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

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

Ignore 166man, his cars never knew what a tax disk looked liked.
The only time he taxed them they broke on him :pac:

And while I don't actually drive different cars Throughout the year I like to have the option.

Oh and it's a 19 year old alfa with 170k miles on it. I ain't taking that chance

My cars always had a tax disc in the windscreen. It's a nice feeling being legit and not having to worry.

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

My hoop!!!! Don't think I've ever seen you with a taxed car!!! :P


Speaking of, Just taxed the 166 there a few days ago. The disc arrived today. First time it's had a full screen since May. Great to be fully legit again

As above, my cars always had a full windscreen of discs. Glad to hear you're no longer illegal anyway. I hope you weren't driving an untaxed car on public roads.

CIP4 wrote: »

I don't call myself a golf enthusiast

Can this be post of the year? One of the funnier moments of 2015 on boards.

Go now!!

166man wrote: »

My cars always had a tax disc in the windscreen. It's a nice feeling being legit and not having to worry.



As above, my cars always had a full windscreen of discs. Glad to hear you're no longer illegal anyway. I hope you weren't driving an untaxed car on public roads.




Can this be post of the year? One of the funnier moments of 2015 on boards.

Ah, my eyes must have not been working right when I saw your tax discs so.

Sure you know my car has been basically broken since may!

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Nothing surprises me anymore

How do they overtake you on the wrong side?

jimgoose wrote: »

16-year-old canal-boat here too, €495 full comp. But then I'm fierce owld, like.

Ye maybe I'm over thinking it but just over the last Year I've been hearing a lot about it being hard to insure cars over 10 years old seems in reality it's not that difficult which is a good thing. I think I'll keep what I have for at least another year it needs a timming belt in April too so I suppose that will be 400 quid needs a service over Christmas too Infairness I haven't spent a penny on it in 6 months that doesn't make it any easier.


So after doing them bits would be stupid to sell it then straight away I have no reason to get rid of it as its a good car and there is nothing wrong with it. But at the same time once I go much over 160k km it's just going to be harder and harder to sell. End of next years seems to be the most logical time to change it bearing all that in mind.

colm_mcm wrote:

How do they overtake you on the wrong side?

I took it as the altezza overtook him on the right, yet continued to stay on the right hand side after he had passed.

I just couldn't picture it.

Worst driving I ever saw was up your part of the country. Was coming back from Sligo and there was a car overtaking a car.
Fair enough
Then a civic overtook that car (while it was overtaking)
Then a crx overtook the civic (while it was overtaking)
Car coming the other way
Crx drove on the hard shoulder on the other side, to the right of the car coming towards us.
Normal road. No idea how they all fitted.

Guards were waiting in the next village. Had the two boys stopped. There was an ambulance driving behind me, so maybe they radiod.

There was some big modified car fest on up the north that weekend.
I was driving the fto that day and was full sure they'd associate me with the muppetry.

colm_mcm wrote: »

I just couldn't picture it.

Worst driving I ever saw was up your part of the country. Was coming back from Sligo and there was a car overtaking a car.
Fair enough
Then a civic overtook that car (while it was overtaking)
Then a crx overtook the civic (while it was overtaking)
Car coming the other way
Crx drove on the hard shoulder on the other side, to the right of the car coming towards us.
Normal road. No idea how they all fitted.

Guards were waiting in the next village. Had the two boys stopped. There was an ambulance driving behind me, so maybe they radiod.

There was some big modified car fest on up the north that weekend.
I was driving the fto that day and was full sure they'd associate me with the muppetry.

Jaysus, id have shat myself. :eek: Unreal the chances some people take. It's only when you see first hand the tragedy that can be caused ..it really brings it home...

gone?

OK so I filled the Punto fuel tank to the top on Wednesday and 129 miles later I filled it up again so I can finally get an accurate MPG number. Here are the results.



47.87 UK MPG, or 5.9 L/100 KM. Pretty good, imo.

job seeker wrote: »

Not bad. What sort of driving is that?

Boyle - Castlebar - Boyle (driving at speed limit) and a bit of around the town driving.

job seeker wrote: »

Cool cool..

Yeah, it was very exciting. I've never had a full tank or known the accurate MPG of any of my cars.

sunnysoutheast wrote: »

If you want to drive yourself mad see if it makes any difference whether you fill at Topaz, Tesco, etc.!

Haha, that would be interesting alright. There's just Esso, Topaz, Texaco, Applegreen and Stewarts within a 30 KM radius here though. No fancy Tesco petrol stations. :P