Motors Chat - Round 9

power pants · 06-11-2015 08:14AM

colm_mcm wrote: »

There was a lot of reckless interbreeding going on 20 years ago by the look of that programme,

agree, think it was the norm for a lot of irish to marry their cousins due to the population being so small. In rural areas in particular.

Think this is getting less common now in this day and age due to so many other people settling in Ireland from different countries. which can only be a good thing and stops this

MetzgerMeister · 06-11-2015 10:24AM

power pants wrote: »

agree, think it was the norm for a lot of irish to marry their cousins due to the population being so small. In rural areas in particular.

Think this is getting less common now in this day and age due to so many other people settling in Ireland from different countries. which can only be a good thing and stops this

Is that a serious post

Or is it one of those "I'll say this and if the reaction is bad I'll say that I *forgot* to put in smilies" style of post?

YbFocus · 06-11-2015 10:31AM

In booked in for autoheroes 2 anyway, now for the tedious 4 week wait

dar83 · 06-11-2015 10:56AM

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Is that a serious post

Or is it one of those "I'll say this and if the reaction is bad I'll say that I *forgot* to put in smilies" style of post?

I fully agree with it, so it must be serious.

YbFocus · 06-11-2015 01:13PM

davycc wrote: »

Yea I love his videos too especially his 'highs and lows of sch1tty living' moto-vlog which is one of the funniest entire series on youtube just my type of humour also inspired me to get my own first scooter/bike
picked up a road rashed suzuki katatna last sat and its all that comedy genious with the cameras fault

That is deadly davy, ye should meet up and have a convoy video

166man · 06-11-2015 04:03PM

power pants wrote: »

agree, think it was the norm for a lot of irish to marry their cousins due to the population being so small. In rural areas in particular.

Think this is getting less common now in this day and age due to so many other people settling in Ireland from different countries. which can only be a good thing and stops this

Not quite sure what that has to do with a "Motors" chat thread tbh?

Plenty of other places for that kind of carry on to be discussed.

CIP4 · 06-11-2015 05:08PM

I cleaned the Megane this day two weeks ago and looking at it now you'd swear it wasn't washed in months muck up both sides and the front and back are covered in dirt. Your at not washing cars in November and December anyway I think.

06-11-2015 08:05PM

Heres a weird one. The S60 won't lock from either of the 2 fobs anymore. The unlock, boot and parking light buttons work fine on both. The thing has been sitting up for 3 weeks but can't see why that would do anything. Getting the thing ready to be put up on DD and its still giving me silly problems. Any ideas?

Supergurrier · 06-11-2015 08:10PM

Fob needs a new battery. Volvo/Ford fobs need more power to lock than to unlock.

Focus was same last year

06-11-2015 08:12PM

Supergurrier wrote: »

Fob needs a new battery. Volvo/Ford fobs need more power to lock than to unlock.

Focus was same last year

Oh I forgot to mention I just put a new lidls finest battery in each fob for the new owner because I'm sound like that. Spare one was dead anyway

Hal1 · 06-11-2015 08:16PM

Try another battery. It's not uncommon for a few to be dud's or too few volts remaining in them. If you have a multimeter you can test the volts. If that appears all fine then the points are probably worn in the fob or they need programming.

ofcork · 06-11-2015 08:22PM

Any cork posters see the Nissan GTR around now 08 reg grey think its a uk import .

06-11-2015 08:23PM

Hal1 wrote: »

Try another battery. It's not uncommon for a few to be dud's or too few volts remaining in them. If you have a multimeter you can test the volts. If that appears all fine then the points are probably worn in the fob or they need programming.

Tried that just there. Same result. Had the car battery disconnected for a few mins too to see if would solve it. Nope. Fcuk this car anyway. The indicators have stopped flashing when you unlock it too....I think. I'm not 100% sure if they did flash before. They definitely did when I locked it. SG can you remember from your s?

Foxhole Norman · 06-11-2015 08:24PM

ofcork wrote: »

Any cork posters see the Nissan GTR around now 08 reg grey think its a uk import .

Yep, often see it in Douglas driven by I assume the guys wife/GF, they live up by Glanmire I think.

ofcork · 06-11-2015 08:51PM

Saw that G63 AMG being driven a few times by the owners wife and she barely gets out of 2nd would love to hear it being pushed for once!

Interslice · 06-11-2015 08:59PM

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Is that a serious post

Sometimes he just can't resist going full troll.

Voodoomelon · 06-11-2015 09:15PM

Anyone going to Dundalk this week better have their discs up to date. Been through 5 checkpoints in 5 days, all of them armed too.

Big Nasty · 06-11-2015 09:18PM

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Anyone going to Dundalk this week better have their discs up to date. Been through 5 checkpoints in 5 days, all of them armed too.

Armed?

Would imagine they're looking for more than out of date tax hai!

06-11-2015 09:21PM

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Anyone going to Dundalk this week better have their discs up to date. Been through 5 checkpoints in 5 days, all of them armed too.

I've passed 7 this week around Munster including customs outside Kent station only today. Before I'd be doing well to pass 1 a year. Half my days work involves driving now. At least none of em were feckin armed though! :eek:

Marty McFly · 06-11-2015 09:24PM

That's mental I don't think I've been through one in about a year if not more.

Big Nasty · 06-11-2015 09:26PM

Marty McFly wrote: »

That's mental I don't think I've been through one in about a year if not more.

Passed through one myself in D18 Tuesday evening. First time in donkeys.

Autosport · 06-11-2015 09:27PM

Lots of gardai on the M9 this evening

Marty McFly · 06-11-2015 09:36PM

Big Nasty wrote: »

Passed through one myself in D18 Tuesday evening. First time in donkeys.

You'd think in dublin would go through loads but there very rarely seen. In all my years of driving I've never even been breathalysed.

power pants · 06-11-2015 09:48PM

quite a few checkpoints in dublin the last few days. They are not particularly looking for tax etc

06-11-2015 09:51PM

power pants wrote: »

quite a few checkpoints in dublin the last few days. They are not particularly looking for tax etc

Operation Thor probably.

Noccy_Mondy · 06-11-2015 09:54PM

Must be out trying to put these new audi's and bmw's into action!

power pants · 06-11-2015 09:54PM

exactly, things are about to kick off very soon.

CIP4 · 06-11-2015 10:00PM

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Operation Thor probably.

Ye parents got stopped at 1am this morning in regards to this in Portloaise or somewhere around there anyway. Four guards there stopping and questioning everyone. Things seem to be clamping down big time in the last six months no harm anyway.

06-11-2015 10:09PM

CIP4 wrote: »

Ye parents got stopped at 1am this morning in regards to this in Portloaise or somewhere around there anyway. Four guards there stopping and questioning everyone. Things seem to be clamping down big time in the last six months no harm anyway.

Absolutely. Rural burglaries are rampant here in Limerick at the moment as well as the rest of the country. These lads got a bit more than they bargained for when they chanced their arms not so long ago. That place isn't too far from me either.

One of the lads I work with drives an E60 and he told me that he looks out his bedroom window first thing every morning to make sure the thing is still there. No one should have to live like that.

CIP4 · 06-11-2015 10:33PM

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Absolutely. Rural burglaries are rampant here in Limerick at the moment as well as the rest of the country. These lads got a bit more than they bargained for when they chanced their arms not so long ago. That place isn't too far from me either.

One of the lads I work with drives an E60 and he told me that he looks out his bedroom window first thing every morning to make sure the thing is still there. No one should have to live like that.

Ah it's unreal the amount of burglarys. I'd be the same with my Megane always on edge worrying about it being stolen. It being such a saught after car the canbus Clifford alarm system it has is a necessity :pac:

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