2 weeks time, now as long as I remember to turn up this time I should be grand to have my licence by the time I buy a nice turbo monster! :pac:


  • #7703
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Turbo 300zx it is then


  • #7704
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    CianRyan wrote: »
    My test booked for the 2 weeks time, now as long as I remember to turn up this time I should be grand to have my licence by the time I buy a nice turbo monster! :pac:

    If you have tits, long legs, a very short skirt and a low cut top you will pass:pac:

    Or at least thats the only reason I can see how my ex wife passed, she was (and still is )a useless driver

    And maintenace to her (and her whole family) means......if it wont work atall bring it to the garage and then whinge for months about the cost coz its completely fooked!

    I used to cringe whenever my father in law wanted to borrow something off me:(


  • #7705
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,729 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Turbo 300zx it is then

    Insurance says no. :pac:
    pred racer wrote: »
    If you have tits, long legs, a very short skirt and a low cut top you will pass:pac:

    I have all of these... But unfortunately I'm a hairy bloke. :D


  • #7706
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Insurance says no. :pac:



    I have all of these... But unfortunately I'm a hairy bloke. :D

    I hope you're **** hot at the auld driving so! Or that the tester is desperate:pac:

    Best of luck man!


  • #7707
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Lads does anyone know if superglue would bond glass to glass? like loctite or something, a little problemo has arisen with a friends motor :/ the mirror slides out see, but the lovely people at halfrauds ripped it out and took a piece of glass with it :/ which is still stuck to the mount, doesn have windscreen cover so yeah, would it work??


  • #7708
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Lads does anyone know if superglue would bond glass to glass? like loctite or something, a little problemo has arisen with a friends motor :/ the mirror slides out see, but the lovely people at halfrauds ripped it out and took a piece of glass with it :/ which is still stuck to the mount, doesn have windscreen cover so yeah, would it work??

    Very hard to make it bond glass and will never be very strong. If super glue is the only option you have breathe on both bits of glass first then put the glue on (obviously the glass should be perfectly clean).

    Water makes superglue dry so the condensation from your breath will make it dry :)


  • #7709
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    Very hard to make it bond glass and will never be very strong. If super glue is the only option you have breathe on both bits of glass first then put the glue on (obviously the glass should be perfectly clean).

    Water makes superglue dry so the condensation from your breath will make it dry :)

    I'll give this a go, hopefully it'l work! I don't really fancy listening to rants about it anymore


  • #7710
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Lads does anyone know if superglue would bond glass to glass? like loctite or something, a little problemo has arisen with a friends motor :/ the mirror slides out see, but the lovely people at halfrauds ripped it out and took a piece of glass with it :/ which is still stuck to the mount, doesn have windscreen cover so yeah, would it work??

    no... been there. :(

    you can get special glue in motor factors that is for glueing rear view mirrors to windscreens :)


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  • #7711
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Halfords what a bunch of apes


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