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

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  • #1922
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Stheno wrote: »
    Was driving from Dundrum to Swords about half one, mother of god the queues to get into the shopping centre caused tailbacks all the way to the M50

    The car decided to frighten me on the drive home, with the engine temperature sitting very low and not getting to it's normal temp until I was at the Finglas exit of the M50 :eek:

    Bizarrely it's not getting up to the right temp in it's normal time.

    Sounds to me like a dodgy thermostat, but then again i could be wrong


  • #1923
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    That engine temp thing might mean your oil level is low or your thermostat is on the blink.


  • #1924
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Bpmull wrote: »
    There was some serious rain fell the whole way to cork this morning really bad traffic too a 1 hour 50 minute journey that turned into 3 hours. Ah sure at least the car got a wash :pac: on a serious note I cleaned it yesterday morning reasonably well then drove to waterford and there was dust dirt on the road and it got covered in it. So after this morning journey most of it got washed off not bad I suppose. It always seems impossible to keep a car clean over the winter or maybe it's just the roads I travel.


    I find find there's only a brief period when my cars clean, somewhere between the summer flys being stuck to the front of the car and the winter muck all down the side of it. Last about 10 days in a good year :pac:.


  • #1925
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Interslice wrote: »
    I find find there's only a brief period when my cars clean, somewhere between the summer flys being stuck to the front of the car and the winter muck all down the side of it. Last about 10 days in a good year :pac:.

    I was so thick when I got out of the car in waterford yesterday and seen the state of it. All I could think was fcuk you so stay dirty.


  • #1926
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Bpmull wrote: »
    I was so thick when I got out of the car in waterford yesterday and seen the state of it. All I could think was fcuk you so stay dirty.

    I don't bother cleaning mine at winter, no point, my alloys are practically black from brake dust, no need to go plasti dipping them now :pac:


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  • #1927
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    I don't bother cleaning mine at winter, no point, my alloys are practically black from brake dust, no need to go plasti dipping them now :pac:

    I'd say the next time my one will be cleaned is Christmas holidays well on the outside anyway. Kind of have a thing about keeping the inside fairly clean though. My mother got me a car bin a few months ago it's actually a cool enough little yoke small but will fit a few bottles and papers and it sits just behind the two seats in between them.


  • #1928
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭Interslice


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    I don't bother cleaning mine at winter, no point, my alloys are practically black from brake dust, no need to go plasti dipping them now :pac:


    A protective layer! Trying to find a few days where it's worth cleaning this time of year is hard. I was going to wash it today but it will be worse again tomorrow from a trip to sligo :/


  • #1929
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Bpmull wrote: »
    I'd say the next time my one will be cleaned is Christmas holidays well on the outside anyway. Kind of have a thing about keeping the inside fairly clean though. My mother got me a car bin a few months ago it's actually a cool enough little yoke small but will fit a few bottles and papers and it sits just behind the two seats in between them.
    Interslice wrote: »
    A protective layer! Trying to find a few days where it's worth cleaning this time of year is hard. I was going to wash it today but it will be worse again tomorrow from a trip to sligo :/

    Exactly no need to keep them clean, during the summer yeah ill make an effort but theres no point in the winter at all i think


  • #1930
    Bpmull
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    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Exactly no need to keep them clean, during the summer yeah ill make an effort but theres no point in the winter at all i think

    We can set up a thread and post pictures to see who has the dirtiest car over the winter :pac:

    The today I dirtied my car thread :D


  • #1931
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    Bpmull wrote: »
    We can set up a thread a post pictures to see who has the dirtiest car over the winter :pac:

    Mines not great at the moment. No point attempting it today with this weather. I'll probably just leave it now.


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  • #1932
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Bpmull wrote: »
    We can set up a thread a post pictures to see who has the dirtiest car over the winter :pac:

    The today I dirtied my car thread :D

    Thats not a bad idea :pac:

    Stick it in the detailling forum too, it is Halloween after all :pac:


  • #1933
    Stheno
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    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Sounds to me like a dodgy thermostat, but then again i could be wrong
    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    That engine temp thing might mean your oil level is low or your thermostat is on the blink.

    I thought thermostat too :) oil was checked the other day, and was fine.

    It's behaving normally now and heating up to the right level within a couple of minutes, ,twas just on that one trip earlier today in the pissing rain. I'm keeping an eye on it maybe it was cold and miserable with the rain :D
    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Thats not a bad idea :pac:

    Stick it in the detailling forum too, it is Halloween after all :pac:

    lolol


  • #1934
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Beautifull day in the west. Sun was shining.


  • #1935
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Stheno wrote: »
    I thought thermostat too :) oil was checked the other day, and was fine.

    It's behaving normally now and heating up to the right level within a couple of minutes, ,twas just on that one trip earlier today in the pissing rain. I'm keeping an eye on it maybe it was cold and miserable with the rain :D



    lolol

    Could be just bad connections to the sensor. First thing I'd check anyway with the bad weather and all. Give it a bit of a clean or shrinkwrap or something it needs.


  • #1936
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Dark and grim here, haven't got a chance to clean the car since I got it, ran it through a machine wash yesterday :eek: :rolleyes:

    Hopefully the weather picks up this weekend so I can give it a good clean as I'm off for once.


  • #1937
    glynf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,387 ✭✭✭glynf


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    Beautifull day in the west. Sun was shining.

    into_the_west_1992_1.png

    :p


  • #1938
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    ran it through a machine wash yesterday :eek: :rolleyes:

    I thought that was a permanent ban :pac:
    My dad went through one them about 15 years it must of been when they were fairly new and it damaged his car he never used one since and still goes on about them everytime he see one.

    I've never actually used one myself but I'd imagine there a bit more advanced and better nowadays


  • #1939
    Stheno
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    Bpmull wrote: »
    I thought that was a permanent ban :pac:

    Tis, from the detailing forum.

    All this talk of cleaning has reminded me of how glad I am it's winter, there are trees in the work car park that exude some nasty sticky substance in summer/autumn and coat the car in it :(


  • #1940
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Stheno wrote: »
    Tis, from the detailing forum.

    All this talk of cleaning has reminded me of how glad I am it's winter, there are trees in the work car park that exude some nasty sticky substance in summer/autumn and coat the car in it :(

    Excuse me i have to go somewhere..... :pac:


  • #1941
    Stheno
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    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Excuse me i have to go somewhere..... :pac:

    /follows to observe carnage :pac:


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  • #1942
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Stheno wrote: »
    /follows to observe carnage :pac:

    :pac:


  • #1943
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    No one will beat my car for dirtyness!!! After buying an Autoglym kit in halfords today for 62a yoyos. Seems like a good kit, but might leave it until next summer to use it! Covered 165 miles today and I'm absolutely frigged :(


  • #1944
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    No one will beat my car for dirtyness!!! After buying an Autoglym kit in halfords today for 62a yoyos. Seems like a good kit, but might leave it until next summer to use it! Covered 165 miles today and I'm absolutely frigged :(

    Do you think it's worth getting I was going to pick one up last weekend and never got to halfords. Is the case fairly decent. It would be handy to be able to have all the products in one case I suppose.


  • #1945
    Stheno
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    Bpmull wrote: »
    Do you think it's worth getting I was going to pick one up last weekend and never got to halfords. Is the case fairly decent. It would be handy to be able to have all the products in one case I suppose.

    What's in the kit?


  • #1946
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Stheno wrote: »
    What's in the kit?

    Here's the link :)

    http://www.halfords.ie/motoring/cleaning-products/cleaning-kits/autoglym-perfect-bodywork-wheels-and-interior-gift-collection


  • #1947
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Bpmull wrote: »
    Here's the link :)

    http://www.halfords.ie/motoring/cleaning-products/cleaning-kits/autoglym-perfect-bodywork-wheels-and-interior-gift-collection

    Jeepers that looks good value!


  • #1948
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Bpmull wrote: »
    Do you think it's worth getting I was going to pick one up last weekend and never got to halfords. Is the case fairly decent. It would be handy to be able to have all the products in one case I suppose.

    Yeah but autoglym isn't the greatest stuff, most of the stuff is fine but for a 2 or 3 euro more a bottle, you get really good stuff.


  • #1949
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Yeah but autoglym isn't the greatest stuff, most of the stuff is fine but for a 2 or 3 euro more a bottle, you get really good stuff.

    I use the super resin polish and egp and I find them good. It's easy stuff to put on and the finish comes out well. I'm in no doubt you'd get better products but I'm not big into detailing so in a lot ways I recon the auto glym is a good middle of the road product you still get a good clean car but the stuff is a lot easier to use I'd imagine than a lot of the products that are used on the detailing forum,


  • #1950
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Bpmull wrote: »
    I use the super resin polish and egp and I find them good. It's easy stuff to put on and the finish comes out well. I'm in no doubt you'd get better products but I'm not big into detailing so in a lot ways I recon the auto glym is a good middle of the road product you still get a good clean car but the stuff is a lot easier to use I'd imagine than a lot of the products that are used on the detailing forum,

    The stuff on the detailing forum is so much easier to use, well most of the stuff is. But as you say, its a good middle of the road product, I just wished someone had told me about the other products available outside the likes of turtle wax and autoglym before I went and bought a load of them, only to replace them with better stuff. Mind you though Im still replacing, and while the autoglym stuff cleans well, the better stuff cleans a whole lot, well better:P


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  • #1951
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    The stuff on the detailing forum is so much easier to use, well most of the stuff is. But as you say, its a good middle of the road product, I just wished someone had told me about the other products available outside the likes of turtle wax and autoglym before I went and bought a load of them, only to replace them with better stuff. Mind you though Im still replacing, and while the autoglym stuff cleans well, the better stuff cleans a whole lot, well better:P

    I might start reading a few of the threads over in the detailing forum and see what products are being used. I have to admit its not a place I look at to often it scares me :pac: it is a great skill to have some of the guys the way they clean there cars is just unreal perfection really.


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