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

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  • #2402
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    They are well worth considering, they have some great upshots, but i believe real world economy is TDi at best.

    Depends on your driving. If it's only short spins your better off with a petrol. Diesel isn't going to get up to operating temp as quick.


  • #2403
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    postage rates are depressing, I ordered the cheapest tail lights I could find on yahoo auctions 30 euro(well there were cheaper but they all had scratches) and the postage works out at another 90 euros which is 3 times the price of the item.

    These are the ones, Chaser series 2 OME tail lights.
    345586.jpg


  • #2404
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,903 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Depends on your driving. If it's only short spins your better off with a petrol. Diesel isn't going to get up to operating temp as quick.

    I understand that. What i meant was that they don't really achieve much higher mpg than your average tdi on a run apparently so don't buy one expecting it to run on fresh air.


  • #2405
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    I understand that. What i meant was that they don't really achieve much higher mpg than your average tdi on a run apparently so don't buy one expecting it to run on fresh air.

    The Focus i had got great MPG but i used that on the motorway and dual carriage ways for long periods an awful lot so thats why that went well.

    I'm Debating getting a car at all because it would only be used for short distance driving and probably only 2 exits on the M50 at most to / from work.

    the reason i said a prius is for the reasons i said above there but also I would definitely get petrol again because of the usage the car would get but the prius would be better suited for city driving (driving on battery sometimes and auto box etc.) and then the reason for an 08' would be the cheap tax bracket,

    But i just dont know much about toyota's reliability on them and i haven't driving one long enough to know their comfort or what the story is with the batterys and replacing them ?


  • #2406
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Dont wana turnthe picture thread into a chat thread so I'll post it here
    wonski wrote: »
    That is a proper sleeper there.

    Lovely car, always liked Saabs.

    0-100 in 8.7s? Not bad at all.

    Had a quick look at specs for this model and it appears there were loads of engine options at that time

    Haha thanks, I'm a tad find of them myself :o

    Yeah its shocking fast, partly because most of it isn't there :pac: airbags? what are they? Abs? No time for that at all! it's literally your seatbelt and thats it, everything else is there for business

    I'm gona clean it up monday and slap on a bit of polish and wax and see how it turns out :D


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  • #2407
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Meant to say it to ya that there's a 900T for sale outside a house on Peters Road in Walkinstown. Might be a good donor car for parts. ;)


  • #2408
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Meant to say it to ya that there's a 900T for sale outside a house on Peters Road in Walkinstown. Might be a good donor car for parts. ;)

    It would be dude, but I'm in enough trouble at home as it is with all the cars haha I need to get rid of them before i go getting more :o


  • #2409
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,903 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    Lads, in a spot if bother i think.

    Usual commute today, it's always a battle with the celica and it's fuel thimble... aaanyway, got to my destination, car is well into the fuel light but there is a petrol station nearby so i didn't mind.

    Tried to start the car later to get fuel and head home, took a ****load of cranking to start the car, i assume because it was so empty and the parking was on a slope, when i filled up i got 42.7 liters into a 45 liter tank so it was pretty empty earlier.

    Problem is, now even with a full tank the car takes a lot of cranking to start. Have i ****ed something up?


  • #2410
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    To Prius or not to Prius ?

    are they worth the money ? I thought you'd get a half decent 08' one for about 4 - 4.5 K now ?

    go for it. They're my dirty fetish car. The car I try not to tell anyone I like but I love. Excellent fuel economy decent to drive and unlike an ev, you get across the country without needing to stop for a few hours for some go go juice.


  • #2411
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Anyone know of a place in Cork that sells AuotSol? Really need to get my exhaust tip in better condition.


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  • #2412
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,214 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    Anyone know of a place in Cork that sells AuotSol? Really need to get my exhaust tip in better condition.

    Motorway at the end of Tramore Road?


  • #2413
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Halfords?


  • #2414
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Autosol is rubbish these days.

    I've a tube dating from the 90s out in the shed. Deadly stuff, I think they've had the less environmentally friendly ingredients have been removed.


  • #2415
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    Lads, in a spot if bother i think.

    Usual commute today, it's always a battle with the celica and it's fuel thimble... aaanyway, got to my destination, car is well into the fuel light but there is a petrol station nearby so i didn't mind.

    Tried to start the car later to get fuel and head home, took a ****load of cranking to start the car, i assume because it was so empty and the parking was on a slope, when i filled up i got 42.7 liters into a 45 liter tank so it was pretty empty earlier.

    Problem is, now even with a full tank the car takes a lot of cranking to start. Have i ****ed something up?

    It sounds like it may have picked up some debris from the bottom of the tank. If it continues to be a hard starter I would change the fuel filter.


  • #2416
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,815 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    go for it. They're my dirty fetish car. The car I try not to tell anyone I like but I love. Excellent fuel economy decent to drive and unlike an ev, you get across the country without needing to stop for a few hours for some go go juice.

    I kinda like the idea tbh. I track my mileage per tank and read ecodriving forums. I got into that after driving a super thirsty Merc A class.

    I wouldn't mind having a drive in a prius to see how they are. I'm not in a position to buy one now but may do as a second car (but primary) in the future. I want the next car to be a post-08 petrol auto, but they're slim on the ground.


  • #2417
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Meant to say it to ya that there's a 900T for sale outside a house on Peters Road in Walkinstown. Might be a good donor car for parts. ;)
    toastedpickles wrote: »
    It would be dude, but I'm in enough trouble at home as it is with all the cars haha I need to get rid of them before i go getting more :o

    While ye're just talking about that, but there is a black 4 door 900 just sitting outside a friend of my mother's house in Clontarf, it looks like it's been there a while, I've asked her about it before and she just says it belongs to one of the neighbor's. Awful shame to see it sitting there


  • #2418
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    go for it. They're my dirty fetish car. The car I try not to tell anyone I like but I love. Excellent fuel economy decent to drive and unlike an ev, you get across the country without needing to stop for a few hours for some go go juice.

    If i find a nice 08 for less than 5k than it may be a serious goer....


  • #2419
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    It would be dude, but I'm in enough trouble at home as it is with all the cars haha I need to get rid of them before i go getting more :o

    Did you apply for those bus eireann and Dublin bus apprenticeships ?


  • #2420
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Have some lovely dashcam footage of a middle aged man on the path pissing out onto the path/road at 10am this morning, fag in hand. Just as well the dashcam thread is closed. Welcome to Dundalk indeed. :pac:


  • #2421
    Gavman84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭Gavman84


    Postie finally arrived with these today. Getting fitted on Tuesday now looking forward to more low! Will need to mind front bumper tho..


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  • #2422
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Have some lovely dashcam footage of a middle aged man on the path pissing out onto the path/road at 10am this morning, fag in hand. Just as well the dashcam thread is closed. Welcome to Dundalk indeed. :pac:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057386855

    :pac:

    Have seen worse... Neighbor pissing out his back window...etc


  • #2423
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    Did you apply for those bus eireann and Dublin bus apprenticeships ?

    Yeah, heard nothing back


  • #2424
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Yeah, heard nothing back

    Sure put it this way..... if they took me on they'll take anyone and anything ! :pac:


  • #2425
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    Sure put it this way..... if they took me on they'll take anyone and anything ! :pac:

    :pac: there's hope yet so!


  • #2426
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    To Prius or not to Prius ?

    are they worth the money ? I thought you'd get a half decent 08' one for about 4 - 4.5 K now ?

    Go for it. A nicely specced Prius is an enjoyable car. The jbl stereo is quite good, the auto park etc is novel for a 2004 model car.
    Not a fan of leather in them though.
    I'd nearly buy one.

    Dunno about getting a decent one for 4.5k though. I think you're a bit out there.


  • #2427
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Gavman84 wrote: »
    Postie finally arrived with these today. Getting fitted on Tuesday now looking forward to more low! Will need to mind front bumper tho..

    Bumper will be fine, just don't fit a splitter (aptly named)


  • #2428
    Gavman84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭Gavman84


    Kind of like the look of the splitters but no point making it too low be a nightmare then. You thinking heading to airside?


  • #2429
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Gavman84 wrote: »
    Kind of like the look of the splitters but no point making it too low be a nightmare then. You thinking heading to airside?

    Doubt it tbh dude, will either be working or saving for car stuffz


  • #2430
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Go for it. A nicely specced Prius is an enjoyable car. The jbl stereo is quite good, the auto park etc is novel for a 2004 model car.
    Not a fan of leather in them though.
    I'd nearly buy one.

    Dunno about getting a decent one for 4.5k though. I think you're a bit out there.

    Im noticing that here alright . Could pull one from the UK for that but the exchange is too poor to even try


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  • #2431
    job seeker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭job seeker


    Speaking of splitters...

    Any body heading to the forest park in roscomman on sunday? Ireland Splitter Scufflers are having a meet. Felt spec galore and some japs.. There is about 1500 attending on the facebook page..


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