Motors Chat - Round 9

Toyotafanboi · 12-01-2016 01:56PM

yeah, €500, but i'd stay firm. 2 months tax and test means it's still easy to keep on the road for someone handy to repair and sell on. i wouldn't accept €200-250 for it.

Special Circumstances · 12-01-2016 02:03PM

Hmmm there was a poster here had terrible trouble with a Peugeot power steering because mechanic just put any oul fluid in rather than the specific fluid. I wonder does the Citroen use the same...

Toyotafanboi · 12-01-2016 02:09PM

forgot to ad the unicorn tears :pac:

Missymoohaa · 12-01-2016 02:21PM

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Hmmm there was a poster here had terrible trouble with a Peugeot power steering because mechanic just put any oul fluid in rather than the specific fluid. I wonder does the Citroen use the same...

I buy the steering fluid myself (have to to keep it lubricated) and always buy the most expensive one recommended by the car parts shop, they look it up on the computer. it's in a red plastic container anyway and costs €13 a bottle.

joujoujou · 12-01-2016 02:22PM

job seeker wrote: »

Anyone know where online I could get a seal for the frame on the inside of the door. Checked ebay, can only get Hilux and corolla seals. Thought Micks Garage may do them but no.

Forget it.

Dealer or scrapyard is the only option. Although driver's side seal from breakers can be even more worn than yours - but, if you're lucky to have any friends on the Continent they may be able to sorce you a mint one.

Foxhole Norman · 12-01-2016 02:46PM

TFB, clear your inbox :pac:

Toyotafanboi · 12-01-2016 02:48PM

Sorted!

Reactor · 12-01-2016 02:51PM

Sorry for off topic but I just want to ask one last question then Ill take it back to the Learning to Drive forum:

I did about 50 lessons and 7-8 tests down in Galway a few years ago and I still couldn't pass, I did fake tests with the instructor, he swapped with his instructor friends and they gave me fake tests, did lessons where he didn't speak apart from saying the destination and did dozens of normal lessons where he was telling me what I was doing wrong, it didnt make any difference, that was in a city I knew like the back of my hand. I dont want to spend another fortune trying to do it all again in a town Ive never been to.

Is lessons and using the instructors car in the test the standard way to get a driving license? I know its possible but is it the way people do it? Or do people just bite the bullet and buy a car and pay someone to give them lessons in that themselves plus practicing in their free time?

shietpilot · 12-01-2016 02:54PM

Reactor wrote: »

Is lessons and using the instructors car in the test the standard way to get a driving license? I know its possible but is it the way people do it? Or do people just bite the bullet and buy a car and pay someone to give them lessons in that themselves plus practicing in their free time?

I ended up getting my own car for the test because the thought of forking out €100 for renting the instructor's car and then on top of that paying test fee would have probably put me off the exam altogether.

The other advantage is that if you insure your car on a provisional you will quickly learn the car, the biting point and all the controls a lot quicker than just driving your instructor's car for 12 hours.

I have heard of friends passing in their instructors cars though...

Toyotafanboi · 12-01-2016 02:56PM

Honestly, if you are comfortable driving the instructors car, then there is no problem using it. do you find your instructors car easy to drive?

looking at the situation you are in, i don't think spending thousands on your own car and insurance will be the key to success tbh.

if it is an option to you, go for the fresh start. you are clearly ****ed up of Galway, if you are in a position to do it elsewhere, do that, fresh eyes and all that, it's probably also much easier to pass in a small town than a busy city setting like Galway.

personally, i was driving my own car at the time of doing my test and i passed in the instructors car. i chose to use the instructors car as i felt it made a better impression to use it. so i think once you are comfortable driving the car, it doesn't matter too much whos it is.

but as above, there is also no replacement for having your own car and be gaining experience day-day being out on the roads. i know this isn't as easy as it once was, but i probably had 50 hours driving clocked up within a week of being insured on a provisional :pac:

Toyotafanboi · 12-01-2016 03:52PM

https://www.facebook.com/rivsuimports/videos/1738454006385224/?theater

right in the feels. ****.

fancy pigeon · 12-01-2016 04:00PM

OSI wrote: »

What makes them illegal in the states I wonder?

Doesnt meet us spec, grey import under 25 years, not classed as exhibition car etc...

That was a waste but thats america....

Toyotafanboi · 12-01-2016 04:01PM

i don't know the ins and outs of it but something along the lines of the government were pushed by at one point to protect americas car industry from the threat of "better" vehicles from other markets or something like that. one which way they done is was blanket ban the importation of used cars under 25 years of age. i think the first R33's are only legally entering the United States this year.

We have something similar here, you can import them no problem, you just can't insure them afterwards.

Special Circumstances · 12-01-2016 04:08PM

EPA I'd say.
They should send the EPA lads that were on the RTE PrimeTime report over, thing would be rusted before they copped it.

Duke O Smiley · 12-01-2016 04:09PM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

i don't know the ins and outs of it but something along the lines of the government were pushed by at one point to protect americas car industry from the threat of "better" vehicles from other markets or something like that. one which way they done is was blanket ban the importation of used cars under 25 years of age. i think the first R33's are only legally entering the United States this year.

We have something similar here, you can import them no problem, you just can't insure them afterwards.

There is a guy [on youtube] called Dough DeMuro with a legal right hand drive Skyline of some description in the US, it is an early 90s one so prob R33s

Toyotafanboi · 12-01-2016 04:17PM

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

There is a guy [on youtube] called Dough DeMuro with a legal right hand drive Skyline of some description in the US, it is an early 90s one so prob R33s

have you watched the videos he's done on it? i just want to smash his face off of a pebbledashed wall. what an insufferable dick.

morritty · 12-01-2016 04:17PM

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

There is a guy [on youtube] called Dough DeMuro with a legal right hand drive Skyline of some description in the US, it is an early 90s one so prob R33s

T'was an 89 R32, he's after selling it. Basicly it was too awkward having a RHD. And replaced it with a V8 Vantage apparently.

shietpilot · 12-01-2016 04:18PM

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

There is a guy [on youtube] called Dough DeMuro with a legal right hand drive Skyline of some description in the US, it is an early 90s one so prob R33s

It's an R32 that he had and he sold it

GvidoR · 12-01-2016 04:19PM

I booked a pretest with an instructor and did the test in that same car. It was â‚¬100 including the pretest if I remember correctly so not too bad. Passed first time around.

Toyotafanboi · 12-01-2016 04:21PM

if you tell me his videos don't rot you, you are lying. he reminds me of a few on here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTiZjS4fAd4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifFyfc11bn4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbwgiNhqUAQ

shietpilot · 12-01-2016 04:27PM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

if you tell me his videos don't rot you, you are lying. he reminds me of a few on here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTiZjS4fAd4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifFyfc11bn4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbwgiNhqUAQ

I think in most of his R32 videos he goes on about people finding the RHD position weird. He's a strange nut alright but I guess it makes him money

Toyotafanboi · 12-01-2016 04:39PM

Mr. Regular does it better!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TBc78UZw2s

shietpilot · 12-01-2016 04:51PM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Mr. Regular does it better!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TBc78UZw2s

Yeah he makes so pretty cool videos. I love the Toyota Echo (Yaris) review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2XdXoCl0rU

Toyotafanboi · 12-01-2016 04:57PM

the yaris as it turned out was actually his!

i really enjoy his posts and videos and to sound even more like a hipster, i prefer his early work :pac:

Volvo 240 was his most epic moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nxMYiVdXD0

2:39 in really does it for me!

GvidoR · 12-01-2016 05:28PM

OSI wrote: »

I did my test just at the end of the era where you could drive on your 2nd provisional unaccompanied. So I bought the car in February fully intending to do lessons, but knowing there was a massive backlog on tests I booked a test and then forgot about it. Several months later, cue a reminder on my phone that my test was in a couple of days. I figured there was no point in doing anything at that point and would just do the test knowing I'd fail as a bit of experience so I'd know what to expect when I did it proper.

Except I ****ing passed the thing. I reckon I just got a test instructor who didn't give a ****. He wouldn't even put on his seatbelt, I asked him several times and he just said he wasn't required I was so shocked I passed I even asked had he no feedback or tips at all - "Don't crash"

Hah... awesome instructor.

Toyotafanboi · 12-01-2016 08:28PM

http://cars.donedeal.ie/view/11270969

Want. Was close to buying a set before, have a feeling they'd look cool in a gen7.

GvidoR · 12-01-2016 08:30PM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.ie/view/11270969

Want. Was close to buying a set before, have a feeling they'd look cool in a gen7.

Go for it. Maybe you can knock something off the price. They look nice and almost so clean that you could eat off them.

Toyotafanboi · 12-01-2016 08:37PM

If only I didn't already have wheels

A set came up when I had those shocking looking 18's but were gone by the time I made a move on them, couldn't justify another €5-600 on wheels.

CIP4 · 12-01-2016 08:45PM

GvidoR wrote: »

Hah... awesome instructor.

The guy testing me basically didn't say anything other than giving me directions and said could I turn on the a/c it was over 20 degree c outside a sunny August bank holiday weekend the town was full it was a Saturday evening and I stopped at a pedestrian crossing and women from a hen party drunkingly stumbling across one fell on the bonnet the tester just sat there expressionless said nothing. He never even told me I passed just handed me the cert well after giving me a lecture about two stupid small things one was not being in fifth at 70kmh I just bit my tongue and didn't argue.

CIP4 · 12-01-2016 09:50PM

Lovely car and really nice colour but why would you drop around 4K euro on getting the same car, same colour spec and in this case the same bloody Reg although the Reg was apparently a coincidence. I mean if I ever buy a brand new car the only reason I would change it a year later would be for a different spec and colour and even then I'd be sick spending that kind of money on the same car. FairPlay to him though if that's what he's into its his money at the end of the day.

As the years go on I kind of feel more and more buying a brand new car is a waste of money but I reckon I'll get a new one at least once just for the experience

probably once I've got my monies worth out of the Megane in a few years.

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