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[paulplom]

41 minutes ago, Christine said:

He'll be able to afford a week in Tunisia now ....

I won't go back. Far too hot. The people were fantastic but the heat was relentless.

[Jazoli]

17 minutes ago, paulplom said:

I won't go back. Far too hot. The people were fantastic but the heat was relentless.

Yeah we’d made a similar mistake going to Turkey in the height of summer, it was 40 degrees most of the time, I spent all of it either in the (too deep) pool or inside.

I’m now boringly reliable and get a Villa in Spain in June generally.

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

 

It's the fucking state of the roads that's the problem.

When I was faced with the easiest route to stopping my front end knocking was to replace everything, I bought the cheap parts.

Partly (mostly) because the car was an unknown and at least having it not knocking and driving straight meant I could use the bloody thing. 

The other part was the roads! There's a section coming off of the m40 into lewknor that makes the front end do an almighty bang (hits the ridges where the roads fucked square on and fast for half a mile) already. By fitting cheap shitty parts I'll still be changing them as soon* as more expensive ones because they'll be pummeled to shit before they naturally wear out. I doubt the bolts will be rusted together by the time I need to change a pair of something 😢

[lesapandre]

More bread, circus and driverless car news:

"Uber brings forward trialling driverless taxis in UK"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwynm4wl1j7o

[Markeh]

11 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

More bread, circus and driverless car news:

"Uber brings forward trialling driverless taxis in UK"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwynm4wl1j7o

Presumably an influx of previously Wolverhampton plated Toyotas on the second hand market if this goes mainstream

[paulplom]

2 hours ago, beko1987 said:

When I was faced with the easiest route to stopping my front end knocking was to replace everything, I bought the cheap parts.

Partly (mostly) because the car was an unknown and at least having it not knocking and driving straight meant I could use the bloody thing. 

The other part was the roads! There's a section coming off of the m40 into lewknor that makes the front end do an almighty bang (hits the ridges where the roads fucked square on and fast for half a mile) already. By fitting cheap shitty parts I'll still be changing them as soon* as more expensive ones because they'll be pummeled to shit before they naturally wear out. I doubt the bolts will be rusted together by the time I need to change a pair of something 😢

It cost me £1300 or so for the last mot at a different garage last year. It included a bottom arm and a tre iirc. 

 

[paulplom]

Just now, paulplom said:

It cost me £1300 or so for the last mot at a different garage last year. It included a bottom arm and a tre iirc. 

 

Still on it's on it's original gearbox and engine though. Unlike my fucking transit custom which needed both replacing before 55k miles. 

[Barry Cade]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

Still on it's on it's original gearbox and engine though. Unlike my fucking transit custom which needed both replacing before 55k miles. 

EEK. I'm on 54k..

[MrGTI6]

11 hours ago, lesapandre said:

More bread, circus and driverless car news:

"Uber brings forward trialling driverless taxis in UK"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwynm4wl1j7o

Given that it's Uber, I assume the AI is being trained to sit in the middle lane of the M25 at 53mph.

[S2000]

Having a truly challenging week at work so carted myself off to the six bells at warborough car meet, only got a handful of snaps as my phone went flat!

 

[High Jetter]

Oof - XJ6C!

[Stinkwheel]

Oof K reg Xantia - Rare!!!!

[Split_Pin]

Liked for the K reg Xantia!

[lesapandre]

SUV news:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/11/ever-rising-height-car-bonnets-suv-threat-to-children-report

[auntiemaryscanary]

On my route to/from work.

The blue one is a new addition in the last 2 weeks. I thought the other one hadn't moved for several months (I think it has sofa cushions etc in there) but it wasn't there one morning but then back again later.

I wasn't born when the MoT was introduced but I imagine most cars over a couple of years old looked like the front one.

[lesapandre]

Heralds tended to last pretty well from new. Outer panels stayed not too bad - what got a lot of them was the chassis which rusted out unseen and that was the end when they weren't worth anything much.

[dozeydustman]

I made a purchase.

Robert Dyas have an online sale and knocking these out for £55.

I’ll hopefully get it assembled at the weekend.

[loserone]

They do a usefully sized 20t* one for £105 too

[High Jetter]

Under pressure?

[lesapandre]

[Metal Guru]

7 hours ago, lesapandre said:

SUV news:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/11/ever-rising-height-car-bonnets-suv-threat-to-children-report

In other news, fire is hot and dangerous and beer gets you pissed!

[dozeydustman]

13 hours ago, loserone said:

They do a usefully sized 20t* one for £105 too

Was showing as not in stock when I bought the smaller one, otherwise I’d have got that instead. I think the only pressing in and out will be a few bushes as I intend on polybushing the 205 at some point, and 6t was enough for a very jammed in wheel bearing recently on the same, an impending job I need to do on the Scénic though. 

[SRi05]

MOT pass for the big beastie today, a nice way to celebrate it's 21st birthday. 

Into its 5th year with me now, I was contemplating swapping it for something a lot newer (and more economical) but it keeps soldiering on being completely dependable. 

Early 00's Hondas 4 lyf

[captain_70s]

£140

Oof. 🥲

[Split_Pin]

Time to address the 75s non working skooshers. 

Tons of shite flowing out

That'll be why:

 

[High Jetter]

27 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Time to address the 75s non working skooshers. 

I'm quite impressed with those pumps,  first I'd come across that spin one way for front washers and the other way for rear, neat. Only come across that on 3-phase stuff before.

[High Jetter]

Flight to London gone down in India, apparently, today

[Mrcento]

54 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Flight to London gone down in India, apparently, today

Very interesting footage out there for anyone that's a bit of an avgeek.

Can't rule out some kind of mechanical/fuelling issue, but it looks awfully, awfully like pilot error, incorrect takeoff configuration.

Doesn't look like the flaps were deployed, and the fact they never even got the landing gear up (creating more drag) pretty much shows they'll have been getting warnings seconds after leaving the ground (before the positive rate call). Pilot tried to fight it (in a panic) brought the nose up (creating even more drag) and probably had the throttles firewalled/toga active, but not enough airspeed and nowhere near enough lift with flap settings wrong, and also not enough altitude gained to bring the nose down to try to generate some. Horrendous.

There is a small chance it was a trim issue and the nose going up was out of the pilots control at that point, but it all looks more consistent with takeoff config not being correct.

[juular]

12 minutes ago, Mrcento said:

but it all looks more consistent with takeoff config not being correct.

It does seem that way, although they did issue a mayday which makes me wonder if there was another issue causing the incorrect configuration. 

Would a 787 even get airborne within the runway length without flaps? 

The gear still being down suggests an amount of distraction.

[Mrcento]

10 minutes ago, juular said:

It does seem that way, although they did issue a mayday which makes me wonder if there was another issue causing the incorrect configuration. 

Would a 787 even get airborne within the runway length without flaps? 

The gear still being down suggests an amount of distraction.

I guess there is a chance of some kind of electrical issue impacting the controls/indication etc, but it just all looks like they've got to V1, rotated and immediately got a ton of warnings and found the initial lift was vanishing/airspeed dipping as they climbed and ended up in a panic, hence landing gear, call, nose coming up etc