***Motors Chat Thread Round 3***

Jimdagym

Stheno wrote: »

Lads, I know this is a bit ot, but I've an important interview tomorrow, and am looking for a few good wishes?

I hope this went well stheno.

In personal news, I got a payrise in work yesterday which will pay for my next bangernomic :pac:

Stheno

Jimdagym wrote: »

I hope this went well stheno.

In personal news, I got a payrise in work yesterday which will pay for my next bangernomic :pac:

Congratulations

Seemed to go ok thanks for all the good wishes

Ded_Zebra

OSI wrote: »

Finally watching last weeks Top Gear. Loving the 850R. Learned to drive in one of those bad boys :cool:

I just watched it there too

Loved the 850r but can't find any for sale Talk about a sleeper though:cool:

Toyotafanboi

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

......... i think fitting the original front spot lights and a reg plate will tame it a lot, but if not it probably wont be hard sold on again

Do you have sideskirts at the moment?
If so it should look :cool:

Toyotafanboi

RoverJames wrote: »

Do you have sideskirts at the moment?
If so it should look :cool:

I have the same side skirts as the ones in the photo i posted lets hope its no fashon disaster :pac:

Supergurrier

850R my cars grandaddy who refuses to accept his offspring from a lower social standing hehe

Emission regs perhaps?

Supergurrier

OSI wrote: »

That's something I didn't understand about the ST. The 5 pot turbo is a descendant of the Volvo model, yeah? But after 10 years it managed to gain 200cc but lose 25bhp. Why????

Detuned for emissions and to bring down cost. Look at the RS which has pretty much the same powerplant as the S60R. Fact is it's an old engine and it runs better w/o a cat and will sit happily @ 320bhp.

ST is limited to around 340 before you need forged pistons/upgraded fuel pump/oil cooler and a bigger turbo and w/o them raising boost too high above 1 bar wouldn't be a good idea, so a mixture of cost saving and emissions really hence in standard guise it's apparent poor bhp/litre ratio and some would say sluggish nature. If you can call a 150mph Ford Focus sluggish

Big part of why they are such a tunable car and why so many do.

dgt

Welcome back erratic rev counter! :rolleyes:

Big Nasty

Rant:

Went up to my folks gaff earlier to pick up the Da's Mondeo and fit handbrake cable. Dense fog up there and came across plenty of dense ****ers jogging and cycling up there too, not a light between them and only one or two with high-vis vests. Actually saw one muppet get clipped by a jeep. Was the drivers fault of course and the cyclist didn't look hurt but if the mallet head had stayed down off the mountain in the first place it wouldn't have happened at all.

Thick cvnts! :mad:

/rant.

tossy

Went into a local car park last week and got 2 token chips by mistake,i kept one and plan to check it periodically everytime i reuse the car park for the craic,my ultimate aim is to be in the queue for the pay machine and someone drops their chip,i will of course bend down to pick it up for them and give them my one instead....for the craic

Anyway latest total...

CianRyan

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Rant:

Went up to my folks gaff earlier to pick up the Da's Mondeo and fit handbrake cable. Dense fog up there and came across plenty of dense ****ers jogging and cycling up there too, not a light between them and only one or two with high-vis vests. Actually saw one muppet get clipped by a jeep. Was the drivers fault of course and the cyclist didn't look hurt but if the mallet head had stayed down off the mountain in the first place it wouldn't have happened at all.

Thick cvnts! :mad:

/rant.

Nothing wrong with being up there, with out lights and hi-vis gear is what makes them thick cuhnts.

The fog around here hasn't lifted for days but I swear I've seen less fog lights over the last few days.

dgt

My poor car sounds absolutely awful! It sounds so rough, knackered injector pump, lumpy idle......

Feckin wastegate has stuck open too!!! :mad:

ba_barabus

dgt wrote: »

My poor car sounds absolutely awful! It sounds so rough, knackered injector pump, lumpy idle......

Feckin wastegate has stuck open too!!! :mad:

SCRAP IT

dgt

ba_barabus wrote: »

SCRAP IT

NO

Ded_Zebra

dgt wrote: »

My poor car sounds absolutely awful! It sounds so rough, knackered injector pump, lumpy idle......

Feckin wastegate has stuck open too!!! :mad:

You attract mechanical failure like no one else I have ever come across!!!! how do you do it?

Voodoomelon

Got my new tyre put on my wheel today in Dundalk, watched him put it on, rolled it out to me and I said "thats it balanced too?". "Oh, you want it balanced?".

Seriously, does anyone run a decent tyre place in Dundalk?

Supergurrier

I will post a pic at some stage of the balance job done on one of my front wheels by a place, they must have 50 of the little weights on the alloy and they are on the outside facing bit between the spokes

Voodoomelon

Is it an aftermarket wheel? Some of them can be a bitch to balance.

dgt

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

You attract mechanical failure like no one else I have ever come across!!!! how do you do it?

Gah this is what I get for rootin with cheap stuff.... I like putting right what is broke. I'll see if I can get that awful wastegate noise out of it to begin with!

I don't understand why KKK used an internal wastegate anyway

ba_barabus

I've just taken my mothers newly picked up Yeti 1.2 for a drive.

I'm very surprised by how fast the little bugger is. Genuinely surprised. Very nice

ba_barabus

ba_barabus wrote: »

........mo.thers newly picked up Yeti .....
....e

She has two of them now so :pac:

L-M

Made this after seeing yet another one on Donedeal.

ShadowHearth

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4618272

That the one you owned?

Redisle

I saw this Tesla Roadster pulled in at an odd place near UCC yesterday and just heard that it's still there now! Something must have happened it! Very surprised they didn't get it towed/trucked away if it isn't functioning. I'd wonder if it's related to the state of the roads around there at the minute, it is a very low car.

ShadowHearth

RoverJames wrote: »

That the one you owned?

Nope, but ad description is awesome.

"no nst.car looking good body perfect ingien briliant !"

Redisle

Redisle wrote: »

I saw this Tesla Roadster pulled in at an odd place near UCC yesterday ..................

On footpath ? Think I saw it too.

Redisle

RoverJames wrote: »

On footpath ? Think I saw it too.

Yeah. Across from the fine gael office there!

Was kind of thinking that massive pothole / road disintegration on highfield ave might have played a part! When I passed last night there was a few people standing around it.

Same one I saw so :pac: