*********Motors Chat - Round 9 *********

GvidoR

Grrr... Can't get the Punto sump plug off :mad:

Whoever did the last oil change must have tightened it as hard as he possibly could. It's a weird 12mm hex socket. I put my foot on a wishbone and both hands on the ratchet handle but it won't move.

fancy pigeon

GvidoR wrote: »

Grrr... Can't get the Punto sump plug off :mad:

Whoever did the last oil change must have tightened it as hard as he possibly could. It's a weird 12mm hex socket. I put my foot on a wishbone and both hands on the ratchet handle but it won't move.

Thats the norm bung for a Fiat of that vintage.

Make sure its in fully and break out a scaffolding pole on your breaker bar. Job done

challengemaster

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Thats the norm bung for a Fiat of that vintage.

Make sure its in fully and break out a scaffolding pole on your breaker bar. Job done

Law of the lever... the only physics a mechanic ever needs to know. Well, and gravity (so you get the feck out of the way of falling hot oil).

GvidoR

I tried a pipe from a Sky sattelite TV dish. Tried it again with a different ratchet and it's off.

CIP4

challengemaster wrote: »

Law of the lever... the only physics a mechanic ever needs to know. Well, and gravity (so you get the feck out of the way of falling hot oil).

As my safety lecturer always says Gravity is non negotiable :pac: if your at a height or the top of a ladder you'll come down no mater what how fast you come down is the thing.

fancy pigeon

GvidoR wrote: »

I tried a pipe from a Sky sattelite TV dish. Tried it again with a different ratchet and it's off.

The muscles came out in you

2.6 - 2.8 litres off the top of my head for oil

Foxhole Norman

How my car said good morning to me today :pac:

GvidoR

fancy pigeon wrote: »

The muscles came out in you

2.6 - 2.8 litres off the top of my head for oil

That all?

I got 5L of Hypalube

challengemaster

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

How my car said good morning to me today :pac:

The holy trinity.... as in hole-y in your pocket :pac:

Probably ABS/Speed sensor.

mhackett102

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Lol at the CAO thread. Some of them are on about going out to take a newspaper as they are dropped at shop doors, as they have all the major course entry points printed in them. Seems as if they can't wait until 7 o'clock in the morning....

CAO offers first came out at 6am and its crazy how much of my friends stayed up until then just to see did they get accepted. I know a few who went to 24 hour shops at 5.30am (when the Independent gets delivered) to get a look and see what the points were going to be.

I stayed in bed until 7.30am, drove to work and got an email and text on the way from CAO with a course offer.. Happy that I got a full nights sleep :pac:

Foxhole Norman

challengemaster wrote: »

The holy trinity.... as in hole-y in your pocket :pac:

Probably ABS/Speed sensor.

Yeah I must get it plugged into INPA soon to see what the craic is, not too worried about it anyway.

fancy pigeon

GvidoR wrote: »

That all?

I got 5L of Hypalube

Tis a 1.2 8v I take?

16v is 2.8 - 3.0 depending on year and application

Noccy_Mondy

mhackett102 wrote:

CAO offers first came out at 6am and its crazy how much of my friends stayed up until then just to see did they get accepted. I know a few who went to 24 hour shops at 5.30am (when the Independent gets delivered) to get a look and see what the points were going to be.

Is it 6, shows how out of tune I am with that department.

Best of luck anyway, hope you got what you wanted!

YbFocus

Cork is like e36 paradise!
FN you didn't tell me!

I feel at home

jimgoose

YbFocus wrote: »

Cork is like e36 paradise!
FN you didn't tell me!

I feel at home

Tellin' ya biy. Ireland's Black Autobahn country!

jimgoose

OSI wrote: »

Ah sure no wonder. They don't even have the televisual box down there yet.

No business of it. We're all too busy going boolah on the South Ring and the M8, bah! :cool:

166man

challengemaster wrote: »

Every car has depreciation and maintenance costs. I'd be willing to bet you spend a lot more on maintenance than I do, considering how alfas go through parts. That doesn't mean you ignore €1k saving a year on fuel. That's like anti-logic.

Besides, I bought it for ~7k 5 years ago. 320d's are still fetching 5k+ now. You'll find very few petrols hold their value that well. And here's the beauty. It's just about paid for itself in that money I've saved on fuel.

But, seeing as you're so ignorant towards diesels in general, I wouldn't try explain it to you.... :pac:

Did 11k miles in my petrol 156 over a ten week period. All it needed was a rear shock mount and two tyres. Hardly that much now. My 166 is a different case as I essentially wanted to rebuild it.

The point was that for €1k more a year at that mileage, I'd easily have a petrol. As FN tell us, even 525i autos are economical out in the sticks.

It's funny even my 525i was excellent on fuel. Paid €1600 for it and sold it for well over €2k six months later. Logic...?

Finally, I actually like diesels, owned one myself even and loved it. But I saw little point in doing low miles in one so went back to petrol power.

challengemaster

See - I know 10k miles a year sounds like low miles, and it is when you work it out per week (192/week). Here's the thing though - I don't use my car like that, or even on a daily basis for commuting. I'll often do 5-600 miles over the course of 2 days, then the car will be sitting up for long periods of time.

If I was doing 10k a year and it was due to a small commute (30-40 miles a day), then I'd agree with you - petrol would make way more sense. The way I use the car I'd be going through 1-2 tanks of petrol every time I sat into the car. No matter how nice driving a petrol is, that's enough to make you hate driving it.

Foxhole Norman

YbFocus wrote: »

Cork is like e36 paradise!
FN you didn't tell me!

I feel at home

There's rakes of em! You'll see plenty about too if you head out for a spin around 10/11, all the yobo's and YOUTHS :pac:

166man

challengemaster wrote: »

See - I know 10k miles a year sounds like low miles, and it is when you work it out per week (192/week). Here's the thing though - I don't use my car like that, or even on a daily basis for commuting. I'll often do 5-600 miles over the course of 2 days, then the car will be sitting up for long periods of time.

If I was doing 10k a year and it was due to a small commute (30-40 miles a day), then I'd agree with you - petrol would make way more sense. The way I use the car I'd be going through 1-2 tanks of petrol every time I sat into the car. No matter how nice driving a petrol is, that's enough to make you hate driving it.

Well to be fair I get what you're saying. On a long drive it's costly and frustrating having to fill twice alright...but those Sixers are economical.!

Noccy_Mondy

What kind of tyre are doublestar and austone? There's rims in the shed with them on them. Never heard of them

fancy pigeon

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

What kind of tyre are doublestar and austone? There's rims in the shed with them on them. Never heard of them

Absolute sh*te

Noccy_Mondy

fancy pigeon wrote:

Absolute sh*te

Thought as much :pac:

YbFocus

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

There's rakes of em! You'll see plenty about too if you head out for a spin around 10/11, all the yobo's and YOUTHS :pac:

Feck off you
I won't have a free minute today to meet, I'll catch ya at the meet

Foxhole Norman

YbFocus wrote: »

Feck off you
I won't have a free minute today to meet, I'll catch ya at the meet

For that, I aint going :pac:

YbFocus

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

For that, I aint going :pac:

Fine :pac:

I'm drinking pints in the radisson now so i won't be out
Got a jack lynch tunnel run video

The amount of e36's is insane, one was behind me at a set of lights and another one passed at the same time!

Obviously not lexus rare!

All 4 cyls though

Foxhole Norman

YbFocus wrote: »

Fine :pac:

I'm drinking pints in the radisson now so i won't be out
Got a jack lynch tunnel run video

The amount of e36's is insane, one was behind me at a set of lights and another one passed at the same time!

Obviously not lexus rare!

All 4 cyls though

Radisson? I'll be meeting my boss there tomorrow at lunchtime! There's a quare amount of them alright, most are 316's with the odd 318Is and rarer 323.

GvidoR

I thought I saw Yb yesterday. Turned out to be 318is :pac:

YbFocus

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Radisson? I'll be meeting my boss there tomorrow at lunchtime! There's a quare amount of them alright, most are 316's with the odd 318Is and rarer 323.

I'll be gone towards mizen early on, sh1t outta luck!

ofcork

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

There's rakes of em! You'll see plenty about too if you head out for a spin around 10/11, all the yobo's and YOUTHS :pac:

Did I see an E39 going through pana sat night with a taillight gone?

Pov06

Paid my deposit on a 2008 Focus Mk2 1.8 TDCi! Not the mk2.5 that I was looking at earlier but this one has a timing chain put in instead of the timing belt. The (other) timing belt has also been just changed. It will have a fresh NCT for 2 years too. On top of it all the guys were putting in new brake disks and pads as I was walking in.

Collecting it on Saturday, can't wait It feels super fast coming from a 1.0 Yaris

Supergurrier

Pov06 wrote: »

Paid my deposit on a 2008 Focus Mk2 1.8 TDCi! Not the mk2.5 that I was looking at earlier but this one has a timing chain put in instead of the timing belt. The (other) timing belt has also been just changed. It will have a fresh NCT for 2 years too. On top of it all the guys were putting in new brake disks and pads as I was walking in.

Collecting it on Saturday, can't wait It feels super fast coming from a 1.0 Yaris

Sounds good man, happy motoring

CIP4

Pov06 wrote: »

Paid my deposit on a 2008 Focus Mk2 1.8 TDCi! Not the mk2.5 that I was looking at earlier but this one has a timing chain put in instead of the timing belt. The (other) timing belt has also been just changed. It will have a fresh NCT for 2 years too. On top of it all the guys were putting in new brake disks and pads as I was walking in.

Collecting it on Saturday, can't wait It feels super fast coming from a 1.0 Yaris

Congrats on that will feel like a big upgrade from a Yaris loads of power and more space. Should be a very comfy car even on the longest of trips. That's what find about my megane it is outrageously comfortable on even very long trips 3 hours plus but the golf, focus etc are all the same.

Mister Jingles

Was just messing about on one of the insurance sites there, to move up to a 2.0 mondeo from a 1.8 cost about a fiver more and if I did wish to, it would cost me 100 quid more to insure the 2.5 v6 170 bhp, which can be easily sought in the UK for very little money.

Foxhole Norman

ofcork wrote: »

Did I see an E39 going through pana sat night with a taillight gone?

You might have :pac: May or may not have been me :P

Gavman84

YbFocus wrote: »

Cork is like e36 paradise!
FN you didn't tell me!

I feel at home

Fixed that for you! :pac::p

YbFocus

Gavman84 wrote: »

Fixed that for you! :cool::p

Quite clever!
I do however like it

Gavman84

You doing the Healy pass while down there? Some lovely roads about there!

YbFocus

Gavman84 wrote: »

You doing the Healy pass while down there? Some lovely roads about there!

Healy pass, molls gap, gap of dunloe, coast road out by dingle
Great bit of driving planned!

challengemaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmQE4qdb9fg

Supergurrier

Anyone know why a lowered car would sit higher on one corner after getting brakes done (up on a lift presumably).

Thought it would settle back to normal height after a couple days but rear offside is a good 20mm higher than it was and im wondering is the spring unseated or something.

Marcusm

What is the world's most useless, senseless adaptation of a classic car? I'm picking one up tomorrow. Guess away.

YbFocus

Supergurrier wrote: »

Anyone know why a lowered car would sit higher on one corner after getting brakes done (up on a lift presumably).

Thought it would settle back to normal height after a couple days but rear offside is a good 20mm higher than it was and im wondering is the spring unseated or something.

Spring must be sitting wrongly, should always settle after a few hundred metres!

Supergurrier

Marcusm wrote: »

What is the world's most useless, senseless adaptation of a classic car? I'm picking one up tomorrow. Guess away.

Wood panelled mini estate

ba_barabus

Marcusm wrote: »

What is the world's most useless, senseless adaptation of a classic car? I'm picking one up tomorrow. Guess away.

Have you bought a shortie?

YbFocus

Bad wind noise

wotzgoingon

I think we should have...........

Marcusm

Supergurrier wrote: »

Wood panelled mini estate

I should have been clearer, car is a 13 plate with 6k miles. I should acknowledge that I did own a launch edition Mini Clubman Cooper S which is probably similar to what you meant. It was a great car, have always regretted trading it. You are in the right ballpark.

ba_barabus wrote: »

Have you bought a shortie?

Wtf is a "shortie"?

Howdy chaps. I have a thread in the buying subforum, but i think I've kinda settled on a car, so thought I'd post in here, as id imagine ye guys would have a better combined knowledge of what im gonna ask (and as the buying thread gets longer, naturally less people will be interested in clicking in).


I'm looking at this:

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/low-tax-2-year-nct-diesel-taxed-alloys-serviced/9461556?offset=2


Thing is I don't understand Insignia spec levels. On a motorcheck of just the reg plate, it comes up as: "2010 Vauxhall Insignia 2.0 Cdti Exclus Ec/fl 5DR". I can find some info on the 'Exclusive' version, but I've no idea what Ec/fl stands for?

Also, if I was to buy this, is it possible (and by possible, i mean within the realms of realistic costing) to rip out the centre display and put the higher-spec'ed sat nav in, instead?

ie; go from this:

http://www.avonvalleygarage.co.uk/files/6714/3297/4754/IMGA0484.JPG


to this:

http://blog.drive24.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Vauxhall-Astra-1.3-CDTi-Ecoflex-Exclusiv1-1024x747.jpg

(bit sh*t that such a car wouldn't have a digital speedo and such :rolleyes: )

ba_barabus

A shortie is one of those stupid minis that have been shortened. I've even seen a Micra turned into one. They look........well ****