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***** Motors Chat - Round 5*****

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  • #1412
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    Well ask him again when he's sober :D

    That's the plan ;)


  • #1413
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,773 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    That's the plan ;)

    If the lads can do it with their Ventos I sure you could with an Astra:)


  • #1414
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    If the lads can do it with their Ventos I sure you could with an Astra:)

    Aye, but unlike the boys with ventos, I'm sticking decent alloys on ;)


  • #1415
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,773 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Aye, but unlike the boys with ventos, I'm sticking decent alloys on ;)

    You mean they're not Merc wheels :pac:

    Are you going to give us a sneak peek of them??


  • #1416
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Aye, but unlike the boys with ventos, I'm sticking decent alloys on ;)

    Buy my 19 inch Eta Beta Tettsut's off me, they are taking up a hape of space in the turf shed :p


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  • #1417
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    You mean they're not Merc wheels :pac:

    Are you going to give us a sneak peek of them??

    Hehe touche

    Yeah either these

    $T2eC16V,!w0E9szNZI0)BR5cWto29!~~60_12.JPG

    Or these!

    $(KGrHqNHJFQFHYzz2CjfBR5b9gvbOQ~~60_12.JPG


  • #1418
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Buy my 19 inch Eta Beta Tettsut's off me, they are taking up a hape of space in the turf shed :p

    I'll trade ye me sister for them :P


  • #1419
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,773 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    I like the first ones a lot, not gone on the second ones. From a quick look there they look like they only come in 17". Is that not very big for the astra?


  • #1420
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    I like the first ones a lot, not gone on the second ones. From a quick look there they look like they only come in 17". Is that not very big for the astra?

    Yeah I'm more inclined towards the first myself, nah 17s are fine, I'd prefer them to be 17s anywho, I'm planning on doing a little bit of christmas (see what i done there??) :pac: And getting a few bits and bobs for it, new fog lights, bulbs, wheel nuts, and the like, and then if i can get the adapters, get a set of them


  • #1421
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    I'll trade ye me sister for them :P

    If she is as rough and buckled as these wheels you might have a deal :p

    Can she cook a spud ? :p

    Said wheels

    resizeimage948724617.jpg
    resizeimage949923274.jpg


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  • #1422
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    If she is as rough and buckled as these wheels you might have a deal :p

    Can she cook a spud ? :p

    What do you take me for?? Of course she can/is! :P

    They'd actually look half decent, a bit of photoshopping is needed for this!


  • #1423
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    They take 235/35/R19 tyres though and weigh a metric ton each so bye bye Astra 1.4 clutch :p


  • #1424
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    I'd stick to 15 on that body size, 16 at the max.
    I know anything bigger than 15 on an mx5 looks all kinds of wrong to me. 15x8 ET0 with the arches rolled and have it on the ground. :cool:


  • #1425
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    They take 235/35/R19 tyres though and weigh a metric ton each so bye bye Astra 1.4 clutch :p

    Yaaaay :P I'm thinking of changing it anywho, it's been in it for the last 154900 miles, it's bound to give way sooner or later, I could leave it but better safe than sorry etc etc preventative measures and so on


  • #1426
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    CianRyan wrote: »
    I'd stick to 15 on that body size, 16 at the max.
    I know anything bigger than 15 on an mx5 looks all kinds of wrong to me. 15x8 ET0 with the arches rolled and have it on the ground. :cool:

    I have 15s on it now, but i've seen one's with 17's and it looks pretty nice, provided the right wheel is on them :P


  • #1427
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,773 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Yeah I'm more inclined towards the first myself, nah 17s are fine, I'd prefer them to be 17s anywho, I'm planning on doing a little bit of christmas (see what i done there??) :pac: And getting a few bits and bobs for it, new fog lights, bulbs, wheel nuts, and the like, and then if i can get the adapters, get a set of them

    Very clever! Seantmas (I will admit it doesn't work quite as well) I think is going to come in late January or early February ;)


    I had a look at a few astra Gs there and 17" are actually fine looking on them :) Thought they would be way too big!


  • #1428
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    Very clever! Seantmas (I will admit it doesn't work quite as well) I think is going to come in late January or early February ;)


    I had a look at a few astra Gs there and 17" are actually fine looking on them :) Thought they would be way too big!

    I'm very witty sometimes, not all the time though :( I should be having a minimas in the januarys too ;) provided a few things happen, and then my creation day in march, or birthday in laymans terms

    Yeah see they're not too shabby looking!


  • #1429
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    There goes that plan to get rid of the horrible wheels :P

    Will just throw them in the superboot of the Octavia when i get around to selling it sometime in 2015


  • #1430
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    There goes that plan to get rid of the horrible wheels :P

    Will just throw them in the superboot of the Octavia when i get around to selling it sometime in 2015

    Bring them to the meet and put one at each corner of a space and be like yeah I had some issues with the st it's running grand now though :pac:


  • #1431
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Of you're car was arse wheel drive I'd have the perfect solution for them... Same reason I have 7 spare 15x7's out my back. ;)


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  • #1432
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Bring them to the meet and put one at each corner of a space and be like yeah I had some issues with the st it's running grand now though :pac:

    I would just assume it ate itself because i forgot to keep the tank over half full again


  • #1433
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Of you're car was arse wheel drive I'd have the perfect solution for them... Same reason I have 7 spare 15x7's out my back. ;)

    This is brilliant :P I need to see this
    Supergurrier wrote: »
    I would just assume it ate itself because i forgot to keep the tank over half full again

    Typical ford problem there, do you know there was over 1900 reported cases of self cannibalism in focuses last year?


  • #1434
    SleeperService
    Closed Accounts Posts: 369 ✭✭SleeperService


    Took an enforced trip to the big smoke today, spotted a 1.4 5door focus with a 4 spot lamp rally light pod thrown onto the front.:confused:
    This man can literally see LIGHT YEARS (measured in focus 1.4 terms) in front of him.


  • #1435
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    There goes that plan to get rid of the horrible wheels :P

    Will just throw them in the superboot of the Octavia when i get around to selling it sometime in 2015
    Are they 5*100 by any chance?


  • #1436
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    its appears people have panicked again and have bought jeeps for the upcoming winter !

    i dont think we'll have a bad one at all this year !

    but the jeeps online now are either old or a stupid price !


  • #1437
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,815 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    CLA shooting brake (not really an SB though...) prototype

    12429271121077561435.jpg

    8673739582004541451.jpg

    Not bad looking to be honest...


  • #1438
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Burn it, burn it now..


  • #1439
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    YbFocus wrote: »
    Burn it, burn it now..
    The back is horrific


  • #1440
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    In Black it would look like the Adams family hearse thing :)


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  • #1441
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    I have been busy the last few days but noticed as I was pulling out of my drive a damp patch, so today I got some paper and checked it out, its coolant. My Radiator must have a leak. I dont have any money right now so dont know what to do.:(


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