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********Motors Chat - Round 8 ********
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Noccy_Mondy wrote: »We must be the only 3 saddos not out :pac:
Going out this weekend was some write off for me working Friday Saturday Sunday. Was supposed to go out last night but by the time I got home and got diner and a shower it was after 9 sat down went on here and I was a sleep before 11. I feel now that everything has crept up on me so many assignments to do. I'm going doing one now. I need to update my cv and prepare for a first round interview aptitude test.
Not much time for doing any car stuff here
Going out on a bit of a trip for a few hours this afternoon with some friends so that will give me a bit of a break.0 -
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There are still plenty of helpful people on here, god knows plenty of people were patient with me with my weird accelerator problem on the Honda
There were a few who took the piss, but mostly in a nice way
And in fairness to the mods, anytime I report stuff, they deal with it. I've also seen them deal with loutish behaviour without prompting. I can think of about three users at the minute that are within the boundaries of appropriate behaviour, I imagine the mods are just waiting for them to step out of line to deal with them
It's cyclical, tends to be worse in summer, so this too shall pass
yeah, its such a shame some forummers are upsetting others 0 -
Personally I think motors was far worse 5 years ago. Every week there was another thread along the lines of "petrol is too cheap, we need more speed traps, there's too much parking spaces available, all motorists are evil" and don't even get me started on slow driver threads and the like. People getting banned and threads closed was a daily occurance. And that was before the subject turned to cyclists.
When you see the above threads now, they don't get half as heated.
But such are the perils of the internet, unfortunately everyone's allowed on it.
I mean they let me on it.
Hope dgt is back soon.0 -
dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »Personally I think motors was far worse 5 years ago. Every week there was another thread along the lines of "petrol is too cheap, we need more speed traps, there's too much parking spaces available, all motorists are evil" and don't even get me started on slow driver threads and the like. People getting banned and threads closed was a daily occurance. And that was before the subject turned to cyclists.
When you see the above threads now, they don't get half as heated.
But such are the perils of the internet, unfortunately everyone's allowed on it.
I mean they let me on it.
Hope dgt is back soon.
I miss the good old days of Usenet groups without spammers before the Eternal Septembe, 2400bps modems. The internet had more of a 'cosy elite club' feel about it in them days0 -
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frozenfrozen wrote: »probably thought the paint was so clean they wouldn't wreck their clothes. be handy to have a panic button on the keys like they all do in america just a quick go of the alarm to get them off
Ah the little red button.
My car has one 0 -
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Driving on the N7 today and I started hearing bangs every so often like a gun shooting at the car or a rock hitting the underside of the car. I was really confused and pulled in. Looked under the car, everything looks fine. I check the all the springs, yep still intact. So I set off again.
Drove for a few hundred metres and I hear it again, but this time I felt the back of the car going down like the handbrake was yanked for a moment and then I realised - right side drum brake is catching on something and locking the wheel momentarily.
Drove the car home, put the arse up in the air, took the drums off and I found a bit of metal loose inside one of the drums. I have no idea where it came from. Slight damage to one of the brake shoe friction surfaces but it's just a spot less than the size of a 1 cent coin.
Compared both sides of the car and I couldn't find where the metal bit came from. Both sides were exactly the same and both brakes were working perfectly. I put the handbrake on a slight bit and both sides turned with similar enough difficulty. I put the handbrake on fully and couldn't spin either side with my hands. Tried the same by holding the brake pedal down - same thing, brakes working perfectly.
Anyone know what this bit is?
I am thankful that the wheel didn't lock up as it could have been lethal 0 -
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