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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 01 February 2024, 07:28:45 »
However the system on newer cars seem to set by default to 'activated' mode whenever the ignition has been off, which would do my tree in.
It's like being a pilot, I guess. Going through the cockpit drill before setting off - lane assist off, engine stop / start off, auto hold on..... :D

You can thank some selfish arseholes in Wolsburg for that!

Since the emissions scandal, the legislation was changed such that the car has to default to the modes used during approvals at every ignition cycle. That means driving modes, any ADAS functions, safety functions etc. Just wait until you get a 24MY car which badgers you every time there is a speed limit change or you go 1mph over the speed limit.....you quickly learn how to knock that one off at every ignition cycle  :y

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General Discussion Area / Re: Not a surprise...
« on: 31 January 2024, 12:28:48 »
Another person who has no idea what they are talking about  ;D ...........more brake dust from an EV..........much less is the answer as they rarely ever use the brakes

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General Discussion Area / Re: Gas Chamber
« on: 25 January 2024, 15:18:08 »
Alabama on the news lunchtime death sentence by gas chamber  inhuman to make a murderer suffer they say, snowflakes protesting, surely a bullet in the head would sort it nicely. Why is the human race becoming so stupid ?

Just been watching the news about the killings in Nottingham.

The families of the deceased were not expecting a manslaughter verdict.

Looks like the police f*ucked up yet again. :-\

Yes, three murders and three attempted murders and he drops out with a manslaughter charge.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Vans
« on: 16 January 2024, 14:30:46 »
Rascal was mid engine rear wheel drive, they salesmen used to get despatched with them to the Melton Road in Leicester to flog whenever a trade in one arrived into stock.

I always joked that I would get the apprentice one as he hankered after a mid engine vehicle

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General Car Chat / Re: Talking Of Big Pick Ups
« on: 12 January 2024, 13:06:22 »
We have a Raptor at work (full fat), interesting lump, very agricultural with a hell of a lot more power than the chassis can do anything with, bloody huge though

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General Discussion Area / Re: In a world I can't identify with
« on: 02 January 2024, 07:38:25 »
Surely, in the case of item 2, she just removes the headset?  ???

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 02 January 2024, 07:35:33 »
Changed the oil in hers.  Being a diesel chain driven engine, I start to get twitchy once its done more than 4k on the oil.

Any wonder, the earlier Ingenium engines are prone to chain issues, my lads Xf needs doing at 82k with full history

Its the crazy 21k mile intervals that take out the chains (the links wear)...........full service history is never a good sign.

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General Car Chat / Re: Can I have....
« on: 15 December 2023, 13:49:31 »
Except, maybe, a Freelander2.
Isn't that just a previous generation Evoque with a different frock?

Little Bro has one, and loves it. But, unsurprisingly, is now going through replacing the failed door locks!

No, completely different car, the Freelander was actually an SUV that failed the occupancy protection part of the crash test so bady, they jacked the suspension up and called it the Freelander (the extra height helped with the crash survivability). Evoque started off as a Mondeo chassis spin off, very much moved on from that now though

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General Car Chat / Re: Can I have....
« on: 15 December 2023, 10:43:00 »
......your learned opinions on this please  :)

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202311254292625

Perfect car for you, Hondas are designed for the retired and near dead

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General Car Chat / Re: If JLR go under...
« on: 12 December 2023, 13:51:25 »
Used to be able to get into and start my old flat mates Capri with a broken chip fork  ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: If JLR go under...
« on: 12 December 2023, 08:17:00 »
Thieves don't nick them using keyless entry on the more recent cars, and any car from any manufacturer is prone to relay attack when on the older tech (Fords being the most nicked car). When you look at different countries you get differences, Merc and BMW in Spain, Kia Stinger in Germany.

The challenge is that the JLR products are one of the most desirable and hence they are targeted by the big crime teams, they found a way to hack and decode the CAN interface (they could do this for any make but, most are not worth bothering with as its expensive to do). That said, many of the cars that get nicked are not locked (we have all the stats and meet regularly with the Police car crime team)

This can hack method is being closed (and does not work on the latest models).

Its an arms race, and always will be, we have further tech in the wings for the next gen.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 06 December 2023, 07:58:49 »
For whatever reason using the heater while going along uses a lot more energy. I suspect it's down to 2 factors. Firstly you have 60+ mph cold air going over the surface of the car, sucking heat away and second the car can defrost itself in 5mins tops (both mine had heated front screens and strong heaters. Meaning they weren't running heat for very long.

Also both mine had heat pumps rather than just blower motors and heaters. I think this makes a substantial difference.

Depends on the car, with a heat pump it should be using no electric heating at all when on the move and should be recovering heat from the motors, inverter and battery  :y

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General Car Chat / Re: Age old question....
« on: 05 December 2023, 16:55:41 »
Clicky   :)
Quite rare  8)  not a clitoris car by any means

I doubt he would be able to tolerate the downgrade in comfort, features and handling

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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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