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General Discussion Area / Re: SMETS2 smart meters

« on: Today at 15:48:29 »

And they will all need replacing again in the next decade or so, when 2G is sunsetted.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: Today at 15:47:07 »

Looks like Thursday is old farts driving day out, for effs sake 35 in a 60 on a clear road. Then the road ruiners have filled a layby with gravel to wreck some side roads (same ones they ruined last year by the look of it) and have temp traffic lights so they can load wagons. 20mph and loose gravel signs on the main road so of course the old farts are slowing down even though the side roads have not been tared.

Round these parts, it used to be everyone drove 15mph below the speed limit* so when all the limits got lowered to 50mph, everywhere was 35mph, with not too many overtaking opportunities.  Now its started to creep to 20mph under the limit, making overtaking potentially easier.


*Except when they get to 30mph villages, when they speed up.

And that's just the old farts on the mobility scooters, forgot to ask, did you find the retirement property you were looking for?

Retirement .  You ain't that far behind me .  But, yes, I can see exactly what you were saying about each area 'D


Mablethorpe - shithole with nothing to do, nowhere really to eat either.  Quite disappointed.
Skeggy - exceeded my expectations.  Clean (aside from the druggies bus shelter) and litter free.  Obviously chavvy though.
Cleethorpes - much like what I thought Skeggy would be, mostly run down and full of bingo halls for the fag smoking grannies.


I don't think I will ever return to that area

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

« on: Today at 15:39:57 »

Dropped the wheel off to see if it can be made round again.  He said he'd call me in a couple of hours, but he hasn't.  Not sure if thats a good or bad sign!

Bought a new tyre for mine today. Stupid £ucking sh!try roads. 

I don't think I'm a grand in yet this year.  I'm well over a grand in in the last year though.

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

« on: Today at 15:38:45 »

Had a Kia K5 for a day...

Meh.

I had some crappy small van yesterday, Vauxhall maybe?, that I had to tolerate a repeated limp mode, and it was giving me a countdown before it would stop starting due to an emission fault.

Enterprise really make my life a bloody misery

Have to say, for £38 a day, I can't really complain. Between 4.it works out at £15 each for a day out

Suspect when the bill arrives, mine will be double that, as I have to suck up delivery and pick up costs, plus out of hours delivery

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Omega General Help / Re: Rear springs elite and broken middle section exhaust studs

« on: Today at 15:36:51 »

Does it still have SL?

The snapped studs - drill them out and use nuts and bolts.  Needs decent drill bits, not the 10,000 bits for 50p egay shite.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 26 April 2024, 13:29:54 »

Following my recent trip to Lincolnshire, I can see why Opti needs more power.  Everyone drives at 35mph until you go to overtake, when they boot it.

This happened countless times in one weekend.

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

« on: 26 April 2024, 13:27:50 »

It took weeks for all the soot stains to disappear from my hands after that!

But it was worth it, as it went like the clappers* afterwards, once I'd freed off the wastegate on the turbo again


*Well, all things are relative, it went better than it ever had, but was never gonna win races

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 26 April 2024, 08:32:13 »

Looks like Thursday is old farts driving day out, for effs sake 35 in a 60 on a clear road. Then the road ruiners have filled a layby with gravel to wreck some side roads (same ones they ruined last year by the look of it) and have temp traffic lights so they can load wagons. 20mph and loose gravel signs on the main road so of course the old farts are slowing down even though the side roads have not been tared.

Round these parts, it used to be everyone drove 15mph below the speed limit* so when all the limits got lowered to 50mph, everywhere was 35mph, with not too many overtaking opportunities.  Now its started to creep to 20mph under the limit, making overtaking potentially easier.


*Except when they get to 30mph villages, when they speed up.

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General Car Chat / Re: Mark Drakeford

« on: 26 April 2024, 08:29:01 »

well ..... that was money well spent on 20mph roads in Welsh Wales ..... apparently now under review

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw945l3zy91o

One of the 2? Pilot towns was the town 2 miles from me...
Feedback nearly all bad (exceptions of schools / housing estates etc)

I'd love to know what lessons were learned from the feedback.....I'd suggest none, so why pilot in the first place.

Sounds just like the LTNs in that shithole formally known as Oxford. Even the survey after the initial wide scale trial for 6 months came back as they were causing more issues than they solved, the council decided to keep them, and then extend the scheme further.

Now it seems the council can't see why all the shops are closing, and businesses are moving out, and acting like its a surprise.

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

« on: 26 April 2024, 08:25:30 »

I find them a pain to work on as you have to remove the skuttle 

And there was me thinking you loved working on Zafiras....

//TB recalls when DTM mutters to me "I hate your bloody car"

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

« on: 26 April 2024, 08:24:17 »

Had a Kia K5 for a day...

Meh.

I had some crappy small van yesterday, Vauxhall maybe?, that I had to tolerate a repeated limp mode, and it was giving me a countdown before it would stop starting due to an emission fault.

Enterprise really make my life a bloody misery

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Omega General Help / Re: which brand do you recommend?

« on: 26 April 2024, 08:19:16 »

A 1998 omega should have the clear, MFL headlight lenses, which if they have gone cloudy, can be polished back with wet and dry, or one of those 3M headlight polishing kits that fit in a drill (which makes it easy).

OSRAM Nightbreakers or Phillips Vision Plus are good, decent halogen bulbs.

Worth cleaning up the area where the 0V is attached to the chassis, as if that is a bit corroded, it will impact the lights.

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Good afternoon from France.

« on: 26 April 2024, 08:15:08 »

The auto gearboxes are weak on the earlier 2.5TD engines - they foolishly fitted the AR25 gearbox instead of the stronger AR35.  Fortunately, you can fit an AR35 from a 3.0 or 3.2 petrol to the 2.5TD, but you have to swap over the torque convertor and bell housing.  Or convert it to a manual, which is much better suited to that engine TBH.  If yours is the later 2.5TDI 24v common rail one, that came with a much stronger 5 speed auto.

Other than that, it'll be corrosion as mentioned.

Good luck!

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

« on: 24 April 2024, 14:54:05 »

Dropped the wheel off to see if it can be made round again.  He said he'd call me in a couple of hours, but he hasn't.  Not sure if thats a good or bad sign!

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

« on: 23 April 2024, 15:03:37 »

Dont know how you do it. Ive had one puncture in the last 20 years. 

This one is a trashed wheel, courtesy of Lincolnshire's crap roads.