Motors Chat - Round 9

power pants · 07-11-2015 07:38PM

also fiddling the motor tax helps save money too

wooopsy!

Duke O Smiley · 07-11-2015 07:46PM

OSI wrote: »

Lesson learned, don't let anyone drive your car while you're away. If anyone offers you a tyre from Aeolus tell them to burn it.

Asked my dad if he could go and get a tire put on a rim for me yesterday while I was away....came home to a Triangle on

power pants · 07-11-2015 07:48PM

deserves a pint , he knows his tyres too it would seem

Supergurrier · 07-11-2015 07:58PM

OSI wrote: »

Lesson learned, don't let anyone drive your car while you're away. If anyone offers you a tyre from Aeolus tell them to burn it.

On an entirely unrelated note. What are people paying for Eagle F1s these days? Reckon a set of 4 x 225/40/18 can be done for 500?

Bought 4 and fitted for less afew months back. In hindsight though I preffered the vredistien sessantas as goodyears feel that bit less planted with the softer sidewalls. You didn't mind that with your rainsports so maybe it wont bother you.

07-11-2015 07:58PM

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

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?

I fixed this...sort of. I read somewhere that I can reset the upper electronic module by pressing the window buttons and turning the key or some sort of magic. The passenger door solenoid started going mad for a few seconds. Clicking like crazy trying to reset itself and eventually the thing locked. Opens and closes with the fob again and the lights are flashing. Wasn't too happy with that solenoid so have the battery disconnected for the night. Will take the door card off tomorrow and have a proper look. Then I've to clean the fcuk out of her and up she goes on DD. The thoughts of having to sell a cheap car is making me sick. I can picture the stupid texts already

dar83 · 07-11-2015 08:00PM

OSI wrote: »

Lesson learned, don't let anyone drive your car while you're away. If anyone offers you a tyre from Aeolus tell them to burn it.

On an entirely unrelated note. What are people paying for Eagle F1s these days? Reckon a set of 4 x 225/40/18 can be done for 500?

I'd say you could get a set in or around that alright. They've hit low 70's in the UK and even though the exchange rate doesn't do us many favours right now, I would think 500 would do including the postage and fitting somewhere here. Alternatively give Keith in Doscount a shout and I'd say he could probably do a set for very similar if not a bit less.

CIP4 · 07-11-2015 08:02PM

Anyone ever have Goodyear efficientgrips I was going to try them next I have Pirelli p7 at the moment and they are average enough. I always found Goodyear excellence great tyres but recon the efficientgrips would be better.

166man · 07-11-2015 08:02PM

CIP4 wrote: »

Ye that is low alright wouldn't be to easy to save much earning 20k euro unless you didn't live at all or go anywhere which wouldn't be much of a life. I mean the position I will be in is I could pay rent car insurance tax maintenance live very well and throw around a fair bit of money each week and still save 50% of my wages and that's not including bonuses or the reasonably good guaranteed pay rise I get after my first year. Hence why I was a bit slow to understand why more people don't have saving. If I was living in Dublin and not Kilkenny on 20k a year then I'd be living week to week. See I constantly forget about how expensive Dublin or cork is to live in as I am so use to Kilkenny.

Ye I suppose rent is an overhead alright a fairly substantial one especially living in Dublin it is so expensive it's madness.

Well it sounds like you landed yourself a good job, fair play. Rent and bills is a very substantial overhead in Dublin and it's only going up in price while wages are not following.

No offense but you'd do well to be a bit more careful about how you phrase things especially being flippant about people's wages and income as well as the ease of saving.

CIP4 · 07-11-2015 08:13PM

166man wrote: »

Well it sounds like you landed yourself a good job, fair play. Rent and bills is a very substantial overhead in Dublin and it's only going up in price while wages are not following.

No offense but you'd do well to be a bit more careful about how you phrase things especially being flippant about people's wages and income as well as the ease of saving.

Ye I'm lucky that my course is currently saught after that's all it is really not that the lower paying course are any worse or that I'm more qualified or superior because I'm not. Obviously the likes of accounting is a tough job and the exams to become chartered are extremely difficult. The only reason I even mentioned about my earnings was to give some reasoning why I maybe initially thought saving is easier than it really is. I don't look at myself as being superior to someone on 20k a year nor do I ever boast about what I earn. It's about doing what you love I suppose ultimately money can't be everything. If I came across as flippant to people's wages or savings that was not my intention at all.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 07-11-2015 08:16PM

CIP4 wrote: »

Anyone ever have Goodyear efficientgrips I was going to try them next I have Pirelli p7 at the moment and they are average enough. I always found Goodyear excellence great tyres but recon the efficientgrips would be better.

Id recommend these. Very quiet, smooth and energy efficient. I had them out into a focus and a 206. Very good grip in them.

Noccy_Mondy · 07-11-2015 08:18PM

So ladies and gents, this is the result of a damaged track rod end, along will improper tracking. New pair of Michelins gone on today, along with a further proper tracking. Got 6.5k miles out of these. Couldn't see the damage as it was on the inner edge, despite me examining them regularly. Only when the mechanic had it on the lift during the week was it noticed. I had felt that the inner edge was worn a bit, and thought that a simple tracking would set it straight, but alas no, it was further gone than I had thought.....

vintagevrs · 07-11-2015 08:20PM

Anyone heading to Mondello at the start of December?

Big Nasty · 07-11-2015 08:34PM

166man wrote: »

No offense but you'd do well to be a bit more careful about how you phrase things.

Kettle, meet pot. :pac:

YbFocus · 07-11-2015 08:35PM

vintagevrs wrote: »

Anyone heading to Mondello at the start of December?

Just me and you i think!

Duke O Smiley · 07-11-2015 08:37PM

power pants wrote: »

deserves a pint , he knows his tyres too it would seem

He doesn't, but he was trying to be nice. Its a few quid down the drain but I can't exactly bring it abck and ask for my money back as theres nothing wrong with it. Its going on the space until next month

166man · 07-11-2015 08:40PM

Big Nasty wrote: »

Kettle, meet pot. :pac:

I wondered who would pick up on that

In other news I know I have been harping on about this charger a bit but below is a picture of the OBC after I said I'd do a 70 mile trip and see how she did on juice!

Nearly 48mpg! On the highway averaging about 70mph too with air con on. Admittedly that's in UK mpg but in US it's over 40mpg. Gave me a theoretical range of over 600 miles.

I haven't done the brim test but even if it's 10/20% off its still good for what it is I reckon. Very impressed

CIP4 · 07-11-2015 09:49PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

So ladies and gents, this is the result of a damaged track rod end, along will improper tracking. New pair of Michelins gone on today, along with a further proper tracking. Got 6.5k miles out of these. Couldn't see the damage as it was on the inner edge, despite me examining them regularly. Only when the mechanic had it on the lift during the week was it noticed. I had felt that the inner edge was worn a bit, and thought that a simple tracking would set it straight, but alas no, it was further gone than I had thought.....

you seem to be always buying tyres was it you that got a new tyre a few weeks ago because of a nail. I suppose you have two cars to keep tyres on too. It's a sickened having two ruined tyres after 6.5k miles hopefully your sorted now though.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

Id recommend these. Very quiet, smooth and energy efficient. I had them out into a focus and a 206. Very good grip in them.

Nice one I think I'll go for them next. Now to try and find somewhere in Kilkenny that sells them. Ah there is a bit left of the Pirelli anyway so no rush yet.

In other news after 6 months of having the car I've finally figured out how to put contacts on the vehicle phone book. This makes for calling people easier without having to ever touch your phone. I was originally trying to upload all contacts and the radio doesn't have the memory although it never said that when I done it individually it worked.

MetzgerMeister · 07-11-2015 10:01PM

OSI wrote: »

On an entirely unrelated note. What are people paying for Eagle F1s these days? Reckon a set of 4 x 225/40/18 can be done for 500?

They're a decent enough price on Camskill. I'm on Pirelli P Zero RFT's on the 330 at the moment. I'm really liking them.

Noccy_Mondy · 07-11-2015 10:15PM

CIP4 wrote: »

you seem to be always buying tyres was it you that got a new tyre a few weeks ago because of a nail. I suppose you have two cars to keep tyres on too. It's a sickened having two ruined tyres after 6.5k miles hopefully your sorted now though.

Aye, the nail was me alright. Would you believe that the focus seems to be the troublesome one on tyres, mondeo is light on them, although I need a new front set on that soon!

CIP4 · 07-11-2015 10:25PM

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

They're a decent enough price on Camskill. I'm on Pirelli P Zero RFT's on the 330 at the moment. I'm really liking them.

It's funny how you find them so good do you find they spin in the wet under hard acceleration. I have p7 which are a few steps down from p zeros but my car is probably 40% of the power of your two :pac: there perfect in the dry and seem good under braking in the wet the car doesn't skid or anything. But in the wet give it a bit of power at all on a junction and they will just spin. Maybe it's not the tyres at all and the car not sure whether it has the best traction control you'd feel it work on my golf as well as getting a flashing traction light where as the Megane just seems to let them spin and I don't even think it has a traction control light either

MetzgerMeister · 07-11-2015 10:34PM

I find them just as good in the wet as in the dry and that's with 560Nm Tq going through them. The Eagle F1's are also top class in the wet.

CIP4 · 07-11-2015 10:37PM

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I find them just as good in the wet as in the dry and that's with 560Nm Tq going through them. The Eagle F1's are also top class in the wet.

My car is around 250Nm so I can't understand why I am getting wheel spin at all should be no issue putting that out on the road especially for pirellis.

Noccy_Mondy · 08-11-2015 12:34AM

Just watching that reality bites thing on the modified cars, didn't get a chance to see it during the week. What an absolute brain dead inconsiderate handicap that Shane fella off the Dublin meets is. On a public road acting the complete retard? I don't know.....

Noccy_Mondy · 08-11-2015 12:42AM

Why are they suppressing a link between uneducated simpletons and car enthusiasts. There are plenty of well educated, respectable car enthusiasts (like those around here), yet they don't seem to get any light. They're more interested on focusing on the oul 'trackkie bottoms addidas kickers, trousers tucked into white socks' crowd...

Noccy_Mondy · 08-11-2015 12:44AM

Mayo is no better it seems, diffing on a public crossroads. I've come across that sort of shyt before, only a few weeks back at it's most recent. They don't even be bothered stopping when traffic comes to pass.

MetzgerMeister · 08-11-2015 12:49AM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Why are they suppressing a link between uneducated simpletons and car enthusiasts. There are plenty of well educated, respectable car enthusiasts (like those around here), yet they don't seem to get any light. They're more interested on focusing on the oul 'trackkie bottoms addidas kickers, trousers tucked into white socks' crowd...

Because no one cares about the likes of folk here.

It's the same with news - people love hearing about bad news and they couldn't care less about good news.

As Megadeth said...peace sells...but who's buying?

Noccy_Mondy · 08-11-2015 12:53AM

Yar, it's a pity.

CIP4 · 08-11-2015 01:14AM

To me a car enthusiast is someone who enjoys car. Someone that always wants to thinker with them in some way whether it's doing a basic service, adding extras, washing and cleaning the car anything wants it envolves the car. Someone who dreams about having a nice shed with a few tools and being able to work away on a car on those cold wet winter evenings. Someone that has great pride in their car regardless of what it costs or how fast it goes. Someone who thinks of a car as so much more than a tool to get from a to b or a performance tool.

The one who is flat out getting phone calls of friends starting with my car made this noise or I'm broken down can you help. Someone who just enjoys talking about cars and advising people regardless of the car or what it is. Someone that gets excited about going on a long drive in their car. Someone who is sad to see cars being sold on but excited to see what's next and what they can do with it. Someone that gets excited about going to view cars and the vast majority of their photo gallery is cars. Someone who has a huge ever increasing knowledge of cars. Cars are their hobby, passion, love.

Ye so a few lads racing down a public road putting their life and the lives of others in danger are not 'car enthusiasts' to me.

Duke O Smiley · 08-11-2015 02:43AM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Just watching that reality bites thing on the modified cars, didn't get a chance to see it during the week. What an absolute brain dead inconsiderate handicap that Shane fella off the Dublin meets is. On a public road acting the complete retard? I don't know.....

But he's sopporting homeless

Noccy_Mondy · 08-11-2015 02:51AM

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

But he's sopporting homeless

Support my arse, that's only a bit of a decoy in order to appear the soft touch. "Ahh look he's being nice to the homeless, let him off with his litte toe rag racers"

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