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

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  • #4352
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Kaiser D wrote: »
    Meanwhile in Donegal


    What really is actually going on in Donegal? Why are 95% of the DL reg cars I see battered to ****e and falling apart, or lowered and covered in cringey stickers?

    Anytime I ever see a DL reg it always has something to roll your eyes at.

    Why is it so common there?


    And who spins around in circles like an idiot, in front of a Garda station that has a big camera pointed at the car park?:rolleyes:


  • #4353
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Just ran over a pheasant a while ago, first major road kill - wasn't looking at the road :rolleyes: (back country road) and heard a thud, thought something fell off the car, look in my mirror and a ball of fur was rolling down the road. Hopped around for about 10 secs and then died :( I did the decent thing..... and kicked it into the ditch :pac: Don't think I've any damage done to the car, but then again I was in the 206, so I don't care as much :P

    Riveting stuff, I know!


  • #4354
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Just because it's DL reg doesn't mean the owner lives there, maybe the owner has never even been there. For example my car is Dublin reg but I live nowhere close to it.


  • #4355
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Just ran over a pheasant a while ago, first major road kill - wasn't looking at the road :rolleyes: (back country road) and heard a thud, thought something fell off the car, look in my mirror and a ball of fur was rolling down the road. Hopped around for about 10 secs and then died :( I did the decent thing..... and kicked it into the ditch :pac: Don't think I've any damage done to the car, but then again I was in the 206, so I don't care as much :P

    Riveting stuff, I know!

    If it makes you feel any better i obliterated one there a while back, first one too, thought I killed a chicken or something


  • #4356
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Just because it's DL reg doesn't mean the owner lives there, maybe the owner has never even been there. For example my car is Dublin reg but I live nowhere close to it.

    A DL reg would have spent time there in the past too though.


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  • #4357
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Just because it's DL reg doesn't mean the owner lives there, maybe the owner has never even been there. For example my car is Dublin reg but I live nowhere close to it.


    Doesn't really matter, it's still DL reg'd cars that seem to be the ones that can't help but be lowered, stickered and spoilered.

    It really is almost every DL reg car I see, or if I see a car and feel like rolling my eyes, it's almost always a DL reg when the license plate comes in to view.


    There's obviously something going on over there, that I can't quite figure out. Is there a big boy racer scene there or something (and once they've worn the bollocks out of the cars, they sell them on to the rest of the country?)


    I seen a lovely BMW the other day. Not sure what kind, exactly, but it was black, could be a more recent 5 series (they all look similar to me). Looked like the kind of car a well-to-do person would have. Very classy and professional looking.

    But it had silly number plates with a ridiculous font (the plates actually looked cheap, too), a ridiculous 'visor' on the windscreen, a silly exhaust tip and a couple of stickers on the back of the car on the left (and possibly one or two on the rear window, but could be wrong on that).

    Even the wheels on it looked nice (as in not sh*te you'd get for €100 on adverts). It wasn't lowered either.

    Not sure why someone would do that to such an otherwise lovely looking car.


    Is it just something to do with perhaps DL reg cars selling cheaper (so johnny can spend less on the car itself and more on his halfords kit to 'pimp it out')?


  • #4358
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Can someone find me a set of mk4 golf 16" gti rims, I can find damn all. Just wondering for price etc.


  • #4359
    Armaghmagic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭Armaghmagic


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    My dad has a 13 reg 1.6TDCi Mondeo as a Company Car. Engine crapped out on him a few weeks ago with about 60K on it. If I remember correctly the injectors had to be replace. This would've cost about 5-600 I think but obviously the company covered it. Other than that he finds it pretty good, it's very refined and quiet for a diesel.

    He finds it less economical than his previous 1.9TDi Superb Mk2 and that's even with 10hp more and less weight to drag around.

    Thanks, so would I be better opting for the 2.0tdci 140/163 bhp?


  • #4360
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    I really hate the term Boy Racer.

    As for the rings outside the Garda station, it hilarious but also incredibly stupid.
    Rings in a private yard are win win, good laugh and a great way to use tyres that would fail the NCT.

    You'd want to be a certain kind if special to do it outside the station though but I'm glad some one is.


  • #4361
    tossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,598 ✭✭✭tossy


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Not to everybody.

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  • #4362
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Can someone find me a set of mk4 golf 16" gti rims, I can find damn all. Just wondering for price etc.

    Online this is, ebay or something......


  • #4363
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Online this is, ebay or something......

    Looks to be around 250 or so for a set


  • #4364
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Shopping list for new car.

    5L 5w-30 Mobil 1
    2x front vented discs 16 inch wheel diameter
    4x pads for front
    Timing belt and tensioners
    Water pump

    250ish quid or so, may aswell get some coolant to refresh it and 5x spark plugs


  • #4365
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Looks to be around 250 or so for a set

    Do you have a link to some? I don't know what it is, ebay and I don't see eye to eye........


  • #4366
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Are boards meets ever outside of Dublin? (just wondering)


  • #4367
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Do you have a link to some? I don't know what it is, ebay and I don't see eye to eye........

    Well the yoke i found was an individual wheel, but 4 different ads, so i just guessed, very vaguely :pac:

    Gvidor, yeah they're mainly on in portlaoise in midway food court too


  • #4368
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Are boards meets ever outside of Dublin? (just wondering)

    The main ones are at Midway and it's up to you boggers to organise big meets your self. :p


  • #4369
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Does YbFocus organise the Portlaoise meets? :P


  • #4370
    tossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,598 ✭✭✭tossy


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Shopping list for new car.

    5L 5w-30 Mobil 1
    2x front vented discs 16 inch wheel diameter
    4x pads for front
    Timing belt and tensioners
    Water pump

    250ish quid or so, may aswell get some coolant to refresh it and 5x spark plugs

    What did you buy ?


  • #4371
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Are boards meets ever outside of Dublin? (just wondering)

    This is the first one I have heard been held in Dublin, I think there was another in Phoenix park a few years back.


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  • #4372
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Dord wrote: »
    Awhh how cute. It thinks it's low!

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    :pac:

    Call that low? :cool:
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  • #4373
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    This is the first one I have heard been held in Dublin, I think there was another in Phoenix park a few years back.

    Yup, two years back I think.
    Was a good crowd at it, 3 loud yank tanks and an even louder Civic. :p


  • #4374
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,815 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    dgt wrote: »
    Call that low? :cool:
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    Jeez, that looks like someone just propped some body panels up.


  • #4375
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Dord wrote: »
    Jeez, that looks like someone just propped some body panels up.

    Tis a real car....
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  • #4376
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Stheno wrote: »
    I'd a personality test in work recently and apparently I'm quite analytical (yet own an alfa)

    My car is going in to the mechanic for a big service next week, and I'm already compiling a list

    It includes:

    1. replace spark plugs (please find replacement plugs in dash)
    2. Check accelerator tension, it appears loose
    3. Replace master cylinder on clutch pedal (part in passenger footwell)

    All in all, there are about 12 things listed to be done/checked.

    Seems I can't get away from that personality profile!

    The plugs are simple to do....the master cylinder on the other hand. That's an awful job


  • #4377
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,871 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Does the "Save Ad" work for anyone else on DoneDeal? Whenever I click it nothing happens, it just changes colour.


  • #4378
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    Dord wrote: »
    It's 50km/h from the pedestrian crossing you just passed. So, not 30 there. Perhaps they're looking to catch those who go a little bit faster than 50 there.

    The gardai were having a field day at college green today. Lots of cars trying to go through at rush hour. They'd setup a lane with cones and were directing them through. They looked to be writing up everyone. :D I don't know what kind of penalty that would incur. Any idea?

    They are there every morning and every evening ! I walk past them twice a day catching people out going both directions.

    After going past them yesturday morning I saw a bloke at the top of grafton street wearing a boards t-shirt..... it was very strange !


  • #4379
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Just going now to do a safe pass course such a waste of a Saturday :( could have been cleaning my car or something constructive. The course was boring the first time I can only imagine what it will be like this time.


  • #4380
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,830 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    Bpmull wrote: »
    Just going now to do a safe pass course such a waste of a Saturday :( could have been cleaning my car or something constructive. The course was boring the first time I can only imagine what it will be like this time.

    Safe pass isn't all that bad but it depends a lot on the instructor. The lax attitude to safety in this country by a sizeable chunk of contractors means it's all too often the only safety training a lot of people get. But then again those people are always indestructible:rolleyes:


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  • #4381
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,378 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Bpmull wrote: »
    Just going now to do a safe pass course such a waste of a Saturday :( could have been cleaning my car or something constructive. The course was boring the first time I can only imagine what it will be like this time.

    It has only gotten worse!


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