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Originally posted by horsebox horsebox wrote:

My car is a 2005 import from England and it's fine.
There not all bad, but a lot of them are heavily corroded. 
And obviously some cars will be affected more than others 
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Originally posted by rossieman rossieman wrote:

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Originally posted by Sham157 Sham157 wrote:

Top heavy with English yokes. Vast majority of what Ive been looking at has no number plate and the pic of the service history shows English dealer stamps.
Yeah, it’s a vicious circle now but hopefully with Brexit it’ll slow the number of imports coming in, the vast majority are fine in the short term but longer term they’ll age far worse than an original Irish car. Also they’ve mostly got far bigger mileage. 
We need to start selling more new cars and it’ll filter down improving our second hand market 

Why's that ?
Rust is a massive issue on English imports, the frequency of them salting the roads during the winter is huge, and salt rots cars! I’ve seen cars as new as 2009 needing massive work due to rust. 
Also high mileage (no matter if it’s motorway miles) will eventually catch up. 

Do we not salt the roads here as much ?

High mileage will be the same no matter where the car is bought,not all import will have excessive mileage. I'm sure anyone who imports a car with high mileage know the pitfalls 
Nowhere near as much and it’s a relatively new thing here as opposed to the UK. 
As I’ve said on here numerous times if importing, don’t buy north of Birmingham 
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Also, motorway miles on gritted roads is worse - higher speed and longer distance and it *really* gets up in there.
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Yeah was always told if buying a car in tan land to stay down saarf.
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Not starting a new thread and couldn't find one suitable.....

I've to get a train at 10am from Heuston in the morning. Anyone know if their carpark fills up early, or would I still get a space about 9.30ish?
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Where you coming from? Might be a better idea to use one of the luas park and rides and get the luas to Heuston
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slightly off topic....can one person be insured on two different cars with two different insurance companies???or even two different cars with one company as main driver?
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Originally posted by JUICEBOMB JUICEBOMB wrote:

slightly off topic....can one person be insured on two different cars with two different insurance companies???or even two different cars with one company as main driver?
Two different cars should be no problem, it could get confusing if you'd two multicar policies for both. If youre just sayign Aviva cover me driving the Peugeot and Allianz cover me for the Nissan, that's no problem that I can see.

Why are you thinking of doing it? 
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Originally posted by bhob bhob wrote:

Where you coming from? Might be a better idea to use one of the luas park and rides and get the luas to Heuston

Coming from the Northside so park and ride isn't an option.
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seems the wife put 25e of petrol into our diesel car. Then drove home,about 1.5 km. What sort of damage has she doneOuch
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seems the wife put 25e of petrol into our diesel car. Then drove home,about 1.5 km. What sort of damage has she doneOuch
The real question here is what kind of damage have you done to her LOL
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Originally posted by DUBLIN DOC DUBLIN DOC wrote:

Originally posted by BigStrongMan BigStrongMan wrote:

seems the wife put 25e of petrol into our diesel car. Then drove home,about 1.5 km. What sort of damage has she doneOuch
The real question here is what kind of damage have you done to her LOL
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Originally posted by BigStrongMan BigStrongMan wrote:

Originally posted by DUBLIN DOC DUBLIN DOC wrote:

Originally posted by BigStrongMan BigStrongMan wrote:

seems the wife put 25e of petrol into our diesel car. Then drove home,about 1.5 km. What sort of damage has she doneOuch
The real question here is what kind of damage have you done to her LOL
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It needs to be drained pronto and done right, do not turn the ignition on again, get someone out, see if your insurance covers it to get rac or whoever out to you
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Originally posted by DUBLIN DOC DUBLIN DOC wrote:

Originally posted by BigStrongMan BigStrongMan wrote:

Originally posted by DUBLIN DOC DUBLIN DOC wrote:

Originally posted by BigStrongMan BigStrongMan wrote:

seems the wife put 25e of petrol into our diesel car. Then drove home,about 1.5 km. What sort of damage has she doneOuch
The real question here is what kind of damage have you done to her LOL
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It needs to be drained pronto and done right, do not turn the ignition on again, get someone out, see if your insurance covers it to get rac or whoever out to you

Not that I’ve had the misfortune or tried it out of curiosity but always thought that, as of recent years, petrol nozzle didn’t fit into diesel? 
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Originally posted by McG McG wrote:

Originally posted by DUBLIN DOC DUBLIN DOC wrote:

Originally posted by BigStrongMan BigStrongMan wrote:

Originally posted by DUBLIN DOC DUBLIN DOC wrote:

Originally posted by BigStrongMan BigStrongMan wrote:

seems the wife put 25e of petrol into our diesel car. Then drove home,about 1.5 km. What sort of damage has she doneOuch
The real question here is what kind of damage have you done to her LOL
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It needs to be drained pronto and done right, do not turn the ignition on again, get someone out, see if your insurance covers it to get rac or whoever out to you

Not that I’ve had the misfortune or tried it out of curiosity but always thought that, as of recent years, petrol nozzle didn’t fit into diesel? 
no it’s the other way unfortunately. 
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For the NCT do they check the locks? the central locking seems to be fecked on the drivers side. The key wont work and if I put down the button when the door is open it just pops back up.
Have to go into the passenger side to lock the door.
Or is this costly to fix?
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Originally posted by darmack darmack wrote:

For the NCT do they check the locks? the central locking seems to be fecked on the drivers side. The key wont work and if I put down the button when the door is open it just pops back up.
Have to go into the passenger side to lock the door.
Or is this costly to fix?

Just make sure all locks are open on the day so they can check the all seat belts.......they don’t press the open/close button on the key fob.
But if one of the doors actually won’t open during the test then you are fooked.
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