Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Yep! Managed to get offered a job matching my London salary over here, so it was a no brainer really. Got a mountain/sea view and a big 'ol garden for a fair amount less that our 1-bed flat in Peckham!

Bit of a trek to pick up some artisinal beer, but swings and roundabouts and all that!

Nice. Which bit are you in?

Omeath, halfway between Belfast and Dublin, and about 5 minutes away from the border (possibly part of the reason for it being so cheap at this point in time...)

Im moving home to Ireland next year or possibly 2021, must be almost time to breath some life back into the LFGSS Ireland forum

Could you make it rain less? If so I might join you.

Makes the MX-5 feel less underpowered when it's so easy to break traction!

Indeed, and we'll have at least 3 available for 4-wheeled adventures too!

I double dare you

Not a chance in hell! Supercharger on the other hand...

I think the V8 is more subtle myself.

I plan to buy the alternative cheap 2 seater convertible when we move home.

Dammit, the trackday scene is a little boring over here, there are only two tracks to choose from on the entire island.

And your porsche probably couldn't handle the rough roads outside of the pale. You'd have to build a rally car.

love this mick. looks like you have found just the place to fully enjoy it too. Good work dude

Though not the most distasteful bit of the car. Those arches, why?

It can be done a little more subtley thankfully!

And your porsche probably couldn't handle the rough roads outside of the pale. You'd have to build a rally car.

Ohlins coilovers - I can run it up to Landcruiser height if needs be.

Test the waters some weekend with a trackday on a Friday followed by some mtb in Wicklow on a Saturday. Buy a 7 bedroom Georgian house on the west coast for 100k and commute from knock west Airport to luton, Gatwick or Stansted.

Soooo, this West coast, that would be the bit of Ireland that has the least rain, yes? Being next to the Atlantic I expect the rain just falls in the sea and never hits the land, right?

Thanks Jonny! Makes up for the 12 car-less years spent in London, some amazing roads right on my doorstep as well. Granted 40 mins of my commute each way is basically a motorway and the MX-5 isn't exactly the most refined car in the world.

Keep it above 40mph and you won't get wet anyway. West coast of Ireland hasn't really been introduced to traffic lights yet. I'm on the thriving metropolis of the East coast and the town I live in has a single traffic light. And I've only seen it red once in the last 6 months.

A few years ago i done a chunk of the wild Atlantic way with a mate of mine. Our second day was 250kms, we rode for 7 hours and saw no traffic lights and only 2 cars.

West of Ireland gets rain. Lots of it. But its a beautiful part of the world.

Keep it above 40mph and you won't get wet anyway

What witchcraft is this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajrvgF5dLtM

Steep windscreen + wind deflector

If it's very heavy, you get a bit coming off the back of the side windows and hitting you on the back/side of the head

Pretty sure that won't work in my MGB

Like I said, it only works about 40mph or so ;)

Joking aside, I'm sure there's some sweet-spot between airspeed over the windscreen and angle of the windscreen. I imagine the air coming over the top of an MGB windscreen isn't high enough to deflect the water away from the cockpit, given the abrupt transition from bonnet to windscreen.

I've been in torrential rain, the sort that you can barely see in even with the wipers on max, with the roof down, and still stayed dry (granted, this was at motorway speeds on this occasion)

W203 c220 cdi saloon just got dumped on my doorstep needing a turbo, nice enough inside and out, need a daily for a few months and its an auto (knee is getting worse again so auto a good thing).
Any experts in the om646 (i think thats its engine code, mild black death already cured), I know its non dpf but have some weird things happening in the charging system thats just confusing the hell out of me.
Also it has a Bluetooth thing that says Mercedes in upper armrest where a car phone probably used to be, seems to be active but can't find it as a device

That bluetooth thing is (IIRC) £260ish, I bought one for my W203.

Press the button to put it into pairing then enter the code into your phone.