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

Hal1

The car landed in front of a tree. I think that's the driver on the road.

Pic is big so link is here.

wotzgoingon

Hal1 wrote: »

The car landed in front of a tree. I think that's the driver on the road.

Pic is big so link is here.

How did he not get sucked up when he left the car.

The car is about 12 times heavier than him. If he is about 70kg and car is 800kg.

toastedpickles

Sums it up rather nicely :P

jimgoose

OSI wrote: »

Putting together an ad to sell the FIL's 2005 Land Rover Defender 110. Trying to figure a price is near impossible as the one's I see online are all over the place...

I have no idea, but I strongly suspect that if I had any grandmothers left one of them would be going on eBay around now. That's gorgeous!! :cool:

ba_barabus

There is a guy on the 4x4 forum on boards called Sean101 (I think) who should be able to give you a guide price

ba_barabus

I went out to the car today for the first time in over a week. Getting it serviced on Wednesday and getting a new window reg fitted. I absolutely love it but starting to feel it's an unnessecary garden ornament. Rational thoughts say sell, heart says keep. Can't figure out what to do. Once it's serviced it needs nothing, nctd till Jan but I'll do that early and I'd be amazed if it needed anything done to pass. Sadly I expect I'll end up just driving it as I feel bad leaving it parked doing nothing.

Noccy_Mondy

Wut? Must be a photoshop!?!

MetzgerMeister

That actually looks awesome!

GvidoR

I was coming here to post that Ford :pac:

Mc Love

Was just told that all cars imported from the UK are clocked by a dealer! This is absolute nonsense surely.

Dia1988

The woman posing next to the Ford Ka supercar has quite large arms

wotzgoingon

Dia1988 wrote: »

The woman posing next to the Ford Ka supercar has quite large arms

She is just a fat biatch.

Gavman84

Going to head north tomorrow check out the Antrim coast road looks deadly hopefully weather is good! Be an early start too to make the most of it. Lot of driving ahead this week!

Big Nasty

Mc Love wrote: »

Was just told that all cars imported from the UK are clocked by a dealer! This is absolute nonsense surely.

Like every single one?

Who told you this now? An Irish dealer or a lad down the pub?

quadrifoglio verde

Gavman84 wrote: »

Going to head north tomorrow check out the Antrim coast road looks deadly hopefully weather is good! Be an early start too to make the most of it. Lot of driving ahead this week!

The glens of Antrim are just epic. Even when you get stuck behind a bus you don't mind because the views are unreal

Gavman84

Ya looking forward to seeing it now think I'll check out giants causeway too. Going to stop in Dublin tomorrow night break it up

Special Circumstances

Gavman84 wrote: »

Ya looking forward to seeing it now think I'll check out giants causeway too. Going to stop in Dublin tomorrow night break it up

I was expecting more from the giants causeway tbh. It was snowing a bit when I was there so maybe I didn't hang around long enough to let it sink in. It's the kinda thing you can't not do when you're there I suppose!!!
But yeah, some great driving roads up that way.

Brian Scan

Special Circumstances wrote: »

I was expecting more from the giants causeway tbh. It was snowing a bit when I was there so maybe I didn't hang around long enough to let it sink in. It's the kinda thing you can't not do when you're there I suppose!!!
But yeah, some great driving roads up that way.

"Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see."

Dr Johnson

Special Circumstances

Brian Scan wrote: »

"Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see."

Dr Johnson

Haha, thought that was just an apt quote until I Googled it and saw he actually said it about the giants causeway. Yup, pretty much how we felt after it.

Enjoyed the trip up there, although big shops were offering one for one on the euro at that time and "things" were at their quietest ever.

Brian Scan

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Haha, thought that was just an apt quote until I Googled it and saw he actually said it about the giants causeway. Yup, pretty much how we felt after it.

Enjoyed the trip up there, although big shops were offering one for one on the euro at that time and "things" were at their quietest ever.

Yeah, it is a bit underwhelming.

quadrifoglio verde

Brian Scan wrote: »

"Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see."

Dr Johnson

Sums it up perfectly.
I was expecting a massive area of rock formation, but it really is tiny.
The organ is pretty impressive

Brian Scan

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

Sums it up perfectly.
I was expecting a massive area of rock formation, but it really is tiny.
The organ is pretty impressive[/QUOTE]


Mine too.

CIP4

I opened my passenger door and noticed the top piece of the door card at the top of the window is hanging off where the door closes. I doesn't want to clip back in I might try and remove the door card and have a proper look I'm not sure how it happened maybe it was always like that but surly I would have noticed.

Someone must of had the door card of probably to replace a window regulator :pac:

colm_mcm

Probably a bit of plastic bent out of shape, unclipping a few more clips and straightening out where the offending clip is might be the way to go.

Had something similar happen in the civic last week, had the boot open and the wind must've caught the parcel shelf, which in turn pulled out a bit of the boot trim.

CIP4

colm_mcm wrote: »

Probably a bit of plastic bent out of shape, unclipping a few more clips and straightening out where the offending clip is might be the way to go.

Had something similar happen in the civic last week, had the boot open and the wind must've caught the parcel shelf, which in turn pulled out a bit of the boot trim.

I luckily have a Haynes manual for it so I'll look up how to remove it and hopefully sort the offending clip.

Duke O Smiley

Funny enough I tried using a haynes manual to get all four door cards off the 19 last week.

I ended up booting them off. They're bloody mad difficult to read

This chap doesn't seem to grasp the whole numberplate blocking thing, I don't think..

https://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/bmw-645/10073319

Mc Love

Big Nasty wrote: »

Like every single one?

Who told you this now? An Irish dealer or a lad down the pub?

An irish dealer. Sounds like horsesh1t to me

wotzgoingon

Deleted User wrote: »

This chap doesn't seem to grasp the whole numberplate blocking thing, I don't think..

https://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/bmw-645/10073319

Someone posted that last week I think it was on one of the threads on here.


But on the topic of blocking numberplates. I would be embarrassed to have someone call to the house to look at the car after blocking a number plate that way.

How hard is it to use a app on pc or even phone to cover the plate. Just open app choose a colour of paint and swipe across.

DoctorStrange

[Deleted User] wrote: »

This chap doesn't seem to grasp the whole numberplate blocking thing, I don't think..

https://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/bmw-645/10073319

Or the ones who cover the plate with a tea towel and then put up a picture of the NCT disc

Noccy_Mondy

Blocking reg plates is stupid anyway. Screams out dodgy to me.

GvidoR

This is.... fascinating

Special Circumstances

I have never ever watched one of those "wacky" "OMG look what we did to an Iphone" videos.
The only unboxing video I've ever watched was to see how a component I worked on fared in the customers final product.
I intend to keep it that way.

GvidoR

GvidoR wrote: »

This is.... fascinating

People and their money/stupidity

MuppetCheck

The views it receives and advertising revenue it will generate mean that the iPhone was money well...em...burned.

Big Nasty

You'll never guess what happened next.......

Special Circumstances

Big Nasty wrote: »

You'll never guess what happened next.......

Did it involve one weird trick?
Do brake manufacturers hate this single mom?

DEATH TO CLICK BAIT!!!

GvidoR

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Did it involve one weird trick?
Do brake manufacturers hate this single mom?

DEATH TO CLICK BAIT!!!

You should get adblock. :pac:

Special Circumstances

GvidoR wrote: »

You should get adblock. :pac:

It's everywhere, thread titles, newspaper headlines, people even talk like click bait now. DEATH TO CLICK BAIT!!!

fancy pigeon

Special Circumstances wrote: »

It's everywhere, thread titles, newspaper headlines, people even talk like click bait now. DEATH TO CLICK BAIT!!!

"When I saw what was hyperlinked my life changed forever, you'll never guess why, the reason is mind blowing.... Click to find out more"

Special Circumstances

fancy pigeon wrote: »

"When I saw what was hyperlinked my life changed forever, you'll never guess why, the reason is mind blowing.... Click to find out more"

colm_mcm

Um..

MetzgerMeister

How did the phone break?

Oh well you know, I put it into the caliper of my Porsche because I wanted to brake (sic) it :pac:

bear1

Trip around Italy nearly at an end, Honda performed well with no issues. Jinxed it now.
Spotted a load of mazzas here and a few nutters including the one today who I nearly t-boned.
Absolute tosser did a u turn without indicating and on a blind bend. Abs kicked in and better yet he was smiling away as I came within an inch of his rear door.
Glad I had the brakes changed.

Supergurrier

Brakes on Focus went from 100% today to almost completely gone.

New pads and discs all round.

Big Nasty

Supergurrier wrote: »

Brakes on Focus went from 100% today to almost completely gone.

New pads and discs all round.

Mondello or back roads of Galway?

Supergurrier

Big Nasty wrote: »

Mondello or back roads of Galway?

Nah the pads just wore that way. No fade and then total disintegration

GvidoR

Shoulda used iPhones. :P

Interslice

Driving through killiney village this evening around half nine. It fairly narrow. A lad in a vitara, parked in a bay facing traffic, pulls out to do a three point turn. I stay well back to leave him finish it. He reverses back across the road into a 151 renault traffic. Hits it a half decent slap, lucky the spare wheel hit the van or it would have been bad enough damage. He spins off anyway fairly lively. I drove passed the van then and seen a man and a woman in the front seats not looking too bothered by the whole thing. Never got out or anything. It was a company van so maybe they just didn't give a ****.

166man

Some people can be odd at that time of the day Inter....:D




In car news, I think one of these might be my next car..

http://cars.donedeal.ie/view/10115969
VOLVO S60 2.4 D5


Doing many miles these days, and while I'm hoping to be abroad with work by the end of the month, if I was staying around I'd have one in a heartbeat. Absolutely love those D5 S60's.

Such underrated cars...