******Motors Chat - Round 6******

toastedpickles wrote: »

Meanwhile at the local bus depot :pac:

Here are the punto options. Exciting stuff 10 years ago.

14's were €100 more than 15's?
defuq?

GvidoR wrote: »

What is telephone preparation?

...and window airbag?

Pre-wiring for a phone kit. Saab used to offer that too.

Window airbag = curtain airbags,

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

prices seem very competitive, would love to see a similar list a decade later. interesting the 15"s are cheaper than the 14"s.

And with the 15s you had to pay extra for the tyres. I remember that from 2000.
Sporting was only barely more than an ELX with alloys and new tyres.

Speaking of options, one of the options on the 147/156/gt was nuvola blue, a pearlescent paint that is absolutely beautiful. It was first used on the alfa nuvola, a prototype car that sadly never went into production (2.5 v6 biturbo fwd).

Most of dealer demonstration cars were this colour. Sadly that was about it, due to the price for said paint job....a whopping 2500 on the 147 and 2900 on the Gt. :eek:
00D156 is currently sitting in the scrap yard in kilcock, and had this paint job and beautiful tan leather at one stage :mad:

Speaking of alfas, I sat at home watching this go for a steal tonight

Those flippy alfas looked great until you got any repairs done

i was like that with the vitz. you're better off not checking... in 3 or 4 months you'l find it, see that it's in ribbons and wish you hadn't.

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

i was like that with the vitz. you're better off not checking... in 3 or 4 months you'l find it, see that it's in ribbons and wish you hadn't.

I don't think it will if the guy who bought it is doing what he said he would be doing with it. I would say it's covered is swirls again but what can you do. The strange thing is that it should still have tax and NCT from when I sold it but cars ireland doesn't know anything about it

I don't really miss the car, I just want to see it again (gay and all as it sounds :pac:)

dgt wrote: »

The chap who bought me 520 came back to me on Sat wondering would I sell him what he thought was a 2.8 engine in the other E39..... He got some shock when I showed him what it was!

Apparently he has the clutch in and is sorting out a few other niggles, it's almost back on the road again. I'd love to see it driving about, it's fairly local to me

What kind of guy is he?
The suit, the hoon or the drug dealer? :pac:

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

cheeky :P

was it a performance clutch?

Well it performed better than the slipping one that was in it :P


Ah there was a fair bit left on it. The old clutch died when an ape of a mechanic in wicklow roasted it while I watched :mad::mad::mad:

New clutches were €350 and I wanted to sell the car, I think I payed €80 for a clutch from a guy that was breaking one. Standard Toyota job AFAIR.

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

wow! 350 for a new one :O what garage was that at in wicklow?

any fear of glendalough take 2 in a few weeks?

I won't name and shame publicly but he's based on the south quay in Wicklow town.

I would be 100% up for that! my exams end on the 26th of May so I think any time after that suits me. I;ll need to check the calendar though, wouldn't want to miss it!

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Should there not be the actual phone kit on the list too?

This was back in the day pre Bluetooth when different phones had different kits and driving while on the phone was ok!

yeah i'd be game anyway, would be nice to have a natter with you's all again! my exams are over the 12th nice and early so after that i'm a free agent!