Motors Chat - Round 8

punisher5112 · 03-06-2015 09:24PM

Bpmull wrote: »

Actually is it normal that in a car if you press the button to lock rear windows the car puts on child locks on the door itself I though that was a bit weird not a big deal as I don't lock the windows but just wondering.

Very good safety feature or for the lunatic driving to lock one in:eek:

Only one reason really to lock as kids would be no.1 so that feature is good.

Stheno · 03-06-2015 09:28PM

Bpmull wrote: »

Ah Ye engine rebuild sure :pac:

Anyway going by what some people say about renaults I should have a full time mechanic in the boot

Seriously how often have you used that stuff in an emergency? All that extra weight impacting on mpg and for what?

punisher5112 · 03-06-2015 09:30PM

Stheno wrote: »

Seriously how often have you used that stuff in an emergency? All that extra weight impacting on mpg and for what?

The minute you take something out is when you will most likely need it.

That happens...:D

Bpmull · 03-06-2015 09:32PM

Stheno wrote: »

Seriously how often have you used that stuff in an emergency? All that extra weight impacting on mpg and for what?

Looking at the list I use all that stuff fairly regularly except the tow rope and fire extinguisher ive never used either.

Stheno · 03-06-2015 09:33PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

The minute you take something out is when you will most likely need it.

That happens...:D

Or no matter how much you prepare, fate will screw you over

The only puncture I got in the Alfa was a blowout the compressor was useless

Bpmull · 03-06-2015 09:36PM

Stheno wrote: »

Or no matter how much you prepare, fate will screw you over

The only puncture I got in the Alfa was a blowout the compressor was useless

But if you had had the insulation tape you could of taped the tyre back up and used the compressor to pump it up see sometimes you have to think outside of the box

Being serious I agree with you to a certain extent but I probably still won't take anything out

James Bond Junior · 03-06-2015 09:36PM

I gave a small first aid kit, fire extinguisher, jump leads, fault code reader, regular car tool kit and compressor. I have used all this year bar first aid kit. I needed the kit 2 weeks ago but I didn't have my car by chance. The small amount it costs in extra diesel is worth the piece of mind.

YbFocus · 03-06-2015 09:40PM

I had a spare driveshaft in the boot which was quite handy after what happened last weekend. After that its a jack, breaker bar and spare wheel. My D/A too but that's only being transported.

toastedpickles · 03-06-2015 09:45PM

I've 3 tool boxes in mine, a fire extinguisher, jack, torch, breaker bar, and few other odds and ends, but you only see the 3 boxes, everything else is in the spare wheel well

Took the car up north the other day/night, not a peep out of it there and back

Stheno · 03-06-2015 09:46PM

YbFocus wrote: »

I had a spare driveshaft in the boot which was quite handy after what happened last weekend. After that its a jack, breaker bar and spare wheel. My D/A too but that's only being transported.

Actually I'd a spare Alternator and a full set of wheel nuts in one of the alfas

Most important to me outside of what I listed is food and something to drink, I got caught in a massive pile up in the fog on the m7 in 2007, but for locals bringing sammiches I'd have starved was stuck there about three or four hours

166man · 03-06-2015 09:47PM

I keep a pair of football boots and 6 bottles of sparkling water in the boot of my Alfa

Priorities lads......priorities...!

Noccy_Mondy · 03-06-2015 09:49PM

166man wrote:

I keep a pair of football boots and 6 bottle of sparkling water in the boot of my Alfa

Football...

Where did I leave my vomit bucket again... :pac:

Duke O Smiley · 03-06-2015 09:49PM

Out in the Corolla now/ usually; hurl, tow rope, jack

Bollox would I be lugging around most of that stuff above

James Bond Junior · 03-06-2015 09:50PM

Forgot the hi vis and easily 4 umbrellas. Don't know why 4 as the max people in the car will be myself and her indoors.

James Bond Junior · 03-06-2015 09:52PM

166man wrote: »

I keep a pair of football boots and 6 bottles of sparkling water in the boot of my Alfa

Priorities lads......priorities...!

Sparkling water? Well lah di dah!

Stheno · 03-06-2015 09:53PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Football...

Where did I leave my vomit bucket again... :pac:

Ah I regularly have a pile of sailing gear in the car, so I don't wash it along with the sailing gear that stinks

The sparkling water though?

166man · 03-06-2015 09:55PM

Football boots for that random moment you need to pretend to be Lionel Messi...!

Sparking water because refreshing thirst.....!

Duke O Smiley · 03-06-2015 09:56PM

Sparkling water is great stuff though, tescos sell litre bottles of the stuff for like 60 cent so I do always stock up myself

Stheno · 03-06-2015 09:56PM

James Bond Junior wrote: »

Forgot the hi vis and easily 4 umbrellas. Don't know why 4 as the max people in the car will be myself and her indoors.

I usually have at least five pairs of sunglasses in the car, I break them, lose them sailing (once lost a pair of oakleys when I got a smack off a boom) or if I'm wearing them over my regular glasses some don't fit

James Bond Junior · 03-06-2015 09:57PM

Could you put it in the radiator in an emergency? Keep it motors themed!

Bpmull · 03-06-2015 09:59PM

Open the boot in the octavia 10 umbrellas nothing else :pac: ive said it too my mother but she is obsessed with having this endless amount of umbrellas even down the sides of the door everywhere in the car

I don't have an umbrella I. Mine at all coat on the back seat though.

Stheno · 03-06-2015 10:01PM

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Sparkling water is great stuff though, tescos sell litre bottles of the stuff for like 60 cent so I do always stock up myself

Sparkling water has unfortunate consequences for me

James Bond Junior · 03-06-2015 10:02PM

Stheno wrote: »

Sparkling water has unfortunate consequences for me

Gassy in name, gassy in nature? Can't stand the stuff myself unless mixed with mi wadi or something.

Interslice · 03-06-2015 10:04PM

Stheno I'm driving a 1.8 156 ye. That's not much value from a belt :eek:. I do be anal as fook about these jobs so hopefully I'll get a bit longer from it. The old belt did seem very slack though and sort of jolted all of a sudden as when you took up the slack turning it over. Seemed like a recipe for belt failure to me. Only changed a few though so could be normal enough. Hopefully the new tensioner is a better part.

Permanently in the boot is spare oil, a few bulbs and bog roll! Dacent stock tool kit stuck in the spare wheel. Reckon it's for mcguivering up some sort of crossbow thing in a survival situation :pac:

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Stheno · 03-06-2015 10:08PM

James Bond Junior wrote: »

Gassy in name, gassy in nature? Can't stand the stuff myself unless mixed with mi wadi or something.

Wrecks my stomach black coffee is the same

Stheno · 03-06-2015 10:14PM

Interslice wrote: »

Stheno I'm driving a 1.8 156 ye. That's not much value from a belt :eek:. I do be anal as fook about these jobs so hopefully I'll get a bit longer from it. The old belt did seem very slack though and sort of jolted all of a sudden as when you took up the slack turning it over. Seemed like a recipe for belt failure to me. Only changed a few though so could be normal enough. Hopefully the new tensioner is a better part.

I was anal as fook about that car, when the belt was changed so were the tensioner and aux, and the water pump and variator! And still it snapped within the lowered interval. Bizarrely, a week or two before it snapped I said to my mechanic I'd only a couple of thousand miles left and we had planned to get it in in that timeframe, that's how cautious I was

Oil checked every week, serviced on schedule

I permanently had oil in the boot also but never had a problem with excessive oil use

ba_barabus · 03-06-2015 10:16PM

Do we have a resident diesel fanatic who would be familiar with the old Renault 1.9D from the mid 90's?

I need advice

YbFocus · 03-06-2015 10:17PM

ba_barabus wrote: »

Do we have a resident diesel fanatic who would be familiar with the old Renault 1.9D from the mid 90's?

I need advice

Duke I reckon?
Or dgt in general!

Interslice · 03-06-2015 10:18PM

Stheno wrote: »

Wrecks my stomach black coffee is the same

Roten stuff sparkling water. I find anything acidic like that cuts the stomach out of me. Really bad if I haven't eaten anything. If I've a green tea first thing with nothing to eat i'll probably have to pull over either to be sick or grab a bacon sandwich! Seems to be alot worse in soft water areas like dublin and cork city without the limey water to neutralise it.

GvidoR · 03-06-2015 10:21PM

Stuff I keep in the car currently: Wheel bolt removal thing (whatever it's called), spare tyre, jump leads (pretty crappy ones), 500ml bottle of water and a hockey (not field hockey, the proper kind) stick.

I should really put a jack in the back too. :P

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