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Motors Chat - Round 6

Alanstrainor

Continuation from motors chat round 5

1.This thread is for motoring topics which you feel are not worthy of starting a new thread for, banter from a meet or general motoring related chit chat.

2.No lonely hearts (This is not a personal dig at anyone, it's how we feel is the best way to describe what we want to avoid. )

3.Keep it clean.

4.The Motors charter applies.

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dgt

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

dgt, are ya around at all ya fecker :P Want to ask you something!

Wellllll lad,ya summoned the buffoon

Fire away!

Noccy_Mondy

dgt, are ya around at all ya fecker :P Want to ask you something!

Chris_Heilong

I have just noticed my rear sway bar is upside down, how did that happen? I will try and unbolt it and flip it over.

String

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Where is the best place to get them seat belt comforters? On long drives the seatbelt really irritates my skin.

Halfords have them, they have plain black ones as well, other than that I would check ebay if looking for specific one

wotzgoingon

Where is the best place to get them seat belt comforters? On long drives the seatbelt really irritates my skin.

CianRyan

Quazzie wrote: »

Is it just surface rust?

Yeah, the paint has flaked off around the bottom of the windows and over the winter it's gotten a little rusty.
I'm thinking I need to scrape off the paint that's left, sand it down and treat the rust, primer and paint.

I'll get a picture tomorrow, I've probably explained that terribly.

Quazzie

CianRyan wrote: »

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

Is it just surface rust?

CianRyan

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

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.

[Deleted User]

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

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.

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.

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

[Deleted User]

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.

Supergurrier

Big Nasty wrote: »

Do y'all have the fear or something?

They are all torque this lot tbh

Big Nasty

Do y'all have the fear or something?

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.

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?

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:

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?

GvidoR

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

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.

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.

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.

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:

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

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.

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....

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?

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

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.