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

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  • #8732
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    I would genuinely, but i need to run a super cheap daily to finish this fast.
    Withdrawal symptoms have long since kicked in :)


  • #8733
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    YbFocus wrote: »
    I would genuinely, but i need to run a super cheap daily to finish this fast.
    Withdrawal symptoms have long since kicked in :)

    2.2 Manuals are cheap, I swears :pac: NCT'd and all until April :P


  • #8734
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    2.2 Manuals are cheap, I swears :pac: NCT'd and all until April :P

    Stop it now :)


  • #8735
    NickDunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 392 ✭✭NickDunne


    I saw someone put up a NFS soundtrack there the other day

    This site has the soundtrack to nearly every car game ever made(starting from the likes of Colin McRae 1998 and the original ridge racer!) and youtube links to every song.

    http://nfssoundtrack.com/


  • #8736
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    This is why :p I wonder will he swap for a shifty E39 :pac:

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/bmw-e34-520-6cilinder-2-0l-project/11208404


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  • #8737
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    job seeker wrote: »
    Any link to that bear1? Must have missed that. Working alot over the Christmas..

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057542900
    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    This is why :p I wonder will he swap for a shifty E39 :pac:

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/bmw-e34-520-6cilinder-2-0l-project/11208404

    Saw that in the fixerupper thread. Looks good. Sure give him a call, what's the worst that can happen?
    NickDunne wrote: »
    I saw someone put up a NFS soundtrack there the other day

    This site has the soundtrack to nearly every car game ever made(starting from the likes of Colin McRae 1998 and the original ridge racer!) and youtube links to every song.

    http://nfssoundtrack.com/

    That was me, and funnily enough I installed Colin McRae Rally 2 on my laptop a few days ago. :D


  • #8738
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    GvidoR wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057542900



    Saw that in the fixerupper thread. Looks good. Sure give him a call, what's the worst that can happen?

    I didn't notice that thread actually! That's my plan :)


  • #8739
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    This is why :p I wonder will he swap for a shifty E39 :pac:

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/bmw-e34-520-6cilinder-2-0l-project/11208404

    HAhahahahaha don't call me in the middle of the night :)
    Brilliant!

    Car is a lovely chance to make your e34 move too!


  • #8740
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    YbFocus wrote: »
    HAhahahahaha don't call me in the middle of the night :)
    Brilliant!

    Car is a lovely chance to make your e34 move too!

    Yeah, I wanted an E34 project originally, this would be perfect, being in Cork and all!


  • #8741
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Surely the red e39 is worth more than 600


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  • #8742
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Surely the red e39 is worth more than 600

    Not since Sobanek owned it :pac:


  • #8743
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Not since Sobanek owned it :pac:

    #Rekt :pac:


  • #8744
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    That e34 is a bargain FN. But I wouldn't do a straight swap with the 39


  • #8745
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    E39 has to be worth more! Has to be worth 1k as it stands.
    It looks in good enough shape?


  • #8746
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    That e34 is a bargain FN. But I wouldn't do a straight swap with the 39

    The E39 while road legal needs a few bits. Wheel Speed sensor, camshaft sensor and a new driver airbag along with a bumper. It did get a new battery Saturday though :pac:

    Alternatively, keep E39, pop down to Credit Union, extend loan, have parents hate me but own three 5 Series :pac:


  • #8747
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    I found one!

    Decided to drive past a dealers, and this was waiting to be collected tonight. It's an ibiza and seems to be fairly high spec.

    2mmsn4j.png


  • #8748
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    I'm pulling my hair out here, what sort of nice hatch's is there from the 2009 - 2011 era? Diesel before anyone gets excited!

    I've looked at:
    Focus'
    Astra
    Leon - not gone on the older shape
    a3 - really like
    golf

    Is that all, or I'm probably being fussy.


  • #8749
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    I'm pulling my hair out here, what sort of nice hatch's is there from the 2009 - 2011 era? Diesel before anyone gets excited!

    I've looked at:
    Focus'
    Astra
    Leon - not gone on the older shape
    a3 - really like
    golf

    Is that all, or I'm probably being fussy.

    Add a 2.2 civic to the list. A bit tinny and noisy but otherwise grand. I'd look at 2 litres though in any of them.


  • #8750
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    I'm pulling my hair out here, what sort of nice hatch's is there from the 2009 - 2011 era? Diesel before anyone gets excited!

    I've looked at:
    Focus'
    Astra
    Leon - not gone on the older shape
    a3 - really like
    golf

    Is that all, or I'm probably being fussy.

    Auris? Might struggle to find a well speced one over here though


  • #8751
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    I won't say despise, but I have a strong disliking towards both of them! A lot of the stuff doesn't entice me the way the mondeo did. At the time it was the only car for me!


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  • #8752
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    What about the 2011-ish model Impreza? I see very few of them about but there is one over my direction, just a standard yoke. Nice looking I think and pretty cheap looking at Donedeal


  • #8753
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    What about the 2011-ish model Impreza? I see very few of them about but there is one over my direction, just a standard yoke. Nice looking I think and pretty cheap looking at Donedeal

    Aren't the diesels in those and the Legacies just blowing at the moment?


  • #8754
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    Aren't the diesels in those and the Legacies just blowing at the moment?

    It would only be logical that they would share their engine with the Legacy :o I've heard a lot about the Legacies alright yeah and never even dawned on me that the Impreza is probably suffering the same


  • #8755
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    What about the 2011-ish model Impreza? I see very few of them about but there is one over my direction, just a standard yoke. Nice looking I think and pretty cheap looking at Donedeal

    Nice interior, but the back isn't to my taste at all.


  • #8756
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    It would only be logical that they would share their engine with the Legacy :o I've heard a lot about the Legacies alright yeah and never even dawned on me that the Impreza is probably suffering the same

    Yeah I haven't heard of any in the Imprezas but I just took an assumption that they're the same engine.


  • #8757
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Whatever I get, whenever I get it, I'll probably import it. Better selection.


  • #8758
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Whatever I get, whenever I get it, I'll probably import it. Better selection.

    exchange rate is woeful atm though

    Was looking at importing a 2003 or so 540i msport from uk before i bought S4

    4k sterling car was working out around 8000e landed and that was with only 900 or so vrt


  • #8759
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    exchange rate is woeful atm though

    Was looking at importing a 2003 or so 540i msport from uk before i bought S4

    4k sterling car was working out around 8000e landed and that was with only 900 or so vrt

    Yaar I know, been bad for quite a while, doesn't look like getting any better. It's not about saving money in my case, it's moreso getting a better quality/spec vehicle.

    4k pounds is 5.4k euro going by the most recent rates, factor in the 900 and that's 6.4k say. 600 or so for the travel etc? 7k? Or am I missing something?


  • #8760
    CIP4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,657 ✭✭✭CIP4


    I'm here in the dealer getting my car serviced first time I haven't done it myself mainly down to the Megane being one of the most awkward yokes to service plus I wanted it to be fully checked over. It's like the nct here I'm nervously waiting I have a feeling it's going to need bushings or something suspension wise to do with that squeak but it is slight and intermittent so it can't be too severe.


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  • #8761
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,158 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Anyone have any ideas of what kind of hot hatches beyond a Golf GTI in the 5k price range that are out there? Any unusual ones that could be decent? Focus ST is too pricey in terms of tax I think...


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