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General Discussion Area / Re: Starlink.
« on: Today at 17:26:57 »
That's a similar price to high speed fibre I think?  If you have fibre that is...  ::)
My 500Mb synchronous has just gone up...   ...to £22 ;D

Admittedly that is a special deal, but my previous 900Mb synchronous was only £50 on a rolling month basis.

Decent fibre from altnets is significantly cheaper than services like ADSL when that first came out.  But not many have access to altnets, although more small villages have a better chance :y

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Plenum to intake is 8Nm IIRC

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: Yesterday at 18:44:36 »
Bike engines were producing 100 BHP a litre NA back in the time of Moses.

Quite simple really.....lots of revs and a carb for each cylinder. :y
Yeah, but no torque, sadly.  As nothing is better than 15,000+ rpm rattling your gonads :y

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: Yesterday at 18:43:41 »
The RS2000 had 150bhp (retuned from the 8v lump in the MK3 Granada/Sierra), but the 2.0 Zetec lump was 135/140 iirc.

The Zetec S 170 in the Focus didn't appear until the MY2000 facelift.

The V6 Mundeo was 170bhp all day long.

Mercedes had 185bhp fuel injected twin cam straight six from the early 70's but mainstream stuff took a while to catch up.

The Honda 1.8 revved to about 8k so not sure if that counts  >:D
The Zetecs were underpowered from the moment they were launched, so ignore them.  I remember that PoS 1.6 Zetec Focus she had for several years.  What a crock of shite - not even remotely close to the 1.6 K series Rover I had at the same time.  I think it claimed around 110bhp, but was flat as a witches tit...   ....but could keep up with the equally shite 1.8 Focus her bro had at the same time ;D.  Apart from when it randomly would cut out, which dozens of firmware updates never full resolved.

The V6 mundano was either a 2.9 or 3.0 IIRC, so a bit disappointing.

So Fords from that era are not a great example.

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From memory, I think it was the Elring ones that used to go hard very quickly, and leak prematurely...

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: Yesterday at 16:25:12 »
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
The redtops were a good example.  But plenty of others.  Pretty much any new design from the late 80s was in that ball park.I seemed to remember bro's MkII GTI being 140bhp from a 1,8.  Even a 1.8 K series was north of 140bhp in standard trim, though the 1.8s came a bit later.  Honda too were producing stuff getting close to 100bhp per litre from a NA motor in the first part of the 90s.

Same bro had an RS Turbo in the mid 80s, that couldn't have been far off 140bhp from a 1.6 judging by the speed he had to go to court over :D, but thats forced induction so doesn't count ;D

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Omega General Help / Re: central locking
« on: Yesterday at 16:00:41 »
My passenger door  central locking gave up a few weeks ago.Now suddenly it is working ok any ideas I should be so lucky
Fear not, it will play up again soon, until you fix it.  They usually start out intermittent, then eventually get to the point they properly screw your over, esp if its the driver's door one.

I'd refrain from dead-locking it, and also ensuring that the key works smoothly in the lock.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:26:58 »
DtB - I was more thinking if it still has to be applied annually, not sure if thats much different from me cleaning the patio every Spring?

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:25:34 »
There is fun to be had in slow speed racing ;D
When I had a little yellow van and £1m of liability (we didn't have traditional insurance then), we often used to race other little yellow vans with a rule you could only use 1st and 2nd gear.  I was young, reckless and easily led ;D


Where as now I'm old, reckless and easily led

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:23:26 »
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 ;)

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:21:33 »
"good fun to drive" NO  :D
I quite liked it. Well, the challenge of trying to get from A to B as quickly as I could.

During the lockdown period, my colleague and I had to travel in separate cars (even though we'd be working in the same racks all day), and we struggled to get hire cars at the time, so on the way back it would always be the Battlebus racing his 1.7CDTi Astra, and not too much in it until we got to the (mostly empty) M40 - M25 has too many cameras for such shenanigans - where his better top speed would leave me behind.

There is fun to be had in slow speed racing ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:14:25 »
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... :-\
Like you, I don't know whether to weep or laugh at that :o

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:13:54 »
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

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General Car Chat / Re: Arrival of new Vehicle.
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:11:13 »
Come on, common as now. Even my Yeti has Zenon's that turn when you steer and at slow speed puts the spot light on to light kerb at a junction.
Yeah, but thats VAG, and the stupid foglight turn lights are built to burn retinas of oncoming drivers...   ...be it a Pisshat or a Yeti.  How dare other road users try to use the road ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: Insurance renewal .
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:09:26 »
after they sold my details following a non fault accident. The spam calls got so bad I had to change my number >:(
They all do, sell on your accident to all the ambulance chasers and other scum of the universe.

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