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Looks like yesterday I hit the wrong button on a well known online retailer. I thought I was getting a pair of DJI Mini 2 batteries, but a paddling pool turned up. Upon checking my orders, that's what I clicked.
Bugger.
My first car, a 1980 Renault 5 GTL produced about 500bhp and went like stink!
A long, long time ago, back when the pubs still closed on Sunday afternoons a friend picked up his new car carefully selected to be faster than his brother's 1.4l Renault 5. Out of all the options to achieve this in the early 90s, Alan opted for a 1.7l R5. It's guaranteed to be faster
When the pub closed, we discovered that if all three rear passengers throw themselves against the outside when the car is at full lean on a 90° bend at the bottom of two hills, the whole car skips across the road in a hilariously dangerous way.
About 15 years later, the same bend at the bottom of Water Works Hill was the scene of the Trabant Incident which was even more dangerous, but nowhere near as funny when sheer luck prevented it from being a fatal crash...
That sounds above the new price cap rates....
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/changes-energy-price-cap-between-1-april-30-june-2024#:~:text=Electricity%20rates,and%20Wales%20and%20includes%20VAT.
I'm with the ever useless British Gas since my energy company went tits up 2 or 3 years back, and they charge me the OFGEM rates for energy and standing charge.
That's probably because I pay monthly for my usage rather than having a direct debit. I know I pay slightly more, but I have control and they can't swipe huge amounts from my bank account.
I pay a month in arrears as well, so it's like having a free overdraft!
Put in a puddle that was a lot longer and a lot deeper than I anticipated
Then followed some tosser on the M40 for 15 miles who wouldn't move from the inside lane. Out of principle I refused undertake, though many others did. Knobjockey. Merc ragtop, so to be expected in these parts.
Zen replaced my copper landline with VOIP recently.They are buttering me up for when they do mine...
Yes, the current copper arrives in a duct, and Gigaclear and Swish have been in the area.You HAM boyz. ADSL/VDSL is like high voltage power lines to you
I think I got a leaflet through the door from one of them, saw no ISPs I recognised on the list of those available, so binned it.
I have a Zen fixed price for life contract currently so would need to be convinced I needed the extra speed to switch anyway, although ditching the shitty VDSL noise would be nice. That's more a problem of my neighbours not switching than me, however.
Pre register interest in Gigaclear does tend to get a very good price offer when they finally allow ordering. Hence I'm getting £30 a month off.
My Zen is also fixed for life, although I suspect they have a convenient get out clause in that copper phones lines are going, and my contract includes a copper phne line with Zen. I will probably recontract the internet part when Openreach pull their finger out and provide FTTP here, possibly later this year.
Not sure what to do when OPenreach do do it, just go for the highest speed available (currently 900d/100u due Openreach's short sighted decision to use GPON, but new networks should be about to get 1800d/200u*, still based on GPON). Or just get a cheap FTTP through Zen and also keep one of the altnets - once you've had a fast upload, its hard to give it up if you use any upload bandwidth...
...when I had the 900Mb service, it was quicker to use OneDrive to copy filies between PCs, rather than USB sticks. It was the same speed to use OneDrive as it was to copy files across my LAN
(Though that might get reduced to 120u, again due to stupid decisions around the utterly out of date GPON - GPON allows 2.5Gb download, 1.25Gb upload, shared by all users on that node, usually around 64 - 128 homes. Altnets tend to use XGS-PON)
Come on, common as now. Even my Yeti has Zenon's that turn when you steer and at slow speed puts the spot light on to light kerb at a junction.Yeah, but thats VAG, and the stupid foglight turn lights are built to burn retinas of oncoming drivers... ...be it a Pisshat or a Yeti. How dare other road users try to use the road
Have swapped plug, stick coil and injector between 1 and 3, but code stayed at pot 3. The most recent incident though only threw up cat efficiency code .
Maybe because I stopped and put petrol in to bring the fuel level back up, rather than keep driving until I got home.
A mechanic on another forum claims that cylinder specific codes on these arent always accurate and can be taken with a pinch of salt ?
Will have a check of injector wiring, but if that doesnt provide any answers Im going to run the fuel level low again, and then see if I can make some progress with it.
Maybe completely empty and clean out the tank and then start fresh from there.
It isnt a huge problem so far, but pretty irritating, and may get worse until I diagnose it properly.
The V6 mundano was either a 2.9 or 3.0 IIRC, so a bit disappointing.
Yep
Only difference this time is that I stopped at a petrol station after 5 minutes (after which it ran fine) rather than carry on driving for miles.
If they really want to "Improve" Sheffield they'll need a crane and a wrecking ball.That's just ended because......work this one out.....air quality has improved. Now, has it improved because of the speed reduction, in which case why increase it again? Or is it just magic?There's an environmental argument against such low speeds as vehicles simply aren't designed to travel so slowly... Not to mention the fact that localised pollution is increased by virtue of traffic build up.
Lundun being a case in point as localised pollution increases in direct proportion to each drop in traffic speed/flow.
Yet, some motorways have displayed the Matrix boards to reduce the speed limit to 60mph to 'improve air quality' (supposedly)...the M1 near Sheffield being one
Fair play to the marketing bods for upselling that, but surely an EV doesn't really require actual brakes given the regenerative braking power...
And presumably if you knock it into neutral it would simply roll to a stop
Yes, there doesn’t appear to be an explanation why this wasn’t possible. I was bored so I looked on the iPace forum and they’re confused why this wasn’t possible as well. I’m guessing they’d blame an electrical or software fault prevented this from happening.
I’ll have to remember the old runaway story if I’m ever unlucky enough to get pulled over again. Yes officer, the pedal was stuck to the floor for a few minutes but we’re all good now. Hmm, do you think they’d believe me.
