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General Discussion Area / Hot windows
« on: 16 June 2023, 17:14:06 »
Evening all.
I got a strange one. My lounge gets the sun from about 1pm onwards. My question is the double glazed window shot. The glass on the outside is cool to the touch but inside is red hot. Hard to keep your hand on it.

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General Discussion Area / Lighting fire..
« on: 27 December 2021, 18:12:24 »
Long time no posts.
Hope everybody is having a great xmas :y
Anyway quick question my bathroom pull cord stopped working so I thought ok I will take it out and put in a normal switch outside the bathroom. So I went into the loft to find the wire into the light. When I pulled the insulation back that was covering the wires going into the light the insulation was black and burnt like it had been on fire.
I dont believe this has happened since we own the house but my question is we have a upto date board that was put in a couple of years ago if this fire happened now would it trip the board out. Also it looks like the yellow green wires are not connected to anything would this have cause the fire.

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General Discussion Area / Extension lead
« on: 23 May 2020, 20:21:09 »
I need a extension lead for a new tumble dryer, only need about 1 metre would a standard 13amp one do or will i need a heavy duty one.

Asking due to the fact i came home tonight to find the old extension socket end had melted itself to the dryer plug. I had to pry them apart with a screwdriver. Its been working fine for the last 3 years.
 Wife refuses to use the dryer again. Hense going to have to buy a new one.

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General Car Chat / 3.5mm jack
« on: 11 May 2020, 22:40:43 »
Quick question, at the moment i use a 3.5mm jack lead from my samsung phone to my car stereo to listen to spotify. I also have a usb in the car. Would a 3.5mm to usb lead give me better music sound.
I have bluetooth as well but this keeps droping.

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General Car Chat / H7 bulb
« on: 03 March 2020, 21:22:22 »
Hi just bought car and the headlights are rubbish. What's the best h7 bulbs on the market. Dont want to go down the conversion route. Just need brighter and a longer throw.
Cheers.

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General Car Chat / Wheels
« on: 21 February 2020, 19:07:50 »
Is there a diy way of checking to see if your wheels are round. I have had all 4 wheels rebalanced but i still get what feels like iam running over the cats eyes. On the passenger side.

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General Car Chat / Ball joint
« on: 19 February 2020, 22:56:40 »
If I change the left hand front ball joint do I need to change the right one as well.

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General Discussion Area / Desktop pc
« on: 25 January 2020, 10:57:14 »
Following on from my windows 10 upgrade, ive decided not to both and buy a new pc.
I have abudget of upto £450. It it used mainly to surf the net,you tube and for my son to do his homework on. I dont need a bundle as i use the tv as the monitor and have a good printer and keyboard. Any reccomendations, links to sites or shops that have good deals.

Cheers

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General Discussion Area / Windows 10
« on: 20 January 2020, 17:38:44 »
Bit of a dinosaur here..being running windows 7. It's now telling me I need to upgrade to windows 10. Do I need to buy this or can I get it for free. Can somebody tell me the best place to get either.
Thanks.

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General Discussion Area / Paperless
« on: 17 January 2020, 12:27:43 »
Can my company force me to use they app to send me a copy of my pay slip every month.

I have told them I want my usual paper one and basically they have said tough.

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General Car Chat / Bmw x3 bell housing
« on: 29 June 2019, 17:11:58 »
Sorry not a mechanic so not sure whats its called. I have pictures but no way to post them. Anyway what i think is the bell housing would this have a access panel. The reason i ask is i was cleaning some oil off the bottom of the undertray and i notice a rectangle hole. When i look into it i can see a large cog. If somebody that can post pictures i will text or email them over.

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General Car Chat / Autel al319 scanner
« on: 29 May 2019, 21:52:17 »
I have one of the above it worked great on my omega and the wife's Nissan. But when I plug it into my BMW x3 it powers up but won't connect. I take it that means it won't work or can I get some kind of a adapter.

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General Car Chat / Bmw x3
« on: 10 May 2019, 19:53:32 »
Cant get to the bottom of this one. Any ideas would be a great help.

Story so far.  When i bought the car the car had a steering wheel shake/wobble when you applied the brakes softly. If you jumped on them no problems. I had all four replaced with after market onces(disks and pads). Issue went away so i thought warped disc. All good for about 8 months then the issue started to come back. I wondered if i had a sticking caplier so i had both front caplipers rebuilt but the problem didnt go away so i replaced both front discs and pads with bmw ones. Issue went away again. That was about 6 months ago the issue is starting to come back again.Total confused. Tyres are new pirelli all round wheel perfectly balanced. I cannot reproduce this problem on demand it just seems to do it when it wants to.

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General Car Chat / Electric wing mirrors
« on: 16 January 2019, 19:49:27 »
I bought a bmw x3 with electric everything :-X anyway i knew when i bought it the drivers side mirror would not tilt or fold away. That didnt bother me as the passenger side one did , also the passenger one tilted down when put in reverse. That has now stopped working as well. The windows on both sides still work off the drivers switch. Could somebody tell me is they a way of testing the wireing to the mirrors without have to strip the door down. There is only one fuse so i cant see it being that as 1 was workkng.
I do have a multi meter but dont really know how to use it, so would need to know what to switch it to and what i would expect ghe results to be.
 I spoke to local garage and they want £78 a hour to try and identify whats wrong.

Any help would be appreciate.

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General Car Chat / Foot pump
« on: 12 January 2019, 16:29:53 »
Anybody recommend a good car tyre footpump with accurate gauge.

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