FIAT in their wisdom performed a 'mirror image' swap of petrol and temp gauges @2009
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FIAT in their wisdom performed a 'mirror image' swap of petrol and temp gauges @2009
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Oddest bit of car maintenance I've ever done..
Fired it up, set the temperature, whacked a USB stick in and drove to my destination by which time the firmware was the latest version.
It does say don't drive while doing it...but given there was just a bar with "updating x%" on the screen and there's there's very clear instructions the engine must run while the update is taking place and an estimated time of 40 minutes I wasn't going to sit in a car idling 40 mins so waited until I had a 40 minute trip to do to tackle it. As it it was it took half the advertised time...but the only difference I can see is the Citroen logo fades up when you start the car now rather than just flicking on.
Suppose I'd have been snookered if I stalled it
Other bonus would be doing 1 hr 30 round trip for myself and the boys exercise without having to cope with at this point very annoying fan on the Mazda...roll on pay day.
Also it was a rather nice day..
Fired it up, set the temperature, whacked a USB stick in and drove to my destination by which time the firmware was the latest version.
It does say don't drive while doing it...but given there was just a bar with "updating x%" on the screen and there's there's very clear instructions the engine must run while the update is taking place and an estimated time of 40 minutes I wasn't going to sit in a car idling 40 mins so waited until I had a 40 minute trip to do to tackle it. As it it was it took half the advertised time...but the only difference I can see is the Citroen logo fades up when you start the car now rather than just flicking on.
Suppose I'd have been snookered if I stalled it
Other bonus would be doing 1 hr 30 round trip for myself and the boys exercise without having to cope with at this point very annoying fan on the Mazda...roll on pay day.
Also it was a rather nice day..
Wow - stunning picture!
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Jock that sounds fine. Mine was a case of super senility and even made me laugh.
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Well.... its OK... Would be great if there was a nice green Panda peeping out of the trees.
Dropped the DS off to have parking sensors fixed. They replaced one this time, now they all work. Only took a few hours as well! Quite impressed. Hope they stay working now...
Early rev counters were marked 1, 2, 3, etc, and x1000 somewhere on the dial.
Then some bright spark in car design thought it would be a good idea to make the two dials more consistent with each other, so the rev counter became, 10, 20, 30, etc. Immediately the dials need more careful viewing, to ensure the correct one is being identified. Eyes off the road for more time, not good.
Eventually, manufacturer reverts to 1, 2, 3, etc.
Then memories are short in car manufacturing, so back we go to 10, 20, 30, etc.
Add into this the need to swap cars, with speedo and rev counter opposite sides, and we have a recipe for confusion. Pure genius.
I have the same issues with Fabia and Panda.
We moved to indicators on the left stalk, for all of Europe, some time ago, I wonder if they could standardise positioning of the major dials. After all, the bureaucrats love to meddle.
Good Luck,
Hopefully that's the end of it, mechanically and electrically both our Citroëns have been 100% reliable it was all bodywork and a crap dealer on the DS3 so it may decide to come over all boring modern car from now on..
Thanks! I'll post any future headaches on here with it. Found that AutoDoc sells the sensors for £9 (Valeo) so feeling a bit more optimistic now knowing I can source decent ones and pop them on myself should they play up next year.
As for bodywork, going to get it professionally touched up next year (lots of stone chips / white spots on my bonnet). Tried touching up the Panda's stone chips with a genuine pen a few months ago but it wasn't as easy as I expected so thought it'd be worth having done maybe every two years or so. I was actually going to get it wrapped matt grey all over (maybe matte black roof) if I could get it done for a grand but place quoted me £1500+VAT and that's too steep
When I used to drive to work at dawn ..back in the summer.. a few times I would have an owl flying @8 feet off the ground alongside me
Tonight on the way home it was sat at the side of the road.. on a fencepost..
Keeping an eye (or two) on proceedings
Little thing.. not much bigger than your hand
Tonight on the way home it was sat at the side of the road.. on a fencepost..
Keeping an eye (or two) on proceedings
Little thing.. not much bigger than your hand
When I used to drive to work at dawn ..back in the summer.. a few times I would have an owl flying @8 feet off the ground alongside me
Tonight on the way home it was sat at the side of the road.. on a fencepost..
Keeping an eye (or two) on proceedings
Little thing.. not much bigger than your hand
Always lovely to see one sitting on a fence just looking at you.
Looks like the replacement has been announced..
Used to work for Yakult..
That should be easier to stomach
Boris really needs to get his act together regarding Brexit on how it may affect N Ireland. Biden has made it quite clear that trading with Britain may be a no go if the peace agreement is in jeopardy. Once we walk away from Europe, we will need all the help we can get.
It's going to be very interesting (if such a mild descriptor can be used) to see how things pan out when, in the very near future now, the brown stuff hits the fan. From what I can gather from watching the TV or listening to the radio (when it's not discussing the virus) we seem to be worryingly unprepared.
Back in the late 60's when I started work I was employed by a couple of large scale employers. Then, as time went by I worked with some smaller organisations and discovered I much preferred this. In a smaller set up you can quickly go right to the top with either a request or suggestion and action will quickly be taken. The larger organization is more ponderous and, in my experience, wasteful of resources and finances. For example, I had a budget for my department which was for maintaining training equipment and tools. I had to request permission to purchase and, regardless of the state of my budget, I would often be refused for much of the year (so I would scrounge stuff from local scrappies etc) then, in the spring, as the end of the financial year approached, I would suddenly find myself summoned to a meeting where I was "ordered" to spend whatever was left unspent in my budget or risk having my total budget amount reduced for the following 12 months. I've spoken to others in similar management positions who say they've experienced the same - lunacy, isn't it!
In a smaller, family business, you can chat to the boss, take him into the workshop and show him the problem and very quickly either get permission to proceed or told to compromise because funds are unavailable at the time.
Finally I think, after experiencing "life" for all these years, If you are talking about things on the "grand scale" as Brexit stuff is (on the grand scale I mean) I think you are much better of inside the organisation with a "voice" - and Britain had quite a loud voice - chipping away and influencing "stuff" to work to your advantage instead of chucking all the toys out of the pram so all you can do is look over the edge and watch the other kids all playing with them on the floor below. But what do I know? By golly I do hope I'm wrong!
Back in the late 60's when I started work I was employed by a couple of large scale employers. Then, as time went by I worked with some smaller organisations and discovered I much preferred this. In a smaller set up you can quickly go right to the top with either a request or suggestion and action will quickly be taken. The larger organization is more ponderous and, in my experience, wasteful of resources and finances. For example, I had a budget for my department which was for maintaining training equipment and tools. I had to request permission to purchase and, regardless of the state of my budget, I would often be refused for much of the year (so I would scrounge stuff from local scrappies etc) then, in the spring, as the end of the financial year approached, I would suddenly find myself summoned to a meeting where I was "ordered" to spend whatever was left unspent in my budget or risk having my total budget amount reduced for the following 12 months. I've spoken to others in similar management positions who say they've experienced the same - lunacy, isn't it!
In a smaller, family business, you can chat to the boss, take him into the workshop and show him the problem and very quickly either get permission to proceed or told to compromise because funds are unavailable at the time.
Finally I think, after experiencing "life" for all these years, If you are talking about things on the "grand scale" as Brexit stuff is (on the grand scale I mean) I think you are much better of inside the organisation with a "voice" - and Britain had quite a loud voice - chipping away and influencing "stuff" to work to your advantage instead of chucking all the toys out of the pram so all you can do is look over the edge and watch the other kids all playing with them on the floor below. But what do I know? By golly I do hope I'm wrong!
Brexit was only ever going to be a headache in Ireland. Biden is entitled to an opinion. It needs to be said more often, regardless of who the President is at that moment, America never has been, nor ever will be, a particular friend or ally to England and even the lightest research under the gloss of history will show at most every crisis a lot of arm twisting was required and cash had to pass the wrong way before any kind of friendship was acted upon.
Trade talks will be no different.
Trade talks will be no different.
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Our company has a factory in Ireland.
We buy chemicals from China and then send some to Ireland as they don't use enough for the manufacturer of the chemical to care about them so they would pay a higher price.
Once Brexit happens we would be classed as an exporter of said chemical which involves a whole load of pain.
No one in management has thought that the cost to the Irish factory to import it themselves might now be lower than the cost to us to register as a chemical exporter!
We buy chemicals from China and then send some to Ireland as they don't use enough for the manufacturer of the chemical to care about them so they would pay a higher price.
Once Brexit happens we would be classed as an exporter of said chemical which involves a whole load of pain.
No one in management has thought that the cost to the Irish factory to import it themselves might now be lower than the cost to us to register as a chemical exporter!
I would not entirely agree with that. Our role with America hasn’t been that bad, They have to play ball to certain degree for various reasons, but because of the Irish question, it’s really been made very clear to Britain how things will hang. One thing is for sure Britain will need all the help it can get after bloody Brexit.
Payday...cars booked in for next week for new heater fan.
Because I drive it twice a week and have another car I was toying with leaving it till January.
But went out last night for a shop and while in a 10 minute jaunt it's bearable as soon as the bearing heats up properly it just gets louder and louder.
As well as the annoyance the other concern is: I've got no idea of will it last weeks, years or minutes in this condition and there'd be nowt worse than to be in a day out with the little-un and suddenly have no heater in the middle of winter.
Also speculatively emailed Mazda about getting DSR updated as my car has full digital history but only paper history for the time I've had it got an email back saying "just send us the invoice" so it'll get done.
Because I drive it twice a week and have another car I was toying with leaving it till January.
But went out last night for a shop and while in a 10 minute jaunt it's bearable as soon as the bearing heats up properly it just gets louder and louder.
As well as the annoyance the other concern is: I've got no idea of will it last weeks, years or minutes in this condition and there'd be nowt worse than to be in a day out with the little-un and suddenly have no heater in the middle of winter.
Also speculatively emailed Mazda about getting DSR updated as my car has full digital history but only paper history for the time I've had it got an email back saying "just send us the invoice" so it'll get done.
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Solar watch which I’ve had for years recently gave up, the capacitor was no longer working, ( rechargeable battery) These things cost silly money to replace if you use so called experts. I sent away for watch repair tools off eBay, and with much searching for days managed to find an appropriate capacitor. Success, fiddly but watch now working just for a few quid Also changed the dud battery in my Seiko watch. Little things seem to buck the spirits somewhat...
Also changed the dud battery in my Seiko watch. Little things seem to buck the spirits somewhat...
