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Who's Mark Steele?

cheb wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 5:14 pm We should never have come down from the trees.

FFS now you tell me

IMAG0184 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr

Just spent a small fortune on an MOT and 4 new tyres.

Why oh why do manufacturers fit such wide low profile tyres to cars. Fronts are bad at 225/40, rears are worse at 255/35.

They are noisy, uncomfortably firm, and make kerbing your alloys almost inevitable. They also wear out very rapidly.

Bah humbug!

Cousin Jack wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 8:48 pm Just spent a small fortune on an MOT and 4 new tyres.

Why oh why do manufacturers fit such wide low profile tyres to cars. Fronts are bad at 225/40, rears are worse at 255/35.

They are noisy, uncomfortably firm, and make kerbing your alloys almost inevitable. They also wear out very rapidly.

Bah humbug!

Strange - never have this kind of problem with the 185/65 R 14 tyres on my Berlingo...

mangocrazy wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 8:58 pm

Cousin Jack wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 8:48 pm Just spent a small fortune on an MOT and 4 new tyres.

Why oh why do manufacturers fit such wide low profile tyres to cars. Fronts are bad at 225/40, rears are worse at 255/35.

They are noisy, uncomfortably firm, and make kerbing your alloys almost inevitable. They also wear out very rapidly.

Bah humbug!

Strange - never have this kind of problem with the 185/65 R 14 tyres on my Berlingo...

The tyres on my Duster seem to be doing OK despite the daily battering on rocky dirt tracks.

Pirahna wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 9:50 pm

mangocrazy wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 8:58 pm

Cousin Jack wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 8:48 pm Just spent a small fortune on an MOT and 4 new tyres.

Why oh why do manufacturers fit such wide low profile tyres to cars. Fronts are bad at 225/40, rears are worse at 255/35.

They are noisy, uncomfortably firm, and make kerbing your alloys almost inevitable. They also wear out very rapidly.

Bah humbug!

Strange - never have this kind of problem with the 185/65 R 14 tyres on my Berlingo...

The tyres on my Duster seem to be doing OK despite the daily battering on rocky dirt tracks.

Right on Duster brother

So silly.

Taipan wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 9:55 am

Getting my defence in first (it was dark and it wasn't my car), I admit I've tried to undo "lug nuts" that were actually crappy chrome-plastic covers over the OE actual lug nuts. There was much swearing as obviously the lug spanner didn't fit.

Tools by Snap Off?

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Yorick wrote: Thu Oct 03, 2024 5:11 pm
Got Portimao in 4 weeks so back to the mad month

Managed 800m in 26 minutes. Not bad for first swim in ages

Managed 800m in 25 minutes today

Then did another 200m after short rest.

Fantastic for getting arms fit for track

800m again, then another 400m after 2 mins break. Super chuffed as better than 20 years ago.

Even after 4 mile dog walk earlier, felt super good so kept going to 1300m with no rest.
I'll be up to a mile by next week.

And off out for enduro ride in about an hour. It's hot here, so gonna head up into the hills

Had my nanobots topped up, 1 in each arm so will have to play the invalid card for the rest of the night

Taipan wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 9:55 am

First time I tried to change a wheel on the SAAB, the wheel brace wouldn't fit on the nuts. ..hmmmm, so went to tool box for a socket, wouldn't fit between nut and channel on the wheel.....hmmmmm.
Bless them, SAAB fitted plastic chrome covers on all the nuts, which I might add are a ball ache to remove in the cold!

Volvo do that too, but there's a tool in the kit to remove them, like giant tweezers.

Dry sanding (#220, #320) Wet sanding (#320, #400) Grinding (Dremel) Filling (Rage Gold).

I sold a pair of motorcycle boots on ebay that I bought in 1983.

ChrisW wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:32 pm I sold a pair of motorcycle boots on ebay that I bought in 1983.

To some hipster who rides a CX500 with a brown seat?

KungFooBob wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:33 pm

ChrisW wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:32 pm I sold a pair of motorcycle boots on ebay that I bought in 1983.

To some hipster who rides a CX500 with a brown seat?

He said it was bobbed but failed to mention the seat covering. I'll leave negative feedback.

Sadlonelygit wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 9:06 am First time I tried to change a wheel on the SAAB, the wheel brace wouldn't fit on the nuts. ..hmmmm, so went to tool box for a socket, wouldn't fit between nut and channel on the wheel.....hmmmmm.
Bless them, SAAB fitted plastic chrome covers on all the nuts, which I might add are a ball ache to remove in the cold!

The Alcoa's on the F350 have covers too... there's a tool in the truck to pull them off.

Sorting out a cable reel!
In the process of jet washing the decking and reqd the use of a 2nd cable reel.
This one had been playing up/u/s for a while now. Ran the multimeter over it, no continuity on the feed, so rolled it all out to see if there's the obvious break.....nope.
Took a gamble on the connection within the reel being fubar'd.........oh yeah!
It ain't pretty ....but it works!