* Motors Chat - Round 5*

wotzgoingon · 25-03-2014 01:08AM

GvidoR wrote: »

Wheel brace, yeah that's it, thanks... where should I get one of those?

My socket set is pretty crap (I should really get a new one) and you can put your foot on the wheel brace. :P

One of my local discount shops had them before the plus shape ones with four different sizes. I haven't been in there for quite some time so I don't know if they still do them. They were good quality ones as well. Worth checking a local discount shop to see if they have them, as I would say they are quite expensive in a motor factors.

Also what did you do when you got your puncture the last day if you had no wheel brace?

GvidoR · 25-03-2014 01:12AM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

One of my local discount shops had them before the plus shape ones with four different sizes. I haven't been in there for quite some time so I don't know if they still do them. They were good quality ones as well. Worth checking a local discount shop to see if they have them, as I would say they are quite expensive in a motor factors.

Also what did you do when you got your puncture the last day if you had no wheel brace?

I noticed the flat only when I parked. Then I drove to the closest petrol station (about 200m) to inflate it and then about 2KM to the tyre place.

Dartz · 25-03-2014 08:13AM

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/driver-dangles-out-car-window-in-shocking-stunt-30121425.html

Reminds me of the Nenagh Twits

colm_mcm · 25-03-2014 08:55AM

Dartz wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/driver-dangles-out-car-window-in-shocking-stunt-30121425.html

Reminds me of the Nenagh Twits

Glanza lights on a regular Starlet too. I dunno which is worse.

Also

His right leg appears to be extended on to the accelerator pedal but his left leg is totally removed from the brake and clutch pedals.

Truckermal · 25-03-2014 09:02AM

Dartz wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/driver-dangles-out-car-window-in-shocking-stunt-30121425.html

Reminds me of the Nenagh Twits

Fcuking idiots..

coolisin · 25-03-2014 09:12AM

Wow just wow!!
Young lads these days!!!

I know I've done some pretty stupid things growing up, hanging out a car window as I drove it was not one of them, nor was posting it up on the World Wide Web for the public to see!

toastedpickles · 25-03-2014 09:20AM

P1251 - dodgy indicator wiring
P1261 - sticky throttle body
P1334 - coil pack is buggered
Crankcase ventilation kit to be installed
Tax to be paid
Insurance to be paid
NCT due on the 11th

My face upon writing all this

:(

So looks like i'll be busy for a while!

thecomedian · 25-03-2014 09:32AM

Quick one lads.
07 focus 1.4
Car shaking at idle.
Sounds funny, missing a cylinder ?
Engine management light is flashing.
Power seems down a bit.

Any ideas?

YbFocus · 25-03-2014 09:38AM

toastedpickles wrote: »

P1251 - dodgy indicator wiring
P1261 - sticky throttle body
P1334 - coil pack is buggered
Crankcase ventilation kit to be installed
Tax to be paid
Insurance to be paid
NCT due on the 11th

My face upon writing all this
:(

So looks like i'll be busy for a while!

Ah Jesus man

This is getting ridiculous!

YbFocus · 25-03-2014 09:40AM

thecomedian wrote: »

Quick one lads.
07 focus 1.4
Car shaking at idle.
Sounds funny, missing a cylinder ?
Engine management light is flashing.
Power seems down a bit.

Any ideas?

Going to sound weird but check if your plug Wells are full of water.
When I had one the frost plugs failed causing that.
Other than that you have a dodgy lead etc.

toastedpickles · 25-03-2014 09:44AM

YbFocus wrote: »

Ah Jesus man

This is getting ridiculous!

I know! but hopefully that's the last of it then, all common enough faults by the looks of it, 90 quid for a coil pack isn't too bad either!

toastedpickles · 25-03-2014 10:07AM

OSI wrote: »

Dud coil pack possibly, or a sensor issue. But if it's missing a cylinder I'd say more likely a coil or the wiring to it.

Seems to be the style of late, mine, his, yourself, two of the lads in class here have similar coil problems

Ded_Zebra · 25-03-2014 10:35AM

toastedpickles wrote: »

Seems to be the style of late, mine, his, yourself, two of the lads in class here have similar coil problems

You should all just buy diesels instead :pac:

I don't understand why everyone went for a coil on plug set up. It's just much less reliable than a single coil and a dizzy... I suppose that you can have much more control over ignition timing though.

MetzgerMeister · 25-03-2014 10:45AM

Got my new brake pads yesterday and this morning my package from the US was sitting at the front door

Hope I get the chance to change the angel eye bulbs tonight! Pics to follow

Also, I escaped any customs and excise duty

Mycroft H · 25-03-2014 11:23AM

Not possible to grab one of ebay? Or was this a last minute thing?

dar83 · 25-03-2014 11:46AM

OSI wrote: »

That is off eBay. VW want me to buy a whole new set of nuts with the key.

You'd be better off doing that, no?

One of my locking nuts was damaged when being reapplied before and it made more sense to just buy a new set rather than pay the amount it would have cost for a single replacement nut...

dar83 · 25-03-2014 11:51AM

Are they McGard or a more generic brand? I've found the McGard ones are decent. I'd rather have my alloys secure than risk coming out to a car on bricks in some of the places I need to park at times.

Supergurrier · 25-03-2014 12:01PM

Just buy a set of more simplified locking nuts like I did after I discovered previous owner had damaged the mcgard ones.

At the least it would stop opportunist thieves and the are as robust as a regularnut.

Ded_Zebra · 25-03-2014 01:08PM

Seeing as CHP has done got himself banned again, does anyone here know what insurance broker he uses???

CianRyan · 25-03-2014 01:14PM

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Seeing as CHP has done got himself banned again, does anyone here know what insurance broker he uses???

Facebooking this for you.

Supergurrier · 25-03-2014 01:55PM

Found a DS supplier.

Atleast now i will have 2 sets if replacement ones don't last can get spare ones refurbed.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FORD-FOCUS-MK2-2-5-ST-DRIVESHAFT-OFF-SIDE-CV-JOINT-2005-ONWARDS-/171078559402?item=171078559402
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Foxhole Norman · 25-03-2014 02:16PM

Does anyone know if all E60 520D's are affected by the timing chain issue?

Old diesel · 25-03-2014 02:26PM

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Does anyone know if all E60 520D's are affected by the timing chain issue?

Open to correction but it was on cars from about mid 07 onwards the timing chain issue affects.

Theres something about an M47 engine pre mid 07 that didn't have the issue - and an N47 engine from then on - that did.

I may have the engine codes wrong though :rolleyes:

Afaik - an 04/05/06 car won't have the timing chain issue - im not sure when exactly in 07 the engines with the timing chain issue started been fitted to E60s

Foxhole Norman · 25-03-2014 02:43PM

There's some absolute ****ing scrotes around, just heard there that my brothers car got keyed very early this morning :mad: . A neighbor witnessed a black car come down to our park at 5am, turn around, turn off its lights and only keyed my brothers car. What makes it worse is that their was more expensive "nicer" cars around to key if they were just doing it out of the blue and they just did his :mad: .

Marty McFly · 25-03-2014 02:47PM

Sorry to hear :mad:. I know that pain only to well. Dirty scumbags.

CianRyan · 25-03-2014 02:52PM

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Seeing as CHP has done got himself banned again, does anyone here know what insurance broker he uses???

CianRyan wrote: »

Facebooking this for you.

Champions!

Marty McFly · 25-03-2014 02:57PM

Jasus how the hell did someone manage to walk away from that one seriously lucky fcuker.

http://www.joe.ie/motors/motors-news/pics-south-african-football-player-impaled-car-on-guardrail-following-horror-crash/

GvidoR · 25-03-2014 03:08PM

Marty McFly wrote: »

Jasus how the hell did someone manage to walk away from that one seriously lucky fcuker.

http://www.joe.ie/motors/motors-news/pics-south-african-football-player-impaled-car-on-guardrail-following-horror-crash/

Holy crap... Hows that even possible?

Mister Jingles · 25-03-2014 03:35PM

Wasn't there a thread here a week or two back where the OP said that he bought this Yaris thats still been advertised ?

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/2003-toyota-yaris-1-0-5dr-61k-miles/6562788

GvidoR · 25-03-2014 03:38PM

That dashboard on the Yaris..

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