April 2023
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What's good, what should I avoid. 3 adults, weekend drives, I am 60 . High mileage BMW, Audi, VW. ... Read more
I am about to replace the worn Ford brake discs for Pagid discs. However, I have noticed that, unlike the originals, the Pagid discs have an additional small threaded hole near one of the lug nut holes. Does anyone know what this hole is for?
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I don’t get the motivation in this case though. Is money somehow being made, or is it just a technology demonstrator, “because we can”?When these AIs (in communication with each other the learning curve must be incalcuble) know everything there is to know, at what point will they decide Pete human is either superfluous or might even be a considered a danger to the AI itself. What could possibly go wrong is a question the eggheads should be asking themselves before they get too giddy about the brilliance of their frankenputer.
Thats assuming what they learn is correct, as from what I have seen the results are a bit mixed in that they mix the very non correct truth with reality truth and the way something should be done... ...
A motoring miracle of sorts
My old mate who is a mechanic (senior technician) at a Nissan dealers told me about a car they had in yesterday.
A Suzuki Alto 96k miles on a 11 plate
Yesterday was the first time in its life it had been serviced including its first oil change.
To his amazement the engine was fine before the change and while the oil in his words was ‘darker than hell’ there appeared no excessive engine wear.
The car was recently passed down from a grandfather to a grand daughter who unlike grandad understood the value of a service.
Apparently grandad ‘didn’t believe in servicing cars’!
I found that rather impressive Suzuki simple mechanics can be so reliable and at the same time incredible an owner can be so ignorant
In over 10 years of ownership the car has only required tyres and brakes until this recent MOT when part of the exhaust and some suspension components were replaced.
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I knew a guy who didn't understand engines and thought you poured oil into them as a 'total loss' system. He never used the dipstick. I hate to think of the oil level in his old Fiesta, but it always had a big puddle of the stuff under it.
Last year, just 126 XEs were sold in the UK,
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Many manufacturers have pared down the available car ranges.
Depends how successful they are. E.g. Audi A1, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, etc etc.......
Not just drinking water.
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So what has happened to all the existing microchip production plants? A good deal are in Taiwan, so they should be up and running at full capacity again, as should most ones in Western nations and most others.
Having extensions built but don`t forget the interiors are cleaner than any other clean factories, the fabrication units take months to get right so they do not waste too many wafers, one chip on a wafer thats bad wrecks a wafer so can only be used for lower grade electronics ...
How is the £40k list price defined? Is it the manufacturer's advertised retail price or something else?
If RRP is £39k and adding optional extras ended up final price paid being over £40k, is it still considered liable for additional VED?... Read more
apparently even a base VW Polo is now over £20k
Has something changed recently in the forum software or is it an issue my end.
When replying including quoting a previous message i use paragraphs with a space between to make my pointless waffle at least easier to read before correctly discarding as rubbish.
Once posted the whole of the message is closed fully up with no spaces between sentences.
ie there should be 4 spaces between the 5 sentences here, which should provide the answer of whether its only when quoting or if its doing this all the time.
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well thats made a liar out of me, all working as it should.
I think that sometimes problems occur if the original post's formatting is 'odd'. It also can be a real pain responding to a longer post that has several numbered points where the numbering notation gets lost as you respond via individual responses below each one you want rather than at the end.
Some people also do want / know how to use the 'quote original message' and things get more and more complex with quotation marks, etc if there's a back and forth.
Snake found hanging from car dashboard:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-65359409... Read more
It's always wise to dodge a viper.
Suddenly, helped by liquid refreshment, we remembered our early days of driving. Being young and keen we attended courses (that would now be called advanced driving but really everyone should be exposed to). Anyway, one of the things we were taught was that in an emergency (the example used was flooding the engine on a level crossing) you put the car into second or reverse and use the starter motor to get you to safety. Is there a way that can still be done on a modern car? Certainly on the cars we have we couldn't do it. The starter simply doesn't turn when in gear. I appreciate it is somewhat random but that technique got me out of trouble regularly with an old GTV (which was truly unreliable). Read more
Sure it works on a manual but if you have an Auto, don't waste your time. Last time I did that was in a 65 Ford Corsair 1500 to get it to the side of the road.
What's the thoughts on tomorrow's upcoming phone alert test?
Personally I think its a good thing.... Read more
Mine did nothing. Probably lack of signal.
Strangely enough my phone remained silent while my wife's went off?...
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I would only be looking at condition and history and also private adverts in this price bracket. Pre pandemic there was quite a lot of choice for £4k but not now.