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What's wrong with my car??? Help!!!

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    #32
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,806 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    eringobragh wrote: »
    I'd say get a HID kit but its not really worth the effort for you, on that note my HID's arrived today :)

    Its a Mk1 Punto. Its worth it. The default headlights are like candles, theres a reason Fiats now have extremely high power headlights... I believe some of them are HID's factory fitted in fact.

    Anyone who's driven a New Panda with the headlights on 0 will know about being flashed because people think you have your beams on (until you burn their retinas away by returning the flash) :D


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    #33
    LuckyStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭LuckyStar


    eringobragh wrote: »
    None of us are fans of buses TBH (Stay out of the bus lane BTW Tut Tut :) ) You shouldn't really need to see ahead of the bus (Unless you want to overtake them: although i wouldn't advise that with your car at present) concentrate on whats in front any around you

    I don't be in bus lanes!!! Honest to god, I do behave myself!!!

    As for the headlights- seriously, the car needs brighter ones, a candle would be an improvement!!! I got the Halfords Super Brilliance ones, they got very good reviews on a few different independent websites.

    The car is going to a mechanic as soon as possible. I got home safe, took the N4 (thanks MYOB), was OK, very different to my usual route, I usually go through about 10 roundabouts, down a couple of hills and a couple of windy back roads. But it was nice to just drive in a straight line and not be steering one way or another the whole time!


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    #34
    dsane1
    Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭dsane1


    slightly off topic but whats a HID light and where/how do you fit it cheers !


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    #35
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,806 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    High Intensity Discharge - "Xenon headlights" in more common terms.


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    #36
    dsane1
    Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭dsane1


    tks


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    #37
    LuckyStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭LuckyStar


    oh yeah, the new bulbs I got are 55/60W, not 100W.


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    #38
    eringobragh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,668 ✭✭✭eringobragh


    Is there much of a difference???


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    #39
    Rory123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Rory123


    its a punto right?


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    #40
    LuckyStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭LuckyStar


    the new bulbs havent been fitted yet, yeah its a punto


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    #41
    blackbox
    Registered Users Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭blackbox


    He Lucky,

    Be sure to let us know how you got on with all your probs - hope they weren't too expensive.


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    #42
    vbboardie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭vbboardie


    did you get the car sorted, fixed the cutting out


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    #43
    MajorMax
    Registered Users Posts: 865 ✭✭✭MajorMax


    LuckyStar wrote: »

    I got some extra strong headlights today which are meant to be good so at least I'll be able to see better, it's so dark when I leave Tallaght.

    Extra strong headlights, that's great, at least you'll have a good view of all the drivers on the opposite side of the road covering their eyes and driving into ditches


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    #44
    LuckyStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭LuckyStar


    I got the car fixed, it was in and out of the mechanic's the same day. Something to do with the fanbelt. It wasn't that dear to fix and the car's been grand ever since.

    As for the lights- no one has flashed me or otherwise indicated they were too bright since I got them. The car's original lights weren't that strong.


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    #45
    Alfasudcrazy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Alfasudcrazy


    LuckyStar wrote: »
    I am raging, this is literally the first day this has happened but I am fuming, I don't have the car very long and I'm scared it will cost me a fortune to get fixed!!! What could be wrong??? There not too long ago the car used to make a noise when I accelerated which turned out to just be a couple of loose nuts on the wheel. I am hoping to god this is the same, just something small that is loose, but I am raging! I am also terrified the car will break down on me tonight on the way home, I wouldn't know what to do!!!

    I think the best solution would be for you to get a bicycle or take the bus. Its frightening that people with such lack of any basic knowledge of the motor car are allowed on our roads.

    Lucky Star your just an accident waiting to happen. :mad:


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    #46
    LuckyStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭LuckyStar


    Thanks buddy but I never said I was a mechanic. Find a little quote there from me if you can find me saying otherwise. I believe the reason mechanics are around is to fix people's cars.

    You have made approx 50 threads in another forum asking very basic questions about your Dobermanns. To paraphrase yourself, Its frightening that people with such a lack of any basic knowledge are allowed to own dogs! But I am slated for making ONE thread about my car acting up?

    Kettles and pots buddy... ;)


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    #47
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,749 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    I can see where this thread is going so I'm making a pre-emptive strike!


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