Motors Chat - Round 9

MuppetCheck · 16-12-2015 11:44AM

Donnelly117 wrote: »

Balls...

Yep, flash cyanogenmod onto it and it should work though. Its what they came with originally so you might have it already. Its the Oxygen OS that wont work on new ones. I've cyanogenmod on my Note 4 and it works flawlessly with it, better than with the standard Samsung cartoon software.

Noccy_Mondy · 16-12-2015 11:54AM

Dord wrote:

I heard back in the day that the imps (this was one) were pulled from service because the drivers were hooring them over the ramps and wrecking them. I'd imagine this one is probably in ****e or patched up. It just might get you to the euros but I wouldn't chance it.

They are feckers for going over ramps. I know of a similar size merc that's a fecker for ramps, literally nothing to cushion the thud. The back seats are raised up higher, and if you drive over even the smallest ramp at speed the passengers on them seats will lift up off them. Once you stumble across a ramp you have to brake, stick it in first and let it roll over the ramps for any comfort, which usually pisses off anyone that's behind you, especially if there's a series of ramps!

jimgoose · 16-12-2015 12:29PM

My back-right window winder appears to have packed it in. Luckily, British Parts UK can ride to the rescue:

https://www.britishparts.co.uk/products/6619-window-rail-regulator-XR848084

Not bad. Not fookin' bad at all.

Donnelly117 · 16-12-2015 12:42PM

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Yep, flash cyanogenmod onto it and it should work though. Its what they came with originally so you might have it already. Its the Oxygen OS that wont work on new ones. I've cyanogenmod on my Note 4 and it works flawlessly with it, better than with the standard Samsung cartoon software.

I recently got an OP2 so it had Oxygen OS, not an issue just yet anyway, still not sure what Ill wind up with! Goof to know the cyanogenmod will sort it though

MuppetCheck · 16-12-2015 12:45PM

Donnelly117 wrote: »

I recently got an OP2 so it had Oxygen OS, not an issue just yet anyway, still not sure what Ill wind up with! Goof to know the cyanogenmod will sort it though

Can't be long until Oxygen adds support for it too. I wanted a OP2 but that function scuppered it:(

Donnelly117 · 16-12-2015 01:15PM

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Can't be long until Oxygen adds support for it too. I wanted a OP2 but that function scuppered it:(

Its a pretty sweet phone, especially for the money! I couldn't face the best part of a grand for an unlocked 6s plus! Oxygen seems like a decent version of android, its nice and simple. I had a Galaxy S3 many moons ago and I didn't like the TouchWiz UI they'd stuck on it.
A buddy of mine got the OPx too, and aside from being the slippiest phone in the world its very nice, its a divil to hold onto though :pac: Slides off pretty much everything you out it onto, even level surfaces!!!

GvidoR · 16-12-2015 06:15PM

Saw this the other day :pac:

Noccy_Mondy · 16-12-2015 07:58PM

What's the NCT's stickiness on the handbrake, does anyone know. Got new adjusters in today, but it's too tight now, I'd say the handbrake is still on a bit when moving, and the light is on, but very very faint. Barely noticeable.

shietpilot · 16-12-2015 08:02PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

What's the NCT's stickiness on the handbrake, does anyone know. Got new adjusters in today, but it's too tight now, I'd say the handbrake is still on a bit when moving, and the light is on, but very very faint. Barely noticeable.

IMO there's no point spending money on brakes if you're just going to let the pads wear down like that.

Noccy_Mondy · 16-12-2015 08:04PM

Only put on the adjusters this evening, obviously I'll sort it out tomorrow, but my test is first thing, so I won't get a chance to do anything about it!

Just wondering if it's a fail or not.

Toyotafanboi · 16-12-2015 08:14PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Only put on the adjusters this evening, obviously I'll sort it out tomorrow, but my test is first thing, so I won't get a chance to do anything about it!

Just wondering if it's a fail or not.

If the wheel spins freely when the car is in the air, you're good. If it doesn't spin by hand when the wheels are in the air it may see another fail.

Can you ease it off a bit at the lever in the car?

Noccy_Mondy · 16-12-2015 08:21PM

Toyotafanboi wrote:

Can you ease it off a bit at the lever in the car?

How'd you mean?

When the lever is fully off I can still feel slight resistance.

Toyotafanboi · 16-12-2015 08:25PM

If you take the trim off around the lever, there is a nut you can slacken off where the cable is attached, to allow minor adjustments. Or have you been there already?

Noccy_Mondy · 16-12-2015 08:27PM

Toyotafanboi wrote:

If you take the trim off around the lever, there is a nut you can slacken off where the cable is attached, to allow minor adjustments. Or have you been there already?

I haven't, I only have it back an hour, but I'll be there in a minute! Forgot about that.

Toyotafanboi · 16-12-2015 08:28PM

This is it on my old Corolla, just open/ close the nut a bit to slacken or tighten the handbrake cable.

polan · 16-12-2015 08:37PM

OSI wrote: »

Isn't that a years salary in Poland? I don't think you all came over for the better food and climate.

Pure insult this :P

Minimum wage is €407 per month / €4,884 per year

Average salary is €790 per month / €9,480 per year

CIP4 · 16-12-2015 08:47PM

polan wrote: »

Pure insult this :P

Minimum wage is €407 per month / €4,884 per year

Average salary is €790 per month / €9,480 per year

:eek: I knew it was bad but I never knew it was that bad. My dad was over there working for about 3 months this year and he thought it was nice place he said the food was nice and it was dirt cheap. There was a lot of jokes about him an Irish guy going to Poland for work :pac: he clearly wasn't being paid polish rates anyway.

polan · 16-12-2015 08:56PM

Ah yeah, but remember, most of the stuff anyway would be twice if not three times cheaper than Ireland.

Petrol's at €0.96/litre
Diesel's at €0.94/litre
LPG's at €0.48/litre

Loaf of sourdough bread is about €0.60
Bottle of Tyskie beer is €0.75
2.25L bottle of Coke is €1.35
Half Pounder Large meal at McDonald's is €4.65
Packet of Pall Malls is €3.15
Studio Apartment, 15kms away from the capital would be about €315 to rent.
Electricity and gas are dirt cheap.

My uncle makes €950/month, his wife is a housewife, they've got two kids and he has no problem owning two cars (2008 B6 Passat and a 2004 VW Polo) and going on holidays to Croatia once a year.

colm_mcm · 16-12-2015 09:04PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

I haven't, I only have it back an hour, but I'll be there in a minute! Forgot about that.

Is your mechanic any good? With this, and not figuring out about the suspension?

166man · 16-12-2015 09:11PM

CIP4 wrote: »

:eek: I knew it was bad but I never knew it was that bad. My dad was over there working for about 3 months this year and he thought it was nice place he said the food was nice and it was dirt cheap. There was a lot of jokes about him an Irish guy going to Poland for work :pac: he clearly wasn't being paid polish rates anyway.

Plenty of poles over there live a good life on their wages especially with the cost of living being so low..

If he had been paid polish rates you'd be now driving a clapped out Mk3 diesel Golf CIP!

YbFocus · 16-12-2015 09:14PM

166man wrote: »

Plenty of poles over there live a good life on their wages especially with the cost of living being so low..

If he had been paid polish rates you'd be now driving a clapped out Mk3 diesel Golf CIP!

Hey hey when you are in college trying to afford to live a Golf SDI is a good car

polan · 16-12-2015 09:17PM

YbFocus wrote: »

Hey hey when you are in college trying to afford to live a Golf SDI is a good car

I drive unc's Polo on regular basis when I'm over and with my driving I couldn't get it below 5l/100km average :eek: 1.9 SDI

I preffered his 2006 E61 530d though

YbFocus · 16-12-2015 09:21PM

polan wrote: »

I drive unc's Polo on regular basis when I'm over and with my driving I couldn't get it below 5l/100km average :eek: 1.9 SDI

My golf was amazingly fuel efficient, needed when you work summers and weekends but still need to pay for food, fuel etc. Tax was here or there

CIP I don't know what job you had during the summers as I was raking money as a mechanic but still needed to drive a scrapper to survive.
Fair play!

Noccy_Mondy · 16-12-2015 09:26PM

colm_mcm wrote: »

Is your mechanic any good? With this, and not figuring out about the suspension?

Was the mechanic in the tyre centre that I was dealing with for that wheel catching issue, seeing as it was only noticeable after I got new rubber on.

My local fella diagnosed all the wishbone, roll bar issues and set all that straight. I even went back to him there and he released the handbrake a notch. The light being on is to do with the sensor being dodgy.

So let this NCT come at me, and do it's worst, I'm ready for it. Only thing that I know of that it could go down on is the rear shocks, which I'll get to over xmas regardless.

Need to get up extra early and try and wash it tomorrow though

Noccy_Mondy · 16-12-2015 09:33PM

On another note was driving into town at about half 5. Joined the main road and every car I met had their hazzards on and flashed me. So I took it easy until I came upon a scene. A scene of utter carnage. Must have literally just happened as no gardai were there, just a few cars. I drive along to see what the issue was and to my right in the middle of the road was a cow in bits all over the road, completely destroyed, guts everywhere. Up ahead was a freelander which was absolutely destroyed too, front of it was mangled to bits. Looked like the cow was loose on the dark road, jeep plows at speed into it and killed it. Had that been a car there would be some very serious injuries. Horrible scene to come upon, hate seeing animals like that in bits.

Was a dark animal so difficult to see. These things can happen so easily!

Toyotafanboi · 16-12-2015 09:37PM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Was the mechanic in the tyre centre that I was dealing with for that wheel catching issue, seeing as it was only noticeable after I got new rubber on.

My local fella diagnosed all the wishbone, roll bar issues and set all that straight. I even went back to him there and he released the handbrake a notch. The light being on is to do with the sensor being dodgy.

So let this NCT come at me, and do it's worst, I'm ready for it. Only thing that I know of that it could go down on is the rear shocks, which I'll get to over xmas regardless.

Need to get up extra early and try and wash it tomorrow though

Did you find that nut for adjusting?

My test is tomorrow too.

My fail predictions:

Emissions
Suspension bushing and links
Chassis corrosion

And maybe some basics, one of either headlight alignment or tracking.

I'm hoping it goes straight through but this car loves breaking my heart. It's the first car that i've put zero pre NCT prep into, i'm just going to turn up and see what's what. I also didn't tax it this month encase it's really bad.

CIP4 · 16-12-2015 09:40PM

YbFocus wrote: »

My golf was amazingly fuel efficient, needed when you work summers and weekends but still need to pay for food, fuel etc. Tax was here or there

CIP I don't know what job you had during the summers as I was raking money as a mechanic but still needed to drive a scrapper to survive.
Fair play!

I always worked with my dad from about 14 so initially at home washing vans at the weekend preparing them for the week. Then at 16 I spent my summers on site again with my dad then in the summer 2 and 3 years ago working for an electrical contractor where I got on really well done massive hours as I loved it and they were so busy. So I had a lot of money saved before I ever bought a car. I always worked really it wasn't given to me.

Then last summer I was on placement got the contract and seen the salary and was there like yes finally a chance to get seriously decent money (relative to what I had been earning) I was delighted. Then week one I got a 25% pay rise week 3 another 5% pay rise. At that stage I was just on plain outrageous money for a placement student that wasn't even qualified. I mean it was mad in a good way though.

I don't drink or smoke so it's very difficult to spend money even doing things at the weekends, going places or whatever. Still will be nice to have a continuous wage from June.

Noccy_Mondy · 16-12-2015 09:42PM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Did you find that nut for adjusting?

I did ya, he adjusted the other end though and it seemed to free it up a bit.

I don't see it failing on much. Found last years report and it failed on two lights and an exhaust mount. It's taxed until August, so hopefully that'll see me out. I'm half contemplating selling and not replacing it at all when the time comes.

polan · 16-12-2015 09:43PM

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Best trip ever, 32 hours on the road, 145mph on the autobahn and 15 hours sleep after that

Highly recommended

YbFocus · 16-12-2015 09:45PM

CIP4 wrote: »

I always worked with my dad from about 14 so initially at home washing vans at the weekend preparing them for the week. Then at 16 I spent my summers on site again with my dad then in the summer 2 and 3 years ago working for an electrical contractor where I got on really well done massive hours as I loved it and they were so busy. So I had a lot of money saved before I ever bought a car. I always worked really it wasn't given to me.

Then last summer I was on placement got the contract and seen the salary and was there like yes finally a chance to get seriously decent money (relative to what I had been earning) I was delighted. Then week one I got a 25% pay rise week 3 another 5% pay rise. At that stage I was just on plain outrageous money for a placement student that wasn't even qualified. I mean it was mad in a good way though.

I don't drink or smoke so it's very difficult to spend money even doing things at the weekends, going places or whatever. Still will be nice to have a continuous wage from June.

Ah right well a dad's wage to his son is always going to be good

I done massive hours (18hrs per day the odd week) but never had to spend what you did!

I don't smoke nor never did, I drink about 2 pints a month I'd say so we're all level there

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