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***Motors Chat Thread Round 3***

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    #992
    pred racer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    That`s what I am thinking, its a grand car bodywork and interior is excellent but for what its worth. Shame that I will probably have to scrap it in Jan. Be prepared to throw some ideas into "What should I buy next" thread that I will be creating.

    Id be interested in your car if youre letting it go for scrap value. I can get a lovely sw for nowt, (engine is cooked though)

    I might try a little Dgt action 'country style'


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    #993
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    MugMugs wrote: »
    A certain large motor shop with outlets all over the country has a wee booklet telling you what bulb sizes fit your motor.

    Mugs was in a rush, dashed in to get some taillight bulbs before a long trip today.

    Guide said 380..... There starts me trying to fit a 380 bulb into a hole where it just doesn't want to fit. I put the old bulb in to see if she sat the whole way into the lens and to clarify that I wasn't actually losing the plot when it fell inside the fecking lens.....

    Turns out the guide was wrong and I needed 270..... Bog all sleep + me in a rush = a blown bulb rattling around in the tail light lens and me two 380 bulbs up with no need for them. (welcome to anybody at the next meet) :D

    /rant

    is a 270 not an 18w festoon?

    What car you driving?


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    #994
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    MugMugs wrote: »
    The current model with the LED's? They're noticeable but there's worse out there IMO...

    Yep that's the one :)

    But was at a computer the whole morning without a break, building a webpage in the afternoon. Coupled with approx 5 hrs sleep it seemed a lot brighter than normal


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    #995
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    Ardennes1944 wrote: »
    Ok forget the manual labour part, just have a listen and see what you think? :)

    You parking up at 8 ?


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    #996
    dgt
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    pred racer wrote: »
    Id be interested in your car if youre letting it go for scrap value. I can get a lovely sw for nowt, (engine is cooked though)

    I might try a little Dgt action 'country style'

    I'm after a TS engine myself.... Along with the rest of the car :pac:

    Frankensteining ;)


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    #997
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    is a 270 not an 18w festoon?

    What car you driving?

    Beg your pardon. Complete typo by me.

    207...... She's an Avensis Liftback. :)


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    #998
    pred racer
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    dgt wrote: »
    I'm after a TS engine myself.... Along with the rest of the car :pac:

    Frankensteining ;)

    I'm thinking of a 156 pickup:D that my son and I can do a bit rallying in ( around my back field) 156 vs polaris predator anyone:p

    Or, I havent owned a petrol car in years, if I dont make a bollix of the engine transfer, it could be fun.

    I have never removed the engine from a car before...........
    Sure how hard can it be :cool:


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    #999
    dgt
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    pred racer wrote: »
    I'm thinking of a 156 pickup:D that my son and I can do a bit rallying in ( around my back field) 156 vs polaris predator anyone:p

    Or, I havent owned a petrol car in years, if I dont make a bollix of the engine transfer, it could be fun.

    I have never removed the engine from a car before...........
    Sure how hard can it be :cool:

    Tractor!!! :D was thinking all sorts of stupid stuff for the 106... 5.0 V8, DHX D-Turbo, 2.8IDTD... :D just need the time ;)

    How hard can it be....
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdHp1lFrnEk


    :pac::pac::pac:


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    #1000
    MugMugs
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    dgt wrote: »
    Tractor!!! :D was thinking all sorts of stupid stuff for the 106... 5.0 V8, DHX D-Turbo, 2.8IDTD... :D just need the time ;)

    How hard can it be....


    :pac::pac::pac:

    Soooooooo..... wanna meet up this weekend and see how that goes with the Pug? I REALLY want to try that !


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    #1001
    Redisle
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    All this talk of 156's being worthless is kind of making me regret agreeing to pay almost 1600 for one! Ah well.. picking it up Friday anyway assuming it passes the NCT!


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    #1002
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    RoverJames wrote: »
    You parking up at 8 ?

    should be yeah, unless i choose to study at home tomorrow :) but i guarantee it wont make any noise tomorrow when you see it!


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    #1003
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    Redisle wrote: »
    All this talk of 156's being worthless is kind of making me regret agreeing to pay almost 1600 for one! Ah well.. picking it up Friday anyway assuming it passes the NCT!

    bah, id been looking out for it all last week! :pac:


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    #1004
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Soooooooo..... wanna meet up this weekend and see how that goes with the Pug? I REALLY want to try that !

    The 106 is my French parts store :) and where I test radios :pac:

    Someday, I will get another shredder and try that :D

    I'm just ripping I didn't do that with the Corsa or the Escort.... Although it probably wouldn't have had the power to go backwards fast enough :pac::pac::pac:


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    #1005
    pred racer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    dgt wrote: »
    Tractor!!! :D was thinking all sorts of stupid stuff for the 106... 5.0 V8, DHX D-Turbo, 2.8IDTD... :D just need the time ;)

    How hard can it be

    :pac::pac::pac:

    Fook me, i nearly fell off the couch :D:):pac::pac:


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    #1006
    BUBBLE WRAP
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    Redisle wrote: »
    All this talk of 156's being worthless is kind of making me regret agreeing to pay almost 1600 for one! Ah well.. picking it up Friday anyway assuming it passes the NCT!

    The way I see it, a car will act the way its been maintained. Best of luck with the test as well. :)


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    #1007
    pred racer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    For dgt

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/carparts/4150790


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    #1008
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    pred racer wrote: »
    For dgt

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/carparts/4150790

    It's like my birthday and Christmas rolled into one :D


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    #1009
    pred racer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    dgt wrote: »
    It's like my birthday and Christmas rolled into one :D

    A brand new engine for a 159 jtdm! I could have that for when mine blows up:D


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    #1010
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    pred racer wrote: »
    A brand new engine for a 159 jtdm! I could have that for when mine blows up:D

    That'd go into a Bravo if I got my hands on that :pac:


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    #1011
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users Posts: 7,298 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Just finished 13 days straight at work this evening.

    Only have the one day off, but i can honestly say i have never ever felt this bone weary, gonna get my 1-2 things i need to do done earlyish tomorrow and then veg out for the day with the dog watching sci-fi re runs, thank god for a day off :)


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    #1012
    pred racer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    dgt wrote: »
    That'd go into a Bravo if I got my hands on that :pac:

    I think we should shoe-horn it into stheno's car when she's not lookin:pac:

    Edit: or MM's :)


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    #1013
    Redisle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,849 ✭✭✭Redisle


    not sure if anyone has seen this.. could be an interesting car (maybe for dgt!).

    Stilo Abarth
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/4202046

    I noticed it last week when I was randomly browsing. Not a clue why it's listed in vintage cars though! Again shame about the vrt/tax.


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    #1014
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Boomerangs..... Bar was Buskers.

    Ah Buskers, I remember the days :) Once dressed as Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman for Halloween there :D
    CianRyan wrote: »
    Pfft, I can count the amount of times I've drank in Temple Bar on one hand.
    I'm more of a local dweller.
    €25 a trip in a taxi? You can feck off!

    Vomit comet?
    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Just finished 13 days straight at work this evening.

    Only have the one day off, but i can honestly say i have never ever felt this bone weary, gonna get my 1-2 things i need to do done earlyish tomorrow and then veg out for the day with the dog watching sci-fi re runs, thank god for a day off :)

    Mind yourself man, take a decent rest tomorrow, no point working yourself into the ground :)
    pred racer wrote: »
    I think we should shoe-horn it into stheno's car when she's not lookin:pac:

    Edit: or MM's :)

    Hey? What have I done? Has already been done with a gtv in the UK, someone put a diesel into one, I remember reading about it.

    Why would you be doing that to my poor car?


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    #1015
    pred racer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Redisle wrote: »
    not sure if anyone has seen this.. could be an interesting car (maybe for dgt!).

    Stilo Abarth
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/4202046

    I noticed it last week when I was randomly browsing. Not a clue why it's listed in vintage cars though! Again shame about the vrt/tax.

    Thats lovely!


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    #1016
    Stheno
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    pred racer wrote: »
    Thats lovely!

    It is lovely looking, seems relatively good value too even including the VRT


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    #1017
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    pred racer wrote: »
    Thats lovely!

    A fierce damp problem in that house ! :eek:


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    #1018
    pred racer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Stheno wrote: »


    Hey? What have I done? Has already been done with a gtv in the UK, someone put a diesel into one, I remember reading about it.

    Why would you be doing that to my poor car?

    Just to see the look on your face when you started it:D


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    #1019
    Stheno
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    pred racer wrote: »
    Just to see the look on your face when you started it:D

    And it sounded like a rattly tractor?

    I'd that last year when I first got my car and the timing belt was almost dead.

    I gave up bringing into work due to the amount of feedback I got from my colleagues about how sick it sounded :D


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    #1020
    pred racer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Stheno wrote: »
    And it sounded like a rattly tractor?

    I'd that last year when I first got my car and the timing belt was almost dead.

    I gave up bringing into work due to the amount of feedback I got from my colleagues about how sick it sounded :D

    You callin my car a rattley tractor........:eek:

    Did you get your spray job yet?


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    #1021
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    pred racer wrote: »
    You callin my car a rattley tractor........:eek:

    Did you get your spray job yet?

    Well compared to the smooth purr of mine? YES :D

    Nah, have to replace the ball joint on the drivers side, finish the NCT and then it's off for the spray job in January or February, depends on my work and home schedule, been a bit hectic recently tbh.


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