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

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  • #5432
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    i once got a flick/ spray of petrol in my eye.

    will. never. forget. that. burn.

    Ouch! Brake cleaner was pretty rough, but i'd imagine petrol is alot worse.


  • #5433
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    dgt wrote: »
    Been there, I know them feels my friend, not nice :(

    Gunk to add to the list of petrol, diesel, paraffin, thinners and bead seal. The worst was the bead seal, rancid tex based stuff from the 70's. It glued my eyes shut for a few hours. I honestly thought I had gone blind. A horrible feeling no one should ever experience

    Don't forget the kerosene at my place


  • #5434
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Mycroft H wrote: »
    Anyone got an air compressor they're looking to get rid of?


    As in the thing you can use to reinflate flat tyres?
    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    i once got a flick/ spray of petrol in my eye.

    will. never. forget. that. burn.

    I got flicked by a belt in the corner of my eye last week, cue eye filling up with blood and me looking like a horror movie for a few days :(

    In good news, my car should be back tomorrow after it's mega service (i.e. major service)

    Am currently driving the merc, while comfortable it is rather barge like.


  • #5435
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Don't forget the kerosene at my place

    Paraffin is kero, sometimes I forget what decade I'm in ;)


  • #5436
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    dgt wrote: »
    Paraffin is kero, sometimes I forget what decade I'm in ;)

    Learn something new everyday it seems!


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  • #5437
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    dgt wrote: »
    Paraffin is kero, sometimes I forget what decade I'm in ;)

    Its alright, half the people here still use Miles :rolleyes:


  • #5438
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    Its alright, half the people here still use Miles :rolleyes:

    I can never get my head around kilometers.... :D:o


  • #5439
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    Its alright, half the people here still use Miles :rolleyes:

    fúckin' jap boxes importing their kilometers :pac:


  • #5440
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    dgt wrote: »
    I can never get my head around kilometers.... :D:o

    I never under stand lb for weight, I always use Kg. We are a very strange country that seems to have a duel system going on.


  • #5441
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    I never under stand lb for weight, I always use Kg. We are a very strange country that seems to have a duel system going on.

    That I couldn't get my head round either.... Yet I'll weigh myself in stones and I do go into Tescos looking for a half pound/pound of butter but that's as far as that goes :confused:

    Mind you the metric system is a bit silly in places. Metric time anyone? Or maybe one would like some metric tyres (shudders)? Or maybe a metric tv.....?

    Going out for a few half litres of beer just doesn't sound right either :p


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  • #5442
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    dgt wrote: »
    That I couldn't get my head round either.... Yet I'll weigh myself in stones and I do go into Tescos looking for a half pound/pound of butter but that's as far as that goes :confused:

    Mind you the metric system is a bit silly in places. Metric time anyone? Or maybe one would like some metric tyres (shudders)? Or maybe a metric tv.....?

    Going out for a few half litres of beer just doesn't sound right either :p

    Or measuring yourself in centimetres :confused:

    Or to really mess people up, millimetres :pac:


  • #5443
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Or measuring yourself in centimetres :confused:

    Or to really mess people up, millimetres :pac:

    No no no

    Decimeters :cool:


  • #5444
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    dgt wrote: »
    No no no

    Decimeters :cool:

    Woaahhh :pac: trippy


  • #5445
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Or measuring yourself in centimetres :confused:

    Or to really mess people up, millimetres :pac:

    That small, eh?

    Maybe you should change the name to Ms. Pickles :pac:


  • #5446
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    2 meters is 6ft 5", 1kg is a bag of sugar and the time is zero zero thirty eight. Not too hard.


  • #5447
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    challengemaster wrote: »
    That small, eh?

    Maybe you should change the name to Ms. Pickles :pac:

    Id still be taller than you :pac:


  • #5448
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,917 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Puny pecker pickles :P

    CM got a notion one day and sprayed wheel cleaner in his eye.


  • #5449
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Puny pecker pickles :P

    CM got a notion one day and sprayed wheel cleaner in his eye.
    Ah now, it wasn't out of curiosity! Be grand I says.

    I said it then, I'll say it again now. I'm pretty sure I tasted eyeball :eek:


    Managed to do the same trick with OAC tar cleanse at a later date. That got rinsed out pronto!


  • #5450
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    2 meters is 6ft 5", 1kg is a bag of sugar and the time is zero zero thirty eight. Not too hard.

    I know, I know it's the way foreward. But I can't see myself embracing km's, will always be mpg's and miles for me :o

    Still, I can't see tyre sizes or tv screens changing to metric anytime soon. One thing that used to annoy me were imperial tools. AF, UNC, UNF, Whitworth.... Terrible, terrible days :(


  • #5451
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Bought myself a reak of torx screws today. My life will never be the same again :D


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  • #5452
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Has anyone had Halfords install any audio gear in their car at all?


    I'm looking to buy an iO Play 2 kit off them. I installed my own head unit on the Rav4, last year, but it kept resetting itself every now and again, so thinking of just letting someone else do it.

    Local Auto-Electrician isn't the cheapest in the world, and Halfords are handy. At least if it's put in ass-ways or doesn't quite work right, I have someone to complain to, is my way of thinking..?


    I've heard loads and loads of horror stories, but they all seem to be from a couple of years back. Not finding much in the way of opinions or thoughts on their work from 2011 onwards?


  • #5453
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    dgt wrote: »
    That I couldn't get my head round either.... Yet I'll weigh myself in stones and I do go into Tescos looking for a half pound/pound of butter but that's as far as that goes :confused:

    Mind you the metric system is a bit silly in places. Metric time anyone? Or maybe one would like some metric tyres (shudders)? Or maybe a metric tv.....?

    Going out for a few half litres of beer just doesn't sound right either :p

    My car gets 40 rods to the hog's head, and that's the way I likes it!

    (I also use the imperial system for everything, weight in lb's, distance in miles, consumption in MPG etc) I did try when I got the 535d to change to kms and l/100km but this failed miserably.


  • #5454
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Halfords are useless at audio installs.

    I came back from shopping to find the lad actually filing my dash to make the wrong facia they had insisted I ordered at 3x the price of the correct one to fit

    Avoid


  • #5455
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Saw a Ded_Zebra in Terrenure this morning. I'm sure he was perplexed as to why a cyclist was giving him a thumbs up!


  • #5456
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Got a letter from eFlow that I was using M50 without paying appropriate tolls(?) last wednesday.

    I didn't even come across any tolls.

    How did you get to the Phoenix park? If you came or left via the navan road then you'd have probably gone through the toll (it's barrier free)


  • #5457
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    How did you get to the Phoenix park? If you came or left via the navan road then you'd have probably gone through the toll (it's barrier free)

    I just went where Google Maps told me to go. :P

    A toll to me is that thing where you stop and pay for the barrier to open up. You see, I'm not very familiar with Dublin.


  • #5458
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    I barely spent any time on the M50 at all tbh... anyway it's times like this when I wish had a DeLorean. :o


  • #5459
    tossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,598 ✭✭✭tossy


    GvidoR wrote: »
    I barely spent any time on the M50 at all tbh... anyway it's times like this when I wish had a DeLorean. :o

    SO you could break down on the M50 and get a good look at the signs? :D


  • #5460
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Well, this is an unexpected twist....! :D


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  • #5461
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    dgt wrote: »
    Well, this is an unexpected twist....! :D
    Do go on..


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