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

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  • #6392
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    Got my roof spoiler, officially the fastest I have ever received something from Japan, just 3 working days.
    package.jpg
    wing.jpg


  • #6393
    joujoujou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,377 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    Had the same experience 2-3 years ago, 5 days from Japan, including weekend. :)


  • #6394
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    I forgot the A6 Avant in that list! Probably between the V70 and 9-5.

    No Lancer or Passat estates?


  • #6395
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Sez you !

    Italian > Swedish :P
    challengemaster wrote: »
    What part of the country this time :pac:

    Galway at 17:00.

    You around?


  • #6396
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    Got my roof spoiler, officially the fastest I have ever received something from Japan, just 3 working days.
    package.jpg
    wing.jpg

    That's going to be so so nice :)


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  • #6397
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    YbFocus wrote: »
    39.7 :)

    22.2 :pac:

    Something's wrong with my accelerator pedal, it's welded to the floor :D

    Although a record was set the other day with 34.1 MPG!

    Still not quite the 45.1 MPG that I got from a diesel Volvo :D


  • #6398
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Sobanek wrote: »
    22.2 :pac:

    Something's wrong with my accelerator pedal, it's welded to the floor :D

    Although a record was set the other day with 34.1 MPG!

    Still not quite the 45.1 MPG that I got from a diesel Volvo :D

    The girlfriend can manage 42, I can just dip into the 40's.
    S14 does a calculated 6-9MPG on track :D


  • #6399
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    YbFocus wrote: »
    The girlfriend can manage 42, I can just dip into the 40's.
    S14 does a calculated 6-9MPG on track :D

    In fairness if I owned a 530d, I'd be happy with 35mpg with regular driving.


  • #6400
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    YbFocus wrote: »
    The girlfriend can manage 42, I can just dip into the 40's.
    S14 does a calculated 6-9MPG on track :D

    I had a loan of a corolla verso (1.6) during the week, it cost me €40 to do 200Km:eek:
    And I wasn't even driving it on, there was no point!


  • #6401
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Bora does about 35-40 MPG.

    About €10/€11 for 100 KM outside of city/town driving.


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  • #6402
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    GvidoR wrote: »
    No Lancer or Passat estates?

    Passats don't do it for me outside or inside! Same problem with the Lancer estates too, fugly interior.


  • #6403
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    Cyclist dies on motorway?? the mind boggles. http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0727/633452-rtc/


  • #6404
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    pred racer wrote: »
    I had a loan of a corolla verso (1.6) during the week, it cost me €40 to do 200Km:eek:
    And I wasn't even driving it on, there was no point!

    Jesus, 530 will do 350 km for that!


  • #6405
    R.O.R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,734 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    Cyclist dies on motorway?? the mind boggles. http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0727/633452-rtc/

    There's a reason Cyclist's & Pedestrian's on the motorway are referred to as Organ Donors.


    There was a car facing the wrong way, in the hard shoulder, just before the Estuary bridge, around 07.20 this morning. Not far away from a truck (thankfully pointing the right way) also in the hard shoulder.

    Wonder how that car got out from there?


  • #6406
    Old diesel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,894 ✭✭✭Old diesel


    R.O.R wrote: »
    There's a reason Cyclist's & Pedestrian's on the motorway are referred to as Organ Donors.


    There was a car facing the wrong way, in the hard shoulder, just before the Estuary bridge, around 07.20 this morning. Not far away from a truck (thankfully pointing the right way) also in the hard shoulder.

    Wonder how that car got out from there?

    Don't they claim in the Uk that the life expectancy of anyone in the hard shoulder is 10 mins - or something like that :eek:


  • #6407
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    Cyclist dies on motorway?? the mind boggles. http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0727/633452-rtc/
    Feel sorry for the relatives etc but that's totally his own fault, why was he on the motorway at all ??


  • #6408
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    I'm interested to know how the collision occurred. I presume he was on the hard shoulder, or rather I hope he was.


  • #6409
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    Kaiser D wrote: »
    I'm interested to know how the collision occurred. I presume he was on the hard shoulder, or rather I hope he was.
    But sure he shouldnt have been on the motorway at all?


  • #6410
    coolisin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭coolisin


    That is really sad news.
    I hate seen cyclists on motorways or major dual carriageways.

    I don't agree with them being on the n7 either after newlands cross. But there is no law against that!

    And it's not that they shouldn't be allowed on the road it's the volume of traffic that worries me.

    I have even witnessed a few pedestrians walking on the m7.


  • #6411
    R.O.R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,734 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    Kaiser D wrote: »
    I'm interested to know how the collision occurred. I presume he was on the hard shoulder, or rather I hope he was.

    Should have been in the inside lane - would have had it all to himself on that stretch.


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  • #6412
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »
    But sure he shouldnt have been on the motorway at all?

    I know, but I hoped he would have some degree of sense to stay out of the lanes.


  • #6413
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    What is it with my bad luck when it comes to sideskirts,
    first the ones on my car get stolen on its way from Japan, then I find some on ebay but the truck carrying them gets in an accident and they get broken, now the place I am buying from just told me the warehouse mislabeled the sideskirts I wanted and they dont have them.


  • #6414
    renofan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 866 ✭✭✭renofan


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    I've got

    Average mpg
    Average speed per journey
    An alarm :confused:
    Cabin temp
    Exterior temp
    Clock
    Distance till empty
    Average distance
    Actual distance

    My Audi A4 has developed a coolant temp needle that goes up and down more times than a whore's knickers. :pac:


  • #6415
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    renofan wrote: »
    My Audi A4 has developed a coolant temp needle that goes up and down more times than a whore's knickers. :pac:

    That is the best thing I've heard all day, you sir deserve a medal :pac:


  • #6416
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    renofan wrote: »
    My Audi A4 has developed a coolant temp needle that goes up and down more times than a whore's knickers. :pac:

    My petrol gauge is like that :pac:


  • #6417
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    My petrol gauge is like that :pac:

    Mine too come to think of it :o


  • #6418
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    What is it with my bad luck when it comes to sideskirts,
    first the ones on my car get stolen on its way from Japan, then I find some on ebay but the truck carrying them gets in an accident and they get broken, now the place I am buying from just told me the warehouse mislabeled the sideskirts I wanted and they dont have them.

    ffs, thats absolutely **** :mad:


  • #6419
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Mine too come to think of it :o

    You have a petrol gauge in your diesel Saab? :eek:


  • #6420
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    GvidoR wrote: »
    You have a petrol gauge in your diesel Saab? :eek:

    Yeeeeehaaawww!
    Laughed so hard at this one, well played sir!! :cool:


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  • #6421
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    I looked up the licence plate and it appears to be 2.3

    Weird... I was so sure I saw this badge on it. :confused:

    i.saab.9.3.tid.badge.06aug.JPG


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