***** Motors chat - round 12 *****

Truckermal

Lexus LS460 is my recommendation Colm plenty of power and a big boot!

colm_mcm

What’s the tax like? Does she have a sunroof? Is she hard on diesel?

Sexual Chocolate

How about an ST Focus diesel ?

CIP4

colm_mcm wrote: »

What’s the tax like? Does she have a sunroof? Is she hard on diesel?

What’s the reasoning behind changing to diesel after having a petrol for so long are you doing more driving now ?

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

Just on the motortax website.

My car after vrt (2008) is after going under engine size for tax , which is the cheaper rate !

Theres me thinking it was going to be emissions !

So with that in mind. What will the new tax rates be ? (For 2020 in the news)

CIP4

Pirelli P-Zero tyres wet grip is an absolute joke. Had them on a car previously and felt the same. There is like 5mm on them to make it worse couldn't even say they are that worn.

wotzgoingon

Are you sliding?

wotzgoingon

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

Just on the motortax website.

My car after vrt (2008) is after going under engine size for tax , which is the cheaper rate !

Theres me thinking it was going to be emissions !

So with that in mind. What will the new tax rates be ? (For 2020 in the news)

Will that not just apply for new cars bought like what happened in 2008?

CIP4

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Are you sliding?

Stopping is reasonably ok just wheel spin is a disaster but it was the same on whatever other car I had them on.

Wailin

CIP4 wrote: »

Pirelli P-Zero tyres wet grip is an absolute joke. Had them on a car previously and felt the same. There is like 5mm on them to make it worse couldn't even say they are that worn.

You should try the Bridgestone potenzas....horrific. I had the pirellis on my last car and they were nowhere near as bad as the bridgestone.

CIP4

Wailin wrote: »

You should try the Bridgestone potenzas....horrific. I had the pirellis on my last car and they were nowhere near as bad as the bridgestone.

I think I will get Michelin PS4s next they seem pricey but anyone that I know that has them recons they are the best. There are new Eagle F1 Assy5s out now as well so they might be worth a try either.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Will that not just apply for new cars bought like what happened in 2008?

I dunno

I read the article but wasn't really into it

tossy

CIP4 wrote: »

I think I will get Michelin PS4s next they seem pricey but anyone that I know that has them recons they are the best. There are new Eagle F1 Assy5s out now as well so they might be worth a try either.

I have the PS 4s on the R, great tyre but not as good in the wet as the regular PS4 or Asymmetric in the dry though they are unreal, i think i'll try the new Asymetric super sport one next.

vintagevrs

Ps4s look well if that's important. I like the "velvet"

ShadowHearth

Wailin wrote: »

You should try the Bridgestone potenzas....horrific. I had the pirellis on my last car and they were nowhere near as bad as the bridgestone.

I had potenzas on my car when it was new and had no issues with them. Very good tyres. Lasted 42k km too!!! My car is not super fast, but it's still a thing that is able to pick up speed. No issues with wheel spin, unless in pure wet conditions and I did it on purpose, great handling and stopping power in wet etc. Have no complains.
I am on Eagle F1s now and honestly **** all difference. Maybe just a bit more road noise.

colm_mcm

Sexual Chocolate wrote: »

How about an ST Focus diesel ?

I really dislike Focus’s! Thanks for the suggestion though. The brother had the same idea.

colm_mcm

CIP4 wrote: »

What’s the reasoning behind changing to diesel after having a petrol for so long are you doing more driving now ?

Yeah, doing 30-35k a year.

Duke O Smiley

colm_mcm wrote: »

I really dislike Focus’s! Thanks for the suggestion though. The brother had the same idea.

My brother has a 2.0 turbo Mk5 Gojd estate, a cracking car. I’d say a Golf estate would be a better car than a Leon (if you could find one that’s not a 1.6 Tdi Trendline)

Wailin

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I had potenzas on my car when it was new and had no issues with them. Very good tyres. Lasted 42k km too!!! My car is not super fast, but it's still a thing that is able to pick up speed. No issues with wheel spin, unless in pure wet conditions and I did it on purpose, great handling and stopping power in wet etc. Have no complains.
I am on Eagle F1s now and honestly **** all difference. Maybe just a bit more road noise.

Is your car all wheel drive? On the 535d with rear wheel drive, any bit of dampness I get wheel spin and fishtailing with a bit of acceleration, especially coming out of a corner or roundabout. In the dry they are good I have to say. Mine are the re50a. Would not recommend them at all and online reviews seem to agree.

bazz26

The Eagle F1 AS3 on my 530d are coming to the end of their life and the DTC light has come on a few times recently, had a bit of front wheel spin alright under heavy take off but no fishtailing. Other than that they have been faultless over their life and will probably go with the same again. The only complaint is with the rim protectors on them don't do a great job and I've already got a bit of kerbing. I haven't seen the newer AS4 or AS5 for sale in run on flat yet.

colm_mcm

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

My brother has a 2.0 turbo Mk5 Gojd estate, a cracking car. I’d say a Golf estate would be a better car than a Leon (if you could find one that’s not a 1.6 Tdi Trendline)

See getting a 2.0 that isn’t 150ps in the Golf is the problem. I want something a little quicker.
Plus you pay Golf tax so less car for the money.

bazz26

Ford Focus ST estate:



https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201907109927938?body-type=Estate&model=FOCUS&fuel-type=Diesel&radius=1500&aggregatedTrim=ST-3&onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=New&advertising-location=at_cars&exclude-writeoff-categories=on&sort=price-asc&make=FORD&postcode=bt781ug&page=1

James Bond Junior

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I had potenzas on my car when it was new and had no issues with them. Very good tyres. Lasted 42k km too!!! My car is not super fast, but it's still a thing that is able to pick up speed. No issues with wheel spin, unless in pure wet conditions and I did it on purpose, great handling and stopping power in wet etc. Have no complains.
I am on Eagle F1s now and honestly **** all difference. Maybe just a bit more road noise.

I had potenzas on my Volvo but I didn't tend to go over 3k rpm so wheelspin wasn't an issue!

colm_mcm

A new twist on illegal plates

Marcusm

Hilarious one today. Local house is being done up and the garden contractor has cones off a yellow box at a fairly main junction in Dublin to park their vehicles. Donnybrook garda station’s response: “i’ll Send around a car but you never know their planning permission might allow them to do it”.

Seriously, planning permission might allow a yellow box junction (existing for safety and traffic flow) to be coned off by a private individual! Seriously, is there any legal (or common sense) training in Templemore?

Dia_Anseo

Hi all,

Just an update on a post I started selling my 2011 Focus.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057997774

I had several views arranged. The first person to view it bought it.
It sold today and was collected today for 6500 euro!

Thanks for all the advice and otherwise

Noccy_Mondy

Looking at a 2015 car. It has 74000 miles. It's a UK import. MOT is out since the end of May. But it's last MOT in May 18 it had 65000 miles. 1 owner company car. Thoughts? I'll go and look at it and see anyway!

So it's done about 22000 miles for the first 3 years and about 10000 this past year....

bazz26

Any service history from here and the UK? How long is it in the country?

homik

Long time lurker here

I am about to import a brand new Berlingo commercial from NI. I tried to source it locally (Partner was my first preferrence, then Berlingo), but all the main dealers I went to in Dublin said there is none available in the trim, colour and version I need, and it has to be factory order, with delivery in November.

I can get one through Charles Hurst in Belfast, delivered to Dublin in 2 weeks. I am aware there are VAT implications etc.

The manufacturer's warranty is fully transferrable. Will I be getting cold shoulder and be the last in the queque, if warranty repairs were to be carried out through Irish dealership? Has anyone experience with UK imports being repaired under warranty by Irish dealers?

Thanks Folks

Noccy_Mondy

bazz26 wrote: »

Any service history from here and the UK? How long is it in the country?

It's in the north, still on UK plates. He says it has a full Audi service history. Can see from the reg plate surrounds it's from the jardine motor group. I'll run a motorcheck report on it and check all the service history when I see the car.

bazz26

If it's an Audi with main dealer history then the service history is probably digital or online rather than stamps in a book. You could try ringing Audi UK with the UK reg to verify what was done at what mileage.

wotzgoingon

I was just thinking back to a couple of months ago and I'm raging I never took a picture. The car was not running right like the brakes were binding on the front drivers side (which they were), got home and got out and the disc was red(glowing). Next day I cleaned the slide pins. And disc never warped which I'm amazed as I have been driving it since then without issue but yea I really should have took a picture. As it was as if someone heated it up with a forge or a large blow torch.

bazz26

homik wrote: »

Long time lurker here

I am about to import a brand new Berlingo commercial from NI. I tried to source it locally (Partner was my first preferrence, then Berlingo), but all the main dealers I went to in Dublin said there is none available in the trim, colour and version I need, and it has to be factory order, with delivery in November.

I can get one through Charles Hurst in Belfast, delivered to Dublin in 2 weeks. I am aware there are VAT implications etc.

The manufacturer's warranty is fully transferrable. Will I be getting cold shoulder and be the last in the queque, if warranty repairs were to be carried out through Irish dealership? Has anyone experience with UK imports being repaired under warranty by Irish dealers?

Thanks Folks

It will probably depend on the dealer. In theory they shouldn't have any problems doing warranty work if it has been approved by the manufacturer but in reality they may put you at the bottom of their priority list below their regular customers as you didn't buy from them.

So just make sure that the warranty is good in the Republic.

Noccy_Mondy

bazz26 wrote: »

Any service history from here and the UK? How long is it in the country?

Just back on that again. I see the tax has been out since last August. Something not sitting right with it. Only 10k miles in the past year and only taxed for a couple of months. It was parked up, crashed or something I'm thinking. Best let it pass!

Alanstrainor

What in the name of jaysis am I going to do with the old e46 325ci when I get something else? Anyone want it? The BBS wheels are probably the only thing of value on it. I'd be sad to see it in the crusher, but I reckon that's where it'll end up.

M7roadrunner

Alanstrainor wrote: »

What in the name of jaysis am I going to do with the old e46 325ci when I get something else? Anyone want it? The BBS wheels are probably the only thing of value on it. I'd be sad to see it in the crusher, but I reckon that's where it'll end up.

Are you near Mondello?
Would it be any use as a track car?

Leonard Hofstadter

Alanstrainor wrote: »

What in the name of jaysis am I going to do with the old e46 325ci when I get something else? Anyone want it? The BBS wheels are probably the only thing of value on it. I'd be sad to see it in the crusher, but I reckon that's where it'll end up.

Have you been looking at the post a picture of your vehicle thread?

You could PM ba_barabus and see if he's interested:pac:?

Tazzimus

Alanstrainor wrote: »

What in the name of jaysis am I going to do with the old e46 325ci when I get something else? Anyone want it? The BBS wheels are probably the only thing of value on it. I'd be sad to see it in the crusher, but I reckon that's where it'll end up.

Some Polish lad would probably buy it off you.
My old 00 A3 is pootling around Poland somewhere, still going strong with about 300,000 miles on the clock

Mickiemcfist

Leonard Hofstadter wrote: »

Have you been looking at the post a picture of your vehicle thread?

You could PM ba_barabus and see if he's interested:pac:?

To be fair, you should. Yours appears to be the most minded e46 in the country.

GustavoFring

Alanstrainor wrote: »

What in the name of jaysis am I going to do with the old e46 325ci when I get something else? Anyone want it? The BBS wheels are probably the only thing of value on it. I'd be sad to see it in the crusher, but I reckon that's where it'll end up.

What's the offset of those wheels?

jimgoose

Well Hawrse. The Focus went in for it's first service under my watch this morning - oil and filters, €100. That was alright I thought, oil is expensive for those things.

I had the use of a 132 red Skoda Rapid saloon for the morning. Nice car, 1.6l diesel at 105BHP. It was a bit revvier than the Ford and needed a little bit of hoofing to get good out of it, but a nice machine.

It's funny though, when you go from a car that doesn't annoy you at all, to something else for a few hours and you notice things. Like the driver's seat-belt buckle that falls down near the floor when the belt is at-rest, meaning you can't reach the bloody thing when you go to put it on again. Like the radio that always comes on at low volume when the car restarts, regardless of what way you left it. My brother had a 161 Audi A6 on hire last Christmas that did that, he was fit to buy a gun after three days. The information screen in the instrument binnacle which, rather than showing several pieces of pertinent, useful information, spent the morning either whining over some blasted iPhone or other, or pointing out to me that I had gone over 30mph. :pac:

Sexual Chocolate

Anyone here use a magnet phone holder ? Do they hold phones securely even going over bumps ?

colm_mcm

Priced changing insurance over to a Leon 184 FR TDI. €200 p/a more than the Civic!
Kinda veering back to the V60 again which is faster and cheaper to insure but bulkier.

punisher5112

colm_mcm wrote: »

Priced changing insurance over to a Leon 184 FR TDI. €200 p/a more than the Civic!
Kinda veering back to the V60 again which is faster and cheaper to insure but bulkier.

Always go for more power....

Tazzimus

punisher5112 wrote: »

Always go for more power....

colm_mcm

I knew I could count on boards for guidance

Dia_Anseo

I wouldn't trust the guidance of boards

They told me I wouldn't get any views on my Focus until I reduced price to 5k.

I sold it yesterday for 6.5k, which is the going rate!

colm_mcm

Meh. I told you early on that your price was around right. It was obvious that those suggesting it should be cheaper didn’t know the difference between old and new model Focus. Don’t let it bother you.

Dia_Anseo

colm_mcm wrote: »

Meh. I told you early on that your price was around right. It was obvious that those suggesting it should be cheaper didn’t know the difference between old and new model Focus. Don’t let it bother you.

Thanks Colm, you know your stuff!

colm_mcm

Sometimes.

My point is, you asked for opinions and got them. That’s the beauty of boards. Opinions aren’t always correct but you can make your own mind up armed with other people’s perspective.