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

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  • #8852
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,866 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Yuss, now we're talking my sort of talk!

    One way: my way. No humpy screws would stop me!

    Another suggestion: double sided tape or seamless plate surrounds for the no screw look


  • #8853
    shietpilot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭shietpilot


    fancy pigeon wrote: »
    Another suggestion: double sided tape or seamless plate surrounds for the no screw look

    How well does that hold up though? I'd be in constant fear that the plates will fly off on motorways :D


  • #8854
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    fancy pigeon wrote:
    One way: my way. No humpy screws would stop me!


    You cant beat a bit of butchery!


  • #8855
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    shietpilot wrote:
    How well does that hold up though? I'd be in constant fear that the plates will fly off on motorways


    Very good. I find it nigh on impossible to take my plates off once it's on.


  • #8856
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,866 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    shietpilot wrote: »
    How well does that hold up though? I'd be in constant fear that the plates will fly off on motorways :D

    There's real sticky sh*t that works well but once its a good make, size and not valueland bullsh*te itll be all grand and dandy for fly massacres in the late August


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  • #8857
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    166man wrote: »
    Being honest, and many may disagree with me, you only live once, and even if it costs you €8k to have an E39 540i in the right spec that you want then you should just go and buy that!

    There will always be a market for a car like that in Ireland, you may not get €8k for it, but just keep it for 5-10 years and you won't regret it, assuming of course, that it's definitely the car you want!

    If it's what you want, go buy it! :)

    Could probably pick one of for mid 6's if im lucky

    Might just buy a 2k 525i and use that till summer and see what pops up

    Couldn't possibly drive my octavia for afew months. I'd crack up


  • #8858
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    166man wrote: »
    The best of luck to the one and only the Clive (Deds 166) doing his NCt this evening.

    Hoping for a solid pass so I appreciate all you fellas crossing your fingers lol :D

    Well it passed!!! :D:D:D

    An unexpected delight!! Only advisory was for one of the number plate lights not working. Strange as it was working last night, just the way it goes I suppose.

    Everything was well below the limits, most impressively the emissions which were 30 times under the limit for CO and 20 times under for HC at high idle. At low idle the CO was 0.00% with a limit of 0.50%. I don't want to blow my own trumpet too much but IMO it really demonstrates a well minded car. Well made too regarding the emissions.

    The guy I share my apartment also got his E39 520i tested today too which also passed.:)


  • #8859
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    What you're saying is, is that a 166 is as good as an E39?


    What a great day for the parish!!


  • #8860
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    If you think your car could get through this flood, then you deserve to get stuck in it. I went as far as it last week and no way in hell would even a tractor get through it. Very deep.

    http://www.mayonews.ie/news/27006-35-cars-caught-up-in-south-mayo-flooding


  • #8861
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Seen this, hopefully I'm ok for a while so!


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  • #8862
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Seen this, hopefully I'm ok for a while so!

    I was in a taxi there in Dublin recently. Lovely fella so the driver was. Had a 2008 Mondeo diesel auto (think it was the 2.0). Got chatting anyway, 473k km on the clock and the thing was near to perfect. No major wear inside, no big dents, and the car drove really smooth. He had bought it new in 2008.

    Impressive to see I thought!


  • #8863
    polan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭polan


    166man wrote: »
    I was in a taxi there in Dublin recently. Lovely fella so the driver was. Had a 2008 Mondeo diesel auto (think it was the 2.0). Got chatting anyway, 473k km on the clock and the thing was near to perfect. No major wear inside, no big dents, and the car drove really smooth. He had bought it new in 2008.

    Impressive to see I thought!

    One 08 Mondeo taxi in Newbridge had 693k kms back in March 2015. Still used to this day :eek:


  • #8864
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    There's hope for me!


  • #8865
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    If you think your car could get through this flood, then you deserve to get stuck in it. I went as far as it last week and no way in hell would even a tractor get through it. Very deep.

    http://www.mayonews.ie/news/27006-35-cars-caught-up-in-south-mayo-flooding

    you clearly havn't seen that Yaris video :P


  • #8866
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    If you think your car could get through this flood, then you deserve to get stuck in it. I went as far as it last week and no way in hell would even a tractor get through it. Very deep.

    http://www.mayonews.ie/news/27006-35-cars-caught-up-in-south-mayo-flooding

    What I don't understand:
    “If cars get wet inside they won’t be allowed on the road again. We had cars ranging from 2003 models to 2015,” explained Billy.

    Err, wha? If my car is wet inside I'm not allowed to drive? Says who? Billy? What's his legal authority in "allowing" cars on the road?
    Is my car a write off if I get inside with wet shoes? Surely wet carpets would be the least of my problems, I'd be more concerned with catastrophic damage to my engine.
    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    you clearly havn't seen that Yaris video

    Link or GTFO! :p


  • #8867
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlH7YIk3nMA

    originally posted here : http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=98283229&postcount=61

    :)


  • #8868
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Fantastic, on the phone and all! How have I never seen that, 2 years old?
    Thing starts floating a little at one stage does it?


  • #8869
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    you can see her giving it plenty of opposite lock when it starts drifting alright :D


  • #8870
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,158 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    you can see her giving it plenty of opposite lock when it starts drifting alright :D

    I'd wonder if it died shortly after, or if it lives on? How it didn't stall and die I don't know... I guess maybe keeping moving and having a bow wave helped?


  • #8871
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    I'd wonder if it died shortly after, or if it lives on? How it didn't stall and die I don't know... I guess maybe keeping moving and having a bow wave helped?

    My father went into a deceptively deep flood under and old-style hump-backed railway bridge in Limerick in a Mk. I Granada sometime, IIRC, in the early 1980s. The paper had a photo of the car, with only about two-thirds of the roof panel visible over water, together with a brief article about how the driver had to drop the window in order to open the door and get out against the pressure of the water. That car was dried out and ran beautifully for years, despite an oddly aquatic sort of "swish" sound from the vicinity of the engine. They don't make 'em like that anymore. :pac:

    I really need to find that in the archives.


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  • #8872
    shietpilot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭shietpilot


    Checked that Yaris reg on the NCT site.

    Next NCT Due By: May 05 2015
    NCT Certificate Expiry Date May 04 2014

    I wonder what happened to it :pac:


  • #8873
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    I'd wonder if it died shortly after, or if it lives on? How it didn't stall and die I don't know... I guess maybe keeping moving and having a bow wave helped?

    The air intake is behind the passenger side headlight, so i'd say that was it's biggest saviour, so even when the bow wave was coming over the top grille is still wouldn't have been too close to it. That and keeping memontum :pac:


  • #8874
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    shietpilot wrote: »
    Checked that Yaris reg on the NCT site.

    Next NCT Due By: May 05 2015
    NCT Certificate Expiry Date May 04 2014

    I wonder what happened to it :pac:

    The video is from 2012 so it must have been ok :P


  • #8875
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    The air intake is behind the passenger side headlight, so i'd say that was it's biggest saviour, so even when the bow wave was coming over the top grille is still wouldn't have been too close to it. That and keeping memontum :pac:

    I nearly lunched my CMax once, because the air intake goes straight down from the filter box and is very close to the ground. Top Tip: Do NOT try that with a Cmax. But the engine ran beautifully afterwards, because small amounts of water steam clean the inside of the engine.

    I notice the Post van stopped moving at some point. :pac:
    Thanks for the linky TFB.


  • #8876
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    ...the engine ran beautifully afterwards, because small amounts of water steam clean the inside of the engine...

    There you go. 'Tis an ill wind, wha'?? :pac:


  • #8877
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    51.9127,-8.5899794 on google maps to see the normal level of the river - some flood!
    That road was closed off over christmas, you could see a few people thinking about ignoring the sign.


  • #8878
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    jimgoose wrote: »
    There you go. 'Tis an ill wind, wha'?? :pac:

    I looked that up, yay, learnt something today! :D


  • #8879
    R.O.R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,732 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    I nearly lunched my CMax once, because the air intake goes straight down from the filter box and is very close to the ground. Top Tip: Do NOT try that with a Cmax. But the engine ran beautifully afterwards, because small amounts of water steam clean the inside of the engine.

    I notice the Post van stopped moving at some point. :pac:
    Thanks for the linky TFB.

    This happened in Feb 2009, to a July 2008 5 Series

    373882.JPG

    Air intake on the E60 5 Series is very low, but the driver didn't know that. Think it was a Micra that made it through in the other direction, so this driver chanced it, and lost.

    No water in the cabin thankfully, but around €17,000 for a new engine from BMW. That was a €77,000 520d - after the price went down in July 08 :eek: so was a long way off being a write off.


  • #8880
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    51.9127,-8.5899794 on google maps to see the normal level of the river - some flood!
    That road was closed off over christmas, you could see a few people thinking about ignoring the sign.

    i'm such a Cork noob, that's only a few minutes from me and i had no idea :pac:


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  • #8881
    job seeker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,127 ✭✭✭job seeker


    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlH7YIk3nMA

    originally posted here : http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=98283229&postcount=61

    :)

    Brilliant, never knew the Yaris was capable of doing that.

    I did drive through floods 3 or 4 times in the past few weeks, but water was only up to the top of the wheels


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