Cars Thread

No way am I a speed Demon, you are the one with one very fast, very sexy Golf GTI Speedwagon!!

Kev.

No way are you a speed demon!! Haha kev do you not remember doing a circuit near your house in the MG the neighbor's thought you were robbin your own car!


EDIT : Or was that my Car?

Oh Crap, I forgot about that!!

Kev.

@Stretnik.........does the MGF have the Rover engine?

I'm not too sure which cars had their rather superb honeycomb block engine (but, alas, some blocks came out of the factory poised to blow the head gasket).

Heaven knows why Rover went down the pan....some of the best engines ever made, but they went through a bad period in the 70s and 80s.

ian

Here ya go Ian.

://www.mgownersclub.co.uk/mgf-cars.html

Kev.

stretnik wrote:

Here ya go Ian.

://www.mgownersclub.co.uk/mgf-cars.html

Kev.

That's the engine.....it was a like making a sandwhich when putting the head-gasket on. It was not like any other head gasket replacement I'd ever come across before.

The main dealer here, in Ireland, gave me a quote of 3000 euro to fix my head gasket on that engine and said that they would not put a guarantee on it. !!

Very fast for the engine size.

ian

Yep Ian, I bought it from a guy in Portmarnock, as an Ozzie would say, "it's a little rippa" he purchased it in England from a Lady driver, she had it from new, it didn't get the point where it blew, she kept up to date with services etc, only by a Rover dealer, they spotted milky liquid in the coolant and caught it before it went and they skimmed and replaced the Gasket for 2,000 sterling. I was tempted to sell it but everything about the car is gorgeous, it was ahead of it's Time for the year, it has Heated Wing mirrors, ABS, Electric Windows, & Bose Speakers, (probably after Market) I love it. Some Arses say it's a mid-Life crisis Car, I say it's an, I can afford it Car!!

Kev.

I had a 1994 rover 414 (the big honda civic design).....I was surprised at how well the 1.4 K-series engine could push a big car at very good acceleration.

Very luxurious car really....but the head gasket blew.


As for mid-life crisis cars.......there's some good ones.
Some are pretty obvious, but some are not so obvious.

The Peugeot 406 3-litre turbo coupe is a nice one if someone wants to hide the 'mid-life-crisis-car' ......if you know how to use the torque bulge, it can leave an M3 standing.

My present car is an old-lads car (ie for those who have gone well past the mid-life crisis stage)...Merc SLK Kompressor coupe.....and with a panama hat in the back (like a codger).

ian

I love the SLK, beautiful Car and smooth to Boot.

Kev.

Very good tread lads

As for cars i have had a lot as i can not keep a car for long till i want to change it think a year and a half was the most time i kept the same car for this was a 04 Audi A4 with RS4 look a like was a very nice car and found it hard to part with when i was selling it but man'd up a bit and sold it

As we have 2 kids now i was saying i want something big i was going to go and get a 525 or 520 but when i went to see them there was no good spec or ones that where in good shape to buy

So when her self on on the net looking at cars she came across a VW Touareg 2.5 TDI as she has also wanted one you can see where this was going ha

i then started to look at x5 only thing that put me off was the 3.0L engine lovely car and i was very close to get one as i found a lovely one in great shape but she talked me out off it

So back to the VW Touareg it was it was over a month and a half till we found one as i didn't like most off them but in the end we found an outstanding one and is very nice so went and got this the man we got it off got it a year ago and paid over 16000 for it but we got it for just half that as off the car market it is at the moment

Few thing to do on it as im adding a set off 22 inch wheels on it and also putting in dvd headrests for the kids

But over all love the jeep and glad i went with it

Sean

@BlueRam....my OH is looking at the X5....ummm?? then she goes on about the big engine....then she jumps to looking at the merc 5 litres and ignores the fact that they are an even bigger engine....and that was after I'd already stopped her writing a cheque for Jag thingy.

She even started saying that my car's engine is too big (and forgetting her petrol guzzling jag thingy desires).....yet it is still smaller than her cars engine.

One rule for the women, and one for us blokes.

I finally got rid of my faithful and trusty Peugeot 406 today with it 160,000 miles.
The brake light switch failed; I couldn't be arsed to wriggle behind the steering column to fix it, so I gave the car away for free.
It had been standing for 3to 4 months....but with a jump start the engine started on first key turn with no spluttering.
Nice car, pity to see it go.

I think I'll get another one one day.

ian

I sold the skyline and bought a Nissan Cefiro thats 389bhp, lots of power in a road car!!!

pole wrote:

I sold the skyline and bought a Nissan Cefiro thats 389bhp, lots of power in a road car!!!

Nissan Cefiro is a very nice vcar even better that it has 389bhp

The bro in law has a RX7 which is just under 650bhp drove it once and will never drive it again ha very fast to fast for a road car

Sean

pole wrote:

I hate cars, and i love cars!! Its quite a strange relationship i have!! Iv a habit of buying cars and doing stupid with them, for example, I bought a car as a bare shell and brought her back to life. I might not of done the best of jobs with it but sure i had the craic doing it

Swore id never do it again, but thats a pure lie!!!

Also i bought my dream car that iv wanted for the last 8 years, what a let down that turned out to be!!

I'd rather the cossie in the background

Maserati quattroporte,probably the flashiest car I've ever driven,just a test drive in work though

PAULHARTE25 wrote:

Maserati quattroporte,probably the flashiest car I've ever driven,just a test drive in work though

Should a Maserati be photographed stood beside a 'car service centre'

Image is everything.


Talking about image......I love Toyota's advert...."The Car in Front is a Toyota" .........
yep.....I often come up behind a Toyota Yaris on the outside lane of the motorway wit it doing 45 mph. !!

Not mad into cars,was always a motorbikes,needless to say I bought 94 d 3 door golf out of necessity to lug the tools around when I was working on sites. And I drove it solid for three years without an ounce of trouble bar one bearing. Great little car,I was raging after I sold it.we had two other cars since then an opel astra 02 and a 2 ltr diesel mondeo and either of them could hold a candle to it.

Ciaran what bikes did you have im thinking off going to get my bike license but there a lot into getting one now i want to get into road bike

I have also had field bikes and that for years even up to CR450 and yz 450 but now want an R6 or something like that

Sean

Mostly bandits,2 bandit 600s bandit 1200 and a super 4,400 Honda all great bikes but 1 of the bandits was a 1998 unrestricted,thing was an absolute missle,there was very little 4 or 2 wheels that could keep up,but with age I think you lose your bottle somewhat! And the giant bicycleis enough for me now!


This was the bandit 1200

I recently sold my babies, a Fireblade and a Hyabusa, now they were Animals, I clocked 175 MPH on the Motorway on the Hyabusa, it is reported to do 205 MPH !!, it hated corners, it needed your full weight to get it to turn on sharp bends, the Blade on the other side was a Sexy Ballerina, it could pirouette on a stamp and could be thrown about like a Rag doll, it never got tiring, after a long ride on the GSX 1350 you felt like you'd been through the ringer, I also just sold a Super Four, it was awkward to drive because of my long legs, I found it really difficult changing gears etc.

Kev.

Very very nice now i am going to get the finger out and start looking into to get it all sorted now

Kev where they the ones i had a quick peak at the day in yours very nice if they where the ones

Sean

Yep Sean, I took photos but Damned if I can find them, I'll post them if I can find them. The ins is a bloody nightmare and R or RR in the title will send you into the very high Ins mark that is, after you go through the ranks, if you need instruction try looking for a guy called Dave Lyons, he does private one on one instruction. www.motorbiketraining.net/

Kev.

Sound kev i know bikes well just getting the license is a pain now as it has all being changed now you have to do a test then do a IBT course then you can only drive u to 125CC and then have to go do another course and test to get up again and then after that do your full

the test is 55 each time and then the course are 600 each time that's whats stopping me as the amount to do to get it

What happen to the days where if you had a full car license that they would give you for bike license and then just have to do your full bike test and that's it done nothing is easy now a days

Thanks for the link would be get to get on to him to sort out the IBT course and also if you find photos please post would be great to see


Sean

JohnH wrote:

I have a great wheelbarrow, it goes from standing start to top speed in one step!

(Well, it used to - now the tyre needs replacing).

Ah the joys of the open road, eh?

John

A twin Exhaust eh? not much effort required to do a Wheelie either !!

Kev.

BlueRam wrote:

Sound kev i know bikes well just getting the license is a pain now as it has all being changed now you have to do a test then do a IBT course then you can only drive u to 125CC and then have to go do another course and test to get up again and then after that do your full

the test is 55 each time and then the course are 600 each time that's whats stopping me as the amount to do to get it

What happen to the days where if you had a full car license that they would give you for bike license and then just have to do your full bike test and that's it done nothing is easy now a days

Thanks for the link would be get to get on to him to sort out the IBT course and also if you find photos please post would be great to see


Sean

No problem, should I have to return, I will look out for a Burgman 500 cc Scooter, these are remarkable vehicles and powerful to Boot, the only thing is, If you break your Car Insurance by more than a set period, you lose your no claims and to me that is bloody stupid and unfair.

Kev.

Fireblade.

Kev.

Me and a buddy of mine started off driving mopeds when we were quite young and we got in to a race to see who could get the best bike! He traded up before me and got an rvf 400 naturally I had to have a go, I always found that the racing fared bikes were like a plank to ride, so when it came to my turn I went for the muscle, I had been looking to get a hornet 250 which I will always look at as one of the nicest bikes around,unfortunately they were a little out of my price range. Plus like you said some of the racers were great in straight lines where the muscle had low end power and would stick to the road with the extra weight. My friend still has his gsxr 1000. Lovely bike but gimme muscle any day, as for the super four I found that to be a great little bike held its value quite well to,couriers are always looking for them.

BlueRam wrote:

Sound kev i know bikes well just getting the license is a pain now as it has all being changed now you have to do a test then do a IBT course then you can only drive u to 125CC and then have to go do another course and test to get up again and then after that do your full

the test is 55 each time and then the course are 600 each time that's whats stopping me as the amount to do to get it

What happen to the days where if you had a full car license that they would give you for bike license and then just have to do your full bike test and that's it done nothing is easy now a days

Thanks for the link would be get to get on to him to sort out the IBT course and also if you find photos please post would be great to see


Sean

hi Sean I'm not sure what it's like now but I know that there was a stage where you could get a bike restricted to 33bhp it was classed as a 50cc not sure if it's still the same now,