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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Are you back from a ban?
    Day release from St. John of Gods.


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


    Totally anecdotal but are VW Corrados back in style? I've seen three of them in the past week and one was a VR6.

    A few years back there was a resurgence in BMW 8 series around the place imported from the UK, maybe this is something similar.

    They were never our of style.

    There were a couple of nice ones last Sunday at the Midlands Volkswagen show.


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


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Day release from St. John of Gods.


    your relatives told me to say hello to you cian ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    your relatives told me to say hello to you cian ;)

    Sure I'm a past patient myself, they just must me. :)


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


    Can't we all just get along?

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


    GvidoR wrote: »
    They were never our of style.

    Sure the were, early to mid 00s


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


    GvidoR wrote: »
    They were never our of style.

    There were a couple of nice ones last Sunday at the Midlands Volkswagen show.

    The Corrado is properly cool, and always was. And I say that as someone who has a habit of stopping on the street to point and laugh at Passats and Boras. :D


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


    jimgoose wrote: »
    The Corrado is properly cool, and always was. And I say that as someone who has a habit of stopping on the street to point and laugh at Passats and Boras. :D

    Passats and Boras are nice too*, obviously not with sun strips covering most of the windscreen, huge CB aerials, black smoke and Nurburgring stickers though.

    * Exhibit A
    * Exhibit B


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


    There is a 2 litre red bora knocking around the city centre


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


    There is a 2 litre red bora knocking around the city centre

    I don't know why they made the 2.0 N/A when they had 1.8T 20V


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


    PErsonally Ive never liked them, found them very basic and ugly. HOwever that pic you posted of the silver/grey one looks good.

    Over here, all boras are in horrible colours, silver or that bluey/purpley colour with no extras at all, just the basic of the basic. Makes the car look completely different to the one in the pic


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


    I bet you are going to say you own a bora now....

    If you do, I genuinely did not know this and if you dont -its all good :)


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


    I bet you are going to say you own a bora now....

    If you do, I genuinely did not know this and if you dont -its all good :)

    Not right now, but I have owned two Boras in the past. Sold one about 4 months ago.

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


    dont feel so bad now


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭tom_tarbucket




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    Anyone know what the fines are for having front-side tinted windows?


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



    was this truck on a us programme for discovery channel? Sure I saw it one night on the tv


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


    On Sunday, while driving, the airbag light came on and hasn't gone away since. Before it happened, I saw it flash twice for half a second (on two different days) but it happened so quick I didn't know which light it was. Must be a loose connection right?

    I took off the steering wheel airbag when I aligned the steering wheel, but I didn't remove the connector (this was about 5 days ago) and after I put it all back the light wasn't on. Today I took off the airbag again, checked the connections and the light is still there. :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 586 ✭✭✭ShaunieVW


    GvidoR wrote: »
    On Sunday, while driving, the airbag light came on and hasn't gone away since. Before it happened, I saw it flash twice for half a second (on two different days) but it happened so quick I didn't know which light it was. Must be a loose connection right?

    I took off the steering wheel airbag when I aligned the steering wheel, but I didn't remove the connector (this was about 5 days ago) and after I put it all back the light wasn't on. Today I took off the airbag again, checked the connections and the light is still there. :o


    I presume it has a sensor under the seat? I'd check there first.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭Asmooh


    w00h my mx5 got a new APK (NCT in Ireland):

    - Break lines fixed (i already had them ordered)
    - 2 new lights


    thats all! and the car was standing still for more than 3 years! not bad


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



    I wonder how good the swaps he'll be offered will be


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


    ShaunieVW wrote: »
    I presume it has a sensor under the seat? I'd check there first.

    Couldn't find any sensors under the seats. Did some googling and it seems that the sensors are just in the crumple zone.


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


    I know its not car related, but i was coming back from doing the bushing on the 9-5 today, and a scania 143 500 was at the lights in the main street in kildare, gave it loads of welly taking off

    The sound....my god the sound, twin pipes, and a big mother of a v8

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭mhackett102


    Sooo Im just after buying a car :) really happy with it. Picking it up from the garage tomorrow evening after work!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Sooo Im just after buying a car :) really happy with it. Picking it up from the garage tomorrow evening after work!

    Ignorant prick!! Turning into Monadreen is more important than anything else is it?! :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭mhackett102


    Ignorant prick!! Turning into Monadreen is more important than anything else is it?! :P

    I thought that was you! My eyesight is not the best and I only realised after you passed.. I promise I'll wave next time :p


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


    I know its not car related, but i was coming back from doing the bushing on the 9-5 today, and a scania 143 500 was at the lights in the main street in kildare, gave it loads of welly taking off

    The sound....my god the sound, twin pipes, and a big mother of a v8

    I don't know anything about trucks. Until I googled it, I thought it had a 143 plate. :pac:
    Sooo Im just after buying a car :) really happy with it. Picking it up from the garage tomorrow evening after work!

    Aren't you going to tell us what it is? :eek::eek:


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


    GvidoR wrote: »
    I don't know anything about trucks. Until I googled it, I thought it had a 143 plate. :pac:

    Neither do i. but they make an unreal sound i think


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭NN1


    was this truck on a us programme for discovery channel? Sure I saw it one night on the tv

    Looks similar to the one on wheeler dealers.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭mhackett102


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Aren't you going to tell us what it is? :eek::eek:

    Umm I think I'll let ye guess.. I'll try post pictures tomorrow night (or whenever I get a set of alloys for it) :p


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