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[vulgalour]

Just checked and it's 39C here in Maidstone on the cool side of the house.  At least the humidity is down at 30% rather than the 60% of a couple of days ago.

[Frogchod]

It's a bit warm here too. 

Too hot for work 🥵

So took the day off 😀

 

[AnnoyingPentium]

Silloth has been achieved.

Temp insured for this, so drove it fae Castle Douglas aw the wiy doon. Fuckin loving it.

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, puddlethumper said:

32 degrees here in Noocassle. How's everyone else ? Sweatsville ?

38 here at the moment, was 39 earlier.  The house is coping surprisingly well though - it's probably nearly 15 degrees cooler in here than out there, I've just got a little USB fan going and I'm fine.

[Split_Pin]

32 degrees in both Bonnybridge and Linlithgow, where I am just now.  I'm into the third week of my annual leave and I'm loving it. 

A bottle of Pepsi Max, fistfuls of ice and a game of cards in the shade, what's not to love!

[JJ0063]

42.9 highest measured in the garden today. Nuts. 

[Spurious]

32 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Silloth has been achieved.

Temp insured for this, so drove it fae Castle Douglas aw the wiy doon. Fuckin loving it.

Yeeeeees. I'm kinda regretting not getting a Duster now. Neighbors up the street has a metallic orange one and it looks smaaart.  

[Stanky]

Doing OK here, its 32c according to my enviro-monit station

https://maps.sensor.community/?selection=PM25&nooverlay=true#16/50.8167/-1.2110

I'm lucky that a lot of the heat seems to be being soaked up by the sea here.

 

[AnnoyingPentium]

23 minutes ago, Spurious said:

Yeeeeees. I'm kinda regretting not getting a Duster now. Neighbors up the street has a metallic orange one and it looks smaaart.  

Lovely big barges. 1.0 tce is good for wafting.

[HMC]

About 32 in Tavistock, my house has huge thick walls and is partly built into a cliff so it’s nice and cool in the lower floors. Old school “tech”

I work in a Georgean Manor House with big windows and that was hot; ironically we are having air con installed but it won’t be on the button for another week or so.

[Steve79]

In my best Bristolian "Fuck I, it's hot!!!"

Buick currently showing an outside temp of

Have pretty much just proceeded to get 3rd degree burns on the backs of my legs from the leather and from the seat buckle.

Aircon is performing a treat though

[paulplom]

38ish here.

I only went outside for half an hour ffs.

[stuboy]

Christ sake the mondeo started making a whirly noise on higher revs... some say alternator... 

 

[Bren]

38 degrees in Warrington. I was concerned about the N62's engine coping with the heat - it runs very hot anyway.

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 14/07/2022 at 22:06, SRi05 said:

Glasgow - - > Manchester Airport and back (with a holiday inbetween ) in the Civic. That's not bad for a 1.8 Pez! 

no they are quite astonishingly good considering the decend amount of "go" they have

[loserone]

2 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Lovely big barges. 1.0 tce is good for wafting.

Is it? My 1.5dci 4x4 is definitely a bit undergeared for cruising at 80

 

[stuboy]

9 hours ago, Supernaut said:

Is that in the Mondeo?

If so, those V6 Mondeos are 6 speeds. My one was, anyway.

early ones and me being a pauper NON ST220 means 5 speed

[stuboy]

1 hour ago, stuboy said:

Christ sake the mondeo started making a whirly noise on higher revs... some say alternator... 

 

bloody things parked up until i can strip down and see whats wrong.... 

[SiC]

36.6c outside here earlier. Half way between Weston super mare and Bristol.

[AnnoyingPentium]

32 minutes ago, loserone said:

Is it? My 1.5dci 4x4 is definitely a bit undergeared for cruising at 80

 

I didn't take it over about 65mph as I wasn't used to it, which is about 2600rpm. Don't have the same need to as I do with the Fabia.

[loserone]

5 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

I didn't take it over about 65mph as I wasn't used to it, which is about 2600rpm. Don't have the same need to as I do with the Fabia.

Amazing.  

 

I would regard not being able to cruise at 130kph within 5 minutes of getting into a car for the first time a significant deficiency for anything made in the last 20 years or so!

[AnnoyingPentium]

8 minutes ago, loserone said:

Amazing.  

 

I would regard not being able to cruise at 130kph within 5 minutes of getting into a car for the first time a significant deficiency for anything made in the last 20 years or so!

I could travel at 80, but I stuck to A and B-roads mostly.

[Popsicle]

Nice run down to Bristol and Exeter today.

Started off hot.

Then got hotter.

And never really cooled down much.

Thankfully this works!

[RoverFolkUs]

3 hours ago, stuboy said:

Christ sake the mondeo started making a whirly noise on higher revs... some say alternator... 

 

Could be alternator, but sounds a bit like a PAS pump running dry. I'd check the PAS fluid level first. 

[Split_Pin]

I was at Blair Drummond Safari Park yesterday and got a call from my window cleaner at about 6pm which I thought was strange. He has a Saab 93 diesel estate and said that the SiD was giving him a battery not charging message.

I popped over with the wee voltmeter that came with my red 93 and the alternator was putting out 11v when running so it was definitely goosed.  I also tried to get the bonnet open as the cable had snapped on one side but the undertray would have needed to come off so fuck that. The car only just made it to the garage a mile down the road this morning before the battery died. 

[stuboy]

10 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Could be alternator, but sounds a bit like a PAS pump running dry. I'd check the PAS fluid level first. 

there plenty of fluid in it

[mitsisigma01]

3 hours ago, stuboy said:

Christ sake the mondeo started making a whirly noise on higher revs...

Sounds like the radio isn't loud enough, fit a bigger amp and speakers , fixes all strange engine noises 😬😬😬

[Wibble]

15 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I was at Blair Drummond Safari Park yesterday and got a call from my window cleaner at about 6pm which I thought was strange. He has a Saab 93 diesel estate and said that the SiD was giving him a battery not charging message.

I popped over with the wee voltmeter that came with my red 93 and the alternator was putting out 11v when running so it was definitely goosed.  I also tried to get the bonnet open as the cable had snapped on one side but the undertray would have needed to come off so fuck that. The car only just made it to the garage a mile down the road this morning before the battery died. 

Blair Drummond safari park, we’ve had some great days there. Such good value compared to anywhere down here.

[stuboy]

9 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Sounds like the radio isn't loud enough, fit a bigger amp and speakers , fixes all strange engine noises 😬😬😬

it has loud enough upgrade sounds... i had a strop transferred( insert chucked/slung)  everything into the galaxy and swapped parking spaces to use the galaxy as daily

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Took someone into Central London this afternoon and was surprised to only see 35c, it was 37 in MK.

Looked plenty warm enough for the occupants of the LT I passed going North near Hemel, pretty sure it was @mat_the_catwith dog standing on the dash!