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How many miles are too manyferny
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Quick answer? It depends.
I had a year old Skoda Spuperb eat its ECU which had done 80k miles. While it was being repaired the Ford Galaxy with 4k miles on it died. Go look at the car and decide how it's been looked after and then go with your gut. If it feels right for you it probably is.
Yeah, diesel engines tend to go to higher mileages then petrol but some of them can keep going and going as well. People also forget that everything on the car will also have done the same amount of miles as the engine. The shell, all the suspension components, the seats, the leccy window motors, the clutch, etc etc. That's why it's best to go with your gut.
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Reversing automatic car up a set of ramps. Right foot out of the door. Using left foot on accelerator. Get to the top of the ramps so touch the brake. Car speeds up. Touch brake harder. It's not the brake.
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Nice Reversing lights!ferny
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Feb 21, 2014 16:40:10 GMT
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This was todays job. Yeah, it looks a little silly but for the first time since owning the car I can reverse in the dark now! I got this Ranger and a Fogranger for a fiver- both bulbs work as well.
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Feb 17, 2014 11:33:56 GMT
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Paint it red, teethy grin down its sides...
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Changes to VED ?ferny
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I think everyone needs to chill out a bit, it's the 21st century and digitising paper based systems is hardly anything new, sure a few might get mistakenly pulled over for having no tax when they have actually paid but that would be a tiny number. And I highly doubt it would get as far as a car being impounded for their system showing it as untaxed. If you feel scared that every other police car is just waiting to pull you for no tax then keep the receipt in the glove box. Simples. To be honest, in these days of Internet banking you could probably show them the proof of the transaction on your phone... Dunno, I'm 31 - almost said 30... must be getting old and forgetful... Anyway, I'm 23 and thanks to the 21st Century, internet banking, people assuming what the spreadsheet or computer says is correct and no-one allowed to use common sense which has made it dissolve in many peoples heads I had a lot of problems when trying to upgrade my OS. It kept failing at purchase with an error code which made no sense to anyone in the company. All cards gave the same issue. The bank said their system was fine and blamed Microsoft. Microsoft said the opposite. Eventually I got my nice download only copy, which'll be grate when it goes kaboom and requires an install. But before that happened I lost access to my internet banking, my debit and credit cards got blocked and the same happened to my dad whose card was also tried just in case it was a problem specific to my account. Ok, it's not car based but anything designed to take humans out of the equation and rely on automation or computers fills me with dread. Plus lets not forget that tax discs are rather handy for retaining or getting the original registration back on your old classic. A whole nightmare for future classic owners could be opening up for people in the future. Assuming their ECU still works or 30 year old batteries in their hybrid can be replaced. Keeping everything on computer whilst requiring more ways to prove who you are at the same time is an absolute nightmare as well. A fact I recently remembered whilst helping my non-passport owning mum renew her driving license. Old people get grumpy when frustrated... I sound like a rather grumpy git this morning! More coffeee required...
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ferny
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I had a little sign like that when I was younger. It went, "If you notice this notice you'll notice this notice is not worth noticing." I had another which said, "save trees, eat a beaver." I was a strange child...
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If you're going to use E10 make sure your hoses are ok to use with it (SAE J30 R9 (or R10)). And also set your car up for it as those of us running carbs and no electrics to adapt fuel settings on the fly will notice a difference. We do an event called the 10CR (10 countries Run) every couple of years. Anyone filling up with E10 was getting more fuel vaporisation and the PI engined cars were lucky to get to the top of the mountain passes. The cars sold in Switzerland back in the day had different metering units to cope with the fuel, temperatures and elevation. It's a bit of an extreme example as not everyone wants to go up Stelvio etc! But it's worth realising it doesn't like heat so if you've got it in your tank and your car is running a bit rough in traffic on a hot day, you know why. Anyone of us on the run avoided E10 like the plague as the cars ran like a bag of poop on it.
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The camera hasn't caused the accidents, people not slowing down in time has. You can see the warning signs for cameras and lane merging a long way away yet people still go right up to the edge and slam on their brakes. The camera isn't making them do that, the people doing it are doing it... I don't know how the road layout or signs have changed over the years there but even their data supports that the camera isn't at fault. 01/12/00 - 01/05/01 1 slight accident 1 slight casualty 01/05/01 - 01/10/01 1 serious accident, 4 slight accidents, 1 serious casualty and 10 slight casualties
So during winter when the roads are slower less people had a bang but in summer when lots of people who don't usually drive are taking the kids on holiday, there's more people in general driving around for longer periods of the day and possibly due to the warmer and longer days there are more people spending time in a pub garden there were more crashes. No curse word! Why only supply data for a six months period before the camera? 8 Oct 02-31 dec 02 3007 (could equate to over 12,000 in the year)! 2003 9639 2004 8451 2005 9047 2006 7801 2007 3305 1/1/08 - 1/5/08 562 May 08 - May 09 6445
So the trend is for the number of tickets issued to be going down. Which suggests less people are speeding. And as (in my opinion) the number of crashes hasn't increased by any noticeable margin that would suggest that in that area people are speeding less and crashing just as much. They conveniently choose to ignore the downward trend or explain the anomaly in 2007. Why? Because it wouldn't support their argument. In the 5½ years prior to its installation there were a total of 13 accidents and 14 casualties. In the 5½ years post installation there were 18 accidents and 26 casualties! So a different of 5 accidents over an eleven year period? To show how curse word that data is, 6 years prior to that camera there could have been a bus pushed over in high winds injuring an extra 30 people and in that instant their figures wouldn't support their argument. In the 5 1/2 years after the camera, was one of those accidents caused by a blowout which then took out a row of cars and causing more casualties? How many of those accidents were caused by people not driving to the road/weather conditions, how many were "acts of God" and how many a direct result of braking at the camera (driver error)? What I mean by that is that numbers don't tell the story of what caused each accident or causality and a difference of 5 is insignificant. Don't get me wrong, I hate cameras. I used to drive 1000 miles a week. I always took the view that if I was caught then I couldn't complain as I was speeding. But I hate ignorance and propaganda just as much. All they've done is throw some figures from a spreadsheet out as it makes their opinion look valid but they can't explained any of it. Why not? Call me cynical but I've made my own conclusion.
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i've always wondered if those average cameras 'do' you between 2 cameras, or it averages out your speed for every camera you pass. In other words if you did 55 average speed between two of them, but 49 overall over 7 or 8 specs, would you get done or not. I was cruising towards the dartford tunnel the other day in the Datto, and a camera in the gantry flashed just after I went under it, which i was rather surprised about, as i kept an eye on the mirror i noticed it flash 2 or 3 other cars behind me as well. Never even seen one of those flash that I can recall... Its either the most over zealous camera or its broken, i guess i shall watch my doormat to find out. I'm not sure how often the average speed cameras record you, but if you go through a series of cameras which do take an image/report you then you're only committing one offence. You haven't been seen to slow down between them so you're still speeding the whole time. If you go through a series of them and one doesn't get you then you'll be committing two offences because you slowed down and then started to speed again. Don't know what cameras they have down in Dartford, they look like digital to me. Film ones (do any still exist) used to do a flash cycles and system check which involved lots of flashing before they started nabbing you. I went under one of the M25 cameras a while back and it was flashing like crazy. It was either broken or testing itself.
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Between Milton Keynes and Toddington on the M1 there is already a speed camera, its not always turned on, but when it is it flashes like mad. It has been there about a month, it sticks off the side of a post, like a normal speed camera. I assume its a pilot test for the new proposals. If it was fully commissioned id have had something through the post by now. That's the one I was thinking of. It's got a bloody bright flash! It's a bit of a nasty one as you only know it's there once someone else has been flashed and after that you know what to look for. I made the assumption they couldn't use the ones already on the gantry (and easily seen) as they still hadn't been approved. Yes, if you get caught you get caught. It's the assumption that someone doing 90mph on a clear day on an empty motorway is a bigger harm to society that the people putting make-up on in rush hour which is the sore point.
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Are these cameras not already in use? They've got new ones on the m1 around here and they flash a lot!
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Top Gear new series 2nd Febferny
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Top Gear is a big pile of curse word now! But as I'm getting older I'm embracing complaining and moaning more and more so I welcome its return. It also helps fill that Sunday limbo between a fat lunch sleep/being out for the day and going to bed.
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golf mk4 keyferny
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Jan 21, 2014 16:27:43 GMT
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Has anyone got a guess as to why the remote on a Golf mk4 key would get worse? The battery has been changed a couple of times and made no difference and now rather than it working from a good distance you have to get the angle just right when you're up against the drivers door glass.
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There's some very useful people in your area if you stick your head on the CT site one day. And if you fancy having some fun in it the guys I'm thinking of also enjoy doing track days, autotests and navigation rallies in their Triumphs.
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Any legal advisors??ferny
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Let's see...
Potentially get in trouble but have a clean conscience. Everything gets done in the open and once resolved is finished with.
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Potentially get in trouble. Be £1500 out of pocket and stuck with an old (damaged) Skoda. Possibly have more grief from him or the insurance companies later on.
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1968 Triumph Herald 13/60ferny
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Don't fit the thicker ARB unless you're fitting a swing spring. If you're fitting different springs or dampeners take it off and see if you prefer the feel. I haven't had one on my car for years but I'm running much heavier front springs and wanted to kill the understeer. The Courier was sold with a heavier rear spring and no ARB and many say it was the best handling version of a Herald.
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Cut the ends off and stack one on top of the other. Drill some holes all the way around. Grab a load of broom handles and a bowling ball. Industrial KerPlunk.
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There's been a lot of discussion on roll hoops. My view on the one you have fitted it that in an accident it'll either push through the floor or fold over. The screen surround will certainly fold flat. I'd love to fit a full cage to mine. I'm surprised it doesn't get in the way of the hood where it is.
Your seats. Are they in good condition? Depending on price/condition/location I could possible re-home them.
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Come ride with me....ferny
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Not mine but my car was doing the same event at the time so that counts? It's a brilliant series anyway! It's a time lapse from the Round Britain Reliability Run - 100 Triumphs doing 2000 miles in 48 hours.
The Plough to Blyth Services -
Blyth Services to Edinburgh Airport -
Edinburgh Airport to John O Groats -
John O Groats to Conon Bridge Hotel -
Conon Bridge Hotel to Morrison's Garage -
Morrison's Garage to Lancaster Services, Gledrid Services and on to Gordano Services -
Gordano Services to Lands End -
Lands End to Badgers Holt -
Badgers Holt to Pimperne -
Pimperne to Didcot -
Didcot to The Plough -
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