Ask a Shiter

[barefoot]

Automatic headlights?

 

Is that why none of the newish cars are running with headlights in this fog?

[FakeConcern]

Automatic headlights?

 

Is that why none of the newish cars are running with headlights in this fog?

Conversley I see new cars with only DRLs on in the dark, so no rear lights. They should have the auto lights on!

[catsinthewelder]

In fairness I'm always a twat for driving without lights on anything that lights it's dashboard up all the time.

[myglaren]

I've got an old-ish car battery in my house at the moment (in the absence of anywhere else to keep it). 

 

Will I die?

I've had one in my 'workroom' (no actual work takes place there) since March-ish and no ill-effects observed.

It is currently powering a 1.5M strip of LEDs, just to see how long it will go for.

There's nothing wrong with it other than it is under-spec for the C5 and probably belonged to Noah.

Replaced it when I had a new starter motor fitted.

 

I bought a brand new battery for the last C5 and it was superfluous, existing battery was fine.  Stored it in the bin cupboard until I needed it - and by then it had turned into a £65 paperweight  

[Crusty Sills]

Some one told me that the water that comes from a tumble dryer is de-ionised, the same as in water for an iron or a car battery.

Is this correct or have I been fed a load of bollocks?

 

PS I don't want to put it in a battery, just curious to know.

[barefoot]

I've heard that too

[Cheggers]

Some one told me that the water that comes from a tumble dryer is de-ionised, the same as in water for an iron or a car battery.

Is this correct or have I been fed a load of bollocks?

 

PS I don't want to put it in a battery, just curious to know.

Hmm...Assuming it's a condenser dryer, the water passing through the condenser will be plain old fashioned water, but the water collected on the condenser will be distilled/ de-ionised.

[doobietoo]

Distilled rather than deionised I believe... we use it for our older iron and for the car washer bottles and the plants. Personally I wouldn't use it for a battery not when a bottle of proper stuff is a quid and lasts years.

[scaryoldcortina]

Not distilled. Distilled water is boiled off then recondensed, the water from the drier trap is just condensation so any water soluble impurities will remain.

 

 

FWIW it isn't properly deionized either.

[Tayne]

What special water do you have to put in an iron?

[Crusty Sills]

What special water do you have to put in an iron?

 

It is recommended to use deionised/distilled water in an iron to stop it scaling up.

[Tayne]

And do you buy this water to iron your clothes?

 

Am I the only one not doing this?

[Pillock]

No, I don't iron clothes either.

[spike60]

What's an iron?

[steve_earwig]

A golf club?

[myglaren]

After ten or more years of not ironing anything at all I had a mad ratch and ironed everything in sight for a couple of years, then saw the light and hid the iron.

[Crusty Sills]

I don't buy it and use tap water like the rest of the world.

I do most of the ironing as Mrs Sills doesn't do my work uniform well enough so tend to do the rest whilst I'm at it.

[Tayne]

I feel a bit better now.

 

I did have an iron die of internal rust once, I just make a point of emptying it out after I finish and leaving the water cap open now.

[cort16]

If a tree falls in the forest and no-one hears it should I buy a cheap Citroen C6 from Ireland when I have no need for it but quite fancy one?

[Asimo]

If a tree falls in the forest and no-one hears it should I buy a cheap Citroen C6 from Ireland when I have no need for it but quite fancy one?

 

You only think that you don't need it. You are wrong.

[dugong]

If a tree falls in the forest and no-one hears it should I buy a cheap Citroen C6 from Ireland when I have no need for it but quite fancy one?

2, 17 and 58 please.

[sierraman]

The frost out of the freezer is de ionised. The errant stowaway garden peas might not do the water pump or the radiator much good though...

[steve_earwig]

Wasn't this for a car battery? Use a tea strainer then.

[Bobthebeard]

I've got an old-ish car battery in my house at the moment (in the absence of anywhere else to keep it). 

 

Will I die?

No, but the battery will.

[Tayne]

If a tree falls in the forest and no-one hears it should I buy a cheap Citroen C6 from Ireland when I have no need for it but quite fancy one?

Can I just say WCPGW?

[cort16]

You're certainly not the first to say it but yes.

[barrett]

Do Pug 405s and BXs have the same stud pattern? I'm way too lazy to look it up

[Lacquer Peel]

Yes.

[catsinthewelder]

But BXs need fairly narrow wheels to clear the rear arches.

[Matt]

I've got a battery here on a trickle charger and I'm not really sure if it's salvageable or not. The car it came from had zero electrical life. My multimeter showed 10.xV, I then plugged into my car, brought it back into the house and it then read 8.xV. It reads 14.6V on the charger which I guess is normal and if I remove the charger right now it reads 11.9V. What do we reckon, at what point should it come off the charger?