Motors Chat - Round 6

Mycroft H · 02-08-2014 04:00PM

Interslice wrote: »

No, it's just the clear coat has lifted off. Had another look at it there. Think I'll just cut two strips off steel, use them to make an outline, cut a hole and weld them into the gap. Needs a few spotwelds around nearer the light where the old ones have broke away. Tidy it all up then with a bit of anti corrosion paint. Be grand .

That'll do!

Anyone know the best paint to coat steelies in? Any color as long as it's black

Mycroft H · 02-08-2014 04:05PM

joujoujou wrote: »

Ouch! :eek:

Doesn't look nice.

Buy an old land rover. I'll show you some real corrosion then. Or a Datsun :P

Noccy_Mondy · 02-08-2014 04:09PM

Neighbour failed his second theory test

33 out of 40 this time though, just needed 2 more to pass! Maybe third time lucky

joujoujou · 02-08-2014 04:14PM

Mycroft H wrote: »

Buy an old land rover. I'll show you some real corrosion then. Or a Datsun :P

Neither of those. I had Polish FSO1500, like this:

That was REAL corrosion.

Chris_Heilong · 02-08-2014 04:19PM

Some sections of the M50 were flooded this morning, some cars ended up crashing as a result including my mates S15. Clogged drains and any car travel behind another would have been blinded by waves of water.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 02-08-2014 04:21PM

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Some sections of the M50 were flooded this morning, some cars ended up crashing as a result including my mates S15. Clogged drains and any car travel behind another would have been blinded by waves of water.

I love weather like this when im in a comfy warm car ! (or more relevant a discovery HSE!!! )

Cleveland Hot Pocket · 02-08-2014 04:27PM

completely not motors related
But if I win that Daimler auction I linked to yesterday, I'm totally buying this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201095929494

Cleveland Hot Pocket · 02-08-2014 04:28PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Neighbour failed his second theory test 33 out of 40 this time though, just needed 2 more to pass! Maybe third time lucky

In fairness if you can't pass the theory test on two sittings, questions about the person's suitability to be on the road should really be asked. No offense to your neighbor or anything but it is a simple multiple choice test of basic motoring questions.

AFAIR it was along the lines of "does this sign mean Stop, Go, or take out your phone"

Mycroft H · 02-08-2014 04:32PM

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Some sections of the M50 were flooded this morning, some cars ended up crashing as a result including my mates S15. Clogged drains and any car travel behind another would have been blinded by waves of water.

Drove along there this morning. The m50 has horrendous drainage. Turns into a swimming pool any time there is any sort of prolonged rain.

The Disco 2 with some new tyres did manage very well in it though. You can see above the spray

Noccy_Mondy · 02-08-2014 04:40PM

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

In fairness if you can't pass the theory test on two sittings, questions about the person's suitability to be on the road should really be asked. No offense to your neighbor or anything but it is a simple multiple choice test of basic motoring questions.

AFAIR it was along the lines of "does this sign mean Stop, Go, or take out your phone"

Oh ya they're píss easy, for anyone who's young and can use a computer. Not so easy for an 82 year old who never sat near a computer in his life.

Old diesel · 02-08-2014 04:42PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Oh ya they're píss easy, for anyone who's young and can use a computer. Not so easy for an 82 year old who never sat near a computer in his life.

Just as relevant perhaps - how many FAR younger people would fail the theory as well.

Its not even as if hes doing completely hopeless - pass rate 35 out of 40 - he got 33

GvidoR · 02-08-2014 05:14PM

I got 39/40 on mine. It was easy enough. Most of it is common sense, really.

Kaiser D · 02-08-2014 06:02PM

Friend of mine is selling his Allegro. These are his master sales techniques :pac:

Stheno · 02-08-2014 06:43PM

The M50 Northbound at blanch has two lanes closed, there's been some nasty accident involving at least four cars

There must have been 30 emergency services personnel milling about when I got past it.

ba_barabus · 02-08-2014 06:45PM

Stheno wrote: »

The M50 Northbound at blanch has two lanes closed, there's been some nasty accident involving at least four cars

There must have been 30 emergency services personnel milling about when I got past it.

A friend called me from the N7 near Naas to say an Audi had spun out in front of a lorry about an hour ago. Sounds bad out there.

toastedpickles · 02-08-2014 06:47PM

ba_barabus wrote: »

A friend called me from the N7 near Naas to say an Audi had spun out in front of a lorry about an hour ago. Sounds bad out there.

Yeah its pretty shocking, i dunno how many times I hit surface water and the cars dash lit up, wasn't even going fast, so i can imagine what it'd be like

Stheno · 02-08-2014 06:53PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

Yeah its pretty shocking, i dunno how many times I hit surface water and the cars dash lit up, wasn't even going fast, so i can imagine what it'd be like

People were still pissing along after driving passed that crash on the M50

Big Nasty · 02-08-2014 06:54PM

I'm a pretty fast driver but it never ceases to amaze me how people don't seem to take in to consideration the road conditions. In good dry weather there wouldn't be too many passing me but in the wet I'm regularly passed like I'm stopped. :eek:

toastedpickles · 02-08-2014 06:54PM

"it won't happen to me" mentality

Interslice · 02-08-2014 07:01PM

It's an audi, laws of physics don't apply :pac:.

Big Nasty · 02-08-2014 07:02PM

The ironic thing is that in the snow most people drive ridiculously slow and I'd be trotting along merrily past them. Same fookers would blitz past me in the wet!

Mycroft H · 02-08-2014 07:06PM

Interslice wrote: »

It's an audi, laws of physics don't apply :pac:.

Quattro, yo.

Dord · 02-08-2014 07:07PM

What a day to sit looking out the window!

I was out earlier and jaysus some of the eejits driving. Pissing rain and they're in my back seat practically.

colm_mcm · 02-08-2014 07:40PM

Mycroft H wrote: »

Quattro, yo.

Quattro badge anyway

GvidoR · 02-08-2014 07:44PM

Kaiser D wrote: »

Friend of mine is selling his Allegro. These are his master sales techniques :pac:
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such allegro. very sales. much techniques. so amaze. wow.

Hal1 · 02-08-2014 07:55PM

Ah feck it anyway. I was going for a spin but seems there are enough out there doing just that. If the main roads and motorways have surface water on them, I can only imagine what the backroads are like. I don't fancy that at all.

Sobanek · 02-08-2014 08:10PM

Brown trouser moment this morning.

I was driving casually in the rain at 90 km/h on the left lane on the N7.

*Suddenly a wild truck appears*

I must've been in his blindspot since he changed the lane quick. I was lucky enough to swerve into the hard shoulder and not crash.

Glad not to be on tonight's news.

Mycroft H · 02-08-2014 08:22PM

Sobanek wrote: »

Brown trouser moment this morning.

I was driving casually in the rain at 90 km/h on the left lane on the N7.

*Suddenly a wild truck appears*

I must've been in his blindspot since he changed the lane quick. I was lucky enough to swerve into the hard shoulder and not crash.

Glad not to be on tonight's news.

Jaysus. That could have been worse.

I think the good weather has people complacent. Forgotten how to drive in the rain.

quadrifoglio verde · 02-08-2014 08:56PM

Sobanek wrote: »

Brown trouser moment this morning.

I was driving casually in the rain at 90 km/h on the left lane on the N7.

*Suddenly a wild truck appears*

I must've been in his blindspot since he changed the lane quick. I was lucky enough to swerve into the hard shoulder and not crash.

Glad not to be on tonight's news.

Good to hear nothing and happened but you weren't undertaking a truck were you?

Sobanek · 02-08-2014 08:58PM

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

Good to hear nothing and happened but you weren't undertaking a truck were you?

The truck was overtaking me!

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