Motors Chat - Round 9

wotzgoingon · 07-08-2015 07:13PM

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

They will have been watching you for a while.

Illuminati!

Haha! I figure it belongs here too.

Chris_Heilong · 07-08-2015 07:14PM

Got these today.

wotzgoingon · 07-08-2015 07:17PM

Is that gun metal?

Dia1988 · 07-08-2015 07:32PM

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

They will have been watching you for a while.

Odd to be sopped outside a shop like thatt though

I was driving in an area of Dublin I'm rarely in, plus it was 8pm last night too!

Big Nasty · 07-08-2015 08:21PM

Nice wheels Chris.

Chris_Heilong · 07-08-2015 08:30PM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Is that gun metal?

bronze

CIP4 · 07-08-2015 08:40PM

I seen a mk3 megane like my one today in a car park but it had generic flat rubber mudflaps they were terrible looking on it. My view to putting mudflaps on any kind of a newer car is you either get factory ones or don't put them on. I was glad I haggled in fitted mudflaps for my one after seeing the price of them recently.

Noccy_Mondy · 07-08-2015 08:53PM

I dunno boys, tracking seems off a bit, I'd say it has just about 1.6mm left on it. Will it pass the NCT? :pac:

(I'm that fond of mowing the lawn, I'd sit beside it taking pictures of it!!)

Foxhole Norman · 07-08-2015 09:03PM

I think I needed new pads

CIP4 · 07-08-2015 09:12PM

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

I think I needed new pads

Them hella pagid are suppose to be great pads we got them for the octy at the start of the year.

Stheno · 07-08-2015 09:13PM

Does anyone know the road from Carrick on Shannon to Sligo?

And if you do, what's the story with all of the white crosses each side of the road for a few miles? They surely can't each be for a fatality, there were over twenty of them before I stopped counting

Noccy_Mondy · 07-08-2015 09:15PM

Stheno wrote:

And if you do, what's the story with all of the white crosses each side of the road for a few miles? They surely can't each be for a fatality, there were over twenty of them before I stopped counting

I think so sadly! Isn't that the notorious stretch of road for deaths?

Stheno · 07-08-2015 09:20PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

I think so sadly! Isn't that the notorious stretch of road for deaths?

Yeah I googled it.

30 crosses one for every person killed on that road in recent years over an 11 km stretch

Shocking

Big Nasty · 07-08-2015 09:32PM

Use it fairly regular. I used to think it was a bit of an exaggeration to get people to slow down but I googled it myself and as you say it's true to form.

Funnily enough it's a nice section to drive on if your car is set up for it.

YbFocus · 07-08-2015 09:34PM

Stheno wrote: »

Yeah I googled it.

30 crosses one for every person killed on that road in recent years over an 11 km stretch

Shocking

That road has been revamped massively in the past 3-5 years. It was mad dangerous in fairness!

Stheno · 07-08-2015 09:37PM

YbFocus wrote: »

That road has been revamped massively in the past 3-5 years. It was mad dangerous in fairness!

I was genuinely wondering, I found it ok to drive. It must have been in some state. from the clusters of crosses you can see what parts were really bad, it was freaky on one small stretch there were multiple crosses each side of the road

ba_barabus · 07-08-2015 10:00PM

Anyone know if Mitsubishi have stopped selling the diesel Lancer?

I've been seeing loads of new Lamcers around but they all seem to be new 1.6l petrols

Mister Jingles · 07-08-2015 10:04PM

If that is true then hopefully there the first of many to be pushing petrol sales to the ordinary folk who just use there cars for short runs/small mileage.

ba_barabus · 07-08-2015 10:06PM

Mister Jingles wrote: »

If that is true then hopefully there the first of many to be pushing petrol sales to the ordinary folk who just use there cars for short runs/small mileage.

Had a look in a dealership while out for a walk the other night in Terenure, all the new Lancers were petrol, interiors look upgraded too. The ASX had a new interior also and some of them were petrol too.

CIP4 · 07-08-2015 10:21PM

My grandmother just collect her new 1.6 tdi octavia annual mileage about 5k km a year. Sure there is just no talking to some people not that she will keep it long enough for the dpf to act up.

Dia1988 · 07-08-2015 11:00PM

CIP4 wrote: »

My grandmother just collect her new 1.6 tdi octavia annual mileage about 5k km a year. Sure there is just no talking to some people not that she will keep it long enough for the dpf to act up.

Think of the cheap tax!.........Eh?

Or maybe she does a small number of long journeys?
Which is better than a big number of small journeys!

Supergurrier · 07-08-2015 11:03PM

Went on ebay to get new mats for car ended up buying some bulbs and heater knobs aswell.

Considered changing my gearknob as my current one is in an awful state. Some of them look like they would be cold to the touch even if they look cool.

CIP4 · 07-08-2015 11:05PM

Dia1988 wrote: »

Think of the cheap tax!.........Eh?

Or maybe she does a small number of long journeys?
Which is better than a big number of small journeys!

Ah she lives about 20km out of town so it gets abit of a drive as I said it won't make much difference to her as it will be changed within a year.

Actually I only discovered mine has a dpf last week it was written on the door in French.

Dia1988 · 07-08-2015 11:09PM

CIP4 wrote: »

Ah she lives about 20km out of town so it gets abit of a drive as I said it won't make much difference to her as it will be changed within a year.

Actually I only discovered mine has a dpf last week it was written on the door in French.

Almost every relatively new car has a dpf now, dam Euro 5/6 standards!

What make/model engine you have?

CIP4 · 07-08-2015 11:15PM

Dia1988 wrote: »

Almost every relatively new car has a dpf now, dam Euro 5/6 standards!

What make/model engine you have?

Megane 3 1.5dci my one was the first of the euro 5 engines the older engine in the 2010 ones didn't have it. Ah it doesn't make a whole lot of difference to me as mine gets loads of long drives so should have loads of opportunities to regenerate.

CIP4 · 07-08-2015 11:23PM

Looks like insurance is going to continue to rise yay

http://m.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/latest-news/motorists-warned-to-expect-further-rises-in-premiums-31433703.html

Duke O Smiley · 07-08-2015 11:41PM

CIP4 wrote: »

Looks like insurance is going to continue to rise yay

http://m.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/latest-news/motorists-warned-to-expect-further-rises-in-premiums-31433703.html

I swear to god this country depresses me.

Dia1988 · 07-08-2015 11:51PM

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

I swear to god this country depresses me.

It's not only Ireland it's a worldwide "problem" in the insurance and investments sector. However, Ireland is not helped by having multiple Government levies on top of the actuary calculations of risk.

Dartz · 08-08-2015 12:26AM

2 hours from the topside of dublin to the bottom end of wexford.

No bad.

New Gorey bypass is handy. Best part of Gorey, IMHO

08-08-2015 12:38AM

Big Nasty wrote: »

Pretty sure he didn't mean the '50.

Pretty sure you know that.

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Are we not talking just the M50, otherwise I just throw the tag on the passenger seat and it works.

'pparently 'ot

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