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

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  • #5252
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    166man wrote: »
    That seems a common mod on quite a few cars these days, seen quite a few with Porsche callipers and larger discs. Definitely worth while, you can't beat good brakes!

    The brakes on the car are very good as standard but it would obviously be a great upgrade.
    I'd like them for the aesthetics too!


  • #5253
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Let's not forget that good tyres are key in braking. You could have Brembo 42 pot calipers on your 325 but if you have sh!t tyres, best of luck to ya!


  • #5254
    power pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,902 ✭✭✭power pants


    well, I would disagree strongly with you there. If you drive without care or due caution you deserve everything you get


  • #5255
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Let's not forget that good tyres are key in braking. You could have Brembo 42 pot calipers on your 325 but if you have sh!t tyres, best of luck to ya!

    Didn't know 42 pots were available :)

    Oh i know and i always run good tyres, great brakes on it at the min and it can't overcome them!

    It's only a thought for now, but a nice thought!


  • #5256
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    power pants wrote: »
    well, I would disagree strongly with you there. If you drive without care or due caution you deserve everything you get

    In fairness if i upgraded my brakes and didn't have tyres to back them up it would be a pointless investment as i couldn't use the extra breaking performance if i needed to.


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  • #5257
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    power pants wrote: »
    well, I would disagree strongly with you there.

    Of course you would.


  • #5258
    power pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,902 ✭✭✭power pants


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Of course you would.



    of course


  • #5259
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    Anyone know any thing about lug nuts,
    I am ordering a set with a locking nut but I dont know weather i should get normal length or the long ones.

    The advantage of the long ones is that the wheels wont get as damaged when removing nuts. However surely they cannot be secure? I would imagine even with a lock nut that long a thief could get a tool around it regardless of if it is a lock nut or not, anyone any experience?


  • #5260
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    I'd buy the normal ones and just be super careful man!


  • #5261
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    YbFocus wrote: »
    The brakes on the car are very good as standard but it would obviously be a great upgrade.
    I'd like them for the aesthetics too!

    Does it mean you get to use bigger discs?


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  • #5262
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Found these two 2P coins from 1980 and 1996 under the carpet in the Vento.

    17575205934_f766b7a758_c.jpg


  • #5263
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    dorgasm wrote: »
    Scumbags. I wonder would windshield cover sort that or is it restricted to just the windshield (I'm guessing not)...

    All fixed up now. The Gardai had left a card on the car with a name and number to contact. I had spotted it at 4am as I came home from Dublins classiest establishment.


  • #5264
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Found these two 2P coins from 1980 and 1996 under the carpet in the Vento.

    17575205934_f766b7a758_c.jpg

    Pity it wasn't a 10p from 1992.


  • #5265
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    To be honest you really wouldn't notice a issue if your not using the car on track. You could put massive 6 pot brakes on your road car and you may not notice a huge difference. That said a decent set of pads and tyres is always a good purchase. It's amazing how good modern road cars brakes are if you even compare to 10 years ago. Having driven stock Fords,Mazda's, Volvo's on track they stand up to a huge amount of punishment with no fade or shuddering.

    Not like your road car has a huge amount of down-force to help with your new massive brakes :pac:

    Brakes are well adequate in fairness tis mostly for aesthetic purposes!
    I am doing the nordschleife in august though!

    Maybe they'll be justified there :)


  • #5266
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    Take it very very handy on the nordschleife. If you crash there (and its easy to do) it gets fierce fierce expensive. And I am not even talking about the damage to your car. Do not go out to beat any records just enjoy the moment.

    Oh I'm out there to enjoy it man nothing crazy!
    I know the costs and everything involved and have researched it all.
    I'd like by the end of the day to go under ten mins but if it's not feasible it won't be chased!

    I'm out there to say I've been on it :)


  • #5267
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Lhe 9-5 is living again, and the whole front is now polybushed, new arb bushings, subframe/torque rod and gearbox to t rod is all polybushed, it's stiffer than an inanimate carbon rod!

    I'm just happy to have a working radio again :o

    In_rod_we_trust.jpg


  • #5268
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Pity it wasn't a 10p from 1992.

    Why's that?


  • #5269
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Lhe 9-5 is living again, and the whole front is now polybushed, new arb bushings, subframe/torque rod and gearbox to t rod is all polybushed, it's stiffer than an inanimate carbon rod!

    I'm just happy to have ain :o

    In_rod_we_trust.jpg

    Good to hear man. You going to park up the 900 now for tinkering with?
    Thinking about polybushing the front of the alfa. Going from working on the mivec to the 156 you can really see the difference in the size of the bushings and wishbones. More or less golfball size wishbone bushingd on the alfa to tennis ball size on the mitsubishi.


  • #5270
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Lhe 9-5 is living again, and the whole front is now polybushed, new arb bushings, subframe/torque rod and gearbox to t rod is all polybushed, it's stiffer than an inanimate carbon rod!

    I'm just happy to have a working radio again :o

    In_rod_we_trust.jpg

    The amount of 900's I've come across lately us unreal.

    My favorite was only yesterday a 1990 red saab 900 convertible with a cream leather interior and was in fantastic condition all the way around !


  • #5271
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    The amount of 900's I've come across lately us unreal.

    My favorite was only yesterday a 1990 red saab 900 convertible with a cream leather interior and was in fantastic condition all the way around !

    It's always the way. You rarely see a particular car then someone you know gets one and all of a sudden you notice loads of them.

    Girl I know got a Qashqai lately and the exact same happened. :D


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  • #5272
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Up in Belfast for the day with work today, car drove perfectly am getting used to it

    Have another 160 mile round trip tomorrow so I should be well used to it by the weekend


  • #5273
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Your previous cars not have a throttle stheno :)


  • #5274
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    YbFocus wrote: »
    Your previous cars not have a throttle stheno :)

    Huh? Am a bit brain dead


  • #5275
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Stheno wrote: »
    Huh? Am a bit brain dead

    Ah come on!
    Your problem turned out to be you weren't used to the throttle :)


  • #5276
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    YbFocus wrote: »
    Ah come on!
    Your problem turned out to be you weren't used to the throttle :)

    Yes I've copped what you said now :)

    It's very different from what I'm used to

    Can't wait for the long weekend to get a break


  • #5277
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Why's that?

    Worth close to 5 figures.


  • #5278
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Worth close to 5 figures.

    were very few minted?


  • #5279
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,308 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Worth close to 5 figures.

    Are these the small 10p or the large ones?


  • #5280
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,308 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Pity it wasn't a 10p from 1992.
    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Worth close to 5 figures.

    Upon further investigation they are extremely rare.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=71822064&postcount=140


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  • #5281
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    I emailed micksgarage to see if they were getting in haynes manual for megane 3 it went into print in the last few weeks can be got in the uk. I figured Id hold out if they were getting them in to make for handy delivery. Granted I wasn't expecting much back as I'm sure they got a lot of email. But they email me back the most generic copy and paste job basically said try a main dealer or breakers yard for my car part and that they don't stock it.


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