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***Motors Chat Thread Round 3***

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    #2192
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,456 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    This has to be the least safe way to prop a car up :eek:


    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4323972


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    #2193
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    I doubt they're going under them to be fair.


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    #2194
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    There is a breakers near me that stacks cars three high!

    The highways agency in the UK has bought screens to use in the event of accidents to stop motorists rubbernecking

    Wouldn't be a bad idea over here.


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    #2195
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    MuppetCheck wrote: »
    The Stirling Moss documentary has just started on BBC 2 now. Might be worth a look. Seems alright so far.

    Have to say that was a great watch. Worth a look on BBC player if you had a spare hour. Best bit was one of the final scenes when Moss was giving Patrick Stewart advice on how to get a car he hasn't driven in 60 years going from a push start.


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    #2196
    colm_mcm
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    MugMugs wrote: »
    I doubt they're going under them to be fair.

    Why have them that high then?

    If they were using forklifts, they would just keep them slightly off the ground surely


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    #2197
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    No idea.... Any EPA rules on storage of EOL buckets maybe? They'd be hard pushed to find somebody going under with props like those, one would imagine.


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    #2198
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    Stheno wrote: »
    There is a breakers near me that stacks cars three high!

    The highways agency in the UK has bought screens to use in the event of accidents to stop motorists rubbernecking

    Wouldn't be a bad idea over here.

    That's exactly what we need here... Some amount of rubbernecking people around these parts. even if I'm out side my house, people passing stare at me like if I had 40 heads.


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    #2199
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Plan A failed. Plan B has been tried and after just 30 miles, it's scutterin' fluid again.... To Plan C!!! :pac:
    BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »
    That's exactly what we need
    here... Some amount of rubbernecking people around these parts. even if I'm out side my house, people passing stare at me like if I had 40 heads.

    I hate busybodies like that. Auld sh*tes with nothing better to do between bingo and the farmers mart then to have a nosey at everyone elses business. When someone does at the house I usually have the binoculars ready. And I'll keep at it till they stop. Not so eager to look in then ha ha!


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    #2200
    BUBBLE WRAP
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    dgt wrote: »
    Plan A failed. Plan B has been tried and after just 30 miles, it's scutterin' fluid again.... To Plan C!!! :pac:



    I hate busybodies like that. Auld sh*tes with nothing better to do between bingo and the farmers mart then to have a nosey at everyone elses business. When someone does at the house I usually have the binoculars ready. And I'll keep at it till they stop. Not so eager to look in then ha ha!

    Haha, exactly. There is one family in particular though, they own a farm in the road to the left side of my house. Anyway they do go past the house, at a snail's pace and 4 children and the dad does turn their heads round 360 degrees as the slowly drive past, we call the children of the family: "The noisy kids" .. :pac:


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    #2201
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »
    That's exactly what we need here... Some amount of rubbernecking people around these parts. even if I'm out side my house, people passing stare at me like if I had 40 heads.

    Maybe they are looking at your weird house.
    Ufo-House.jpg

    When do you get to fly home anyways? :D


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    #2202
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    Matt Simis wrote: »
    Maybe they are looking at your weird house.
    Ufo-House.jpg

    When do you get to fly home anyways? :D

    Ha, I wish... :p


    shoe-house.jpg

    The sporting should be there somewhere.. :pac:


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    #2203
    Stheno
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    Matt Simis wrote: »
    Maybe they are looking at your weird house.


    When do you get to fly home anyways? :D

    He has to phone first! (Sorry BW, it's the time of year!) ET hasn't been on the telly tho :(

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xZif3WmG7I


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    #2204
    BUBBLE WRAP
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    Stheno wrote: »
    He has to phone first! (Sorry BW, it's the time of year!) ET hasn't been on the telly tho :(

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xZif3WmG7I

    E.T. has been on the telly like 4 times in the last week. :p


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    #2205
    Stheno
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    BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »
    E.T. has been on the telly like 4 times in the last week. :p

    Really? I missed it :( Feck sake


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    #2206
    BUBBLE WRAP
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    Stheno wrote: »
    Really? I missed it :( Feck sake

    yup, afraid so.

    EDIT: It was on today, about 8 or 9.


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    #2207
    Stheno
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    BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »
    yup, afraid so.

    EDIT: It was on today, about 8 or 9.

    Ah stop :( I love that movie :(

    Oh is chuffed to bits with his car now that it works right :D

    Mine is sitting forlorn in the drive wondering why I don't like it anymore :(


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    #2208
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    My list for next christmas. :D :pac:

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3989765

    Or.

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3886026

    and a surprise. :D


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    #2209
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »
    My list for next christmas. :D :pac:

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3989765

    Or.

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3886026

    and a surprise. :D
    Don't stress it anyway they'll both probably be still for sale next Christmas ;)


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    #2210
    BUBBLE WRAP
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    MugMugs wrote: »
    Don't stress it anyway they'll both probably be still for sale next Christmas ;)

    Haha, Why do rekon?


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    #2211
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

    Haha, Why do rekon?
    That was a roundabout "Italian car joke...."


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    #2212
    Stheno
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    MugMugs wrote: »
    That was a roundabout "Italian car joke...."

    That fiat coupe probably will with those nasty fabric seats


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    #2213
    Barry Barry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 494 ✭✭Barry Barry


    Stheno wrote: »
    That fiat coupe probably will with those nasty fabric seats

    An Italian sports car with no leather seats is like owning an Aston Martin Cygnet

    Just wrong on so many levels..


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    #2214
    BUBBLE WRAP
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    Barry Barry wrote: »
    An Italian sports car with no leather seats is like owning an Aston Martin Cygnet

    Just wrong on so many levels..

    Still an aston martin under the bonnet though.. :cool:


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    #2215
    Stheno
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    BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »
    Still an aston martin under the bonnet though.. :cool:

    Still ****ty fabric seats :)

    I honestly think leather seats can add to a car and how it looks/feels


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    #2216
    BUBBLE WRAP
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    Stheno wrote: »
    Still ****ty fabric seats :)

    I honestly think leather seats can add to a car and how it looks/feels

    Oh yes, I agree with you and barry barry (kinda) , but it wouldn't be the end off the world for me anyway not to have leather seats. :)


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    #2217
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    Just seen this on the alfa ad.
    The timing chain has been recently replaced at a cost of 900 euro.

    After a quick google, I'm lead to believe that timing chains don't need to be replaced, so does that mean that this TC must have snapped, but then with only 44,000 miles I can't understand how it could have. :confused:


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    #2218
    Our man in Havana
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    Timing chains do need replacing.


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    #2219
    BUBBLE WRAP
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    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    Timing chains do need replacing.

    Ah really? cheer, that makes sense. I know now not to research anymore on google.. :)


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    #2220
    dar83
    Registered Users Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    I'm not sure I remember the last time I saw a car that has aged as badly as the Fiat Coupe. Christ that's one 80's looking 'sports' car, and not in the good retro way.


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    #2221
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    Timing chains do need replacing.
    With the engine?


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