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***Motors Chat Thread Round 3***

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    #752
    gollywog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭gollywog


    BOOM!!! I found another pink one!!!!!!! :D

    pinkgtiohya.jpg


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    #753
    Hal1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Just discovered this new (to me) product that protects alloys from kerbing. Available from http://alloygator.com uk company. Ideal for those of you who had there alloys refurbished or plastic dipped. Looks like it works well too.

    Vid:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ITp2f0nNis


    Also available in pink^^^^^ :D


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    #754
    Redisle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,849 ✭✭✭Redisle


    Those look pretty cool. Would be pretty invisible in black too. Shame they are so expensive (Looks like over 80 euro delivered).


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    #755
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    The awkward moment when its only -2 out and the car refuses to start.... Thank feck for manual hand pumps!


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    #756
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    I think I need new battery too. I drive very short trips and do less then 60 miles per week and battery does not have a chance to properly recharge itself. Me having radio on, heated seats on does not help that situation too. :)
    Still though, scooby started today at 4:40 in the morning like a champ. Might give a longer route to home today just to give battery some juice.


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    #757
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    My battery is new! Just the glow plugs might be a tad iffy and XUD's are notorious for being c*nts to start with poor plugs


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    #758
    spiggotpaddy
    Registered Users Posts: 873 ✭✭✭spiggotpaddy


    http://t.co/hZQUKxH4
    200 Horse fiesta ST. You could have fun in this little dinky.


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    #759
    Redisle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,849 ✭✭✭Redisle


    Anyone looking for a track car? ZR160 down to € 1,150. I was looking at this but the seller has no interest in putting it through an NCT.


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    #760
    gollywog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭gollywog


    OSI wrote: »
    Ordered myself some car goodies as birthday treat to myself :D

    Finally found somewhere that sells the bloody multi-function steering wheel buttons for the golf without an entire wheel attached!

    $(KGrHqRHJEUFBgLECLkJBQ,Uyhdemw~~60_3.JPG


    And bought myself a snow foam lance too, should make cleaning the cars a bit more fun :)

    How much for the controls, having the rns-510 without them is awkward!


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    #761
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Redisle wrote: »
    Anyone looking for a track car? ZR160 down to € 1,150. I was looking at this but the seller has no interest in putting it through an NCT.

    That would put me off immediately. Both the price and if he has no interest, that's a full indication to me that there isn't a hope it will pass.


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    #762
    dar83
    Registered Users Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    Redisle wrote: »
    Anyone looking for a track car? ZR160 down to € 1,150. I was looking at this but the seller has no interest in putting it through an NCT.

    Is that the same car that is supposedly owned by a mechanic?!?

    Serious warning signs if he's not even bothered putting it through the NCT to sell it! :eek:


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    #763
    Redisle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,849 ✭✭✭Redisle


    dar83 wrote: »
    Is that the same car that is supposedly owned by a mechanic?!?

    Yeah same car.
    dar83 wrote: »
    Serious warning signs if he's not even bothered putting it through the NCT to sell it! :eek:

    Hence why I never bothered going to see it.

    It could be okay but it could also have engine damage. The guy said he replaced the hg when he got it but the question is how long was it overheating before that. Head could be fcked. It might be worth a look if anyone is near by but then again it has dropped from €1600 in the last 2 weeks so maybe not.


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    #764
    gollywog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭gollywog


    OSI wrote: »
    100 of your finest American dollars. However, it's worth pointing out that if you don't have the flappy paddles, you need a whole new wheel, steering wheel controller, and slip ring. Not quite as economical.

    No i have the paddles... is it a big job to fit them?


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    #765
    gollywog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭gollywog


    OSI wrote: »
    Cover off, airbag out, blanks off, buttons in, plug cables in, airbag back in, cover back on. Done. Should be a 20 minute job, (I hope).

    Sound, ill get the link off ya after christmas k? :)


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    #766
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    OSI wrote: »
    Cover off, airbag out, blanks off, buttons in, plug cables in, airbag back in, cover back on. Done. Should be a 20 minute job, (I hope).

    You may need to program them into the car too using vagcom.


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    #767
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    Saw a red FIAT Barchetta down the Coal Quay in Cork last weekend - can't remember ever seeing one in Ireland before. Fair play to whoever has it for thinking outside the box.


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    #768
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    OSI wrote: »
    Apparently not, as the DSG's already have the controller in place and coded. Or so I'm told.

    For the paddles possibly? Shouldn't be much to do it if not. I believe there are loads of options you can turn on and off with this too if you have someone knowledgable and it needs coding. Kill two birds with one stone and all that.


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    #769
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    langdang wrote: »
    Saw a red FIAT Barchetta down the Coal Quay in Cork last weekend - can't remember ever seeing one in Ireland before. Fair play to whoever has it for thinking outside the box.

    Can't say I've seen one myself this side of the border or not in a car show


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    #770
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    need to remove black paint off my indicators as theyll fail the nct, easiest way to do this? compound wouldnt take it off.


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    #771
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Need a sunstrip badly, what's the legal requirements? Not near a pc so cant look it up! :(


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    #772
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    dgt wrote: »
    Need a sunstrip badly, what's the legal requirements? Not near a pc so cant look it up! :(

    I think the sun strip has to be under 2 inches. :( But having said that there is an irish lad on fiatforum and he has a 10 and a half inch sunstrip. :D


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    #773
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Not lower than the lowest point your sun visor goes AFAIK.


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    #774
    R.O.R
    Registered Users Posts: 12,685 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    dgt wrote: »
    Can't say I've seen one myself this side of the border or not in a car show

    A friends dad has one - he's up around the Slane area. Green one that's been at the ALMC show and Terenure.

    Apparently it's a total sh1tbox to drive, according to my friend who took it from Slane across to the City North.


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    #775
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    R.O.R wrote: »
    A friends dad has one - he's up around the Slane area. Green one that's been at the ALMC show and Terenure.

    Apparently it's a total sh1tbox to drive, according to my friend who took it from Slane across to the City North.

    Must be why they called it "little boat"


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    #776
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    R.O.R wrote: »
    A friends dad has one - he's up around the Slane area. Green one that's been at the ALMC show and Terenure.

    Apparently it's a total sh1tbox to drive, according to my friend who took it from Slane across to the City North.

    Sure they're all about looks really aren't they?
    If they wanted to make it a drivers car I'm sure they would have made it RWD. Always thought it was odd that they went against that.


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    #777
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    dgt wrote: »
    Need a sunstrip badly, what's the legal requirements? Not near a pc so cant look it up! :(

    Actually...

    Its completely illegal under the Construction, equipment and use of vehicles regulations 1963 Article 34, Subsection 2 part B

    They are classed as "inessential objects/stickers"


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    #778
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Do beads count as beads when they're frozen? :D
    28t7xtt.jpg


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    #779
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Do beads count as beads when they're frozen? :D
    28t7xtt.jpg

    No :p ,Because that would make them ice cubes! :D


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    #780
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »
    No :p ,Because that would make them ice cubes! :D

    Ice hemispheres if you want to get smart about it. :p


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    #781
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Roads were manky today. Cleaned the car yesterday..... Drove to Cavan and on to Dublin and had to pit stop into a garage on the way home to clean my lights. I was literally getting NO light off them :eek:

    Need to stick some of those Volvo wipers onto the headlights me thinks :p


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