* Motors Chat - Round 5*

nd · 14-01-2014 08:25AM

The sisters, husbands, brother's 5 day old hyundai.

He was driving down the motorway and noticed smoke coming from the engine. He pulled over, got out and 10 seconds later it was in flames!

Luckily no one was hurt.

MuppetCheck · 14-01-2014 09:25AM

If I was him I'd be posting that to their facebook, I'm sure it would work in his favour!

dgt · 14-01-2014 09:25AM

Uh oh..... Door lock on the 520 has broke. Refusing to keep the passenger door shut

Any ideas before I change it?

MuppetCheck · 14-01-2014 09:26AM

dgt wrote: »

Uh oh..... Door lock on the 520 has broke. Refusing to keep the passenger door shut

Any ideas before I change it?

Hardly the frost this morning playing silly bugger?

Scortho · 14-01-2014 09:27AM

dgt wrote: »

Uh oh..... Door lock on the 520 has broke. Refusing to keep the passenger door shut

Any ideas before I change it?

Weld it shut and while at it, the diff as well!:pac:

Cleveland Hot Pocket · 14-01-2014 09:28AM

Put on a different color door for the lolz

dgt · 14-01-2014 09:29AM

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Hardly the frost this morning playing silly bugger?

I hope it is, where I keep the car it's exposed on that side. Drivers door is fine. I'll give it a little while, hope the rain holds off....!

coolisin · 14-01-2014 09:31AM

nd wrote: »

The sisters, husbands, brother's 5 day old hyundai.

He was driving down the motorway and noticed smoke coming from the engine. He pulled over, got out and 10 seconds later it was in flames!

Luckily no one was hurt.

That is unreal, at least it appears they are not falsely advertising the cars as being made of junk.

How the f*ck!!

I'd have to agree with muppetcheck social media is his friend here!

dgt · 14-01-2014 09:39AM

Just got some fire at the door, it's worked!

Thanks MuppetCheck :cool:

YbFocus · 14-01-2014 09:58AM

It done the honourable thing that every Hyundai should do

Thank god nobody was hurt though, lucky escape!

Alanstrainor · 14-01-2014 10:00AM

So, I found a picture of my odometer from this day last year...I have covered 3,000 miles in my motor in the last year. It makes it so much more painful having a 1080 motor tax bill to pay by the end of the month

pajor · 14-01-2014 10:02AM

nd wrote: »

The sisters, husbands, brother's 5 day old hyundai.

He was driving down the motorway and noticed smoke coming from the engine. He pulled over, got out and 10 seconds later it was in flames!

Luckily no one was hurt.

Luckily no one was hurt indeed! :eek:

MuppetCheck · 14-01-2014 10:02AM

dgt wrote: »

Just got some fire at the door, it's worked!

Thanks MuppetCheck :cool:

An old car of mine used to do it every frosty morning. Kettle of boiling water was always needed.

Big Nasty · 14-01-2014 10:06AM

MuppetCheck wrote: »

An old car of mine used to do it every frosty morning. Kettle of boiling water was always needed.

Or if you get caught out blast it with p1ss.

MuppetCheck · 14-01-2014 10:09AM

Big Nasty wrote: »

Or if you get caught out blast it with p1ss.

You'd really want to touch the door handle after that...

Big Nasty · 14-01-2014 10:23AM

MuppetCheck wrote: »

You'd really want to touch the door handle after that...

I guess sometimes needs must!

MugMugs · 14-01-2014 12:31PM

Why do they put washers onto the bonnet?

It just leads to sh1tty windscreen the whole way down the road.

Why not stick them under the bonnet lip instead so the blower can defrost them ?
This was me this morning

ShadowHearth · 14-01-2014 12:38PM

dgt wrote: »

Uh oh..... Door lock on the 520 has broke. Refusing to keep the passenger door shut

Any ideas before I change it?

When in doubt:

nd · 14-01-2014 12:51PM

MuppetCheck wrote: »

If I was him I'd be posting that to their facebook, I'm sure it would work in his favour!

Yeah he has it up on facebook. It was a company car so he's not too worried about the car itself. His laptop was in the car so he's annoyed about that. And of course it could have been alot worse.

Dord · 14-01-2014 12:53PM

Alanstrainor wrote: »

So, I found a picture of my odometer from this day last year...I have covered 3,000 miles in my motor in the last year. It makes it so much more painful having a 1080 motor tax bill to pay by the end of the month

I did around 5000 miles in the last year but my tax bill is only 385 for the year. I only passed my test in April also. :pac:

Ah well, on to bigger engines and bigger tax bills in 2014 hopefully! :cool:

YbFocus · 14-01-2014 01:13PM

Jesus lads ye do no mileage! I do 5000 miles in about 6 weeks!

CianRyan · 14-01-2014 01:16PM

I did about 6k I'm the Almera before I killed it, there was only two months lefts on the insurance at that save, I'd guess close to 7 would have been the year.

MugMugs · 14-01-2014 01:18PM

I am actually well down on mine this year too.

Only managed to do 25k Miles as opposed to my usual 40. Quite happy with that !

Cleveland Hot Pocket · 14-01-2014 01:25PM

I reckon between the three cars I'm at 20-22k miles.
In the month I had the carina as a daily driver I did 2k miles in just that one car alone.

YbFocus · 14-01-2014 01:31PM

The last two years I was coming very close to 50k.
Got The car last March with 133k on it, as of now there's 166k with a little over two months to go before the year is out.
So I'm going to be down to about 40k this year.

I really can't imagine how you guys manage so little milage. Even in college I was doing 400 miles a week.

Alanstrainor · 14-01-2014 01:40PM

It does beg the question...am I barking mad evening running the yoke! And my mileage will decrease now that I'm starting a new job in Feb!

MuppetCheck · 14-01-2014 01:50PM

I was doing about 60k km a year but managed to get it down to between 40-50k km now. If I keep going the way I am I should get it just under 40k km when the cars a year old.

LiamoSail · 14-01-2014 02:09PM

Alanstrainor wrote: »

It does beg the question...am I barking mad evening running the yoke! And my mileage will decrease now that I'm starting a new job in Feb!

I'm in a similar situation. Dividing my annual mileage by annual cost of tax means I'm paying about 22c in tax per mile. Obviously that's not including the tax I pay on petrol. Looks like its costing you about 36c/mile. Can't be many paying much more then that

Ded_Zebra · 14-01-2014 02:15PM

Alanstrainor wrote: »

It does beg the question...am I barking mad evening running the yoke! And my mileage will decrease now that I'm starting a new job in Feb!

I did a quick calculation there. Based on your milage and assuming 20MPG your cost for fuel and tax is almost the same as mine (doing 38MPG, 1.6 tax and 14000km a year). Not sure if that will make you feel better or worse though! :P

Foxhole Norman · 14-01-2014 02:20PM

I'll have only covered 8k in a year and that's with me driving the car pretty much everyday.

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