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

fancy pigeon

Practical: it's practically senseless

Psychological: psychologically not able to think for themselves

I hate sheelpe

5W30

What's funny about the photo is the rain water marks from tyres of people driving around the speed bumps :pac:

GvidoR

5W30 wrote: »

What's funny about the photo is the rain water marks from tyres of people driving around the speed bumps :pac:

Why drive over them if you can drive around them? They are the most annoying kind of speedbump too.

5W30

GvidoR wrote: »

Why drive over them if you can drive around them? They are the most annoying kind of speedbump too.

Well that's what I mean. That's money wasted right there on something pointless :pac:

Atlantic Dawn

Canadel wrote: »

In fairness I can understand why someone would park close to you (ok maybe not in the next space) in an abandoned underground car park for safety reasons, both practical and psychological.

Would it not make it more dangerous in that some looper could be waiting in the space between the 2 cars to attack them when they returned? If cars were seperate this couldn't happen as easy.

colm_mcm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Would it not make it more dangerous in that some looper could be waiting in the space between the 2 cars to attack them when they returned? If cars were seperate this couldn't happen as easy.

I waited for a little over an hour but they didn't come back,

colm_mcm

Found one of my old phones from 5-6 years ago today






,

Went through a phase of painting Eastern European cars for a while

GvidoR

colm_mcm wrote: »

I waited for a little over an hour but they didn't come back,

Just so you could have an argument with whoever parked that car there?

wonski

GvidoR wrote: »

Just so you could have an argument with whoever parked that car there?

I think you missed the joke;)

colm_mcm

GvidoR wrote: »

Just so you could have an argument with whoever parked that car there?

Yeah
In the end I just slashed their tyres and poured brake fluid on the bonnet.

5W30

Black & Decker lowering kit arrived

MetzgerMeister

colm_mcm wrote: »

Yeah
In the end I just slashed their tyres and poured brake fluid on the bonnet.

Fair play Colm for holding back. Not many would!

GvidoR

Looks good, 5W30... nice plate too

Noccy_Mondy

5W30 wrote:

Black & Decker lowering kit arrived

Is that an 04 reg? Never seen a mk2 04!

GvidoR

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Is that an 04 reg? Never seen a mk2 04!

Now that you mention it...



But apparently they came out in 2004

Noccy_Mondy

GvidoR wrote:

Now that you mention it...

Yar, checked the reg, with MO and WD but neither threw up anything. I know they came out late 04, but I don't think any werr sold here, as the mk1 was sold well into 2005.

fancy pigeon

I demand you put up pictures of that Landini

TheBigGreen

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Is that an 04 reg? Never seen a mk2 04!

GvidoR

Is that yours, TheBigGreen?

TheBigGreen

GvidoR wrote: »

Is that yours, TheBigGreen?

Christ no!

5W30

Nah, that previous photo was a p*sstake :pac:



Still need some decent alloys

GvidoR

TheBigGreen wrote: »

Christ no!

Oh, well the Focus is green and and the county letter on the plate is the same as your location so I assumed it was. :P

Interslice

5W30 wrote: »

Nah, that previous photo was a p*sstake :pac:

Ha well played

Seen the pic yesterday and thought jaysis that'll be scrubbin.

Toyotafanboi

850 miles (old money) done since this day last week, around 1200 since it was last washed, have to say the grey hides the dirt fantastically imo, if it wasn't for the wheels, the car would look clean car hasn't missed a beat either *touch wood.

166man

I love seeing people driving high mileage in petrol cars....! Fair play!


Not meaning to offend anyone but I like how it's a big FO to the diesel drivers.....:D

Sh1tbag OToole

Foxhole Norman

Finally got it finished:















Absolutely delighted with it!

Toyotafanboi

166man wrote: »

I love seeing people driving high mileage in petrol cars....! Fair play!





Not meaning to offend anyone but I like how it's a big FO to the diesel drivers.....

indeed it was a simple case of doing the maths.

2 weeks ago was my first week at it, was a bit of a shock going from ~100 miles a week to ~850 a week, going from a fuel spend of €30-40 to a spend of more like €150.

doing the maths, the Celica is doing low 40's MPG wise and this week has cost €135 in fuel. if I had a petrol car (Prius etc) that could do 50mpg, I would be looking at saving €30 a week (€105 fuel spend per week) or if I had a diesel that could do 50mpg I would save €40 in fuel (€92 fuel spend per week).

knowing i'l be doing this mileage until next May at the worst, i'd save €1440 in fuel if I went to a 50mpg diesel. now, €1400 + the Celicas value (maybe €1500) wouldn't buy me a very good car, so i'd be doing myself out of an absolute hape of money if I spend even 3 or 4 grand going to a more modern conformist diesel car.

biggest downside is 3500rpm @ 120km/h in a Toyota designed in the 90's. it's exceptionally noisy! reasonably comfortable though, no aches or pains etc. the economy sweet spot is more like 105km/h @ 3000 rpm anyway, the car seems to sit very naturally there.

/yarn over.

edit:

Looks awesome Foxhole. personally, I couldn't drive the car after that, too much OCD going on :P. thought i'd bump into you the other night, went to get fuel in Ballincollig, ended up in an Applegreen though.

GvidoR

Why do you have a wheel under a wheel, FN?

Foxhole Norman

GvidoR wrote: »

Why do you have a wheel under a wheel, FN?

I degreased and deoiled the underneath looking for a leak, which turns out to be a small gearbox leak which hopefully explains the lag so that'll be getting looked at next week.