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General Discussion Area / Re: The Mickey and Minnie Show...
« on: 15 September 2024, 17:33:26 »
Well if Trump gets in, he might completely blindside everyone and do something completely unexpected???


Unexpected - maybe.
Idiotic, unworkable and/or ineffective - definitely.

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General Car Chat / Re: Cheapish oil
« on: 12 September 2024, 00:04:00 »
Used to ask my friendly garage if they would give me 5 litres out of their big drum of oil for a tenner. I had to pump it out obviously, that was in the days before everyone went all officious and now refuse you to even walk about in their workshops for "insurance purposes" (so you can't watch them poking holes in your car at MOT time)!
Every car in the uk used to run on garage big oil drum oil. That was in the days when tolerances were measured in inches not nanometres.  ;D


All but one of the oil changes I did on my Omega used semi-synthetic 10w40 out of the 200litre drum at work. All my other cars got the same stuff too, including the Avenger, 2.9 Capri, 525, Legnum, Morris 1300 and anything else that came my way. Before that, I used whatever we ordered for the fleet of Transits.
 
There needs to be a good reason to obsess about oil beyond the suggested grades, and most engines don't justify it. I certainly wouldn't be carting several cans of an odd grade back from Spain just because it was cheap....

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General Discussion Area / Re: The Mickey and Minnie Show...
« on: 11 September 2024, 19:19:53 »
I did watch her interview a couple of weeks ago, this debate and the follow up on Megyn Kelley.

He didn't do as well as he should, and neither did she..
 which says alot given the level of bias she received in the debate.

In a genuinely fair debate, ie the same treatment of both candidates, he would have beaten her as squarely as he did Biden.
No, he wouldn't, he's an idiot who is easily wound up, and no amount of spin can change that fact.


That is why Harris hasn't needed to commit herself to anything much yet. All she needs to do is provoke him into another of his somehow increasingly incoherent rants and stand back. Trump made the campaign about personality and being too old for the job, without expecting to browbeat Biden into standing down. Now he's the decrepit old has-been whose only asset is the rabble he raised 12 years ago.

Harris is hardly an imposter as she's held elected offices for years, but she still comes across as a lawyer trying to be a politician. Fortunately for her, her opponent is an idiot who doesn't realise just how bad he is at the job. Any job.


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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 10 September 2024, 17:33:29 »


Mk1 Lotus Elise is somehow a lightweight at 725kg. How the hell can an aluminium chassied, glassfibre bodied, barely trimmed,  minimally equipped, 2 seater convertible weigh almost as much as a mk1 Golf?
That's not that much lighter than a Sierra XR4x4i, especially when you allow for the other three seats, and doors :D



 ??? ?? A Sierra is going to be closer to 1200kg. That's at least 50% more than an Elise, which is a significant increase.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 10 September 2024, 14:29:07 »
and weight 10 times more, the K10s were like bisguit tins and rusted as fast!

Everything is getting silly heavy, the latest M5 weighs more than a new 110 Defender diesel  :o


Mk1 Lotus Elise is somehow a lightweight at 725kg. How the hell can an aluminium chassied, glassfibre bodied, barely trimmed,  minimally equipped, 2 seater convertible weigh almost as much as a mk1 Golf?

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: v6 front spring
« on: 07 September 2024, 18:32:07 »
Why not just buy a nice new pair from any of the suppliers? Unless you want an NOS spring to match one you already have.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Pontins
« on: 04 September 2024, 14:46:00 »
Perhaps they would feel more welcome if they went to Billing Aquadrome? 8)
Has it dried out yet, last time I drove past it it was a long way under water, although that was a couple of months back...
I suspect that was Nick's point >:D


More that it has a terrible, well deserved, reputation for property being stolen.

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General Car Chat / Re: Peugeot 5008 *Please* help!
« on: 03 September 2024, 19:20:46 »
It's a Franco-Italian(with a side order of Chrysler :o ) mongrel with an electrical fault.


Kill it with fire ::)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Pontins
« on: 03 September 2024, 13:22:09 »
Perhaps they would feel more welcome if they went to Billing Aquadrome? 8)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.
« on: 02 September 2024, 10:27:19 »
Avoid

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General Car Chat / Re: VIN Coding - Mercedes / Chrysler 300c
« on: 30 August 2024, 00:26:39 »
Several companies around the country who specialise in repairing ECU,s .
BBA REMAN are probably the best known, so might be worth starting with them.

I think BBA are gone, Ecu testing still about though

The main people setup a new company called Remanx  :y


That's right. They're still in Medway, just on a different site.

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Omega General Help / Re: Plastic door bushes.
« on: 27 August 2024, 12:58:48 »
A brass bushing might also achieve the same result  :-\


That would be a simple lathe job. But I'd want to know that the original parts are definitely not available before I made any.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Opti will love this
« on: 27 August 2024, 08:54:27 »
Its nothing to do with diversity. Its about imposing an odd mixture of Neo Marxism / Maoism / Stalinism onto Western Society.
Minorities are just being used as the vehicle for it.



That is indeed a very odd mix. I wonder what you're using for definitions?

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 27 August 2024, 08:52:28 »
Installed a pair of replacement headlamps fitted a new n/s front ABS sensor and swapped the standard wheels for VW Beetle ones on step granddaughters MkIV Golf.


I was sorting the MOT failures on my sister's mkIV Golf. Both jobs reminded just why I don't like working on German cars

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General Discussion Area / Re: Coincidence ?
« on: 22 August 2024, 11:23:44 »
That's the risk of big business upset the wrong people & they can reach out  wherever you are.
Yep, this fella done us over, let's arrange for a typhoon to sink his yacht.

When I worked in HP for a while years ago, one of the bigwigs told us that yes they set their printer cartridges to fail after so many prints even when it still has plenty of ink, so I wouldn't put it past them to have a waterspout making machine  ;D


How many times can they use it though? 8)

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