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[anonymous user]

I'm not sure whether to be disappointed or not. I have been outbid on a Volvo 240 estate on ebay, I don't really need one at the moment, but was justifying it on the basis that it would be cheaper to run for work than the Land Rover. I should probably consider something a little more economical.

[Ghosty]

Urban MPG on a Volvo would probably be low 20s, high 20s on a run, 30s if you're David Fowler.

There are better choices.

[anonymous user]

I've had quite a few 240 estates, as I really like them, they would be more economical than the Land Rover, but I appreciate there are more economical choices out there

[hairnet]

use david fowler

 

cheaper

[dollywobbler]

Couldn't remember when I last serviced the Honda. Thankfully, I tend to take regular photos of the speedo, because the trip reset doesn't work (essential for mpg calculations). I also took a photo of me servicing it in May. It has done under 3000 miles since then, so that's fine. Won't need a service until it's properly cold... 

 

I've also entirely lost track of where we're at with Nippa servicing, but as I seem to have ordered spark plugs for it in late March, that's probably ok as well. 2CV is overdue another grease session, plus I need to invent a battery clamp and re-attach the ignition box so it doesn't fall off again. And sort out the wiring to the nearside headlamp, as it doesn't work. And sort out the alignment of the offside one, as it's crap. Instead of doing all this at the weekend, I instead spent most of it cleaning and waxing the Lexus. Which promptly got shat on by the sahara desert. TIME WELL SPENT.

[Craig the Princess]

Volvo 940 passed it's MoT earlier, needed a new exhaust center section (to replace the Cole can repaired original) but always nice when the garage say it is very solid underneath.

[Broadsword]

Came home from work this afternoon to find this:

 

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 Looks like the wheel's pushed back a bit as well..No note, nobody saw or heard anything .Panda was parked in front and got scraped as well. Fuckstix. Have told insurance and cops, but dunno what happens next- Polo was going for it's MOT on Tuesday,after I've got it all prepped, just clicked over 70k.

That is a bloody miserable start to the week, sorry to see it I worry about what insurance companies do in these situations. Depending on the excess on the insurance, would it not be possible for you to end up paying the full repair cost to get your "insurance"? Not only that, the insurer would obviously then put up the insurance because there is a claim. Basically what is there to prevent you paying everything and then paying far more for future policies?

 

I had someone drive into my 206 one pitch black night last year (car long gone now). A man turned up later claiming his cousin crashed it and was terrified. Since he came to me I said one way or another I want the damage fixed and to be fair to him he gave me address and phone number. Subsequent negotiations went badly as anticipated. He was going to take the car to be fixed apparently which was a big no no. I asked for the registration number for this quad bike, which of course wasn't forthcoming. In the meantime I informed the police, who acknowledged it was very unlikely that the quad was road legal. They weren't interested enough to go to the guy's address (he did actually live there) and I was told he later somehow deactivated his SIM card after they got in touch with him. Basically I had the person's name, number, address and an admission that he had been witness to a hit and run by an underaged child on an unregistered quad. Police not interested. I said fair enough police have real crime to chase, but subsequently sighted the same fellow riding round town drunk with an unregistered quad screaming. Police still not interested. I'm not sad my Pug got smashed or that I lost out having to fix it myself, but one day that lad will hurt someone. He did not care for anyone but himself, that much was obvious. The saddest thing was that the lad knew exactly how to handle law enforcement to get out of everything. My suggestion in any similar situation would be to call 999 immediately if someone bangs on your door in the dark standing next to the car he/she has clipped. No point trying to be amicable (provided no-one was hurt or anything serious in which case 999 anyway). 

[Lacquer Peel]

The brakes seemed okay to me...

[cms206]

Urban MPG on a Volvo would probably be low 20s, high 20s on a run, 30s if you're David Fowler.

There are better choices.

Figures for the Council Estate...

 

On the run I mamaged 36mpg Fowler managed 40 on the nose.

 

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[5speedracer]

???

What's the plan, package neatly and stick in a post not without stamps?

[Lacquer Peel]

Ffs. The brake cylinder dismantled itself as I tried to bleed it. Stripped thread.

[Six-cylinder]

Figures for the Council Estate...

 

On the run I mamaged 36mpg Fowler managed 40 on the nose.

 

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I have driven lots of non cat 2.3i Autos some new, generally 27 mpg and close to 30mpg on a run. I can't tell on the one we have now because the speedo will not work for long enough.

[trigger]

Hopefully this link works, Cumberland and it's influx of Datsuns in 1972. I thinking of you Spottedlaurel!

 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=474130219626680&id=100865096953196

[Ghosty]

I got 27 running to Electric Railway and back.

 

Are there any mpg apps for iOS?

[johngarty]

Interesting feature from BBC. Guy puts his old shite petrol Golf up against his dads (fairly) modern Skoda diesel for a proper emissions test.  

Also interestingly the 9 year old Skoda is cleaner than most current models.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/how_toxic_is_your_car_exhaust

[M'coli]

I got 27 running to Electric Railway and back.

 

Are there any mpg apps for iOS?

It's got a calculator, hasn't it?

[cms206]

I got 27 running to Electric Railway and back.

 

Are there any mpg apps for iOS?

Myself and I think Dave Fowler use aCar which is now part of the fuelly family - the new layout is a bit of a faff but it does the job.

 

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[Bren]

Interesting feature from BBC. Guy puts his old shite petrol Golf up against his dads (fairly) modern Skoda diesel for a proper emissions test.  

Also interestingly the 9 year old Skoda is cleaner than most current models.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/how_toxic_is_your_car_exhaust

Golf scrapped. All new golfs should go the same way.

[Lacquer Peel]

Overlooks the environmental costs of producing a new car.

[anonymous user]

I think in this instance the golf was scrapped and not replaced

[loserone]

Well, he does say they live in London, so it's important their car isn't a negative factor for the air their child will breathe.

 

I assume since I was last in London all of the Londiniumites have migrated to electric cars, and and an old 1.8 golf would have been significantly detrimental to the air quality.

[Lacquer Peel]

He mentioned thinking about buying a hybrid.

 

Considering the Golf might use single point injection, barely more advanced than a carb, it did well.

[wuvvum]

It's his dad who was looking at buying a hybrid.

 

My dad is also considering a hybrid for his next car - not for enviro-mental reasons but because he likes the idea of driving around town on electric.  The problem is that most of them are autos and mum doesn't like driving autos.

[DodgeRover]

I got 27 running to Electric Railway and back.

 

Are there any mpg apps for iOS?

Gas cubby

[New POD]

Last Friday I took the morning off and attended an interview for a contract job.

 

My feedback to the recruitment consultant. Shall we call him Phil

 

"I am exactly what they need and I've done everything I can to convince them that my track record is just practise for the role they what doing. At one point I may have got a little over excited, because it's so obvious what they need doing and how to do it"

 

Feedback from Phil

 

 

Dear Mark 

Firstly may I thank you for attending interview at Pxxxxxxxxm. Unfortunately I have been advised this morning that they will not be taking your application forward at this time. Please see below the feedback I have received: 

Although both of these candidates were extremely knowledgeable about productionisation and operation excellence, we were concerned about their fit within the organisation. Neither candidate showed the excitement or passion for the role that we were expecting and we therefore felt that the team would fail to engage with them. 

As soon as I have any other roles I will be in touch 

Regards Phil

 

Am I allowed to call bullshit on this?. They just don't want to pay the going rate, and are now going to waste time and money employing a permie on 1/4 the money who will probably and hopefully fuck it up.
 

[New POD]

Overlooks the environmental costs of producing a new car.

 

If that car is produced in another country, the environmental costs and pollution won't be in London though.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

What is the role pod? I'm interested to know whether i think I could feign the necessary 'passion' and 'commitment'.

 

Does sound faintly like bullshit BTW, sounds like the corporate version of a Gumtree buyer excuse for not buying.

[Ghosty]

Consider yourself lucky you got rejection feedback, even if it is management jargon.

[New POD]

What is the role pod? I'm interested to know whether i think I could feign the necessary 'passion' and 'commitment'.

 

Does sound faintly like bullshit BTW, sounds like the corporate version of a Gumtree buyer excuse for not buying.

 

They are a low volume high precision aerospace component supplier.

 

They have a "High" volume product / sub assembly that they need to ramp up from 500 a year to 2000 a year.

 

They need someone to design and implement an appropriate production cell, which may or may not require new equipment and processes.

 

As a _Chartered Manufacturing Engineer, I would go back to basics and apply traditional industrial engineering to it. Document the mess they have, and come up with something that is better.  I would use a few "tools" from work study, lean and six sigma, but try to avoid using too many buzz words like Kaizen and Kanban, but essentially it's just doing the job that a manufacturing engineer should be doing. If it turns out they need new equipment I would justify it using a combination of smoke mirrors, man maths and vague assumptions, and go out, find appropriate suppliers and get it designed, and tested, and implemented and train the operators and do the risk assessments. 

 

To me this is just like being a MGF Mechanic, and replacing the head gasket on a an elise with a K series, whilst using the manual off a Freelander.

[New POD]

You fuckin' what, mate?

 

Morons.

 

Ben

 

They are making quantities that automotive would see as prototype levels which use bits of equipment spread all over the factory so that the parts probably do 100 miles from start to finish.

 

productionisation = Industrialise the prototype build.

 

operation(al) excellence = Bull shit term for applying lean and six sigma = bullshit terms for applying good work study (and industrial engineering) and statistical analysis of results and removing risks due to shit equipment and shit methods, so you can make decent parts with decent equipment and measure them correctly so you know they are good.