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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 20 March 2025, 12:47:13 »
Having had a (now dead) fly stuck in my NS headlight for several weeks (this is the one held together by chinky takeaway containers and sikaflex), I now have a matching fly, still alive as of 20 minutes ago, in the OS headlight.

FFS

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 20 March 2025, 12:45:09 »
Drove it to Pickering for a short break. These diesel’s are in their element just cruising along motorways. A journey of 230 miles and it cost me peanuts in fuel.  :y
As soon as mine gets beyond around 70mph, it has a drink problem worthy of any AA attendee, and virtually always returns 32mpg (reality, not the trip computer) over an entire tank.  Last tank was 35.9mpg - she'd used it for work and to nip to Oxford, and clearly she is more reformed than me...

I've had 67mpg from her little diesel going to work over a 70 mile run to central Brumingham, but I was keeping it under the instant ban territory...

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Omega General Help / Re: Massive Clattering Noise
« on: 20 March 2025, 12:41:22 »
/Smug mode: *Cough* Reply #88


Excellent find, and I bet you're chuffed to bits you've managed to find the fault, and strip it down that far.  Brilliant news.

Obviously, we know the belt jumped some teeth, so we're not completely out of the woods, but I'd get a new pump on, reassemble (cambelt locking kit needed if you don't want to revisit, or slap on as best you can to test, with a view to correctly time it shortly after) and see if you should be buying a lotto ticket or not!


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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 20 March 2025, 08:06:28 »
I never had you down as that kind of tart  ;).

Presumably she's going to repay your kindness by popping an inlet manifold  :-X
.

  Oh yes they do that, especially when mapped (don’t ask me how I know)😢😳
As neither of mine are 2 years old yet, I'm hoping they will last a bit longer....

;D

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 20 March 2025, 08:05:26 »
As a way of an apology for the abuse it got last month - tracks I wouldn't take a crossover up, let along a low saloon, and of course it's drowning - I put on some illuminated tread plates at the front (struggling to find any SWB ones for the rear)
https://store.jaguar.com/c2d48819-treadplate.html
Thanks - my dealer a year or so ago told me they couldn't get them any more, lying bastid, so never thought to check JLR direct!

I wonder why rears are more expensive than fronts, despite being much smaller ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 20 March 2025, 08:03:53 »
I never had you down as that kind of tart  ;).

Presumably she's going to repay your kindness by popping an inlet manifold  :-X
Did you not see TBE, aka "The Chav"? 

So the illuminated plates along with the chavvy ghost logo puddle lights fit right in, lol

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 19 March 2025, 19:51:34 »
As a way of an apology for the abuse it got last month - tracks I wouldn't take a crossover up, let along a low saloon, and of course it's drowning - I put on some illuminated tread plates at the front (struggling to find any SWB ones for the rear)

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General Car Chat / Re: PHEV
« on: 19 March 2025, 19:47:41 »
I am considering a RRS Phev as my next company hack
Only because you won't have to pay for the battery modules that fail on them at a cost of £17k ;D

I think there has been a recall on MHEV JLR's with a similar issue as well, the modules on top of the 48V battery, but they're much cheaper (less than £2k for part and fitting).

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 19 March 2025, 08:58:13 »
If his brain was half the size of his gonads he would have won every race he entered.
Despite his faults and flaws though, he was still a great driver.
As a person, I never liked him. No F1 driver is going to be a nice person, as you need an incredible level of arrogance in that job. But I really disliked him.

But, boy, could he drive.  And not just F1 either.  He would go for any gap if given the hint of a whiff or opportunity, making for great racing for both spectators and drivers.  Can you imagine the current crop of nancy boys doing being like that? No, they will sit behind waiting for a pit stop.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 19 March 2025, 08:54:04 »
I know, those police drivers.  They get up my arse, flashing wigwam lights and blues and twos, then when I stop to let them past, the also stop and get out, and start with "Evening Nigel Mansell....."

;D
Christ, how long ago did he stop you? It's not even Lewis Hamilton anymore, more like Lando Norris.  ;D

None of them had that many punctures, though... >:D
Good point, I must be Mansell, given the number of punctures I get!!

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 19 March 2025, 08:53:23 »
Back in the days when you had to show your docs at the copshop.  ……..

The ‘7 day producer’ still exists as far as I know. The fly in the ointment there is that we haven’t got a police station within miles of us.  ::)
The police probably issue them as a deliberate inconvenience to the driver, as we all know that road fund (.gov), car insurance (ask MiD) and driving licence (dvla) are at the disposal of plod.  ::)
Last time it happened to me, they checked it all online, apart from insurance, who they called.

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General Car Chat / Re: Nissan Cumquot
« on: 19 March 2025, 08:50:50 »
Doesn't sound like too bad a job then. Fingers crossed
t's only nuts and bolts. >:D

We'll see how it goes ;)
Yeah, that's what I told Gixer when we started doing the right side intake manifold on mine...

I'd laugh, but I'm still scarred by the experience.

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General Car Chat / Re: PHEV
« on: 19 March 2025, 08:49:17 »
I think my mates old PHEV was claimed to be about 150mpg.  He worked 2.5 miles from home, and struggled in winter to do it there and back on electric (and we're not allowed to charge EV's at our company).

On the petrol engine, even with him being a hypermiler, he was looking at around 25-35 mpg, because it was a heavy car with heavy batteries and a tiny petrol engine.

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Bezos gave me a dashcam to review*.  I wired it to a ciggy plug, did the review, unplugged and chucked in the big black receptacle that gets emptied every fortnight.

Work of bloody satan.  Like helmet cams for the moral highground idiots cyclists.


*Granted, not for the first time, I clicked on the wrong item - imagine my horror at getting a bloody dashcam instead of something interesting!

I can seriously understand why someone that drives like you doesn’t own a dashcam.   ;D  It would be like scoring an own goal with your own footage if you ever had to produce it.  ;D
Err, Pot and Kettle, Mr YZ ;D

Besides, I'm a reformed character, as well you know.  I haven't had a tug from the old bill in years.  I haven't even done a speed awareness course this decade. Fully reformed.

Although, I was obviously always a careful and considerate driver, having never had points on my licence (touches wood quickly!).  I'm just even more careful and considerate  :P

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Omega General Help / Re: Part numbers for service items
« on: 19 March 2025, 08:40:44 »
Car Parts in Motion for one have always provided good quality branded parts
I'm a fan, either direct from them, or via their Ebay store, which ever is the cheapest on the day.  Sometimes it takes a few days to turn up.

They sell Bosch pads and discs, which have become my favourite low cost brand for brakes, as they seem to be able to withstand some abuse...  ...apparently  ::)

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