Motors Chat - Round 9

CIP4 · 13-11-2015 05:40PM

I was in getting some shopping there. Left loads of room in a big space. Came back to a car genuinely parked that close to me that they had to pull in there mirror no joke I literally couldn't walk up between the two cars I don't know how they possibly got out. I had to get in the passenger side and somehow get across which was hardship as interior space wouldn't be the meganes strong point.

MuppetCheck · 13-11-2015 06:14PM

CIP4 wrote: »

Flicking through donedeal seen this. I think it looks well not too many going around. However you'd buy a golf gti or st etc same year for less money so I think it's a bit strong money wise even if it's rare.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/renault-megane-2-2-0-rs225-5dr/10872410

I test drove that very car in 2009 and it was in a main dealers in Waterford for 20k. It dropped over time to 15k. Cup chassis and brembo brakes too. Mad money for it mind.

Noccy_Mondy · 13-11-2015 06:31PM

So, my drivers wheel is still catching as you know. Really catches when on full lock and you press the brakes and the nose dives down a bit, catching the tyre. So the only solution we can come to is offset the steering in the opposite direction, take off the steering, out with the airbag, straighten the steering, and then retrack it again, allowing for the extra room on the drivers arch. To be done tomorrow......

166man · 13-11-2015 06:38PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

So, my drivers wheel is still catching as you know. Really catches when on full lock and you press the brakes and the nose dives down a bit, catching the tyre. So the only solution we can come to is offset the steering in the opposite direction, take off the steering, out with the airbag, straighten the steering, and then retrack it again, allowing for the extra room on the drivers arch. To be done tomorrow......

Been following this problem you seem to be having and really have no idea how a tyre place has messed up so much...

colm_mcm · 13-11-2015 06:40PM

That doesn't sound like it would work.

mhackett102 · 13-11-2015 06:44PM

CIP4 wrote: »

Ah no it's not the best place in I'm thinking of is actually the guys name with car sales written after it. Should be a good car for munching up the miles I know a good few people that have mk4s.

I got this in Waterford Motor Village, nice place there I only called in on Monday because I had a couple of hours off college.. Didnt think they would have second-hand cars that old for sale, unlike other dealers on that road (Audi, Seat, Honda, Boland Group etc.)

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Ya, there's two types of gt alloys. Personally I prefer the first ones, they're an inch bigger rim too.

Their the ones I was thinking of! I'd definitely prefer the first set but they are hard to find and are going for crazy prices. The second set are more common and are a bit cheaper (the ones Ive come across).

CIP4 · 13-11-2015 06:56PM

MuppetCheck wrote: »

I test drove that very car in 2009 and it was in a main dealers in Waterford for 20k. It dropped over time to 15k. Cup chassis and brembo brakes too. Mad money for it mind.

Probably better value back then at 15K than it is now at 10k plus a lot of extra mileage on it now too.

mhackett102 wrote: »

I got this in Waterford Motor Village, nice place there I only called in on Monday because I had a couple of hours off college.. Didnt think they would have second-hand cars that old for sale, unlike other dealers on that road (Audi, Seat, Honda, Boland Group etc.)

I can't say I've ever heard of them which could well be a good thing. I seen it on done deal looks like clean car a set of alloys and it will look well.

mhackett102 · 13-11-2015 07:02PM

CIP4 wrote: »

I can't say I've ever heard of them which could well be a good thing. I seen it on done deal looks like clean car a set of alloys and it will look well.

I've never heard of them before until this week. I was there 4 times this week and there were people in around the showroom each time so they seem to be kept busy. I seen the ad after I seen the car and I have to say that it actually looks better in person, a couple of scratches were buffed out and the interior given a full clean along with a polish outside!

Hal1 · 13-11-2015 07:04PM

Somethings fk'd there Noccy. Maybe you damaged the wishbone on a pot hole?

Noccy_Mondy · 13-11-2015 07:32PM

Hal1 wrote:

Somethings fk'd there Noccy. Maybe you damaged the wishbone on a pot hole?

I've had 3 mechanics and 4 lads in the tyre centre look at it. None of them could figure out why this occurred all of a sudden, same tyres were put on the front. My local mechanic reckoned that they tracked it too much to one side, that the drivers wheel is locking too much, with respect to the passenger side. He got a calipers, locked the wheels in and measured from the edge of the wing to the outside tyre wall, on both tyres, the drivers side was an inch shorter....

colm_mcm · 13-11-2015 07:58PM

I'm not a doctor, but that sounds like either a crooked wishbone or car.

Noccy_Mondy · 13-11-2015 08:05PM

colm_mcm wrote:

I'm not a doctor, but that sounds like either a crooked wishbone or car.

I'll get them to check that first so tomorrow, just it's very strange it coincided with when I put 2 new tyres and tracked it.

13-11-2015 08:21PM

Had to go to dublin on Tuesday morning. Left my house about 7:15am to get there for just before 8ish (I'm in drogheda, so getting to the start of entering the city / port tunnel takes me about 25-30 mins). Sitting in traffic. Slowly. Tediously. Getting annoyed and frustrated.

Had to go dublin Friday morning, "won't make that mistake again" I told myself. Left at 6:30am, to get in before the traffic of people going to work, but managed to drive into the exact same scenario again!

What are people up to? Who's going to work at 6:30am!? Are people who start at 9am leaving at 7 to beat the 'rush' and therefore creating their own rush? Couldn't believe the traffic on the roads into the city being so heavy at that time.

Hal1 · 13-11-2015 08:24PM

The only real solution is to park outside the city and commute by dart.

Noccy_Mondy · 13-11-2015 08:29PM

Or stay away from the place altogether. I rarely go near it, I only frustrate myself with the traffic.

dar83 · 13-11-2015 08:33PM

Deleted User wrote: »

What are people up to? Who's going to work at 6:30am!? Are people who start at 9am leaving at 7 to beat the 'rush' and therefore creating their own rush? Couldn't believe the traffic on the roads into the city being so heavy at that time.

I like the way you did exactly what you're asking about, and then seem perplexed about why everyone else tries it as well!

166man · 13-11-2015 09:17PM

Deleted User wrote: »

What are people up to? Who's going to work at 6:30am!? Are people who start at 9am leaving at 7 to beat the 'rush' and therefore creating their own rush? Couldn't believe the traffic on the roads into the city being so heavy at that time.

Pretty standard for lots of people to go to work at 6.30am and even earlier in some places... When I worked in Ireland I'd be on the road sometimes at 5am to be in Cork or Donegal at 8-9am. Used to regularly leave Dublin at 6am to be in Monaghan for 8am....

Mycroft H · 13-11-2015 09:19PM

166man wrote: »

Pretty standard for lots of people to go to work at 6.30am and even earlier in some places... When I worked in Ireland I'd be on the road sometimes at 5am to be in Cork or Donegal at 8-9am. Used to regularly leave Dublin at 6am to be in Monaghan for 8am....

Leave at 6.10 to be in work for 7. Not home again until about 8 in the evening. 12 hour shifts. Much craic

bear1 · 13-11-2015 09:36PM

My god some of the threads on the motors forum are going downhill again.
Always the same thing too.
In other news mind has been made up and I'm going for the Passat I test drove yesterday. I'm hoping at this stage that ill be back in my own car by the end of next week.

Noccy_Mondy · 13-11-2015 09:40PM

bear1 wrote:

My god some of the threads on the motors forum are going downhill again. Always the same thing too. In other news mind has been made up and I'm going for the Passat I test drove yesterday. I'm hoping at this stage that ill be back in my own car by the end of next week.

What shape is it, a b6?

bear1 · 13-11-2015 09:42PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

What shape is it, a b6?

Yep, 07 170bhp black with tan leather.

Thargor · 13-11-2015 09:46PM

Marty McFly wrote: »

Mondeo drover making a balls of the turn.

That is also the road I take to work only a matter of time before I show up on here :pac:

Ah sh1t it was right at the start of the video, easier with sound aswell

dar83 · 13-11-2015 09:48PM

Black and Tan?! :eek:

bear1 · 13-11-2015 09:53PM

dar83 wrote: »

Black and Tan?! :eek:

Yep and German too

CIP4 · 13-11-2015 10:08PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Or stay away from the place altogether. I rarely go near it, I only frustrate myself with the traffic.

Every time I go to Dublin I wonder how people put up with the traffic on a day to day basis absolute joke of a place. But I suppose thats where a lot of jobs are based what can you do. Cork is not much better Jack lynch tunnel in the mornings

Mycroft H wrote: »

Leave at 6.10 to be in work for 7. Not home again until about 8 in the evening. 12 hour shifts. Much craic

I was the same on shift during the summer I loved it leave the house at 6.20am still be in loads of time for 7am home before 7.30 pm it was great. Ill have the same commute when I start as a graduate in June as its the same place

. I think 20-30 mins is the perfect commute length as I wouldn't like to live next to work either.

13-11-2015 10:47PM

166man wrote: »

Pretty standard for lots of people to go to work at 6.30am and even earlier in some places... When I worked in Ireland I'd be on the road sometimes at 5am to be in Cork or Donegal at 8-9am. Used to regularly leave Dublin at 6am to be in Monaghan for 8am....

Is that a real thing, though? What kind of job is that? You're obviously not talking about a 9-5 job in a fixed location!? That sounds like self-employment or a travelling salesman or something like that? You're leaving the house at 5am, but probably home by 1-2pm? (unless it's a one-off kinda thing).

No normal person is travelling 3-4 hours each way to work, on a 5-day basis.

Mycroft H wrote: »

Leave at 6.10 to be in work for 7. Not home again until about 8 in the evening. 12 hour shifts. Much craic

For 12 hour shifts I'd guess 4 days per week? Not too bad, having to spend under an hour traveling for 4 days if you've 3 days off then.

I think if I was working 5 days per week in a fixed location, then the most Id be able to stomache would be about 40 minutes. After that I'd be working on my noose or googling how to build your own machine gun.

(that said, 40 minutes with the foot down darting around Roscommon or Longford or whatever, is do-able to me. 40 minutes sitting in bumper to bumper traffic in the City Centre is something I just wouldn't be able for. I'd just find it so frustrating!)

166man · 13-11-2015 11:07PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Is that a real thing, though? What kind of job is that? You're obviously not talking about a 9-5 job in a fixed location!? That sounds like self-employment or a travelling salesman or something like that? You're leaving the house at 5am, but probably home by 1-2pm? (unless it's a one-off kinda thing).

No normal person is travelling 3-4 hours each way to work, on a 5-day basis

No it wasn't a 9-5 job alright. It was often common for me to leave Dublin between 5.30-7.30am and be back home between 7.30-9.30pm.

You could be in Donegal on Monday and Wexford on Tuesday. I used to do about 1800km over a 5 day week.

I loved it though, and still do

Duke O Smiley · 13-11-2015 11:08PM

KKV a lot of people working in Dublin live outside of the county and travel up daily in the early morning for their 9-5 job. Its not uncommon.

That said I somehow got from Drumcondra to Knockree in under an hour yesterday morning at 8:45 via the M50 which was surprisingy quick I thought

Chris_Heilong · 13-11-2015 11:57PM

wow, I leave the house at 9:30 and get to work for 10 each morning, guess i am lucky as I cant imagine getting up at 6 or 7.

quadrifoglio verde · 13-11-2015 11:58PM

Mycroft H wrote: »

Leave at 6.10 to be in work for 7. Not home again until about 8 in the evening. 12 hour shifts. Much craic

Leave at 16 minutes past 9 to be in before half 9...have 10 km of back roads practically to myself before I reach clondlakin.

I think I'm the only one who looks forward to their morning commute

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