A tad worrying. :/
Years ago an alfa alloy parted company with the hub..
Pretty convinced it was a case of a thief being disturbed
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A tad worrying. :/
Years ago an alfa alloy parted company with the hub..
Pretty convinced it was a case of a thief being disturbed
Having set it to the correct pressure earlier, it's down 1 pound after 5 hours. Could be temperature differential but unlikely as other side has held pressure...Will check it tomorrow and suspect I'll find it's a few more pounds down.
Ah well local fast fit place charges 14 quid for repairs and is open Sundays.
Ah well local fast fit place charges 14 quid for repairs and is open Sundays.
New tyre required, screw in the sidewall.
To get a matching one...97 quid. 3 days before payday naturally.
Could have been worse though, at least I spotted it.
To get a matching one...97 quid. 3 days before payday naturally.
Could have been worse though, at least I spotted it.
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Neighbours complaining about my Sei being parked on the road.
Yes, I do have too many cars at the house right now - since buying the Sei, I've done track days, been on holiday and done a lot of business travel. I just haven't had time to take it to my lockup. I think it has been about 5 or 6 weeks now.
It's not parked within view of anyone's house. It's not blocking the road. It's parked alongside the brick wall to someone's garden.
The intention was always to get it to the lockup, but life got in the way.
I'm now almost tempted to leave it where it is and suffer the complaints of snobby neighbours in their rented Audis.
(Not really, I have a week off work. It has been washed, I've done a bit of work on it, and it's off to the lockup tomorrow).
Yes, I do have too many cars at the house right now - since buying the Sei, I've done track days, been on holiday and done a lot of business travel. I just haven't had time to take it to my lockup. I think it has been about 5 or 6 weeks now.
It's not parked within view of anyone's house. It's not blocking the road. It's parked alongside the brick wall to someone's garden.
The intention was always to get it to the lockup, but life got in the way.
I'm now almost tempted to leave it where it is and suffer the complaints of snobby neighbours in their rented Audis.
(Not really, I have a week off work. It has been washed, I've done a bit of work on it, and it's off to the lockup tomorrow).
Pick up a cheap shed of a car, park it there when no-one is looking, and deny it is yours if anyone asks.
Sounds like you've got some pretty intolerant neighbours. They should try living where we are. We're just down the road from our local crematorium and seem to be the default overspill car park as we have no yellow lines. Luckily it's only the larger events which exceed the capacity of the crem's own car park and as people are often very emotional when attending these events, we (self and neighbours) try always to be accomodating. Our front gardens are all open plan with no walls, fences or hedges allowed. This gives a lovely open aspect to our street, but we do draw the line on people parking with 2 wheels in our gardens!
Heavy rain yesterday. Mrs J returned from shopping/swimming, in the dark, at about 5.30. I knew she would have heavy bags from the supermarket and she has a bad back, so I rushed out the front door to help only to be soaked by the deluge flooding down from the blocked gutter above the front door! Oh dear, have to contact the roofer now to come and sort it all out, more expense and just before Christmas too!
Just had a look in the daylight, hadn't really appreciated how much moss there was on this north facing side of the roof! Looks like there might be more to this than just clearing out the gutter! Again, oh dear!
Just had a look in the daylight, hadn't really appreciated how much moss there was on this north facing side of the roof! Looks like there might be more to this than just clearing out the gutter! Again, oh dear!
Aye Jock I feel your pain. Upkeep of the homestead is always an ongoing situation. Heads up about moss though...copper, install on the roof copper strips, as mach s you can, kills the moss. I used to do all these type of things myself once upon a time, the little lady forbids me going up a ladder these days... Mind you tis for the best..
Mind you tis for the best..
Yup, I had heard about the copper strip thing Jim. As moss killer is largely copper sulphate solution I guess it works? I too liked to fix everything and did, until I fell off my big ladder whilst cutting the top of my younger boy's 8ft high hedge about 2 years ago. Briefly knocked myself out and still suffer pains in the shoulder from it! Grand daughter - now 5 years old, loves to tell anyone who'll listen about how she helped me search the bushes for my glasses and then picked the sticky willow seeds out of my hair - I "luckily" landed partly in a small but robust pyracantha (double ouch) and partly in a small cotoneaster which broke my fall somewhat! Thankfully I managed to throw my, still running, petrol hedgecutter far enough away not to land on top of it and it didn't break! Unfortunately the pyracantha inflicted some spectacular superficial damage and my daughter-in-law and grand daughter, who witnessed the incident, painted such a lurid verbal picture of the event to Mrs J that I'm now banned from going up "big" ladders ever again! As you say, quite rightly, tis for the best though - the age "thing" again!Aye Jock I feel your pain. Upkeep of the homestead is always an ongoing situation. Heads up about moss though...copper, install on the roof copper strips, as mach s you can, kills the moss. I used to do all these type of things myself once upon a time, the little lady forbids me going up a ladder these days...
Luckily, from my instructor days, I know a chap who fixes roofs for a living - his pal was the building skills instructor when I taught the basic mechanics courses - He gives me "mates rates" and very occasionally he'll turn up, maybe on a Sunday when the garages are shut, needing a bit of help or advice with his van. Suits me just fine!
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He has an Audi A7 S Line... almost certainly in the hock for it. It’s worth about 50% of his house value...
Given the evidence, and his peroxide blonde, mahogany coloured partner... I wouldn’t expect anything else!
Naaaa the S-Line is a budget car for people who want to pretend they can afford the 444hp S7
You can pick up an S-Line for less than 10k (used obviously)
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It’s a new one, and replaced a BMW 4 series gran coupe. Has to be the thick end of 60 grand. So about a third of the house value... I’d lose sleep being in the hock for that much.
Or could be half your somewhat stab in the dark estimate, you can get a new A7 S-line for £34ishK the very most expensive ones top of the range with a 340bhp 3L TFSI engine, just scrape the underside of £60K book price, meaning you'd not pay that yourself if you went into the dealership, and also a lot of people lease these days do the value of the car is largely irrelevant as people will spec the car to match what they are willing to pay monthly. No sleep to be lost as you give the car back if you're having problems paying.
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Well, you can’t get a current shape A7 for anywhere near £34k.
But that’s not really the point. The point is the attitude to a cheap car being parked near his house! Even if he can’t see it...
But that’s not really the point. The point is the attitude to a cheap car being parked near his house! Even if he can’t see it...
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Been away with work lots recently all over the place.
1. Manchester: The traffic light rules seem to be; Green = Go. Amber = Go. Red=Go really fast. It's the scariest place I've driven and I'm including Poland.
2. I'm getting old and don't get tech' on cars. Massive touch screens that invite you to play with them. All I wanted to do was change the radio channel or heating! If phones are dangerous why is having a "connected car" not dangerous?
3. Radar cruise control - I could not get used to that at all. It seems that it's safe if some pulls out in front of you but not safe when they pull back in and you nearly get rear ended by someone who expects you to accelerate but the car has other ideas.
4. Modern start/stop. The engine was stopping before the car came to a stop and I didn't even want to stop! Maybe I hold the clutch in for too long? I don't think I do!
On the upside, the new Astra is a lovely car on long distances. The new Golf has a fantastic gear change and does feel a bit better quality which is unusual for VW of the past 20 years (in my experience).
1. Manchester: The traffic light rules seem to be; Green = Go. Amber = Go. Red=Go really fast. It's the scariest place I've driven and I'm including Poland.
2. I'm getting old and don't get tech' on cars. Massive touch screens that invite you to play with them. All I wanted to do was change the radio channel or heating! If phones are dangerous why is having a "connected car" not dangerous?
3. Radar cruise control - I could not get used to that at all. It seems that it's safe if some pulls out in front of you but not safe when they pull back in and you nearly get rear ended by someone who expects you to accelerate but the car has other ideas.
4. Modern start/stop. The engine was stopping before the car came to a stop and I didn't even want to stop! Maybe I hold the clutch in for too long? I don't think I do!
On the upside, the new Astra is a lovely car on long distances. The new Golf has a fantastic gear change and does feel a bit better quality which is unusual for VW of the past 20 years (in my experience).
The Fiat Panda has been retested by Euro Ncap and got zero stars.
The Euro Ncap results deserve their own thread but your message prompted me to look at the report and video. I'm a professional engineer and have to have product certified at work. The people doing it are generally very genuine and act accordingly. The video surely does show a lot of dummy movement particularly around the neck which was my biggest concern looking at the colour coded dummy results. Have to say though that overall the car was strong, as they are these days. The old design got 4 in 2011. I can't comment too much as to how specific seat designs could influence results, sure they do, but, I would feel just as safe in the Panda at zero points than the i20 I looked to as a random comparison, which has 4 points. The hight seat and good view the panda offers reduces the chance of severe accident in a way not measured, assuming the driver is looking as far ahead as geometry allows on an average road.
Front right wheel bearing has gone nuclear without warning on Mazda. Parked it this morning no noise, left work to the sound of metal on metal screeching. On a Friday evening naturally and I'm in work everyday next week...this follows on from the spotlight transformer blowing the other week involving ripping floor boards, the flat tyre last Sunday..
A nice maintained lease deal looks so nice right now.. it's not the money or that it's broke it's the time it fix it.
A nice maintained lease deal looks so nice right now.. it's not the money or that it's broke it's the time it fix it.
Unusual for them to go suddenly like that. Did the journey to work heat the brakes particularly? I'm thinking heat soak allowed the grease to run to the bottom, and was the last straw for a bearing that was otherwise hiding its distress. Sadly, the other one might not be far away.
