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

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  • #1532
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Sobanek wrote: »
    Yay, just ordered German Plates for my BMW with BMW AUTOHAUS MÜNCHEN plate surrounds.

    So 2007 dude! ;)


  • #1533
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    So 2007 dude! ;)

    I liked 2007 tbh :D


  • #1534
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Sobanek wrote: »
    I liked 2007 tbh :D

    Yeah we all partied.


  • #1535
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    Temptation to go to every insignia driver and tell them their car is smoking.......

    Cruel...


  • #1536
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Yeah we all partied.

    Ah the year of the leaving cert/first car. Good times


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  • #1537
    kilianmanning
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 641 ✭✭✭kilianmanning


    Anybody here heard of Juratek brake pads?


  • #1538
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Balls, got my car cleaned at Eco Clean Rathfarnham yesterday and just realised a rubber mat is missing from the drivers door grab. PITA


  • #1539
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,552 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    kilianmanning wrote: »
    Anybody here heard of Juratek brake pads?

    Yeah, for trucks though.


  • #1540
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    My brother is selling his Civic on Donedeal atm, someone has just texted offering him a bar of hash for it? :confused:

    Is that even worth mentioning to the Guards?


  • #1541
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Kaiser D wrote: »
    My brother is selling his Civic on Donedeal atm, someone has just texted offering him a bar of hash for it? :confused:

    Is that even worth mentioning to the Guards?

    rotfl!

    The funniest thing I've heard in a while :)


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  • #1542
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Kaiser D wrote: »
    My brother is selling his Civic on Donedeal atm, someone has just texted offering him a bar of hash for it? :confused:

    Is that even worth mentioning to the Guards?

    How big of a bar are we talking here? :pac:


  • #1543
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    Interslice wrote: »
    rotfl!

    The funniest thing I've heard in a while :)

    They're dead serious too by the sounds of things!


  • #1544
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,428 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Unfortunately it just sounds like you bought a pup :(

    It's fine. Compressions decent which is the main thing. Body and chassis are straight. No little electrical niggels. New plugs just fitted. Just the cat and coils a bit ****.

    For the price I paid its beautiful.For an 8yo car especially it feels solid

    Took a 70k drive without hiccup


  • #1545
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Dartz wrote: »
    It's fine. Compressions decent which is the main thing. Body and chassis are straight. No little electrical niggels. New plugs just fitted. Just the cat and coils a bit ****.

    For the price I paid its beautiful.For an 8yo car especially it feels solid

    Took a 70k drive without hiccup

    70k :eek::eek::pac:

    Looks tidy enough, many miles on it?


  • #1546
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,428 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Interslice wrote: »
    70k :eek::eek::pac:

    Looks tidy enough, many miles on it?

    70kilometres.

    105500 on the clock


  • #1547
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Unfortunately it just sounds like you bought a pup :(
    Dartz wrote: »
    It's fine. Compressions decent which is the main thing. Body and chassis are straight. No little electrical niggels. New plugs just fitted. Just the cat and coils a bit ****.

    For the price I paid its beautiful.For an 8yo car especially it feels solid

    Took a 70k drive without hiccup

    Not a pup at all! The cats do go in a lot of them. It depends how long it had the hard-to-start issue or ignition coil issues before they were solved.

    Once you gut the cat you'll find it's a bit more powerful and it'll pull harder.

    Bring it to a meet and we'll see what's what :D


  • #1548
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Dartz wrote: »
    70kilometres.

    105500 on the clock

    I think he means that saying that you got 70km without a hiccup is hardly motoring perfection. You should expect that x 100 at least.


  • #1549
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,428 ✭✭✭Dartz


    YbFocus wrote: »
    I think he means that saying that you got 70km without a hiccup is hardly motoring perfection. You should expect that x 100 at least.

    When you think about it, it's a minor miracle that cars run at all. Propelled by bits of spinning metal impulsed by thousands of perfectly timed and controlled explosions every minute burning the refined remains of long dead dinosaurs.

    A lot of dinosaurs in the case of the RX


  • #1550
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    I dropped in to see George Dalton today, because I knew they would be missing me :P (they are used to seeing me every second Friday)

    Although I do have a squeak in one of my brakes, and a noisy headlight leveling motor, this is considered running perfect for an Alfa:D


  • #1551
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,428 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Just paranoid I guess because it's the first car I ever bought and owned with my own money. No finance or anything..,,.it's all mine and.....

    In other news......50kph limit all the way down the R402 from Enfield M4, to Edenderry. Utterly ****ing stupid. Should be 80 at least


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  • #1552
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Dartz wrote: »
    Just paranoid I guess because it's the first car I ever bought and owned with my own money. No finance or anything..,,.it's all mine and.....

    In other news......50kph limit all the way down the R402 from Enfield M4, to Edenderry. Utterly ****ing stupid. Should be 80 at least

    That speed limit was in place during the road works, everyone ignores it, I presume you did too :P


  • #1553
    nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭nd


    So out of curiosity do most of you change your tires when they get close to the limit or try to get 110% out of them?

    My front left. I've got wheel alignment done since.

    BUWk1Vv.jpg


  • #1554
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,428 ✭✭✭Dartz


    pred racer wrote: »
    That speed limit was in place during the road works, everyone ignores it, I presume you did too :P

    By a margin.

    ****ing stupid to leave the signs up. Lovely road for it


  • #1555
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭Interslice


    nd wrote: »
    So out of curiosity do most of you change your tires when they get close to the limit or try to get 110% out of them?

    My front left. I've got wheel alignment done since.

    I normally change them at about 2mm, more or less where the outer part of your tyre is now ;).


  • #1556
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    I'll be honest and say that if it's not the winter or anything I will drive them into the ground..


  • #1557
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    I keep tyres down to the legal minimum. However, if they were perished and cracked, looking like yours are nd, I would be replacing them regardless of how much is left on them. Yours are worn out and perished too. Definitely replace IMO.


  • #1558
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭Interslice


    YbFocus wrote: »
    I'll be honest and say that if it's not the winter or anything I will drive them into the ground..

    Any sketchy moments? Put my first car backwards into a tree because of bald tyres :(. Don't chance it now.


  • #1559
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    Between 2-3mm for me. I have a few tyres I like so first time I swap all 4 to what I like and stay with them. Don't usually rotate tyres afterwards as it's more palatable to swap in twos.


  • #1560
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Interslice wrote: »
    Any sketchy moments? Put my first car backwards into a tree because of bald tyres :(. Don't chance it now.

    Not bald as an egg now but well worn. Never a sketchy moment, but I'm super wary on them if its's wet out.

    I would change that tyre pictured above, but not until then if you get me.


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  • #1561
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    OSI wrote: »
    1.6 mm is barely thicker than a CD. When you consider how much rain we get, our limit is ridiculously low.

    I've never had a problem with wet grip with premium tyres at that tread depth. Saying that, the tyres would never have been more than 18months old so maybe that helps.


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