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

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  • #8642
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Dord wrote: »
    Welcome to the club! We actually have money! :D :pac:

    Congrats on the jerb!

    Yaaaay! :pac:

    Thank ya!


  • #8643
    davycc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,013 ✭✭✭davycc


    Congrats on the new job TP:D i dont know the garage in question but sounds like loads of fun and you will get plenty more hands on experience


  • #8644
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    davycc wrote: »
    Congrats on the new job TP:D i dont know the garage in question but sounds like loads of fun and you will get plenty more hands on experience

    It's a little one outside of kildare, nice set up so it is! I'll be bursting with it at the end of it :pac: Tomorrow I'm reassembling a reanult megane, something with a rover 75 and doing the brakes on the camper we were at today :D


  • #8645
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    Saw a drunk driver on Newbridge roads about 20 minutes ago.

    03-D Green MK4 Golf.

    If I remembered the reg I'd be making a phone call to Gardai right at this minute.

    Can't believe there are still eejits like that out there.

    Hope you get caught, fcukface.


  • #8646
    davycc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,013 ✭✭✭davycc


    you should have called the cops anyway to be honest- enough for them to go by for starters


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  • #8647
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    davycc wrote: »
    you should have called the cops anyway to be honest- enough for them to go by for starters

    Didn't have my phone on me :( You suggest I call now? They won't find him at this stage either way :mad:

    03-D green golf is not much to go by either. I had thoughts of overtaking him, blocking him and taking the keys off him, but what would I do then...


  • #8648
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    happy to hear you got a job TP.


  • #8649
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    happy to hear you got a job TP.

    Thank you :)


  • #8650
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    What make and model are both cars ?

    1.6 Laguna (03), 1.5 Kia Rio (08)


  • #8651
    davycc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,013 ✭✭✭davycc


    Sobanek wrote: »
    Didn't have my phone on me :( You suggest I call now? They won't find him at this stage either way :mad:

    03-D green golf is not much to go by either. I had thoughts of overtaking him, blocking him and taking the keys off him, but what would I do then...

    yep shame about your phone- still some amount of drink drivers taking chances and getting away with it due to the ever declining garda presence:(

    I wish I had a volvo tank with bull bars so I could do the pitt manouver on their drunk asses- vigailante style:D


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  • #8652
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Well done Mr TP, dead proud of ya! Nothing will beat doing a job that you love :)


  • #8653
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Well done Mr TP, dead proud of ya! Nothing will beat doing a job that you love :)

    Oh_stop_it_you.png

    Yep! My grandad always said get a job you love because you'l never have to work a day in your life then, never really understood it till i was older but he was right!


  • #8654
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    Jesus. wrote: »
    1.6 Laguna (03), 1.5 Kia Rio (08)

    I was going to suggest take the better of the two but im stumped now......

    Take the kia and its a dull noisy uncomfortable place to be

    Take the laguna and its more comfort but youd need that while waiting for a tow truck.

    Have you thought about renting a car from hertz or enterprise for the day ?! :pac:


  • #8655
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Any word on if there'll be another meet soon?


  • #8656
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,428 ✭✭✭Dartz


    W00T!

    Managed to do 100km on less than a quarter tank for the first time since I bought the car. (Well, mixed/city mileage anyway)


  • #8657
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Dartz wrote: »
    W00T!

    Managed to do 100km on less than a quarter tank for the first time since I bought the car. (Well, mixed/city mileage anyway)

    Amateur! :pac:

    Fair play though, nothing like driving frugally :cool:


  • #8658
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    I was going to suggest take the better of the two but im stumped now......Take the kia and its a dull noisy uncomfortable place to be Take the laguna and its more comfort but youd need that while waiting for a tow truck. Have you thought about renting a car from hertz or enterprise for the day ?! :pac:

    :D


  • #8659
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,428 ✭✭✭Dartz


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Amateur! :pac:

    Fair play though, nothing like driving frugally :cool:

    Bollox to driving frugally. I just fixed an ignition fault with the car and it's like night and day.


  • #8660
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    Rant.
    My fvcking alfa's clutch snapped this morning. Well, the cable anyway - pedal stuck to the floor.
    In addition to the recent electrical issues this is another un-needed pain in the hole.

    Was planning to chuck it through merlin's on Saturday to part fund another banger, but now I'll have to either (a) look up and see how to change it myself or (b) pay someone to do it.


  • #8661
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »
    Rant.
    My fvcking alfa's clutch snapped this morning. Well, the cable anyway - pedal stuck to the floor.
    In addition to the recent electrical issues this is another un-needed pain in the hole.

    Was planning to chuck it through merlin's on Saturday to part fund another banger, but now I'll have to either (a) look up and see how to change it myself or (b) pay someone to do it.

    The clutch on these are hydraulic...wait until you see where they put the slave cylinder.
    It mightn't be that though, there's a little pin that secures the clutch pedal to the master cylinder that was a common failure on them a few years back and was subject to a recall. If it is the pin, a paper clip will do the job.


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  • #8662
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    The clutch on these are hydraulic...wait until you see where they put the slave cylinder.
    It mightn't be that though, there's a little pin that secures the clutch pedal to the master cylinder that was a common failure on them a few years back and was subject to a recall. If it is the pin, a paper clip will do the job.

    Yeah I just read that online aswell, re the paper clip. Apparantly for a permanent fix it's a 'box out job (meaning I won't be doing it!)

    Might see if the paperclip fixes it somewhat later. Where abouts is it - the pin. Is it at the pedal end or at the master cylinder end?


  • #8663
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »
    Yeah I just read that online aswell, re the paper clip. Apparantly for a permanent fix it's a 'box out job (meaning I won't be doing it!)

    Might see if the paperclip fixes it somewhat later. Where abouts is it - the pin. Is it at the pedal end or at the master cylinder end?
    Clutch pedal end thankfully.
    Yep box off job to change the slave and the master is fairly inaccessible.


  • #8664
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Clutch pedal end thankfully.
    Yep box off job to change the slave and the master is fairly inaccessible.
    Grand that makes it infinitely easier. Will see if that works. Hilarious. A paper clip fix reccomended on multiple owner's forums, only for an Alfa!!


  • #8665
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »
    Grand that makes it infinitely easier. Will see if that works. Hilarious. A paper clip fix reccomended on multiple owner's forums, only for an Alfa!!

    All part of the Alfa experience. When they work, they're brilliant, when they don't, that fire aspect of tpft insurance becomes appealing :pac:
    That's provided the clip fell out! At dealer or specialist indie rates, you can't afford to go to them with every little thing. The clutch pin is well known about them...just hope it's that and not the slave


  • #8666
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    If it's the slave cylinder I'll be transporting it to my new gaff in meath and breaking it.

    I'm half expecting to see a paper clip behind the pedal already tbh.


  • #8667
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Dartz wrote: »
    W00T!

    Managed to do 100km on less than a quarter tank for the first time since I bought the car. (Well, mixed/city mileage anyway)

    now try doing that WITHOUT pushing the car around the place :pac:


  • #8668
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    Any word on if there'll be another meet soon?
    There was a thread a while back but it died.


  • #8669
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,158 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »
    If it's the slave cylinder I'll be transporting it to my new gaff in meath and breaking it.

    I'm half expecting to see a paper clip behind the pedal already tbh.

    What Alfa is this? Didn't know you had one...


  • #8670
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,900 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    A 156.
    Happened to me as well that the clutch pedal jammed to the floor.
    Popped the bonnet to see brake fluid all over the place.
    Cylinder had packed in, back on the road 3 hours later.


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  • #8671
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    What Alfa is this? Didn't know you had one...

    Yeah I was keeping it quiet, didn't want people to know of my dirty alfister secret!
    It's a 156 1.8 tspark POS


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