The new news 24 thread

[Barry Cade]

28 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

I should be collecting a winter hack tomorrow and will have to drive an hour and a half home so will soon find out (it’s a manual too)

I also haven’t driven in the dark for bloody ages and it’s been dark both times so I wonder if it could even be something as simple as that.

Have you had your eyes tested recently? 

[JJ0063]

7 minutes ago, Barry Cade said:

Have you had your eyes tested recently? 

Funnily enough I did about 5 weeks ago! All good.

[Cord Fourteener]

9 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Thinking about the dark I haven't too... Maybe 10 times in fuck nearly/over a year... I used to like driving at night, fills me with dread now

Would be leaving home in the dark and returning in the dark in normal times at this time of year 😢

I don't mind the dark, it's modern bright headlights that get me.

[Mally]

Blocked ears together with movement can cause dizzyness.

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Cord Fourteener said:

I don't mind the dark, it's modern bright headlights that get me.

I might* have said this before, but it's people sitting in queues with their foot on the brakes that pisses me off about driving in the dark.

[Zelandeth]

17 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

I might* have said this before, but it's people sitting in queues with their foot on the brakes that pisses me off about driving in the dark.

The current company car one of my housemates has is an Audi Q5.  One of the fancy features it has as part of the adaptive cruise control is the ability to handle everything aside from steering when you're in a stop/start queue.  I'd absolutely never use it myself as it waits *waaaaaaaay* too late to stop for my liking.

I noted though that whenever you come to a halt, despite kicking the gearbox into neutral it keeps the brake lights on until you start moving again.  So I imagine that's true of all current VAG stuff using a similar system.

[reb]

14 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Thinking about the dark I haven't too... Maybe 10 times in fuck nearly/over a year... I used to like driving at night, fills me with dread now

Would be leaving home in the dark and returning in the dark in normal times at this time of year 😢

My favourite thing used to be driving home from work, not only because it meant I was finally going home, but because it was dark and there was nobody else out driving. It would take me 3/4 of the time to drive the 10 miles compared to the way in.

At the moment driving in the dark is a pain because the inside of my windscreen is filthy from the car sitting in the unit last year and I always forget before the next time I need to drive in the dark so haven't bought glass cleaner yet.

[anonymous user]

I dislike driving in the dark now on unlit roads, I'm fine until something comes the other way with bright lights. It takes my eyes a while to get over it. I now wear glasses to drive at night. I think everyone should have to go back to the old sealed beam headlamps.

[reb]

I used to use Osram Nightbreakers and similar, I still do in the high beams, but in the dip beams now I use yellow bulbs. Properly adjusted they're much easier on the eye than bright white/blue bulbs. All headlights should be some shade of yellow.

[High Jetter]

48 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

I noted though that whenever you come to a halt, despite kicking the gearbox into neutral it keeps the brake lights on until you start moving again

Oh FFS. Y tho?

[Ghosty]

12 minutes ago, reb said:

I used to use Osram Nightbreakers and similar, I still do in the high beams, but in the dip beams now I use yellow bulbs. Properly adjusted they're much easier on the eye than bright white/blue bulbs. All headlights should be some shade of yellow.

I had French spec yellow H4 caps in my 205 - they were sodding useless. On the flipside my mate tinted the headlight lenses on his Berlingo yellow and they work ridiculously well... 

'normal' warm white/yellow bulbs are GR9 though. 

[reb]

It takes a bit of getting used to, they appear dimmer than bluish white light, but they align better with the wavelengths of light our eyes see best in dark conditions so you can actually see better. Of course the yellow bulbs are all Finest Chinesium so quality can vary a lot, it's quite likely your ones were just a bit shit whether they were yellow or not. I've never used yellow H4s so it might just be a thing with them. I'll buy some for the 205 and report back.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just after the wedding and now at the reception. CX is working normally and is currently resting in a hotel basement in Cricklewood, having carried the vicar here....

[N19]

1 hour ago, reb said:

My favourite thing used to be driving home from work, not only because it meant I was finally going home, but because it was dark and there was nobody else out driving. It would take me 3/4 of the time to drive the 10 miles compared to the way in.

At the moment driving in the dark is a pain because the inside of my windscreen is filthy from the car sitting in the unit last year and I always forget before the next time I need to drive in the dark so haven't bought glass cleaner yet.

Down here the contrast is even more stark. My commute to work varies from 30-50 minutes normally, but if it's at a dead quiet time of day with clear roads it can be 15 minutes...

[Zelandeth]

50 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Oh FFS. Y tho?

Because we obviously can't be trusted to drive the car ourselves any more!

Hasn't really affected us much because the adaptive cruise and all the associated features stopped working after <500 miles anyway...

[Dan29]

On 9/30/2021 at 1:42 AM, mitsisigma01 said:

Can you please ask them to justify the £422 per year they charged to a 76 year old man for his car recovery!!!! New member maybe...

No, 56 fkin years and they would still be skinning him now. Exploiting the elderly.... He didn't even drive for the last four years!!! 😠😠😠😠

Anyone know the email address of the bloke who does all the AA tv interviews 😠😠😠

 

 

He's on Twitter: @AAPresident

[Ghosty]

1 hour ago, reb said:

It takes a bit of getting used to, they appear dimmer than bluish white light, but they align better with the wavelengths of light our eyes see best in dark conditions so you can actually see better. Of course the yellow bulbs are all Finest Chinesium so quality can vary a lot, it's quite likely your ones were just a bit shit whether they were yellow or not. I've never used yellow H4s so it might just be a thing with them. I'll buy some for the 205 and report back.

I didn't have yellow bulbs, I had yellow glass covers that clipped over the existing bulbs.

[reb]

5 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

I didn't have yellow bulbs, I had yellow glass covers that clipped over the existing bulbs.

There's your problem!

[reb]

Here we have the courtesy car for the deer strike:

It's on less than 500 miles and is mind bogglingly shit.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Finest Chinesium.

[chaseracer]

20 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

(I wonder what the fastest someones got a 2CV with its Flat twin engine...)

Ask @Stinkwheel about me and our mate Martin passing him with a high-speed Dyane convoy on the way back from the 2CV world meeting in Scotland...

I'll get back to you about the 720 when it's done.

[chaseracer]

Also: I often wear yellow-tinted sunglasses when driving at night, which help a lot.  Three quid from Decathlon.

[Floatylight]

5 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Also: I often wear yellow-tinted sunglasses when driving at night, which help a lot.  Three quid from Decathlon.

Come on, tell the full story, it's cos they make u look like Bono...

With or without yoooooo

[richardmorris]

A premium bond win this month. Where’s the forum funding thread at the moment?

[Timewaster]

2 hours ago, reb said:

Here we have the courtesy car for the deer strike:

It's on less than 500 miles and is mind bogglingly shit.

Ha ha. See my "Today's courtesy car" thread. 

It is 0% interesting. 

I only had it for a day.  When I got back to the dealer my car wasn't ready, so I spent the next hour driving all around Bury St Edmunds looking for a forecourt with diesel available. 

Picked up my car, straight to get diesel 🙂

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The wedding went very well, I thought. The CX ferried the vicar to the reception and then spent much of the afternoon leaking  parked in the basement of The Crown Hotel,  Cricklewood. 

[Lacquer Peel]

Hey guys. 

 

[stuboy]

Missus got her replacement car today ..well technically its her brothers... seat lean tdi... 1.6 these engines like my pdi in my galaxy?

[BorniteIdentity]

I simply can not get fuel. My son’s birthday today and a day out necessitates the use of the Caravelle. 1/4 tank - no worries. On the way home I start to look for options, casually like so as not to cause concern, and nothing. Every fuel station I passed from MK to St Neots had no diesel. And I mean - not one. Tonight I dropped my son at his mates and thought I’d go on the prowl, there is none. I tried 7 stations around Cambridge and in Cambridge - I repeat: there is none. I called my friend who is a DI at Cambridge Constabulary. “any intel?”. “There is none”.

It backs up this story on BBC a news (OMG MSM RIGHT WING LEFT WING ETC Blah) 

Petrol deliveries: Supply remains critical in south-east England, say retailers https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/58772169

People will say on here that the media are fuelling this (pun intended). They are not. There is very very little fuel and none of it easily accessible.

Please. For the love of fucking Christ, buy what you need. Tell your family to buy what they need. Post on your Facebook telling people to buy what they need. But the only way out of this, right now, is if people take a bit of fucking responsibility. I wanted to stick in just £20 so I could take a load of my sons mates to football tomorrow rather than 6 cars doing a 60 mile round trip. I couldn’t do that. Yet, my need is trivial. 

Mark my words, we are on the edge of fucking disaster. Not Brexit. Not MSM. Not Ir35. Because people are thick. They’re selfish, they’re worried (understandably) and they’re thick. 

I appreciate my mood has changed from my last post on the topic; I had hoped people would have come to their senses by now. But it’s a problem being driven by people. Not supply (there was no issue until that leaked Memo) not government not anything. People. 

[GMcD]

Picked up a wee 10 plate Micra for the MiL as her 04 Clio is getting old in the tooth. 

Spent this afternoon cleaning it in-between getting soaked. I'm worried I've made it look too nice, she might actually think I like her 😉.