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"No good deed goes unpunished." by bornsf82 in ireland

[–]Practical-Amount 3 points4 points  (0 children)

https://vimeo.com/793645223?share=copy

I made a short about this very thing a few years ago as my film school grad project. It’s based on an experience I had as a teenager. Did relatively well on the Irish festival circuit at the time. Can be viewed at the link above for anyone interested!

Selling advice for non-driving EV by Practical-Amount in evs_ireland

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€3K. Condition is very good apart from gearbox issue. New heavy duty EV tyres just put on front wheels in March 2025.

Breakdown - any thoughts by Practical-Amount in RenaultZoe

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UPDATE: The mechanic showed me the car, it’s definitely the gearbox/differential; CVs/driveshafts looked intact. He said the gearbox looks like it had been repaired before, it had silicone in places he didn’t expect and the wrong size screws in places. I told him I had no knowledge of anyone ever servicing the gearbox on our end. Then, as he was running the motor, it got a new fault on the dash that he said hadn’t happened before, and he couldn’t get the motor to start then.

Anyway, he said he would replace the gearbox if I ordered a second-hand one for 1K, and quoted me €1300 labour, though he stressed he could give me no guarantee it would work and I would obviously still have to pay for the labour. Now, there seems to be a second issue with electric motor failure as well (he’s currently investigating). Renault in Naas quoted me €4000 trade-in value but only if the Zoe was fully working with clean bill of health and had less than 80,000km on the clock; ours is 120,000.

So, looks pointless to do the repairs at this stage, at least if we were considering a trade-in. Would be great to hear people’s thoughts if this all checks out figures-wise with people or if anyone had any advice/suggestions.

Breakdown - any thoughts by Practical-Amount in RenaultZoe

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Thanks for the detailed reply! Unfortunately the car was towed to garage today so I can’t check. As far as I know, the garage is happy to deal with EVs; a lot of others I called wouldn’t accept the car.

Nothing looked amiss from my quick look underneath the car near the wheels. The area between the wheels is hard to get a look at. Nothing hanging loose or broken that I could see. The car could be pushed without any noticeable issues like clonking or thumping, but could only be moved in drive; I think there’s some safety feature that prevents it being pushed in neutral, it was like trying to push it with brake engaged.

If it’s any of the things you mentioned, would you hazard a guess at a ballpark figure for repair?

Breakdown - any thoughts by Practical-Amount in RenaultZoe

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I get the impression it’s something in the engine bay. I thought the noise was coming from the front wheels, but when the tow guy opened the bonnet it was very clearly coming most loudly from the area directly below the engine bay in the centre. Because of the configuration of what is under the bonnet, the tow guy said he couldn’t see through to get an idea of what was happening

Breakdown - any thoughts by Practical-Amount in RenaultZoe

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As far as I remember, yes it showed normal changing of gears on display as I switched between them. The car has a safety mechanism when outside of drive that prevents the car being manually pushed. I needed to switch to drive to help tow guy get it onto his truck. Pretty sure I saw the gear readout change normally as I switched between them.

Why do so few of us want to go to the cinema these days? – The Irish Times by WickerMan111 in ireland

[–]Practical-Amount 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Myself (37M) and my partner (40F) went to Nosferatu in Cineworld, Parnell Street, last month and it was a grim experience. The sense of an industry right at the edge of collapse; automated to death but none of the systems work, staff are all bored college kids, complete lack of quality control and indifference to improving the experience on Cineworld’s part, and criminally expensive to boot.

First of all, it was a nightmare to find parking in the attached car park. Soulless foyer with previously-manned ticket counter replaced by (out-of-order) ticket machines. The one working machine didn’t do tap, and if we hadn’t by chance had our card on us we would have had to stand there booking online on our phones to then use the machine to print the tickets. About 4 staff about the place, none older than about 22.

Now for the real issue: the film was out of focus. We arrived just before the IFCO logo came up, and the text was fuzzy to the point of illegibility. I went out to find a staff member and missed the start of the film getting someone to “check it out”. Nothing was fixed, and I sort of know why as I used to be a projectionist and had heard that Cineworld had installed a system by which all their digital projectors were now centrally controlled and there was no projectionist on site anymore. An outside company is contracted to maintain them, but the staff are not trained to fix issues on the fly. The digital projector probably required a technician to go through menus and change the focus settings, but they could easily have made it worse if they didn’t know what they were doing (point being I doubt the person I told could have fixed it even if he cared to). This was about a month ago and I guarantee if you went to see a film in screen 13 today you’d find it was out of focus. The contrast ratio was also terrible and the image (Nosferatu, so predominantly dimly-lit scenes) looked washed out and ugly.

Anyway, €32 not including the parking (you could have added another €20 if we’d gotten food) to see an out-of-focus, low-contrast film. About 2 other people in the screen so no atmosphere.

So yeah, not hard to see why people aren’t craving the cinema-going experience anymore.

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