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Messages - Kevin Wood

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General Car Chat / Re: Mondeo Running Rough
« on: 16 December 2023, 22:29:02 »
You missed the fourth stage: not working properly and causing expensive faults ;D

.. and the fifth stage: "sheared off in the cylinder head". ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Kraft Beers ?
« on: 15 December 2023, 22:01:20 »
Makes a change for the septic tanks though. Their beer has usually been made from what they have carefully extracted from the bladders of countless gnats.  :)

If Carlsberg made beer in the U.S. it would be renamed Girlsberg.  :D

Yes, it seems the US are finally developing some taste in beer and shunning the bud / coors / michelob p*ss.

The reason that Australians drink their beer ice cold is because it's shite and you can't taste it when it's almost a frozen block of lager!  ;D

The Australians are a lost cause. Which is why when my mate came over from Aus for a 24h radio contest earlier this year, in his enthusiasm, he got through a polypin of Exmoor Beast on the first evening then slept through the rest of the weekend. It was jet lag, apparently. ;D

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General Discussion Area / Re: Kraft Beers ?
« on: 15 December 2023, 18:48:16 »
True but the American idea of beer is Budweiser, so pretty much anything is an improvement  >:D

A few years ago when I house sat my mates place in Houston, the Pub round the corner called the Shakespeare is a craft beer place and has a huge horseshoe shaped bar with about 30 different draught craft beers.   It would have been rude not to have tried them all!  :y
Absolutely  :y
On my last trip to the US we took some customers to a brewery tap and most of the beers were porters and started at about 7 1/2%.
I decided it would be rude not to try a few but that did put me in a bit of a muddle. ::)

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General Car Chat / Re: Tesla recalling....
« on: 13 December 2023, 17:35:09 »
It's an OTA firmware upgrade, so probably not too expensive in the scheme of things.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dolting along
« on: 09 December 2023, 12:27:04 »
45 MPH is the chosen speed of hard of thinking drivers who CBA to remember what the speed limit is and aren't sufficiently awake to have a handle on the prevailing road conditions and hazards.  >:(

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Radio on, no sound
« on: 07 December 2023, 18:30:25 »
Whatever you buy make sure its DAB radio. It made the old radio we used to listen to redundant several years ago, but many people havent realised yet.  :y

My Jag has DAB. I tried it for one commute, decided it was utter sh1te and went back to FM.

Absolute classic rock. Planet rock. something or other classic 70,s.....etc. I find it pretty good.
There is even a Gaydio station for those of that persuasion. I think theres something for everyone on there.
Oh and theres GB News live.  :D

Nothing wrong with the channels, it's the reception. Even Radio 4 doesn't make it more than a couple of miles into my commute, but FM is solid all the way.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Radio on, no sound
« on: 07 December 2023, 07:43:39 »
Whatever you buy make sure its DAB radio. It made the old radio we used to listen to redundant several years ago, but many people havent realised yet.  :y

My Jag has DAB. I tried it for one commute, decided it was utter sh1te and went back to FM.

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Omega General Help / Re: crank shaft sensor query.
« on: 07 December 2023, 07:41:22 »
Most quite a lot of drives of all makes drive like idiots nowadays, because there is nothing to keep them in check. They can drive in the most appalling manner without any fear of being pulled up by the law, they know where the speed cameras are and most of them don't work anyway. It's a free for all, and most people expect, and even make allowances for, other drivers pulling out, overtaking dangerously, speeding and generally not following the rules of the road.

.. and don 't get me started on the wokerati who refuse to pass a oppsing side road without stopping to let someone out - even if there's no traffic behind them anyway. >:(

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Omega General Help / Re: crank shaft sensor query.
« on: 06 December 2023, 00:02:17 »
...I suggest it as a service item because changing it as a matter of course at 100k is no different to, by way of an example, changing the water pump along with the cambelt on a VW Golf....

A colleague of mine has had 2 water pumps die within as many years on his Golf, one siezed up, left him standing by the roadside and very luckily didn't lunch the engine, but VAG cars are not unreliable. Oh, no! ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 01 December 2023, 18:27:43 »
As the sun started to come up this morning, I put the space saver on the back of hers, and dropped the wheel I took off to my grumpy MOT man to remove the screw...

That was a nice birthday present for her  ;D
See, I know far better than you how to treat a woman.  Though the time you bought Mrs DTM an iron for her birthday does deserve credit.....

Nice, practical present, that. Must make ironing his shirts much more enjoyable.

Probably best to find a lightweight model next time, mind. :-X

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General Car Chat / Re: Car features
« on: 01 December 2023, 18:25:26 »
Automation in cars is utterly pointless, and now it's filtering down to the French and Korean tat it's even more poorly implemented.

The more you take away from the driver, the more oblivious to the whole thing they become.

Unit it can drive itself with no intervention, what problem does it actually solve?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Cruise ship pollution
« on: 01 December 2023, 07:37:22 »
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?

That would require them to actually see the big picture, silly.  ;)

.. and these ships drop enough junk into the sea once underway as it is... ;D

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 30 November 2023, 22:59:12 »
May I take it from the pic that restricted performance tops out at 90mph?

Clearly tailored to the driver...
Being diesel it would be extremely unlikely to get anywhere near 170 mph :D
Does it have long enough between breakdowns for that much acceleration? ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 29 November 2023, 22:46:06 »
Merc drivers.   All of them.  Is it a requirement for a lobotomy upon purchase.

How oppsing slow can they all drive, and just how much fresh air can they give way to.

 >:(


Is it a lobotomy, or because they're so blind that they willingly buy such ugly cars?

Don't forget a majority are senile too. ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dublin Stabbings
« on: 26 November 2023, 11:17:05 »
.. and this is the root of the problem. The Police refuse to do their job, hold their noses and deal with the vermin.

One of them damaged Emma's car in her work car park. Usual vehicle - transit tipper, no doubt with no tax, mot or insurance.

He'd called into several other units on the site asking for scrap, and left a business card. We had CCTV of him damaging the car, which clearly showed the vehicle registration number and the driver's face.

This was all presented to the Police who were "unable to trace" him, apparently.  >:(

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