Post a picture of your car here Part 4 (quote a picture, get a 24h ban!!)

Special Circumstances

Twas Ger was telling me about how the chain can skip on them! Glad everything got sorted for ya.

chrisb1

Put the lip on it Sunday concaves going onto it Thursday morning

YbFocus

Lovely!

I'm not alone in e36 land!

Ardennes1944

Donnelly117 wrote: »

It wasnt too bad in the end. I paid 950 for the chain, rails, tensioner etc to be changed, the water pump and the oil filter housing gasket. I was expecting more like 1200 so it came as a bit of a relief really!
I had the work done by Ger O Leary in Ballincollig, Cork and I cannot recommend him highly enough. He is an absolute gentleman and is mad for his minis, definitely among the highest regarded mini mechanics in Ireland, theres minis showing up from the furthest corners of the country for him to work on.

The jackass who owned the car before me however I hope never sells a car again. Whatever clown did the first waterpump change obviously lost/broke the gasket so decided to use some sort of gripfill crap instead, and then that didnt work it looked like they loosened off the bolts and packed more crap in there with a knife and bolted it back on :rolleyes: The pump that came off the car was in an awful state!



Cheers! As I said above, if you have any work that needs doing (repairs, remap, mods) I would definitely keep Ger in mind depending on where in the country you are. Like I said theres cars showing up on tow trucks from all over the country or him to fix/mod so people obviously have faith in him!!

Best of luck with it anyway!!!

Ger did the timing chain kit replacement on my 207 GT also, (same THP engine) and it cost 400e as opposed to the €1,000+ quotes I got elsewhere.
A gent

Old diesel

Does Ger O Leary just do MINIs or does he happily work on other makes of car too???.

rizzodun

Ok, ok, not a great pic, or anything special either, but the cleanest my car has been in 6 months just has to be shown off...

rubin_spitfire

Some much needed re-arranging and clearing. Much better.

Donnelly117

Old diesel wrote: »

Does Ger O Leary just do MINIs or does he happily work on other makes of car too???.

I would imagine he would work on anything! I dont think Ive even seen anything but Minis in the shop though! Saying that Ive only been out there twice or 3 times. I can pass on his number in a PM if you want to ring him and ask?

Moneymaker

New family wagon. Gone from a D5 to a D4. Very impressed with the D4, it's every bit as quick as the D5, and much more refined.

joujoujou

joujoujou wrote: »

We will have snow again, sooner rather than later.

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Told ya so! :P :P

Back from work this morning:



...and 20 minutes later, after a blizzard:

GvidoR

Plenty of snow over here too. Already posted a snowy Bora last time, so wont bother now... it'll look pretty much identical. :pac:

R.O.R

Moneymaker wrote: »

New family wagon. Gone from a D5 to a D4. Very impressed with the D4, it's every bit as quick as the D5, and much more refined.

Top speed and 0-60 times are the same for the current D4 & D5 manuals, with the D4 Auto being a bit quicker to 60 than the D5 Auto.

Current D4/D5 is half a second quicker to 60mph (6.9 seconds currently!) than the 2012 MY D5 (7.4 seconds, Manual & Auto).

Ded_Zebra

Probably has more complex electronics than most electric cars :P

Old diesel

That S60 is stunning Moneymaker

Captain Havoc

I never post here but I also just bought a Mini Cooper S a couple of weeks ago. Only 50k kms on the clock and mint condition.

Special Circumstances

Nice! The blue goes well with the black but I don't see that combo too often.

pedatron

Captain Havoc wrote: »

I never post here but I also just bought a Mini Cooper S a couple of weeks ago. Only 50k kms on the clock and mint condition.

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Very nice! I'd love to blacken my hood scoop eventually and remove some of the chrome bits at the front of the car to give it more of a matt look. Some great examples online

Duke O Smiley

Morn' frost hath taken over the 'rolla.

Hachiko

so £160 later and a painted back door and a coating of nano lack its back to its best, I can use the date stamps on these photos to see when it will get damaged next, such is the way of people damaging others cars. My boss had his relatively new Octavia keyed all along the back door, front door and fuel cap, some people are morons.

The parking lot, its not a public place in case anyone thinks my parking is awesome.

Foxhole Norman

My shed at the BMWHaus Cork mini meet this morning.

Dia1988

Hachiko wrote: »

so £160 later and a painted back door and a coating of nano lack its back to its best, I can use the date stamps on these photos to see when it will get damaged next, such is the way of people damaging others cars. My boss had his relatively new Octavia keyed all along the back door, front door and fuel cap,



Beautiful Car, but 485 Sterling Pounds is a lot of money to tax a car for the year!
Even for Ireland!

Hachiko

yep, funny thing is i did not know the tax rate when i got it, I assumed it would be the same as the auto, < 300gbp a year, (200 and something). When I went to the post office to get tax i was like, errrrrrrr.

This has higher emissions than the auto which is weird, usually its the other way around. Its still lively to drive.

Top Dog

Dia1988 wrote: »

Beautiful Car, but 485 Sterling Pounds is a lot of money to tax a car for the year!
Even for Ireland!

Eh - not really. The same car would cost the bones of €1100 over here so £485 sounds like a steal in comparison!

Hachiko

tax in Ireland is nuts, that's something we can all agree on. !

Dia1988

Hachiko wrote: »

yep, funny thing is i did not know the tax rate when i got it, I assumed it would be the same as the auto, < 300gbp a year, (200 and something). When I went to the post office to get tax i was like, errrrrrrr.

This has higher emissions than the auto which is weird, usually its the other way around. Its still lively to drive.

231g/km?

Was the private plate expensive may I ask?

Would it annoy you to think that the non car enthusiast person would think you're driving an 05 car and not an 08?

Dia1988

Top Dog wrote: »

Eh - not really. The same car would cost the bones of €1100 over here so £485 sounds like a steal in comparison!

It's actually 2350 euro

And for an 08 car I was making a comparison with other 08 cars in Ireland, not a particular model.

I wouldn't call it "a steal" unless you're happy with the entire Irish road network!!

Hachiko

Dia1988 wrote: »

231g/km?

Was the private plate expensive may I ask?

Would it annoy you to think that the non car enthusiast person would think you're driving an 05 car and not an 08?

I don't care what other people think really, if someone thinks its a 05 that's fine by me. It does look a bit new-ish for a 05 but maybe that's just me.

if I could get an is350 I would, these are seriously reliable motors. The economy difference between a 250 and 350 is marginal also, even the 5.0 IS-F can get over 30mpg on long runs, that too is bomb proof in terms of reliability.

Hachiko

Dia1988 wrote: »

It's actually 2350 euro

And for an 08 car I was making a comparison with other 08 cars in Ireland, not a particular model.

I wouldn't call it "a steal" unless you're happy with the entire Irish road network!!

2,350 euro...seriously

Top Dog

Dia1988 wrote: »

It's actually 2350 euro

And for an 08 car I was making a comparison with other 08 cars in Ireland, not a particular model.

I wouldn't call it "a steal" unless you're happy with the entire Irish road network!!

Now we're getting pedantic - if it was first registered before 01 July '08 then my post stands.

Considering I'm paying over €700 for a 2.0 then yeah, I'd consider the £485 for a 2.5 a steal in comparison regardless of the state of the road network (I'm sure there's some crap roads in the UK too). Maybe others wouldn't - tis only my opinion.

Though I will admit I didn't realise it was an '08 - I just quickly glanced at the plate.

Top Dog

Hachiko wrote: »

2,350 euro...seriously

Depends really. If it was first registered before 1st July 2008 then it could be taxed on capacity which is just under €1100. If it was after 1st July 2008 then its emmissions and €2350.