Noccy_Mondy wrote: » Traveled on a stretch of National road (100km speed limit) this evening from 8:20 to 9:00 and met a grand total of 3 cars. It's great to have the road to yourself!
wotzgoingon wrote: » What road is that? Castlebar to Newport? Westport-Newport?
Foxhole Norman wrote: » Where's the best place to get pressed Irish plates lads?
wotzgoingon wrote: » Does a back box like this offer any performance increase or just make the car louder?
CianRyan wrote: » On a naturally asserted car it may cause you to lose power. Just a back box on anything will do SFA really. What you planning on sticking it onto? The more we know, the more we can help. (And I have a terrible memory for what everyone drives)
Chris_Heilong wrote: » ha, auto correct got you? It should read naturally aspirated.
nd wrote: » Be very carefull. Don't continue driving it until you know what is the cause. The sister did on her avensis and even a short journey with it overheating blew the head gasket.
MetzgerMeister wrote: » Previous owner looking at it? That's unheard of!
Sobanek wrote: » Told you to replace the thermostat, ya bloody tick! If that doesn't help, then the head might be gone. Speaking from experience.
Foxhole Norman wrote: » No point replacing the system piece by piece, all or nothing really.
goodfin wrote: » Hi I hope I'm.posting in the right place here. My car is quit bad on petrol can anyone tell me if its extremely bad pls. With mainly school run driving so plenty of short trips I'm getting 180miles for €60 petrol. And the petrol I'm getting is not an overly priced garag . Thanks
YbFocus wrote: » But sure if it's only a thermostat there's no need to rip the head man. Worth a shot rather than skimming heads etc.
Foxhole Norman wrote: » Ah I know, we'll see what he says anyway, I'd say an overhaul is due anyway on it as they tend to need them around 100k miles.
Sobanek wrote: » Mine had its gearbox rebuilt, but nothing done with the cooling system. Doesn't overheat at 187k miles.
Foxhole Norman wrote: » E39's had famously weak cooling, not sure if it's the same on E46's.
Eric Cartman wrote: » If the rad is good , leave that for now as its an easy one to change. However doing the upper and lower rad hose, thermostat and expansion bottle is recommended. Check to see is there any play in your water pump pulley, shouldnt move at all
Foxhole Norman wrote: » The previous owner came a minute ago and found the problem to be a crack on the rad, he's going to replace it with a second hand unit until we sort a new one.
Eric Cartman wrote: » I got a nissens one for the e38 and the rolling of the metal over the plastic looks a lot more solid than the behr/bmw one. Get the thermostat and hoses done at the same time and youll be grand.
wotzgoingon wrote: » I'm thinking of putting it on my Mitsubishi Mirage asti. 1.6 mivec. It is de-catted and also has a cat back exhaust done by souhans. It sounds good now but I see a lot of car's with exhausts similar to the one I showed above, so was just wondering if they have any performance increase.
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