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Post by patty on Apr 25, 2021 8:43:29 GMT
Already lot folks about and for some strange reason fireworks last night...wolf still not bothered(long may that last) Gonna be a busy day out there I'm toying with up mega early tomorrow for a Worms Head wander... not going today there will be hundreds up there.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2021 9:28:45 GMT
Enjoying a nice cup of tea in my boat bed, could be better though if I didn’t have a bad head from the ale and the boat behind running his silly ‘traditional’ annoying engine six feet from my head..
Bbq today at home.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2021 10:44:09 GMT
However the things that were best about the new cars - low cost and a simplicity that assisted the incredible reliability - has sadly been lost amidst the addition of more and more techno-garbage, to say nothing of the escalating prices. But hey, that's progress for you. The techno garbage is good though! Lane keeping, adaptive (radar controlled) cruise control and blind spot monitoring makes the 425 mile journey down to the boat really relaxing. My dad’s 1939 Rolls Wraith couldn’t do any of that! But you do need a computer. The xenon steerable headlights are currently pointing at the ground with orange dash warning caption, laptop says one of the suspension level sensors kaput, £50 from eBay so not bad but I’m sure if I took it to a dealer it would cost a fortune to diagnose and fix! I actually like the driving aids and I can see the day when the human element is removed from the equation entirely which will result in an accident rate of close to zero, I expect. And if I'm honest, I wish my current car had cruise control because I am lazy. But if you didn't have steerable headlights you wouldn't need a laptop to talk to the computer and be £50 better off. Any car is nice - so long as it works.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2021 10:49:37 GMT
My old 2CV had steerable headlights - you just turned a knob no computer needed - a car ahead of it's time...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2021 11:40:55 GMT
My old 2CV had steerable headlights - you just turned a knob no computer needed - a car ahead of it's time... It had one fatal flaw though. It was French.
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Post by ianali on Apr 25, 2021 11:48:41 GMT
The techno garbage is good though! Lane keeping, adaptive (radar controlled) cruise control and blind spot monitoring makes the 425 mile journey down to the boat really relaxing. My dad’s 1939 Rolls Wraith couldn’t do any of that! But you do need a computer. The xenon steerable headlights are currently pointing at the ground with orange dash warning caption, laptop says one of the suspension level sensors kaput, £50 from eBay so not bad but I’m sure if I took it to a dealer it would cost a fortune to diagnose and fix! I actually like the driving aids and I can see the day when the human element is removed from the equation entirely which will result in an accident rate of close to zero, I expect. And if I'm honest, I wish my current car had cruise control because I am lazy. But if you didn't have steerable headlights you wouldn't need a laptop to talk to the computer and be £50 better off. Any car is nice - so long as it works. But then I won’t be able too enjoy sliding the back end around the bends. Won’t be fun anymore. Long live our right of choice.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2021 12:23:16 GMT
I actually like the driving aids and I can see the day when the human element is removed from the equation entirely which will result in an accident rate of close to zero, I expect. And if I'm honest, I wish my current car had cruise control because I am lazy. But if you didn't have steerable headlights you wouldn't need a laptop to talk to the computer and be £50 better off. Any car is nice - so long as it works. But then I won’t be able too enjoy sliding the back end around the bends. Won’t be fun anymore. Long live our right of choice. Personally I think if you do that on the track there's no problem. But its exactly that crap which results in cars parked in houses and mangled bodies on the road. Too many jerks think a car is a toy and the road is a playground. Find your fun somewhere else.
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Post by ianali on Apr 25, 2021 12:30:17 GMT
But then I won’t be able too enjoy sliding the back end around the bends. Won’t be fun anymore. Long live our right of choice. Personally I think if you do that on the track there's no problem. But its exactly that crap which results in cars parked in houses and mangled bodies on the road. Too many jerks think a car is a toy and the road is a playground. Find your fun somewhere else. Twat.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2021 12:31:38 GMT
Personally I think if you do that on the track there's no problem. But its exactly that crap which results in cars parked in houses and mangled bodies on the road. Too many jerks think a car is a toy and the road is a playground. Find your fun somewhere else. Twat. Tosser.
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Post by ianali on Apr 25, 2021 12:34:04 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2021 12:35:30 GMT
And when you fuck up I pray its just yourself who gets hurt.
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Post by ianali on Apr 25, 2021 12:48:59 GMT
And when you fuck up I pray its just yourself who gets hurt. Thank you for your kind thoughts. Have a lovely day 😁.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2021 12:51:20 GMT
And when you fuck up I pray its just yourself who gets hurt. Thank you for your kind thoughts. Have a lovely day 😁. No problem. I will.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2021 14:08:31 GMT
Yummy!
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 25, 2021 14:17:10 GMT
The techno garbage is good though! Lane keeping, adaptive (radar controlled) cruise control and blind spot monitoring makes the 425 mile journey down to the boat really relaxing. My dad’s 1939 Rolls Wraith couldn’t do any of that! But you do need a computer. The xenon steerable headlights are currently pointing at the ground with orange dash warning caption, laptop says one of the suspension level sensors kaput, £50 from eBay so not bad but I’m sure if I took it to a dealer it would cost a fortune to diagnose and fix! I think this post puts it's finger on the problem I have with virtually all modern vehicles ...... they are too bloody complex. They are full of wonderful devices, but if they go wrong they stop the car for something daft and require huge amounts of dosh for some weird and wonderful part. This can either leave you at the side of the road or limping along at some ridiculously low speed trying to get home.
In a basic vehicle, with just the contents of the average tool box, some bailer twine and sticky tape, running repairs can be made that will usually get you home. (as example, on a V4 Ford engine I converted a rubber bonnet stop into a temporary guide in the rocker box to replace a broken casting, that lasted from Cornwall to Essex )
Owners of horse drawn boats had a similar view of those new fangled engine things! In favour of modern cars is virtually nothing to service/adjust, no points, no valve rockers, no carburettor. Just change the oil from time to time, and the plugs every 60k miles. And there are far fewer moving parts, compare a hydromechanical fuel injection system, or carburettor, with modern injectors turned on and off by a computer, which also gives much better fuel efficiency. Yes, you do need a computer, but then it tells you what is wrong and what to replace.
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