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General Discussion Area / Re: Alaska summit background

« on: 16 August 2025, 15:17:11 »

One bullet in Alaska that's all it would have taken.

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General Car Chat / Re: ADAS and ISA on newer cars.

« on: 11 August 2025, 12:41:58 »

When I've seen some of the RRs offroading and spraying mud over the whole windscreen the wipers/washers cope well with it so they must be uprated, when I'm back from Spain I'll get advice from my indi he's always got the answer 👍

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

« on: 11 August 2025, 10:42:15 »

Got it ready for our trip to the airport, off to Spain for a few days meeting some old service pals + the little Fiat is due a Service could be a boozy few days..🍺🍺🍺🍺

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General Car Chat / Re: ADAS and ISA on newer cars.

« on: 11 August 2025, 09:35:44 »

You should start a new thread for that TB! 

Its a weird one, but I'm starting to see a small pattern of valve failures were people are using Halfords Berry screenwash.  This could of course be that its a very, very popular screenwash.  Most vids where you see people replacing the valves, there is using a carton of Halfords Berry in view

In my particular car in my ownership, its only ever had Halfords Berry or Halfords Citrus, so I know its not a mixing problem

I've used the same one from my local motor factors for as long as I can remember branded by the RAC never had any problems before .

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General Car Chat / Re: ADAS and ISA on newer cars.

« on: 10 August 2025, 22:13:39 »

Change the bulbs for quality non chinesium ones sourced from somewhere reliable.

Xenon bulbs also degrade with age. As do LED and filament, but to a lesser extent.

So Rangie, if your 20yr one RRS has original bulbs, consider changing

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Absolutely no problem with the Range Rover lights they're fine , just the screenwashers are crap.

The screen squirts things?  Lack of water coming out, or a big delay in water starting to come out - latter is due to a failed 1 way valve, and JLR do generally use particularly crap ones.

If is is a 1 way valve issue, may I ask what brand of screen wash you use?

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No delay at all they operate as required, but for the type of vehicle it is I would want a much stronger & wider spray, the Toyota is on the other hand really powerful & clears the whole screen, I'm going to contact my indi who looks after it to see if there's a better type that can be fitted there surely must be .

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 10 August 2025, 13:17:55 »

Will have to try and remember how to post pics. 

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Made my eyes water just reading the post, I had jobs when I was in the LAS which really looked painful but easily done one of the most common back then were guys who were welding without goggles ending up with " arceye" as we called it soaking wet towels over the eyes brought a little relief, you were very lucky indeed definitely a lottery ticket for Wednesday..👍

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General Car Chat / Re: Old car?

« on: 09 August 2025, 18:37:54 »

I'd like to own a 1960's-1990's classic British sports car.

I'd love a TR6 although French Albitz informs me they are utter shite. Perhaps a TVR Griffith 500 would be the sensible choice.

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My mate has a 1974 MGB GT V8 it has been completely restored the total cost including the purchase price is around £60,000 it looks & sounds terrific, but after a ride out in it you realise how much vehicles have improved  I felt quite vulnerable in it .

I suppose the old adage is true.

"We are never more alive than when we are close to death"

I imagine a 1974 MGB GTV8 offers the same crash protection as a Kentucky fried chicken box that has been left out in the rain.

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I was certainly glad to get out of it & back into the Range Rover.

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General Car Chat / Re: Old car?

« on: 09 August 2025, 16:26:25 »

I'd like to own a 1960's-1990's classic British sports car.

I'd love a TR6 although French Albitz informs me they are utter shite. Perhaps a TVR Griffith 500 would be the sensible choice.

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My mate has a 1974 MGB GT V8 it has been completely restored the total cost including the purchase price is around £60,000 it looks & sounds terrific, but after a ride out in it you realise how much vehicles have improved  I felt quite vulnerable in it .

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General Car Chat / Re: Old car?

« on: 09 August 2025, 15:20:26 »

My Evo is 1994 easy to fix, and the most reliable car ever.  Age is just a number however
the newer they get the worse they get, you have virtually no chance of fixing a new
Car, yourself even with all the experience we have grown😢

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I don't "fix" anything now I last did an oil change on our old Forester about 3 years ago & vowed never to get under a car again at 71 years of age  I'm not laying under cars anymore, still interested in how things work & watching vehicles being restored etc..

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General Car Chat / Re: Tyre Pressure Sensor

« on: 09 August 2025, 08:17:35 »

What a load of Palaver.
My tyre pressure monitor looks like this and has served me perfectly well for almost 50 years , well not the same one but the same type.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153516528773?_skw=tyre+pressure+gauge&itmmeta=01K26SVST9332N3330A4WVBGAG&hash=item23be4c5485:g:aFIAAOSwSOditGsa&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA0FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1fp%2F1Zla9121Jkk%2B1QEaB4eHrO5k9gnAbgFi7%2B3qyCNU2qxxq%2BC%2BLToW8mLStBHLkxvRABAmBP%2Bqf3CSU856YvEmmLSpchMQtNwwOT79HzmZ5pBbcmr0IaZwIHtu1Ph51yfiJ16PL6e68N4nm7IDLt9t%2Br3RRnxTbxHHwOPPJXGhF6spRsBSwi9ZmfpMkZ71ONeYQN5Bani%2FsBHMB1mETSW1XmNcpmw0Zjb1Pvg8B4n6c8Evd7hFCj%2BRiDn6cdEU1c%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR7Kd79mRZg

This modern nonsense is over complication for the sake of it.
If you cba to check tyre pressures once a week you shouldnt be allowed to drive. 

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Agree entirely , I've had my Dunlop pressure gauge for as long as I can remember always check mine every week along with oil water & screenwash.

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General Car Chat / Re: ADAS and ISA on newer cars.

« on: 08 August 2025, 20:59:08 »

Change the bulbs for quality non chinesium ones sourced from somewhere reliable.

Xenon bulbs also degrade with age. As do LED and filament, but to a lesser extent.

So Rangie, if your 20yr one RRS has original bulbs, consider changing

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Absolutely no problem with the Range Rover lights they're fine , just the screenwashers are crap.

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General Car Chat / Re: ADAS and ISA on newer cars.

« on: 08 August 2025, 17:32:52 »

Just fancy a newer car with better headlights.

With my 1980s hat on, isn't it better to fit some 90/130W bulbs and some spots

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The lights on Swmbos Toyota are fantastic never had any car before with such good lights & the screenwashers  are amazing puts the Range Rover to shame with its pathetic amount of spray, had a long run out in it the other day and the average mileage equated to 136 MPG , fantastic little runabout.

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General Car Chat / Re: ADAS and ISA on newer cars.

« on: 08 August 2025, 12:21:13 »

All this tech is maybe good for some people and good once the person learns to trust it and relay.

What happens when it fails and there's no warming?

Once read about a Beemer when the throttle got stuck, couldn't turn off the engine or switch off or alter settings, nothing worked

He called the police who helped clear the motorway the poor guy was bricking it as the car just kept accelerating, not sure how it concluded bu reckon underpants were full.

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Was Keanu Reeves driving it .😄

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General Car Chat / Re: ADAS and ISA on newer cars.

« on: 08 August 2025, 12:09:33 »

I get a lot of hire cars, and all of them have various nanny shite that I have to spend 10 minutes finding how to disable them, and then another couple of minutes every time I start the car disabling the shit.

Some are just annoying - stop-start being one.

Others are downright dangerous, but can usually be disabled - lane assist type technologies.

Others are downright dangerous and cannot be disabled usually - emergency braking type technologies, and it seems VAG group cars seem to be particularly sensitive to imagining it's seen something close and slamming on the anchors.



As to the the various forms of distance adaptive cruise under the various marketing wank names manufacturers give it (I'm guessing MB will call it something like dist-tronic, BMW will call it something like dist-hold, VAG will make up some meaningless acronym), I'm generally against those sort of driver aids.  In fact, I rarely use normal cruise control, though I do use speed limiter type functions through workworks etc being the (failed) reformed character I am.

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Got to agree about stop start , fortunately the Toyota hasn't got it but our old neighbour who we bought our Subaru Forester from bought a Merc hatchback to replace it I used it a couple of times and switched it off didn't like it at all, she actually told us several times that she wished she had kept the Subaru. Out of interest do any hybrids have stop start ?

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General Car Chat / Re: ADAS and ISA on newer cars.

« on: 08 August 2025, 07:33:30 »

Got adaptive cruise control on both of our vehicles I use it SWMBO doesn't, the Toyota has the lane control and various other automated controls all of which are switched on don't have any negative comments about them.