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General Car Chat / Re: Fickin modern cars

« on: 04 December 2023, 16:24:18 »

Back to modern cars with modern, useless, pointless shit to appease the misinformed idiots....

I'd love to meet Sir Ian Callum in a dark alley.  He was the fikkin' moron who was chief designer of my car, so he was the one who signed off in putting that engine in it.  Braindead waste of carbon.

Er no, he signed off nothing more than the exterior shape of it, the design team have no interest or influence on what is under the skin and get mightily pissed off when you impact the outer skin (they currently hate shark fins and want a Merc S class 'ditch' approach which results in shlte connectivity).

Blame power train

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General Discussion Area / Re: Cruise ship pollution

« on: 04 December 2023, 16:20:05 »

The drill ships were 3 phase 6.6kV 60Hz at around 12MVA (which was a pain as they ran an 11kV main 60Hz bus).

The QE carriers are 11kV at 60Hz (they, surprisingly, used rotary frequency converters) at a big power level, probably around 20MVA

Sleipner had no shore supply as it didn't really have a home port, it would have been 11kV 60Hz at probably around 12MVA to hit the base load.

The platform support vessels never had one as they rarely sat around for any time being the transits of the sea.

There is actually a standard for prison cruise ships, it was 6kV or 11kV (most shore supplies were dual voltage) at up to 20MVA

We always used to recon on a shore supply being about 3 times the emergency gen capability.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Cruise ship pollution

« on: 01 December 2023, 15:51:40 »

According to my "local" BBC Southampton News, the port has plenty of electric hook-ups for ships to power them in port, but none of them do, as its cheaper to run their onboard generators instead.

There is no 'standard' for shore supplies (what a surprise!) due to different voltages and frequencies of the ships and local setup.

Consequently most can only couple up in their home ports, and unless they are there for a a longer period its not worth the faff and hassles of a shore supply (its not some stonking great big plug, it is physical wiring bolted to a bus bar and big switch). The only ones I have seen use them in anger is naval vessels and some drill ships as they have home ports.

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General Car Chat / Re: Annoying little shits.

« on: 01 December 2023, 15:46:59 »

Modern car wiring has been hit by the greenies.

The adhesive in the cloth tape is now 'organic' so attracts the little buggers (and bigger ones) so the loom manufacturers have had to put chemical nasties in the glue to detract them......so probably not nearly as 'organic' as it was

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

« on: 01 December 2023, 09:22:10 »

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 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Cruise ship pollution

« on: 01 December 2023, 07:45:38 »

Emissions for ships does not apply in international waters for most of the planet, so they tend to be clean(ish) in territorial waters, then switch over to any old cheap crap when outside.

When I was at GE delivering vessel control and propulsion systems, it was quite an eye opener as to the lengths the vessel designers went to to make this all happen, extra tanks, extra pumps, fuel heaters, different engine/governor/avr mappings etc etc.

They have at least introduced ballast water cleaning systems to try to stop the carrying of invasive species around the planet (some of which were even massive power consuming microwave setups)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Elgin Marbles

« on: 29 November 2023, 13:27:00 »

I found it amusing when one of the Greek officials said that the British Museum only want to keep them for ticket money..........it's free entry!

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General Car Chat / Re: Anyone got a post 2018 JLR?

« on: 22 November 2023, 14:19:12 »

Most of our cars end up as complete runners in far off lands of questionable ethics (Africa and the 'Stans being the usuals), we have also seen Ukraine cars arriving in central Russia in recent years.

This change closes a back door which allows a key to be programmed once in the car

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General Car Chat / Re: Anyone got a post 2018 JLR?

« on: 22 November 2023, 12:13:52 »

Blimey, the press do get it very wrong don't they!

Its nothing to do with relay attacks! 

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General Car Chat / Re: Latest money spinners

« on: 17 November 2023, 13:16:54 »

On the rare occasions I do stick religiously to the limit, there's always an angry queue behind. People are used to driving 5-8mph over the limit, and it really pisses them off when others don't.

Go to Wales, stick to the 20mph limit and see how you get on! 

Having been recently, you struggle to see 20 in a 20 and seem to constantly be close to 20 even in a 30 or higher 

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General Car Chat / Re: Maybe that debris she idiotted did break it...

« on: 17 November 2023, 13:14:19 »

Not convinced they are stainless, the coating looks to be zinc, they also state Surface Treatment: Primary Color + Zinc Plated White Blue Color and why would you zinc coat stainless

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General Discussion Area / Re: No one going to Rwanda anytime soon

« on: 15 November 2023, 12:18:17 »

Send them all to Hull, its probably a more miserable option

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General Car Chat / Re: Maybe that debris she idiotted did break it...

« on: 15 November 2023, 07:28:44 »

I doubt its possible to form one of those in Stainless

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General Car Chat / Re: Breakdown cover

« on: 10 November 2023, 10:53:08 »

If your vehicle is covered by the manufacturer's warranty, then most jobs are going to be a simple return to whatever dealer is nearest. The contractor who collects your car has nothing to do with the courtesy replacement. Actually, that's not quite accurate; the courtesy replacement procedure often doesn't start until your car is removed!

This is not correct, we for instance have specific training and JLR diag kit in the recovery agents hands, its not unusual to get a software update and valid repair at the roadside. They also get priority cars from the dealers for recovered vehicles, I would say the manufacturers cover can be breakdown cover ++ 

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General Car Chat / Re: I need a bigger car

« on: 06 November 2023, 16:12:02 »

When I was a nipper, Aylesbury was full of them, all called Spaz Mobiles. All in that blue shade as well.

I would bring them back (well a modern version), Motability is a very abused privilege these days