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

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  • #6662
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    Lads tis feckin' fierce mild. Happy I'm off the next two days :D

    Tis! bloody grand drying weather out now so there is! The clothes would be like rocks tomorrow morning :P


  • #6663
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Tis! bloody grand drying weather out now so there is! The clothes would be like rocks tomorrow morning :P

    I was moving the car so no one would potentially slide into it, rolled down the window, bad move.


  • #6664
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    I was moving the car so no one would potentially slide into it, rolled down the window, bad move.

    Lap full of sneachta? Same here opening the door. I was soooo careful and all! :(

    I destroyed the electric window switch in my old corolla because of snow falling on it. Lethal stuff altogether! :P


  • #6665
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Snotaul Goodman wrote: »
    Lap full of sneachta? Same here opening the door. I was soooo careful and all! :(

    I destroyed the electric window switch in my old corolla because of snow falling on it. Lethal stuff altogether! :P

    I too felt the cold hand of the sneachta! Also it showed me that someone was walking around my car :o

    No it wasn't me


  • #6666
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Snotaul Goodman wrote: »
    Lap full of sneachta? Same here opening the door. I was soooo careful and all! :(

    I destroyed the electric window switch in my old corolla because of snow falling on it. Lethal stuff altogether! :P

    Pretty much, could've done without it, like :P


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  • #6667
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    I too felt the cold hand of the sneachta! Also it showed me that someone was walking around my car :o

    No it wasn't me

    Outside your house?


  • #6668
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Volvo parked up outside sat for last three weeks, covered in snow, doors frozen shut.

    Turn key, starts first time.

    What a fupping baxtard :p


  • #6669
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Snotaul Goodman wrote: »
    Outside your house?

    aye! all over the grass and stuff too, i dunno bit im probably just being too paranoid


  • #6670
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Volvo parked up outside sat for last three weeks, covered in snow, doors frozen shut.

    Turn key, starts first time.

    What a fupping baxtard :p

    justsweedishthings :pac::rolleyes:


  • #6671
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    aye! all over the grass and stuff too, i dunno bit im probably just being too paranoid

    Probably one of those feckin' mad sheep out there!


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  • #6672
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    Probably one of those feckin' mad sheep out there!

    Telling ya! They're well hidden now! :P


  • #6673
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    aye! all over the grass and stuff too, i dunno bit im probably just being too paranoid

    I think you should sleep in one of the cars tonight guarded with a wheelbrace. Get the thermals out n you'll be grand! :P


  • #6674
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Snotaul Goodman wrote: »
    I think you should sleep in one of the cars tonight guarded with a wheelbrace. Get the thermals out n you'll be grand! :P

    Just stick on the seats and away i go :P greet them with a 1/2" extension and a breaker bar


  • #6675
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    These wheels are definitely happening



  • #6676
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Just stick on the seats and away i go :P greet them with a 1/2" extension and a breaker bar

    Bought myself a 2ft breaker bar recently. Weapon n a half I tells ya! :P


  • #6677
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Volvo parked up outside sat for last three weeks, covered in snow, doors frozen shut.

    Turn key, starts first time.

    What a fupping baxtard :p

    Will probably work perfect and cause no issue now you don't need it.

    As for snow there was a good bit fell at about 3.30 pm it got quite heavy we enjoyed staring out the window at it while we were in a 3 hour chemistry lab :pac:


  • #6678
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Snotaul Goodman wrote: »
    Bought myself a 2ft breaker bar recently. Weapon n a half I tells ya! :P

    Aw i love mine, it's my prybar, wheel brace, loads of things really :D


  • #6679
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Loads of snow over here. Traffic is crazy. 40 km/h on N5.


  • #6680
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Does that low mpg not cripple ye? I know ye sacrafice the mpg for quality cars/driving experience, but if ye're doing big miles, do ye even have a penny? I'm so used to 50 plus mpg at this stage, it would be so hard for me to drop to something in the teens :eek:


  • #6681
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Does that low mpg not cripple ye? I know ye sacrafice the mpg for quality cars/driving experience, but if ye're doing big miles, do ye even have a penny? I'm so used to 50 plus mpg at this stage, it would be so hard for me to drop to something in the teens :eek:

    Nah you kinda learn to live with it, it is worth it for the most part though, I find anyway!

    To give you an idea 80 euro would get me to and from cork city anf leave me enough to potter around locally for a day or two


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  • #6682
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Does that low mpg not cripple ye? I know ye sacrafice the mpg for quality cars/driving experience, but if ye're doing big miles, do ye even have a penny? I'm so used to 50 plus mpg at this stage, it would be so hard for me to drop to something in the teens :eek:

    Mines doing 18 average but I only drive around 120 - 150 miles a week. I also don't drink often and don't smoke so I put my money into my car/toys.


  • #6683
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Noccy_Mondy wrote:
    Does that low mpg not cripple ye? I know ye sacrafice the mpg for quality cars/driving experience, but if ye're doing big miles, do ye even have a penny? I'm so used to 50 plus mpg at this stage, it would be so hard for me to drop to something in the teens 


    Sorry I was looking a few pages back, thought that it was recent chat :o Anyway aimed at Foxhole and YB :D


  • #6684
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Sorry I was looking a few pages back, thought that it was recent chat :o Anyway aimed at Foxhole and YB :D

    The noise/engine/spec and comfort of mine more than makes up for the crap economy. On a long run I can do around 35 Motorway so it's not too bad, my last trip to Dublin I used just over a quarter of a tank each way.


  • #6685
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Does that low mpg not cripple ye? I know ye sacrafice the mpg for quality cars/driving experience, but if ye're doing big miles, do ye even have a penny? I'm so used to 50 plus mpg at this stage, it would be so hard for me to drop to something in the teens :eek:

    Well I get horrible Mpg in scooby too, but it does not really bother me much. specially now when petrol prices got down so nicely.
    Sometimes I do think about finally become sensible and get something with better mpg and better tax/insurance and then I end up looking up 330ci or x5 3.0d or jag xj... I am fecking useless. :rolleyes:


  • #6686
    Old diesel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭Old diesel


    Seen a lovely Alfa 159 on a thread on a Uk forum.

    Then I read up on the "rusty subframe" issue.

    Is it (the rusty subframe issue) as bad as the internet makes out????


  • #6687
    Old diesel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭Old diesel


    Seen a lovely Alfa 159 on a thread on a Uk forum.

    Then I read up on the "rusty subframe" issue.

    Is it (the rusty subframe issue) as bad as the internet makes out????


  • #6688
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,934 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Due to the salt they UK puts on their roads you will hear of it happening more there than anywhere else.
    A quick check shows me that it's easily fixable with a wire brush, then Kurust followed by Hammerite followed by Waxoyl.


  • #6689
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Old diesel wrote: »
    Seen a lovely Alfa 159 on a thread on a Uk forum.

    Then I read up on the "rusty subframe" issue.

    Is it (the rusty subframe issue) as bad as the internet makes out????

    On UK ones yes. I haven't heard of it happening to Irish ones though.

    User on here, tazio I think has begun stockpiling 159 sub frames for his fleet


  • #6690
    Old diesel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭Old diesel


    Thanks guys - hard to ignore them (159s) when they look so stunning.

    They are like biscuits - you know they mightn't be good for your health but they are NICE


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  • #6691
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Old diesel wrote:
    They are like biscuits - you know they mightn't be good for your health but they are NICE


    Since when are biscuits not good for your health? :P


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