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General Car Chat / Re: Need Oil - 50% Off before Midnight.

« on: 12 March 2019, 11:21:01 »

the trade club semi is still cheaper from TB's fave internet auction site @£38 for 20L delivered 

I cant comprehend why people piss about with egay for this sort of stuff. Too expensive, and my issues getting the right stuff delivered in a sensible time frame are well documented.


Ordered some standard 10w40 semi (and some more expensive stuff for the Pussy) at 11:30, £24.99+VAT from dealer. It was delivered by 14:30.

The reason people use ecp/what is there aren't many trade club dealers left,  we haven't got one near hoof'land any more, we use to have 3, we now have 0. Think neatest is now Kettering. 

.. or they get tired of the "I'll just have to get the manager..." routine every time they try to purchase something.

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General Car Chat / Re: Earnie...

« on: 12 March 2019, 11:19:26 »

Plus...the e-golf looks so much better than the leaf. 

I suppose a VAG car without an engine is, at least, a better option than a VAG car with a VAG engine, gearbox, etc..

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General Car Chat / Re: Jag Experts.

« on: 11 March 2019, 16:38:26 »

I dare say Uncle Stemo will be out on the rob all week with all these fences blown down with the wind 
looks like i'll be busy too ,repairing fences 

Nah. I've been knocking on old ladies' doors telling them the wind has damaged their ridge tiles. Yon know, the ones you can't see from the street. I'll do the job dead cheap, but I need a small payment up front for materials.

Oh, @rse! That reminds me.

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General Car Chat / Re: Jag Experts.

« on: 10 March 2019, 19:24:12 »

I bet Sir Lyons is revving quite well in his grave with this talk of tractors.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Don't Remember !

« on: 09 March 2019, 12:28:57 »

Not possible if the AAIB findings were inadmissible

Which is almost as convenient as memory loss, especially when the only fault with the aircraft was the person flying it.

The AIIB are there to improve safety not apportion responsibility. If they immediately turned over everything they learnt to the courts / police at the first sign of litigation, I'm guessing they'd get minimal support from the stakeholders they rely on. Has always been thus.

Besides, the AAIB report contains very little of interest other than that the aircraft did what it did by manipulation of the controls rather than bits falling off it. Something that I'm sure the evidence presented to the trial will have independently established.

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General Car Chat / Re: Jump Starting Modern Cars

« on: 08 March 2019, 19:18:25 »

Cant you just kindly, properly trickle charge it. That's always the safest way.

Batteries don't like being left for days on end in a low state of charge, so its fair to assume the battery won't last that long now anyway.

Yep, and letting the alternator charge it at a 100 Amp rate after you've jump started it probably won't do it any favours either.
Time is clearly not an issue here so I'd just put a trickle charger across it for a couple of days and then try it.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Airshow Safety

« on: 08 March 2019, 16:10:42 »

I don't believe the AAIB report was legally admissable.

TBH, gross negligence is a high bar to prove "beyond reasonable doubt". This is why we have offences of "Causing death by.." on the roads.

Having said that, I'm pretty sure the video shows a sharp heave back on the stick seconds before impact which suggests the seat-stick interface was operational.

Then again, we don't know what evidence+advice was presented to the jury.

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Omega General Help / Re: V6 Timing belt

« on: 08 March 2019, 15:49:50 »

I always wonder why to change the backplate, its included to kits I use and I change it but I do not understand why. I might not be a wearing part?

I seem to recall that at some point they changed the design of the backplate so perhaps it became part of the cam belt kit to ensure it was swapped at the next belt change?

There's certainly no need to change it. I always buy the cheapest kit I can find and use the existing backplate if the supplied on isn't compatible.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Airshow Safety

« on: 08 March 2019, 15:44:58 »

Shoreham Pilot Mr Andy Hill acquitted

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-47495885

I'm saying nowt ...

It appears to have worked in his case.

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General Car Chat / Re: Jump Starting Modern Cars

« on: 08 March 2019, 15:43:22 »

The jump leads don't have an impact, you don't get surges as a result which will impact the ECU's, in fact modern ECUs are more robust than ever

I was going to say: Cars have contained ECUs for decades. What makes manufcaturers suddenly unable to design one that can cope with a jump start? 

I am quite prerared to believe that Mercedes can't design one that can cope with a jump start, mind.

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General Car Chat / Re: Vauxhall Signum......appreciating asset.

« on: 08 March 2019, 13:45:06 »

At least with a 3.0 Omega lump in it, the MG stands a reasonable chance of starting and running long enough to be driven for the power to completely overwhelm the primitive suspension.

FTFY

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General Car Chat / Re: Jump Starting Modern Cars

« on: 08 March 2019, 13:42:47 »

Car: 2014 E-Class E220 CDI.

I parked it up towards end of Jan, as I could not force myself to drive it any more. It's been left on a driveway since, it's going to be used again by MotherT.

Can I jump it as I would an Omega? (if it fails to start?)

Anything special I should do? 

What was wrong with the car that made you stop driving it?

He hasn't reached retirement age yet.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Full beam and general electrical issues

« on: 07 March 2019, 19:08:46 »

I was going to say, if you're in the West bit of Surrey I'm sure I've got my original non-cruise stalk somewhere just over the border in Hampshire.

You'd be welcome to it even just as a stop gap.

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General Car Chat / Re: Omega Entertainment success

« on: 07 March 2019, 19:04:12 »

But its still a shitty FM modulator, with all the clarity issues that provides (not to mention reducing FM radio reception)

You certainly know how to make a girl feel proud of her efforts........

Doesn't he just Opti!

For me it is a big advance on my wind-up 78rpm gramophone!!

Should I send Shami round in leather boots and basque to discipline him, Lizzie?

He's her number one fan, you know.

she is everything nasty about modern society, all in one pig ugly, masculine, annoying lump.

'Tis true'......but I like to believe that feminism can be cured with rational common sense and a good rogering.

She is simply too ugly to try.  I'd rather roger my sister, and she foes very well on the ugly scale.

You ought to limit all these trips to Ipswich for your own safety, I think.

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General Car Chat / Re: Tesla dealership streamlining plans...

« on: 07 March 2019, 19:00:17 »

Daughter is buying a top of range Tesla X with autopilot. Should be interesting to ride in.

Possibly the most disappointing car I have been in given the price tag 

Do tell, I can try to dissuade her.

A friend of mine has one in the US - loves it, wouldn't buy anything other than a Tesla again I suspect. So .. YMMV.

I sat in one and thought it was about par for the course in terms of build quality for a yank car - shoddy, in other words.

At least they appear to have finally got rid of the sticky-back wood effect and chrome knobs that everyone else ditched in the 70's. I'm sure there'll be a green electroluminescent display there somewhere though, despite the fact that most of it seems to have been moved to an upended laptop stuck to the centre console.