***Motors Chat Thread Round 3***

BUBBLE WRAP

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

Colin McCrae was probably the person who got me hooked on motorsport as a kid, really nice to see his cars are still looked after at his home.

Oh it is, But to this day, I still find it hard to believe that Colin is gone..

MCMLXXV

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Yep, and some people are just plain thick!

They get found out fairly quickly, sh1t sinks once the air escapes.

BUBBLE WRAP

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Yep, and some people are just plain thick!

Says Mr. Perfect.. :rolleyes:

CianRyan

:rolleyes:













Well everyone else is doing it?

Just spit it out Johnny

Stheno

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Yep, and some people are just plain thick!

Nope just not paying attention for the most part.
The amount of people I've come across who do this is unreal.

My response to them does usually include the phrase "did you listen to what I said, you feckin eejit"

Stheno

CianRyan wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Jaysis, was the whipping particularly bad this weekend?

Big Nasty

RoverJames wrote: »

They get found out fairly quickly, sh1t sinks once the air escapes.

True for ya.

Found out as much a good few weeks back.

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RoverJames wrote: »

Just spit it out Johnny

No such luck.

MCMLXXV

MCMLXXV wrote: »

True for ya.

Found out as much a good few weeks back.

Can only guess someone PMd, emailed, texted, carrier pigeoned something or other about f*** knows what.

To be quite honest John I don't have a clue what's put the bee in your bonnet, I'd be 99.9% certain it's not me however so there's next to feck all I can do about it.

Apologies if any of my retorts to your oneliners offended or whatever, to me it was a game of tennis, keep hitting it back etc etc as I do.

Katunga

ken Block doing his usual on BBC

Drummerboy08

Not wild on ken block but he sure can control a car.

Autosport

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

Not wild on ken block but he sure can control a car.

I love him, he has such control and the things he makes car do drifting, donuts etc

h3000

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

Not wild on ken block but he sure can control a car.

I would not be a fan either but he really has done a lot to get a younger generation interested in rallying which is good.

Really enjoying the documentary, he is my all time favourite driver.

Katunga

The Racing Legends is making me miss the days that the WRC was in Sligo.
met most of the WRC Drivers including Seb Loeb, was a great week.
Good being a marshal.

challengemaster

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

yeah but it doesn't really cost them, does it? they are in profit no matter how many claims they get as all the rest of us have to have insurance in this country and pay big money for the privilege.
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I think his point was that after 7 years of insurance costs he's still a hell of a long way off forking out 47k to a third party. So yes, while the insurance company itself isn't out money, it was damn worth his while having it in the first place. (and I'm not getting into the "but it's illegal not to" argument)


Also I can't f¨cking stand ken block

MugMugs

Just watched that Top Gear. That Bentley is savage! :eek:

Dragons den bit was pretty funny too. First time I've enjoyed an episode in a good while now.

h3000

Jimmy is still well able to pilot a car. A legend in hiss own right.

Drummerboy08

I actually have a lump in my throat watching this!

barney 20v

Lucky enough to meet Colin twice, I don't say this lightly.... He was and forever will be my personal hero. The reason I drive this..

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Drummerboy08 wrote: »

I actually have a lump in my throat watching this!

Join the club...

h3000

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

I actually have a lump in my throat watching this!

I just have something in my eye, I swear

Drummerboy08

Glad I'm not the only one!!

Right, that's my inspiration to get the car finished this month!!

dgt

What an evening of television eh... :cool:

And the KKK powered heap lives! looking foreward to Tuesday

CharlieCroker

Was sad to see Richard Burns as well, another great driver who died too early.

Stheno

Question from me again, the arm rest on the drivers door on my car has become a kamikaze arm rest and leaps out of the car given every opportunity.

On checking it out, the clips that should hold it in place seem squashed so they are not engaging with their counterparts on the door.

Ok to use a pliers to widen them and slot them in?

h3000

CharlieCroker wrote: »

Was sad to see Richard Burns as well, another great driver who died too early.

Such a tough way to go too. Poor Richard had a very sad end

CharlieCroker

I remember reading a tribute that Jeremy clarkson wrote about burns after his death.
No bull or jokes, just very well written and poignant.

Can't find it online now

dgt

Stheno wrote: »

Question from me again, the arm rest on the drivers door on my car has become a kamikaze arm rest and leaps out of the car given every opportunity.

On checking it out, the clips that should hold it in place seem squashed so they are not engaging with their counterparts on the door.

Ok to use a pliers to widen them and slot them in?

Assuming you mean the door trim clips, be careful you don't break them when bending back to the correct position....

Otherwise work away with a long nosed pliers

Stheno

dgt wrote: »

Assuming you mean the door trim clips, be careful you don't break them when bending back to the correct position....

Otherwise work away with a long nosed pliers

Yep it's what secures the arm rest to the inner door panel. I was thinking of a narrow nosed long pliers as that gives me the ability to shift them a tiny bit at a time without too much force. Realistically they need to move a few mm maybe 5 at most.