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

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  • #3362
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    There's a reason they're disconnected though.

    Ah don't be getting me all worried! :P

    Although I did think the exact same.

    When I closed the boot I had the back seat down to make sure they actually turn off. They do. The car was never rear ended by the looks of things so I don't think the likes of a panel beater would have forgotten to reconnect them.

    What it does have is a tow bar so maybe they were disconnected to get at wiring when that was fitted and never reconnected.


  • #3363
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,551 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Your car lighting is all probably controlled by a body computer. I guessing this is wonky if the glovebox light is plugged out too.


  • #3364
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    joujoujou wrote: »
    Better go LED. ;)

    329718.jpg

    I wish I could keep my boot as clean and empty as yours


  • #3365
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Your car lighting is all probably controlled by a body computer. I guessing this is wonky if the glovebox light is plugged out too.

    Went out again to check there. Glovebox light does actually work. All the interior lights seem to work fine in the car. Dimming properly etc.


  • #3366
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,551 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Park at the top of a hill tonight.


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  • #3367
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Park at the top of a hill tonight.

    Why? :confused:

    Never mind, I get you now.

    If the battery is flat in the morning I'll know why.


  • #3368
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    OSI wrote: »
    We'll all hear tomorrow how the interior lights come on and get brighter as Snotaul revs the engine :pac:

    Had a friend who's dash lights used to go off every time she pressed the brake pedal. Can't remember what car, either her Punto or Polo.

    :pac:


  • #3369
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    Snotaul Goodman wrote: »
    Bow to me single boot light peasants!

    :pac:

    They're in an odd place. Back to back with the rear lights. Thanks to Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime for making me go check again, even though I wasn't sure exactly where he was on about.

    i knew it :P

    S60 and S80 are the exact same car except the body is longer and slightly different

    but interiors and engines etc are the same !


  • #3370
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    i knew it :P

    S60 and S80 are the exact same car except the body is longer and slightly different

    but interiors and engines etc are the same !

    Thats why your post made me go check again. Both cars are more or less the same layout


  • #3371
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    My boot has 4 lights :P two on the lid and two in the boot


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  • #3372
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Time for 2014 boards.ie motors contributors thread?


  • #3373
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    My boot has 4 lights :P two on the lid and two in the boot

    we-re-not-worthy-waynes-world-o.gif

    :pac:


  • #3374
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Snotaul Goodman wrote: »
    we-re-not-worthy-waynes-world-o.gif

    :pac:
    :pac:

    I've been considering closing up shop, but these kinda things change my mind haha, good show sir :P


  • #3375
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    :pac:

    I've been considering closing up shop, but these kinda things change my mind haha, good show sir :P

    As in closing your account? Why?


  • #3376
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Snotaul Goodman wrote: »
    As in closing your account? Why?

    Yeah, sure I never seem to post anything useful, Nothing is really going on with the cars, any time I do post about them it's usually hur hur you're driving an over engineered Opel, and I'm just spending far too much time on here sometimes I dunno I think I'm just having an off day to be honest! Pay no heed haha


  • #3377
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Yeah, sure I never seem to post anything useful, Nothing is really going on with the cars, any time I do post about them it's usually hur hur you're driving an over engineered Opel, and I'm just spending far too much time on here sometimes I dunno I think I'm just having an off day to be honest! Pay no heed haha

    I can probably count how many times I've posted something useful on one hand since I joined boards in 2009, and thats all over the site. You have two DIY threads going at the one time. That in itself says that you're a very valuable contributor to the site. Those are the kind of reasons I partake in the motors forum. I really hope its just an off day you're having. Don't take what other people say personally. Very easy to rip the piss behind a keyboard.


  • #3378
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Snotaul Goodman wrote: »
    I can probably count how many times I've posted something useful on one hand since I joined boards in 2009, and thats all over the site. You have two DIY threads going at the one time. That in itself says that you're a very valuable contributor to the site. Those are the kind of reasons I partake in the motors forum. I really hope its just an off day you're having. Don't take what other people say personally. Very easy to rip the piss behind a keyboard.

    Aye I suppose so, it probably is just an off day, Just not "feeling it" lately so to speak but sure we'l see what happens i guess!


  • #3379
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    It must be the way it is around here at the moment as only about a month ago I almost closed my account. Just sometimes people go way over the line and it's unfair to insult anyone's car or the choices they make. Anyway I still think it's a great place to learn a lot about cars in every sense of the word I've learned so much since I joined.


  • #3380
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Bpmull wrote: »
    It must be the way it is around here at the moment as only about a month ago I almost closed my account. Just sometimes people go way over the line and it's unfair to insult anyone's car or the choices they make. Anyway I still think it's a great place to learn a lot about cars in every sense of the word I've learned so much since I joined.

    Ah in fairness i'm guilty of insulting peoples cars myself, like i said probably an off day, i've learned a stupid amount of stuff from other posters since i joined too


  • #3381
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There has been a noticeable attitude difference in the last while around here. I was off line for most of the weekend and when I came back I could see that a few virtual digs were thrown. A couple of disrespectful comments about what certain posters drive etc. Its fairly hypocritical for me to point out immaturity but there was absolutely no need for what went on to happen.


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  • #3382
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    I'll hold my hand up and say i kinda started all that from what i said, which I apologized for :o


  • #3383
    Simonigs1.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Simonigs1.0


    I really like it on here. I don't visit many forums bar Motors and History and Heritage (which is just occasional) but I find everybody on here really nice. When I first came on here in March or so, I really wasn't very interested in cars at all, I just wanted to know about Honda CRZs, but now I find the more I come on here the more interested I am in learning about cars and motoring in general. This forum has actually gotten me interested in doing stuff to my RCZ, enjoying it, rather than just viewing it as my mode of transport.
    Its hard to explain, but this forum is awesome, its kind of turned me into an enthusiast, if that makes sense.


  • #3384
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,077 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Simonigs1.0 wrote: »
    I really like it on here. I don't visit many forums bar Motors and History and Heritage (which is just occasional) but I find everybody on here really nice. When I first came on here in March or so, I really wasn't very interested in cars at all, I just wanted to know about Honda CRZs, but now I find the more I come on here the more interested I am in learning about cars and motoring in general. This forum has actually gotten me interested in doing stuff to my RCZ, enjoying it, rather than just viewing it as my mode of transport.
    Its hard to explain, but this forum is awesome, its kind of turned me into an enthusiast, if that makes sense.


    I'd be fairly similar to yourself.

    Colm on here in particular was of immeasurable help and assistance when I was looking at buying a Rav4 before (and all through my ownership of it). Got advice, opinions and assistance by the bucket load, and stuff I'd never know elsewhere.


    It was on here that I was pretty much hand-held through how to service the Rav4, also.


    Then the detailing section consumed me for months on end (I spent so much :o ) and any time I've a small bit of a problem, the chaps on here are always willing to help out and throw out advice (most recently bpmull helping me out with car battery advice).


    I find all the users on here to be excellent. All I ever do is mooch and I haven't even been shunned yet, so you know they're nice chaps when they let the likes of me leech off information for years on end without giving out to me :D


    I'm pretty sure you've helped me out in the past with a few things, too, ToastedPickles. :)


  • #3385
    Simonigs1.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Simonigs1.0


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'd be fairly similar to yourself.

    Colm on here in particular was of immeasurable help and assistance when I was looking at buying a Rav4 before (and all through my ownership of it). Got advice, opinions and assistance by the bucket load, and stuff I'd never know elsewhere.


    It was on here that I was pretty much hand-held through how to service the Rav4, also.


    Then the detailing section consumed me for months on end (I spent so much :o ) and any time I've a small bit of a problem, the chaps on here are always willing to help out and throw out advice (most recently bpmull helping me out with car battery advice).


    I find all the users on here to be excellent. All I ever do is mooch and I haven't even been shunned yet, so you know they're nice chaps when they let the likes of me leech off information for years on end without giving out to me :D


    I'm pretty sure you've helped me out in the past with a few things, too, ToastedPickles. :)

    Thats the thing, I don't think I could actually offer much information to people on here, and I've gotten loads.

    But, if anyone happens to find themselves looking for info on rocks (who doesn't?), well then, step right into my office :pac:


  • #3386
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Simonigs1.0 wrote: »
    Thats the thing, I don't think I could actually offer much information to people on here, and I've gotten loads.

    But, if anyone happens to find themselves looking for info on rocks (who doesn't?), well then, step right into my office :pac:

    Knock knock :pac:

    If I want to know what sort of rocks are underlying a particular field or a small area what is the best map to use for that?


  • #3387
    Simonigs1.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Simonigs1.0


    Interslice wrote: »
    Knock knock :pac:

    If I want to know what sort of rocks are underlying a particular field or a small area what is the best map to use for that?

    You would need to obtain a geological map of the area. If its a large/well known area in an Irish region I could help you out with that.


  • #3388
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Simonigs1.0 wrote: »
    You would need to obtain a geological map of the area. If its a large/well known area in an Irish region I could help you out with that.


    Found this badger http://spatial.dcenr.gov.ie/imf/imf.jsp?site=GSI_Simple. Should do the trick. I was looking at google images before :P.


  • #3389
    Simonigs1.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Simonigs1.0


    Interslice wrote: »
    Found this badger http://spatial.dcenr.gov.ie/imf/imf.jsp?site=GSI_Simple. Should do the trick. I was looking at google images before :P.

    Ah, great, good to hear. But if you need a map or anything I can sort you out. Totally legit :pac:


  • #3390
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Simonigs1.0 wrote: »
    Ah, great, good to hear. But if you need a map or anything I can sort you out. Totally legit :pac:


    Do a bit of rockclimbing and surfing so just interesting to know what your working with! We were trying to climb lovely cliffs during the summer in North Kerry around ballybunnion but it was fairly dodgy, too brittle to climb. Calcareous shale apparently.


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  • #3391
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    Boring work is boring.

    Upside is 5.5 hours to go.


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