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***Motors Chat Thread Round 3***

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    #4472
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Katunga wrote: »
    the midway run must have given the car a bit of a clean dgt

    It would have helped, that would be it's longest run so far :) it will be interesting to see what mpg I get when I put the new cat on...
    Bpmull wrote: »
    Mine is doing between 49-51 mpg mainly long drives and a good bit of motorway driving. I'm not saying its bad or anything just it could be better. We had a 2007 new type megane 1.5dci a year ago or so and it averaged between 62-63 mpg every fill and never went below 61mpg and that's the truth it was amazing And between me and my dad it was driven hard enough just unbelievable. consumption. We should have never sold that one .

    That's very reasonable, where that wins is the tax: 358 vs 710 for me!

    What bhp is your van?


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    #4473
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    dgt wrote: »
    It would have helped, that would be it's longest run so far :) it will be interesting to see what mpg I get when I put the new cat on...



    That's very reasonable, where that wins is the tax: 358 vs 710 for me!

    What bhp is your van?
    It's the 90 bhp model. It's a bit slow of the mark but from 2nd up the power is adequate. It is obviously slow when off boast so the turbo kicks in at 1750 revs and it is fairly powerful then. If you floor it at around 1800 revs in thirds forth it moves very fast for a 1.3. It's really just about keeping it in the powerband and if you change gears too fast and it drops back to 1400 revs or so it would feel very sluggish and dead. It suits me and as you said the cheap tax is a major bonus.


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    #4474
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Bpmull wrote: »
    It's the 90 bhp model. It's a bit slow of the mark but from 2nd up the power is adequate. It is obviously slow when off boast so the turbo kicks in at 1750 revs and it is fairly powerful then. If you floor it at around 1800 revs in thirds forth it moves very fast for a 1.3. It's really just about keeping it in the powerband and if you change gears too fast and it drops back to 1400 revs or so it would feel very sluggish and dead. It suits me and as you said the cheap tax is a major bonus.

    Consider a remap? Something is telling me that the 90bhp can be remapped to about 110, whether this will give better mpg is debatable with that engine size in that body though...

    Edit: I was right :)


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    #4475
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    I've woken up to a blanketing of snow.... This will be fun on the roads today!


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    #4476
    coolisin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,793 ✭✭✭coolisin


    Oh the fun and games leaving the estate this morning. A guy sitting there at 630am spinning his wheels going no where.

    Well i made it into work alright so I guess that is something!


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    #4477
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    coolisin wrote: »
    Oh the fun and games leaving the estate this morning. A guy sitting there at 630am spinning his wheels going no where.

    Well i made it into work alright so I guess that is something!
    Was all set for fun and games here too, but even the snow wouldn't come to limerick city! It was remarkably free flowing, even snow in the next county usually has people crawling around.


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    #4478
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    coolisin wrote: »
    Oh the fun and games leaving the estate this morning. A guy sitting there at 630am spinning his wheels going no where.

    Well i made it into work alright so I guess that is something!
    Was all set for fun and games here too, but even the snow wouldn't come to limerick city! It was remarkably free flowing, even snow in the next county usually has people crawling around.


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    #4479
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Bah, no fun today. Lots of a snow,but it is all wet snow and scooby did not slipped even for a second :(.

    Lads, what's the shhhhtory with insurance after you had an accsident? I think it's over 3 years since misses wrote of Merc. Does she has to declare that she had an accsident and there was a claim when gettin a quote till the rest of her life?
    We did not bothered to shop around for insurance as it only gone up 20% after incident. Though 3 years in it does not go low a lot and I am afraid that with new female pricing, she might get stabed by insurance company. I want to to try and shop around, but I dunno how good chances will be.


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    #4480
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    OSI wrote: »

    They usually ask if you've had a claim or accident in the last 5 years. Best to ask the individual companies though.
    Some only ask about the last 3years so you might be rid of it now SH, no guarantee the "3yearr" companies would be cheaper tho.


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    #4481
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Cheers lads. Will need to see what will we get offered this year.

    By the way, any of you males got cheaper insurance due to this whole gender equality stuff? Any females you know got hit already? Would love to know how "fair" it is now.


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    #4482
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Male insurance won't budge due to this. Female insurance will only increase to meet the value of male insurance.


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    #4483
    Jimdagym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,843 ✭✭✭Jimdagym


    Totally just kicked the kids asses at snowball fights.

    So what if they are 5&3.


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    #4484
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Male insurance won't budge due to this. Female insurance will only increase to meet the value of male insurance.

    Surely that wont happen? Twould be blatant profiteering :eek:


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    #4485
    Jimdagym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,843 ✭✭✭Jimdagym


    RoverJames wrote: »
    Surely that wont happen? Twould be blatant profiteering :eek:

    Not really. The bonus reduction for being a lady was just removed.


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    #4486
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    RoverJames wrote: »
    Surely that wont happen? Twould be blatant profiteering :eek:

    I amn pretty sure i heard that male insurance was to go slightly down due to new changes, but i guess Insurance companies just took all of it and ran away laughing at all the suckers...


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    #4487
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    turns out aviva changed their policy in december and now you have to take the ignition test if you have a license less than 5 years :mad:


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    #4488
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Ardennes1944 wrote: »
    turns out aviva changed their policy in december and now you have to take the ignition test if you have a license less than 5 years :mad:

    I think i have mine 5 years....well I hope I do!

    But wouldn't that reduce your quote anyway? It's supposed to be easy. I remember trying to do it to reduce my quote with them:p


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    #4489
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Ardennes1944 wrote: »
    turns out aviva changed their policy in december and now you have to take the ignition test if you have a license less than 5 years :mad:
    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    I think i have mine 5 years....well I hope I do!

    But wouldn't that reduce your quote anyway? It's supposed to be easy. I remember trying to do it to reduce my quote with them:p

    It's a joke. I did it years upon years ago.

    It consisted of sitting in a hotel for a while, eyeing up some cracking young one. Getting lectured on how to drive "safely"

    Then sitting in some blokes car and told "instead of jamming on let the car glide into a box junction, it's the safe thing to do" and then tipping off to the beach for an hour for an ice cream before he dropped me and the other person off to the hotel.

    I even got a distinction :D


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    #4490
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    ive mine 4 in august. it seems to have gotten much stricter in the last while i have heard mugs and this will be my first policy with them so id have no way out.


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    #4491
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    Thats crazy some of you guys got snow, its sunny up here in Dublin land...windy but sunny.


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    #4492
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    I think i have mine 5 years....well I hope I do!

    But wouldn't that reduce your quote anyway? It's supposed to be easy. I remember trying to do it to reduce my quote with them:p

    My 10 year license only has a year left, starting to feel old :(

    Not as old as MugMugs but old all the same


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    #4493
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Gary ITR wrote: »

    My 10 year license only has a year left, starting to feel old :(

    Not as old as MugMugs but old all the same

    I'm half way though my second 10yr. :(

    It does have its bonuses though - insurance is feck all. ;)


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    #4494
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    Thats crazy some of you guys got snow, its sunny up here in Dublin land...windy but sunny.

    Taken this morning:

    419613_4878353590228_1246140280_n.jpg


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    #4495
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    the dirt on the front alloy contrasts well with the clean snow...


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    #4496
    tossy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,590 ✭✭✭tossy


    I love your car MM,next boards meet i bags a spin :D seen another cork reg one on Sunday on the M7 with the reg 07 C 335 1 - i hope it wasn't a 320 as i bowed to the reg and 'let him on' :)


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    #4497
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    The snow got packed into ice and made an interesting drive into Naaaaavan this morning :D

    Snow tyres..... Pfffffft!

    I can't put up pics of the snow as not at a pc!


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    #4498
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    I was out to play in the snow last night and play I did. :p
    It had melted off the roads fairly quickly though, gone in about an hour.


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    #4499
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Gary ITR wrote: »
    Not as old as MugMugs but old all the same

    At least I've still got my rugged good looks and wavy hair ! ;)

    I actually renew next week when I get back from London.

    I am quite looking forward to my new fancy pancy card.

    I shall gloat religiously in here once I get it :)


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    #4500
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    MugMugs wrote: »

    wavy hair
    Keep it in a bag somewhere do you?


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    #4501
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    I noticed a little bit of oil in the driveway, not sure if its from my Audi. Car underside looked dry. Going to check the oil levels as soon it stops being so damn cold outside.

    Drain plug? It's my rececnt issue....

    Get out there and get stuck in, cold is an illusion of the mind, no excuses!!! :pac:


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