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General Car Chat / Re: Zafira Tourer engine choices
« on: 06 September 2023, 18:08:21 »
How many seats do you need ?

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General Discussion Area / Re: UK Public Alert Test
« on: 20 April 2023, 12:16:05 »
No difference to getting a text off your power supplier to tell you you may suffer power cuts.
Really don't understand why so many people are getting there nickers in a twist over this.
Just click on the button and get on with your life's  ::) :y

I think people are sick and fed up with gradually losing their freedom. We are told what we can and cannot do, what we can and cannot say without upsetting the 0.01% of weirdo’s, and it’s getting to the stage where people need to push back. This warning alert is never intended with our best interests at heart, we have TV for that. Just constantly broadcast it and News would spread like wildfire, preferably not on any BBC channel though as surely nobody watches their shite anymore.  :-\

It’s our own fault of course, as we love gadgets, and love to have our GPS on so that everyone knows where we are and where we’ve been.
I entered a car park the other day, simply to turn around and go back the other way. Within seconds my phone beeped and a message asked how I rated the Bellview Centre, which was apparently where I’d turned around.  ::) Yep, it’s all our own fault for these intrusions.


I don't know about that.  All depends on the powers that be are sensible with it.
If they start taking the piss, everybody with turn it off anyway.

I find if you want the world to find out something, just stick a open post on Facebook and every tom dick and harry will know within the hour

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 20 April 2023, 12:05:44 »
Not usually  the most exciting things to drive, but the build quality is miles ahead of any European stuff.  ;)

Initial potentially yes (although the Japs tend to steer away from the latest tech and settle on the safer bet, proven, last gen, which is what keeps the quality a bit higher) but, after about ten years this drops off a cliff and then they can get very problematic.


Tell me about it
Mechanically its seems very well thought out and put together but little things like nuts that are made of shite steel corrode and round off with a hard stare.
Makes what should be a easyish job a ball ache.
And the parts ain't cheap either  :'(

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General Car Chat / Re: Thanks, Mr Chrisgixer!
« on: 20 April 2023, 12:01:13 »
Chrisgixer
That's a name from the past

Hope hope life's treating you well Chris  :)

I could comment .... but won't  :-X

Come on then, don't tease ....... 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 19 April 2023, 13:21:11 »
Hondas are reliable, and scheduled maintenance is well thought out and affordable just like most other Japanese cars. But if you manage to break one.....


It could be worse, you might have been daft enough to buy a Mitsubishi ;D


Broke the Omega last year and had to move quick.
Lads got a Mk8 Civic with the same donk in it and other then the stupidly sensitive steering, I actually like the car.
Me and the missus are not getting any younger and i've got to admit its bloody comfy and I love stepping into / out of the thing but look at the omega sat there everyday and ask myself the question .......  then the wife cracks my across the head  :-[ ;D
Bought it from a dealer at the time these things where going up in price by 100 quid a week  (first time ever) and got my pants pulled down  :'(
It was supposed to be fully stamped up but the more I look into it, somebody had been playing with the stamp and ink  >:(
Just my luck the past few years  ::)


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General Car Chat / Re: Thanks, Mr Chrisgixer!
« on: 19 April 2023, 12:33:25 »
Chrisgixer
That's a name from the past

Hope hope life's treating you well Chris  :)

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 19 April 2023, 12:31:19 »
Popped 4 reconditioned injectors into the CR-V
Now starts instantly and it much MUCH smoother to drive.
Getting the injectors coded into the ECU on Friday so should be much better on fuel.

Now got to look into this rumbling noise / clutch slipping business  :'(

Buy a Honda CR-V they said .......
Lovely and reliable they said .......
You won't regret it they said ......

'dangle berries'

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iPhone 13 mini from Giffgaff
Not too big
Brilliant camera
Does what it says in the tin
Battery holds up great upto now
5G good enough to watch Netflix on a firestick from my pikey van
Can't fault it tbh 


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General Discussion Area / Re: UK Public Alert Test
« on: 19 April 2023, 12:15:40 »
No difference to getting a text off your power supplier to tell you you may suffer power cuts.
Really don't understand why so many people are getting there nickers in a twist over this.
Just click on the button and get on with your life's  ::) :y

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General Discussion Area / Re: Apple I.D.
« on: 13 March 2023, 11:07:59 »
If you have a Gmail account / address, download Google photos for your phone and use that to back up your iPhone pictures overnight then have a purge.
You get 15 gig to play with.
Works a treat on my phone

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Battery drain
« on: 21 December 2022, 13:18:43 »
It’s actually PX24 which we used to use in the military.
Always thought that and WD was the same thing
The letters in WD40 actually stand for Water Displacement.

It was originally developed by a Rocket Research Contractor to the US Defence and later for NASA, it was originally used as an preventative anti rust solution for the Atlas Rockets and also used on the outside skins for the Apollo Mission as an Water/Ice Desplacement just before lift off so any Fuel Ice Build Up would disperse within seconds after Take Off.

As TB points out its an Oil based product, purely as a it sticks rather than a lubricant, and any oil is an insulater to electrical contacts as oil acts as a insulater.

Some Airport Services in the Colder Regions also mix WD40 with the Antifreeze Solutions they use when Jet Washing Aircraft prior to take off to give some extra protection on their climb out.  ;)


Interesting  :y

Just for the record, never did got to the bottom of it.  Too bloody cold for my middle aged bones  :-X ;D
She is all wrapped up for the winter and i'll endeavour to get the old girl back up running in the spring  :y
Then i've got to see if I can find the money to keep her or move he onto a loving home  :)

Until then its down to driving this CR_V which like any domestic appliance, it just goes..........   :(

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General Discussion Area / Re: Ambulance Service more bullshit.
« on: 21 December 2022, 13:08:33 »
Let them have whatever money they want under one proviso .............

Every penny comes out of the excising budget.
Then we might see some changes to the management structure and get rid of some of these joke jobs that are invented just to keep the PC / woke brigade happy.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Shoreham Air Show.
« on: 21 December 2022, 12:57:44 »
He deserves a civil suit for each victim.

There wasn't much wrong with the aircraft other than the person flying it, but apparently he remembers 'nothing' of the event.

You'd have thought that all the footage might have jogged his memory.  :-X


Is he still claiming that he doesn't remember the incident ?
Still find it hard to believe that some people in the aviation industry still insist of defending this W anker.
Arrogance beyond belief in my humble opinion  >:(

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Battery drain
« on: 24 October 2022, 12:40:46 »
Firstly, once a battery has been allowed to discharge, its oppsed. How oppsed depends on how excellent it was before.

Secondly, WD40 is really bad for electrics, as the oil in it acts as an insulator.  Use a water displacer designed for electrics.

Lastly, consumer relay is up under dash by base of A post


It’s actually PX24 which we used to use in the military.
Always thought that and WD was the same thing

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Battery drain
« on: 24 October 2022, 12:38:21 »
Thanks for the replies
Had battery (europarts special) on slow charge all Saturday night and by Sunday morning it would only hold 11 volts so blagged another one under warranty.
Had a quick look this morning before work and voltage hasn’t budged at all but still not turning over.
I’ll get it up in the air and see how many volts I have across the starter solenoid when I get chance / and it’s daylight and let you all know  :)

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