MikeR

just reading up on LED bulbs , thought I would try some again to replace the T10s on the car ...and so ordered some more 

so we get this LED using some 160 -200 mA of power , much less than a proper 5w bulb taking some 500mA....

but because canbus cant measure some 50 ohms across what is now a diode ...

so we fit resisters which will draw some 280mA of power .... so the canbus dont error 

to replace a bulb that drew some 500mA   ...

so thats 5 watts of heat to dissipate on this little led bulb thingy to help it fail ....

the canbus resistors will be getting the snip !!

a couple of hours on the car saw the most worn tyres on the front to finish wearing them out over the summer , 2 good ones on the back , 

and a fairly decent spare in the boot ,

and the 12 year old spare sat in the garage ready for a new tyre on its rim .. 

hopefully a swap around before the winter will see a set of decent tyres on the car 

31 minutes ago, mat_the_cat said:

Scammers reaching a new low today:

Someone my wife knew has recently died - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68435343

So she gets an invite to his funeral online, but the website wants card details to verify identity, but that no payment will be taken. Next thing is she's getting a call from the HSBC fraud department saying that the scammers are trying to take money! I'm guessing they must trawl social media for people who've died, and then go after the friends and relatives.

I think they should be traced , lined up against a wall and a large tower pc inserted sideways ... 

Wake up for someone today , in the car  parts place getting my back box , garage guy next to me was trying to get parts for a car service but the vin and plate did not match the car on his system ...   It was a petrol as well going by the shop system ..

RINGER ? went the cry ..

16 hours ago, Me9 said:

And that's exactly what these greedy lying shower of robbing fkrs want...... ie hopefully to get our old shitters off the roads that we've all paid handsomely for to drive on.

And for what..

To pay for my over 60 travel concession ? 👍😜

That's when the trains work ....

I think mine has stayed at 20 squid ........

on the road kick offs ..

Monday is a bank hol , the roads will be packed .....

car is on drive , back box is in the garage ..... 

todays kick in the slats , just had a chance to check the exhaust onthe C1 and its snapped off at the rear box ..

its my fault ..

cant get a new one till Tuesday ...

anyway the old rear box came off ok and just a new clamp needed for the joint ..

1 minute ago, paulplom said:

PS Plus is only just over £2 a week and you get access to hundreds of games for free too. Including online play.

Me and my son both have PS5s and he signed my ps into his account so I get everything free. Everytime I switch my playstation on it logs him out of his mid game or whatever leading to some pretty fierce arguments 🤣

he has gone off having on line ownership of games and likes to have the disc in his hand . he is starting to see the console market  as bit of a cash cow .

son is a bit pissed over his PS4 , he saved up for a console , with  a bit more help we got one , we set it all up , had fun doing the accounts etc , but it worked well ...

then he wanted multiplayer .....  

err no , age restricted ,  ok then use my account ..

still no ... you need a package of so much a squid a month ..

err what ???

we now understand why there are so many PS4s on the CEX shelves  ..

Now looking out for a 2nd controller for local play ..

The innards of the C1 back box have decomposed ... It's almost a straight pipe now ...... 👍👍👍👍

I can hear it with my aids off .

Just seen some 1 litre bottles of wine .. 13% as well ...

Are they making longer straws to fit them ???

People who send out a poster that can only be read by some obscure app ... When a jpeg would do ...

Are they the same people who walk diagonally across the road at a crossing ? 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13241783/Kind-hearted-woman-nurses-stricken-baby-hedgehog-overnight-discover-fluffy-hat-bobble-took-animal-hospital.html

specsavers ?

its not under pressure , its just a header tank ..

the up side is it will refill to over flowing  every time it rains , took me a while to notice that on mine ....

Looked at my son's horse riding pictures and noticed something ...... It is a mouse ?? 

caravan insurance , last year it was 400 notes , F&*^ me not paying that much again , so this year had a look around and google did the rest and filled my feed with

information , and as a result found a place that would do me for 180 notes ...........  less than 50% of last years price .

got the expected renewal last week which I expected to have gone up to some 400 plus ...

350 ?????

given this day of inflation , car insurance going up etc , how did that happen ?  , do they just have a dart board with prices on it ...

not being reamed out by that insurance company again ..

I must get my dangly dice out of the garage and into my car , people will love to see them ......

Car quiz on Twitter ... 

I had a zit on my konk .

HAD

Just like being a spotty sprog again .

Squeeeeeze .

Did a oil change and saw silver bits in the oil . Nearly s£!# myself but it turned out to be bits of white paint mixing with the oil ....!! 

Curry last night ...

Formby , home to the 2 foot pothole , as modeld  by my wife ...