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*********Motors Chat - Round 9 *********

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  • #1052
    CIP4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,657 ✭✭✭CIP4


    dorgasm wrote: »
    To be fair, 10k isn't exactly a massive private sale. Can't comment on the actual car itself though.

    It's not even the money really I mean 10k is hardly a colossal amount of money to spend on a car or the fact it's a private sale more the lack of a mechanic and zero come back. I mean when I bought the megane I spent 4 hours looking it over from engine to panel gaps to underneath to checking controls to checking spare wheel well for damage anything and everything now I'd be a hell of a long way of a mechanic and would only have an average enough knowledge but I've learned what to look out for. I didn't get a mechanic to look over mine the difference was it was under warranty and sold by a Renault main dealer.

    A few weeks later low and behold a wheel bearing went I bring it back and say I think it's a wheel bearing they check it test drive it say it is order the part. Change it which turned into a massive 3 hour job. But at no point was there any arguments or trying to blame me for it they fixed it that was it. Private sale though is a whole other ball game and with no mechanic it is even riskier.


  • #1053
    CIP4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,657 ✭✭✭CIP4


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Lots of driving this week.

    Sunday - Drogheda
    Monday - Castlebar
    Wednesday - Longford
    Thursday - Enniskillen

    and planned for the rest of the week

    Friday - Galway
    Saturday - Longford
    Sunday - Longford

    Sounds like a nice week of driving I wouldn't mind going on a nice trip before heading back to college but it looks impossible between having to finish several assignments, work, prepare for interview go to interview, get sorted for college, car could do with a good going over to interns of cleaning inside and out, checking fluid levels and general engine bay, check tyres brakes visually, check tyre pressure and check bulbs to (as no blown bulb indicator which is a pain).

    I am hoping to wrap up them assignments over the weekend fingers crossed. I was in clonmel and new Ross over the week although neither were leisurly trips.


  • #1054
    nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭nd


    The UK Is Currently Testing Roads That Charge Electric Cars While You Drive


  • #1055
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    nd wrote: »
    The UK Is Currently Testing Roads That Charge Electric Cars While You Drive

    Meh. Fred Francis had that sorted in 1957, only on a somewhat smaller scale. :D


  • #1056
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    You know you are getting older when...

    You realize this song is over 20 years old :(


    But it isn't. Komodo's 15 years old :pac:

    Sweet Lullaby is 23 years old though.


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  • #1057
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Car trouble on holiday post #1

    Drivers reg seized yesterday, late in the evening.
    Tried everything but with it raining i was forced to take drastic action.

    Had to burst the door card off, got the motor going though. Parts are cheap and i wanted a black leather interior anyway so this might force it.

    What a pain though, had plenty of tools but nothing to take the door card off :(


  • #1058
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    YbFocus wrote: »
    ...What a pain though, had plenty of tools but nothing to take the door card off :(

    I got a Sealey trim-tool kit in a local motor factors a couple of years ago - great gear, and only cost about a score:

    2672.jpg


  • #1059
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,866 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    YbFocus wrote: »
    Car trouble on holiday post #1

    Drivers reg seized yesterday, late in the evening.
    Tried everything but with it raining i was forced to take drastic action.

    Had to burst the door card off, got the motor going though. Parts are cheap and i wanted a black leather interior anyway so this might force it.

    What a pain though, had plenty of tools but nothing to take the door card off :(

    Aren't they two screws and a series of clips the whole way round....?


  • #1060
    Marty McFly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,224 ✭✭✭✭Marty McFly


    So definitely a leak in 530 had to top it up this morning with water and a big puddle underneath it now in the car park, hard to see were it is coming from apart from the leak is on the drivers side of the engine.

    Hate having to drive it and not knowing the issue . It's being looked at first thing in the morning though so I'm hoping can find the problem and it won't cost me a fortune either. Last time I had a coolant issue on the 330i ended up being a pricey fix.


  • #1061
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,311 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Do you need a loan of a car for the weekend?


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  • #1062
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    fancy pigeon wrote: »
    Aren't they two screws and a series of clips the whole way round....?

    Yep, but they are a no. 4 or 5 torx bit which i didn't have!


  • #1063
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    If anyone is around Galway at ~8PM onwards, come down to KFC car park for a mini meet :)


  • #1064
    EazyD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭EazyD


    Why oh why must garages torque the **** out of wheel nuts, turns a simple wheel removal into an ordeal😡


  • #1065
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,158 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    EazyD wrote: »
    Why oh why must garages torque the **** out of wheel nuts, turns a simple wheel removal into an ordeal😡

    Using an air wrench to do it instead of a torque wrench. I always ask for them to be torqued to factory spec. Have had my own trouble with that nonsense in the past.


  • #1066
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    EazyD wrote: »
    Why oh why must garages torque the **** out of wheel nuts, turns a simple wheel removal into an ordeal😡

    Lug wrench + pipe, job done.


  • #1067
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,866 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Lug wrench + pipe, job done.

    Look at the American here :p


  • #1068
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    fancy pigeon wrote: »
    Look at the American here :p

    wat wat? :P


  • #1069
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,311 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    That smile you get when picking up the car after a service.


  • #1070
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Marty McFly wrote: »
    So definitely a leak in 530 had to top it up this morning with water and a big puddle underneath it now in the car park, hard to see were it is coming from apart from the leak is on the drivers side of the engine.

    Hate having to drive it and not knowing the issue . It's being looked at first thing in the morning though so I'm hoping can find the problem and it won't cost me a fortune either. Last time I had a coolant issue on the 330i ended up being a pricey fix.

    Have a look for cracked expansion tank or cap, pretty common on these cars.


  • #1071
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    beertons wrote: »
    That smile you get after you service your car.

    Fixed.


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  • #1072
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,866 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    GvidoR wrote: »
    wat wat? :P

    Over this side of the pond we would say

    "A lock of scaffoldin pole and a brekker bar to whip off them baults hai"

    Sounds much better ;)


  • #1073
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    fancy pigeon wrote: »
    Over this side of the pond we would say

    "A lock of scaffoldin pole and a brekker bar to whip off them baults hai"

    Sounds much better ;)

    In Wesht Clare we say "If it moves, bate it till it doesn't and if it doesn't, bate it till it does"


  • #1074
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,866 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    In Wesht Clare we say "If it moves, bate it till it doesn't and if it doesn't, bate it till it does"

    In my own twisted world....

    "If in doubt, inch gun or consaw"

    The smaller the car, the more uselessly useful the inch gun.... ;)


  • #1075
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    Using an air wrench to do it instead of a torque wrench. I always ask for them to be torqued to factory spec. Have had my own trouble with that nonsense in the past.

    People would be amazed at how welded 90lb.ft. isn't. :pac:


  • #1076
    EazyD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭EazyD


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Lug wrench + pipe, job done.

    I'm getting a lend of long breakers bar later but it put me in a right ol mood this morning. It seems like a game of F1 pit stop in some of these places, bashing all 4 nuts on as quick as possible.


  • #1077
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    EazyD wrote: »
    I'm getting a lend of long breakers bar later but it put me in a right ol mood this morning. It seems like a game of F1 pit stop in some of these places, bashing all 4 nuts on as quick as possible.

    Anyone using an incorrectly-calibrated airgun in an F1 pit would be doused in 100-RON and set on fire.


  • #1078
    Marty McFly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,224 ✭✭✭✭Marty McFly


    beertons wrote: »
    Do you need a loan of a car for the weekend?

    Cheers for the offer really appreciate it. Not sure yet I'm hopeful he will find and fix the problem tomorrow fingers crossed.


  • #1079
    Marty McFly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,224 ✭✭✭✭Marty McFly


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    Have a look for cracked expansion tank or cap, pretty common on these cars.

    Yea read that alright but the leak is on the opposite side of the engine to the expansion tank and cap.


  • #1080
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Anyone using an incorrectly-calibrated airgun in an F1 pit would be doused in 100-RON and set on fire.

    From the time F1 was still F1 and not just girlies prancing around in Priuses:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2_DfKVTjzA


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  • #1081
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Did he get 7up poured on him there at the end?
    Is this the origin of flat 7up as a cure all or was it already widely known internationally for its regenerative properties?


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