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

colm_mcm wrote:

State!

Seen one similar to it on Donedeal. Chronic bad, I'd rather pull a luggage trailer or take out 2 of the back seats.

Have the Nct myself Wednesday now hopefully all is fine!

GvidoR wrote: »

I am yet to experience this. Never bought a battery yet.

It's a nice feeling my Astra needed one when I bought it so I got a Bosch 72a s3 battery first touch of the key it would start going from it turning over for ages. Focus had original battery and worked fine. Golf had a replacement battery a few months before I got it. When I was viewing the Megane it had to be jumped even though the car was only 4 years old the battery seemed on the way out so the dealer fitted a brand new 72 or 74 ah battery. So now you can leave it a week sitting up and it fires into life the second you touch the button which is great as I was anxious that Clifford alarm would start running down the battery but it doesn't.

It's not that load but will prob pop and bang at them during high idle I reckon!! Must watch to see..

5W30 wrote: »

72 Ah to power the subwoofer laaad

Motor factors offered a 65 Ah. Might as well go bigger to be safe, it was only a tenner dearer.

That's always what I would do with batteries for the sake of a small bit extra. The bigger the battery the less stress its under starting the engine the longer it will last. Especially with diesels which are typically harder to start a 60 ah battery may be fine for most petrol engine but not for diesels I mean it will be fine when it's new but quickly wear down and you'll be back to square one.

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

I just went out and checked mine. I have a 70+ AH battery. I can't see what's after the 7, because there's something in the way, but it's over 70 anyway.
So 60 might have been not enough. I remember my last battery failing, I tried reviving it with distilled water and putting those battery saver pills in you can at Halfords, but to no avail.
There are a lot of videos online where you can mix up your own magic potion to revitalise your battery, but if the lead is gone, it's all for nought.
In the 70's people would do that, crack open their battery, put in new led innards and acid. Yikes! probably flush the old lead and acid down the toilet!

I think it worked with older batteries but I wouldn't personally be going cracking open a newer battery to throwing different concoctions of stuff into it. Your dealing with acid at the end of the day. One wrong product thrown in your generating gases which can be dangerous for example chlorine gas is lethal now I know your In an open space and all that but I think sometimes people forget what their dealing with. For the sake of 100 euro your as well of to get a new battery.

beertons wrote: »

Worked this morning to get tomorrow off. Class. Bring on the beer.

I always thought it would be class working the weekend to be off Monday and Tuesday or whatever when everyone else was depressed on a Sunday evening my weekend would only be starting. But over the summer I worked every second weekend although at one stage I worked 5 weekends straight. I didn't really mind working weekends other than two things when your off everyone else is working vs versa. And the other is you would be driving into work Friday morning starting into a weekend shift and you'd turn on the radio and they would be going on how it's almost weekend and what to do for the weekend etc etc.

Overall I liked 12 hour shift rotation as it kind of meant you were knocking out your hours in a few days rather than 5 days. Alas my graduate job will be 5 day weeks which will take a while to get used too. All the normal day min - fir used to think 12 hour shift was horrible and all us on 12 hour shift thought going back to days would be horrible.

CIP4 wrote: »

I always thought it would be class working the weekend to be off Monday and Tuesday or whatever when everyone else was depressed on a Sunday evening my weekend would only be starting. But over the summer I worked every second weekend although at one stage I worked 5 weekends straight. I didn't really mind working weekends other than two things when your off everyone else is working vs versa. And the other is you would be driving into work Friday morning starting into a weekend shift and you'd turn on the radio and they would be going on how it's almost weekend and what to do for the weekend etc etc.

Overall I liked 12 hour shift rotation as it kind of meant you were knocking out your hours in a few days rather than 5 days. Alas my graduate job will be 5 day weeks which will take a while to get used too. All the normal day min - fir used to think 12 hour shift was horrible and all us on 12 hour shift thought going back to days would be horrible.

I used to love shift work. 4 days on 4 days off, so you could have a full week off and only use 3 days holidays
Used to be a killer in college doing two 12 hours shifts on the weekends

This bloody Megane must be cursed I am after lightly reversing it into a wall there this evening. Same corner as I already hit about 3 months ago not much damage most will polish out but will be left with about 3 small indentations from the stones in the wall and the already broken reflector is now completely broken in bits I may replace that first (30 quid for a spurious one on eBay :eek: might try a main dealer) and then going to see how much I can sort of the rest of it.

Isn't there an autoglym paint renovator you can get that's abit more aggressive than srp might try that on the light marks. I never put a mark on a car before this but twice on this car and the body could of done without them. Oh well it might give me some motivation to try and do abit to the body of it a decent polish would probably do a lot for it.

Autosport wrote: »

Dont blame the car C

Ah I know its my fault but I never done it to any other cars I've driven. When it rains it pours there are 3 dents in it from people banging their car doors into it. It's a difficult to avoid them no matter where you park.

CIP4 wrote:

This bloody Megane must be cursed I am after lightly reversing it into a wall there this evening. Same corner as I already hit about 3 months ago not much damage most will polish out but will be left with about 3 small indentations from the stones in the wall and the already broken reflector is now completely broken in bits I may replace that first (30 quid for a spurious one on eBay might try a main dealer) and then going to see how much I can sort of the rest of it.

Just accept it, you're a shyte driver Cip