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General Discussion Area / Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse.
« on: 26 March 2024, 19:12:52 »
I see that the port is expected to close indefinitely, causing huge supply chain issues. Last year more than 847,000 cars and light trucks passed through the port, the 13th consecutive year it has led all other ports for these. Nissan, Toyota, GM, Volvo , JLR and VW use Baltimore for imports and exports (Source: National Times).
Given just how far inland it is, it's surprising just how busy it is.

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Omega General Help / Re: central locking
« on: 26 March 2024, 17:24:55 »
Temperature/humidity related perhaps, but to answer your question, no.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse.
« on: 26 March 2024, 16:03:27 »
I read earlier that there were two pilots on board. Seems to have been some kind of equipment failure, it will all come out in the wash.
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Night out on the piss before sail away.
Apparently not from the second video.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse.
« on: 26 March 2024, 15:52:31 »
This is a much more informative video. You can see that the ship's lights go out, then come back on again and large plumes of exhaust (suggesting full emergency reverse?) all prior to the impact. To me, that suggests mechanical failure of some sort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDceU9x58vc&t=26s
That certainly throws a different light on it :y looks like they'd almost bought the bow back around.

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General Discussion Area / Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse.
« on: 26 March 2024, 13:42:55 »
https://youtu.be/wav1HjTCfvM?si=-p7EWBNW-nYCoiA0

The container ship wasn't even pretending to be in the marked channel under the bridge :o

It may have been trying to cut the corner to the west of Fort Carroll  but would have had plenty of room to clear the bridge first.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 26 March 2024, 13:16:49 »
Big difference between weathered and green slime. Out patios are York stone and now look like the year they were laid.
Bloody southerners, coming up here, pinching our stone.
Bloody Northerners coming down here and nicking our women... :P

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 26 March 2024, 05:38:47 »
Big difference between weathered and green slime. Out patios are York stone and now look like the year they were laid.

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 19:00:04 »
Why does C-L-I-O become clit? ::)
Remember Nicole? Well, she had both >:D

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 16:11:36 »
Cars from 30 years ago that had less power, also had a lot less weight to pull along. So yes it is relative, but imo its much more fun driving a 1 ton car with 150bhp than a 2 ton car with 300bhp.
1.3 Polo and 1.4 106 both attest to that. The trolley was a hoot in spite of being a lardy arse with 100 bhp. Near 400bhp in 1.8t is a different sort of progress but still quite effective on a fast twisty road. Much like the Omega.

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 15:35:48 »
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M40 - M25 has too many cameras for such shenanigans ………….

And this is the problem wherever you drive these days. When we travelled back from Wales recently, I commented to my Mrs that, apart from brisk overtakes, there’s not much point in having a fast car these days. We were in her car, which is well capable of north of 150mph, but the traffic flow, average speed monitoring cameras and the sneaky camera vans etc made it a painfully long journey.  ::)  The days of playing ‘ beat the sat nav ETA by half ‘ are a thing of the distant past now.      :(
A 2.3 Granada with a heady 114bhp used to be enough to get the job done on the quicker side of safely. Now it requires about 300bhp and commitment.

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 15:33:51 »
picks its heels up when asked.
All things are relative.  I consider 150bhp to be a sluggish dog ;D.  Maybe when I'm (even) older....  ;D
And to think it wasn't all that long ago that 150bhp was considered to be pretty decent.
By the late 80s, most 2l petrols were getting thereabouts.  Thats 35yrs ago now ;)
By most, you mean the Cavalier, Early 90's perhaps with the shift away from K Jetronic injection and carbs.

The newest stuff being much more efficient at burning the fuel to the point that they'll either do a gazillion mpg or produce a bucket load of power... Although this almost always requires forced induction to compensate for the lack of displacement so the flip side is extremely short engine life.

A decent tune on a modest NA engine will get the job done for most people. Obviously if you want to get around more excitingly, then you just add boost on a modern lump. Ultimately though you're limited by traction and chassis deficiency so a manual box and 150bhp will be as much as most people can make good use of.

All that said, if you want something more, then get it whilst you can. Do love the burble of a V8 >:D

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:35:40 »
I thought once every 20 years was reasonable for a proper blast off, no pun intended :-[

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:15:59 »
picks its heels up when asked.
All things are relative.  I consider 150bhp to be a sluggish dog ;D.  Maybe when I'm (even) older....  ;D
And to think it wasn't all that long ago that 150bhp was considered to be pretty decent.

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General Car Chat / Re: Insurance renewal .
« on: 25 March 2024, 12:46:56 »
I couldn't beat my renewal this year... Next best quote was about £300 more.

Was insured with LV for a few years but switched after they sold my details following a non fault accident. The spam calls got so bad I had to change my number >:(

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 12:42:19 »
Touch wood but the Yeti has just cost service items and MOT for the last 2 years, does about 10miles per litre in comfort. Handles well and 150 HP 2L oil burner picks its heels up when asked.
My Altea didn't cost much in maintenance terms...tyres, brakes, rear shocks and servicing over 2 years/135k miles... Probably about £5k, not that it was particularly reliable... it wasn't and dealer ineptitude meant the cambelt service was free amongst other things. Plus £10k in depreciation. And £22.5k in fuel along with £600 in rfl, £3.7k insurance and £7,200 in payments.

Man maths makes that a grand total of £56k to run a £12.5k brand new car for 2 years/135k miles. Or 41ppm over the ownership of the vehicle.

Thinking about it, £56k sounds like alot but 41ppm almost sounds reasonable... :-\

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