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    #5522
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,382 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    My brother has a 2.0 turbo Mk5 Gojd estate, a cracking car. I’d say a Golf estate would be a better car than a Leon (if you could find one that’s not a 1.6 Tdi Trendline)

    See getting a 2.0 that isn’t 150ps in the Golf is the problem. I want something a little quicker.
    Plus you pay Golf tax so less car for the money.


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    #5523
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,114 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Ford Focus ST estate:

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    https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201907109927938?body-type=Estate&model=FOCUS&fuel-type=Diesel&radius=1500&aggregatedTrim=ST-3&onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=New&advertising-location=at_cars&exclude-writeoff-categories=on&sort=price-asc&make=FORD&postcode=bt781ug&page=1


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    #5524
    James Bond Junior
    Registered Users Posts: 5,128 ✭✭✭James Bond Junior


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    I had potenzas on my car when it was new and had no issues with them. Very good tyres. Lasted 42k km too!!! My car is not super fast, but it's still a thing that is able to pick up speed. No issues with wheel spin, unless in pure wet conditions and I did it on purpose, great handling and stopping power in wet etc. Have no complains.
    I am on Eagle F1s now and honestly **** all difference. Maybe just a bit more road noise.

    I had potenzas on my Volvo but I didn't tend to go over 3k rpm so wheelspin wasn't an issue!


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    #5525
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,382 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    3-D58-ED2-C-AC1-E-415-A-A7-AE-AF17-BF5-A75-AF.jpg

    A new twist on illegal plates :)


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    #5526
    Marcusm
    Registered Users Posts: 10,184 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Hilarious one today. Local house is being done up and the garden contractor has cones off a yellow box at a fairly main junction in Dublin to park their vehicles. Donnybrook garda station’s response: “i’ll Send around a car but you never know their planning permission might allow them to do it”.

    Seriously, planning permission might allow a yellow box junction (existing for safety and traffic flow) to be coned off by a private individual! Seriously, is there any legal (or common sense) training in Templemore?


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    #5527
    Dia_Anseo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭Dia_Anseo


    Hi all,

    Just an update on a post I started selling my 2011 Focus.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057997774

    I had several views arranged. The first person to view it bought it.
    It sold today and was collected today for 6500 euro!

    Thanks for all the advice and otherwise


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    #5528
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Looking at a 2015 car. It has 74000 miles. It's a UK import. MOT is out since the end of May. But it's last MOT in May 18 it had 65000 miles. 1 owner company car. Thoughts? I'll go and look at it and see anyway!

    So it's done about 22000 miles for the first 3 years and about 10000 this past year....


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    #5529
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,114 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Any service history from here and the UK? How long is it in the country?


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    #5530
    homik
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭homik


    Long time lurker here :)

    I am about to import a brand new Berlingo commercial from NI. I tried to source it locally (Partner was my first preferrence, then Berlingo), but all the main dealers I went to in Dublin said there is none available in the trim, colour and version I need, and it has to be factory order, with delivery in November.

    I can get one through Charles Hurst in Belfast, delivered to Dublin in 2 weeks. I am aware there are VAT implications etc.

    The manufacturer's warranty is fully transferrable. Will I be getting cold shoulder and be the last in the queque, if warranty repairs were to be carried out through Irish dealership? Has anyone experience with UK imports being repaired under warranty by Irish dealers?

    Thanks Folks


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    #5531
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Any service history from here and the UK? How long is it in the country?

    It's in the north, still on UK plates. He says it has a full Audi service history. Can see from the reg plate surrounds it's from the jardine motor group. I'll run a motorcheck report on it and check all the service history when I see the car.


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    #5532
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,114 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    If it's an Audi with main dealer history then the service history is probably digital or online rather than stamps in a book. You could try ringing Audi UK with the UK reg to verify what was done at what mileage.


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    #5533
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    I was just thinking back to a couple of months ago and I'm raging I never took a picture. The car was not running right like the brakes were binding on the front drivers side (which they were), got home and got out and the disc was red(glowing). Next day I cleaned the slide pins. And disc never warped which I'm amazed as I have been driving it since then without issue but yea I really should have took a picture. As it was as if someone heated it up with a forge or a large blow torch.


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    #5534
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,114 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    homik wrote: »
    Long time lurker here :)

    I am about to import a brand new Berlingo commercial from NI. I tried to source it locally (Partner was my first preferrence, then Berlingo), but all the main dealers I went to in Dublin said there is none available in the trim, colour and version I need, and it has to be factory order, with delivery in November.

    I can get one through Charles Hurst in Belfast, delivered to Dublin in 2 weeks. I am aware there are VAT implications etc.

    The manufacturer's warranty is fully transferrable. Will I be getting cold shoulder and be the last in the queque, if warranty repairs were to be carried out through Irish dealership? Has anyone experience with UK imports being repaired under warranty by Irish dealers?

    Thanks Folks

    It will probably depend on the dealer. In theory they shouldn't have any problems doing warranty work if it has been approved by the manufacturer but in reality they may put you at the bottom of their priority list below their regular customers as you didn't buy from them.

    So just make sure that the warranty is good in the Republic.


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    #5535
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Any service history from here and the UK? How long is it in the country?

    Just back on that again. I see the tax has been out since last August. Something not sitting right with it. Only 10k miles in the past year and only taxed for a couple of months. It was parked up, crashed or something I'm thinking. Best let it pass!


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    #5536
    Alanstrainor
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 23,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    What in the name of jaysis am I going to do with the old e46 325ci when I get something else? Anyone want it? The BBS wheels are probably the only thing of value on it. I'd be sad to see it in the crusher, but I reckon that's where it'll end up.


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    #5537
    M7roadrunner
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭M7roadrunner


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    What in the name of jaysis am I going to do with the old e46 325ci when I get something else? Anyone want it? The BBS wheels are probably the only thing of value on it. I'd be sad to see it in the crusher, but I reckon that's where it'll end up.

    Are you near Mondello?
    Would it be any use as a track car?


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    #5538
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users Posts: 5,540 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    What in the name of jaysis am I going to do with the old e46 325ci when I get something else? Anyone want it? The BBS wheels are probably the only thing of value on it. I'd be sad to see it in the crusher, but I reckon that's where it'll end up.

    Have you been looking at the post a picture of your vehicle thread?

    You could PM ba_barabus and see if he's interested:pac:?


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    #5539
    Tazzimus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,933 ✭✭✭Tazzimus


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    What in the name of jaysis am I going to do with the old e46 325ci when I get something else? Anyone want it? The BBS wheels are probably the only thing of value on it. I'd be sad to see it in the crusher, but I reckon that's where it'll end up.
    Some Polish lad would probably buy it off you.
    My old 00 A3 is pootling around Poland somewhere, still going strong with about 300,000 miles on the clock


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    #5540
    Mickiemcfist
    Registered Users Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭Mickiemcfist


    Leonard Hofstadter wrote: »
    Have you been looking at the post a picture of your vehicle thread?

    You could PM ba_barabus and see if he's interested:pac:?

    To be fair, you should. Yours appears to be the most minded e46 in the country.


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    #5541
    GustavoFring
    Registered Users Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭GustavoFring


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    What in the name of jaysis am I going to do with the old e46 325ci when I get something else? Anyone want it? The BBS wheels are probably the only thing of value on it. I'd be sad to see it in the crusher, but I reckon that's where it'll end up.

    What's the offset of those wheels?


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    #5542
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Well Hawrse. The Focus went in for it's first service under my watch this morning - oil and filters, €100. That was alright I thought, oil is expensive for those things.

    I had the use of a 132 red Skoda Rapid saloon for the morning. Nice car, 1.6l diesel at 105BHP. It was a bit revvier than the Ford and needed a little bit of hoofing to get good out of it, but a nice machine.

    It's funny though, when you go from a car that doesn't annoy you at all, to something else for a few hours and you notice things. Like the driver's seat-belt buckle that falls down near the floor when the belt is at-rest, meaning you can't reach the bloody thing when you go to put it on again. Like the radio that always comes on at low volume when the car restarts, regardless of what way you left it. My brother had a 161 Audi A6 on hire last Christmas that did that, he was fit to buy a gun after three days. The information screen in the instrument binnacle which, rather than showing several pieces of pertinent, useful information, spent the morning either whining over some blasted iPhone or other, or pointing out to me that I had gone over 30mph. :pac:


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    #5543
    Sexual Chocolate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Sexual Chocolate


    Anyone here use a magnet phone holder ? Do they hold phones securely even going over bumps ?


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    #5544
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,382 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Priced changing insurance over to a Leon 184 FR TDI. €200 p/a more than the Civic!
    Kinda veering back to the V60 again which is faster and cheaper to insure but bulkier.


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    #5545
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Priced changing insurance over to a Leon 184 FR TDI. €200 p/a more than the Civic!
    Kinda veering back to the V60 again which is faster and cheaper to insure but bulkier.

    Always go for more power....


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    #5546
    Tazzimus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,933 ✭✭✭Tazzimus


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Always go for more power....

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    #5547
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,382 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I knew I could count on boards for guidance :)


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    #5548
    Dia_Anseo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭Dia_Anseo


    I wouldn't trust the guidance of boards

    They told me I wouldn't get any views on my Focus until I reduced price to 5k.

    I sold it yesterday for 6.5k, which is the going rate!


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    #5549
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,382 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Meh. I told you early on that your price was around right. It was obvious that those suggesting it should be cheaper didn’t know the difference between old and new model Focus. Don’t let it bother you.


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    #5550
    Dia_Anseo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭Dia_Anseo


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Meh. I told you early on that your price was around right. It was obvious that those suggesting it should be cheaper didn’t know the difference between old and new model Focus. Don’t let it bother you.

    Thanks Colm, you know your stuff!


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    #5551
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,382 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Sometimes.

    My point is, you asked for opinions and got them. That’s the beauty of boards. Opinions aren’t always correct but you can make your own mind up armed with other people’s perspective.


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