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[Popsicle]

1 hour ago, Cookiesouwest said:

Today I paid someone 150 quid by PayPal and posted my MK4 Mondy instrument cluster to an address in Dorset.

I'm really hoping I get it back. Preferably fixed.

If it comes back all good then you will be able to inDorset.

[AnnoyingPentium]

Been sitting about wondering why I can keep smelling rubber everywhere I go. Sniffed the jumper, smells of rubber, realised I had left it in the boot of the car on the rubber boot mat.

[Mally]

2 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

The other ones I've mocked up are these marvellous* brown and white AutoShite pens with the tagline/slogan as well. These are a sort of wraparound decal printing highly sophistimacated doowhacky thing.

 

I think there's some mileage in  this. I've  seen other companies offering very cheap quotes for 250. But as you say Beige is a stumbling block.

See if it passes management.  I don't see 250 as a problem if the price is low enough to sell 10 at a time.

If sales are poor, Roffle  50 

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 minute ago, Mally said:

I think there's some mileage in  this. I've  seen other companies offering very cheap quotes for 250. But as you say Beige is a stumbling block.

See if it passes management.  I don't see 250 as a problem if the price is low enough to sell 10 at a time.

If sales are poor, Roffle  50 

Those pens in the quote are minimum order of 100, so about £54.00 to get a box worth. Will have to clear with AS Management and then household management (my Mum) since I doubt she'll want a billion pens hanging about the house when I've already tried to justify the laptops. 🤣

[Mally]

2 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Those pens in the quote are minimum order of 100, so about £54.00 to get a box worth. Will have to clear with AS Management and then household management (my Mum) since I doubt she'll want a billion pens hanging about the house when I've already tried to justify the laptops. 🤣

Yes, it's the package and postage that's the problem, that's why I'm thinking sell 10 at a time maybe.

Does your mum mind nipping to the Post Office every couple of days?

I can maybe help* with the cost, as long as you don't order a billion. But I ain't having any of the hassle.

'My pen won't work'.  There was only 9 in the pack', 'They delivered them next door, 'You promised them by Thursday, wheres my parcel?

Be perfect for the Primary schoolteachers on here. Why does your pen say Autoshite? I'm going to tell my Mum.

 

[AnnoyingPentium]

Just now, Mally said:

Does your mum mind nipping to the Post Office every couple of days?

Aye that's fine, I do that anyway with buying and selling for eBay most of the time.

2 minutes ago, Mally said:

'My pen won't work'.  There was only 9 in the pack', 'They delivered them next door, 'You promised them by Thursday, wheres my parcel?

I'll need to work on my customer service to deal with that.

I need to put some thought into this for a start. For that reason, it's maybe better to wait until I've got life stuff out of the way - so next month or even April would be a better time for me.

[dome]

3 hours ago, cort16 said:

I was leaving to get a flight for work at 4.45am this morning and as I got in the car I heard a ripping noise from the arse department . 
RIP trousers 

Not what you want on the way to a flight at 5 am. At least they didnt rip getting onto the plane .

Do you buy your trousers from the same place you buy your cars?

[Mally]

1 hour ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

 

I need to put some thought into this for a start. For that reason, it's maybe better to wait until I've got life stuff out of the way - so next month or even April would be a better time for me.

Don't leave it too long.

 

I'm 76  

 

 

[brownnova]

The Elgrand saga rumbles on… so the fan belt snappage also whacked the camshaft position sensor. Which in turn has also broken the connector plug for the CPS. The garage has sourced the sensor, but can’t seem to source the plug. Nowhere seems to list a plug for the Elgrand specifically. So I’m wondering if one’s with the same engine code will work… 

In the meantime, the MoT is expiring this week. 

[cobblers]

2 hours ago, brownnova said:

The Elgrand saga rumbles on… so the fan belt snappage also whacked the camshaft position sensor. Which in turn has also broken the connector plug for the CPS. The garage has sourced the sensor, but can’t seem to source the plug. Nowhere seems to list a plug for the Elgrand specifically. So I’m wondering if one’s with the same engine code will work… 

In the meantime, the MoT is expiring this week. 

There's a fantastic facebook group called "Automotive connector identifying". Put a picture of the broken connector up and some vehicle details and someone will tell you exactly what it is.

[High Jetter]

12 hours ago, Cookiesouwest said:

Today I paid someone 150 quid by PayPal and posted my MK4 Mondy instrument cluster to an address in Dorset.

I'm really hoping I get it back. Preferably fixed.

Hmm, not that far? Didn't @cobblers want your business?

[17-Coffees]

After 2 years and 11 months having been made redundant from my job as a mechanic, tomorrow I start a new job as a mechanic...at the same place. They got in contact with me, and well...it's much better pay than I was on maintaining that stock is maintained for customers of a multi-billion pound business. (That sounds better than saying, stacking shelfs at the local Tesco)

I'm somewhat a bag of nerves about it as I feel I recall nothing! 😬

Wish me luck tomorrow night! 😂

[AnnoyingPentium]

Good luck!

[Pete-M]

Reverted to night owl mode. 

3am this morning and I've just spent the last hour learning about audio time alignment. 

It's because I'm one of those people who reads manuals when he buys something. I like to see if things can do cool stuff. 

This led to me sitting in the car at 3am measuring the distance from my ears to each speaker in the car. With a tape measure, a pen and paper, and some audiogeekery website with a magic calculator that works out how long sounds will take to get to my old cloth ears. 

It's literally to do with the speed of sound. 

Anyway, it turns out there's nearly a millisecond of delay between sounds from the left front speaker and the right front reaching my head. 

A millisecond isn't much in the grand scheme of things admittedly, but if you can delete that delay by adjusting the speaker timing to compensate then things mysteriously sound much better (to the listener whose ears are in the correct listening position).

Anyway, it turns out the stereo in the car can do this voodoo, but it is hidden deep in menus nobody other than people like me ever look at.

It works, too. Better than I expected it to. It isn't even a particularly modern or expensive unit. It's a £130 Alpine CDA-193BT job. As the car has a DAB aerial but no DAB radio I'm guessing they've taken the good stereo out and got this from Halfords or summat. 

This is what happens when you RTFM. 

[cobblers]

It sounds much better for the driver, but very weird for the passengers. Fuckem!

[reb]

I have a JVC stereo that can do that, I'll be honest I couldn't really hear the difference. Well, maybe?

The thing I found made the biggest difference was the various EQ presets which put the Volvo Premium Sound System EQ controls to shame!

It also has an overly complicated pivot system for the faceplate to allow you to adjust the angle of it, the same motors move it out of the way to allow you to eject CDs, unfortunately there seems to be a slipping belt or something so it needs a helping hand.

I might put it in the Volvo for a bit, I had it in the C2 until I sold that, I could put it in the 205 but the location would be really awkward for ejecting CDs.

[Fat_Pirate]

2022 Williams F1 car appears to be missing something:

 

[AnnoyingPentium]

4 hours ago, Pete-M said:

Reverted to night owl mode. 

3am this morning and I've just spent the last hour learning about audio time alignment. 

It's because I'm one of those people who reads manuals when he buys something. I like to see if things can do cool stuff. 

This led to me sitting in the car at 3am measuring the distance from my ears to each speaker in the car. With a tape measure, a pen and paper, and some audiogeekery website with a magic calculator that works out how long sounds will take to get to my old cloth ears. 

It's literally to do with the speed of sound. 

Anyway, it turns out there's nearly a millisecond of delay between sounds from the left front speaker and the right front reaching my head. 

A millisecond isn't much in the grand scheme of things admittedly, but if you can delete that delay by adjusting the speaker timing to compensate then things mysteriously sound much better (to the listener whose ears are in the correct listening position).

Anyway, it turns out the stereo in the car can do this voodoo, but it is hidden deep in menus nobody other than people like me ever look at.

It works, too. Better than I expected it to. It isn't even a particularly modern or expensive unit. It's a £130 Alpine CDA-193BT job. As the car has a DAB aerial but no DAB radio I'm guessing they've taken the good stereo out and got this from Halfords or summat. 

This is what happens when you RTFM. 

You could do this with my Kenwood. Also setting it up for size of speakers, length of car etc. Can't do it now, it's sitting in the wardrobe ready to go in another shite car. 😆

[reb]

2 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

You could do this with my Kenwood. Also setting it up for size of speakers, length of car etc. Can't do it now, it's sitting in the wardrobe ready to go in another shite car. 😆

I think my JVC did all that too!

I think it was actually quite expensive when it was new, it has a ridiculously high resolution screen for how old it is, unless you tell it not to it plays random greyscale videos* while it's on.

[AnnoyingPentium]

29 minutes ago, reb said:

I think my JVC did all that too!

I think it was actually quite expensive when it was new, it has a ridiculously high resolution screen for how old it is, unless you tell it not to it plays random greyscale videos* while it's on.

That's very cool! My Kenwood isn't too old, but I didn't pay that much for it since it was in a sale of some sort.

[High Jetter]

Never felt the need to do that, my ears must compensate for any slight delay. I do have to balance adjusted so the further speaker is slightly louder than the nearer to get the impressive* stereo effect though.

[Pete-M]

16 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Never felt the need to do that, my ears must compensate for any slight delay. I do have to balance adjusted so the further speaker is slightly louder than the nearer to get the impressive* stereo effect though.

The difference is remarkable if you actually bother to do it. 

I don't normally bother, but this time it actually worked!

[Zelandeth]

I think the effect depends somewhat on exactly where the speakers are too.  By far the biggest difference I've noticed with that sort of calibration was in the Saab.  That has the front speakers in the dash top and right back to the sides of the parcel shelf.  So they're a decent ways ahead and behind you (provides a really good sound stage actually), and the effect there was *really* noticeable.  I've not really been able to tell a huge difference in any other car I've tried it in.

Things like the Caddy complicate things a bit too as the front speakers actually have a paired tweeter and woofer in the dash top and door which are wired together - but separated by a metre or so - one basically level with your ear, one a metre ahead of you so there's *always* going to be some phase differential shenanigans going on unless you totally redo things from scratch and do away with the dash top speakers.

[wuvvum]

4 hours ago, reb said:

I think it was actually quite expensive when it was new, it has a ridiculously high resolution screen for how old it is, unless you tell it not to it plays random greyscale videos* while it's on.

The Kenwood stereo in the Toyota does that, except they're in two colours (cyan and red).  It plays a video of a surfer swimming with bottlenose dolphins, unless you turn it off - but you seemingly have to do that every time you use the stereo.

Edited February 16, 2022 by wuvvum
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[SiC]

4 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

but you seemingly have to do that every time you sue the stereo

An out of court settlement seems to be the way of "resolving" inconveniences nowadays. 

[barefoot]

I've got a radio which I think still works...

[Ghosty]

Sent the saloon Civic off to my local garage of choice for a new clutch. It's fucked, needs thrashing to get off my drive at which point it invariably stalls when you try and pull away, then bogs down or kangaroos if you give it less than 2000rpm til it warms up. And when it's warm it slips under load. Quite badly. 

I was going to provide a clutch but it turns out they vary with chassis number and the ones that motor factors list as fitting is the wrong one - the right one is (possibly) for a non-VTEC CRX but not listed as fitting Civics. There are something like 3 different size friction plates and this one has the biggest one. 

I can't be arsed trying to source the right one and arguing with factors about what the right part is, so I figured I'd farm it out and make it someone else's problem. 

So off it goes, the garage wanted to see it to confirm the labour rate as it was dependent on if they needed to move the subframe (you don't). Comes back half an hour later, they looked at it, adjusted the clutch cable, tried to stall it and came to the conclusion it didn't need a clutch and sent it away. 

 

FFS. 

[Spurious]

6 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Sent the saloon Civic off to my local garage of choice for a new clutch. It's fucked, needs thrashing to get off my drive at which point it invariably stalls when you try and pull away, then bogs down or kangaroos if you give it less than 2000rpm til it warms up. And when it's warm it slips under load. Quite badly. 

I was going to provide a clutch but it turns out they vary with chassis number and the ones that motor factors list as fitting is the wrong one - the right one is (possibly) for a non-VTEC CRX but not listed as fitting Civics. There are something like 3 different size friction plates and this one has the biggest one. 

I can't be arsed trying to source the right one and arguing with factors about what the right part is, so I figured I'd farm it out and make it someone else's problem. 

So off it goes, the garage wanted to see it to confirm the labour rate as it was dependent on if they needed to move the subframe (you don't). Comes back half an hour later, they looked at it, adjusted the clutch cable, tried to stall it and came to the conclusion it didn't need a clutch and sent it away. 

 

FFS. 

Cheaper than a new clutch right?

[chaseracer]

42 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Sent the saloon Civic off to my local garage of choice for a new clutch. It's fucked, needs thrashing to get off my drive at which point it invariably stalls when you try and pull away, then bogs down or kangaroos if you give it less than 2000rpm til it warms up. And when it's warm it slips under load. Quite badly. 

I was going to provide a clutch but it turns out they vary with chassis number and the ones that motor factors list as fitting is the wrong one - the right one is (possibly) for a non-VTEC CRX but not listed as fitting Civics. There are something like 3 different size friction plates and this one has the biggest one. 

I can't be arsed trying to source the right one and arguing with factors about what the right part is, so I figured I'd farm it out and make it someone else's problem. 

So off it goes, the garage wanted to see it to confirm the labour rate as it was dependent on if they needed to move the subframe (you don't). Comes back half an hour later, they looked at it, adjusted the clutch cable, tried to stall it and came to the conclusion it didn't need a clutch and sent it away. 

 

FFS. 

Fair play to 'em.

[chodweaver]

Pink Corsa failed it's MOT, but this doesn't warrant a post in the grumpy thread because it only failed on a hole in the flexible section of the exhaust and another in the sill return/offside rear wheel arch. Welding repair already completed, exhaust repair happening tomorrow, then it'll be up Four Sail...

Mrs CW will think she's dreaming if i actually get rid - I haven't achieved a fleet reduction since the Renner VS went to northern monkey by roffle. And that must have been 2016, ffs