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***Motors Chat Thread Round 3***

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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,616 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    CianRyan wrote: »
    The compact, along with that similar ugly Merc of the same era (can't remember the name) are some of the worst designs ever to come out of Germany.

    They've basically continued the mistake until recently


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    ba_barabus wrote: »

    They've basically continued the mistake until recently

    They've stopped production of the 1 series hatch then? :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    CianRyan wrote: »
    They've stopped production of the 1 series hatch then? :p

    Best driving hatch bar none though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan



    Best driving hatch bar none.

    I don't disagree but I'm not talking about how they drive.
    It's renowned for being ugly.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,616 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    CianRyan wrote: »
    They've stopped production of the 1 series hatch then? :p

    Is the Merc hatch still going? The 1-series is vile but I always like to drive them. So many of them are poverty spec ones though bought by people who couldn't afford them in the first place.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    Yes.

    Although I think everyone just figured it out rather than it being posted :)


    I never copped it....belated welcome back so:)


    Sounds like that Passat was cursed!


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    CianRyan wrote: »
    I don't disagree but I'm not talking about how they drive.
    It's renowned for being ugly.

    Personally I think it's a good looking car. It's better than most of the cars in its class in that regard.

    I think a lot of the perceived ugliness is the fact that it's often only got a 1.6 and therefore shyte in every respect as a result to many.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    i have no idea of the in's and out's of this tbh, but nice to know johnos is still with us :)
    coming from andyseadog toyotafanboi


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,616 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Sounds like that Passat was cursed!
    It wants BURNING WITH FIRE.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,616 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    coming from andyseadog toyotafanboi
    I was wondering where you went.

    Lots of new faces and usernames.

    Lots of the old regulars seem to have disappeared too.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    I was wondering where you went.

    Lots of new faces and usernames.

    Lots of the old regulars seem to have disappeared too.

    seems as though we're all still here, just under different usernames, its the fashonable thing to do :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,616 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    seems as though we're all still here, just under different usernames, its the fashonable thing to do :)
    There is nothing like a good old fashioned RE-BRANDING :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    After seeing a red TT yesterday i'm in love :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,616 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Autosport wrote: »
    After seeing a red TT yesterday i'm in love :D
    Did you try take it home with you by any chance?

    Audi_TT_2518592b.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Autosport wrote: »
    After seeing a red TT yesterday i'm in love :D

    Was it lodged in someone's front living room by any chance?? If so, check it for overspray :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭Cheensbo


    I must admit, im also a re-brand, although I wasn't woefully prevailent here anyway, pottered in and out,

    some of yee will have figured me out, most wont, :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    seems as though we're all still here, just under different usernames, its the fashonable thing to do :)


    I'll have to come up with something new so.....:p


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Was it lodged in someone's front living room by any chance?? If so, check it for overspray :pac:

    No it wasnt lodged in any house :p It was on the road in Tipp ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Is this coming out for all the re-regs? :pac:

    ba I had my suspicions but kept stumm, till someone told me ;)

    Welcome back, all of ye! :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,616 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Autosport wrote: »
    It was on the road in Tipp ;)
    We have more than 1, I drove both today


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  • Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    dgt wrote: »
    schtun,

    Stumm ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Stumm ;)

    Pardon my ignorance, you did nickname me a hilbilly afterall! :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    We have more than 1, I drove both today

    Were they red ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,616 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Would anyone else trust a Lada Nuclear submarine being made by Russia and used by the Chinese?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21930280
    China is buying 24 Su-35 fighters and four Lada-class submarines


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Stumm ;)

    Only in the original German, in English it would generally be written phoeetically as schtum!


  • Registered Users Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Just booked my car into the body shop to get the rust on the rear arches of my car sorted. 500 squids. That would have gone a long way towards taxing it...or insuring it...or towards new wheels :(

    The way I see it though, if that rust started to creep out from the arches and onto the bodywork, no matter what wheels/MSport kit etc I had on it, it would look like a complete heap.

    Will try and get some before and after shots of her. She'll be done by Thursday week.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    Just booked my car into the body shop to get the rust on the rear arches of my car sorted. 500 squids. That would have gone a long way towards taxing it...or insuring it...or towards new wheels :(

    The way I see it though, if that rust started to creep out from the arches and onto the bodywork, no matter what wheels/MSport kit etc I had on it, it would look like a complete heap.

    Will try and get some before and after shots of her. She'll be done by Thursday week.

    Theres a tiny bit of bubbling about half inch x half inch on the rear quarter panel of mine too :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Theres a tiny bit of bubbling about half inch x half inch on the rear quarter panel of mine too :(

    That sounds the exact same as mine. Unfortunately, its such a big panel that it costs €€€ to do right. Ah sure like, you're in no mad hurry. Mine has been more or less the same since I've owned it. Only getting around to it now.

    Enjoy her for now! And worry about the niggles a bit later.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    That sounds the exact same as mine. Unfortunately, its such a big panel that it costs €€€ to do right. Ah sure like, you're in no mad hurry. Mine has been more or less the same since I've owned it. Only getting around to it now.

    Enjoy her for now! And worry about the niggles a bit later.

    Im already ordering parts :o


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  • Registered Users Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Im already ordering parts :o

    LED rears? Want them, but that's a long way down my list of things at the minute! :P


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