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General Discussion Area / Re: Float Valves
« on: 29 September 2024, 01:36:12 »
I'd replace like with like. It's an expansion tank so it'll just sit there until the new one siezes up like the old one did. If it starts making any noise you have bigger problems. ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 19 September 2024, 12:43:09 »
If caught they should be charged with wilful wounding and thoughtless discharge of dangerous materials. Scum fks!
Like Jaime after a lamb naga 🤢
Since Tiffins got raided for the last time, I've been unsuccessful in a search for another decent naga.  There tend to just be heated up like Phals, which is kinda pointless after the first sniff.  Tiffins one was really spicy but probably not that hot, think Madras levels, but really flavoursome spiced.

I'm now called Gutted of Brakkers.

You need to come here: https://miftas.com/

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General Discussion Area / Re: The Mickey and Minnie Show...
« on: 15 September 2024, 08:40:13 »
We get nothing back from pouring cash into Ukraine. And if the only reason we're doing it is because the US is picking up the bulk of the bill and the next President doesn't want to subsidise it, they perhaps we shouldn't be paying either.

Apart from the obvious not having to learn Russian* , Ukraine will be a cash cow for the EU ( not the UK of course) . How so? Rebuilding contracts. Plus all the Ukrainians that will become part of the mighty EU machine.

* did people not see Russia just walk in and take over the Prize of Crimea? Plenty of other prizes to be had in the Baltic and Eastern Europe. Britain itself would make a nice prize. At least Poland has woken up. Russia is spending 30% of GDP on war. We are lucky if we spend 2%.

Yes our regime says they will increase defence spending when economic conditions allow.  ::)

I wonder if Sir Starmer has picked up the phone to Putin....  " Excuse me Mr Putin Sir.... I wonder if you'd mind holding back for a couple of years, until we can actually afford a war. There's this £22bn black hole you see?  You will? Oh that's just splendid! "

Meanwhile poor old Uncle Stemo has to freeze this winter, £11bn gets sent off to foreign countries for climate aid, or directly to their leaders Swiss bank accounts, all of our Astute class attack submarines are alongside for one reason or another and it's much the same with the Type 45 Destroyers, but hell the train drivers are alright!  :y

£57,869 on average, according to Glassdoor. For holding a lever all day. An HGV driver but without responsibility for steering or changing gear. Easy to see why Starmer had to immediately capitulate. They must have been on bread and water. ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: The Mickey and Minnie Show...
« on: 14 September 2024, 19:47:27 »
We get nothing back from pouring cash into Ukraine. And if the only reason we're doing it is because the US is picking up the bulk of the bill and the next President doesn't want to subsidise it, they perhaps we shouldn't be paying either.

Well, other than not having the inconvenience of being forced to learn russian and live in a soviet state by the time he makes it this far across Europe.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 13 September 2024, 07:45:56 »
The RWD XR4i was one of those cars that appealed to my teenage self back in the day, and aspired to.  Maybe that made reality even more disappointing when I drove the first one I did.  And then all the others were no better.  Big, heavy, cumbersome lump that wasn't great in bends, and was IMHO bullishly flat in a straight line.  I think from memory, it was the same lump as what Bro had in his MkII Grandad 2.8i Ghia?

The other "big car" I always wanted was the 24v Senator when it first came out, never bought one of those either ;D.  Ended up with a MkII Astra GTE instead - that wasn't much cop in the corners either ;D

I remember going with my Dad to test drive a 2.8 Granada and the 24v Senator. Guess which one won?

All the V6 Fords from that era were flat as a witches tit to drive. Lazy things to cruise around in, yes. Comfortable, yes, but not drivers cars in any respect.Had very nice leather interiors if memory serves, but that might be the rose tinted specs at it again... ;)

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General Car Chat / Re: Corsa C Alternator
« on: 11 September 2024, 22:45:38 »
That looks the same as the Omega regulators and it was always the regulator on those. Got several of them from these guys back in the day https://www.rotatingelectrics.co.uk/.

EDIT: Worth checking the bearings while you're at it. Those are an easy and cheap replacement if they aren't great.

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General Car Chat / Re: Cheapish oil
« on: 10 September 2024, 19:30:31 »
5w30 is a bit on the thin side unless it was run on it from new...

Why would it matter what it has previously been run on? I don't think it's got a memory...

It'll be fine. It's all I ever ran my 3.2 on.

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General Discussion Area / Re: I forgot the pizza oven.
« on: 05 September 2024, 19:38:31 »
Females cannot barbecue that is a mans job , beer in one hand & tongs in the other.🍺🍺🍺

Its not beer, its extiguishant in case the BBQ gets out of hand


Been there done that..😂😂😂

Don't forget that it has a very short shelf life, so you need to replace it about every 15 minutes.  ;)

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General Car Chat / Re: Euro Holiday in Omega Thread
« on: 05 September 2024, 19:36:37 »
Ha ha yes, James's response should have been " Do you know who I am? "  ;D

I was about 5 people back in the immigration queue at LHR when some prat (who looked only vaguely familiar) tried that. He ended up being dragged off to the "latex glove treatment" room. ;D

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General Discussion Area / Re: Coincidence ?
« on: 24 August 2024, 14:04:54 »
Ah didn't realise it is a steel hull. Thought it was a big plastic gin palace type thing with sails.  :)

All accurate apart from the plastic, I reckon. ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Who voted for this?
« on: 24 August 2024, 14:03:44 »
If I was the Chancellor, I'd bring in a 50% income tax rate for those working from home
Bee in your bonnet you'd like to share, Sir Tig?

Yep I'm thousands of pounds out of pocket thanks to oppsing useless work from home solicitors, who took eons to respond to emails (probably because they were too busy doing the allotment/walking the dog/down the pub) and if they did manage to answer the phone invariably claimed that they'd left the file in the  office and they weren't going in for a fortnight.

oppsing useless idiotting  Lady bitss the oppsing Lady bitsing lot of them!   >:(

Solicitors are just the same when they're "working" in offices, in my experience. >:(

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General Car Chat / Re: walk around scrapyards
« on: 23 August 2024, 16:06:49 »
Oh, my wheel; is a full size one, so I'd lose plenty of boot as it stands. :D

But it might be worth looking out for a space saver, I suppose.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Who voted for this?
« on: 23 August 2024, 16:03:50 »
If I was the Chancellor, I'd bring in a 50% income tax rate for those working from home
Bee in your bonnet you'd like to share, Sir Tig?

<Looks around> Hmm. guilty as charged. ::)

I'm about to stop this and go the the pub. Would you be happier then, Tigger?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Who voted for this?
« on: 23 August 2024, 16:01:49 »
And the rules on pensions, capital gains tax, and just about everything else that they didnt specifically promise not to raise.
And even those will be fair game once they spin doctors come up with answers as to why they broke promises to the electorate.
Biggest problem is, the Tories are only slightly less worse.

Indeed. People who work hard and look after themselves are a problem for Labour. They'll have us all on benefits and beholden to them too once the gouging is complete.

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General Car Chat / Re: walk around scrapyards
« on: 23 August 2024, 15:53:39 »
JLR, in their wisdom, no longer include it. I suppose they just assume that a Jag owner will just leave it with a man to sort it...

Given that they CBA with a spare wheel on my XE, it wouldn't have been much use anyway.
And I bet the gunk is out of date.  And nobody knows how to use it anyway, and just shove it in with the air, and wonders why it doesn't work, and....

...breath!


KW - loads of breakers tend to sell spare wheel kits (wheel, foam insert with jack/wrench etc), new boot floor and the longer standoff.  I paid around £140.  Well worth it IMHO.  Though I had to make a new standoff, as there appear to be 2 thread sizes, M6 and M8.  Bit of M8 rod, some nuts and a 3d printer solved that.

I have an extra full-size wheel in the garage, so could probably sort myself out if anything goes wrong relatively locally. Further afield, I'd probably have a boot full of junk, so not sure I'd be happy losing the boot space to it. :-\

I also have a set of puncture repair plugs that have sorted out the odd screw in a tyre before. Granted the only tyre failure I (well, mrs. KW) have had on the XE would have been a struggle to repair because the wheel dropped off the edge of a road with a non-existent verge and the inside sidewall basically ceased to exist. ::)

That was only really awkward because she was on the way to rescue me when the battery in the Westfield carked it so it was 2 simultaneous roadside callouts. >:(

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