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General Car Chat / Re: Price of parts
« on: 13 February 2024, 09:42:50 »....
I was thinking over the weekend, its been almost 11yrs since I last had a bike
Mine is still in my garage .... its last MOT ran out almost 10 yrs ago
I get it started every now & then and consider putting it on the road, but that's as far as it gets 
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 06 February 2024, 19:37:21 »that must be 300 quid saved then......
Indeed
get the mole grips on it Jamie
job jobbed
one of the contractors at work ('Lovely Dave .... cos he calls everyone Love, both men & women) did exactly that 3 times!
not including the "tooth fairy" payment x 3
Not even the Tooth Fairy would want a stained rotten stump!
This is a man that started to find it difficult during Lockdown buying his cans of Guinness .... so he ordered a pallet of the stuff!
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 06 February 2024, 19:12:56 »......
Indeed
get the mole grips on it Jamie
job jobbed
one of the contractors at work ('Lovely Dave .... cos he calls everyone Love, both men & women) did exactly that 3 times!
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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 06 February 2024, 07:53:24 »"Don't tell him Pike ! " one of the best lines from Dad's Army
Philip Madoc aka the U Boat capt is doing his best not to laugh!
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 01 February 2024, 21:31:34 »The R had the diddy one next to the main battery under the front right seat...The QR code on the inside of my fuel filler cap suggested that my R Class had one there too ..... it didn't though
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 01 February 2024, 18:24:49 »....
Does the ML only have two? The main one and the diddy one... Or is it new enough to have three
Just 2 .... main under my seat & the diddy motorbike sized battery buried alongside the spare wheel well
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 01 February 2024, 18:23:13 »...,
but why on earth would I want to do that! £300 to re-enable something I don't want.
That was my line of thinking too!
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 01 February 2024, 13:03:39 »I believe it just uses the camera .... it doesn't always do it on the same bit of road, but I remember one time it showed NSL on the dash was on a bit of road that I know has only ever been a 30.....
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 the to knock that one off at every ignition cycle
hope it's set up better than than the camera in my ML that reads road speed signs ..... every now & then it comes up with the NSL sign when on a 30/40 road. I've yet to discover what it thinks it's 'seen'
Some system are a hybrid of map data and forward vision systems, it might be that a section of road once was a national and the map is overriding the vision..........plus the vision systems are far from perfect!
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 01 February 2024, 13:01:39 »....
Coded the stupid start stop malarky off mine, Only kicks in if I have it in Eco Plus mode..... Which I never do!
My ML's stop/start has stopped working all by itselfI suspect the main battery is a little low, though it never hesitates to start up.
Keep an eye on it, the stop start systems do not look at the cranking ability, only the state of charge, if its stopped working then the battery is probably not recovering to more than 85% SoC which is plenty to crank but, shows the battery is deteriorating and they have a habit of dropping off a cliff after this point.
Cheers!
I did get a quote from MB for the two batteries ..... a mere snip at £320-odd for the pair! I disconnected them from each other last summer, the rear showed 12.7V but the main was only around 12.5V
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 01 February 2024, 10:10:52 »....
Coded the stupid start stop malarky off mine, Only kicks in if I have it in Eco Plus mode..... Which I never do!
My ML's stop/start has stopped working all by itself
I suspect the main battery is a little low, though it never hesitates to start up.
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 01 February 2024, 09:46:56 ».....
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 the to knock that one off at every ignition cycle
hope it's set up better than than the camera in my ML that reads road speed signs ..... every now & then it comes up with the NSL sign when on a 30/40 road. I've yet to discover what it thinks it's 'seen'
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 30 January 2024, 08:25:03 »My ML needs a gap of the car plus 1.3 metres ..... but as you say, it always seems very close at the front of the carMy E Class had it, but I never used it…………..
Don’t know what your E Class was like for parallel self parking but the BMW reverses in with one hell of a tight rake. It goes in at a steep angle and swings the front bumper in far closer to the vehicle in front than I’m happy with.
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 29 January 2024, 16:26:12 »My ML will parallel park itself ..... it's pretty clever when it does it, though I rarely use it cos by the time I've remembered what buttons to press on the steering wheel, I could have parked it myself.Got to admit, in these days of larger vehicles with smaller windows, I am grateful for front and rear parking sensors. I've never driven a car with a reverse view camera, and I don't think I'd find any use for it.....
and after 50 years of using wing / door mirrors, altering my line of vision to look at the door panel to see what was behind wasn't as easy as it sounds. ....
I've had my ML for over 4 & a half years. It has a reverse camera but I still default to using the mirrors first .... I maybe use it for the final bit of parking etc
My daughter though uses her reverse camera by default
As for the ones that actually park themselves, no way.
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 29 January 2024, 11:10:21 »....
and after 50 years of using wing / door mirrors, altering my line of vision to look at the door panel to see what was behind wasn't as easy as it sounds. ....
I've had my ML for over 4 & a half years. It has a reverse camera but I still default to using the mirrors first .... I maybe use it for the final bit of parking etc
My daughter though uses her reverse camera by default