Motors Chat - Round 8

GvidoR · 02-07-2015 03:50PM

Renewal time is coming and it's already giving me a headache. Tried Axa and Chill online quotes so far, both around the €2000 mark. Axa called me and asked a couple of questions and at the end gave me a quote of €1850 or something like that, I told him that I paid €950 for last year (which is true) and he said "Okay, we can try again next year"

Pov06 · 02-07-2015 04:03PM

GvidoR wrote: »

he said "Okay, we can try again next year"

What a cheeky b*stard.

02-07-2015 04:05PM

Safe till next year. Second times the charm.

toastedpickles · 02-07-2015 04:09PM

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Safe till next year. Second times the charm.

Hopefully ill be the same monday

02-07-2015 04:11PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

Hopefully ill be the same monday

Best of luck. They've funk looking new certs now. Looks like someone took a highlighter to it.

toastedpickles · 02-07-2015 04:13PM

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Best of luck. They've funk looking new certs now. Looks like someone took a highlighter to it.

All we need now is neon pink tax discs and a multicoloured insurance disc and our windows are raving it to the max :pac:

Noccy_Mondy · 02-07-2015 04:25PM

Got a second hand front wiper motor for the focus in a breakers, 40 bob, he hadn't a back one, but said he'd go and look for one and ring me back. I never knew that motor factors don't do spurious motors? Anyway, popped into the main dealers to get a price for a new one for the craic, 179 plus vat, for a rear motor! Yer man even said to try a breakers.

Got the constant droning noise when revving diagnosed as a bearing gone in the alternator, or some bearing in that direction.

I'll try and pop the front motor in later on.

Hal1 · 02-07-2015 04:32PM

I think it's 6 10mm bolt screws holding on the rear wiper motor. It can be awkward for access on 1 or 2 of them.

aha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iZDtachFio

Duke O Smiley · 02-07-2015 05:25PM

So lads, any of you in Dublin coming along to Terenure on Sunday, plans I made two months ago with my mates have finally fell asunder

GvidoR · 02-07-2015 05:46PM

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

So lads, any of you in Dublin coming along to Terenure on Sunday, plans I made two months ago with my mates have finally fell asunder

What's in Terenure?

There's a GTI NI meet/show in Co. Down with a car limbo and BBQ on Sunday.

Duke O Smiley · 02-07-2015 05:49PM

GvidoR wrote: »

What's in Terenure?

There's a GTI NI meet/show in Co. Down with a car limbo and BBQ on Sunday.

Classic car show, its alright if you like old cars

wotzgoingon · 02-07-2015 05:55PM

GvidoR wrote: »

Renewal time is coming and it's already giving me a headache. Tried Axa and Chill online quotes so far, both around the €2000 mark. Axa called me and asked a couple of questions and at the end gave me a quote of €1850 or something like that, I told him that I paid €950 for last year (which is true) and he said "Okay, we can try again next year"

Jesus that's expensive for having extra no claims bonus as well.
Which car was the quote for. None of your cars would be classed as a performance car so i do not know where they are pulling these figures from.

My renewal will be soon as well(edit: actually 2 or 3 months time). So i will have to go through all the heartache as well.

beertons · 02-07-2015 05:57PM

Lent a friend my car for a week. Got it back with a tiny bit of damage. A wheel housing case smashed. Slight damage over the arch too, where the screws were holding it in. Feck sake.

GvidoR · 02-07-2015 06:03PM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Jesus that's expensive for having extra no claims bonus as well.
Which car was the quote for. None of your cars would be classed as a performance car so i do not know where they are pulling these figures from.

My renewal will be soon as well(edit: actually 2 or 3 months time). So i will have to go through all the heartache as well.

It was for the Punto, which should be the cheapest imo, because it has the smallest engine and is the newest.

Mycroft H · 02-07-2015 06:05PM

Just bought something French and barge like. Happy out

GvidoR · 02-07-2015 06:07PM

Mycroft H wrote: »

Just bought something French and barge like. Happy out

C4 estate?

Foxhole Norman · 02-07-2015 06:11PM

GvidoR wrote: »

It was for the Punto, which should be the cheapest imo, because it has the smallest engine and is the newest.

If only insurance worked that way!

Mycroft H · 02-07-2015 06:13PM

GvidoR wrote: »

C4 estate?

C5. 2.0HDI.

GvidoR · 02-07-2015 06:22PM

Aaah... I meant to say C5

Mycroft H · 02-07-2015 06:37PM

I'll get some pics when I get it home tomorrow.

In short.

110 HDi. NCT for a year. Clean inside. Few small scrapes on the front wing. FSH. Naff hubcaps going in the bin. Low miles (95k)

Stheno · 02-07-2015 07:02PM

There were three idiots at different parts of the m1 today doing less than 80 kph

And the past two days going south after the toll there is a bridge for another road under the motorway and not days there have been a cop car and a van parked there with the cops leaning against the bridge yapping no cameras out

Are they on a break or something?

Noccy_Mondy · 02-07-2015 08:36PM

So I got the motor in and it works... kinda. Works fine on a continuous sweep, but on the intermittent sweep, they park halfway on the window. I've tried adjusting the arms and linkages, but it keeps going back to the way it was? Bad motor?

YbFocus · 02-07-2015 08:57PM

YbFocus · 02-07-2015 09:03PM

Car is in for the test tomorrow.
I have most done but it will fail on a shock that I never got to that is weeping and possibly the handbrake.
Hopefully nothing more now, 24hrs to go and as always I have the jitters!

Worse than if I had a test myself!

GvidoR · 02-07-2015 09:10PM

YbFocus wrote: »

Car is in for the test tomorrow.
I have most done but it will fail on a shock that I never got to that is weeping and possibly the handbrake.
Hopefully nothing more now, 24hrs to go and as always I have the jitters!

Worse than if I had a test myself!

I know dem feels...

What do you mean, is it not the e36 you're testing?

Stheno · 02-07-2015 09:12PM

YbFocus wrote: »

Car is in for the test tomorrow.
I have most done but it will fail on a shock that I never got to that is weeping and possibly the handbrake.
Hopefully nothing more now, 24hrs to go and as always I have the jitters!

Worse than if I had a test myself!

Best of luck with it

To the person who asked if my alloys were kerbed, I don't think so but there is blistering on the paint and scratches on the rims, even a clean and that would all be there

GvidoR · 02-07-2015 09:19PM

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Have a look at Aviva, do their Ignition Test and you'll get a very good quote from them.

I'm thinking about doing this, does it cost anything?

YbFocus · 02-07-2015 09:22PM

GvidoR wrote: »

I know dem feels...

What do you mean, is it not the e36 you're testing?

It is man, just I seen the shock was burst, I know the handbrake isn't great.
But if something like emissions comes back at me I'm not sure what I'll do!

GvidoR · 02-07-2015 09:24PM

YbFocus wrote: »

It is man, just I seen the shock was burst, I know the handbrake isn't great.
But if something like emissions comes back at me I'm not sure what I'll do!

If it's not much over the limit, you can change filters, oil, put in the fuel additive and it should pass. Hopefully you wont have to, although it's good to have fresh oil and filters.

toastedpickles · 02-07-2015 09:25PM

YbFocus wrote: »

It is man, just I seen the shock was burst, I know the handbrake isn't great.
But if something like emissions comes back at me I'm not sure what I'll do!

I usually sort the emissions with a very spirited drive to the test center

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