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

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  • #692
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    davycc wrote: »
    fun is my priority- smiles per gallon:D

    I am with dave, sometimes you have to prioritize whats good in life, you ask yourself "can I spare a few euro more for something that will make me feel happy?" for some its save those euros for a holiday or blowing it on drink on a friday night with mates, Family first(of coarse) but after that its the car :)


  • #693
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    I am with dave, sometimes you have to prioritize whats good in life, you ask yourself "can I spare a few euro more for something that will make me feel happy?" for some its save those euros for a holiday or blowing it on drink on a friday night with mates, Family first(of coarse) but after that its the car :)

    I mean it as no insult to anyone looking after the €€€€ but I'm now finally happy to just drive the way I want. I've cut back elsewhere but the sense of freedom restores my happiness. I don't drive nearly as much as I did do its not back to being a treat


  • #694
    davycc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,013 ✭✭✭davycc


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    I am with dave, sometimes you have to prioritize whats good in life, you ask yourself "can I spare a few euro more for something that will make me feel happy?" for some its save those euros for a holiday or blowing it on drink on a friday night with mates, Family first(of coarse) but after that its the car :)

    yes i downsizing carwise at this stage of my driving career but upsizing in the fun department- a healthy balance for myself im happy with:cool:

    Im off the drink as well which saves me a load of money :o


  • #695
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Quick question, do ye put cable ties on ye're hubcaps usually?


  • #696
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Quick question, do ye put cable ties on ye're hubcaps usually?

    I do if the hub cap circle yoke is gone.


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  • #697
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Quick question, do ye put cable ties on ye're hubcaps usually?

    yes.

    Get the silver ones though so they don't look too crap :)


  • #698
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    yes.

    Get the silver ones though so they don't look too crap :)

    Don't matter.

    They always look crap. :D


  • #699
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Don't matter.

    They always look crap. :D

    Thats why I said too crap :p

    Better than just plain steel wheels and theres nothing worse than just one plain steel wheel because the hubcap flew off one!!


  • #700
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Black steelies with white letter tyres look the bomb on the right car.


  • #701
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Black steelies with white letter tyres look the bomb on the right car.

    Yeah but I'm going to guess he ain't driving a muscle car


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  • #702
    nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭nd


    At lidls prices you could buy two sets in case you loose some and avoid the cable ties!


  • #703
    rocky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭rocky


    Sat in an Rx8 last week, with the seat lowest it could go, I'm hitting the roof. Didn't think they were this small inside. I guess I wouldn't be getting one for my next car...


  • #704
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Yeah but I'm going to guess he ain't driving a muscle car

    Touche mutha fvcka! :D


  • #705
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,924 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    I am having some sort of middle life crisis lol. I really really want e30 or e34 with 2.5 lump inside.

    Perfectly I would like to get something cheap and drop it off in my buddies garage. Then have him do work on it when he is not busy, I would even come in on days off to play around and learn myself.. So all in all have a low budget long term project.
    If I "survive" until next year, I might do this as 2015 project.


  • #706
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    I got overtaken on the n7 by a range Rover on colarado plates !

    Also cut up by a mustang on dubai plates ?

    The heck !


  • #707
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    I got overtaken on the n7 by a range Rover on colarado plates !

    Also cut up by a mustang on dubai plates ?

    The heck !

    Supercar sunday tomorrow in limerick? At the cars and coffee.


  • #708
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    rocky wrote: »
    Sat in an Rx8 last week, with the seat lowest it could go, I'm hitting the roof. Didn't think they were this small inside. I guess I wouldn't be getting one for my next car...

    If it had a sunroof it seriously reduces the headroom in them.


  • #709
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    nd wrote: »
    At lidls prices you could buy two sets in case you loose some and avoid the cable ties!

    Id rather just the cable ties and one set of proper wheel covers. I don't mine the wheel covers that come on cars new like some of the ford, vw, skoda, opel ones aren't too bad. As they generally somewhat suit the car. But sticking a set of aldi or lidl generic wheel covers on a car. It makes me shiver ever time I see them on a car I feel like ripping them off. I would personally rather bare steel wheels than any of the wheel covers in that link maybe its just me though.


  • #710
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,089 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Black steelies with white letter tyres look the bomb on the right car.

    While looking crap on most


  • #711
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,900 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    I am now the owner of a 04 Accord estate :) Top of the range Executive version with all the toys :D
    Delighted with it, just need to get a EU maps CD for it.
    I'll try and get some pics up later on.
    I also got the car very close to bangernomics criteria ;)


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  • #712
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    bear1 wrote: »
    I am now the owner of a 04 Accord estate :) Top of the range Executive version with all the toys :D
    Delighted with it, just need to get a EU maps CD for it.
    I'll try and get some pics up later on.
    I also got the car very close to bangernomics criteria ;)

    Well wear


  • #713
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    bear1 wrote: »
    I am now the owner of a 04 Accord estate :) Top of the range Executive version with all the toys :D
    Delighted with it, just need to get a EU maps CD for it.
    I'll try and get some pics up later on.
    I also got the car very close to bangernomics criteria ;)

    Nice one :) its great the trip wasn't wasted. my uncle has an accord 04 saloon and its a really nice car I've been it a few times. Well wear.


  • #714
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,900 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Bpmull wrote: »
    Nice one :) its great the trip wasn't wasted. my uncle has an accord 04 saloon and its a really nice car I've been it a few times. Well wear.

    Yeah I was really worried it wouldn't work out.
    The seller was a very nice man, gave me the NCT certs, 2 keys and 150e off of the asking price.
    I've got the CDT-I engine, seems to be very economical so far. Did Finglas to Loughrea today and the needle barely moved.


  • #715
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Ha definitely not a muscle car. Was just taking off the hubcaps to check the wheel nuts and they got me thinking. I wouldn't have hubcaps on a car anyway generally.


  • #716
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    I was cleaning my car today and noticed something funny with the backbox on the exhaust. I thought it was muck or something. Nope. Rusted. Outer layer towards the back is gone with corrosion. That's on a car that's just over 3 years old. I'll be speaking to the dealer on Monday. :(

    iAS7pdal.jpg


  • #717
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,900 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Is it a UK import?


  • #718
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    "Irish" car. Reading Fiat Forum and some people are saying it's normal. There's an outer skin to protect the inner one. Still I find it a bit bad. :confused:


  • #719
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    Dord wrote: »
    "Irish" car. Reading Fiat Forum and some people are saying it's normal. There's an outer skin to protect the inner one. Still I find it a bit bad. :confused:

    Spray paint it all black :)


    ***may be a terrible or great idea


  • #720
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    Spray paint it all black :)


    ***may be a terrible or great idea

    LOL. :pac:

    Some people did it apparently. I was looking into getting a stainless steel exhaust from Souhans, but I'm sure my insurance company wouldn't be happy. :confused:


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  • #721
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Best cake ever


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