Post a picture of your car here Part 4 (quote a picture, get a 24h ban!!)

YbFocus · 11-09-2014 09:14PM

Ah heck.. Nice car Lad!

Toyotafanboi · 12-09-2014 11:17PM

Paddy@CIRL wrote: »

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65/paddymcgrath/5D3_9455-Edit_zpsfca8161b.jpg

Washed and cleaned for the second time in three months. Raised an inch all round. Fixed headlight condensation issue. It's been a good few days for Smokey.

spotted you there last Friday morning outside Tom Geraghty tyres, car looks just as evil in the flesh.

For Forks Sake · 12-09-2014 11:52PM

Criteria were :
-(relatively) sporty.
-(relatively) powerful
-Diesel - do fair mileage.
-Decent sized (child #2 and all it's associated luggage arrived last week)

So here's the result....

Old diesel · 13-09-2014 09:36AM

@ For Forks Sake - congrats on the new arrival - hope all works out well.

For Forks Sake · 13-09-2014 09:43AM

Old diesel wrote: »

@ For Forks Sake - congrats on the new arrival - hope all works out well.

Cheers. All well. House a lot noisier.

Anyone want to buy a Volvo S60?

MuppetCheck · 13-09-2014 10:34AM

Well if that can't manage two kids you're in trouble. Well wear!

Marty McFly · 13-09-2014 10:52AM

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Criteria were :

-Decent sized (child #2 and all it's associated luggage arrived last week)

Been toying with this idea myself lately with the arrival of a baby and a dog my car is not ideal.

Been looking out for my own car in estate form or a 335i estate but there thin on the ground here and even in the UK.

I'm suprised by how few petrol powerful estates there are. Not even one e60 petrol estate on carzone.

Hachiko · 13-09-2014 08:56PM

not just petrol estates but petrol cars, its staggering the amount of diesel cars in Ireland now.

blueser · 13-09-2014 09:42PM

My runaround;

Not some fancy, souped up piece of exotica, but it does me fine. Comfortable, plenty of leg room for my 6ft plus frame, economical (1.6 diesel, low to mid fifties MPG) and easy to drive. Ticks all the boxes I'm interested in.

nd · 13-09-2014 09:48PM

So this is the car with the originals tyres on the alloys that I bought a few months ago

I've had to replace two tyres so got the recommended size for 16 inch alloys on this car.

This is them on the back

I think I prefer the smaller tyres. Thoughts? Y'all prob can't spot the difference.

Bpmull · 13-09-2014 10:00PM

nd wrote: »

I've had to replace two tyres so got the recommended size for 16 inch alloys on this car.

I think I prefer the smaller tyres. Thoughts? Y'all prob can't spot the difference.

You'd spot the difference alright. The front looks better. But the bigger tyres on the back mean you are a lot less likely to damage to alloys by learning them etc well that's the way I always look at it anyway.

Toyotafanboi · 13-09-2014 10:10PM

handiest thing would be to not worry about how they look and just sell them to me!

Landoflemon · 13-09-2014 10:39PM

I came home recently and my mother had bought one of these (v40) for herself. I thought it was a very nice tidy car, and loved how bright the interior was so took a photo. We've had 3 XC70's in the past, so it was time to try something a little easier to park around town!

colm_mcm · 13-09-2014 11:33PM

nd wrote: »

So this is the car with the originals tyres on the alloys that I bought a few months ago

I've had to replace two tyres so got the recommended size for 16 inch alloys on this car.

I think I prefer the smaller tyres. Thoughts? Y'all prob can't spot the difference.

Having seen the smaller ones in the flesh I haven't to say the bigger ones look 100 times better.

dgt · 13-09-2014 11:46PM

I'd love to get my hands on an Avantgarde grille

delito · 14-09-2014 12:09AM

My weekend money pit..

Forged, bigger turbo etc etc resprayed, undersealed, taxed and tested.

Toyotafanboi · 14-09-2014 12:11AM

you need some cable tie stitches on that rear corner dgt :P

it's driving me mad how familiar that reg is though. without sounding stupid i think that car must have been local to me at one point.

YbFocus · 14-09-2014 12:12AM

delito wrote: »

My weekend money pit..

Forged, bigger turbo etc etc resprayed, undersealed, taxed and tested.

Evo VI's were my fave by far, new ones are just **** looking in comparison!
Had one for a few weeks, amazing car!

Yours has a very mean look to it. What kind of spec we talking man?

dgt · 14-09-2014 12:19AM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

you need some cable tie stitches on that rear corner dgt :P

it's driving me mad how familiar that reg is though. without sounding stupid i think that car must have been local to me at one point.

I thought about it, believe me! It was broken when I got it anyway, was thinking of just the splitter and then I was thinking of replacing the bumper as it's marked, haven't time to spray it etc.... I'll do something about it anyway in the future

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw it about without realising it, maybe in Tesco perhaps? I think the same fella who imported it in 2005/2006 had it for a while before it went to Galway (I think in 2012?), changed hands there again then to me. I'm sure if you asked round someone would know

delito · 14-09-2014 12:24AM

YbFocus wrote: »

Evo VI's were my fave by far, new ones are just **** looking in comparison!
Had one for a few weeks, amazing car!

Yours has a very mean look to it. What kind of spec we talking man?

Its a V not a VI. Dyno 1 says 470 dyno 2 says 670, the first dyno is the one I go by as it's Martin Tracey and he built and mapped it.

Running one of these, great turbo spools up very very smoothly and on full boost by 3900.

http://store.forcedperformance.net/PROD/NTEVOBLACKBB.html

YbFocus · 14-09-2014 12:38AM

delito wrote: »

Its a V not a VI. Dyno 1 says 470 dyno 2 says 670, the first dyno is the one I go by as it's Martin Tracey and he built and mapped it.

Running one of these, great turbo spools up very very smoothly and on full boost by 3900.

http://store.forcedperformance.net/PROD/NTEVOBLACKBB.html

Could have sworn that was a 6 rear splitter

Martin is some man, great work he does.
You should be able to tell the difference between the two of them anyway

delito · 14-09-2014 12:53AM

YbFocus wrote: »

Could have sworn that was a 6 rear splitter

Martin is some man, great work he does.
You should be able to tell the difference between the two of them anyway

He's a top guy, great for advise and a true professional.

Cookie_Monster · 14-09-2014 06:39AM

So the Diamante crapped itself a while back and we got a loan of this heap from a friend (couldn't afford a car as we were just finishing the house build)

Honda Logo, 1.3 but really heavy and slow and old and terrible.

Thankfully as of yesterday morning and a 750km round trip we've got something a little bit nicer

3 litre boxer six. 2005, 167k on the clock, Japanese import. It's nice to have a real car again!

Ded_Zebra · 14-09-2014 11:23AM

Probably won't be seeing much more of this around here… She's not looking too bad though

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vectra · 14-09-2014 05:16PM

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Criteria were :
-(relatively) sporty.
-(relatively) powerful
-Diesel - do fair mileage.
-Decent sized (child #2 and all it's associated luggage arrived last week)

So here's the result....

http://i62.tinypic.com/ifwx9f.jpg

http://i57.tinypic.com/2v18cxz.jpg

Good choice.
Nice car. Enjoy.:cool:

joujoujou · 14-09-2014 08:10PM

Yet another photo of ms. jou's bus.

Moneymaker · 14-09-2014 08:30PM

The family wagon is nearing its last days;

Still, it's served us well.

S60 number four in January.

CharlieCroker · 14-09-2014 08:47PM

Any issues with the S60 with that kinda miles? My 09 Mondeo is just after hitting 280k and was looking at S/V60's as a possible replacement.

Moneymaker · 14-09-2014 08:56PM

CharlieCroker wrote: »

Any issues with the S60 with that kinda miles? My 09 Mondeo is just after hitting 280k and was looking at S/V60's as a possible replacement.

Nope. Runs perfectly. Serviced every 20-30k miles or so. Never missed a beat.

The D5 is quite an old engine and is much simpler then a lot of the newer ones. The next one will be a D4, which is a much newer engine.

YbFocus · 15-09-2014 07:44AM

194k miles on her this weekend and due another service, by my rules anyway.
Gave her a quick Polish too!

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