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********Motors Chat - Round 8 ********

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  • #1352
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Cheensbo wrote: »
    Must have no poke so :pac:

    Awwww yeah :cool:
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  • #1353
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    It is indeed petrol. 1043cc for the bad value tax :pac:

    Bad value indeed.

    999cc = 50hp, €199 tax
    1043cc = 40hp, €299 tax


  • #1354
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    Plenty of (blue) smoke out of our polo and it's a special kind of slow :pac:



    My above post could be a waste of time :v


  • #1355
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Interslice wrote: »
    Anyone remember or know the user on her who recently started driving his brothers navy civic aerodeck? He put a post up about it a few weeks ago but I cant find it anywhere!

    Bump!


  • #1356
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Interslice wrote: »
    Bump!

    This it was an accord, on steelies yes?
    Can't remember the poster.


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  • #1357
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    CianRyan wrote: »
    This it was an accord, on steelies yes?
    Can't remember the poster.

    Pretty sure it was a civic on white alloys iirc.


  • #1358
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Interslice wrote: »
    Anyone remember or know the user on her who recently started driving his brothers navy civic aerodeck? He put a post up about it a few weeks ago but I cant find it anywhere!

    sblythe

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057188701&page=256


  • #1359
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Interslice wrote: »
    Bump!

    Here you go


  • #1360
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,308 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    GvidoR wrote: »
    sblythe

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057188701&page=256
    dgt wrote: »
    Here you go

    Both minds think alike.

    23:11


  • #1361
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Cheers lads!


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  • #1362
    Cheensbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭Cheensbo


    Bpmull wrote: »
    Somehow I recon a healthy engine that burns no oil will be just a quick as one that's burning oil with worn seals that would almost make people behind it sick everytime the driver touches the accelerator. I hate being behind yokes that are that smokey you have to turn the air on recirculation. The smoke test limits for nct or cvrt are way too high by a factor of 2 or 3.

    If a diesel ain't smoking at full chat, it's not getting enough fuel, and it's probably boring....

    Oil smoke is a different kettle of fish, if you've lots of oil smoke the whole lot's as good as fcuked anyway.


  • #1363
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,925 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bpmull wrote: »
    I know mine is diesel but I'm lucky enough with it. Cvrt smoke test 3.00 limit to pass. My golf 0.02 :)


    It literally burns no oil at all. I dipped it before I left for Spain still sitting just under full mark and there is 15k km on the oil never topped up. Also literally no smoke at all under hard acceleration or even when cold you never see anything coming out of the exhaust.

    There's defo smoke under hard acceleration, try it at night with a car behind you. The light will show the particles.


  • #1364
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,569 ✭✭✭166man


    Cheensbo wrote: »
    If a diesel ain't smoking at full chat, it's not getting enough fuel, and it's probably boring....

    Oil smoke is a different kettle of fish, if you've lots of oil smoke the whole lot's as good as fcuked anyway.

    My 2.4 JTD used to have a lovely puff out the back, nothing like dgt levels, just enough to tell the person behind you to foxtrot Oscar...:)



    I find the smoke hilarious!


  • #1365
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Going back to the reg plate thing, like colm said, it depends on the car. Pressed plates can look good, but I think they look awful on mondeos. Them ones in the pic are plastic, they look well in the flesh to me anyway. Not sure if I'm that gone on the blue haze, but I like chunky-ish lettering. The camera is frigged. A friend got the same phone and it focus' perfect, just a flaw with mine I guess.

    Moving on, was on the way home just there. Noticed a lovely white 07 3er m sport coupe outside a house this past while. Kind of gunmetal alloys, not dissimilar to gavmans on the focus st. As I was passing through town, I could see this car pulling out behind me. I was sticking to 100, as was he, stayed well back for 5/6 miles then once he got to a straight stretch he shot past. Fastest overtake I ever seen, cut in very fast though, almost too close for comfort. Goes about 2/300 metres before slowing down and pulling into the house. Suppose he had to prove his point  I'll check again, but I think it was a 335i. Anyway, that's my speel for the night.


  • #1366
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Moving on, was on the way home just there. Noticed a lovely white 07 3er m sport coupe outside a house this past while. Kind of gunmetal alloys, not dissimilar to gavmans on the focus st. As I was passing through town, I could see this car pulling out behind me. I was sticking to 100, as was he, stayed well back for 5/6 miles then once he got to a straight stretch he shot past. Fastest overtake I ever seen, cut in very fast though, almost too close for comfort. Goes about 2/300 metres before slowing down and pulling into the house. Suppose he had to prove his point :rolleyes: I'll check again, but I think it was a 325i. Anyway, that's my speel for the night.

    BMW Drivers! W@ankers the lot of em :pac:


  • #1367
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    BMW Drivers! W@ankers the lot of em :pac:

    Did somebody tell me MetzgerMeister got a white respray ?:P :pac:


  • #1368
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    BMW Drivers! W@ankers the lot of em :pac:

    I was half asleep and I thought wait, was it foxhole that posted that about bmw w@nkers. Lord I'm a vegetable today! :pac:


  • #1369
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Ford are gone ridiculous. Go onto the website and configure a mondeo. Titanium is 31.5k, add on all your extras and it's just over 40k. Nothing but extra packs. Winter pack, titanium x pack. They want 2.5k just to add half leather seats. Ah here, get out of it. There'll be no leather anywhere so.


  • #1370
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Sorry for the long stream of posts, this is the last. Anyone in the west not busy next sunday and want to do a charity drive? It's something I am heavily involved in, but just can't be there next Sunday, really disappointed. All the details are on the pic I think. It's for a good cause, so support if ye can. It's a fair decent spin!

    Hope it's ok to post this.


  • #1371
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Covered about 550km over the weekend on a trip to Cork, hadn't covered anywhere near that mileage in a long time. Car was flawless, and seemed better for the run almost! Service and brakes next weekend!


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  • #1372
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Did somebody tell me MetzgerMeister got a white respray ?:P :pac:

    :confused:


  • #1373
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    :confused:

    That car that passed me was 07d and was a 335i. That's what you have isn't it? It was white, yours is grey, so que cheesey joke that it was you that passed me. No? Ah nevermind :o


  • #1374
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    That car that passed me was 07d and was a 335i. That's what you have isn't it? It was white, yours is grey, so que cheesey joke that it was you that passed me. No? Ah nevermind :o

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  • #1375
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Sorry for the long stream of posts, this is the last. Anyone in the west not busy next sunday and want to do a charity drive? It's something I am heavily involved in, but just can't be there next Sunday, really disappointed. All the details are on the pic I think. It's for a good cause, so support if ye can. It's a fair decent spin!

    Hope it's ok to post this.

    I might actually take my car along to that, looks like it could be fun, as for now, im off out for a spin up by blessington :D


  • #1376
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    toastedpickles wrote:
    I might actually take my car along to that, looks like it could be fun, as for now, im off out for a spin up by blessington 


    Hope it'll be a success, first year and all that.


  • #1377
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Hope it'll be a success, first year and all that.

    aye, if i get the 900's steering problems sorted out I'll see about taking that along instead


  • #1378
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    http://cars.donedeal.ie/view/9037241


    what do you think of this yolk. Good value?


  • #1379
    tossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭tossy


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    But your driving a Golf so how long before it throws a wobbler and a MAF sensor goes bananas and your idle becomes as smooth as Ray Liotta's face :pac:

    VW's are like Ray liotta, their early stuff was brilliant :D


  • #1380
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    The last few weeks I've noticed my wipers are not as good as they once were. I have them give or take a year (30k km) is that roughly what I should expect to get out of a set or what do you generally get out of a set. I'm just trying to gauge wether I should get the same vw ones again or go for a set of bosch.

    Also any suggestion for cleaning them or is it just a case they are gone and that's it. They are not even bad really just not 100% anymore probably be fine for another month or two.


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  • #1381
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    I've got original Ford ones on the mondeo since I bought it, and that will be 3 years in July. Now, they are starting to leave a few lines behind, need to change them soon. What I'm saying is oem wipers should last longer than a year, obvs depending on your mileage, but I don't think you do too insane of mileage?


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