Motors Chat - Round 9

YbFocus · 21-12-2015 04:23PM

That colour is beautiful

davycc · 21-12-2015 04:29PM

YbFocus wrote: »

That colour is beautiful

same colour and spec as my old mr2

GvidoR · 21-12-2015 04:36PM

My sympathies, Eringobragh. I can't imagine what you're going through right now. Please keep us updated.

bear1 · 21-12-2015 05:37PM

Yippe VW Poland are honouring the recall

they say they will order the new injectors and it should be done by next week. Hefty expense saved just by clicking a few pages

CIP4 · 21-12-2015 05:39PM

The ears and nose remind my of when my brother and I were younger my mother had a vectra and they got this small Christmas tree that goes on the dash petrol station job and plugs into the cigarette lighter and lit up. We used to think it was the best thing ever the good times

GvidoR · 21-12-2015 07:21PM

Ears? What ears? :pac:

ba_barabus · 21-12-2015 07:49PM

bear1 wrote: »

Yippe VW Poland are honouring the recall they say they will order the new injectors and it should be done by next week. Hefty expense saved just by clicking a few pages

You're absolutely ****ting me that your new car has broken down :eek::eek::eek:

Dord · 21-12-2015 07:58PM

eringobragh wrote: »

When you arrive home and your missus has done this to your car

Ive become the person I despise

Mrs. Dord saw this and said you prob did it yourself! :pac:

bear1 · 21-12-2015 08:09PM

ba_barabus wrote: »

You're absolutely ****ting me that your new car has broken down :eek::eek::eek:

Haha

No, but I researched the cars potential problems before I bought and it's worst repairs are the oil pump going and the injectors.
The injectors are part of a recall as they are too weak, especially on the 170 engine.
So today I managed to get a chance to call VW here and ask them if the injectors were already done and they weren't so happy days and I'll have a problem fixed before it fails and leaves me stranded.
Can be a 2k repair bill if you don't ask VW first about the recall.

Noccy_Mondy · 21-12-2015 09:42PM

Registered with my allianz there. Thought it would be handy to be able to adjust my policy at any time. Go in and select the temp change of car or add a temp driver. The terms say that nothing will be effective until confirmed by them (which will be done during business hours). So this whole system is of no benefit to me or anyone who wants to change things on a Sunday or anytime they aren't working. I'll just ring them to spite them anymore, instead of doing it online. That has me annoyed.

YbFocus · 21-12-2015 09:45PM

Axa is completely diy, very handy!

Noccy_Mondy · 21-12-2015 09:55PM

OSI wrote:

That's really odd. Both Axa and Aviva have allowed me to make policy changes on the fly using their website, temp and permanent changes.

And no need for confirmation or anything by them? That's the way it should be. This way is a balls. I'm with aviva too, but through a broker, so I can't use their online facility. I'm snookered every way!

JoeA3 · 21-12-2015 10:33PM

The aforementioned "cornering" lights are really useful imo. I find them brilliant when turning into the driveway in particular. Both of them also come on when reversing which really helps light up your surrounding view.

As vintagevrs said above, in the MK7 GTI/R, they are actually built into the main headlamp unit, so they don't look as odd as the one foglight coming on/off... Sure the R doesn't even have foglights...

dar83 · 21-12-2015 11:31PM

eringobragh wrote: »

When you arrive home and your missus has done this to your car

Ive become the person I despise

Pull them off?

That's what I'd do, but then again my girlfriend luckily shares the same opinion as most of us that those things look like complete c0ck!

eringobragh · 21-12-2015 11:41PM

dar83 wrote: »

eringobragh wrote: »

When you arrive home and your missus has done this to your car

Ive become the person I despise

Pull them off?

That's what I'd do, but then again my girlfriend luckily shares the same opinion as most of us that those things look like complete c0ck!

Add your reply here.
She done to wind me , still on the car but not a hope of me going out with them on it

Dartz · 21-12-2015 11:51PM

Sometimes I'm mellow and calm

And sometimes I just do the most idiotic things for no good reason. I really shouldn't get annoyed at someone doing 40kph in a 50 - but it just blew the head off me today and I don't know why.

Meh ****it, I'll never understand what's going on in my head.

GvidoR · 21-12-2015 11:57PM

YbFocus wrote: »

Axa is completely diy, very handy!

I'm with Axa but through a broker. Can I contact Axa directly about my policy?

joujoujou · 22-12-2015 12:05AM

bear1 wrote: »

Haha it's BMR so it's one of the affected engines. And knowing my luck with the previous car I'll be affected too

Yeah.

https://translate.google.pl/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=pl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fvw-passat.pl%2Fnews%2F14%2Fakcja-dobrej-woli-wymiany-pompowtryskow-w-passatach-b6-3c&edit-text=&act=url&authuser=0

davycc · 22-12-2015 12:31AM

GvidoR wrote: »

I'm with Axa but through a broker. Can I contact Axa directly about my policy?

no sadly you will need to speak to your broker only about your policy .:(

would be handy otherwise

Noccy_Mondy · 22-12-2015 01:10AM

GvidoR wrote: »

I'm with Axa but through a broker. Can I contact Axa directly about my policy?

No, tis a fecker really. You'd think you could. I'm in the same boat. I tried to go direct with Aviva this year and cut out the broker, purely for the ability to use the online facility, but dealing with them direct, they couldn't come anywhere close to what the broker was offering me. Strange how the brokers can get a lower quote at times, despite them having their cut out of it.

davycc · 22-12-2015 01:57AM

just booked the corollas NCT for mon the 4th jan in northpoint :pac:
wish me luck:D

GvidoR · 22-12-2015 02:08AM

Christmas lights!

22-12-2015 05:04AM

vintagevrs wrote: »

Not sure how useful a fog light coming on would be. On the golf there is a bulb within the main headlight case that points perpendicular to the dipped beams. It comes on as said when cornering at low speeds

Yeah this is how it is on the C5. It's not a fog light that comes on it's a seperate bulb beside the dipped one.

I thought they were all the same? Do many cars have the directional bulbs as low down as the fog?

Special Circumstances · 22-12-2015 10:01AM

OSI wrote: »

In many cases including the Mk5 Golf it is just the fog. They're just making use of the extra spread a fog light generally gets as a cheap gimmick.

Pretty much my interpretation of it as well. I would agree with a previous poster that the extra brightness/glare does actually take away from the visibility or obviousness of the indicator being on.

Or maybe it's my philosophy that's distracting me from the indicator - that "fogs on without fog" is only surpassed by "yeah one of them is blown but shur it's still cooler to have one on than none on" and "they're not fogs they're shpots".

Think I saw them on a newish kia/hyundai softroader, although it could have been a tiguan.

edit - the bah humbug is strong in this post.

morritty · 22-12-2015 10:16AM

davycc wrote: »

just booked the corollas NCT for mon the 4th jan in northpoint :pac:
wish me luck:D

Good luck, I'm in on the 2nd.

Toyotafanboi · 22-12-2015 11:22AM

Aaaaaahhhhh.

Said i'd leave my headlight alignment until the day before the retest so i'd stand the best chance of not upsetting it again. Went to get it done this morning and the guy says my driver side headlight is from a LHD car... why didn't the inspector say this specifically instead of just suggesting getting an alignment

The mechanic messed with it for a good hour and the beam patterns look matching now, but to me they looked matching before the NCT anyway. Test is 8am tomorrow and i'm working all day so that's a bit ****.

This Celica truly is the car that keeps giving.

kirving · 22-12-2015 01:09PM

Paschal Donohoe on the radio this morning, claiming how his policies have reduced deaths. Fair enough, but he never ever mentions the impact of auto-braking, daytime running lights, the average age of the cars in this country, or the fact that PCP finance has allowed people to afford newer, far safer cars.

CIP4 · 22-12-2015 01:25PM

Kevin Irving wrote: »

Paschal Donohoe on the radio this morning, claiming how his policies have reduced deaths. Fair enough, but he never ever mentions the impact of auto-braking, daytime running lights, the average age of the cars in this country, or the fact that PCP finance has allowed people to afford newer, far safer cars.

Pcp where even people that don't have a cent to their name can drive around in a 1.6tdi highline mk7 golf for 200 odd euro a month :pac: what a time to be alive.

*before I'm attacked I'm not saying anyone on here with pcp is like that just every relative I have on pcp it is literally broke yet has a brand new car on pcp there is something very flawed about that. But then when your using it longterm with infinite monthly payments as you never buy out the car because you can't afford too it's not really a good deal anymore. It's great for people it works for just wouldn't be my cup of tea really.

kirving · 22-12-2015 01:45PM

Totally true, just about managing to meet monthly payments for three years, while not building any equity in the car in order to pay for your next deposit, counts as not being able to afford a new my book. However, what it is doing is allowing people to travel in a safer car, which goes a long way toward road deaths.

CIP4 · 22-12-2015 01:55PM

Kevin Irving wrote: »

Totally true, just about managing to meet monthly payments for three years, while not building any equity in the car in order to pay for your next deposit, counts as not being able to afford a new my book. However, what it is doing is allowing people to travel in a safer car, which goes a long way toward road deaths.

Oh Ye I can't argue with that. Obviously you want everyone to be in the safest car they can be in especially with families too and I suppose the motor industry would be in a worse state than it is in if there was no pcp.

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