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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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Cleveland Hot Pocket

Sobanek wrote: »

Nah, something more powerful than that, V6 and all :cool:

v6?
Is it that Aristo that was for sale for ages, a green one?

Sobanek

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

v6?
Is it that Aristo that was for sale for ages, a green one?

You're on the right track.

Now shhh, don't want to jinx it

Cleveland Hot Pocket

Sobanek wrote: »

You're on the right track.

Now shhh, don't want to jinx it

Ok.
Pics if/when you get it so!

[Deleted User]

Went to lidl for meat, milk and logs. Yup...

Bpmull

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Went to lidl for meat, milk and logs. Yup...

I hate when that happens

[Deleted User]

Bpmull wrote: »

I hate when that happens

Nearly came away with a wet and dry vaccum too but then I laughed at myself and kept going

colm_mcm

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Went to lidl for meat, milk and logs. Yup...

The milk'll probably last longer :pac:

Ded_Zebra

Do the ratchet spanners feel like they're OK quality? I'm sort of looking out for a set.

[Deleted User]

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Do the ratchet spanners feel like they're OK quality? I'm sort of looking out for a set.

Ya they seem solid enough. Haven't used them yet though. I'm actually getting good mileage out of Lidl tools over the last year or two. Either they've improved the quality on certain tools or I'm just using them less. Probably the latter.

Ded_Zebra

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Ya they seem solid enough. Haven't used them yet though. I'm actually getting good mileage out of Lidl tools over the last year or two. Either they've improved the quality on certain tools or I'm just using them less. Probably the latter.

Might go and pick up a set tomorrow so! cheers

[Deleted User]

colm_mcm wrote: »

The milk'll probably last longer :pac:

Well at least they lasted longer than the meat

Special Circumstances

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Well at least they lasted longer than the meat

The hex keys are decent anyway.

Neighbour just caught me sniffing my car again.

Smells a bit coolanty sometimes. No major loss of coolant though.
Oil leak too, oil cooler or rocker cover gasket near turbo.
Hopefully a better diagnosis of both tomorrow.

Just after clearing out the whole car, spare, jack luggage cover trying to find the source of some rattles and bangs. Any recommendations of a thin foam or rubber for putting under polystyrene in the boot to keep noise down?

MuppetCheck

Special Circumstances wrote: »

The hex keys are decent anyway.

Neighbour just caught me sniffing my car again.

Smells a bit coolanty sometimes. No major loss of coolant though.
Oil leak too, oil cooler or rocker cover gasket near turbo.
Hopefully a better diagnosis of both tomorrow.

Just after clearing out the whole car, spare, jack luggage cover trying to find the source of some rattles and bangs. Any recommendations of a thin foam or rubber for putting under polystyrene in the boot to keep noise down?

Halfords do clip together foam mats. I've got them cut to size in my boot until I can find another option because I stuck a full sized spare in. Reduced road noise too.

Special Circumstances

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Halfords do clip together foam mats. I've got them cut to size in my boot until I can find another option because I stuck a full sized spare in. Reduced road noise too.

Too thick I'd say, but I do have a kinda 1m x 1.5m sheet of thin rubber that lidl or aldi were selling as a boot mat. Might do the job for cheap cut up. Hmm.
Might go thicker in the spare wheel well. That thing is bass drum size and is definitely amplifying noise up in the cabin.

joujoujou

Sobanek wrote: »

You're on the right track.

Now shhh, don't want to jinx it

Pics asap!

wotzgoingon

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

I'd say that's equal to my recent brown trouser moment in my chrysler when the exact opposite happened.
Pedal straight to the floor in a 3 ton car going downhill.

How did you stop?

joujoujou

wotzgoingon wrote: »

How did you stop?

A ditch maybe?

wotzgoingon

Cheensbo wrote: »

Depends on the car really, if its a dated Japanese motor it's pretty simple to replace the locks & ignition barrel, more than a few of mine were on the flathead screwdriver.

My carina II had half the key stuck in it so it was never removed or locked, just used to put a wooly hat covering the key when parked in the town :pac:

Good one. I was the same for a while with a car a few years ago carina e. Lost the key so used to start the car with flat head screw driver.

joujoujou

Wouldn't be so easy in newer cars equipped with immo thing. :pac:

rocky

Sobanek wrote: »

You're on the right track.

Now shhh, don't want to jinx it

GS300? I suppose you have something to look forward to upgrading from in a few years...

. I test drove 06-L-300 a couple of years back and wasn't too impressed, but they are around 2k cheaper than a 5 series, and a lot more to choose from, with good spec.

Noccy_Mondy

Which one of these mp3 tape converter things is the best? Any of ye experience any of them and found them to be good. The last one I bought lasted 3 months.

http://www.ebay.ie/sch/i.html?_odkw=mp3+tape&_from=R40&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313&_nkw=car+mp3+tape&_sacat=0

Hal1

Might be better off with one of these: http://www.ebay.ie/itm/CAR-WIRELESS-MP3-FM-RADIO-TRANSMITTER-HANDS-FREE-FOR-MOBILE-IPHONE5-IPOD-SAMSUNG-/191306195834?pt=UK_FM_Transmitters&hash=item2c8abce37a

Noccy_Mondy

A friend has one of them, and I couldn't warm to it at all, I found that you had to keep changing frequencies every so often.

[Deleted User]

From experience, all those tape things are shíte. I've had ones that cost €2 and ones that cost €20 and were all the same. Is it for your own car?

Simonigs1.0

I got my first flat battery in the RCZ today. I must say, it was rather scary for a few seconds when it wouldn't start :pac:

[Deleted User]

Simonigs1.0 wrote: »

I got my first flat battery in the RCZ today. I must say, it was rather scary for a few seconds when it wouldn't start :pac:

How did you manage that? You hardly left the lights on. Do cars even allow you leave the lights on anymore?

Toyotafanboi

http://www.carthrottle.com/discuss/jwPwJF/

Noccy_Mondy

Snotaul Goodman wrote:

From experience, all those tape things are shÃte. I've had ones that cost â‚¬2 and ones that cost â‚¬20 and were all the same. Is it for your own car?

Yap for my own, I'm that backdated! I'm starting to draw the same conclusion too! The sound quality is fairly good though. I'd have a new stereo in, only if Ford didn't insist on having 1.5 din units, making any retrofitted one stick out.

Simonigs1.0

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

How did you manage that? You hardly left the lights on. Do cars even allow you leave the lights on anymore?

Haha, kind of

Left the amber leds on in the car for some reason and it they drained the battery.

[Deleted User]

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Yap for my own, I'm that backdated! I'm starting to draw the same conclusion too! The sound quality is fairly good though. I'd have a new stereo in, only if Ford didn't insist on having 1.5 din units, making any retrofitted one stick out.

Ah stop sure I've one in the Volvo. I never use it due to my sheer hatred towards it. Actually you can have it if you want it. Drop me a PM. You might make better use of it. Making CD's is just an effort and has to be done a certain way for my stupid stereo. There is an adapter available for my head unit though and its meant to be really good. There could be something similar for yours on the market. I never bought the adapter because I've plans to either upgrade the stereo or the car itself in the new year.