Motors Chat - Round 7

Dartz · 01-02-2015 02:24PM

Cars and Coffee was interesting.

Some nice cars.

****e Coffee though.

01-02-2015 03:49PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

So I'm selling my 9-5 and getting one of these utter beasts

My sisters first car. I still have nightmares about it 15 years later. A pipe somehow managed to burst and leak into the passenger footwell destroying a brand new pair of shoes I was wearing.

toastedpickles · 01-02-2015 03:50PM

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

My sisters first car. I still have nightmares about it 15 years later. A pipe somehow managed to burst and leak into the passenger footwell destroying a brand new pair of shoes I was wearing.

How ghastly was the experience? I sat in it the other day and thought "my god"

01-02-2015 03:54PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

How ghastly was the experience? I sat in it the other day and thought "my god"

Horrific is an understatement. The thing would tend to brake down in the worst possible places. The Conor pass, the m7, tarbert to killimer car ferry etc

toastedpickles · 01-02-2015 03:55PM

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Horrific is an understatement. The think would tend to brake down in the worst possible places. The Conor pass, the m7, tarbert to killimer car ferry etc

Nothing im not used to so! :pac:

ShadowHearth · 01-02-2015 04:01PM

I wonder if we will have meet any time soon. I can actually afford petrol and get someone to fully clean my car now.

Dia1988 · 01-02-2015 04:21PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

How ghastly was the experience? I sat in it the other day and thought "my god"

I wouldn't recommend crashing one either! :eek:

MetzgerMeister · 01-02-2015 05:13PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I wonder if we will have meet any time soon. I can actually afford petrol and get someone to fully clean my car now.

I think we are due one alright but when people constantly pull out, it ends up being 2 or 3 people left and that's just sh!te.

This forum used have a great buzz about it and that was normally down to loads of people going to the meets and putting faces to names etc. The last couple that have been organised at Midway at least, have been utter washouts.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 01-02-2015 05:22PM

It's been 3 years and a week since the first major motors meet in midway with the largest turnout.

I remember because the penalty points i got on the way down to it are coming off the licence in the next few weeks.

Also is my car advert reasonable ?

ShadowHearth · 01-02-2015 06:18PM

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I think we are due one alright but when people constantly pull out, it ends up being 2 or 3 people left and that's just sh!te.

This forum used have a great buzz about it and that was normally down to loads of people going to the meets and putting faces to names etc. The last couple that have been organised at Midway at least, have been utter washouts.

Well, we had a lot of fun that time. I dont know about other meets as I just pretty much could not afford it.

Worth giving it a shot again though.

YbFocus · 01-02-2015 06:28PM

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I think we are due one alright but when people constantly pull out, it ends up being 2 or 3 people left and that's just sh!te.

This forum used have a great buzz about it and that was normally down to loads of people going to the meets and putting faces to names etc. The last couple that have been organised at Midway at least, have been utter washouts.

I haven't been able to make the last few, but now I am free to go to any of them

Actually would you have passed by the Merlin auctions place in Naas Saturday at about 8:30?
We were heading drifting and a car the exact same as yours passed by!

Foxhole Norman · 01-02-2015 06:31PM

Pick a day and I'll be there, just about 2/3 weeks in advance so I can book it off.

MetzgerMeister · 01-02-2015 07:15PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Well, we had a lot of fun that time. I dont know about other meets as I just pretty much could not afford it.

Worth giving it a shot again though.

It is indeed worth a shot! Let's get something going so. I'll say it to a mod and we'll get a thread going.

I think Sunday is a bad day because there's all the "out last night, too drunk to go. Enjoy the day lads" people with no willpower or discipline at all :pac:

How about Saturday February 21st?

YbFocus wrote: »

I haven't been able to make the last few, but now I am free to go to any of them

Actually would you have passed by the Merlin auctions place in Naas Saturday at about 8:30?
We were heading drifting and a car the exact same as yours passed by!

Wasn't me man! The last time I was in Naas was in 2008

toastedpickles · 01-02-2015 07:17PM

21st sounds good to me!

Foxhole Norman · 01-02-2015 07:42PM

21st suits me too

toastedpickles · 01-02-2015 09:29PM

So looks like I bought a matiz

colm_mcm · 01-02-2015 09:32PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

So looks like I bought a matiz

Dafuq?

That's a bannable offence.

toastedpickles · 01-02-2015 09:33PM

colm_mcm wrote: »

Dafuq?

That's a bannable offence.

:pac:

Headgaskets fecked on it, so im gona fix it and sell it on, for 50 quid i couldnt say no like!

Stheno · 01-02-2015 09:33PM

colm_mcm wrote: »

Dafuq?

That's a bannable offence.

Did you miss his posts yesterday? The head is gone on it and all

01-02-2015 10:50PM

How much earlier than the NCT due date, can you book your car in for it? Whats the earliest-earliest you can do it?

nd · 01-02-2015 11:06PM

90 days. Well that's when you can inquire about it.

Stheno · 01-02-2015 11:43PM

Deleted User wrote: »

How much earlier than the NCT due date, can you book your car in for it? Whats the earliest-earliest you can do it?

OSI wrote: »

As early as you want. But if it's over 90 days early you'll only get a year from the test date. Is my understanding of the new rules.

Yes, what OSI says is the case

02-02-2015 12:03AM

So if i was to buy a car that hadnt an NCT due til august (as is the case with one im looking at) I can still NCT it tomorrow, but the NCT will expire in february 2016?

(my thinking is that i want to get something cheap and cheerful, and at least if i get an all-clear from a mechanic on it, and get it NCTed for a year ASAP, even if it starts to fall apart around me, i can still drive the bollocks out of it for 12 months legally, anyway?).

ShadowHearth · 02-02-2015 12:45AM

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

It is indeed worth a shot! Let's get something going so. I'll say it to a mod and we'll get a thread going.

I think Sunday is a bad day because there's all the "out last night, too drunk to go. Enjoy the day lads" people with no willpower or discipline at all :pac:

How about Saturday February 21st?

Wasn't me man! The last time I was in Naas was in 2008

Well, Saturdays are not perfect for me as they are my main work days, but I guess ill try to book it off.

02-02-2015 01:24AM

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

Also is my car advert reasonable ?

Surely that's not your actual phone number..?

Noccy_Mondy · 02-02-2015 01:28AM

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

Also is my car advert reasonable ?

Them pics are perfection, spotless, new fitted mats and the windscreen display looks perfect. I have a weird obsession with the display of discs. I have an ocd meltdown if I see a holder stuck on to inches of its life and about 30 discs jammed into each slot. Can't beat simplicity with a freshly applied holder with just one disc in each! /ramblings :P

Noccy_Mondy · 02-02-2015 01:36AM

Can't remember if I mentioned this before, but I have a bad water ingress issue in the boot of the focus. Must be there a while as there was a tiny hole drilled in the spare tyre footwell to let it out. The water comes in and due to the shape of the boot, it runs forward, under the rear seats and settles in the rear footwells. That's where I noticed the issue, sopping wet rear footwells. The rear seats were gone a tad mouldy at the bottom when I went to investigate!
From doing some research both online and in the boot, it appears the water is coming in through the air flaps at the very extreme right and left corners, as there is a puddle immediately inside of them. If no one else knows what I'm on about Hal1 will defo! It appears the rear bumper needs to removed to get these air flaps out and to replace them.

toastedpickles · 02-02-2015 01:37AM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Can't remember if I mentioned this before, but I have a bad water ingress issue in the boot of the focus. Must be there a while as there was a tiny hole drilled in the spare tyre footwell to let it out. The water comes in and due to the shape of the boot, it runs forward, under the rear seats and settles in the rear footwells. That's where I noticed the issue, sopping wet rear footwells. The rear seats were gone a tad mouldy at the bottom when I went to investigate!
From doing some research both online and in the boot, it appears the water is coming in through the air flaps at the very extreme right and left corners, as there is a puddle immediately inside of them. If no one else knows what I'm on about Hal1 will defo! It appears the rear bumper needs to removed to get these air flaps out and to replace them.

Soooooo.....how ya gonna fix it?

Noccy_Mondy · 02-02-2015 01:42AM

toastedpickles wrote: »

Soooooo.....how ya gonna fix it?

Find a pair of them air flaps is the first objective anyway. The car is on the road literally every day, so I won't get a chance to take the bumper off until the 2 weeks off at Easter. Until then I've all the boot carpets taken out and the rear footwells are almost dry, so I'll keep on top of the water seeping in and keep it mopped up!

toastedpickles · 02-02-2015 01:44AM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Find a pair of them air flaps is the first objective anyway. The car is on the road literally every day, so I won't get a chance to take the bumper off until the 2 weeks off at Easter. Until then I've all the boot carpets taken out and the rear footwells are almost dry, so I'll keep on top of the water seeping in and keep it mopped up!

Fair enough!

I got a new grille for my yoke....it's got mesh on it!

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