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*******Motors Chat - Round 7*******

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  • #92
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    YbFocus wrote: »
    You're better off, long stints of idling is very bad!

    Lesson learned! :)


  • #93
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Got 36mpg out of the primera on a return trip from clonard in meath through galway city and out to connemara. 140km/hr all the way on the m6 and took it handy on the road out to connemara, 70/80km/hr due to traffic. Poor for a 2.0td?


  • #94
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,815 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Higher speeds = lower mpg.


  • #95
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    They the old Primeras?

    Suppose it's not too bad for a 90bhp at 140km/h.


  • #96
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    That was tipping it on for trying for mpg :)
    Still would have expected 43-45 though, does seem low!


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  • #97
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Dord wrote: »
    Higher speeds = lower mpg.

    I'll measure it again at 110-120 on the motorway and see if it makes much difference.

    Got 34mpg going to cork and back on tuesday. Same motorway speed but a spirited drive across the back roads to straffan and the traffic in cork city must have dropped it further.


  • #98
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    What's going on with the thread??


  • #99
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,815 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    YbFocus wrote: »
    What's going on with the thread??

    We're now on Motors Chat 7! :D


  • #100
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Mycroft H wrote: »
    They the old Primeras?

    Suppose it's not too bad for a 90bhp at 140km/h.

    YbFocus wrote: »
    That was tipping it on for trying for mpg :)
    Still would have expected 43-45 though, does seem low!

    Ye it's an old p11 estate. I was trying to see how bad it could get! I was hoping for low 40's. Would expect high 40's then taking it handy.

    Think I might have problems with vacuum to the wastegate or fuel pump timing. Feels underpowered even for 90hp. If that doesn't work it'll be going on done deal!


  • #101
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Dord wrote: »
    We're now on Motors Chat 7! :D

    Wahey :)
    Starting on the note of tp getting his car going :)


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  • #102
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    YbFocus wrote: »
    Wahey :)
    Starting on the note of tp getting his car going :)

    A good note if i must say so myself! :D


  • #103
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,378 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Dord wrote: »
    We're now on Motors Chat 7! :D

    Are you not a Mod anymore?

    And please tell me you got demoted for excessive use of the coke and hookers budget:D


  • #104
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    pred racer wrote: »
    Are you not a Mod anymore?

    And please tell me you got demoted for excessive use of the coke and hookers budget:D

    He was only a *snigger* hosted mod if I remember correctly. (I don't even know what that means :P) Think he was over some stupid forum anyway :D


  • #105
    Simonigs1.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 706 ✭✭✭Simonigs1.0


    Opinions sought on a matter here. Spotted a white RCZ this evening with the same alloys as on my own but in black, along with the wing mirrors. I thought it looked quite nice but my girlfriend reckon gloss black on gloss white looks tacky. Anyway I have been thinking of doing something with the car, I don't exactly know what but I think I might go with this. What do you think?

    As it is
    10701963_304859039699153_2467220268538921418_n.jpg?oh=1ca699a4c9dc638b7f3414b401d8a66e&oe=54CC6067&__gda__=1422424790_949b427a925da36143be7ab58d1971ce

    What I saw
    10649938_304859216365802_8096167227639846389_n.jpg?oh=536d33f6d2062e86031ce16f68324234&oe=54CB4183

    Or maybe (with the mirrors done too)
    1970551_304859246365799_6329807197344082047_n.jpg?oh=1d8ccbd997a36358894e6562d485279a&oe=5487B9F1&__gda__=1421803882_659d5d51aff365927da441c67e42df3b


  • #106
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Black alloys almost always look terrible....no from me!


  • #107
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Yes to the wheels, no to the mirrors :)


  • #108
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Noooo.

    You don't live in limerick do you?


  • #109
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    I like the black and white wheels, not full black ones though.


  • #110
    Simonigs1.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 706 ✭✭✭Simonigs1.0


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Noooo.

    You don't live in limerick do you?

    No, not anymore but I've got family in Limerick.

    I believe there is an RCZ like mine going around? I'm yet to spot it though.


  • #111
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Don't like the full black ones at all, nor the black mirrors:eek:


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  • #112
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    An E60 M5 was in work a minute ago, could hear it idling even while inside, asked the driver was it the real deal (:pac:) and he gave it some wellie leaving :D


  • #113
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    Silver?


  • #114
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Simonigs1.0 wrote: »
    No, not anymore but I've got family in Limerick.

    I believe there is an RCZ like mine going around? I'm yet to spot it though.

    Saw one on uk plates on Thursday in LK. Thought it might have been you.


  • #115
    Simonigs1.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 706 ✭✭✭Simonigs1.0


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Saw one on uk plates on Thursday in LK. Thought it might have been you.

    Thats the one I'm talking about, but I've cleared mine now, I have it almost a month.


  • #116
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    Id go for anthracite colour alloys, gonna go for it on my white Pug


  • #117
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Ardennes1944 wrote: »
    Silver?

    No it was that kind of blue/grey you see on a lot of M-Sports, some built fella driving it.


  • #118
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    I may have a temporary car.


  • #119
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    There was a silver one outside Starbucks in Mahon Point last night too :)


  • #120
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Stheno wrote: »
    I may have a temporary car.

    Did you just scrap the gtv or what are you doing with it ?


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  • #121
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Bpmull wrote: »
    Did you just scrap the gtv or what are you doing with it ?

    It is being restored to normality, but not by me :) By another boardsie


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