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[wuvvum]

18 hours ago, New POD said:

Careful on the edges of the roads. I destroyed a 3 week old rainsport by gashing the sidewall with a rock at the side of the road.  on the 1 in 5 section. 

Just out of shot to the left of the photo is a Mercedes A-Class which had done exactly that.

[New POD]

7 hours ago, reb said:

I used to do over 100 miles a day 6 days a week, including in salt season, I found they did an ok job of prolonging the time between needing to clean the headlights with glass cleaner by at least 20 seconds.

They only come into their own when it snows. 

[Metal Guru]

13 hours ago, Aston Martin said:

It must be a highly trained job. 

Takes 2. The one who’s learnt numbers and the one who’s learnt letters. They work alternate Sundays , never on together.

[barefoot]

12 hours ago, reb said:

The other two I've had had had them totally removed.

Award for the most extensive use of the word 'had' in living memory.

[Lankytim]

Clearing out under the stairs and found this old Dell laptop, I vaguely remember using it for diagnostic software ages ago. Booted up and went online but turned itself off after 5 mins and now won’t do anything. Might just sling it out. 

[SiC]

7 minutes ago, Lankytim said:

Clearing out under the stairs and found this old Dell laptop, I vaguely remember using it for diagnostic software ages ago. Booted up and went online but turned itself off after 5 mins and now won’t do anything. Might just sling it out. 

Those old Latitudes are good for stuff like knock off Mercedes Star diagnostics

[egg]

^ a fools errand perhaps, but I tend to break broken laptops for parts on eBay.

[Markeh]

1 hour ago, Lankytim said:

Clearing out under the stairs and found this old Dell laptop, I vaguely remember using it for diagnostic software ages ago. Booted up and went online but turned itself off after 5 mins and now won’t do anything. Might just sling it out. 

If you can't be arsed with Ebay and it's destined for the bin anyway I'd happily offer you the cost of postage for this - got a couple of working D620s/D630s in that need bits.

[Lankytim]

2 hours ago, Markeh said:

If you can't be arsed with Ebay and it's destined for the bin anyway I'd happily offer you the cost of postage for this - got a couple of working D620s/D630s in that need bits.

Yeah ok. It’ll be the end of the week before I can do anything though.

 

[Markeh]

Just now, Lankytim said:

Yeah ok. It’ll be the end of the week before I can do anything though.

 

No rush as I'm away next week.

[stuboy]

Home from work get changed, thought stuff it try and look at the front brake on the mighty moped.... grr pistons stuck a and signs on rust coulring in the reservoir,  clamp the pistons, clean out reservoir add new fluid, give up, go indoors ... make a brew

[reb]

10 hours ago, barefoot said:

Award for the most extensive use of the word 'had' in living memory.

I think my brain got got got got got stuck in a loop

[Yoss]

On 10/1/2023 at 8:43 PM, reb said:

The other two I've had had had them totally removed.

 

11 hours ago, barefoot said:

Award for the most extensive use of the word 'had' in living memory.

 

And yet it still makes perfect sense. I can't think of another example of using the same word three times in a row legitimately.

[reb]

1 minute ago, Yoss said:

 

 

And yet it still makes perfect sense. I can't think of another example of using the same word three times in a row legitimately.

Buffalo buffalo buffalo

[Yoss]

On 9/30/2023 at 1:44 PM, Dyslexic Viking said:

I have washed the Mercedes today

That is a ridiculously handsome and well proportioned car. I know it has been giving you quite a lot of grief recently but you must still be very pleased with yourself when you just stand back and look at it.

[Yoss]

3 minutes ago, reb said:

Buffalo buffalo buffalo

And that makes sense does it?

[reb]

Just now, Yoss said:

And that makes sense does it?

From an everyday perspective, not in the slightest. But from a grammatical point of view, it's a valid sentence

[Yoss]

18 minutes ago, reb said:

From an everyday perspective, not in the slightest. But from a grammatical point of view, it's a valid sentence

It is a very long time since I learnt any actual grammar so I'll just take your word for it.

[reb]

2 minutes ago, Yoss said:

It is a very long time since I learnt any actual grammar so I'll just take your word for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

[Dyslexic Viking]

34 minutes ago, Yoss said:

That is a ridiculously handsome and well proportioned car. I know it has been giving you quite a lot of grief recently but you must still be very pleased with yourself when you just stand back and look at it.

Thanks. And it has given me some challenges, but that's to be expected. And I'm very pleased and i do, it's almost unbelievable to me that I own this, it's such a great car.  And not to brag, but I am very happy with what I have achieved with this in just over a year, and I think I can say that I have saved it, which is very nice.

[Yoss]

14 minutes ago, reb said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

Well that just makes think of this lot.

[bunglebus]

Don't know where else to put this, apparently a real thing from an Aldi SQ5 (whatever that is)

Modern cars are shit

[Asimo]

9 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Modern cars are fake shit

E.F.A.

[andy18s]

12 hours ago, Yoss said:

Well that just makes think of this lot.

https://youtu.be/NL6CDFn2i3I?si=EeXwHy0NunCyma7x

[SiC]

54 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Don't know where else to put this, apparently a real thing from an Aldi SQ5 (whatever that is)

Modern cars are shit

Yeah it's real. Iirc it's a diesel engine. 

Other VAG stuff have a soundraktor that vibrates the windscreen to make a car sound meater to the occupant. Likewise Ford pipe sound from the engine bay to the cabin. They all have their own tricks.

Modern Turbos especially dampen engine sounds and so does heavy soundproofing to improve NVH. So they have to use all this stuff to try giving it some sort of noise. 

[Rust Collector]

The spate of C6 threads on here lately has really whet my appetite for them.

In a moment of madness this morning, I showed my mrs some pictures of a cheap* one that’s for sale.

‘That looks really nice, what would you need to get rid of in order to buy me one?’

That wasn’t the expected response 🤣

When I finally have my fleet clear out then I reckon a C6 could be on the cards.

[Slowsilver]

14 hours ago, Yoss said:

 

 

And yet it still makes perfect sense. I can't think of another example of using the same word three times in a row legitimately.

The most repeated words in a row to make sense I can recall seeing was 5. A signwriter is doing the sign for a pub named "The Pig and Whistle". When he has finished the landlord comes out and says "You have left too much space between the words Pig and and and and and Whistle"

[New POD]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Don't know where else to put this, apparently a real thing from an Aldi SQ5 (whatever that is)

Modern cars are shit

Years ago lotus experimented with an open, unsilenced exhaust and a loud speaker that produced the opposite sound wave, thus cancelling out the noise.  Apparently it was great until the wiring melted. 

[New POD]

1 hour ago, Rust Collector said:

The spate of C6 threads on here lately has really whet my appetite for them.

In a moment of madness this morning, I showed my mrs some pictures of a cheap* one that’s for sale.

‘That looks really nice, what would you need to get rid of in order to buy me one?’

That wasn’t the expected response 🤣

When I finally have my fleet clear out then I reckon a C6 could be on the cards.

It's a trick. Don't trust her. 

[grogee]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Don't know where else to put this, apparently a real thing from an Aldi SQ5 (whatever that is)

Modern cars are shit

I can confirm this is A Thing. 

When I worked at JLR, there was much humming and haa-ing about the packaging of the 'symposer' on the F-Type (possibly vee engines only). 

This was a tube connected to the inlet manifold that terminated on the bulkhead to produce more exciting vroom noises. 

My Puma has its stock intake system routed into the rear of the front wheelarch to project the intake roar. Unfortunately it's placed on the nearside so it mainly benefits LHD cars. 

It's funny how contrived this 'sound optimisation' is getting, and yet those engines with the 'best' sounds are generally 60s/70s carb-fed units where the sound they made was a happy accident. The best one I heard recently was a Triumph GT6.