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

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  • #7472
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    No tetris down here!


  • #7473
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Yeah but would you trust me to do a welding job like that? I know i wouldnt :P

    Welding isn't that difficult, the better you get at it, the less cleaning up you have to do afterwards. Making the replacement piece is the hard bit ;)


  • #7474
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    pred racer wrote: »
    Welding isn't that difficult, the better you get at it, the less cleaning up you have to do afterwards. Making the replacement piece is the hard bit ;)

    They make replacement parts ;) it's just a cut out and get everything right kinda job


  • #7475
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,085 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Chaps - the car (2005 E90) is due for a service in about 4000km which by her current driving standards is about 2 months away. Do you guys ever get a car serviced early or just wait until it's actually due?

    The car is driving fine..... just watching the countdown to zero it's starting to bug me that I should bring it in early!


  • #7476
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    For me it doesnt matter what the Service Indicator says I just service it every 8k miles


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  • #7477
    coolisin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭coolisin


    What Ardennes said.
    I don't like the long service interval on BMW's ill be honest!


  • #7478
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Hang on and I go down to my car tree there and pick one off :P

    Plus I've no space :(

    Try being me for a day, then you'll know about no space :cool:


  • #7479
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    I change oil and filter every 6000 miles or 6 months. Buying oil in 25 L drums makes it cheap as well. Obviously I couldn't do that if it was going to a garage to get done


  • #7480
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    I change oil and filter every 6000 miles or 6 months. Buying oil in 25 L drums makes it cheap as well. Obviously I couldn't do that if it was going to a garage to get done

    I forgot, what car is that for?


  • #7481
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    I forgot, what car is that for?

    The gtv. The engines are known to like drinking their oil, but this one doesn't. Just have to make sure it's at the max on the dipstick


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  • #7482
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Stuck these on the front seats today, i thinks it's a nice feature, whats the general verdict?

    2hhzztc.jpg


  • #7483
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    OSI wrote: »
    I'm unsure tbh. I'd have to see it in real life.

    It's just a decal of sorts, I'll try get some better pictures later, I'm giving them a trial run shall we say


  • #7484
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Not bad.

    Is it straight and centred though?


  • #7485
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Not bad.

    Is it straight and centred though?

    Tis! just the way i was in the seat beside it makes it look off


  • #7486
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Stuck these on the front seats today, i thinks it's a nice feature, whats the general verdict?

    2hhzztc.jpg

    It's the wrong way 'round :P


  • #7487
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    It's the wrong way 'round :P

    Meh! :pac:

    They can be easily gotten or replaced :P


  • #7488
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,842 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    dar83 wrote: »
    At 6'5" you must look like Noddy driving around in one of those! :D

    noddy.jpg

    Aren't ye all very pass remarkable.


  • #7489
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    Engine Light in the E46 cause is finally known!

    MAF Sensor, typical enough and I suspected it to be the cause.

    Also - new cat will be required for the next NCT - this one is out :(


  • #7490
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    I like them. Will they last long though with all the friction and what not.


  • #7491
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Meh! :pac:

    They can be easily gotten or replaced :P

    I like em :)


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  • #7492
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Meh! :pac:

    They can be easily gotten or replaced :P

    Don't mind him, he loves seeing things arseways :P
    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    I like them. Will they last long though with all the friction and what not.

    Durrrrty :pac:


  • #7493
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Sobanek wrote: »
    Engine Light in the E46 cause is finally known!

    MAF Sensor, typical enough and I suspected it to be the cause.

    Also - new cat will be required for the next NCT - this one is out :(

    Expensive jobbie?
    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    I like them. Will they last long though with all the friction and what not.

    Yeah they're up enough that I don't actually touch off them, so they should be there a while :)

    tomorrow sees me getting the last piece of the puzzle for the oil leaks, the rear crankshaft seal, then it's all but a waiting game


  • #7494
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    dgt wrote: »
    Don't mind him, he loves seeing things arseways :P



    Durrrrty :pac:

    ;) :pac:


  • #7495
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Expensive jobbie?

    Meh, could be worse.

    More worried about the cats :mad:

    Magnaflow exhaust perhaps? :cool:


  • #7496
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Sobanek wrote: »
    Meh, could be worse.

    More worried about the cats :mad:

    Magnaflow exhaust perhaps? :cool:

    If you can afford it!


  • #7497
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    If you can afford it!

    Should save up enough cash by January :D


  • #7498
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    I have gotten sick of driving, never off the road all summer :(


  • #7499
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Sobanek wrote: »
    Should save up enough cash by January :D

    Unless you spot something later on :P
    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    I have gotten sick of driving, never off the road all summer :(

    I'm the same, and now flat out with a small little job, the project car, studying for exams, it's looking like a bleak time ahead for pickles :(


  • #7500
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Unless you spot something later on :P

    Like an M3 CSL Bootlid :cool:


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  • #7501
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Without resorting to using my Mirouku with Alphamax number 4's, what's the best way of keeping pigeons off my car?

    The feckers love waddling over the roof, then using the rear windscreen as a slide. Yes, a fun slide :mad: I've even put a decoy pigeon in a nearby decoy car but nope, still go for the Merc.... I wouldn't mind but they must land in muck first, claw prints all over the roof!!!! :(

    I have nowhere else to park the car either due to.... Lack of room :rolleyes:


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