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General Car Chat / Re: Another MOT pass

« on: 28 January 2026, 17:35:36 »

 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 19 January 2026, 10:54:37 »

......

.......not to mention the satisfaction of doing the job yourself.

Depending on the weather.  I bought rear pads for my ML months ago with the intention of fitting them myself. Life & weather got in the way & I ended up getting someone else to fit them. 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 19 January 2026, 10:50:49 »

Discs and pads on the ML. Took about 45 minutes

once I had acquired a 9mm hex.

Hopefully that will also take care of the vibration in the front end at anything over 65 mph...

Then put some fuel in The Proper Car ready for an overdue run out in it.

That was the problem I had when I did my R Class's brakes. I seem to remember then needing an 11mm too for something else brakes related. 

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Omega General Help / Re: Thermostat transfir pipe

« on: 13 January 2026, 12:38:39 »

You can find stainless steel pipes here https://acsparts.biz/en/cooling-pipe-90411629-opel-ss/
Never used this ACS part but I'm sure it's the same quality level as their oil cooler

4 things to know, as it happened when I changed mine this summer :
- The new thermostat housing can have higher cast's dimensions where you put the bolts. I grinded the aluminum of the housing to reuse original bolts.
- The original pipe was very very difficult to remove, even if it was free from any bolt, still impossible to extract. I used a heatgun to locally heat the pipe where it's inside the thermostat housing, in order to dissolve the crap around the o-rings, and it finally worked, without breaking anything.
- Can be useful to remove the 3 electrical plugs aside the ECU box, to clear the space and access.
- New o-rings ordered separately felt very thin and I was not confident with them. I put some Loctite 5923 inside the housing (because if you put directly on the pipe you need too much dexterity to avoid choping the loctite when passing through the tunnel).

I don't know if I'm clear because I feel that I can use more precise vocabulary, which, as a French baguette, I don't have 

Very clear!   

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Omega General Help / Re: Thermostat transfir pipe

« on: 10 January 2026, 15:56:43 »

....... Additionally, be aware that if the flanges on the new thermostat housing is a different depth, you will need different length bolts as well.

Or a stack of washers .... 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Proof that Trump is insane

« on: 08 January 2026, 12:20:20 »

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I don't know why, but that reminded me of a Welsh mate when I lived in Australia. His favourite chat up line with Aussie birds was to inquire whether they had any British ancestry. If they said yes, he'd say  Lovely... Have you got any Welsh in you?   Would you like some?  

It worked now and again as well!     

Lenny Henry aka Theo Wildebeest was using that line 40 years ago.

https://www.facebook.com/conditionred1/videos/lenny-henry-performs-theopolis-p-wildebeest-1986/285991615402011/ at around 2mins 30sec 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 08 January 2026, 11:22:19 »

I've got to go over to Liverpool for mother's funeral on the 15th, so it'll get its six monthly wash before then. I may to ferry people around, so I'd better scrape the mud of the floor as well.

Sorry Steve, I've only just seen this.

Sorry for your loss. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: A.I.

« on: 06 January 2026, 18:16:23 »

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    Purpose: HMRC struggles to match a significant portion of interest data from banks, hindering automatic tax collection. The NI number requirement will improve data matching, allowing HMRC to collect the correct tax more efficiently, often through tax code adjustments. ....

The Tax Man doesn't seem to have struggled in taxing me on interest earned on savings .... he knew of all my savings accounts both current & past.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Rip Off Brittain

« on: 04 January 2026, 21:01:58 »

..... I think she only lasted a couple more years.

Correct .... Just another 2. Died  22nd Jan 1901 

Exactly 70 years before my granddad

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General Discussion Area / Re: Rip Off Brittain

« on: 04 January 2026, 20:55:57 »

Four Blackjacks or fruit salad for a penny. Those were the days. 

I'm sure I remember 4 Blackjacks/fruit salads for a ha'penny.   

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General Discussion Area / Re: Rip Off Brittain

« on: 03 January 2026, 19:12:28 »

5 bob was a crown

we have a crown like this that my Mum was given as a kid .... my Grand dad mythered her to bank it but she refused.

https://ebay.us/m/iXvjUL

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General Discussion Area / Re: car stereo question

« on: 29 December 2025, 14:28:25 »

this conversation went way way over my head pages ago! 

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General Car Chat / Re: Predictive cruise

« on: 28 December 2025, 21:34:23 »

https://news.motability.co.uk/motoring/predictive-cruise-control-explained/

TA .....I'd never heard of it. Sounds like yet another step towards autonomous cars & another reason to keep the car I already have. 

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General Car Chat / Re: Predictive cruise

« on: 28 December 2025, 21:24:10 »

never heard of predictive cruise .... do mean you adaptive cruise?

My ML has a camera that reads speed signs to tell you what the limit is .... it's not always correct as it sometimes sees signs on side roads & confuses it with the limit on the main road that I'm travelling on. Other times it tells me the limit is NSL ... I've yet to find out what it's looking at 

But I believe some sat-navs get their limits from Google maps but AFAIK that's not tied to speed limiters 

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General Car Chat / Re: Grandland 1.2 cambelt problems

« on: 26 December 2025, 13:42:19 »

The lad across the road works for Stellantis, apparently there is go-no go gauge for the belt. As above, what a stupid idea!