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General Car Chat / Re: Behold!

« on: Today at 09:05:54 »

Very nice.    The engine/gearbox set-up on these makes them such a pleasure to drive. It’s a fantastic allrounder, fast but surprisingly economical, and the gearbox is equally at home plodding around town as it is when pressing on. It’s still my favourite bmw engine/gearbox combo. 
Hope it serves you well.

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

« on: Yesterday at 20:06:54 »

Speaking of VAGs, I dumped mine in the short stay, and now running around in a VAG shitbox.

I singlehandedly makes the Battlebus feel powerful and fast

Exactly, the ideal car for reformed characters like ourselves.    It discourages the temptation to drive really fast. 
What is this gutless wonder you’ve been loaned? 

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

« on: Yesterday at 20:01:11 »

How does cruise control affect the  life of the pads?

It shouldn't unless it's advanced cruise that also slows the car... In which case slowing the car from the rear makes for smoother braking from a passenger comfort perspective as it limits the nose dive effect………….

Well you could be right Al. I just googled VAG ACC rear pad wear and it appears that under very light braking it applies rear bias for the reason that you stated, and uses normal bias for heavier braking……. and pre-sense for those suicidal moments.   
Maybe it’s just a VAG thing.    or maybe it’s total horse shite. 

That's bloody dangerous, as the vehicle has no idea what the road conditions are and could easily spin you if you were on an icy patch

A further search reveals that Volvo’s do the same apparently.    Quoted from a Swedish forum :

‘ Volvo Adaptive Cruise and Pilot Assist is very brake happy instead of coasting to slow down, and uses primarily rear brakes.’

I don’t know for certain Mark, I’m only going on what the Indy told me and what I’ve read, so it’s not factual on my part and could be wrong information. 

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

« on: Yesterday at 13:18:38 »

How does cruise control affect the  life of the pads?

It shouldn't unless it's advanced cruise that also slows the car... In which case slowing the car from the rear makes for smoother braking from a passenger comfort perspective as it limits the nose dive effect………….

Well you could be right Al. I just googled VAG ACC rear pad wear and it appears that under very light braking it applies rear bias for the reason that you stated, and uses normal bias for heavier braking……. and pre-sense for those suicidal moments.   
Maybe it’s just a VAG thing.    or maybe it’s total horse shite. 

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

« on: Yesterday at 12:40:51 »

How does cruise control affect the  life of the pads?

It shouldn't unless it's advanced cruise that also slows the car... In which case slowing the car from the rear makes for smoother braking from a passenger comfort perspective as it limits the nose dive effect………….

Yes, it definitely applies the brakes, as I see the third brake light come on in the tailgate spoiler reflection, which I believe has been a requirement for legislation for many years now. 

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

« on: Yesterday at 12:24:43 »

Treated the Audi to a new set of front brake pads. Not fitted them yet but will do soon, as although they’re only around 60% worn they have started kicking out more dust, and I hate dirty alloys.    Rears to follow shortly as using cruise a lot appears to wear front and rears at an equal rate.

Its far more likely to be the stability system using the rears for vectoring that is making the wear even, adaptive cruise still uses the same brake bias as using your foot to ensure stability when slowing

You may well be right Mark.    When I questioned the equal’ish wear, I was told that it was partly down to the adaptive cruise, so maybe a combination of both.    I’m used to the rears lasting much longer than the fronts on previous vehicles but these are 60% worn on the front and not far behind on the rears. 

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

« on: 01 July 2025, 21:28:46 »

Treated the Audi to a new set of front brake pads. Not fitted them yet but will do soon, as although they’re only around 60% worn they have started kicking out more dust, and I hate dirty alloys.    Rears to follow shortly as using cruise a lot appears to wear front and rears at an equal rate.

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

« on: 01 July 2025, 21:11:32 »

Wimpy …….

A couple of years back, their famous Bender in a Bun got renamed Mr Bendy.  Clearly that is too much for middle class Oxfordian types with nothing better to do, and has now called Pork Bendy.

For years I thought Wimpy had gone completely, since we lost the one in your old homeland formerly known as Cadena Cafe. It was years later that I realised that they still existed. 

How the hell can a Pork Bender be more acceptable than a Mr Bendy.   

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General Discussion Area / Re: The Royal Train

« on: 01 July 2025, 20:44:20 »

Prince Albert is known for being, er, open minded

I’m rubbish at history, I’d always thought that a Prince Albert was a genital piercing. Every days a school day.    

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

« on: 21 June 2025, 17:59:21 »

Yesterday, running into today really. Spent over 6 hours in West Suffolk Hospital yesterday evening.....

Not good, hopefully they can sort her out and she's soon back home.   

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

« on: 20 June 2025, 16:28:07 »

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After 3 months of crawling underneath, on top, skinning knuckles, arms (face even!), lifting heavy objects, tightening to torques that are inhuman, I went out to ‘pop’ the lightweight fibreglass undertray back on, knelt on my cushion (my knees and concrete don’t see eye to eye) and boing!!
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Wow, I couldn't believe that 3 months has passed by since you first posted about the clattering.    Scary how fast life is passing us by. I'm sure it didn't go that quick when I was working.     
All of your hard work has caught up with you Dave. Hope you're soon on the mend and until then, just take it steady.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Potty Mouthed Pensioners - AI generated but funny.

« on: 19 June 2025, 12:27:53 »

 
The old ladies remind me of my dearly departed mother-in-law. She loved watching the soaps and god help anyone who talked over them when she was watching Emmerdale. Some of her sons would pop in to see her after work and she would say “If you’ve come here to discuss building jobs and not to see me, f*ck off outside and do it”. 
She was invited to a local old folks care home for a Christmas knees-up but declined the offer as ‘It will be full of old people’. She was 91 at the time. 

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Omega General Help / Re: Simple Code Reader

« on: 17 June 2025, 16:27:34 »

Just a slight aside, what would Mark DTM have used when he updated my auto gearbox software??

Tech 2 I'd imagine. 

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Omega General Help / Re: Simple Code Reader

« on: 17 June 2025, 15:56:02 »

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OBD2 compliant.
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Should be OK. I had an old Autel MaxiScan 509 that connected to my 3.2 OK. It's nothing special, just a generic code reader that reads live data, reads and clears engine codes, so it did what I required from it. 
Later models may do ABS and gearbox but mine certainly doesn't.

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General Car Chat / Re: Smart brake calipers

« on: 16 June 2025, 19:25:19 »

Vibration damper apparently Andy.