Motors Chat - Round 6

MuppetCheck · 27-05-2014 06:56PM

tossy wrote: »

Kudos to you dude, i was hoping i'd feel the wrath of the high horse brigade and have a little fun. doing 155 with a camera in one hand and thumbs up with the other lol.

The engine light was the giveaway. Good camera skills though, I tried to catch my needle sweep but the phones not up to much!

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 27-05-2014 06:57PM

The give away was you tried to cover the other guages but I could still see the needles even on my phone !

tossy · 27-05-2014 07:00PM

Didn't try cover up the gauges, completely forgot about the temp gauge just worked out nicely.

I tried taking a pic first but couldn't catch it so took a video and took a still from it lol.

Sobanek · 27-05-2014 07:00PM

I knew that was the case, but was hoping to tease you all a bit

Bpmull · 27-05-2014 07:23PM

Interslice wrote: »

DOEing the vans working out pricey.

111 for the test
43 for the re test.
Set of rear springs 160 (one broken)
brake load valve 120
front wishbone bushes 35
Bit of labour to set tracking and pressing bushes 60
reg plate connector 1 euro

550ish all in

There goes any craic for the next few weeks . None of them are really parts you can get second hand either apart from the reg plate bulb conector which I got for a euro. Tax is out in three days too.

He didn't notice the moog track rod end has split already. Only lasted a year :cool:.

That's crap man. Hope you get it sorted as cheaply as possible. I wasn't joking about the new test system seems to have gone from one extreme to the other. I always laugh when I here people on here giving out about the nct 111 euro vs 55 euro. Every year vs every four, two. I think the nct are more likely to give you the benefit of the doubt and yet still people give out about the nct granted it's not normally the regular posters.

Donnelly117 · 27-05-2014 07:28PM

Interslice wrote: »

It's on the inside of the dashboard when you open the drivers door. It is on a golf anyway .

Cheers mate! I assume the golf interior is the exact as a bora anyway!

Noccy_Mondy · 27-05-2014 07:41PM

Jaysus there's nothing but people posting their new cars today... well wear to ye all!

Anyhow, the new concept passat. Due to be out here Jan 15. These are some of the drawings.

Maybe it's been posted before...

challengemaster · 27-05-2014 07:46PM

tossy wrote: »

Kudos to you dude, i was hoping i'd feel the wrath of the high horse brigade and have a little fun. doing 155 with a camera in one hand and thumbs up with the other lol. The engine light is the give away.

To be fair, at 155 the check engine light would probably come on in that yoke

colm_mcm · 27-05-2014 08:37PM

Page 155 and all....

MetzgerMeister · 27-05-2014 08:47PM

2002 Ford Focus 1.4 for sale from a friend of mine if anyone knows someone interested.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/02-1-4ltr-ford-focus/7027641

Interslice · 27-05-2014 09:01PM

Bpmull wrote: »

That's crap man. Hope you get it sorted as cheaply as possible. I wasn't joking about the new test system seems to have gone from one extreme to the other. I always laugh when I here people on here giving out about the nct 111 euro vs 55 euro. Every year vs every four, two. I think the nct are more likely to give you the benefit of the doubt and yet still people give out about the nct granted it's not normally the regular posters.

This one took about 30/35 minutes. I think last years was around 20. He seemed to go though the suspension and running gear very thoroughly up on the ramp but otherwise it appeared similar enough. Can't complain about the test tbh though, all of it is justified bar the price. 150 quid for under a hours work in total is a bit much. The cost for the DOE centre hasn't changed either, it's still 70 plus vat for the test, just a 21 euro RSA levy is added on.

Bpmull · 27-05-2014 09:14PM

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

2002 Ford Focus 1.4 for sale from a friend of mine if anyone knows someone interested.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/02-1-4ltr-ford-focus/7027641

Looks like a grand car. For some reason I laughed when I seen the towbar as going by what's said here that 1.4 engine struggles to pull the car around never mind a trailer :pac:

Noccy_Mondy · 27-05-2014 09:18PM

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

2002 Ford Focus 1.4 for sale from a friend of mine if anyone knows someone interested.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/02-1-4ltr-ford-focus/7027641

If it was a year or two newer, Zetec or higher spec, black and was a 1.6 I'd take it. So as you can see it meets lots of my criteria :pac:

Ded_Zebra · 27-05-2014 09:34PM

Done with college FOR EVER as of Monday afternoon. Jumped into the mighty Primera straight after the exam and booted it all the way to Galway :cool: Been on the piss since

It's on trips like that that I don't miss the levin, the primera just laps up the motorway miles like nobody's business

MetzgerMeister · 27-05-2014 09:37PM

Bpmull wrote: »

Looks like a grand car. For some reason I laughed when I seen the towbar as going by what's said here that 1.4 engine struggles to pull the car around never mind a trailer :pac:

I knew there'd be some smart fecker who would bring up both the 1.4 and the hitch. I just didn't know that 1 person could be such a smart ass lol

Hal1 · 27-05-2014 09:44PM

I had one of those 1.4's there alright no rocket but can move under it's own weight. The power is 84bhp. The 1.6100bhp is much better to drive and nippy enough fun on backroads and great at road holding. There isn't much difference in fuel economy and they both do about 35 on a motorway. This will change depending on you're driving style though.

colm_mcm · 27-05-2014 09:45PM

Aren't the mk1 73bhp/75PS?

Even the mk2 wasn't 86bhp

MetzgerMeister · 27-05-2014 09:47PM

Well, as the ad says, it's a good car for a new driver or as a second car and it's solid and reasonably priced so I said I'd let ye know like!

colm_mcm · 27-05-2014 09:57PM

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Well, as the ad says, it's a good car for a new driver or as a second car and it's solid and reasonably priced so I said I'd let ye know like!

You should know it doesn't work like that here

Dartz · 27-05-2014 09:58PM

Anyone know what's going on on the road to Trim?

A massive amount of racing cyclists out. Some of them very hard to spot.

I also wonder why the bottom of my car looks like an oil-bomb exploded between the gearbox and the brake lines. All fluids appear to be in their correct places and there's never anything in the drive when it's moved. But it's utterly covered.

Maybe Joe Duffy spilled something when changing the gear oil?

toastedpickles · 27-05-2014 10:03PM

It's times like this i love my car

Took it out for a spin, threw it into corners and it was like c'mon is that all you got? Gave it some welly, and it just kept going and going, outside the hammers of hell were going at it and inside, I may as well have been at home doing nothing, even my woolly hat was undisturbed :P

For 1 and a half tonne estate it is incredibly responsive in all aspects of the word

davycc · 27-05-2014 10:16PM

in before the vectra chassis gets mentioned:D

Supergurrier · 27-05-2014 10:16PM

Kinda falling for the ST all over again with all this selling talk.

Stacey you slag

MetzgerMeister · 27-05-2014 10:24PM

OSI wrote: »

Hour much is the tax and insurance lad. Is she tight on daysul yeah? Petrol? Ah feck off, do I look like Richard Branson?

LOL

In other news, I have my LED angel eyes back again

Noccy_Mondy · 27-05-2014 10:47PM

Can you add a driver to a policy for 3 months?

Bpmull · 27-05-2014 10:53PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Can you add a driver to a policy for 3 months?

Well if there is only 3 months left on the policy then you can add the person for the remainder of the policy obviously. But I'm not sure if you can add a person starting now and finish day x even though the policy isn't up for renewal.

Noccy_Mondy · 27-05-2014 10:56PM

Bpmull wrote: »

Well if there is only 3 months left on the policy then you can add the person for the remainder of the policy obviously. But I'm not sure if you can add a person starting now and finish day x even though the policy isn't up for renewal.

Ya, the policy is up for renewal next week, family member wants to add one of their childer for the Summer months until they go back to college in September. I'm reading the sticky on it, but I can't find much...

Bpmull · 27-05-2014 11:00PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Ya, the policy is up for renewal next week, family member wants to add one of their childer for the Summer months until they go back to college in September. I'm reading the sticky on it, but I can't find much...

I can't say I've heard of anyone doing that. If the added driver is only learning it could end up costing a lot to get them on for the year and cancel it after the 3 months. I remember when I got the astra and had 3-4 months left on the octavia the amount fbd gave back when we canceled me on the policy was laughable when compared to the premium they charged in the first place.

Noccy_Mondy · 27-05-2014 11:03PM

Bpmull wrote: »

I can't say I've heard of anyone doing that. If the added driver is only learning it could end up costing a lot to get them on for the year and cancel it after the 3 months. I remember when I got the astra and had 3-4 months left on the octavia the amount fbd gave back when we canceled me on the policy was laughable when compared to the premium they charged in the first place.

Ya it's hard to know. But this person has already been insured this past year, so it would be just a continuation of the policy. Ahh, they'll figure it out themselves :pac:

challengemaster · 28-05-2014 01:55AM

Just leave it, don't change the policy and they'll still be a named driver. You're only adding admin costs every time you change something tbh .

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