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[Cavcraft]

Anyone on here an ADR tanker driver? Got a few questions I'd like to ask via PM if so. TIA, and all that caper.

[andy18s]

Anyone on here an ADR tanker driver? Got a few questions I'd like to ask via PM if so. TIA, and all that caper.

Career move Billy?

I worked nights in a Shell station back in the late 80's and got chatting to he drivers when they delivered

1 guy drove a Bandit Trans Am as a daily and raced a Mustang at Oulten Park

Claimed he was on around 45-50k at the time which sounded nice

Doubt they get that now but who knows....

[DVee8]

Anyone know if I can get a obd scanner for my1.6dci X-trail.The ones i have looked at on ebay say not compatible with my vehicle.

[bub2006]

Scam? Thought so.

[Kiltox]

Definitely. Don't click that link!

[bub2006]

Me no silly

[tooSavvy]

I think they do get good money. Apparently it's only them and car transporter drivers that still do.

IIRC a driver, on here, was observing that one of the really big 'contract movers' (we will supply the whole logistics you need - Mr International petrol supplier) had secured the gig .. and was offering work to fuel drivers... [As they were being 'laid off'].

 

Race to the bottom.. ??

 

 

TS

[spike60]

How sensitive are the tyre pressure sensors on a 2017 Toyota? Lady friend called in on her way to work with lights on but all pressures were 28/29/30psi. Will 2psi variance bring the light on? She was in a rush and I didn't know what they should be  so left alone.

[stephen01]

How sensitive are the tyre pressure sensors on a 2017 Toyota? Lady friend called in on her way to work with lights on but all pressures were 28/29/30psi. Will 2psi variance bring the light on? She was in a rush and I didn't know what they should be  so left alone.

 

our hire car we had after our bump had TPS and the driver said they just whack them all up to 34-37 psi to turn them off. 

 

​I asked why all tyre pressures were so high as it showed you on one menu screen 

[Pillock]

TPS will have triggered if one was at 35 and the rest 30, and then they're all 30.

 

Typically you run a reset which saves the pressures, and it monitors from there. So if the initial pressures are wrong and it gets reset, that can happen.

 

Check manually at some point soon, either with an airline or by looking at it and saying to yourself "seems alright"

[spike60]

The 28/29/30psi figs I got were done manually, I don't know anything about the dash system and neither does she! Company car.

[Stanky]

Headlight bulbs.

 

I would like to try changing the H7 dipped beam bulbs in my Saab 9-3 to make them more yellow (lower kelvin), like older continental cars had. Ebay lists loads of yellow H7 bulbs between 2000 and 3000 kelvin but they are are 100w jobbies which melt the wiring and blind everyone.

 

A few stupid questions:

 

Rather than paint the headlight lenses, which is a bit 'no going back' can I get a set of H7 bulbs and lacquer them with amber lacquer to make them more yellow so I can change the bulbs out for normal ones if required, such as for MOTs?

 

if I do, will they catch fire?

 

If they don't catch fire will I be sent to prison for a hundred years

 

if they don't catch fire and I don't get sent to prison will I actually be able to see anything?

 

If they don't catch fire, I don't go to prison and can actually see, will I blind or otherwise inconvenience other oncoming drivers

[tooSavvy]

^^^ stick lucozade cellophane over the glass m8

 

Sorted

 

 

TS

[Jazoli]

Headlight bulbs.

 

I would like to try changing the H7 dipped beam bulbs in my Saab 9-3 to make them more yellow (lower kelvin), like older continental cars had. Ebay lists loads of yellow H7 bulbs between 2000 and 3000 kelvin but they are are 100w jobbies which melt the wiring and blind everyone.

 

A few stupid questions:

 

Rather than paint the headlight lenses, which is a bit 'no going back' can I get a set of H7 bulbs and lacquer them with amber lacquer to make them more yellow so I can change the bulbs out for normal ones if required, such as for MOTs?

 

if I do, will they catch fire?

 

If they don't catch fire will I be sent to prison for a hundred years

 

if they don't catch fire and I don't get sent to prison will I actually be able to see anything?

 

If they don't catch fire, I don't go to prison and can actually see, will I blind or otherwise inconvenience other oncoming drivers

 

Easy solution, don't, just get get some philips vision plus or osram nightbreakers and enjoy being able to see where you are going at night, whether you think that them looking yellow is cool is moot really, surely whats more important is being able to see where you are going?

[SiC]

Headlight bulbs.

 

I would like to try changing the H7 dipped beam bulbs in my Saab 9-3 to make them more yellow (lower kelvin), like older continental cars had. Ebay lists loads of yellow H7 bulbs between 2000 and 3000 kelvin but they are are 100w jobbies which melt the wiring and blind everyone.

 

A few stupid questions:

 

Rather than paint the headlight lenses, which is a bit 'no going back' can I get a set of H7 bulbs and lacquer them with amber lacquer to make them more yellow so I can change the bulbs out for normal ones if required, such as for MOTs?

 

if I do, will they catch fire?

 

If they don't catch fire will I be sent to prison for a hundred years

 

if they don't catch fire and I don't get sent to prison will I actually be able to see anything?

 

If they don't catch fire, I don't go to prison and can actually see, will I blind or otherwise inconvenience other oncoming drivers

Firstly you can't run 100w on a 9-3. If you do, you'll get a warning pop up on the SID and it'll refuse to light them. This is to prevent wiring and light fixture damage.

 

Secondly, you know that yellow headlights actually decrease visibility?

 

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Thirdly, I and many others have found that the stock 9-3 headlight beam height is really low out of the factory. You can get away with winding them up a fair bit and still be ok to MOT spec.

[Stanky]

Firstly you can't run 100w on a 9-3. If you do, you'll get a warning pop up on the SID and it'll refuse to light them. This is to prevent wiring and light fixture damage.

 

Secondly, you know that yellow headlights actually decrease visibility?

 

[Video]

 

Thirdly, I and many others have found that the stock 9-3 headlight beam height is really low out of the factory. You can get away with winding them up a fair bit and still be ok to MOT spec.

 

Sorry badly explained - I mean if I took some 55w bulbs and painted them with yellow lacquer - I have no intention of ever putting 100w bulbs in anything ever!

 

Yes, shorter distance but better contrast so things can be seen more clearly, but only at closer range (vs 'bluer' light).

 

Interesting re the third point - how do you go about angling the beam height up? I know there is the switch to point them further down for towing, which when you aren't towing basically points the beam directly at the floor. How do you point the beam further skywards?

 

The illumination (presumably due to beam height) on dipped beam is crap it has to be said.

[Guest Hooli]

You aim them up by turning the adjuster on the light unit, under the bonnet.

 

 

As to dull yellow lights, just loosen all the earths & let them rust a bit...

[Cheggers]

Bad misfire,no power and rotten eggs/burning smell. What could it be?

Gastroenteritis (yes, It's a month late, no I've not spent the whole time thinking of a witty* riposte )

 

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[gordonbennet]

I think they do get good money. Apparently it's only them and car transporter drivers that still do.

 

I'm not ADR i drive a powder pressure tanker.

 

Drove car transporters for 20 years before morphing onto tankers.

 

Yes the money is good, however on the cars the work is much much harder than one might imagine and the hours involved will be high...the problem being the vehicles cost a kings ransom both to buy and look after, and the nature of the work doesn't really lead to double shifting the vehicles, therefore the usually one allocated driver has to work long hours to make the job pay, his pay is geared to encourage that.,,the best paying job in the country on transporters is at Fords, dead mans shoes.

 

Tankers are another case, yes the work is specialised but its not hard work, pay depends where you work, direct own account is best, the haulage companies now increasingly doing the tanker work do not pay nearly as well,  long hours and weird shift patterns are involved in order to maximise the use of the vehicles.

 

Those original contracts where direct employed petrol tanker drivers were on £45k salaries in the 80's are now history.

 

Lorry driving generally is nearing the end of its race to the bottom, the results of which are plain for all to see on the roads every day.

[egg]

What's the best way to flush a radiator of rust if you can't run the engine?

[Kiltox]

What's the best way to flush a radiator of rust if you can't run the engine?

Replace it?

 

If it's that bad, surely it'll fail in the near future anyway?

[egg]

Yeah, well I'm replacing almost every other part of the cooling system! I'll keep flushing a few more times with plain water and see where I am.

[Kiltox]

Some warm water with some kind of detergent (dishwasher tablet dissolved before you pour?) might help then flush through with a hose

[puddlethumper]

Whats the recommended mileage for a cam belt change on an Xud ? Is it 50 or 60 thou ? I'm on 50 thou Kilometres, when I would think of renewing, but could do with a couple of thou more at the mo.

[Stanky]

Thanks guys, headlight adjusted up - I'll see how i get on

[Talbot]

Whats the recommended mileage for a cam belt change on an Xud ? Is it 50 or 60 thou ? I'm on 50 thou Kilometres, when I would think of renewing, but could do with a couple of thou more at the mo.

Varies a lot. Some recommend 72k miles, some say half this at 36k. Having changed more XUD belts than I care to remember, they look a bit crusty and often a bit stretched and floppy at 70+k miles, but look like new at 36k. If I've kept a car long enouh, I do them at 50k miles. Nice easy figure to remember and seems about right in terms of mileage vs risk.

[SiC]

Thanks guys, headlight adjusted up - I'll see how i get on

How old are the bulbs in there? The 9-3 is clever and is very soft on the bulbs. Ours was on original bulbs after 110k. Still worked but much more worn and hence dimmer than new.

[Stanky]

I have replaced both headlight bulbs once in my ownership - though the battery was sub-optimal and repeatedly displayed an error on the display that one, other or both rear brake lights were out, even just after replacement so there may well have been nothing wrong with any of them. I changed the battery in the end after it failed to start the day we were driving to Disneyland effing Paris. The whole street learned several new words that day and my blood pressure reached 4 figures.

[SiC]

Watch out that sometimes they don't shut off properly when ignition is off. Ours did that when my parents owned it. Dash, radio, etc stayed on as if ignition was on.

 

Dealer quoted big money to start swapping units out to diagnose. Parents cba at that point as it had so many issues. Also they went on holiday soon after it did it.

 

It got left on the drive while on holiday. A few days later the alarm went off - battery was going flat. Left it unlocked so the alarm didn't go off. Battery went completely flat the next day. Jump started when they came back and the car fixed itself.

 

I remember seeing on the Saab forums that a lot of electrical issues on that generation 9-3 could be fixed either with a new battery, or disconnecting the battery for a few minutes and reconnect to reboot the car.

[bunglebus]

Whilst looking the other day I noticed my celica tyres are all cracked. No advisory on last mot so didn't take much notice when I picked it up. Turns out from the date stamp they are 15 yrs old. So do I buy new ones or risk life and limb.

 

Well I would be changing them ASAP after 15 years of use and UV damage. Mate of mine borrowed an 02 plate Ford Ranger last week with its original, and very perished tyres on it.