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

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  • #5282
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Would it be viable to use another car?

    By the end of tomorrow it will be indeed, end of today if I get the time. Seicento needs a set of wheel cylinders... They're sittin at home at the mo. Once thats done it can go back on the road :)

    Then onto me pug! :p


  • #5283
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    dgt wrote: »
    By the end of tomorrow it will be indeed, end of today if I get the time. Seicento needs a set of wheel cylinders... They're sittin at home at the mo. Once thats done it can go back on the road :)

    Then onto me pug! :p

    Well if you need a hand i can head up that way later!

    Wehey! :D


  • #5284
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Well if you need a hand i can head up that way later!

    Wehey! :D

    Seicento is about a 15 minute job :D


  • #5285
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    dgt wrote: »
    Seicento is about a 15 minute job :D

    i knew that :pac:


  • #5286
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Ah come on, orange with a tan roof? It'd look like a rotten orange.
    MK1's are cool but that one sounds manky.

    This is it btw

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/vw-golf-mk1-karmann-convertible-3000/6335860
    26448793.jpeg


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  • #5287
    davycc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,013 ✭✭✭davycc


    Kaiser D wrote: »
    This is it btw

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/vw-golf-mk1-karmann-convertible-3000/6335860
    26448793.jpeg

    looks better in the ad than i was expecting from your description:)

    gti? mk1s are proper fun:cool: esp compared to the mk3:o


  • #5288
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    Still though, it is not a patch on yours for coolness/rarity or novelty.
    If I was deciding between yours or the golf I'd take yours everytime.


  • #5289
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »
    Still though, it is not a patch on yours for coolness/rarity or novelty.
    If I was deciding between yours or the golf I'd take yours everytime.

    Exactly what I'm thinking to myself.

    I do love the looks of it, but they're still plentiful at shows and stuff.


  • #5290
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    davycc wrote: »
    looks better in the ad than i was expecting from your description:)

    gti? mk1s are proper fun:cool: esp compared to the mk3:o

    Its not GTi btw, but I could live with it tbh. I've had a few..


  • #5291
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    I like it.

    In relation to colours there were some awesome orange / green / yellow paint jobs in the 70's. Blues and browns too. ;)


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  • #5292
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    I was expecting Dukes of Hazard. That looks pretty slick.


  • #5293
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    You should get it wrapped, a metallic blue would look nice on it.


  • #5294
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Like the Golf actually, colour scheme works well. Is it an auto? I'm only seeing a fat brake pedal.


  • #5295
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    You should get it wrapped, a metallic blue would look nice on it.

    Each to their own, however, I'm very much of the school of leaving classics original as possible :)


  • #5296
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    Mycroft H wrote: »
    Each to their own, however, I'm very much of the school of leaving classics original as possible :)

    I am not saying to modify it at all, But the paint needs an upgrade and a wrap is not permanent, Also I am sure a car of that period would have come in the kind of blue I am suggesting.


  • #5297
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    Actually it does not look that great in blue, black and white suit the car best.
    5590415728_4d1b793321_o.jpg


  • #5298
    davycc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,013 ✭✭✭davycc


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    Actually it does not look that great in blue, black and white suit the car best.
    5590415728_4d1b793321_o.jpg

    Im sure that the same colour as my old 83' mk1 van:D


  • #5299
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Golf doesn't look bad. I was expecting something much worse. All depends what you want but I wouldn't consider that a bad swap if it checks out ok.

    Although personally I wouldn't swap for it but maybe that's just me.


  • #5300
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    http://www.wheelwizards.ie/content/wheel-wizards-alloy-wheel-repair-and-refurbishment-prices

    Am I reading the above 20" price wrong; it's more expensive to get four wheels refurbished than a single wheel? Why would single wheel prices be cheaper than multiple wheels?


  • #5301
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    http://www.wheelwizards.ie/content/wheel-wizards-alloy-wheel-repair-and-refurbishment-prices

    Am I reading the above 20" price wrong; it's more expensive to get four wheels refurbished than a single wheel? Why would single wheel prices be cheaper than multiple wheels?

    Good question! Just remember that those prices are ex. VAT.


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  • #5302
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Aye, working out pricey enough.


  • #5303
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    http://www.wheelwizards.ie/content/wheel-wizards-alloy-wheel-repair-and-refurbishment-prices

    Am I reading the above 20" price wrong; it's more expensive to get four wheels refurbished than a single wheel? Why would single wheel prices be cheaper than multiple wheels?


    Looks like a typo/miscalculation. It's cheaper for the other sizes.


  • #5304
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    http://www.wheelwizards.ie/content/wheel-wizards-alloy-wheel-repair-and-refurbishment-prices

    Am I reading the above 20" price wrong; it's more expensive to get four wheels refurbished than a single wheel? Why would single wheel prices be cheaper than multiple wheels?

    It's 95 euro for one wheel yet 385 for four even though 4*95=380 euro. Normally you would get some discount by getting 4 done together rather than one. Is that what you mean?


  • #5305
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Must be a typo. 22"s don't work out any cheaper either.


  • #5306
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Must be a typo. 22"s don't work out any cheaper either.

    You'd think the fact they were putting the prices on the website that they'd bother to double check them. It's multiplication not exactly complex mathematics. As said don't forget to multiply all them prices by 1.135 to get price including vat. Probably best just to ring them.


  • #5307
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Aye, working out pricey enough.

    You not going to go down the Lepson route again? A refurb is on the cards for me and I'm probably going to go with wheel wizards but only because the shipping and hassle for me to go with Lepsons is too much, plus wheel wizards is a 1 day turnaround.


  • #5308
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    I only went with Lepsons last time because I saw a refurbed M-Parallel they did up on eBay, it was immaculate. I don't think Wheel Wizards did/do diamond cutting.

    Would be a straight forward job with the Style 149s.


  • #5309
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    True! Straight forward job on my Style 189s too.

    They powdercoat them and some people have said that the finish scuffs easily but I have a plan for that. A few coats of Gtechniq C1 followed by EXO will have it a lot stronger.

    I'm edging towards this kind of finish:

    iphone%2017%20bmw%20a.JPG


  • #5310
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    I do like that finish, what paint is it? Do they powdercoat everything?


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  • #5311
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I think they do as it's a much better option compared to spray painting.

    That colour is brilliant silver. There's another silver which is kind of "whiter" if you know what I mean and it's called sports silver. WOn't be making my mind up fully though until I see the colours in person.


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