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

Family car pics here

My great aunt and uncle's 1999 Primera. Has it since it was 1 year old, and has only covered 61,000 miles. Does very little driving, but without exception, they drive to Ireland every year, from south Cornwall in England. Both are well into their 80's, but he can still drive perfect. There hasn't been an inch of Ireland they haven't covered in this past 60 years of holidaying here.

The car itself is immaculately clean, spotless inside, one of the highest spec's primearas too. It's a 1.8 petrol.

You can probably see a few touch-ups on the bumpers, which he done himself, not that great, but you have to admire the fact he tries. It would be very rear to find something similar, a 1999 reg, in this country!











Sorry if these pictures are all over the place, this post literally took me an hour to compile - had to resort to a crap windows xp computer, seeing as mine is broken.

davycc wrote:

noccy windows XP/vista were all gonna die

Oh stop will ya, it's the old computer in the corner of the room that's been there since the year 1, only used by mam. Crackles and noises like feck, probably will explode some day. It's jam packed, has feck all ram, and takes an age to process anything. "Pages have become unresponsive" must have appeared 30 times in the time it took me to upload them 5 pics!

YbFocus wrote: »

I don't know paddy, i loved that car.
I can't warm to modern golfs.

It's the seats in them that turn me off , look like them old hats <racist term removed> would wear.

Also don't understand why people buy high performance cars in auto instead of manual , each to their own of course but that would take the fun out of it for me completely...I like the shift

But that is a very well kept and clean GTI.

DSG gearbox is the absolute business in those cars...

Had one of those primeras.
They are one comfy car to go on a trip.
You could drive them all day.

The woman I sold it to in October 2005 is still driving it. Though she told me last week it wont pass the next nct as the chassis is starting to rust.

This is it.

The 159 after a wax using Tesco car wax. I bet you are all thinking "Tesco, car wax!? That must be ****". And you'd be right. Dreadful stuff. It looks fine here, but the first rain shower after and the car was covered in more water marks than it was before I waxed it. Brought it back for a lovely refund of €4.20. Lesson learned.

The tesco cucumber car shampoo looks like good fun though. Havn't tried it yet though.

I'm pretty sure the tesco bits are made by simoniz. A lot of the tesco stuff isn't great but you won't get many detailing enthusiasts buying their gear in tescos.

I bought a load of tesco branded large genuine leather chamois' last week for €2 each, delighted. I know, i know chamois, scratches etc. I use it with common sense and one or two swirls wont have me losing sleep.

Fixed my link there.

Yeah, I went into Halfords afterwards and got 3 for 2 on Autoglym products. I actually didnt get a wax but got a car shampoo and some interior leather products. I think I will go for the starter pack with clay, wax, compound, and applicator next time. They are good value. I have another car that I need to compound so looking forward to that.

Foam Friday

Sprayed the bumper vents black, gave it a wash and tidied up the bumper alignment a small bit

It's so hard to photograph this car and make it look good. In person, I personally think it looks phenomenal.
Whatever the camera lens does I don't know, but the proportions just seem odd and bloated in photographs, it's much sleeker in person.





Wheels scrubbed this evening.





The perfect light for hiding any imperfections.

Great photo there 166man

166man wrote: »

You were down by Caherdaniel today FN? Amazing spot!

I was indeed. I used to stay down there every Summer in Wave Crest so decided to take a spin down yesterday as I remember those roads being great, it didn't disappoint :cool:

The road off the Dual Carriageway to Kenmare and the one from Sneem to Caherdaniel are just class.

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

I was indeed. I used to stay down there every Summer in Wave Crest so decided to take a spin down yesterday as I remember those roads being great, it didn't disappoint :cool:

The road off the Dual Carriageway to Kenmare and the one from Sneem to Caherdaniel are just class.

I used to spend a lot of summers in O Carroll's cove (where you took the photo) and one of the best drives I've ever had was from there to Waterville so I could get money to go drinking. Sun shining, quiet road and a rwd 6 cylinder BMW. Fantastic.