Motors Chat - Round 9

ShadowHearth · 17-01-2016 11:53PM

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Car just taxed for the next three months, happy to have a full window again, hoping to do the CCV, Rocker and Oil Filter Gasket this weekend, service it soon after and then flake away at the wheels, bodywork and brakes

Jaysus, is it tipical life with BMW?! :pac:

I might take BMW of my list so.

Foxhole Norman · 17-01-2016 11:56PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Jaysus, is it tipical life with BMW?! :pac:

I might take BMW of my list so.

If you want a petrol E39, yep, that's the typical life :pac: Worth every penny

GvidoR · 18-01-2016 12:00AM

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

If you want a petrol E39, yep, that's the typical life :pac: Worth every penny

Dartz · 18-01-2016 12:25AM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Jaysus, is it tipical life with BMW?! :pac:

I might take BMW of my list so.

Try an RX8 if you're worried about BMW reliability. ;P

It's been the most reliable car I've ever owned. :pac:

Toyotafanboi · 18-01-2016 12:37AM

Lads, any Dublin fellas online tonight :P

have to be in Kilmainham for 9.00am tomorrow. Will be leaving North Co. Wexford : 7.00am, what would be the best (least trafficiest) way into Kilmainham? torn between M50 exit 13 Dundrum -> Rathmines -> Kilmainham or M50 exit 7 Liffey Valley -> Kilmainham.

Any insider info would be excellent! :pac:

quadrifoglio verde · 18-01-2016 12:40AM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Lads, any Dublin fellas online tonight :P

have to be in Kilmainham for 9.00am tomorrow. Will be leaving North Co. Wexford : 7.00am, what would be the best (least trafficiest) way into Kilmainham? torn between M50 exit 13 Dundrum -> Rathmines -> Kilmainham or M50 exit 7 Liffey Valley -> Kilmainham.

Any insider info would be excellent! :pac:

Drive to red cow and get the luas?
4 Euro to park there for the day

Toyotafanboi · 18-01-2016 12:53AM

Staying in a hotel there overnight, so would like to keep the car with me if at all possible for my cases and stuff! not a bad alternative though

quadrifoglio verde · 18-01-2016 01:04AM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Staying in a hotel there overnight, so would like to keep the car with me if at all possible for my cases and stuff! not a bad alternative though

I'm just thinking traffic wise it could be a nightmare. The whole chapelizod bypass is bumper to bumper at that time of the morning.
If it's the Hilton, I'd come off at the n4 and in via palmerstown
Your car is safe at the red cow though, I've left mine overnight and nothing bad has ever happened.
It's on the nice side of clondalkin/tallaght :pac:

Duke O Smiley · 18-01-2016 01:08AM

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

I'm just thinking traffic wise it could be a nightmare. The whole chapelizod bypass is bumper to bumper at that time of the morning.

Was just going to say that. Nightmare !
As handy as the luas is the last thing I would do though is get on with a load of luggage etc though

Chris_Heilong · 18-01-2016 01:10AM

Tried Plastidip for the first time yesterday, I tried to black out the chrome surround around my windows, unfortunately it got dark faster than expected so when I was peeling it off in the dark, I had to abandon it until this morning but because I had let it dry fully it did not want to come off with out bringing all the rest of the plastidip with it, very messy, I will be going back to the chrome but it was an interesting experiment.

morritty · 18-01-2016 01:10AM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Staying in a hotel there overnight, so would like to keep the car with me if at all possible for my cases and stuff! not a bad alternative though

It might be best to at least leave it there for a few hours. traffic can and most likely will be awful as soon as you get off the M50.

Noccy_Mondy · 18-01-2016 01:12AM

Between all my coming and going I've put 620 miles on the focus since Monday last. That's putting in a full weeks work too. Didn't grumble a bit, apart from sway!

Toyotafanboi · 18-01-2016 01:13AM

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

I'm just thinking traffic wise it could be a nightmare. The whole chapelizod bypass is bumper to bumper at that time of the morning.
If it's the Hilton, I'd come off at the n4 and in via palmerstown
Your car is safe at the red cow though, I've left mine overnight and nothing bad has ever happened.
It's on the nice side of clondalkin/tallaght :pac:

yeah, the Hilton, that's the route i thought initially, off at the N4 exit for Liffey Valley/ Palmerstown and in that way, probably just stick with that so.

it's not the safety of my car anyway, sometimes i reckon i'd be happy to wake up and find it gone :pac: it's just the logistics of walking with bags and ****. i'm a bit prehistoric and want the least inconvenience humanly possible

Noccy_Mondy · 18-01-2016 01:20AM

Worked it out there, brimmed it last sunday, and brimmed it tonight, put 20 in yesterday and 28.71 tonight again to brim it again. I know this isn't accurate, but it's close enough for me, so thats 48 euro worth, which at 1.09 on average, equates to 52 litres. 620 miles covered, so that works out at 54.2 miles per gallon. That's mainly cruising at 100 for the most part, but on a good few windey bouncy roads with spirited driving.

quadrifoglio verde · 18-01-2016 01:22AM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

yeah, the Hilton, that's the route i thought initially, off at the N4 exit for Liffey Valley/ Palmerstown and in that way, probably just stick with that so.

it's not the safety of my car anyway, sometimes i reckon i'd be happy to wake up and find it gone :pac: it's just the logistics of walking with bags and ****. i'm a bit prehistoric and want the least inconvenience humanly possible

How many bags are we talking about. You could park up at liffey valley and hop on the bus. 25a and 25b would pass by every few minutes at that hour of the morning and get you to kilmaimham in 15 mins. You'd have about a 5 minute walk from the bus stop to the Hilton from there.
Or you could drive but be prepared for stress and lots of it and potential of being late
If you can get away with turning up 20 mins late, then driving will be grand

GvidoR · 18-01-2016 01:22AM

Would look good black, Chris.

Duke O Smiley · 18-01-2016 01:24AM

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

How many bags are we talking about. You could park up at liffey valley and hop on the bus. 25a and 25b would pass by every few minutes at that hour of the morning and get you to kilmaimham in 15 mins. You'd have about a 5 minute walk from the bus stop to the Hilton from there.
Or you could drive but be prepared for stress and lots of it and potential of being late
If you can get away with turning up 20 mins late, then driving will be grand

You could call the hotel in advance and tell them you're running late, and just let the traffic die down?

Chris_Heilong · 18-01-2016 01:26AM

GvidoR wrote: »

Would look good black, Chris.

Cheers, I might go at it again when we have better weather.

Toyotafanboi · 18-01-2016 01:35AM

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

How many bags are we talking about. You could park up at liffey valley and hop on the bus. 25a and 25b would pass by every few minutes at that hour of the morning and get you to kilmaimham in 15 mins. You'd have about a 5 minute walk from the bus stop to the Hilton from there.
Or you could drive but be prepared for stress and lots of it and potential of being late
If you can get away with turning up 20 mins late, then driving will be grand

Me and a colleague, 2 bags each, there is a work function on in the hotel, kicks off @ 9.30am then an overnight there and we are then both off to different locations the following day...

Going to stick with the N4 exit plan, despite your best suggestions (genuinely, thanks though) at least now I won't be shocked when it's bumper to bumper :P

mhackett102 · 18-01-2016 01:55AM

Came off the M9 going into Waterford city. Went through the first roundabout and then I see flashing blue lights above at the next roundabout. I stop as I get there to see half of it closed off but couldnt figure out why until I see a Toyota Avensis gone up on the bank and through the fence, now I mean this bank is near enough to being vertical and how it got up there is another thing :eek: front of it seemed farely wrecked and guards had two other cars pulled up at the time. Anyone else hear what happened, occured around 10pm? I was told that they had to close more of the road off for a while to get the car down and on to a recovery truck.

Hopefully no one was hurt but they must have gotten some smack if they hit off that bank and managed to get the whole way to the top of it and through a fence.

166man · 18-01-2016 02:34AM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Me and a colleague, 2 bags each, there is a work function on in the hotel, kicks off @ 9.30am then an overnight there and we are then both off to different locations the following day...

Going to stick with the N4 exit plan, despite your best suggestions (genuinely, thanks though) at least now I won't be shocked when it's bumper to bumper :P

I'd echo the above advice of M50 to N4 (before the toll

) and into Kilmainham.

Regardless of which way you go at that time of the day traffic will be dire. I'd actually leave another 30 minutes in case unless you already calculated for that.

@Chris, those wheels on your Chaser are the real deal. Very much suit the car and I actually think taking the chrome away looked better!

Mister Jingles · 18-01-2016 03:34AM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Between all my coming and going I've put 620 miles on the focus since Monday last. That's putting in a full weeks work too. Didn't grumble a bit, apart from sway!

How do you decide if your going to drive either the focus or mondeo ? :pac:

Noccy_Mondy · 18-01-2016 10:05AM

Mister Jingles wrote:

How do you decide if your going to drive either the focus or mondeo ?

Whichever is left. I'd stick to the one for the week though

dr.fuzzenstein · 18-01-2016 11:31AM

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Worked it out there, brimmed it last sunday, and brimmed it tonight, put 20 in yesterday and 28.71 tonight again to brim it again. I know this isn't accurate, but it's close enough for me, so thats 48 euro worth, which at 1.09 on average, equates to 52 litres. 620 miles covered, so that works out at 54.2 miles per gallon. That's mainly cruising at 100 for the most part, but on a good few windey bouncy roads with spirited driving.

That is very good going. My Cmax only barely makes 49 (well, 300k km ago it could make 52, turbo needs doing) and that is with careful enough driving, well 120 (ish:D) on the way to work and about 110 on the way back.
But I hate the Mrs borrowing the car. She treats it like her MX5. Hop in at 5 degrees and immediately start it, no pre-glow at all. Then rev the ballix of it and drive away with plenty of wheelspin. From cold. I wince every time. :mad:
When she's on the move, it never drops below 3.5-4k revs. With me it rarely goes above 3. When she comes back I can expect the MPG to have dropped by a good 3-4. She is constantly one gear lower than I would be and sometimes forgets to put it in 5th at all. She is of a generation that knows a car has 4 gears and then there's this new-fangled thing called a 5th gear. To her engaging 5th is like engaging the afterburner in Concorde, it takes a good run, a lot of speed, 10 seconds mental preparation including a 5 second countdown, then fix the gearlever with a good, hard stare and HURRAY! It's in 5th! She looks at 5th gear the same way my mother would look at a Smartphone. it's like it's an achievement every time she does it.
That is why yesterday, when she said "We're going to the beach*, I can drive", I said "NO!!!". It's worse when I'm with her. I just hear the engine scream, I look at the rev-counter and the gearstick and sometimes I even have to say "uhm, do you, er, think you could, maybe, uhm change up a gear?" whilst trying not to vomit blood from my ulcer I developed due to her driving. Yes, a CMax can be driven quite spirited, but it's painful when someone drives it who doesn't have the FIRST notion how to drive a diesel. :mad:
Of course when I drive it's "Oh my God, watch out for the other car!" (yes, I saw it coming a mile off), "JESUS, WILL YOU SLOW DOWN!!!" (doing 80 km/h), "Turn right here" (yes, I know. This is the right turn to your mother's house and has been for the last 20 years), "BRAKE!! BRAKE!!!" whilst bracing herself from the windscreen pillar and pressing an imaginary brake on the floor. look, I managed to survive for many, many hundreds of thousands of kilometers, I'm sure I can manage not to kill us somehow.

* This is how I am informed about my weekend plans. She might as well hire a town crier who will ring a bell, unfurl a scroll and proclaim "It has been decreed that your weekend plan shall be thusly, make haste in your preparations and keep thy smart comments to thyself!"

jimgoose · 18-01-2016 12:03PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

...Hop in at 5 degrees and immediately start it, no pre-glow at all. Then rev the ballix of it and drive away with plenty of wheelspin. From cold. I wince every time...

<Long-suffering groan of empathy loaded, armed and deployed>

They're savages, women are. Wild beasts. :eek:

vintagevrs · 18-01-2016 12:11PM

Reinforces why I never got the line "lady owner" on an ad.

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 18-01-2016 12:52PM

Whats this pre glow devilry you speak of. I'm new to diesel engines.

jimgoose · 18-01-2016 12:56PM

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Whats this pre glow devilry you speak of. I'm new to diesel engines.

He means pre-heating, i.e. an electric glow-plug in the combustion chambers of diesels that provides a bit of heat so they can fire reasonably quickly from stone-cold. The bulk of the engine absorbs a lot of compression heat when cold, so this is needed on most of them. In modern-ish yokes the pre-heat time is around 6 to 8 seconds.

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 18-01-2016 12:59PM

jimgoose wrote: »

He means pre-heating, i.e. an electric glow-plug in the combustion chambers of diesels that provides a bit of heat so they can fire reasonably quickly from stone-cold. The bulk of the engine absorbs a lot of compression heat when cold, so this is needed on most of them. In modern-ish yokes the pre-heat time is around 6 to 8 seconds.

Sounds about right. When I sit in I turn the key to the ignition point and hold it there till the engine fires. Should I only turn it half way or something and then engage the ignition?

jimgoose · 18-01-2016 01:00PM

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Sounds about right. When I sit in I turn the key to the ignition point and hold it there till the engine fires. Should I only turn it half way or something and then engage the ignition?

I've no idea chief - what are we dealing with? 520d? Nissan Bluebird? Caterpillar D10?? :pac:

In the brother's F10 520d, the system takes care of the pre-heating when you hit the start button. It'll wait a few seconds when very cold before actually spinning it over.

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