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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 13 February 2024, 09:14:47 »That looks familiar YZ, is that the road to Aston Sandford, where it goes under the Slug line?
Yes, Kingsey Bridge.
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Yes, Kingsey Bridge.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 12 February 2024, 21:28:57 »The AA used to produce a two inch thick hardback book about driving and all the pitfalls that could become a person operating a car.
On chapter dealt with driving into a puddle that some how became a river and finally a harbour, and I thinking about it afterwards I couldn't help but think "Christ that escalated quickly"... Obviously there are still stretches of road around the place that can obviously swallow a car whole
The road being at two different heights causes the flood under this bridge. This photo was taken about three years ago and about three days after the initial flood, so the water level had started to come down.
The 4x4/SUV vehicle was a tad optimistic entering from the shallow end as the van was already in there. 
Both vehicles were fully submerged at one stage. 
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General Car Chat / Re: Price of parts
« on: 12 February 2024, 14:30:26 »On a similar note. About 25 years ago Motorcycle News priced up all the individual parts to build a Kawasaki ZX6r.
Price of a bike was around £6,500 at the time iirc. Price of all the individual parts was around £27,000.
On a similar motorcycle subject, those of us old enough to remember contact breakers (Points) will recall that you needed a set of points per cylinder on the old magneto system. At the time, Yamaha charged over £7 per set of points (Set meaning one contact breaker), so they were quite expensive to an apprentice toolmaker earning not much more than that a week. At the time I knew someone that worked at Lucas, which had offices in the village I grew up in. They cross checked the contact breakers and got me several sets for around 60 pence each. How did the motorcycle dealerships justify such a difference.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 12 February 2024, 11:53:18 »Got it wet.At least you got out
I have first hand experience of one of the floods, as I completely drowned my Dad’s brand new car in it many many years ago. This particular flood (road currently closed) has, within the last few days, completely eaten a 4x4 and a Transit van. You can just about see the van roof level with the waterIt’s a dip under a railway bridge and *steered well clear of* by locals at the merest hint of rain.
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I am local but I was young and unaware that it flooded so bad back then.
Guess which end I went in.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12452701/Liverpool-flood-deaths-Horrified-witness-describes-scenes-like-burst-dam-footage-shows-waterlogged-road-two-people-Mercedes-died.html
Indeed, unlike the poor couple in your link, how sad. In my case the car bobbed about briefly before sinking so we managed to get out of the windows before it went fully under. It was pitch black so the first I knew of it was when I saw lights flashing everywhere (water reflection) and coming to an abrupt halt. I woke my Dad up at 2am to tell him I’d completely drowned his new car. Bless him, I still can’t believe how calm he was and how well he took that news.
We were lucky as it was just me and my Mrs in the car. It doesn’t bear thinking about having kids strapped in the back.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 11 February 2024, 22:58:33 »
Got it wet. A lot of roads out our way are flooded so the highway’s people have put traffic lights either side of each flood to allow traffic in both directions to have a chance at going through the shallow bit without some tool coming the other way.
I have first hand experience of one of the floods, as I completely drowned my Dad’s brand new car in it many many years ago. This particular flood (road currently closed) has, within the last few days, completely eaten a 4x4 and a Transit van. You can just about see the van roof level with the water It’s a dip under a railway bridge and *steered well clear of* by locals at the merest hint of rain.
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I am local but I was young and unaware that it flooded so bad back then. There is a shallow end which starts at just inches deep and gradually rises to over seven feet deep over a distance of approximately two hundred yards, and a deep end from the ridge which puts you straight in the deep end. The graded end gives you some warning as it gets deeper gradually, whereas the deep end is instantly deep.
Guess which end I went in.
A lot of roads out our way are flooded so the highway’s people have put traffic lights either side of each flood to allow traffic in both directions to have a chance at going through the shallow bit without some tool coming the other way. I have first hand experience of one of the floods, as I completely drowned my Dad’s brand new car in it many many years ago. This particular flood (road currently closed) has, within the last few days, completely eaten a 4x4 and a Transit van. You can just about see the van roof level with the water
It’s a dip under a railway bridge and *steered well clear of* by locals at the merest hint of rain. **
I am local but I was young and unaware that it flooded so bad back then.
There is a shallow end which starts at just inches deep and gradually rises to over seven feet deep over a distance of approximately two hundred yards, and a deep end from the ridge which puts you straight in the deep end. The graded end gives you some warning as it gets deeper gradually, whereas the deep end is instantly deep.Guess which end I went in.
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Omega General Help / Re: rear brake pad question.
« on: 11 February 2024, 21:56:12 »Just a thought....do the rears have wear indicators?
No wear sensor on rears.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 05 February 2024, 21:31:17 »As the opposite of what has pissed me off...I'm finding a lot of ebay purchases are delivered quickly recently by Royal Fail ,some orders are being delivered by Amazon vans too
Ordered a very expensive USB charger from the Gay of E at 7pm (Sunday). Arrived by noon today (Monday). Suitably impressed.
It doesn't always go well though , I ordered a brand new 500 GB SSD , a crappy 1 TB spinny toshiba external drive arrived ,had to disk part clear it to get it recognised (to find out how old it was etc) 2019complained and said send a refund ,but the seller insisted I return the crappy EWASTE spinny drive
Check that they didn’t charge you double due to a software glitch.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 05 February 2024, 21:24:40 »I hate it when I’m out with a few inches left to do🤣🤣👍
Yep, nothing worse than being a few inches too short in a certain area. I’ve suffered with that but I believe they do pills for it now.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 05 February 2024, 16:58:58 »As the opposite of what has pissed me off...
Ordered a very expensive USB charger from the Gay of E at 7pm (Sunday). Arrived by noon today (Monday). Suitably impressed.
Welcome to civilisation.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 05 February 2024, 16:57:31 »
Pissed off because Thule/BMW have changed the thread size for the fixpoint roof stud fixing for the Thule roof bars, so my current kit wouldn’t fit. Had to buy another kit just for the studs as I couldn’t find the new style studs sold separately. If I’d have still been on the tools I could have made them, as the top thread is different to the lower thread.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Police for sale?
« on: 05 February 2024, 16:41:42 »……………..
Only one is keyless entry, but both are keyless start, so presumably both vulnerable to relay attacks ………….
Although both of mine are keyless, I personally can’t see any benefit from them being keyless. I unlock the door, chuck the key fob in to the double cup holder and off I go. If I grab a drink en-route I then have to move the key somewhere else.
I can’t leave the key in my pocket as it doesn’t take much pressure to activate the powered tailgate from the key fob.
My earlier BMW’s had a slot in the dash, which was not only an immobiliser link but also somewhere to park the key.
Some things are just unnecessary.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 03 February 2024, 22:13:36 »Finally, I took a photo, just for you!Acquired 2 freebie logo puddle lights, so fitted them. ………
So you have pretty little Jaguar logo lights illuminating the kerb when you exit the car now then.
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Looks a decent, clear projection.
I looked up the price of my factory fit lights and the price is err….. scary. 
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 03 February 2024, 10:16:50 »I'm finding the stop / start function is a Real pita , I really don't want to have to go through a pre flight check to manually disable/enable it ,the lane assist and gradient handbrake each and every time I use the car ……………….
I daresay manufacturers will try to block over-riding stop/start but I’ve coded mine out on both of our Audi’s. On VAG vehicles it’s really easy to code out using VagCom, or Carly, Carista, OBDEleven dongles etc.
If not possible to code out, people would set the stop/start battery parameters ridiculously high using the above dongles so that stop/start voltage could never be achieved.
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General Car Chat / Re: Price of parts
« on: 01 February 2024, 20:57:59 »Just been to VW dealer. And looked at S/H cars outside. Saw a nice car for 25,000 euros.
Got quote for two parts. Not including fitting, they were about 1000 euros for the two. I reckon if you bought a car from parts it would be a million pounds. No wonder car insurance has gone up!
Best not get a quote for Matrix LED adaptive headlights like fitted to mine then, you’ll fall off your chair.
Some people have paid less for a complete car than it costs for a pair of these headlights. Based on that, I agree with your way of thinking regarding building a car.
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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?
« on: 29 January 2024, 22:06:13 »From my experience of driving them in the early 90's, if you drove one now, you may not miss it quite as much as you think...I had three of them in total, 1st was 825 Sterling which was under powered,2nd was 827sli auto which is still on the road and the Vitesse was the last one but that was a manual
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