Motors Chat - Round 9

CIP4 · 20-09-2015 08:50PM

Anyone heading to the ploughing match this week ?

I'm tempted to go on Thursday as I have no lectures so it would be kind of roude not to go I haven't been there is years and when I'm in the working world next year I'll be even less likely to go. Normally makes for a decent day out.

colm_mcm · 20-09-2015 08:58PM

I'd head up but the traffic is always mental?

beertons · 20-09-2015 09:56PM

Is the weather going to pick up for it? Went on Wednesday last year. 90 minutes to get from house and parked. It's a great day but the layout is terrible. They need to have zone areas, it's too clustered. Machinery in one spot, animals another, junk in another and so on. If they didn't have every transition year class in the country there, it'd be deadly. They're feckin all over the shop. I won't be going this year, I'm on babysitting duties on Wednesday. Sold the double buggy, and I ain't bringing them with me!

CIP4 · 20-09-2015 10:37PM

I thought I'd have a quite week in college this week now I have one interview Monday, two Tuesday already had another one on Friday I'll be an interview expert by the end of it :pac: I suppose it's not a bad complaint.

On the ploughing match there will be a bit of traffic alright if I go with my dad he is on about leaving at 6.30 am so shouldn't be too bad at that time Kilkenny isn't it that far away from it.

Noccy_Mondy · 20-09-2015 10:41PM

Chris_Heilong wrote:

NCT in about 5 hours, noticed anti squeel clips missing from my rear brake so done that today. Hope it passes.

Are you having a laugh? It's a 97? car, it's a death trap sure, they couldn't dare pass it first time!

Best of luck really though!

Noccy_Mondy · 20-09-2015 10:46PM

CIP4 wrote:

Anyone heading to the ploughing match this week ?

Not sure yet, missed this past 4 years, very difficult to get off work. Might be a crowd going, but I'm skeptical about it, I rather go in my own leisure, not trying to keep track of people!

CIP4 · 20-09-2015 10:48PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Not sure yet, missed this past 4 years, very difficult to get off work. Might be a crowd going, but I'm skeptical about it, I rather go in my own leisure, not trying to keep track of people!

Ye I suppose you wouldn't have much fun there trying to keep an eye on the students.

Foxhole Norman · 20-09-2015 11:34PM

GvidoR wrote: »

Speaking of meet ups, will there be a boards meet before it gets all dark and wintery?

There was one there about 3 weeks ago, I think you missed it :pac:

GvidoR · 20-09-2015 11:43PM

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

There was one there about 3 weeks ago, I think you missed it :pac:

You think? I'm sure you would remember seeing a rusty Punto. :P

job seeker · 20-09-2015 11:50PM

CIP4 wrote: »

Anyone heading to the ploughing match

The ploughing match? Excuse me.. Is that what city slickers call it? I've always known it as the ploughing championship..

20-09-2015 11:50PM

I can finally agree with something the Indo published.

http://www.independent.ie/life/motoring/car-talk/windscreen-discs-are-gift-to-fraudsters-dump-them-31541840.html

MiskyBoyy · 21-09-2015 12:39AM

mfceiling wrote: »

Has anyone ever rang the 1890205805 number to report dangerous driving?

Rang them before about a jeep towing a horsebox that had 2 flat tyres and of course a horse onboard.

Btw, if you have free calls or minutes bundle on your phone then ring Traffic Watch for free using these numbers over the 1890 one; 0949051131 or 0949049400

Chris_Heilong · 21-09-2015 02:01AM

Passed with flying colours, only advisory was rear tyres were under 3mm, interesting set up they have there in Deansgrange.

Noccy_Mondy · 21-09-2015 06:47AM

Chris_Heilong wrote:

Passed with flying colours, only advisory was rear tyres were under 3mm, interesting set up they have there in Deansgrange.

Was it busy at that hour?

CIP4 · 21-09-2015 07:51AM

Met a car on the road at 6am this morning completely dark country road it was a 20 year old 106 no tail lights or any form of lighting on the back oy for the reflectors it would be difficult to see him. I then noticed when I was behind him he seemed to have no beam of light at the front passed him and he had two parking lights on the front. What do people be at at all it's just plain dangerous Christ I'd of rather he had heads on but he mustn't of had any of them either.

Noccy_Mondy · 21-09-2015 08:55AM

CIP4 wrote:

Met a car on the road at 6am this morning completely dark country road it was a 20 year old 106 no tail lights or any form of lighting on the back oy for the reflectors it would be difficult to see him. I then noticed when I was behind him he seemed to have no beam of light at the front passed him and he had two parking lights on the front. What do people be at at all it's just plain dangerous Christ I'd of rather he had heads on but he mustn't of had any of them either.

Ya I do meet a few of the same, I was astonished at 7 o'clock seeing people with no lights. Sure isn't it pitch dark at 6?

jimgoose · 21-09-2015 10:35AM

A beautiful Autumn morning here at RAF Hibaldstow, the old General is humming like a Merlin on fresh 5W-30 full-synth, and all is well with the universe. Until this little gem was presented to me in my mail inbox courtesy of the good folk at MAG Ireland:

http://social.ford.co.uk/could-this-spell-the-end-for-speeding-tickets/

Now I can't speak for all of you, but something sticks in my craw at the idea of a dumb machine making non-permanently overridable decisions regarding what's done with the loud pedal.

frozenfrozen · 21-09-2015 11:10AM

Either fully automated or fully manual is my stance on it. Adding these aides like lane assist, speed limiter, blind spot warning, etc, just makes for more complacent drivers. It'll get to a point where 'my pedestrian detector didn't notify me in time' is a valid excuse for knocking someone down.

colm_mcm · 21-09-2015 11:32AM

That new jeep renegade is quite cool looking IMO

Lights look like petrol cans

1951%20Willys%20Overland%20Rear.jpg

MetzgerMeister · 21-09-2015 11:33AM

colm_mcm wrote: »

That new jeep renegade is quite cool looking IMO

It looks like a Nissan Cube on steroids

dr.fuzzenstein · 21-09-2015 12:39PM

jimgoose wrote: »

A beautiful Autumn morning here at RAF Hibaldstow, the old General is humming like a Merlin on fresh 5W-30 full-synth, and all is well with the universe. Until this little gem was presented to me in my mail inbox courtesy of the good folk at MAG Ireland:

http://social.ford.co.uk/could-this-spell-the-end-for-speeding-tickets/

Now I can't speak for all of you, but something sticks in my craw at the idea of a dumb machine making non-permanently overridable decisions regarding what's done with the loud pedal.

They can fcuk right off with that sh*t and stick it up their fcuking holes.
Just like black boxes that snitch back to insurance about your driving (oh, you braked a little hard about 2 months ago, we don't like that, premium up by 20%), it won't be long before it can't be turned off anymore.

jimgoose · 21-09-2015 02:06PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

...it won't be long before it can't be turned off anymore.

Well, if it's anything like the BMWs that can be started with a Nordmende TV remote and the recent VWs who's ECUs were anybody's after a double vodka, I wouldn't bee too worried about that! :pac:

dr.fuzzenstein · 21-09-2015 02:20PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Well, if it's anything like the BMWs that can be started with a Nordmende TV remote and the recent VWs who's ECUs were anybody's after a double vodka, I wouldn't bee too worried about that! :pac:

It is going that way though.
Soon enough maybe you can manually control the car on backroads, but through cities and on motorways it will be Hände weg vom Lenkrad du Schweinehund!
The little black box will record who is driving behind the wheel, how fast, how far (so you can be billed for every meter driven), it won't be possible to break any speelimits (if it's broken and reads 30 km/h for the motorway, well, guess what?), no tax or insurance, you ain't going nowhere, basically your car will be centrally controlled, you will only be allowed to drive it under very narrow circumstances and under constant electronic scrutiny. All other times, it will be guided and you're merely a passenger.
It would be like a vast public transport network, you just happen to own your own pod. or maybe not? In the future you could just ask for a car, it will appear at your door and you hop in. You don't even need taxi drivers. It will be like the bleedin' Jetsons!
Getting into your own car and driving it along yourself will be viewed the same way we would looking at tacking up a horse drawn carriage and going to Dunnes.
At least it will cut out all the muppetry we see on the roads. I cannot wait to see how the 60 km/h Yaris brigade will take to that! They will be howling in their cars and banging at the controls like a demented chimp! That alone would make it worthwhile.

MetzgerMeister · 21-09-2015 02:25PM

Hands off the steering wheel eh? Ficken hölle!

jimgoose · 21-09-2015 02:34PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

It is going that way though.
Soon enough maybe you can manually control the car on backroads, but through cities and on motorways it will be Hände weg vom Lenkrad du Schweinehund!
The little black box will record who is driving behind the wheel, how fast, how far (so you can be billed for every meter driven), it won't be possible to break any speelimits (if it's broken and reads 30 km/h for the motorway, well, guess what?), no tax or insurance, you ain't going nowhere, basically your car will be centrally controlled, you will only be allowed to drive it under very narrow circumstances and under constant electronic scrutiny. All other times, it will be guided and you're merely a passenger.
It would be like a vast public transport network, you just happen to own your own pod. or maybe not? In the future you could just ask for a car, it will appear at your door and you hop in. You don't even need taxi drivers. It will be like the bleedin' Jetsons!
Getting into your own car and driving it along yourself will be viewed the same way we would looking at tacking up a horse drawn carriage and going to Dunnes.
At least it will cut out all the muppetry we see on the roads. I cannot wait to see how the 60 km/h Yaris brigade will take to that! They will be howling in their cars and banging at the controls like a demented chimp! That alone would make it worthwhile.

Hah! Keep your voice down or else the bearded, shorts-wearing X-Box crowd will start demanding it! As for Mr. & Mrs. 60km/h Yaris, they'll hardly know the difference - if they do, they'll be able to catch up on their crochet.

Soon mein Freund, there'll be only the two of us left, the last great knights of the air. Think of it, Herr Ritttmeister-Freiherr Professor-Doktor - you and I, goggles opaque with oil at 12,000 feet, Fokker vs. Sopwith, Motorenfabrik Oberursel vs. Neville-Fotherington.

dr.fuzzenstein · 21-09-2015 03:09PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Hah! Keep your voice down or else the bearded, shorts-wearing X-Box crowd will start demanding it! As for Mr. & Mrs. 60km/h Yaris, they'll hardly know the difference - if they do, they'll be able to catch up on their crochet.

Soon mein Freund, there'll be only the two of us left, the last great knights of the air. Think of it, Herr Ritttmeister-Freiherr Professor-Doktor - you and I, goggles opaque with oil at 12,000 feet, Fokker vs. Sopwith, Motorenfabrik Oberursel vs. Neville-Fotherington.

https://youtu.be/yP1vSIOmCc4?t=137

Chris_Heilong · 21-09-2015 03:16PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Was it busy at that hour?

Yeah, busy enough considering the time.

jimgoose · 21-09-2015 03:19PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

https://youtu.be/yP1vSIOmCc4?t=137

Hurrah!!

Toyotafanboi · 21-09-2015 03:59PM

Jeez, did anyone catch that quotedevil thread before it disappeared :pac:

Chris_Heilong · 21-09-2015 04:07PM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Jeez, did anyone catch that quotedevil thread before it disappeared :pac:

I just read the cached version from google. Nothing special.

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