*******Motors Chat - Round 7*******

Special Circumstances

Has anyone polished up plastic headlights and used lamin-x or similar to prevent further headlight clouding?
Or just give em a good polish first time round and annual light polishes to keep them clear?

bear1

Lads, none of ye are going to believe this. Came out of work and headed to the car, noticed something about the back of it. Walked closer, yep someone hit it and ****ed off. No cameras this time. Ill pop a photo of it up soon. No words.

Foxhole Norman

bear1 wrote: »

Lads, none of ye are going to believe this. Came out of work and headed to the car, noticed something about the back of it. Walked closer, yep someone hit it and ****ed off. No cameras this time. Ill pop a photo of it up soon. No words.

I think you are the unluckiest person on this forum, sucks to hear

ShadowHearth

Looks like when scooby is washed, it can still turn some heads!

I was in town today to buy a few things and I parked in main street. I was walking back to my car and I sow an oldish fella checking out my car, he even went to the back of it to see badges and I guess find out what car was it. I have to admit, it did felt good.

Foxhole Norman

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Looks like when scooby is washed, it can still turn some heads!

I was in town today to buy a few things and I parked in main street. I was walking back to my car and I sow an oldish fella checking out my car, he even went to the back of it to see badges and I guess find out what car was it. I have to admit, it did felt good.

Mine goes down the same way with the TDi brigade down here, when they don't think I'm driving my Dad's car that is :pac:

Also, Motor Tax is inclusive of the month it ends right? Mine is out 3/15 so that's inclusive of all of March, correct?

ShadowHearth

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Mine goes down the same way with the TDi brigade down here, when they don't think I'm driving my Dad's car that is :pac:

Also, Motor Tax is inclusive of the month it ends right? Mine is out 3/15 so that's inclusive of all of March, correct?

Yes, it covers you all march too m8.

Foxhole Norman

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Yes, it covers you all march too m8.

Extra month of scrimping so

Chris_Heilong

Finally snowing here in Raheny.

quadrifoglio verde

Driving home today I was glad I hadn't waisted money on winter tyres. Yeah they're great in this weather but what's the point when the 20 cars ahead of you on the one way bridge can't get up

Dartz

Swapped ends on the way home. Was embarrasing because:
A) It was on a roundabout
I was going very slowly

Nothing damaged but my self esteem.

bear1

So here is the damage.
You can't see it properly, but the scratches go through the paint so it will need a bit of work to get it back to normal.
****ing pissed off

colm_mcm

Is there a fair bit of filler in the bumper?

rocky

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Looks like when scooby is washed, it can still turn some heads!

I was in town today to buy a few things and I parked in main street. I was walking back to my car and I sow an oldish fella checking out my car, he even went to the back of it to see badges and I guess find out what car was it. I have to admit, it did felt good.

You mean, "it did felt well"

toastedpickles

rocky wrote: »

You mean, "it did felt well"

:P

Stheno

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Has anyone polished up plastic headlights and used lamin-x or similar to prevent further headlight clouding?
Or just give em a good polish first time round and annual light polishes to keep them clear?

There's a great big thread in the detailing subforum about how to deal with this and what people found good here

bear1 wrote: »

Lads, none of ye are going to believe this. Came out of work and headed to the car, noticed something about the back of it. Walked closer, yep someone hit it and ****ed off. No cameras this time. Ill pop a photo of it up soon. No words.

That sucks man.

I ffing hate the days I have to work in Dundrum .

Three car collision at Finglas, rubberneckers gawping at the cops doing something on the northbound lane at Blanch, breakdown at Lucan and a collision at Firhouse on the southbound M50 this morning, over two hours to get in

Then the snow on the way home, 35 mins it took to drive one 1 mile, the trip computer was depressing me. Finally got home two hours later. The most bizarre thing was the M50 the snow disappeared after Lucan exit northbound, can't figure out if South Dublin Co. Co weren't prepared or was there just no snow past that point that stuck? It was still snowing when I got to Swords.

On the good news front, I got into the alfa the other day (OH primarily drives it during the week now as a day like today would drink petrol) but as he does little mileage, the car is only getting out the odd weekend for a run.

This particular day I was working in the office about 6km from home, so sat in to go, started it up and got the freaky message "Engine control management failure". Out of car and into merc. Did a bit of research on the web in work, turns out it's a sign of a failing battery. Sure enough after it was out and about for a run, it's now gone

bear1

colm_mcm wrote: »

Is there a fair bit of filler in the bumper?

Doesn't seem to be.
The paint was practically peeled off.
What you also can't see is that the top part of the bumper near the light cluster has badly wrinkled and at the side are lovely scratches which have taken striped chunks out of the bumper.
To repair it it would need a bit of filler and a proper respray.
Costly anyway IMO.

colm_mcm

I'd price a SMART repair, it mightn't be too bad.

Special Circumstances

Stheno wrote: »

There's a great big thread in the detailing subforum about how to deal with this and what people found good here

Thanks! I find that forum a little scary, usually avoid it. Although if you pretend it's a load of guys talking in code about dropping designer drugs... ah yeah had a serious session of Chemical Dodos Gorilla Panic to start and a nice smooth G-tech nano balm to finish off. Savage long lasting results...

Only joking beados! :-)

Big Nasty

The drive from Calais to Spa would be fine. Maybe 3.5hrs. The drive across the UK is more of a pain, especially if you hit London at the wrong time.

You're in the South East right? I'd go from Rosslare to France overnight and get a berth for a good kip.

tossy

OSI wrote: »

Thinking of driving to Belgium for the Spa Grand Prix via the ferry to Holyhead and Chunnel to Calais. Anyone done it? Seems a long enough journey.

Did that route to the 'ring which isn't a million miles from Spa, not that far at all, the longest part is crossing England, the M25 around London will be a nightmare if doing it on a week day, so try do the English leg at night.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

OSI wrote: »

Thinking I'll just fly in to Brussels and rent a car. Seems the cheaper and more sensible option. A ferry from Rosslare to France will take a good 18 hours, and then it's another 6-8 hours on the other side of driving. And remembering driving across England the last time I'm not sure doing the journey in my own car is worth the stress.

Can rent a Golf for 4 days for around €150 which I think is reasonable enough.


Decided to check Hertz as I still have points on my Gold account from travelling with my last company. I used them to rent the Camaro SS in the states which was just under a grand for 2 weeks. Logged in and asked it for quotes, it came back with a Jaguar XF for €2,200 or a Jaguar E-Type for €1,200. For 4 days. I think my rental profile is a little skewed.

just a thought , no offence intended or anything.

But if your heading off and getting a rental car, would you not get something different to your own car ?

I mean its ample opportunity to pick out a competitor car that you might like and give it a good run over or an Italian test drive....

bear1

So in 1 hour 40mins I'm out of this ****e job I've been stuck in for far too long
On Monday I'm in a new job but luckily it's more or less the same terms as the one I'm now - 50% Ireland and 50% Poland.
Onto another topic.
I want to thank many of the posters on here, namely Yb and Toasted for their amazing help offers and others for their great advice and friendly atmosphere
Never met any of ye but I feel like we're all friends in one shape or form.
Thanks again to all

YbFocus

bear1 wrote: »

So in 1 hour 40mins I'm out of this ****e job I've been stuck in for far too long
On Monday I'm in a new job but luckily it's more or less the same terms as the one I'm now - 50% Ireland and 50% Poland.
Onto another topic.
I want to thank many of the posters on here, namely Yb and Toasted for their amazing help offers and others for their great advice and friendly atmosphere
Never met any of ye but I feel like we're all friends in one shape or form.
Thanks again to all

*sniff* *tear rolls down face*

No bother bear, but you may come to a meet now when one is organised

The astra was doing nothing anyway!

bear1

YbFocus wrote: »

*sniff* *tear rolls down face*

No bother bear, but you may come to a meet now when one is organised

The astra was doing nothing anyway!

Sure... if the Accord can do it

Marcusm

Just got on ferry at Holyhead. 2 transporters of Jaguar/Land Rover products waiting to board.

tossy

OSI wrote: »

I'll download some tank noises to blast out of the stereo while I'm driving a VW through the Belgian hills :P

Maybe wear a welders helmet to give the impression of looking out of a tank

Foxhole Norman

Looks like it's not our week Bear1

Old diesel

bear1 wrote: »

So in 1 hour 40mins I'm out of this ****e job I've been stuck in for far too long
On Monday I'm in a new job but luckily it's more or less the same terms as the one I'm now - 50% Ireland and 50% Poland.
Onto another topic.
I want to thank many of the posters on here, namely Yb and Toasted for their amazing help offers and others for their great advice and friendly atmosphere
Never met any of ye but I feel like we're all friends in one shape or form.
Thanks again to all

Best of luck with the new job.

But you don't have to leave us :eek: (the forum)

Bpmull

OSI wrote: »

Thinking I'll just fly in to Brussels and rent a car. Seems the cheaper and more sensible option. A ferry from Rosslare to France will take a good 18 hours, and then it's another 6-8 hours on the other side of driving. And remembering driving across England the last time I'm not sure doing the journey in my own car is worth the stress.

Can rent a Golf for 4 days for around €150 which I think is reasonable enough.

My dad was in Switzerland a few months ago and he got a mk7 golf rental and it was a 1.4tsi with alot of stuff on it adaptive cruise control etc. no gti but sure you know that.

Was talking to one of the aul maintenance fitters in work today saying I picked up a throttle body gasket from Volvo for less than a fiver. He was nearly giving out to me saying I could have gotten a load of gasket paper and just cut the thing out myself and have a ball of it leftover for future jobs. He swears by the stuff. I know my aul lad used it back in the day (70's-80's) on whatever banger he had at the time. Do ye use it or have ye ever used it? Personally I prefer to buy from the dealer for the sake of a few euro.

Ded_Zebra

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Was talking to one of the aul maintenance fitters in work today saying I picked up a throttle body gasket from Volvo for less than a fiver. He was nearly giving out to me saying I could have gotten a load of gasket paper and just cut the thing out myself and have a ball of it leftover for future jobs. He swears by the stuff. I know my aul lad used it back in the day (70's-80's) on whatever banger he had at the time. Do ye use it or have ye ever used it? Personally I prefer to buy from the dealer for the sake of a few euro.

Use it all the time Well anytime I need to make a gasket!

Bpmull

Just when you think you've seen it all on donedeal seen this in a ad

"Car comes packed with extras including electric windows and a CD player"

MuppetCheck

Bpmull wrote: »

Just when you think you've seen it all on donedeal seen this in a ad

"Car comes packed with extras including electric windows and a CD player"

Was the advert for a Golf?



Sorry couldnt resist

toastedpickles

Got my nct today!

MuppetCheck

toastedpickles wrote: »

Got my nct today!

That's the navy one?

toastedpickles

MuppetCheck wrote: »

That's the navy one?

Yep!

MuppetCheck

toastedpickles wrote: »

Yep!

Green cars are bad luck anyway, the navy one is much nicer!

toastedpickles

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Green cars are bad luck anyway, the navy one is much nicer!

So everyone keeps saying! So yeah now I've the green one just sitting there and I dunno what to do with it

I'm sure some smartarse will be along to say set it on fire :rolleyes:

MuppetCheck

I've a few butane bottles if required...winter bbq meet?

toastedpickles

MuppetCheck wrote: »

I've a few butane bottles if required...winter bbq meet?

:pac: smartarse :P

But yeah if anyone wants a fixerupper it's there for the taking!

Gavman84

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Looks like it's not our week Bear1

Hit and run foxhole again was it where that happen?

Bpmull

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Was the advert for a Golf?



Sorry couldnt resist

Ah no it was an astra h I was just flicking through ads. I'm not as obsessed with golds as you all make out :pac:

Cleveland Hot Pocket

toastedpickles wrote: »

:pac: smartarse :P

But yeah if anyone wants a fixerupper it's there for the taking!

Set it on fire

And replace it with this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Saab-Other-Sonnet-III-1973-saab-sonnet-iii-in-very-good-rare-original-condition-by-gas-monkey-garage-/291367324916?forcerrptr=true&hash=item43d6d88cf4&item=291367324916&pt=US_Cars_Trucks

davycc

I'm down in listowel and Killarney for the week if any boardziez fancy a mini meet?

Supergurrier

A meet soon would be no harm atall atall

Cleveland Hot Pocket

Supergurrier wrote: »

A meet soon would be no harm atall atall

After the last success? lol

Foxhole Norman

Gavman84 wrote: »

Hit and run foxhole again was it where that happen?

No, a rear ender of the entrance to the Kinsale Road Roundabout from the city entrance. Ringing her now tomorrow to sort it all out, won't be too bad, I hope.

CianRyan

Was in boxing tonight, bad things happened.
Now in A+E, think I broke my arm.

No driving for a while.

Gavman84

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

No, a rear ender of the entrance to the Kinsale Road Roundabout from the city entrance. Ringing her now tomorrow to sort it all out, won't be too bad, I hope.

Ah that's ok so hopefully its be sorted quick enough! You were getting the bumpers done weren't you can do it all now maybe at same time like.

Foxhole Norman

CianRyan wrote: »

Was in boxing tonight, bad things happened.
Now in A+E, think I broke my arm.

No driving for a while.

That sucks dude but this is why you should drive auto :pac: