Motors Chat - Round 6

toastedpickles wrote: »

It'k be a weekend job from now on it seems! I need to get brake fluid and two tyres, so about 50 quid should do the job, however I might be going to sligo a bit more often now though

Whats in Sligo man?
50 quid for fluid and 2 tyres, give me whoevers number you have :P

Thanks Stheno, good luck on the car hunt

Stheno wrote: »

You dropping that plan?

@ YB congrats

Must get a car soon, sharing the OHs merc is driving me mental.

Nearly a grand alone in fares, fuel and parking, sadly i'll have to

toastedpickles wrote: »

Nearly a grand alone in fares, fuel and parking, sadly i'll have to

Well that's a kick in the face!

YbFocus wrote: »

Whats in Sligo man?
50 quid for fluid and 2 tyres, give me whoevers number you have :P

Thanks Stheno, good luck on the car hunt

:pac: I'm sure I can "borrow" some :P

Who's in sligo more like

She must be good to warrant that mileage

YbFocus wrote: »

She must be good to warrant that mileage

Ah yeah

feelings make you do stupid things :pac: like that kind of mileage

Totally worth it though i think

wotzgoingon

toastedpickles wrote: »

So today I got my results back from my repeats, I passed one and failed another

However they went on to say the subject I failed has been dropped and all I've to do is an assignment to pass it, looks like I'm in second year

That's good news about the subject you failed. But I don't want to be a downer but having to repeat exams in first year and then even failing a repeat is not good. First year is usually the easiest year they get harder as they go on.

Stheno

YbFocus wrote: »

Whats in Sligo man?
50 quid for fluid and 2 tyres, give me whoevers number you have :P

Thanks Stheno, good luck on the car hunt

I think colm_mcn might have found me my short term motor

wotzgoingon wrote: »

That's good news about the subject you failed. But I don't want to be a downer but having to repeat exams in first year and then even failing a repeat is not good. First year is usually the easiest year they get harder as they go on.

Well in fairness I was in hospital the night before with the mother and drove up with no sleep to it, so yeah

Stheno wrote: »

I think colm_mcn might have found me my short term motor

Brilliant

Speaking of sligo I should have been there today. Instead I left home at one today and drove the 350 or so miles to cork and back, to register for college. Got home about half seven to an e-mail sent fifteen minutes after I left saying there was no need to go at all, that you could pop in whenever this week or the next and do it. This was supposed to be the last registration day

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Hope I don't get a speeding ticket on top of it. I Seen two guards in the hard shoulder and presumed they had just pulled someone over. With all the bug juice on my windscreen I didn't see the tripod until it was fairly late. Was doing just under 130 coming down the steep hill after the tollbridge towards the tunnel. Fingers crossed...

wotzgoingon

toastedpickles wrote: »

Well in fairness I was in hospital the night before with the mother and drove up with no sleep to it, so yeah

Ok. I also re-read what I posted and maybe it came off as a bit rude. Didn't mean it that way.

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Ok. I also re-read what I posted and maybe it came off as a bit rude. Didn't mean it that way.

Ah no your're grand, exams we're never my strong point anyways, but I'm good at what i do so it's grand

Bpmull

Interslice wrote: »

Hope I don't get a speeding ticket on top of it. I Seen two guards in the hard shoulder and presumed they had just pulled someone over. With all the bug juice on my windscreen I didn't see the tripod until it was fairly late. Was doing just under 130 coming down the steep hill after the tollbridge towards the tunnel. Fingers crossed...

I'm fairly sure it's 100 kmh speed limit. Well it certainly is a few kilometres after the toll bridge and when your going downhill. Hopefully you didn't get caught though I've never seen them in that spot before.

Bpmull wrote: »

I'm fairly sure it's 100 kmh speed limit. Well it certainly is a few kilometres after the toll bridge and when your going downhill. Hopefully you didn't get caught though I've never seen them in that spot before.

Trying to figure out exactly where it was now. I was a motorway zombie at that stage. It was on the M8. When I see blue signage I just presume it's 120

Bpmull

Interslice wrote: »

Trying to figure out exactly where it was now. I was a motorway zombie at that stage. It was on the M8. When I see blue signage I just presume it's 120 .

No unfortunately it does drop back to 100 kmh a few km after the toll bridge but still several km before the dunkettle interchange even though it's still motorway. Hopefully the gaurds were in the 120 kmh zone.

Bpmull wrote: »

No unfortunately it does drop back to 100 kmh a few km after the toll bridge but still several km before the dunkettle interchange even though it's still motorway. Hopefully the gaurds were in the 120 kmh zone.

Ah yes, I know what yo mean now. Long day

. Well before that luckily. Think they were here.

Chris_Heilong

Saw this and thought it looked very good for those of us that dont like working under car with just jacks, Hydraulic heavy duty ramps. I used regular ramps back when I had my civic and they were very safe but these ones have an additional hydraulic Jack to get your car higher than the standard ones.

http://www.adverts.ie/other/lifting-car-ramp-jack-2t-hydraulic-car-lift-free-delivery/5739497

ScienceKing

Cars = energy (fuel + Oxygen (or maybe nitrous oxide) = speed

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Cars = energy (fuel + Oxygen (or maybe nitrous oxide) = speed

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ScienceKing wrote: »

Cars = energy (fuel + Oxygen (or maybe nitrous oxide) = speed

If that's the level of scientific equations we can expect I think we'd be better off with 20 mins of YouTube videos :rolleyes:

Noccy_Mondy

Ok lads, the poster has spoken, we're all off to do a FETAC course in Offaly! Like one big family :pac: The whole shaggin lot of us, better get looking at houses to rent :rolleyes:

jamiemaguire

Gavman84 wrote: »

Thoughts please. Would I be mad to look at a focus st doing around 20k kilometers a year??

Nahhh i do about the same if not more, just bought one! best car iv ever owned

Anyone else find their car covered in fine black dust last week or over the weekend?

Cleveland Hot Pocket

Anyone see the M5 up for auction later?
http://www.merlin.ie/cardetails#/?saleId=102&pageSize=10&sortBy=make_asc&page=1&page=1&id=10823&pagesize=10&no=10&totalcount=146

dgt

Interslice wrote: »

Anyone else find their car covered in fine black dust last week or over the weekend?

Yes