******* Motors Chat Thread *******

I've a problem with the young lads in 170bhp diesels thinking they are fast. Had the Glanza out Monday, just driving along at 70kph and a young lad in an A4 stuck to my bumper for ages. I dropped to third and took off poor fella tried to catch me but all he was doing was making black smoke and going nowhere

Decent price75

I've had mine since I was 17 so have it 11 years now. I absolutely love the thing, it's on engine number 3 since I've owned it and its had years of being abused but now it's getting a restoration now. The 4efte engine will take 230bhp without doing internals in a car weighing 920kg

The yellow plates stems from Donegal, a lot of the guys that are into cars up that end started using yellow plates because generally, they have more common heritage with Derry than Dublin. Cultural fashion.

The front plates is different. It has spread to the point of nonsense but if you look at a lot of sports cars, many will not have a space on the front bumper for a plate. They are designed for a part of the world that doesn't require front plates and as such, requires drilling holes in places that were never meant to have holes. The standard used to be putting the front plate on the dash board (days before passenger airbags) which would do most AGS fine, they are more strict now though.

It is law to have your plate visible on the front of the vehicle in an upright/vertical position. No getting around that, needs to be there.

Saying that, I've had cars without and my solution was to carry cable ties in the event of being told to stick it on and just cut them off once I was out of the car again. Looked terrible on my RX8.

Now that you say that, I remember being in Florida and noticing very few cars had front registrations on the bumpers.

Would it not interfere with toll cameras? Or speed cameras? The registration on the dash in the front window could be distorted etc?

I would have thought the nationalists in Derry would be more likely to change their rear car reg to white to display their Irishness etc

Maybe the PSNI wouldnt tolerate that kind of thing in the same way as down here.

They've gotten to the same point as "white" DC2's.

They used to be everywhere, now if you see one you actually stop and think "Jaysus, that's rare enough these days"

Nice welcome change from Audi's with 2 coils left in the springs.

I went the Saturday myself. Decent field of cars. Not a single Subaru though which was a first for any rally I've ever attended.

A mighty shame that Kevin Eves and Chris Melly in the ae86 corolla crashed out. He was on a serious pace considering the very challenging conditions.

Road closures were very poorly signposted coming from the Ballinasloe side not sure if things were better coming from Loughrea.

Thankfully we managed to get some good viewing 3/4 of the way up a straight just after a slight left hander. Cars passing at the top of 6th and hard on the brakes 20yds after us for a shicane and tight right hairpin more than made up for the p1ssing rain.

Quick rant.

How to get over insurance random number generator? The same numbers but different ip/connection give vastly different results, from as low as 400 to over 1000.

My luck that can't get the 400 again.

3.0

3mm or as soon as I'm not happy with performance.

I fit new tyres, forget about them for 2 years until I bother checking them then give out I've to buy new tyres

Does no one else check tyre pressure once a week or am I a freak?

That makes me shudder.

Yeah, i honestly cant ever remember checking my tyre pressure ever.

Obsessively maintaining things is over rated.

I wouldn't knowingly drive a POS, i service on thr button but not before it and if the car needs something it'll get it but i also use everything right up.

None of this oil changes every 5000kms or other OCD appeasing stuff.

TPMS have been mandatory on all cars sold in Europe for almost a decade and were popular even before being mandatory. If the tyres are low, the car will let you know, in the case of most cars from the mid 00's onwards. No need to be manually checking them the whole time.