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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?
« on: 16 February 2024, 20:51:16 »Just needs a Rover V8-----------
The chassis didn't come close to handling the power from the standard engine!

Please play nicely. No one wants to listen/read a keyboard warriors rants....
Just needs a Rover V8-----------
HS oppsing 2.
So, using our money they build temporary bridges over roads so they don't need their wagons going along their expensive (temporary) haulage roads to had to cross public roads via traffic lights. Yet the self-abusers leave the traffic lights in place. And what's more, seem to have them set so badly that I spend most of yesterday giving way to fresh air.
Tosspots.
You definitely want to steer clear of lentils and pulses, or the fire brigade will be picking up pieces of your property
Yeah, but what happens when the software has a spaz, an thinks you are behind on the non-existent finance....Is it April fools day?
Apparently not. It's the future.
Well, I'm glad I'm finance free. I have never bought a car on finance, and now the mortgage(s) are finished I can just about scrape by and keep the wolf from the door.
V70 is FWD though so just towing the rears along.
Apparently nobody knew the DASH8 was on the runway because it doesn't have ADSB. Hmm...
That's a mis-understanding of how ADSB is used.
There is full ADSB-out whereby an aircraft transmits its lat-long when interrogated by a SSR radar source. This is what things like FR24 rely on to track aircraft. But there is also an earlier standard (Mode S) where the aircraft replies to normal Mode A/C/S SSR interrogations, but does not respond to ADSB position requests.
Most military/government aircraft do not respond to ADSB position requests, and hence don't show up on FR24 and the like. They will show up on the airports own SSR radar screens due to the Mode S responses.
There are some 'open world' tracking sites such as ADSB Exchange that support something called MLAT. This allows non ADSB-out aircraft to be located by triangulation. However, for that to work it needs at least 3 receivers to be getting signals from the aircraft, and in that area of Japan it appears coverage is not good enough to track anything by MLAT below about 1500'. So the coast guard plane doesn't show on any publically accessible trcking sites.
Just because you and I can't 'see' it on FR24 does not mean that ATC cannot see it on their screens.
Yup, watched that and went what a waste of money.Watched that too, quite impressive. Just wondered at the time if those attending paid the ULEZ fee. Probably all EV owning crowd.
Not a million miles away from Cape Town either
Put a deposit down on the Zafira's successorDacia Duster or CL500
Sadly the requirement of 7 seats ruled out both those options (the cl500 I have a definite soft spot for).
Went for a Ford Galaxy tdci 163ps in the end as all the grand voyagers I saw were either ropey, expensive or both.
We had a look at a couple of Zaf Tourers but the third row space just wasn't sufficient - not that it bothered me any as I will always be a first row passenger.
The Galaxy handles very well for its size and given it has 50% more power and about 120% more torque than the zafira it should go well enough for a family bus.
Seeing as I know you all love an opportunity to tell people they've spent too much on their cars
https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/15982471
On a side note Stemo, if you're looking for out and out space, I reckon you could lose mutley in here no problem!