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General Car Chat / Re: Petrol consumption.
« on: 28 December 2023, 00:10:49 »
Excellent.

We are on holiday in Sanlucar de Barrameda ( ( near Cadiz) at the moment. Seville is great but not in the summer. Murderously hot!

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General Car Chat / Re: Petrol consumption.
« on: 27 December 2023, 21:05:06 »
Ah nice, is that the new M235i that's in your photo? Car share mate was close to ordering one, but he likes the 4 doors of his current m235i. Adaptive Dampers was a good call, a rare option out there second hand I find.

I would have taken the heated steering wheel, assume you have the car now? As I only found out recently (on the F36 at least) that if you have lane assist, you can just add the button and code in a heated steering wheel, as it comes with the elements already.

I have lane assist. It is dangerous and can't be permanently disabled, so I have to switch it off every time I start the car. :-\

Few things:

1) Are you logged into your driver profile?
2) Have you disabled it? (press the lane assist circle button) - Disable steering intervention
3) Select individual mode


*also link your key to your profile

Hello tunnie, nice to see you posting on the forum. Pension and share options doing well?

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General Car Chat / Re: MOT pass (phew)
« on: 21 December 2023, 23:38:06 »
Well done Terbs.

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Too right , we live in scary times.

Throw in the planet getting warmer from whatever causes and the use of genie out of the bottle AI and nothing will bring peace until there is a world government.

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General Discussion Area / Re: That crept up fast
« on: 11 December 2023, 20:39:55 »
Take her away for a surprise break. Spa, massage. Cant go wrong. We are past the age of Optis new vaccum cleaner, Tiggers car boot knock off Chanel 5 or the ubiquitous box of belgium chocs.

No drinking and driving, luxurious dining ( zero effort) nice location. If you like contact hotel before for extra surprise(s) . What is not to like . Zero trekking about, zero parcels to wrap with two left hands

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dolting along
« on: 10 December 2023, 16:54:13 »
My fascination is being behind a driver doing 45mph in a 60mph zone, then continues at 45mph in a 40mph zone, and finally rounds it off by continuing at 45mph through a 30mph zone.   ;D ::)

Back in the 80s during train drivers strike two of us from work started a car sharing scheme. It failed as my friend drove exactly like that 45 mph in Hinckley and 45 down the M69. Funnily enough I keep in touch with him .

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General Discussion Area / Dolting along
« on: 09 December 2023, 09:48:15 »
Is my phrase to cover some of the drivers on roads in Britain.

My theory is that people are randomly selected each day ( or perhaps permanently?) to drive at a ridiculously low speed for the prevailing conditions in whatever lane they happen to be in.

The journey from Leeds airport to Scarborough ( 67 miles) takes about two hours despite big chunks of dual carriageway. Some of it is volume of traffic but mostly it is the few DOLTING ALONG at say 45 mph in the outside lane or 30 on a country road

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 09 December 2023, 09:39:22 »
I'm surprised that this slipped under the radar .
Unique is an apt description for her .
RIP Rosemary Smith .
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/2023/12/06/rosemary-smith-a-life-in-pictures/

I spotted that. Good article. They dont do rallies like London Mexico/Sydney anymore. The recent Roger Albert Clark rally had a final special stage of around 38 miles. About the total stage length of modern rallies. The Lancia Stratos was a sight to behold and was being pedalled enthusiastically.

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General Discussion Area / Ev driver
« on: 09 December 2023, 09:30:42 »
I was in a Shell station convenience store in the North yesterday in the queue to pay

Cashier to bloke in front of me. “ Any fuel?”
Bloke replied in a superior , slightly louder than normal voice. “ No, I drive an electric vehicle” “ do you sell lottery tickets?”

Me “ Is that so you can buy a new battery?”

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General Car Chat / Re: Age old question....
« on: 07 December 2023, 20:27:01 »
If you could live with left hand drive why not import a good example low kilometrage Omega from the continent?

There  are three 50k miles example for about £7000  in Germany( suchen .mobile.de website)I could put you in touch with the chap at Specialist vehicles who imported ours.

LHD wouldnt be for everyone! Overtaking and car park barriers to name just two but maybe Convert it to RHD?

An Omega from further South might be even better but low mileage jobs are harder tocome by in Spain in my experience and often do not have any service history at all. My local garage was gobsmacked when I insisted on him filling in the logbook.

Might be a bit retro but a low mileage high spec 3.0 Opel Omega would do the job……

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General Car Chat / Re: Age old question....
« on: 05 December 2023, 22:15:48 »
If you could live with left hand drive why not import a good example low kilometrage Omega from the continent?

There  are three 50k miles example for about £7000  in Germany( suchen .mobile.de website)I could put you in touch with the chap at Specialist vehicles who imported ours.

LHD wouldnt be for everyone! Overtaking and car park barriers to name just two but maybe Convert it to RHD?

An Omega from further South might be even better but low mileage jobs are harder tocome by in Spain in my experience and often do not have any service history at all. My local garage was gobsmacked when I insisted on him filling in the logbook.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Not so clever now is he.
« on: 05 December 2023, 09:00:26 »
Rodents are a problem in Spain forcars especially rural properties like ours.

Our VW dealer spotted some very minor gnawing marks and recommended packing spaces with polystyrene from product packaging. Had some reservations and avoided hot areas and moving parts. Took it to a different garage for its next service and they all vanished.

I can just imagine their lunchtime-conversation.

We spend a fortune on bait ( most of which doesnt work or only works when fresh and have a selection of traps……..

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General Car Chat / Re: Car features
« on: 02 December 2023, 17:14:04 »
Before each journey......I switch off the start/stop nanny (unless the car is in sport or sport plus) when the system is inoperative.

I also turn off the dangerous 'so called safety feature' of lane assistance, which drags the cars towards every cyclist or pothole when I pull out to pass.

I also have front collision avoidance feature which slams on the brakes every time it feels I take a corner too fast. I can't switch this off completely, so turn it down to it's least intrusive level. F*ucking hate all this crap. :(

I am thinking older cars are better for thinking drivers. Maybe a ten year old Mseries low mileage for your next car?. At least this Astra allows me to switch off stop start once for the entire hire priod. VW, I have to do it every time car is started. The hire car has changing screen lane colour if you get too close and a flickering orange light. Thought it was low oil first time it vaguely flickered.

We are in the grey era before the norm is self driving cars with human driven cars being highly regulated. Driving data downloaded to a database trawled by AI looking for offenders ( vigorous braking, acceleration and of course speed limit violations)

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General Car Chat / Car features
« on: 01 December 2023, 15:30:47 »
Flew into Leeds airport yesterday and picked my hire car up in dark, snowy, icy conditions. In fact it had four inches of snow on it .

It was an Astra ( well a Peugeot Or similar I guess)

Show me the controls please. He said just put lights on auto. Where is the handbrake. Electronic. We have an electronic handbrake on our golf. On off or autohold ( seperate light and button) On this car no such feature. In the end I concluded it must go off automatically as you set off.

Worst feature especially on the country roads around Harewood House, was it put main beam on whenever it could but didnt dip when another car came along! Didnt take me too long to find a “ manual “ setting on the dash.  How would that work on the much vaunted autonomous cars……?

I just am not a fan of the interlocks on modern cars .

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General Discussion Area / Cruise ship pollution
« on: 01 December 2023, 07:05:39 »
Caught the tail end of a piece on the one show last night so open to correction…..

The European cruise ships create the equivalent pollution of 1 billion cars.

The chief “ eco officer” for MSC was proudly explaining what they were doing to reduce impact on the environment. .Some things were impressive like water and sewage handling. In Southampton they “ plug” the ship into the mains so theydont have to run the engines while docked. That mist be a thick cable………

Where are the environmentalists demanding the banning of cruise ships? Perhaps just stop oil folk could superglue themselves to the water line?

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