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

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  • #962
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,729 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    I've been in a welding course for the past 7 weeks and today I finally get to work on Stainless Steel TIG, one step closer to owning my custom sports exhaust shop. :cool:


    k2ct3c.jpg


  • #963
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    4 new tyres on the car and its a lot smoother and really quiet ! Yay


  • #964
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    4 new tyres on the car and its a lot smoother and really quiet ! Yay

    yay! by the way, won't be around today, might be tomorrow


  • #965
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Stheno wrote: »
    Somebody find me an alfa 156 V6 in good nick for sale or an equivalent?

    Preferably in Ireland quad :D

    There are none. I've even got in touch with people who'd know before anyone else! :(


  • #966
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I think I'll have to accept the fact that I'll have to pay a bit more for insurance this year. No one will even match what I paid last year despite the only difference on my policy is that I'm a year older and have an extra years NCB :(


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  • #967
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Snotaul Goodman wrote: »
    I think I'll have to accept the fact that I'll have to pay a bit more for insurance this year. No one will even match what I paid last year despite the only difference on my policy is that I'm a year older and have an extra years NCB :(

    I'm getting the polar opposite this year, just checking a few quotes online a few days ago for a few interesting cars.
    Got 550 for an rx7? I thought that was stupidly reasonable :)


  • #968
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,900 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    bear1 wrote: »
    A change from the usual bad stories from insurance companies, I just had a nice call from FBD.
    Apparently I had 3 years NCB and not 2 and subsequently they refunded me 121e :)
    Monthly payments have gone down from 95e to 77e. Happy camper today :)

    I get the sneeky suspicion AXA may have ballsed up my NCB.
    After I posted the above last night I started thinking about when I took the policy out.
    Found the original policy and it was started at the beginning of October 2012.
    Cancelled the policy at the end of September this year with the last day iwth AXA being the 7th of Oct.
    When I handed the NCB to FBD they told me that is actually a 3 year NCB and not 2 year which I had told them.
    Which is why I got the 121e refund.
    Am I going mad or what? Oct 2012 to Oct 2014 is 2 years NCB in my mind yet AXA gave me 3 years?
    Thinking should I keep my head down and just be quiet or query it?


  • #969
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    YbFocus wrote: »
    I'm getting the polar opposite this year, just checking a few quotes online a few days ago for a few interesting cars.
    Got 550 for an rx7? I thought that was stupidly reasonable :)
    Wow, that is stupidly ridiculous!
    Who was that with?


  • #970
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭ [Deleted User]


    YbFocus wrote: »
    I'm getting the polar opposite this year, just checking a few quotes online a few days ago for a few interesting cars.
    Got 550 for an rx7? I thought that was stupidly reasonable :)

    That seems very good! Who with?


  • #971
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Even more surprising. . . . AXA!
    I'm going to try later for more and see what happens!


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  • #972
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    My BMW has died on a set of traffic lights today.
    Range: 2 kms :pac:

    Had to push it down to the petrol station, filled it up for a fiver and I'm home :pac:


  • #973
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Few more quotes. .

    €776 - s14
    €730 - 330ci e46
    €730 - 1.6d boggo Mazda 3
    €782 - 2.5v6 166
    €812 - for rx7 now?

    Mazda 3 it is then :)


  • #974
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,900 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Have to say I'm surprised that the Alfa is the second most expensive car to insure.


  • #975
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    YbFocus wrote: »
    Few more quotes. .

    €776 - s14
    €730 - 330ci e46
    €730 - 1.6d boggo Mazda 3
    €782 - 2.5v6 166
    €812 - for rx7 now?

    Mazda 3 it is then :)

    Chuck in my yoke there and see what you get :pac:

    9-5 2.3 turbo airflow ecopower or just take the reg off the build thread somewhere :P


  • #976
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Chuck in my yoke there and see what you get :pac:

    9-5 2.3 turbo airflow ecopower or just take the reg off the build thread somewhere :P

    I got just over a grand to insure me on your car. 2 years no claims bonus. how much are you paying?


  • #977
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Chuck in my yoke there and see what you get :pac:

    9-5 2.3 turbo airflow ecopower or just take the reg off the build thread somewhere :P

    Once in home i will man :)


  • #978
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    bear1 wrote: »
    Have to say I'm surprised that the Alfa is the second most expensive car to insure.

    I'm not. Refused a quote when I was 22 (?) on my 166. Yet could get a quote (albeit a silly one) on a Mercedes 500SE... :confused:

    Sure a 1.6 156 is significantly more to insure than my C200, talking a €400 extra premium!!!


  • #979
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,924 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    dgt wrote: »
    I'm not. Refused a quote when I was 22 (?) on my 166. Yet could get a quote (albeit a silly one) on a Mercedes 500SE... :confused:

    Sure a 1.6 156 is significantly more to insure than my C200, talking a €400 extra premium!!!

    I could get a quote of 700eu on e38 740 when I was 22, but for love of god I could not get anyone to insure me on Mx5.


    On other topic, I am having a massive bones for mini cooper s lately. I am massive mother fecker, but for some reason I am so attracted to small/ish cars.


  • #980
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,548 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    On other topic, I am having a massive bones for mini cooper s lately. I am massive mother fecker, but for some reason I am so attracted to small/ish cars.

    Lad at work has a Cooper S Clubman. Serious want for it and I usually hate them.


  • #981
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    I could get a quote of 700eu on e38 740 when I was 22, but for love of god I could not get anyone to insure me on Mx5.


    On other topic, I am having a massive bones for mini cooper s lately. I am massive mother fecker, but for some reason I am so attracted to small/ish cars.

    Theres buckets of headroom in them, way more then any of my own cars I've had. Big feet willl cause problems tho.


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  • #982
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Any 350z owners with a thing for detailing on here??

    Stheno, just having a tim Hortons coffee, better than I remembered. No donuts to be seen though.


  • #983
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,924 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Lad at work has a Cooper S Clubman. Serious want for it and I usually hate them.

    They just look really fun. Some of them ( non paddy speced ones) have awesome interiors. Plenty of poke on a paper.

    I wonder how reliable are they.


  • #984
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭ [Deleted User]


    A friends mother has a 2008 JCW convertible. ~200bhp of sheer excitement.


  • #985
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,548 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Snotaul Goodman wrote: »
    A friends mother has a 2008 JCW convertible. ~200bhp of sheer excitement.

    What about the car?


  • #986
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Lads I have a pair of HB3 (9005) bulbs here if any of you want them?
    They are super duper white ones :)

    Will do fog lights and some full beams in certain cars!


  • #987
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    I wonder how reliable are they.

    You thinking turbo or supercharger?

    Drove a 115bhp cooper and mazda 6 diesel (150plus?) the other night. Mini actually did feel like a go cart after the mazda. Handling is well'll able for more power.


  • #988
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭ [Deleted User]


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    What about the car?

    I suppose its OK too :P


  • #989
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    @Toasted - Insurance is €693 comp or €571 tpft :)


  • #990
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,924 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    You thinking turbo or supercharger?

    Drove a 115bhp cooper and mazda 6 diesel (150plus?) the other night. Mini actually did feel like a go cart after the mazda. Handling is well'll able for more power.

    Supercharged ones. Those are 190hp or something. That should be plenty for it. I know it's not that light, but in small cars the feel of speed is a lot stronger.


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  • #991
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    YbFocus wrote: »
    Lads I have a pair of HB3 (9005) bulbs here if any of you want them?
    They are super duper white ones :)

    Will do fog lights and some full beams in certain cars!

    I'll take them....and give you a beer money donation


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