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

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  • #2582
    BreadnBuddha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭BreadnBuddha


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Speaking of people with elevated opinions off themselves...

    Yes? Oh crap....what do I write now? I forgot my lines.


  • #2583
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    pred racer wrote: »
    WTF is an AE86??

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT3XdEgrigzZ0Za2E4Fkc5eUTiu_JDtrYwqqJFiSahjRvDuBQ7b

    Silly billy :D


  • #2584
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,378 ✭✭✭pred racer


    YbFocus wrote: »
    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT3XdEgrigzZ0Za2E4Fkc5eUTiu_JDtrYwqqJFiSahjRvDuBQ7b

    Silly billy :D

    you mean a twin cam.......why didnt ye say so?????:rolleyes::pac:


  • #2585
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Lads can we please just let this weekend go??

    It feels like this place is gone not to come back at the minute and I'm losing interest really fast.

    Lets just click the big old reset button and go from there.

    Come on....


  • #2586
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    pred racer wrote: »
    WTF is an AE86??

    A 1985-86 RWD toyota Corolla.
    preocuparle-tiene-habilidad-para-los-coches-inicialmente_74363.jpg


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  • #2587
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    pred racer wrote: »
    WTF is an AE86??

    A car I never thought would be worth so much today. They could be picked up very reasonably a few years ago :(


  • #2588
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Kaiser D wrote: »
    Can I just say, wiring is NOT fun on a 37 year old car :(

    Be glad it's not a new car, I'd have thought it was the same. Although I don't know what I'd prefer, requiring an old English car, or an old italian.


  • #2589
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭dar83


    YbFocus wrote: »
    Lads can we please just let this weekend go??

    It feels like this place is gone not to come back at the minute and I'm losing interest really fast.

    Lets just click the big old reset button and go from there.

    Come on....

    Welcome to 18 months ago for a lot of us.


  • #2590
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,378 ✭✭✭pred racer


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    A car I never thought would be worth so much today. They could be picked up very reasonably a few years ago :(

    very true, I can remember lads trying to sell them for a couple of grand, thinking "you'll be lucky!!"

    yes I am That old:P


  • #2591
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    BreadnBuddha wrote: »
    Yes? Oh crap....what do I write now? I forgot my lines.

    Fine.

    Speaking of people with elevated opinions of themselves, I find Quazzie to be one and as such it's rich for him to suggest the same for me.
    Then, despite sometimes agreeing with him, I've never really cared for him so you can take it with a pinch of salt.

    Did I really need to spell it out for you?
    Have you really that little cop on?


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  • #2592
    BreadnBuddha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭BreadnBuddha


    OSI wrote: »
    Old Corrola

    Oh sweet jesus...you didn't just write that did you? Run! The hounds! RUN!

    The AE86 is to Irish backroads racer equivalent of what the DMC 12 was to Marty McFly - It'll let you time travel at warp speed, make you a hero in your own 1980's underpants and even your teenage mother will want you to stick your wick in her oil.

    No. Absolutely not. I am not making the tiniest 1980's hillbilly incest joke about twin cam owners. No sir. Nope....


  • #2593
    BreadnBuddha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭BreadnBuddha


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Fine.

    Speaking of people with elevated opinions of themselves, I find Quazzie to be one and as such it's rich for him to suggest the same for me.
    Then, despite sometimes agreeing with him, I've never really cared for him so you can take it with a pinch of salt.

    Did I really need to spell it out for you?
    Have you really that little cop on?

    OH! The ironing! Or was that, The IRONY.


  • #2594
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,378 ✭✭✭pred racer


    BreadnBuddha wrote: »
    Oh sweet jesus...you didn't just write that did you? Run! The hounds! RUN!

    The AE86 is to Irish backroads racer equivalent of what the DMC 12 was to Marty McFly - It'll let you time travel at warp speed, make you a hero in your own 1980's underpants and even your teenage mother will want you to stick your wick in her oil.

    No. Absolutely not. I am not making the tiniest 1980's hillbilly incest joke about twin cam owners. No sir. Nope....

    I thought that was reserved for the Bora Tdi;)


  • #2595
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    A car I never thought would be worth so much today. They could be picked up very reasonably a few years ago :(

    A few years ago they were fetching close to €15,000 for a good one, they're cheap now in comparison. :pac:


  • #2596
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,424 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Overpriced for what it is, that's what an AE86 is. There. I said it. Not a bad car, not by any stretch of the imagination..... but costs more today than it did when new, back when it represented cheap RWD fun with a decent engine. It's a kind of irony, really. You're paying for the Initial D aura.


  • #2597
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    CianRyan wrote: »
    A few years ago they were fetching close to €15,000 for a good one, they're cheap now in comparison. :pac:

    Must be mixing it up with something else but I thought they used to be way cheaper about 10 years ago.


  • #2598
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Must be mixing it up with something else but I thought they used to be way cheaper about 10 years ago.

    Ten yeah, late boom era they were getting mental money.

    @Dartz
    To say they're over priced is untrue, if they really were then they'd never sell.
    People do buy them though, they have a cult following and people are willing to pay big money for a nice one.

    Whether or not they're worth it is personal but if it sells at that price, it's not over priced.


  • #2599
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Test drove a friends automatic 2008 520D today... not a bad car. :P


  • #2600
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,746 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Is it easy to see light from a few KM's away on a rural road with a lot if visibility? Yes.
    Everyone that ever driven on one knows that.

    Can they also see pedestrians in the dark?

    If you can see the light from a few kilometers, would you also agree that the people who live within a kilometre can also hear what's going on and it might cause an inconvenience to them?


  • #2601
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Test drove a friends automatic 2008 520D today... not a bad car. :P

    I hope you didn't do any donuts in that high powered, RWD car. :mad:


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  • #2602
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Can they also see pedestrians in the dark?

    If you can see the light from a few kilometers, would you also agree that the people who live within a kilometre can also hear what's going on and it might cause an inconvenience to them?

    I never said you could and I never said it wasn't a nuisance.
    All I said was you can easily see lights from a distance on roads like the one in the news.
    Do you not agree?


  • #2603
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,746 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    CianRyan wrote: »
    I never said you could and I never said it wasn't a nuisance.
    All I said was you can easily see lights from a distance on roads like the one in the news.
    Do you not agree?

    Not always. Looking at the clip on the news it was on a road with a lots of rises and dips. There would be a lot of hidden spots on that road where it could be very easy to miss a car coming.


  • #2604
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Do y'all have the fear or something?


  • #2605
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Do y'all have the fear or something?

    They are all torque this lot tbh


  • #2606
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,917 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Lads, regardless of any justifications that are trying to be made, I think it's blatantly obvious that that kind of carry on should NOT happen on any public road even if it's the quietest road in the country.

    End of story IMO.


  • #2607
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    CianRyan wrote: »
    I hope you didn't do any donuts in that high powered, RWD car. :mad:

    It didn't seem much noticeably quicker than my Bora, TBH. Funny that those Beamers don't come with a spare wheel though. :P


  • #2608
    MortGoldman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 368 ✭✭MortGoldman


    Also, as happened to a acquaintance of mine while doing 'donuts'...he saw a car coming, panicked slightly and stalled the car...while sideways across the road. He got it going again and out of the way, but could easily have gone far more wrong.

    He thought it hilarious, I didn't. Maybe I'm just a dry****e and not down with the kids these days.


  • #2609
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Not always. Looking at the clip on the news it was on a road with a lots of rises and dips. There would be a lot of hidden spots on that road where it could be very easy to miss a car coming.

    I can see that it looks that way in the report but after being along it the other weeks, it's not as bad as it would look.

    There's a fairly steep crest, a very long plateau and then another long hill with plenty of visibility at the end.
    Even with the ungulation you'd see a car coming fairly handy.

    Not that it's a justification of doing rings there, it's just a matter of fact in terms of seeing lights.

    I agree with MM's post above.


  • #2610
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,917 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    That's weird! I just read a Facebook status by Spirit Detailing about that song! I think it's a sign!


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  • #2611
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Speaking of detailing, I've really let myself go. I haven't even washed the Sahara dust off my MX5... :o

    It feels like a waste because I'm not driving it, I'll have to give it serious going over once I have it going.
    Completely strip it, DA, clay, piles of wax.

    Need to sort a bit of rust on the doors too.


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