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

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  • #7142
    wonski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,685 ✭✭✭✭wonski


    I even have the annoying YouTube ads blocked on Mozilla.

    Don't even remember the name of the app but it works great. Install it once and forget about all this...


  • #7143
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    wonski wrote: »
    I even have the annoying YouTube ads blocked on Mozilla.

    Don't even remember the name of the app but it works great. Install it once and forget about all this...

    adblock does the same


  • #7144
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    Praise Jebus for adblock.


  • #7145
    wonski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,685 ✭✭✭✭wonski


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    adblock does the same

    It is actually adblock I am using :o - just shows how useful this add-on is.
    You don't even remember installing it - this is how good it is:D


  • #7146
    RandomAccess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭RandomAccess


    Might try one of those.


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  • #7147
    wonski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,685 ✭✭✭✭wonski


    OSI wrote: »
    Adblock is fine for the annoying in your face ads. But do try to remember that a lot of sites that show them, including the very one your using here rely on those ads for their existence.


    You can add filters to support those, most people won't do it though.
    You can't blame them - it was the annoying ads that caused all this.

    There are websites that can use ads without annoying the users - these are being penalized now by the actions of other, less thoughtful websites


  • #7148
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Can anyone recommend a good and inexpensive car cover?

    I'll be storing the BX in a garage but it's a bit damp and there is a small leak in the roof of the shed.


  • #7149
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    Can anyone recommend a good and inexpensive car cover?

    I'll be storing the BX in a garage but it's a bit damp and there is a small leak in the roof of the shed.

    How inexpensive are we talking? I have one from halfords for the 900, cost me 50 quid or there abouts, nothing can get past it


  • #7150
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    How inexpensive are we talking? I have one from halfords for the 900, cost me 50 quid or there abouts, nothing can get past it

    That sounds about perfect. What's it called and I'll pop in and have a look?


  • #7151
    Moneymaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,846 ✭✭✭Moneymaker


    GvidoR wrote: »
    So, like I mentioned already, my renewal papers came with a price of €950.

    I just called them up to get it renewed and they asked for €720.

    Magic.

    How'd you manage that at 19 in a VAGwagon?

    Fair play.


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  • #7152
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    That sounds about perfect. What's it called and I'll pop in and have a look?

    This is them!, turns out they're 60, I got a discount with my axa card :pac:

    http://www.halfords.ie/motoring/car-styling/car-covers-tarpaulins/halfords-advanced-all-seasons-car-cover-extra-large


  • #7153
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    This is them!, turns out they're 60, I got a discount with my axa card :pac:

    http://www.halfords.ie/motoring/car-styling/car-covers-tarpaulins/halfords-advanced-all-seasons-car-cover-extra-large

    I'm with axa but never got a card!


  • #7154
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    I'm with axa but never got a card!

    I was special :pac: if you go to the naas one I can "buy it" for you :P


  • #7155
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Snotaul Goodman wrote: »
    Jesus! I paid the bones of €1800 for the corollas insurance when I was 19! Fully comp though. The only car I had worth going fully comp on. You whipper snappers don't know how good ye have it :P

    I paid €1795 last year which went up and down as I changed cars so I feel your pain.
    Moneymaker wrote: »
    How'd you manage that at 19 in a VAGwagon?

    Fair play.

    Maybe because it's not diesel like most of them? Also did a fair bit of shopping around too.


  • #7156
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Maybe because it's not diesel like most of them? Also did a fair bit of shopping around too.

    Yeah but in insurance terms a 1.6 is still "fast" for a 19 y/o.


  • #7157
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Who did you get that quote with Gvidor?


  • #7158
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Insurance renewal in, 100 lower than last year...not bad!
    Challengmaster, liberty mustn't have liked you or something, I was fearing a 50% jump.
    Now to ring the rest up and see if they can beat it.

    A little update on this. Spent the evening ringing around in filling in quotes online, no point in paying any more than necessary after all.

    One of which was chill. Filled out the form online, renewal came back at 2k...eh thanks but no thanks. A few minutes later I get a phone call, from a rep from chill, asking how competitive their quote was. Trying not to laugh, I explained that the quote was fairly high, liberty were quoting me 995 (actually 1075, but hey worth telling them a slightly lower price:P).
    Anyway she asks if i want to go for a full quote as that seems very high for 4 years nab and sure I thought why not, just so I can laugh at the silly quote at the end.
    Turns out that chill, who two minutes earlier were quoting me 2k, were now quoting me 840 :eek::cool:
    The underwriter of the policy...you guessed it, liberty:rolleyes:

    So moral of the story, ring around, online quotes are about as useful as tits on a bull


  • #7159
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    Who did you get that quote with Gvidor?

    Stuck with coverinaclick


  • #7160
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Stuck with coverinaclick

    More companies for thought next month :D


  • #7161
    wonski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,685 ✭✭✭✭wonski


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Stuck with coverinaclick

    Is that the broker with an Asgard policy mentioned before?

    They (Asgard by Insure.ie)offered me a great price few years ago - down from €2200 with Aviva to below a 1k mark with them.

    The funny part is that when I tried to be insured with them again, they asked for €1500:eek: I doubt you will be with them next year tbh. Great price for a 19 yo tbh.


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  • #7162
    h3000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    Not only did this guy decide to turn right on a no right turn junction but he said he would do it from the wrong side of the road too. Sorry for the crappy pic

    131F52D3-926C-4E97-8E93-1E8F2A280B45.jpg

    0118 999 881 999 119 725 3



  • #7163
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    How much excess Gvidor?


  • #7164
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    wonski wrote: »
    Is that the broker with an Asgard policy mentioned before?

    That's the one.
    Big Nasty wrote: »
    How much excess Gvidor?

    Either €190 or none at all, I'm not sure.


  • #7165
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    GvidoR wrote: »

    Either €190 or none at all, I'm not sure.

    Unbelievable


  • #7166
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    GvidoR wrote: »
    So, like I mentioned already, my renewal papers came with a price of €950.

    I just called them up to get it renewed and they asked for €720.

    Magic.

    Jaysus. Do you have a full license?

    Mine was around 700 last year and I was 27 driving a fairly boring 1.4 Mercedes. I got it down to 570 or something this year.


  • #7167
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Dord wrote: »
    Jaysus. Do you have a full license?

    I don't think it would be that low if I didn't.


  • #7168
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    GvidoR wrote: »
    I don't think it would be that low if I didn't.

    You're right, but y'know stranger things have happened. Considering the car and your age you got a pretty good deal.


  • #7169
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    I won't mention how much my insurance is on my supposed sports car.

    Anyhoo, said car is fine, reckon I was unused to driving in the inside lane of the M50 and was there due to the rain, it was horrid.

    Did a run to Belfast yesterday and went like the clappers.
    I love you again car :D


  • #7170
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    This should be topic of the day; gvidors insurance :pac:

    In pickle news, I was in apache pizza and got talking to the rather pretty girl behind the counter, somehow cars came up and she was like, I need so much work done to my car, I casually ask what it is, the reply? "saab 9-3 aero" :cool:

    We're best friends now :pac:


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  • #7171
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    This should be topic of the day; gvidors insurance :pac:

    In pickle news, I was in apache pizza and got talking to the rather pretty girl behind the counter, somehow cars came up and she was like, I need so much work done to my car, I casually ask what it is, the reply? "saab 9-3 aero" :cool:

    We're best friends now :pac:

    My boss has a Mazda rx8

    Cue lunchtime today spent ignoring everyone else and asking questions :D


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