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Motors Chat - Round 7

Alanstrainor

Continuation from motors chat round 6

1.This thread is for motoring topics which you feel are not worthy of starting a new thread for, banter from a meet or general motoring related chit chat.

2.No lonely hearts (This is not a personal dig at anyone, it's how we feel is the best way to describe what we want to avoid. )

3.Keep it clean.

4.The Motors charter applies.

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Chris_Heilong

nah he should get something Japanese, be sorted then.

Foxhole Norman

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

nah he should get something Japanese, be sorted then.

Shhhh! Don't let CianRyan hear you :pac:

toastedpickles

I do believe the turbo has sh1t itself on the 9-5, started the car tonight and after a bit of revving it completely took off idling at 4500 rpm

smoke everywhere, this makes for bad times, but at least ill have something to do one of the weekends :pac:

punisher5112

toastedpickles wrote: »

I do believe the turbo has sh1t itself on the 9-5, started the car tonight and after a bit of revving it completely took off idling at 4500 rpm smoke everywhere, this makes for bad times, but at least ill have something to do one of the weekends :pac:

Yes they do like to do that.

Mine went with 92000miles on clock

bear1

toastedpickles wrote: »

I do believe the turbo has sh1t itself on the 9-5, started the car tonight and after a bit of revving it completely took off idling at 4500 rpm smoke everywhere, this makes for bad times, but at least ill have something to do one of the weekends :pac:

Isn't this when the car refuses to switch off when you turn the ignition off? So to stop it from then wrecking the engine you need to stall it?
Still sucks though

toastedpickles

punisher5112 wrote: »

Yes they do like to do that.

Mine went with 92000miles on clock

Yeah I've been playing roulette with mine for the last 24000 miles, it had a good run though, gona get a confirmation off someone when i can just to make sure

bear1 wrote: »

Isn't this when the car refuses to switch off when you turn the ignition off? So to stop it from then wrecking the engine you need to stall it?
Still sucks though

Mine turns off no bother, although theres a bit of shaking like, i'd say its on the way out at least

MuppetCheck

Anyone drive through Dungarvan around 530 this evening? Looked like the guards took out a car as the squad car and an a4 were both being loaded onto a tow truck.

bear1

Was it like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13yMLkL1eAk

Bpmull

bear1 wrote: »

Isn't this when the car refuses to switch off when you turn the ignition off? So to stop it from then wrecking the engine you need to stall it?
Still sucks though

Do you mean runaway diesel that would hardly happen on a petrol Saab. That runaway diesel is scary enough I'd say its when the piston seals etc start leaking really bad and the engine decides to run on oil rather than diesel and turning the key has no effect as all that's doing is stopping the supply of diesel really. I think the only you can do if that happens is to try and stall the car in gear there was threads on here about it before I wouldn't say it would be a nice experience.

Cheensbo

bear1 wrote: »

Isn't this when the car refuses to switch off when you turn the ignition off? So to stop it from then wrecking the engine you need to stall it?
Still sucks though

Runaway diesels.. Have a look on YouTube, it can be pretty spectacular!

toastedpickles

bear1 wrote: »

Was it like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13yMLkL1eAk

Pretty much, my feet weren't even on the pedals though

and it was idling at 4500 rpm

Bpmull

This is a fair runaway diesel granted it's a truck. It's the oil seals leaking badly on the turbo that causes it.
http://youtu.be/SiBxwGQQ8Js

bear1

Was playing around on youtube and ended up on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGumLqAihI

Never seen these sort of accidents happen. The last one was pretty ballsy.

toastedpickles

Took a video of it there, so, you can just about see the smoke, but theres a fair bit of white smoke coming out the exhaust

bear1

Hmm, id probably go with the failing turbo theory as well. When my turbo was failing it was more of a blue smoke than white but the revs were always normal.

toastedpickles

bear1 wrote: »

Hmm, id probably go with the failing turbo theory as well. When my turbo was failing it was more of a blue smoke than white but the revs were always normal.

Yeah, so ill check it for play when ive time

Alanstrainor

Sorry to hear pickles, hate that feeling when something goes wrong!

toastedpickles

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Sorry to hear pickles, hate that feeling when something goes wrong!

Yeah

my next line of action is to check the turbo for play, if its wobbling all over the shop well, then its time to ask for an early xmas present, while i go order a fuel pump for the 900 and insure that for a while, at least the build thread will take off again! :pac::pac:

Stheno

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

It's died quite a lot on him so far, he's completely fed up with it, he's planning on buying back his ST soon.

What Volvo did he have?

toastedpickles wrote: »

I do believe the turbo has sh1t itself on the 9-5, started the car tonight and after a bit of revving it completely took off idling at 4500 rpm smoke everywhere, this makes for bad times, but at least ill have something to do one of the weekends :pac:

That sucks

toastedpickles wrote: »

Pretty much, my feet weren't even on the pedals though and it was idling at 4500 rpm

:eek:

toastedpickles

Stheno wrote: »

What Volvo did he have?

That sucks

:eek:

:pac: Its ded jim! So after saturday ill know more, and be able to put a plan in place

Just ordered a pair of Ferodo front brake discs. As the brakes have felt a bit weak lately.

pred racer

Stheno wrote: »

What Volvo did he have?

A really really **** one

joujoujou

nd wrote: »

Just ordered a pair of Ferodo front brake discs. [...]

Less money, better performance:

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/300446658353

dgt

That reminds me, I need to put on me new pads and trackrods. Curse lack of time

[Deleted User]

Stheno wrote: »

What Volvo did he have?

The only crappy s60 in existence

Foxhole Norman

Stheno wrote: »

What Volvo did he have?

S60 2.0T Manual, looks great but there's been endless air/fuel flow problems I thunk.

bear1

Just read this article:

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/good-times-back-as-luxury-car-sales-roar-ahead-30714635.html

Now forgive my ignorance, but since when did Skoda and Ford become "luxury" cars??

[Deleted User]

That reminds me of an article a while ago where a 316d was referred to as a "high-powered" car.

It'll show you how little knowledge some of these journalists have about cars.

bear1

Which then reminds me of when AXA bumped up the insurance on my 1.9D S40 and said it was now considered a performance car.
When I first saw the title I thought it was going to be luxury Mercs and BMWs... the last cars I would have thought about were Skoda and Ford.

Stheno

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

S60 2.0T Manual, looks great but there's been endless air/fuel flow problems I thunk.

My mechanic hates those cars, he's had a couple that broke his heart