🚨L1's 🇫🇷 shenanigans. Exhausting work

35,611 · April 2

Reattached the mirror with one of the ford OEM mirror stickers.

Also, recreated something from a computer game, but in real life.

24,306 · April 3

Hang on... Has someone made a Dales map in Beam or are you just making set-pieces?

9,574 · April 5

On 03/04/2026 at 10:56, yes oui si said:

Hang on... Has someone made a Dales map in Beam or are you just making set-pieces?

Yes, a modder called azureskies ported a 50km road loop from Assetto Corsa, made originally by another modder, Brun, into BeamNG, it's called High Force, after the famous waterfall.

It's a bare bones map, but playable. Annoyingly, my other friends, and L1, live just out of the area modelled, and it's doubtful they'll extend it. The section where I 'parked' L1's car is at one of its 'corners', in St John's Chapel.

https://www.beamng.com/threads/high-force-uk.89611/

Depending on your version of BNG, you may want the original, or you may want the 0.38 patched version. Both are in the threads, at either end.

The 205 is a further mod, and it's customisable. I had to piss around to get a RHD car like L1's, and it only models GTi gauges in RHD for reasons I don't fully understand.
It's as close as I can get it; I can't recreate L1's exact interior and I can't add the 206 GTi driver's seat, but the wheels, suspension, engine, colour and number plate (a further mod which only works on certain cars) are right.

https://www.beamng.com/threads/1988-1998-peugeot-205-3-door-4-2-le-mans-and-stdt-update.88848/

35,611 · April 23

With the duster booked in for an MOT it needed a jump start for recovery from the garden after 6 weeks, and the express was truly up for it.

Unfortunately after a short while it got louder

And it turned out that it was not, perhaps, as happy as could be

A bungee allowed me to move it out of the way

And so it sat.

35,611 · April 23

A new front pipe section and fittings was procured, as well as YET ANOTHER WHEEL BEARING and the flange that I've been waiting for to hopefully stop eating bearings every few hundred miles.

Last night, a GREAT SUCCESS was had.

That part wasn't even slightly blowing previously, though it's obviously been tickled in the past. It didn't like the run along to the garage supported only by the bungee..

I've the rest of the system on order