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

dar83

I stared at those seats long enough to see the palm tree, anyone else see it?

Kaiser D

Clearly you bought it from a French car nut!

If your still up there, I know a guy called Luke who is hugely into his French stuff, and he's got a base spec 1.4 BX.

ba_barabus

Kaiser D wrote: »

Clearly you bought it from a French car nut!

If your still up there, I know a guy called Luke who is hugely into his French stuff, and he's got a base spec 1.4 BX.

I'm up here for the summer.

It's not Luke who is also into large Renaults and Volvos? I haven't met him yet but an all round good egg I'm told. there is a 14BX for sale in Antrim too on donedeal.

ba_barabus

dar83 wrote: »

I stared at those seats long enough to see the palm tree, anyone else see it?

They're not as bad in real life

Kaiser D

ba_barabus wrote: »

I'm up here for the summer.

It's not Luke who is also into large Renaults and Volvos? I haven't met him yet but an all round good egg I'm told. there is a 14BX for sale in Antrim too on donedeal.

He's generally a Frnech car nut. That 14BX was Luke's and he sold it to a friend of mine, but I think he may have sold it on, I'm not sure. He could help you out with the Citroen if you needed parts or whatever, he is as you say a "good egg"

MadYaker

ba_barabus wrote: »

I'm picking this up at the end of the month for some French Fun. Can't wait.


J-reg 1991 Citroen BX 16 TGS Auto with 70k miles from new. It drives like a beauty. 8-)

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Thats awesome, so cool. My dad had one of those when I was a young child in the early 90s. He wrote it off in a head on collision with a truck and survived with only a few scratches.

Bio Mech

fletch wrote: »

Kerry and Mayo

Good to see the Clio back at your house it was gone a while. I can always tell when it drives in, the note is unmistakable.

fletch

Bio Mech wrote: »

Good to see the Clio back at your house it was gone a while. I can always tell when it drives in, the note is unmistakable.

Ha yeh it's one of the few 4 cylinder engines that actually sounds nice...it's no straight 6 but it does remind me of an E46 M3 on start up.
It was away for a while getting new suspension and in typical Irish dealer fashion, they hadn't a clue what they were doing. No idea what the car was or what parts should go on it, ordering in the wrong parts a few times...disaster, 3 weeks off the road! :eek:

Moneymaker

fletch wrote: »

Define better?
Handling...the Clio, no contest. It handles like it's on rails.
Straight-line...the Fabia(180bhp) probably edges the Clio(197bhp) but that's mostly down to the 7speed DSG in the Fabia compared to 6speed manual in the Clio.
Comfort...again the Fabia wins...the Clio is fairly tiresome on a long journey with 120kph equating to about 4k rpm and as it's an R27 it has the lowered cup suspension so it's fairly unforgiving.
Economy...the Clio manages low 30s mpg on a run at best/high 20s around town...the Fabia can do high 40s (which is pretty decent for a "performance" petrol) on a run/30-35mpg around town
Fun...easily the Clio.

So back to your question, which is the better car...I don't know. The Clio is the fun hatch while the Fabia is our "sensible" hatch

The DSG box is good?

Remember a lad here(can't remember who) saying the DSG in GTI was the business.

MetzgerMeister

Moneymaker wrote: »

The DSG box is good?

Remember a lad here(can't remember who) saying the DSG in GTI was the business.

That'd be our resident DSG fanboi OSI

rizzee

Just have to get the alloys refurbed and sprayed in due time and then I think I'm done visually. Unless I decide to go for matching silver handles etc. Driving 100% , it's a great solid little car. Love it.

Noccy_Mondy

Where did you get them plates rizzee? Could I get a better pic of them?

Interslice

That in sligo DARTZ?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=91310093&postcount=1367

rizzee

There you go. Just local motor factors, they do the standard and bold print so I went with the bold. They're nice and tidy

nd

Ardennes1944

I would love one of those 197 F1s in Red

Toyotafanboi

nd wrote: »

http://i.imgur.com/QSzZ5hP.jpg

what are those wheels off of? definitely want to copy you :P :pac:

Noccy_Mondy

Are they 16's nd? I forget.

nd

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

what are those wheels off of? definitely want to copy you :P :pac:

due to CharlieCrokers keen eye, they were apparently originally on an mg tf

CharlieCroker wrote: »

They look identical to the MGF wheel.

Nice choice, they look well

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=90630892&postcount=644

and yep 16s

Toyotafanboi

i can't promise i won't copy that. i also can't promise that when i can't find a set i'l pm you looking for those :pac: they look absolutely mean as **** on that car.

nd

I remember seeing a really nicely modded corolla e120 by a Swedish guy I think, but can't find the bookmark.

joujoujou

Are these the ones I recommended you some time ago (donedeal link)?

If they're toyota wheels, more than likely it'd be toyota logo stamped somewhere inside a wheel. As well as OEM manufacturer name (Ronal probably).

nd

yep they are them (thanks again!).

joujoujou

No prob. Looks very well!

Old diesel

ba_barabus wrote: »

It's very clean and has had a suspension over hall and a partial strip down for the purposes of rustproofing. It's a credit to the seller and I'm getting an XM estate full of spares to go with it:)

Nice one - all the best with it

Supergurrier

Found this on phone, kind of miss

power pants

what do you have now? didnt realise you sold the focus

MuppetCheck

@SG - saw it in Fermoy today. Looked pretty clean in fairness.

RyanMGF

nd wrote: »

due to CharlieCrokers keen eye, they were apparently originally on an mg tf

Were they a straight fit onto the Corolla?

The F/TF use the weird old Triumph 4x95.25 PCD so they don't fit much else apart from auld Maestros and things unless you use PCD adaptors.

Supergurrier

power pants wrote: »

what do you have now? didnt realise you sold the focus

Volvo S60 while i save between now and xmas for something vintage and build a shed for it.