The new news 24 thread

[Fumbler]

2 hours ago, SiC said:

Is anyone finding the forum a bit slow today? (Or even the last few days) I'm finding it a bit slow at loading when navigating around.

A quick check on the Load averages on the server are showing them higher than normal but not crazy high. Not sure if it's just that it's busy on here because Xmas, hosting providers is getting hammered (because Xmas) or something else is going on. 

Yep, I've found page loading to be quite slow over the last few days.

[RoverFolkUs]

4 hours ago, stuboy said:

wheres it going for the mot?

The same indy that we (my work) send all of our customer's cars to

[Lord Sterling]

On 23/12/2023 at 19:17, greengartside said:

Last one, I promise.

Decided to treat the old girl to a car wash and I then hoovered the inside out and made it smell a bit nicer.

Rocker cover gasket turned up today so that’s the next job.

Nice job. A tip for getting rubber floor mats looking good again is to clean them throughly and then apply black shoe polish with a normal soft shoe polishing brush, that's how to keep mine looking nice after a clean as rubber mats and tyres cldo seem to pick up discolouration stains from long term standing dirt/water and no matter how much you clean them, they always look dirty and horrible.

[Split_Pin]

10 hours ago, SiC said:

Is anyone finding the forum a bit slow today? (Or even the last few days) I'm finding it a bit slow at loading when navigating around.

A quick check on the Load averages on the server are showing them higher than normal but not crazy high. Not sure if it's just that it's busy on here because Xmas, hosting providers is getting hammered (because Xmas) or something else is going on. 

I thought it was my phone but it sometimes takes 30 seconds or more to respond to my requests, especially when I try and post a reply.

[SiC]

56 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I thought it was my phone but it sometimes takes 30 seconds or more to respond to my requests, especially when I try and post a reply.

I have always noticed these larger threads like this one can take tens of seconds to post a response. It's been like that for years and it's presumably because the forum software struggles with larger threads. Not sure why as I can't see why it should need to do much more but possibly because it's updating indexes. Hopefully the version 5 software that is due sometime next year will have stuff like that sorted as it's apparently a big ground up rewrite. 

I think the slowness has been a lot of people reading the forum and flicking around. Just heavier user load than normal. Right now the load is a lot lower (still quite high than I have seen) and to me the responsiveness seems better at least. 

Next year I plan to rebuild the server and should be able to jiggle stuff around a bit. So reduce costs on storage which then would allow me to put more resource into a faster server.

[Asimo]

34 minutes ago, SiC said:

apparently a big ground up rewrite

Uh-oh!

[wesacosa]

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/history/how-hull-became-britains-lada-8978406#lqmc3qeougar6jpuu3n

 

[SiC]

Uh-oh!

Yeah, I'm not intending to rush into the update too hastily!

More is on their news pages:
https://invisioncommunity.com/news/

[RoverFolkUs]

....aaaaaand whatever was I fussing about?

The man from the ministry said:

...and even better...

No advisories! 

Not bad for a 17 year old car!

(I did manage to find some double sided tape for the number plate... BUT I took the advice of not removing it to try and screw it on!)

Edit - I'll tell you what made all the difference.. it's scientifically* proven** that a shiny car means a guaranteed pass 😅

[Ghosty]

Taking the EK Civic to Bristol tomorrow to swap it for the Yaris T-Sport I mentioned. Turns out the Yaris is five door which is a bonus.

[SiC]

2 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Taking the EK Civic to Bristol tomorrow to swap it for the Yaris T-Sport I mentioned. Turns out the Yaris is five door which is a bonus.

My neighbours brother had one (in Bristol). Can't be many T-Sports left now. I remember desperately wanting one back in 2004 not long after I passed my test. 

[Joey spud]

Check for rot in the ends of the inner sills and arches

Back in the summer we bought this one very cheap because the subframe had pulled away from the chassis. It only got repaired as I was too stubborn to give up on it.

[hairnet]

4 hours ago, Joey spud said:

 

 

 

@Datsuncog this had been yours??

[richardmorris]

Spotted near dogmersfield this morning.

[Bren]

The rain and wind stopped long enough for me to throw soapy water on the insignia. It was getting to the point that even getting into it would leave your clothes filthy.

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, Bren said:

The rain and wind stopped long enough for me to throw soapy water on the insignia. It was getting to the point that even getting into it would leave your clothes filthy.

I’m hoping the rain will clean mine. Parked in a carpark nr Basingstoke canal this morning that managed to splash muddy water across half of it. Heading to devils punchbowl tomorrow that will probably be worse.

[Ghosty]

Swap done. This'll do nicely. 

[junkyarddog]

Mate dropped this to me just before Christmas,you can have it for the week he says....

Dented Citroen C5.

Not bad for a rattle can job done outside in December 🤣

[Wibble]

16 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

Mate dropped this to me just before Christmas,you can have it for the week he says....

Dented Citroen C5.

Not bad for a rattle can job done outside in December 🤣

That repair looks amazing!

[GMcD]

Been slowly dismantling more of the Saab.

Tank and rear axle out as I'm not welding beside a fuel tank and I want to replace all the bushes and dampers on the axle: 

Underneath is not a complete horror show (well not found anything here I didn't know about already but time will tell)....

Most of the interior out :

Ventilation:

Found some more quality repairs in the driver's footwell:

[Ghosty]

Home and that. 41mpg! Comfy, quick, drives like a bigger car. Approve.

[Snake Charmer]

8 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Spotted near dogmersfield this morning.

Hopefully a spares car as rebuilding it would be financial madness.

[Hawkeyethenoo]

Wife's Jimny Cabriolet broke down again - it really is an ungrateful little bastard of a thing! Fuel related this time, I think. Turns over won't start. I ended up pushing it back - all caught on my own cars dashcam which doesn't require to be pushed - if it did I'd bridge it - hear that you little Japanese (built in Spain by Santana) bastard !

 

[GagaStan]

My 106 was somehow still running on this extremely manky dizzy cat and rotor - how?!??

Enjoying much smoother running after replacing both, hoping for better fuel economy too 😁

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, GagaStan said:

My 106 was somehow still running on this extremely manky dizzy cat and rotor - how?!??

Enjoying much smoother running after replacing both, hoping for better fuel economy too 😁

It's astonishing how far the spark from a modern electronically triggered ignition system will jump, but yeah that's pretty well done!

[Metal Guru]

Last bit of turkey finished in a sandwich at lunch time. That’s it for another year, although some mince pies are lurking in the cupboard.

[320touring]

Whit a two car garage*

[reb]

Spent the whole day trying to get the meds that make my brain work having run out of them over a week ago.

This involved going to 3 different pharmacies and the doctor's office.

It turns out that my consultant changing the dosage after I'd already ordered them for the month made the system shit itself.

Add into that an international shortage (caused by a baffling decision by the DEA in the US to bring in regulations to reduce production below demand of all things) and it's all been rather stressful.

All sorted now though. Now I've ordered a pizza to celebrate not getting *too* pissed off while navigating it all. Sorry to the people I snapped at for staring me down while forcing me to walk on a busy main road instead of not walking 3 abreast for a second.

[richardmorris]

4 hours ago, reb said:

Spent the whole day trying to get the meds that make my brain work having run out of them over a week ago.

This involved going to 3 different pharmacies and the doctor's office.

It turns out that my consultant changing the dosage after I'd already ordered them for the month made the system shit itself.

Add into that an international shortage (caused by a baffling decision by the DEA in the US to bring in regulations to reduce production below demand of all things) and it's all been rather stressful.

All sorted now though. Now I've ordered a pizza to celebrate not getting *too* pissed off while navigating it all. Sorry to the people I snapped at for staring me down while forcing me to walk on a busy main road instead of not walking 3 abreast for a second.

A tip for walking . Just stop dead and stare at them, they then have to move.

[stuboy]

11 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Just stop dead and stare at them

though u was reffering to surgey staff/!!