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General Car Chat / Re: I wish

« on: 11 February 2026, 13:25:10 »

The TPMS sensors were showing low voltage, you could reset them and in a few days where showing a fault.

I had to get them changed.

Thanks for the link.

Ah, no worries if you've already had them done. The purpose of the service I linked to is that it removes/disables the TPMS function entirely so the car either doesn't know it has TPMS fitted, or just thinks everything is fine with it. Either way it doesn't matter what the sensors are or are not showing, you'll never see a warning on the dashboard again. 

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General Car Chat / Re: I wish

« on: 11 February 2026, 13:07:09 »

Christ alive that's a lot of money!

Have you tried the AA website? I used a random 2017 astra reg number (came back as 1.6 diesel) and they quoted £212 to do the fronts and £196 for the rears. Which I still think is a lot, but a big chunk less than you were quoted. You have the option of a man in a nice yellow van doing it on your drive too - which sounds better to me than sitting in a freezing cold waiting room drinking sh!t coffee.

LINK TO AA WEBSITE

Just for info, TPMS can be coded out for roughly £50 using a postal service (they send you a box to plug in, you do the update then send it back) so it will never appear again. Which would be my choice, like others I would argue that if you can't spot that your tyres are flat, you should hand back your licence.

LINK TO ONE SUCH SERVICE


Total for the work doing the above way would be £450 ish - much more palatable   

 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 09 February 2026, 21:16:49 »

Changed the rear exhaust on the galaxy, a refreshingly easy job.

I say changed, technically the old one removed itself. Which made the job easier 

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General Car Chat / Re: Electric Motorcycling

« on: 09 February 2026, 11:29:44 »

Seen a few of these about locally....

https://maeving.com/en-gb

These definitely look like they would be ridden by people who work in micro pubs, have top knots and use beard oil. 

Very Shoreditch 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 05 February 2026, 10:19:07 »

Took the BMW to the local motor factors to collect a replacement for the bits that dropped off the galaxy this week 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 05 February 2026, 10:18:00 »

With the features switched off, I'd expect no impact of charge level over a few days, as it's only powering alarm, entry system and telematics really.

Been a lurker on Tesla groups, when they were on the short list. There is a 'phantom' drain issue there, but I think it's due to all the cameras and sentry mode etc. Not unheard of for considerable amounts eg 20% of power lost in a week. Other functions like a climate over product to cool if car gets to hot etc are on by default.

To allay any potential concerns - the iX lost about 2% over the week we left it parked at Southampton docks last summer - and iirc yours has a larger battery than mine. I assume waking it up with the app might make it lose more, but I can't see why you'd need to.

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General Car Chat / Re: Disco Sport TD4...

« on: 05 February 2026, 10:12:54 »

Personally I wouldn't have one of the later 2.0 diesels, based purely off personal experience of a disco 5 that I owned for about a week before it went back to the dealer due to one of the well known issues that TB mentioned (cracked inlet manifold iirc). Also one of the dad's at my son's school had one that gave nothing but trouble. I suspect that was down to issues from improper diesel use but nevertheless, he seemed to always be chasing something, Turbo actuator / MAF, all manner of things were mooted and tested but he never got to the bottom of it. In the two years we were acquaintances it seemed to give him nothing but trouble - ultimately he traded it in rather than fire a big parts cannon at it  .

SWMBO's 2.2 Evoque seemed pretty reliable in the time she had it, a perished hose and some odd electrical gremlins caused by the need for a new aux battery were about the extent of its offences.   

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General Car Chat / Re: Banger Volvo vs Brand New

« on: 03 February 2026, 12:58:58 »

I'll also add, I have a sneaky feeling that 90% of all brand new EV's on the road are salary sacrifice deals. Soon as support for that is pulled, no one will be buying them new.

Definitely this.

The inflated list prices (which all legacy motor manufacturers are incentivised to do) mean you'd have to be a bit mad to buy or finance one new with your own money.

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General Discussion Area / Re: 3D Printer Chat

« on: 30 January 2026, 14:08:47 »

Can't remember if I said I had stick on RFID tags for my non RFID spools.  That works well - I know it only takes a few taps to manually enter on the printer, but RFID is proper lazy

I am going to do this, in fact I ordered some, then found out there are multiple standards and ordered the wrong ones because I'm a bit simple. Returned with more are on order. I find the little screen on mine quite fiddly with my shovel hands, so the stickers would be better.  Also, some of us don't have the ability to have 16 rolls on the go at any one time 

I've also ordered 10 reels of Hyper PLA RFID for £84 delivered from Creality, because, well, errr, its a fettish. 

£8.40p per reel for the RFID stuff is a great price. Looking on the Creality store the best I can see is £19.99 with 30% off if you spend 10. Am I missing something? 

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General Discussion Area / Re: 3D Printer Chat

« on: 29 January 2026, 16:42:33 »

Ah, one question I did have TB, is do you have any sort of isolating feet for yours?

I'm just printing at the standard 100% but the printer doesn't half get a wobble on when going back and forth on narrow parts.

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General Discussion Area / Re: 3D Printer Chat

« on: 29 January 2026, 16:08:36 »

Well it took me nearly another two weeks to actually get setup and printing, but so far its worked flawlessly, setup was easy and so far everything I have done has been via the Creality Cloud app and website. I will need to use the standalone slicer at some point, but to be able to design in tinkercad and print from the app, is extremely useful (work laptop).

To date I haven't any Wifi issues and the speed and quality of prints are both next level compared to what I have been used to previously. To date I haven't printed much beyond enhancements to the printer itself - CFS riser and dessicant boxes, poop chute and bin etc. But not having to wait 24-48hrs for big prints has certainly opened up a lot of possibilities. Overall I can definitely recommend the regular K2

Next stop is converting the old ender 3 into a laser engraver....

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General Car Chat / Re: Help identifying airline connector

« on: 29 January 2026, 15:35:24 »

With the info from Skruntie's AI (which predictably cocked up the 2 I did know, but its the (sad) future ), it's identified as a Nitto Kohki coupling .  Apparently the dominant connector in the far east. Which makes sense, as this is decidedly Ching Chong.

WTF have you been ordering that's got that nonsense attached to it? I would have thought a man of your "experiences" would have been more careful with what gets put in their garage. 

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General Car Chat / Re: Help identifying airline connector

« on: 29 January 2026, 15:09:33 »

ARO 3810 10mm...

https://twlnz.co.nz/aro-hose-insert-10mm-model-3810/?srsltid=AfmBOooA7EhUpWez2nWx4LKJ0FjEgay9_D8CbjecsLEtZ_6qU9w3UGAq

Obviously with a threaded insert on the other end rather than the hose tail of the one I linked to.

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General Car Chat / Re: Banger Volvo vs Brand New

« on: 29 January 2026, 14:59:46 »

Plus work wise, I was in Lisbon in December for the week, I'm in Prague next week and I'm in Philadelphia at the end of Feb for 1.5 weeks. 

Sounds a bit like my travel schedule used to be! I honestly miss it sometimes, but also not sure I'd want to leave the family (and a wife who actually likes me) these days. Are you still with the same business? 

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General Car Chat / Re: BMW i4 M60 Arrived

« on: 29 January 2026, 14:52:37 »

Officially, this i4 M60 on paper is a £75k car. Not that anyone pays that! BMW were offering 35% to Lex on the build slot, which explains why this was cheaper than a Tesla which had a list price of £50k on LEX monthlies.

I do wonder how BMW does the pricing on its lease cars sometimes. My iX is similar base price of c£75k (iX M60 is something like £115k  ), but the monthlies of Octopus can fluctuate by >£200 pcm. I managed to get it at a fairly low ebb, but I don't think I could have the same car again if my lease were coming to an end soon.