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

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  • #6452
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    Jesus Pickles you have some luck with cars, but at least it was a easy fix.

    It almost seems he has a mechanical problem occur during every journey.

    Hopefully you will have some better luck with the blue one tp :)


  • #6453
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    Bpmull wrote: »
    It almost seems he has a mechanical problem occur during every journey.

    Hopefully you will have some better luck with the blue one tp :)

    Very very very very very dark blue :pac:


  • #6454
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Nah you'll snap the drive shaft on it

    Calling me fat? :P Or to really tempt fate, I'll but a 156


  • #6455
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Bpmull wrote: »
    It almost seems he has a mechanical problem occur during every journey.

    Hopefully you will have some better luck with the blue one tp :)

    It makes life more interesting sometimes, oddly enough before the belt took out the engine in the green one it was very well behaved!


  • #6456
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    It makes life more interesting sometimes, oddly enough before the belt took out the engine in the green one it was very well behaved!

    Ah on the bright side the saabs are and clearly have helped you learn and teach yourself a lot about car mechanics. Unfortunately it's hard to learn anything with a car that causes little or no trouble.


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  • #6457
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Bpmull wrote: »
    Ah on the bright side the saabs are and clearly have helped you learn and teach yourself a lot about car mechanics. Unfortunately it's hard to learn anything with a car that causes little or no trouble.

    That's it its an odd situation, i don't like the problems they give, but at the same time i like getting stuck in, even if it takes hours of getting it right, sure the build thread alone would show how much I've learned from the green one alone, its a case of once you've worked on one you've worked on them all, the green one now is being taken away and myself and another guy are taking out the engine, If i can I'll get pictures of that too, but for now it's going the be sitting there engineless for the time being

    It's not the last you seen of it ;)


  • #6458
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sobanek wrote: »
    Right lads, urgent help needed with this as I need to know if I'll be able to drive home or will I need AA.

    Knocking sound coming from the front left wheel. Starts slowly at about 20mph and gets louder and faster as the car speeds up.

    The sound dissapears when I'm turning LEFT or UNDER BRAKING.

    What could this be? Any ideas?


    Sobanek wrote: »
    No, doesn't jump. It's just knocking and I can feel the knocking in the footwell.


    Sounds like when the lower(?) CV Joint went on my 407 there.

    Except my noise was when turning under acceleration. So lots of heavy accelerating at junctions, directly forward, and then coming off the pedals for the turn, to let the car coast around the turn under its own momentum.


    Your problem could be completely different of course. But that sounds pretty much like what i had diagnosed as the CV joint.



    Actually, re-reading your post, we may have totally opposite issues. i cant hear anything when driving straight. only when turning...


  • #6459
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Actually, re-reading your post, we may have totally opposite issues. i cant hear anything when driving straight. only when turning...

    His car is RWD KKV, no cv joints to make noise up front.


  • #6460
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    Could be the CV joint as my mechanic has mentioned this a while ago when the car was up. He was on about the CV joint going.


  • #6461
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    I was up there last night,is the snow still there

    Nope! None at all, went as far a lough bray, and turned back towards Enniskerry. Such a great road.


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  • #6462
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,917 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    I think your mechanic is ****ting you. As Yb said, RWD cars don't have CV joints up front.


  • #6463
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,830 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    http://cars.donedeal.ie/view/8140343

    :D


  • #6464
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,308 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    MuppetCheck wrote: »
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/view/8140343

    :D

    He goes on about a **** story but says nothing about NCT. Also kinda dear as well.


  • #6465
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,291 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    He goes on about a **** story but says nothing about NCT. Also kinda dear as well.

    Test till March 15th this year.


  • #6466
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Did he rob the car as the rear side window is smashed that use to be the way they would get in and hot wire the car.


  • #6467
    sblythe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭sblythe


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Did he rob the car as the rear side window is smashed that use to be the way they would get in and hot wire the car.

    What kind of absolute freak midget would one have to be to fit in through that side window to steal that?


  • #6468
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,247 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    sblythe wrote: »
    What kind of absolute freak midget would one have to be to fit in through that side window to steal that?

    no dead locks, coat hanger, pull door handle from inside.


  • #6469
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,291 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    They had deadlocks to be fair. One of the first to have.
    Most people didn't use them or know how to. (You turned key 90 degrees in drivers door, then pulled key out)


  • #6470
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    sblythe wrote: »
    What kind of absolute freak midget would one have to be to fit in through that side window to steal that?


    This was the done thing as they were able to open rear door and didnt stand out as much if they were to smash drivers window and it raining or freezing out.


  • #6471
    Cheensbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭Cheensbo


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    They had deadlocks to be fair. One of the first to have.
    Most people didn't use them or know how to.

    Correct! we had one when I was a nipper, I remember a big deal about our fancy "new" (95 in 98) UK import vectra hatch, deadlocks was the redeeming feature, along with an armrest & 6cd changer. None of your fancy electric windows mind.


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  • #6472
    sblythe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭sblythe


    Cheensbo wrote: »
    Correct! we had one when I was a nipper, I remember a big deal about our fancy "new" (95 in 98) UK import vectra hatch, deadlocks was the redeeming feature, along with an armrest & 6cd changer. None of your fancy electric windows mind.

    Why would you want electric windows anyway, only more to go wrong


  • #6473
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Would this mileage be a pro or a con?

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/vauxhall-astra-sxi-16v-1-6/8417194



    (12,000 on an 06). Must have spent a lot of time sitting still? Can't be good for it? (assuming it's genuine, and i cant imagine anyone would fake that kinda mileage!)


  • #6474
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,247 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Would this mileage be a pro or a con?

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/vauxhall-astra-sxi-16v-1-6/8417194



    (12,000 on an 06). Must have spent a lot of time sitting still? Can't be good for it? (assuming it's genuine, and i cant imagine anyone would fake that kinda mileage!)

    could be a genuine go to the shops only type deal. My biggest concern would be checking the service history to make sure it had been done every year.


  • #6475
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Would this mileage be a pro or a con?

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/vauxhall-astra-sxi-16v-1-6/8417194



    (12,000 on an 06). Must have spent a lot of time sitting still? Can't be good for it? (assuming it's genuine, and i cant imagine anyone would fake that kinda mileage!)

    Mileage is hard to believe especially since it's a uk import. There would want to be good history to back up the mileage also it would want to have been serviced every year ish. As if it hasn't been serviced in 4-5 years the oil would be sh!t. So kind of all depends on how it was serviced really.


  • #6476
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,291 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Its a uk import. It could well be genuine, but without a service history there's no way of knowing if it was ever serviced.
    €5500 seems a bit strong even if it is low mileage.


  • #6477
    sblythe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭sblythe


    I'll bet you a fiver there isn't a screed of service history with it.


  • #6478
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Calling me fat? :P Or to really tempt fate, I'll but a 156

    You know I'm selling mine :D

    OH test drove a 2.5 S type today and I seriously think he is in love


  • #6479
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bpmull wrote: »
    Mileage is hard to believe especially since it's a uk import. There would want to be good history to back up the mileage also it would want to have been serviced every year ish. As if it hasn't been serviced in 4-5 years the oil would be sh!t. So kind of all depends on how it was serviced really.


    Surely there'd be downsides to other aspects though, no?

    No matter how you work it, 13,000 miles over 8 years, for argument sake, is 1,625 miles per year, so regardless of whether it was driven 1600 miles per year, or sat up for years on end and then got a lot of sudden driving in one particular year of ownership, there has to have been times where it was sitting up for long period/s..



    I'm not that clued into this kinda thing (but I am genuinely curious), would that not be as risky as a car with very high mileage? Surely if you leave an engine/suspension/etc sitting there for the guts of ten years, with only slight use, it doesn't bode well for when someone buys the car and starts doing 15,000km per year in it?


    Or would it just be like a new car in general and risk free? (assuming services were carried out)?


  • #6480
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Stheno wrote: »
    You know I'm selling mine :D

    OH test drove a 2.5 S type today and I seriously think he is in love

    Ah no i have enough cars at home now :pac:


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  • #6481
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Surely there'd be downsides to other aspects though, no?

    No matter how you work it, 13,000 miles over 8 years, for argument sake, is 1,625 miles per year, so regardless of whether it was driven 1600 miles per year, or sat up for years on end and then got a lot of sudden driving in one particular year of ownership, there has to have been times where it was sitting up for long period/s..



    I'm not that clued into this kinda thing (but I am genuinely curious), would that not be as risky as a car with very high mileage? Surely if you leave an engine/suspension/etc sitting there for the guts of ten years, with only slight use, it doesn't bode well for when someone buys the car and starts doing 15,000km per year in it?


    Or would it just be like a new car in general and risk free? (assuming services were carried out)?
    My mechanic has a few customers with aged cars on very low mileage, all of them pensioners who use it to go to the shops, to their clubs etc

    Strangely they are all regularly serviced
    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Ah no i have enough cars at home now :pac:

    Lol Mine starts every time:pac:


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