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

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  • #8882
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Yeah but you'll probably find that you're driving it a lot more than the yaris.
    I brim mine every time I fill it only because the 3/4 line on the gauge is full but I'm not risking empty being 1/4

    Without a doubt, I do about 200-250 miles a week, not a single complaint at all. Handy not having bills to pay :D


  • #8883
    UnknownSpecies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭UnknownSpecies


    Bpmull wrote: »
    Actually speaking of fuel I got a call from my mother an hour ago wondering that if the fuel light had just come on would she be ok to do 50km today and tomorrow. So that then my dad could fill her car tomorrow evening when he gets home from the uk. She actually has a fear of fuel pumps so my dad or me always end up getting her diesel. She doesn't like touching the pump with her hand :pac: id say she gets fuel herself about twice a year and that would only be because she was really stuck for it.

    Ha that's a new one! I've a fear of fuel pumps too but for a very different reason :pac:


  • #8884
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    dorgasm wrote: »
    Ha that's a new one! I've a fear of fuel pumps too but for a very different reason :pac:

    I know she doesn't actually mind paying for the fuel but putting it in is the issue :)


  • #8885
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    My woman's the opposite. The second the fuel light comes on she HAS to stop at the nearest station, no matter the price.

    I can kinda understand where your mother is coming from though if her car is diesel. Since I've got the Jeep it seems impossible to get fuel without getting the stinky on your hands. Rarely found that with petrol, or maybe I just like the smell of it and it never bothered me.


  • #8886
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Bpmull wrote:
    Actually speaking of fuel I got a call from my mother an hour ago wondering that if the fuel light had just come on would she be ok to do 50km today and tomorrow. So that then my dad could fill her car tomorrow evening when he gets home from the uk. She actually has a fear of fuel pumps so my dad or me always end up getting her diesel. She doesn't like touching the pump with her hand  id say she gets fuel herself about twice a year and that would only be because she was really stuck for it.

    Ha my mam was the same, until I gradually trained her :pac: I never touch the nozzle bare hand, always use tissue, it leaves the smell of diesel on your hands otherwise.


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  • #8887
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Ha my mam was the same, until I gradually trained her :pac: I never touch the nozzle bare hand, always use tissue, it leaves the smell of diesel on your hands otherwise.

    They normally have a plastic disposable gloves in my local topaz that Id use. I think between potentially getting diesel on your hands or dirting your shoes in a diesel spill is all just too much for her :pac:


  • #8888
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Yer type of mams are the people I hate in work :P

    Oooooh can't let some diesel on my precious little hands :pac:


  • #8889
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    I don't mind the smell of diesel :pac:


  • #8890
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Foxhole Norman wrote:
    Oooooh can't let some diesel on my precious little hands 


    Naa mine's just pure ignorant and didn't know how the pump worked!


  • #8891
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Just spotted this over on the weather forum... -8C next week and probably below :eek:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057387595


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  • #8892
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    Yer type of mams are the people I hate in work :P

    Oooooh can't let some diesel on my precious little hands :pac:

    What about strawberry flavoured diesel..? :D


  • #8893
    UnknownSpecies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭UnknownSpecies


    The only diesel where having a naked flame around is encouraged :pac:


  • #8894
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    166man wrote: »
    What about strawberry flavoured diesel..? :D

    Unfortunately not :pac:


  • #8895
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    166man wrote: »
    What about strawberry flavoured diesel..? :D

    They don't get that quality stuff down there :D


  • #8896
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    challengemaster wrote: »
    Just spotted this over on the weather forum... -8C next week and probably below :eek:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057387595

    My cold starts will be fun....


  • #8897
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    Yer type of mams are the people I hate in work :P

    Oooooh can't let some diesel on my precious little hands :pac:

    Herself used to go to where you work now for that very reason. They must have been one of the very few places that still had a pump attendent. Topaz at the time? Whatever it was before anyway. The fuel cap was a lockable yoke that was never great at locking or unlocking in fairness


  • #8898
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    Yer type of mams are the people I hate in work :P

    Oooooh can't let some diesel on my precious little hands :pac:

    Make them work in a scrapyard. That'll knock sense into them fairly quick


  • #8899
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    Herself used to go to where you work now for that very reason. They must have been one of the very few places that still had a pump attendent. Topaz at the time? Whatever it was before anyway.

    I work in both Mahon and Ballincollig, Mahon I presume? That used to be a Texaco.

    I still do it if people ask me to but I don't stand out there.


  • #8900
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    I work in both Mahon and Ballincollig, Mahon I presume? That used to be a Texaco.

    I still do it if people ask me to but I don't stand out there.

    Na, the 'collig boy. Can remember it being BP but can't remember what it was a few years ago. I'm too young for alzheimers!


  • #8901
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    Na, the 'collig boy. Can remember it being BP but can't remember what it was a few years ago. I'm too young for alzheimers!

    I wouldn't know myself, I'm from feckin' Ballinlough :pac:

    I believe it was a Maxol for a while under John Barry and before that I have no idea.


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  • #8902
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,428 ✭✭✭Dartz


    250km drive to Cork tomorrow.

    So. It'll be a sunny Saturday then.




    In the chamber formed from the circle-around-circle, the triangle of power spins, protected by the Seals of Apex.


  • #8903
    Gavman84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭Gavman84


    Today I kerbed two wheels stupidly. Not happy with myself upside is hadn't refurbed yet thankfully so will do sooner now! Car dropped for detail for weekend off to Galway tomorrow afternoon!


  • #8904
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Ohhhh you absolute hoor :mad:

    fmkgm0.jpg

    Next week is gona be fuuun :rolleyes: The 900 is gona be in temporary use while this gets sorted


  • #8905
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭Hal1


    There's blizzard like snow up at sally gap atm. Just back from there. The roads were nice and dry on the way up, and slightly illuminated by the moon.


  • #8906
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Hal1 wrote: »
    There's blizzard like snow up at sally gap atm. Just back from there. The roads were nice and dry on the way up, and slightly illuminated by the moon.

    Lovely and sunny on the mourne mountains :) but the brook was subject to artic blizzards, freezing!!!


  • #8907
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Yeah I wish I went up earlier was a nice enough day out.


  • #8908
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Bought ATF fluid there for the first time. For power steering. I've no real issue with autos, they have their applications, but it still felt like buying cream for some embarrassing ailment. "It's not for me honestly"


    I'll admit toastedpickles, I can't spot the problem in your pic. something to do with the manifold mentioned earlier?


  • #8909
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    Bought ATF fluid there for the first time. For power steering. I've no real issue with autos, they have their applications, but it still felt like buying cream for some embarrassing ailment. "It's not for me honestly"


    I'll admit toastedpickles, I can't spot the problem in your pic. something to do with the manifold mentioned earlier?

    Yeah, its the heat shield, we took that off to have a look at the broken stud and how to go attacking it and off came three more studs :(


  • #8910
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Yeah wouldn't fancy it. They never look like they are going to be an easy job on a 10 year plus car. Heatshield is surprisingly clean.


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  • #8911
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    Yeah wouldn't fancy it. They never look like they are going to be an easy job on a 10 year plus car. Heatshield is surprisingly clean.

    Nope, the joys of it all! Having said that since i got the car its given 0 trouble so i suppose its not so bad, it'l be done and sorted anyways


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