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

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  • #8042
    nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭nd


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  • #8043
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    No galway c+c for me. Stayed up till 6 watching men in their underpants knee each other in the face :p


  • #8044
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    No galway c+c for me. Stayed up till 6 watching men in their underpants knee each other in the face :p


    Downloaded it off tpb this morning. Some good honest digging matches in it! Edge of the seat stuff for a few of them,


  • #8045
    davycc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,013 ✭✭✭davycc


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    No galway c+c for me. Stayed up till 6 watching men in their underpants knee each other in the face :p

    same here some explosive final 10seconds by mcgregor after being trapped on the ground by an expert wrestler and eblowed hard in the face for 7mins straight :cool:
    he is superhuman:D


  • #8046
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Mighty Car Mods :)

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  • #8047
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Ohs car is acting up. The battery keeps going flat, he jumps it, it starts fine, then a day or two later is flat again.

    Battery was tested a few weeeks ago and was fine voltage wise. Car is a 00 e200

    Should he replace the battery anyway and hope that fides it?


  • #8048
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Is there something drawing a current whilst it's off? CD changer? Alarm?


  • #8049
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Mycroft H wrote: »
    Is there something drawing a current whilst it's off? CD changer? Alarm?

    Not that I can think of. CD changer doesn't work and it doesn't have an alarm

    Is happening the past few weeks so mechanic checked the battery about two weeks ago when it was serviced


  • #8050
    joujoujou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
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    99% something's drawing current off it.


  • #8051
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    Bah. One of the brake pad sets went grand, the other couldn't have went worse - the piston fell out! That caliper has been giving me trouble for a while now, so I'm just going to get it replaced. Any ideas what to do with it, car isn't in a state to drive. I'll need a mechanic to come out to me I guess....

    I just brought it(well, had it towed) to the garage there, new caliper being fitted tomorrow. Was feeling an utter disaster last night, much better now.


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  • #8052
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    joujoujou wrote: »
    99% something's drawing current off it.

    Who can check that for him?


  • #8053
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    I just brought it(well, had it towed) to the garage there, new caliper being fitted tomorrow. Was feeling an utter disaster last night, much better now.


    Live and learn man! Sticking calipers are fairly common on older cars.


  • #8054
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Parking is an art. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3158222/Is-Britain-s-worst-parallel-parker-Hilarious-video-shows-driver-struggling-Fiat-space-hitting-car-smashing-wall.html


  • #8055
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    zerks wrote: »
    Parking is an art. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3158222/Is-Britain-s-worst-parallel-parker-Hilarious-video-shows-driver-struggling-Fiat-space-hitting-car-smashing-wall.html

    That was posted in the Yootoob thread a few days ago. Amazing how he messed it up... he was so close.


  • #8056
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    My boss text me telling me he's off tomorrow. He said driving at 110 mph down the condell rd in Limerick is an experience. His young lad had an asthma attack last night and he did what he had to do to get him to the regional asap. Doctors said the kid would be dead if he waited for an ambulance


  • #8057
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,308 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    zerks wrote: »
    Parking is an art. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3158222/Is-Britain-s-worst-parallel-parker-Hilarious-video-shows-driver-struggling-Fiat-space-hitting-car-smashing-wall.html

    I hope the police tracked him down and issued the ban he deserves. Totally dangerous driving, smashing in to someones car and leaving the scene of an accident. Dangerous driving for reversing at speed onto a foot path(if someone was walking by at the same time) driving without due care and attention as well.

    It also said in artical it was an elderly driver, licence should be talking off him indefinitely.


  • #8058
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Stheno wrote: »
    Who can check that for him?

    Sounds like a fairly old car? Take off the lead to the positive terminal (+) then tip the connection on the lead against said terminal. If there's a spark there's something drawing power. Otherwise it's likely the alternator.

    EDIT: when doing the above make sure ignition is off so nothing is activated, e.g. radio.


  • #8059
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Sounds like a fairly old car? Take off the lead to the positive terminal (+) then tip the connection on the lead against said terminal. If there's a spark there's something drawing power. Otherwise it's likely the alternator.

    EDIT: when doing the above make sure ignition is off so nothing is activated, e.g. radio.

    That's a great little tip, must remember that!


  • #8060
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    YbFocus wrote: »
    That's a great little tip, must remember that!

    Handy enough on older yokes. Newer stuff have so many systems there's always something drawing.


  • #8061
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Handy enough on older yokes. Newer stuff have so many systems there's always something drawing.

    Won't affect me for a long time so :)


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  • #8062
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Sounds like a fairly old car? Take off the lead to the positive terminal (+) then tip the connection on the lead against said terminal. If there's a spark there's something drawing power. Otherwise it's likely the alternator.

    EDIT: when doing the above make sure ignition is off so nothing is activated, e.g. radio.

    Thanks we are defiinitely capable of that

    Does the fact it's an automatic make any difference?


  • #8063
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Stheno wrote: »
    Thanks we are defiinitely capable of that

    Does the fact it's an automatic make any difference?

    Not a bit no.

    Same boat as yourself YB ;)


  • #8064
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Not a bit no.

    Same boat as yourself YB ;)

    Oh copped today that he has been leaving the phone charger plugged in all the time and that's only the past few weeks too, he has plugged that out now so hopefully that's it


  • #8065
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Stheno wrote: »
    Oh copped today that he has been leaving the phone charger plugged in all the time and that's only the past few weeks too, he has plugged that out now so hopefully that's it

    Shouldn't make any difference. The charger shouldn't be active with the ignition off.


  • #8066
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Only one thing worse than driving through buttevant. .. driving around buttevant...


  • #8067
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,308 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    Only one thing worse than driving through buttevant. .. driving around buttevant...

    Town blocked so had to do a detour?

    edit: This also from someone who hasn't been in munster in over 20 years.


  • #8068
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    Only one thing worse than driving through buttevant. .. driving around buttevant...

    Lad that actual town, such a shed of a place. I remember a few months back when they were resurfacing the place there was a Huracan waiting to go through, probably wrecked the suspension!


  • #8069
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    Lad that actual town, such a shed of a place. I remember a few months back when they were resurfacing the place there was a Huracan waiting to go through, probably wrecked the suspension!

    As bad as it usually is, today/tomorrow? is cahirmee horsefair. Cultural types travel from near and far to sell shoddy goods and cover the whole town in a blanket of rubbish and horse sh1te.

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  • #8070
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    As bad as it usually is, today/tomorrow? is cahirmee horsefair. Cultural types travel from near and far to sell shoddy goods and cover the whole town in a blanket of rubbish and horse sh1te.

    Just as well I never go there unless I'm also leaving it :pac:


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  • #8071
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    Only one thing worse than driving through buttevant. .. driving around buttevant...

    They having that massive horse show of one ethnical group tomorrow or something. It will be rough. I was wondering why it was so hard to get out from work today in Twopothouse as traffic was so heavy lol.


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