May 2022
We are in Belgium currently. Crossed Dover to Calais this morning.
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Looking to buy a used 2011 honda civic. Hpi check is clear, but it has a gouge in the front bumper just over an inch ling and maybe 1/2 of inch deepe. It looks like it may have cut into the impact bar behing the bumper.
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Bumpers used to be for...like...bumping.
Dunno what they are for now....
I noticed yesterday the fuel prices at my local Shell station were 173.9 and 184.9, but today they had gone up even higher to 175.9 and 186.9. It looks like the energy companies are trying to pass on the windfall tax to the consumers, rather than their share holders, what a surprise! (not).
The new windfall tax has been introduced to take attention away from partygate. Of course the oil companies won't pay it, we all will.
I think that may be a little cynical. Rishi's handouts go straight to consumers' power accounts, which may persuade them to spend to keep the economy ticking a bit. Meanwhile those companies pay (some of) it back to the govt. It just helps money to circulate....
My wife and I spend most of the year outside the UK. One of the delights of visiting the UK for me (along with meeting family and friends) is seeing imperial measurements being used - pints in pubs, miles on signs and phrases such as 'miles per gallon'. My cars in Thailand and Spain both display fuel economy as 'km per litre' - but I always convert to mpg. Ditto distances and speeds I mentally convert to Imperial. I have seen on British news media that Boris is going to allow the use of imperial measurements in shops and possibly re-introduce pounds shillings and pence. This monetary system existed for 300 years and is based on principles going back at least a millenium. Imperial measurements and money are part of Britain's identity and heritage. The EU seemed to think that British people couldn't handle two measurement systems and demanded 'decimalisation' - I still remember my grandmother struggling with 'New Pence'. Now that Britain is free of the EU I think a return to the use of Imperial measurements would be a fitting reminder to future generations of British independence. Read more
Aargh ... so a floz is not a floz. Now you will be saying there are different litres depending on which country.
I am having my Golf serviced at my indie after three years of main dealer servicing. It’s on fixed mileage servicing but he proposed using 0w20 oil which is the VW spec long-life oil recommended by his trade oil supplier. It’s not extortionate in price so he is not trying to build the bill. However the main dealer always used 0w30. The indie then checked his VW OEM parts supplier and their advice was 5w40 but confirmed that 0w30 can be used. Clearly too the longlife oil can be used for fixed mileage servicing.
Each of these meet the generic VW oil spec in the handbook which is VW 502/504/508 without any advice in the viscosity as such. I am bemused that there is not an immediate “go to” oil viscosity for such a common engine and I assume it doesn’t matter much in our temperate climate. ... Read more
In fact the thinnest oil in the range I have been offered (0w20) is actually the one that claims the longest life in both time and mileage due to its additive pack. There are also not any horror stories about engine wear from it.
My simplistic view is that good “thin” oil will coat metal surfaces as well as good “thick” oil. For the crucial, high wear, cold starts it’s the thinner properties than offer the protection. I am sure others will have a more scientific view either way.Toyota use on the new engines 0w16 which is for less wear and quicker starting from cold/makes for lower emission's which is the main thing, apparently they are working on 0w8 now for the newly designed engines and the Hydrogen powered engines that they are working on, that includes the HGV units being tested in Japan at the moment...
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So, about 2 months ago I started hearing a whirring noise coming from the breaks. So took it into the garage and they said it needed new front pads and discs.. so got them done but then the breaks started making an intermittent crunching/grinding noise when coming to a stop. So took the car back to the garage and they said it was actually the rear pads and discs.. got them changed. But the intermittent crunching/griding did not go away.... Read more
I'm wondering if when they did the front brake job they damaged an ABS sensor and the ABS is kicking in when coming to a stop. Low sensor output would do this.
Why would you expect this to be influenced by the gear you are in?...
Another eye opener today as it is reported that we face a shortage of fish for our chippies. Apparently 30% of our fish comes from Russia and a lot from Ukraine. Used to be plenty of fish in the Dogger Bank and our other coastal waters. Now we have quotas with the very depleted UK fishing industry catching fish and in some cases having to throw parts of their catch back in the sea. It is difficult to imagine the complications that are going on within UK industries and the Imports that are coming into the UK all of which are adding to the climate change fiasco if it even exists.
Everywhere you look there appears to be a problem of shortage of staff to meet vacancies in UK business from the hospitality industry to airports and airlines yet we still seem to have a large percentage of the working population on benefits Read more
Indeed. Dr youngrovergirl has reduced her hours.
Instead of working 60 hours a week and being paid 48 she now does 40 paid but still in effect about 48. I know of one HCA who has gone to work in a supermarket.. same pay. Less stressful and free parking
After battery replacement a year ago, (left battery-less for a day or two, I know that was a mistake), I had some minor electrical malfunctions that all self-corrected in use. Except this – the date display reset itself to September 2002, (maybe the original factory setting?). It moves on a day at a time OK. I have gone through the apparently straightforward ‘reset date’ procedure to reset to the current date, several times, but the reset does not lock in, when I come out of the reset page, the displayed date is still 2002. Non-critical annoyance, but I’d like to fix it. Any advice appreciated.... Read more
Flux capacitor
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I have an audi a3 2014 1.4 tfsi and the gearbox felt abit stiff/sticky in the gears whilst shifting. So i took it my local mechanic and he drove it around abit with me in the passenger seat. He revved it alot and at the end he took it back to garage and said he needs to do 1 more test. ... Read more
He revved it alot and at the end he took it back to garage and said he needs to do 1 more test.
So he put the handbrake on and looked at the rev counter abit whilst accelating in 1st then made the car stall, then he got out and said it's ok but the clutch is abit hard. Is this a normal things to do,...
I changed to the more expensive E10 but am unsure if I am ' pouring my money' away & can fill up with E5
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We've had E10 for years in France. The short answer is to avoid it, just use E5 for better mpg and less problems down the line.
E10 means that your petrol has been diluted by adding up to 10% of ethanol - that has no business being in your petrol....
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To add to saturdays comment,
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