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Post a picture of your car here Part 4 (quote a picture, get a 24h ban!!)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,083 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Hachiko wrote: »
    this is exactly why people import uk cars.

    ...

    ....

    Probably the stupidest thing I've read all day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    People import UK cars because they love rust.


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


    Hachiko wrote: »
    alloy cleaner is for alloys, the clue is in the name. You can get several products to remove bugs from paintwork., this is exactly why people import uk cars.

    Alloy wheel cleaner contains a fallout remover which you also spray on your car to remove fallout (albeit a different name).

    Can't see anything wrong with alloy wheel cleaner on paint, and if there is I ain't going to be using that alloy wheel cleaner on my wheels in the first place as you'll inevitably get overspray onto the precious paint work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭Hachiko


    CianRyan wrote: »
    People import UK cars because they love rust.

    its 2015, this thing about rust probably was true 10+ years ago. Any new (ish) car in England would have little or no rust once its looked after, and in all likelihood be far better maintained than an Irish car and have better specification. My car is certainly not new and has zero rust, this is a myth now more than anything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,083 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Hachiko wrote: »
    its 2015, this thing about rust probably was true 10+ years ago. Any new car in England would have little or no rust once its looked after, and in all likelihood be far better maintained than an Irish car and have better specification.

    My mother's Mazda 3 would disagree with you there


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭Hachiko


    My mother's Mazda 3 would disagree with you there

    Probably due to shoddy maintenance, a bodywork is only as good as how well the owner will look after it. Most manufacturers have a bodywork guarantee.

    how old is this Mazda out of interest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭Colash


    Couldn't help myself . Quick rub of polish today


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,871 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


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


    bear1 wrote: »
    Curious, how does the insurance work when there are 3 people using it?

    We use third party extensions of our own individual policies, bear.
    Hachiko wrote: »
    alloy cleaner is for alloys, the clue is in the name. You can get several products to remove bugs from paintwork., this is exactly why people import uk cars.
    Hachiko wrote: »
    Probably due to shoddy maintenance, a bodywork is only as good as how well the owner will look after it. Most manufacturers have a bodywork guarantee.


    how old is this Mazda out of interest.

    You need to sound just a tad more patronising to really get your point across.

    Using alloy wheel cleaner as QV said contains a fallout remover which is what's used to remove bugs, a bit of research could have helped there. :)

    People import UK cars because they can get fleet cars for absolute buttons and bring them over here to sell on.

    I'm also not quite sure that rust on a car is due to a lack of bodywork maintenance, normally it's because it's made badly or there is considerable salt on the roads (which there is in the UK, in case you weren't aware :) ).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,083 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Hachiko wrote: »
    Probably due to shoddy maintenance, a bodywork is only as good as how well the owner will look after it. Most manufacturers have a bodywork guarantee.

    how old is this Mazda out of interest.

    2012, with well under 30k on the clock currently. It had rust repaired about 18 months ago.

    Shoddily maintained it is not

    You're talking ****e


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭Hachiko


    looks like a problem that lies with the manufacturer, You are saying that car had rust when it was basically little over a year old. I have never seen a car that was ~2 years old with rust. if i was talking shiite hoards of people would not have been bringing back uk cars in recent years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭Hachiko


    166man wrote: »
    We use third party extensions of our own individual policies, bear.





    You need to sound just a tad more patronising to really get your point across.

    Using alloy wheel cleaner as QV said contains a fallout remover which is what's used to remove bugs, a bit of research could have helped there. :)

    People import UK cars because they can get fleet cars for absolute buttons and bring them over here to sell on.

    I'm also not quite sure that rust on a car is due to a lack of bodywork maintenance, normally it's because it's made badly or there is considerable salt on the roads (which there is in the UK, in case you weren't aware :) ).

    Have you spent some time over in the UK? we all know about salt on the roads, I have been here quite a bit and most new-ish cars to me look well kept and no signs of any rust. Certainly rust on a 2 year old mazda is a bit much, there must have been a reason for that car to have rust, like an accident and a botched up repair job.

    This salt thing I dont really buy anymore tbh.


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


    Hachiko wrote: »
    Have you spent some time over in the UK? we all know about salt on the roads, I have been here quite a bit and most new-ish cars to me look well kept and no signs of any rust. Certainly rust on a 2 year old mazda is a bit much, there must have been a reason for that car to have rust, like an accident and a botched up repair job.

    This salt thing I dont really buy anymore tbh.

    Yeah, I have spent plenty of time over there actually. Even owned UK cars too if you can imagine that.

    So are you saying that the UK import is now a crashed badly repaired car? Why is it that people go to the UK again?

    You're diggin yourself a hole here, man. :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,083 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Hachiko wrote: »
    Have you spent some time over in the UK? we all know about salt on the roads, I have been here quite a bit and most new-ish cars to me look well kept and no signs of any rust. Certainly rust on a 2 year old mazda is a bit much, there must have been a reason for that car to have rust, like an accident and a botched up repair job.

    This salt thing I dont really buy anymore tbh.

    Yeah, my OAP mother who does <10k a year, the very same person who had a base spec 12 year old Corolla serviced at a main dealer annually crashed her car and had a bodge repair on it.


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


    This thread needs more pictures!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    My mam's 09 Mazda 6 is Irish from new and has so signs of rust of any kind, thus, the problem does not lie with the manufacturer.


  • Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm nearly tempted to buy you a pair if new reg plates for the golf Gvidor


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


    I'm nearly tempted to buy you a pair if new reg plates for the golf Gvidor

    I would gratefully accept them. :P

    I'm aware of their condition and I do plan on replacing them but when there's other stuff that needs to be done, it kinda delays that whole plate replacing thing.


  • Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    GvidoR wrote: »
    I would gratefully accept them. :P

    I'm aware of their condition and I do plan on replacing them but when there's other stuff that needs to be done, it kinda delays that whole plate replacing thing.

    Ah ya all in good time. I actually need to change mine to metal pressed. The ones I have don't fit in the surrounds properly. Too thick


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭Hachiko


    CianRyan wrote: »
    My mam's 09 Mazda 6 is Irish from new and has so signs of rust of any kind, thus, the problem does not lie with the manufacturer.

    shoddy ownership then, but hey i am talking shiite.

    then again I don't find modded corsas cool so maybe I need new glasses.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭Hachiko


    166man wrote: »
    Yeah, I have spent plenty of time over there actually. Even owned UK cars too if you can imagine that.

    So are you saying that the UK import is now a crashed badly repaired car? Why is it that people go to the UK again?

    You're diggin yourself a hole here, man. :confused:

    dont know what you are on about, a relatively new car like that guys mams mazda should not rust after 2 years.

    they will only rust if neglected, or else it would be a pretty serious manufacture issue when seems unlikely., Honda IIRC had an issue with rusting sunroofs on the 8th gen and they offered a repair out of good will but only on selected years.


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


    Hachiko wrote: »
    shoddy ownership then, but hey i am talking shiite.

    then again I don't find modded corsas cool so maybe I need new glasses.

    I don't think anyone with half a brain cell finds corsas cool, let alone modded ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,083 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    I don't think anyone with half a brain cell finds corsas cool, let alone modded ones.

    If HAchiko feels the need to drag my comments from other threads over onto here...

    What I meant was, there was a time when a lot of people put a lot of money into Corsas and Astras and the likes, i.e - there was a time when it was cool. Like flet spec, thats "in" atm


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


    I don't think anyone with half a brain cell finds corsas cool, let alone modded ones.

    How about this one? :P

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  • Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't think anyone with half a brain cell finds corsas cool, let alone modded ones.

    I had one for a few months. My first car in 2007. A real love hate relationship. Very fond memories of that car. Still wouldn't go near one again though.


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


    His paint would melt.

    The paint didn't melt :) probably for the same reason the paint on my alloys doesn't melt when i use it on them. i'd have used it a good few times on my vitz alloys that i had painted at a local bodyshop for example and never had any trouble, same with the starlet. If anything i done the paint a favour as i didn't have to scrub hard to get the bugs off.

    Just to add to the banter, UK import celica, no rust :)

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


    The alloy wheel cleaner I used had acid in it, you can not leave on the wheels for more than a few minutes before needing to wash it off or the wheels will get damaged, I thought all wheel cleaners were like this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭ShaunieVW


    The alloy wheel cleaner I used had acid in it, you can not leave on the wheels for more than a few minutes before needing to wash it off or the wheels will get damaged, I thought all wheel cleaners were like this.

    No you can get a decent acid free wheel cleaner. I wouldn't put an acid based cleaner near any car.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭Daaryl


    Got my tinted windows done! :)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    You'll be seen anyway!


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