* Motors Chat - Round 5*

Cleveland Hot Pocket · 19-11-2013 10:36PM

colm_mcm wrote: »

http://searchengineland.com/google-now-personalizes-everyones-search-results-31195

Wow, did not know that. Ya learn something new every day!

Big Nasty wrote: »

Near 16k unread mails!?! :eek:

Mostly spam!

Big Nasty · 19-11-2013 10:38PM

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

Mostley spam!

Mostly boards notifications I would say!

Cleveland Hot Pocket · 19-11-2013 10:55PM

Big Nasty wrote: »

Mostly boards notifications I would say!

Says the man with 10 times my posts!
But yeah, there is a (spam) email for that!

Supergurrier · 19-11-2013 11:03PM

Anyone here speak double dutch ?:p

Want to know if this comes painted

http://www.ebay.nl/itm/Ford-Focus-MK2-Dachspoiler-Spoiler-Heckflugel-Ansatz-Dach-MK2-ST-RS-/181212715993?pt=DE_Autoteile&hash=item2a311e9bd9&_uhb=1&clk_rvr_id=550130821883

Cleveland Hot Pocket · 19-11-2013 11:07PM

Supergurrier wrote: »

Anyone here speak double dutch ?:p

Want to know if this comes painted

http://www.ebay.nl/itm/Ford-Focus-MK2-Dachspoiler-Spoiler-Heckflugel-Ansatz-Dach-MK2-ST-RS-/181212715993?pt=DE_Autoteile&hash=item2a311e9bd9&_uhb=1&clk_rvr_id=550130821883

The listing is actually in German (even though the URL is .nl)
It is unpainted (don't know if that is good or bad news!)

Supergurrier · 19-11-2013 11:07PM

Bah

Scortho · 19-11-2013 11:09PM

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Fuel level: Student

THat still has to make it to a petrol station :pac:

Take a few litres out of some car that's parked up for a while! :pac:

Supergurrier · 19-11-2013 11:11PM

Scortho wrote: »

Take a few litres out of some car that's parked up for a while! :pac:

Hahahaha

Especially if it's a silver almera with no fuel cap lock

Big Nasty · 19-11-2013 11:14PM

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

Says the man with 10 times my posts!
But yeah, there is a (spam) email for that!

,oo

Yeah, bit you're a re-reg.

Used to get cq. 1,000 email notifications from boards a week until I turned it off. :eek:

ba_barabus · 19-11-2013 11:27PM

colm_mcm · 19-11-2013 11:35PM

I remember seeing that on a Tomorrow's World about 25 years ago

I only remember two things from that show - that car and some new system in a Bluebird that Nissan were gonna put in their cars that had a speaker under the seat that was supposed to put out a noise that would cancel out the noise the car made. Some sort of acoustic noise cancelling stuff. Don't think they ever did anything with it

Mycroft H · 19-11-2013 11:38PM

colm_mcm wrote: »

I remember seeing that on a Tomorrow's World about 25 years ago

I only remember two things from that show - that car and some new system in a Bluebird that Nissan were gonna put in their cars that had a speaker under the seat that was supposed to put out a noise that would cancel out the noise the car made. Some sort of acoustic noise cancelling stuff. Don't think they ever did anything with it

We're not all old fogies. :pac::pac:

What's the car?

colm_mcm · 19-11-2013 11:39PM

Mazda Samsonite

ba_barabus · 19-11-2013 11:40PM

colm_mcm wrote: »

I remember seeing that on a Tomorrow's World about 25 years ago

I only remember two things from that show - that car and some new system in a Bluebird that Nissan were gonna put in their cars that had a speaker under the seat that was supposed to put out a noise that would cancel out the noise the car made. Some sort of acoustic noise cancelling stuff. Don't think they ever did anything with it

I just thought I'd throw up the image and see if people remembered it. I love it. I remember they had a experimental Volvo from about 1981 that could do over 90mpg on diesel or something like that. I also remember the folding Renault small car, how Renault were using a Jeep Cherokee to make a video in which they could green screen in a 4x4 they were working on to see what it would look like in the real world and finally infared headlights that allowed you to see people in the dark (I think Merc use these now). I also remember them showing an early sat nav in a Renault 25 being used in Paris.

Sadly no show like it now

ba_barabus · 19-11-2013 11:44PM

I give you, The Renault Zoom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Zoom

colm_mcm · 19-11-2013 11:46PM

Now that I think of it, I think they had an electric Renault 5 too or was it a Fiat Uno?

ba_barabus · 19-11-2013 11:48PM

Look what I found, Tomorrows World mobile phones from 1979

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vix6TMnj9vY

ba_barabus · 19-11-2013 11:54PM

Self parking VW from 1990. We've come a long way.

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

ba_barabus · 20-11-2013 12:03AM

Even better, I've found BEYOND 2000.

From 1993 an early form of Sat Nav, start at around 6:30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCGmxk3H44g

A feature on the Vector, America's fighter jet inspired super car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AUJqy5qorw

Got to 6:50 for a look at the Buick WILDCAT which reckons by 1995 car doors will be a thing of the past

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

colm_mcm · 20-11-2013 12:11AM

It was actually beyond 2000 I was thinking of all along.

CianRyan · 20-11-2013 12:53AM

I've been freaking out the past two days because I lost my one and only key for the Roadster, I pulled the house apart and had a horrible feeling they had fallen in the bin in my room, which I threw into the wheely bin on collection day!
I tore the house apart yesterday morning and had another stab at it today but still couldn't find them.

Asked my mam and she said my Niece was messing with a set of keys the other day, previous to bin day so no indication of being saved, she hadn't seen them since though.
Asked my dad, who is usually hopeless in these situations, he recommended I check the toy box if one of the kids had them... Why did I not think of that?!

FOUND THEM!!

Buried deep in Lego and dinosaurs! I've never seen so relieved!

Black_Knight · 20-11-2013 01:21AM

CianRyan wrote: »

I've been freaking out the past two days because I lost my one and only key for the Roadster, I pulled the house apart and had a horrible feeling they had fallen in the bin in my room, which I threw into the wheely bin on collection day!
I tore the house apart yesterday morning and had another stab at it today but still couldn't find them.

Asked my mam and she said my Niece was messing with a set of keys the other day, previous to bin day so no indication of being saved, she hadn't seen them since though.
Asked my dad, who is usually hopeless in these situations, he recommended I check the toy box if one of the kids had them... Why did I not think of that?!

FOUND THEM!!
Buried deep in Lego and dinosaurs! I've never seen so relieved!

Yeah! Legos are great!

Mycroft H · 20-11-2013 01:56AM

CianRyan wrote: »

I've been freaking out the past two days because I lost my one and only key for the Roadster, I pulled the house apart and had a horrible feeling they had fallen in the bin in my room, which I threw into the wheely bin on collection day!
I tore the house apart yesterday morning and had another stab at it today but still couldn't find them.

Asked my mam and she said my Niece was messing with a set of keys the other day, previous to bin day so no indication of being saved, she hadn't seen them since though.
Asked my dad, who is usually hopeless in these situations, he recommended I check the toy box if one of the kids had them... Why did I not think of that?!

FOUND THEM!!
Buried deep in Lego and dinosaurs! I've never seen so relieved!

Get a key cut! I'm not a fan of having just the one key. If there is no immobiliser it should be really cheap to get a second.

CianRyan · 20-11-2013 02:14AM

There's an after market immobiliser on it so I'll have to see about a new key and a new fob I think. Scarey two days!

Chris_Heilong · 20-11-2013 02:28PM

Since going RWD I notice sometimes the car will tramline slightly when on groved surfaced roads, its only a slight pull on the steering wheel in one direction or the other and needs a bit of correction...is this normal in a RWD or is it the tyres?

CianRyan · 20-11-2013 02:35PM

My Almera used to do that loads so I wouldn't say it's purely a RWD thing.

dgt · 20-11-2013 02:37PM

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Since going RWD I notice sometimes the car will tramline slightly when on groved surfaced roads, its only a slight pull on the steering wheel in one direction or the other and needs a bit of correction...is this normal in a RWD or is it the tyres?

See if you need it tracked or if some of the joints are gone

TestTransmission · 20-11-2013 06:59PM

ba_barabus wrote: »

Have you tried talking to the dealer principal to see if anything can be done?

Popped into the garage today, they're taking it back next week to have a looksie

ba_barabus · 20-11-2013 07:01PM

TestTransmission wrote: »

Popped into the garage today, they're taking it back next week to have a looksie

If a matter is getting out of hand I always give them a call before it's too late and someone (usually me like a tit) blows a gasket

TestTransmission · 20-11-2013 07:04PM

ba_barabus wrote: »

If a matter is getting out of hand I always give them a call before it's too late and someone (usually me like a tit) blows a gasket

They were pretty good about it tbh, we'll see what happens.

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