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General Discussion Area / Motor bike crash

« on: 06 May 2025, 16:51:50 »

There was a really bad crash involving 11 bikes in yesterday's Super Sport race. The meeting was abandoned and two riders (one 21 and one 29) sadly lost their lives with a third seriously injured still in hospital. Apparently the police have launched an investigation. It is sad that riders lost their lives but it was a motorbike race they were all approaching the first corner and accidents do tend to happen it's a dangerous sport.

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General Discussion Area / TV problem?

« on: 01 March 2025, 15:53:57 »

I watch TV using Freeview.For the past few days if I select channel 17[Really]the picture is breaking up and the sound is stuttery.The same effect happens on channel 48[Challenge] and channel 60[U&Drama+1] although all the other channels from 1{BBC] to 82{Talking picturesTV] are fine including channel 20[U&Drama].I've tried retuning the TV but the problem remains,is anyone else having such issues? Any clues on the issue and how to fix it? The TV gets its signal from a roof top aerial as it always has and is not connected to the internet or any other source.

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General Discussion Area / Sad day

« on: 25 February 2025, 19:52:31 »

Had to have my dog put to sleep. Had her since she was just old enough to leave her  mother but at just over fourteen and a half she'd sadly reached the end of the line.

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General Car Chat / Real rarity

« on: 17 December 2024, 18:26:50 »

Out on my daily walk today and passing one of the houses I saw on the drive a car I've never seen locally before-in fact I don't think I've ever seen one before anywhere. A four door saloon in a flat grey colour it had the simple script Hunter on the bootlid. The bodywork[on a simple walk past look didn't show any obvious signs of rust although the rear bumper was rusty and there were no hubcaps on the wheels.The bootlid has a fair slope to it until it lines up with the back edges of the rear wings when it curves down to the rear panel/bumper line. A quick google seems to show it to be a 1948/49[can't find any pictures clearly showing the rear]Hillman Hunter. It's certainly not an immediate post war car with the upright rear and a much earlier design than the Audax range from Rootes.

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General Discussion Area / British Gas

« on: 21 November 2024, 16:38:30 »

Received a letter from them today stating action required as they've moved my electricity account to their "new improved" system. As such they've changed my account number and my top up card will no longer work as of yesterdays date,so I have to download my new app[the old one won't work anymore],activate my new look on line account and use my new smart card when I top up. The thing is although I do have a pre-payment meter it uses a plastic key I've never had an old card and don't have a new one nor have I ever had an old app let alone downloading a new one. I've never activated an on line account either!! So much for their "new improved" system.

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General Car Chat / Classic status?

« on: 09 November 2024, 09:46:30 »

In the classic car section of E-bay there's a 2.5 Omega[mfl?] it's a low mileage,low owners car looks good in the pictures [possibly someone cleverer than me can provide a link?]on sale at £6,895. Is the Omega reaching a degree of classic recognition?

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Omega General Help / Paper clip test

« on: 09 August 2024, 17:13:02 »

When using this method of code reading is there a way of clearing the codes so you know which are historic and which are current?

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General Discussion Area / MotoGP

« on: 30 July 2024, 18:26:21 »

The British round of this years championship is being shown live on ITV/ITV4. Saturday 2.30 to 4.00 is the sprint race on ITV4.Sunday also on ITV4 is the Moto3 race 10.00 [race start 11.15] to 12.35 while coverage of the MotoGP and Moto2 races is on ITV 12.15 to 3.30.

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General Discussion Area / Granddaughter

« on: 21 June 2024, 08:31:42 »

Last October one of my granddaughters  decided she'd learn to drive[she's in her mid thirties]and after having her first lesson went out and bought a well battered MkIV Golf diesel to gain extra practice in. I got roped in to being co-pilot for these extra driving outings,not to try and teach her how to drive but just so she got extra practice.As it was we had many more of these than she did of official lessons with a proper instructor.In fact from last October until yesterday she had 15 hour long proper lessons and yesterday passed her test at the first time of asking.She of course is dead chuffed and I'm relieved as I no longer have to ride about in a god awful Golf!

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General Discussion Area / Dunlop

« on: 02 June 2024, 07:19:38 »

No not the tyres,but Michael. The mad heads are back on the IoM for the TT races. Racing proper[as opposed to practice/qualifying]started yesterday and in the opening Supersport race he took the win to finally equal his uncle Joeys record of 26 wins. With the rest of the week to go he's likely to set a new record although of course anything can happen on the island.

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General Car Chat / Starting issue

« on: 22 May 2024, 16:54:05 »

This is on my step daughters 2001 Volvo C70 with a 2.4 low pressure turbo petrol engine and manual gearbox.Sometimes it will start straight away but most of the time the engine will turn over and occasionally "lock up" [as though a cylinder is flooded]for a split second before continuing to turn over.Once it does start it ticks over evenly and revs cleanly driving exactly as it should.Reading the codes with a cheap reader brought up P0014[cam timing advanced]but the car shows none of the running issues associated with that code.The rear [exhaust?] cam has a hub [vvt?]on it.We've fitted a new crank sensor to no avail .When cranking the rev counter needle will at times flick from zero to about 2,500 revs before instantly dropping back to zero but it doesn't do this with any regularity.Firing the parts cannon at it is not an affordable option. Any ideas as to where/what to look at? TIA.

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Omega General Help / Brakes

« on: 18 April 2024, 17:53:46 »

The last time my Omega was out of the garage[for a short drive around the yard in front of the lock up]a couple of years ago the n/s front brake "grabbed" before the o/s,admittedly the yard surface is hard packed dirt with stones/grit on top.So the brakes obviously need work,not to mention that at present the brake pedal hits the floor now without the brakes working! I fitted a new master cylinder some time ago and some time before that a new n/s rear caliper[the o/s rear was free].My thinking now is to do a rebuild on the o/s rear and both fronts as new front calipers seem to be above £100 each[which is more than twice the price of front calipers for my V70 . The question is as I can't recall what master cylinder/rear caliper I bought how do I tell which brake system my car has? I've seen used front calipers[not that I'm thinking of buying them]which says they're for a Lucas system while new calipers or rebuild kits say they're for either Girling or ATE systems,so potentially three systems to choose from

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General Discussion Area / Stemoshire.

« on: 22 October 2023, 10:30:35 »

Going there first thing Thursday morning.Step granddaughter has agreed to buy[subject to it being as described]a MkIV Golf 1.9d.Unfortunately we'll not have time to stay and sample the delights of Barnsley as she has to be back home in time for her second driving lesson,her boyfriend is slightly less than enthusiastic at the idea of her driving back here especially as it's him that's going to be riding shotgun while I lead the way home avoiding the motorways.Easy enough done Barnsley to Doncaster and pick up the A18 all the way home.Hopefully we'll be able to get in/out of Barnsley before Stemo sets the whippet on us

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General Discussion Area / Great result

« on: 10 September 2023, 10:05:29 »

After going a man down in the first two minutes of the game[England v Argentina in the Rugby Union World Cup] I thought we would be dead in the water,but fair play to them England stuck to it and Ford did a load of damage so although Argentina didn't play anywhere near to their best England took a good win.hope they can keep it up.Congratulations also to Ireland on their success.Scotland and Wales begin their campaigns today so good luck to them too.

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General Car Chat / Original was bad enough

« on: 07 August 2023, 17:55:49 »

The original Citroen Ami wasn't exactly a good looking vehicle but the new Ami  What were they thinking when they designed that???
[Sorry can't do any links to pictures]