coldel

1 hour ago, Ekona said:

I said that!  

On 04/01/2021 at 10:43, Ekona said:

Double post

On 04/01/2021 at 10:43, Ekona said:

There’s nothing wrong with wanting a change btw. The 350 is hardly the world’s most perfect car, nothing wrong with experiencing as many different cars in your life as you can  

This ^
 

Im so glad I jumped from one car to the next - the 350z when I had it made me think wow what a car, but then moving around other cars have me such a better appreciation of where it sits in terms of dynamics and performance. 

Cheers guys 

Started watching Rev, about 20 mins in, nice cars so far although yes acting is pretty budget, I will persevere  - any other recommendations?

Any rust and it’s too much money. You can buy a 100k mile 370z for that. I don’t think I’ve seen a DE go for £10k for quite some time 

The W brace underneath will be rusty but if you are seeing it elsewhere then there could be plenty of hidden rust elsewhere

One lesson I have learned over the years is that low miles does not equal good quality in this mileage obsessed car market in the UK 

That feels, pretty expensive 

It says on the site that you have to do the purchase via the site?

Rays were an optional extra. GT pack had the seats, cruise, Bose etc. You can have a GT without Rays wheels. 

 Is it a U.K. car or an import? Imports had multiple variants not just GT and non-GT.

Don't envy you Martin! Just trying to get your rear lights working was a pain!

Did the other lens today, learning from attempt 1 was fit lens back with casing in place. I fluked getting it right first time didn’t believe my luck would last so put casing back in first, naked head lamp!

Anyway both done now, it was a dirty job but worth it

Was a lot easier than I thought. I didn’t go near the oven! Just a bit of elbow grease and heat.

Next job, sorting out the headlamps. After 15 years the sealant around them is crumbling and letting in water, so need to remove the lamps, get lens off, clean out and re-seal. Bought some butyl tape for the job. 
 

Anyway getting the lamps off the car is a doddle, one bolt easily accessible! Makes a change! Then prying off the lens with the help of a hair dryer, tricky but didn’t take long. Removing the residue, a horrific job!

Anyway lens and lamp back together and back on the car, takes about 90 mins per lamp!

I can appreciate the engineering and effort people put in for higher power outputs, it’s quite impressive. Do I care? Not a jot. Chasing the numbers has never been a passion of mine.

Before I bought my first VX I had a passenger ride in a supercharged one pushing 380bhp, he went from 0 to 130mph in the blink of an eye, it was literally a few seconds, I knew then that i didn’t need this!

What’s also interesting is the quoting of max output and quoting you have an X bhp car, which it’s true you do for about a band of 100 revs the rest of the time it’s half that 

I have to scan my shopping and bag it myself instead of a human doing it for me, the price is still the same. A cup of tea from a self service machine is literally hot water and a tea bag but will cost £2+ 

There is no logic in what you are saying about human removal reducing cost because that’s been happening for years, decades, across many industries and prices do not tumble to the pence level you are describing. 

It is absolutely vital the bangers keep going, so many in society use a car for their livelihood and charging your car a mile from your home unless there is some huge infrastructure plan in place (which so far sweet FA is) this whole thing is just a showpiece for Boris to say 'hey look at us we are doing something' - government is good for two things, making stuff up without any plan behind it and secondly, changing its mind once that plays itself out. 

Im all for green, its not free fuel thats a daft notion. Nor are EVs purely green. But its better than a diesel sitting in traffic pumping crap out. But it needs a proper plan with a viable timeframe, the right investment and the right people in charge of executing it. Lets not do HS2 again. 

On 18/11/2020 at 05:13, Davectr said:

Vauxhall’s are for people who’ve given up on life

 

 

Thats all I’m saying 

22 hours ago, ATTAK Z said:

A couple of recent posts differentiate between big cities and rural areas and to me, that's important. As usual the government is deciding national policy on the basis of problems encountered in London. I have no need nor any wish to travel to London or any big city for that matter. Fortunately all my journeys are for pleasure only, so I'm affected little by the current proposals for toll roads and electric vehicles. Furthermore, as (I think) the oldest member of our club, I doubt very much I'll be driving anything much after 2030   .

I actually think the policy is counter-intuitive to a city like London though  as usual with this farcical lot in charge they are picking numbers out the air and headlining policies which have no substance, as is the trait of populist leaders.

The majority of car owners park on the road, the majority do not have big houses to generate their own electricity, the majority do not have driveways. Many people walk, cycle or use public transport network. Many people live in flats their cars parked well away from the property. There are 5 lamp posts on our cul-del-sac road, there are around 50 cars parked. You cannot scale up bay charging as the spaces are needed for residents with ICE cars to park. There are 262 charge points in Richmond Upon Thames, in a borough of 185,000 people after a seriously concerted effort to scale up over the last few years.

If anything, this policy totally suits out of major city places, where people have to drive because amenities are so spread out. Where housing is cheaper and you get more for you money and more likely to have space to have housing with driveways/park outside.

Im sure there is a very good reason for windfarms either spinning or not. There is a whole economy behind it all, agreed delivery of energy at agreed pricing. If you had agreed to sell 100 loaves of bread to a client, would you bake 200 just because you can? Despite the myth, green energy is not free, it costs to generate it, what it actually is, is renewable. 

NASA has been a big spend, but its in our nature to explore. If the human race had just sat happily in its little mud hut thousands of years ago and not worked out how to build boats, the wheel, so on and so forth where would we be now? Amazing what NASA has actually invented as well that has changed the world, from the tech to put cameras into smart phones to CAT scanners to LEDs and accelerating the development of the personal computer. Even the docking technology used for docking with the ISS was ultimately turned into LASIK which is now used for laser eye surgery. Incredible feats of human advancement really. 

Anyway, EVs, they will be forced on us. But its a good thing for the environment. What it isnt good for is what we all love, driving enjoyment. The noise, the smell, certainly I love lightweight cars, everything really that we love in cars will become classic, so enjoy it whilst you can!

The implications for this are mind boggling, but with so much of this current governments polices its knee jerk and poorly thought through. You cant just pick a number out the air in a panic, why 2030? Because the number 30 seems to sound nice? What actual business modelling has been done to determine that this is viable? 

Millions of road users never use the motorways, rendering using the motorway charging network useless. Similarly millions do not have ability to charge at home. In the borough of Richmond there are 262 charge points, in a borough of 185,000 people. Many of those 262 charge points are replacing on street parking bays so its simply not a case of scaling up either. 

Then of course is the revenue issue, billions paid by fuel duties, by companies that operate in the fuel industry etc. that needs to be covered. Pay by mile is a good idea but who will this hit hardest? The wealthy EV owner who pays no fuel duties, or the mobile car mechanic scraping a living, living out a 7th floor flat who is paying fuel duties because their used £3k van is affordable whilst the £80k EV one isn't. Lets not kid ourselves, there is not going to be a thiving used EV market come 2030.

The important bit really is that we become a green energy producing country first and foremost, we live on an island surrounded by moving water and high winds how we have managed to stumble into 2020 without having at least half our energy generated by this is a crime in itself. 

Run flats 

Change em up for proper tyres 

I love the way they make a point on the video of saying it’s a day before the current lockdown...but still 30 people all in physical contact with no masks - common sense isn’t common it seems and they live among us

15 hours ago, Ekona said:

@coldel don’t hold back mate, say how you really feel...

...it was edited back 

Science has been showing for 6-8 weeks we should have had a circuit breaker and hell some places even listened to science. Back in August science told us that the disease was growing again because primarily of in home contact - the rule of 6 is a joke, in one day you could have 50 people pass through your house without breaking any rule and how many of us regularly sanitised our homes? How many people came into physical contact with other people in our homes? Actually the science showed that restaurants etc. were not the drivers of the numbers we see now, it was all driven by in home contact. 

The right decision was restrict home visitation, months ago. A circuit breaker, weeks ago. Everyone predicted a second spike in October way back in June. Yet here we are, not enough doctors, not enough facilities and the same mistakes being made yet again by a bunch of ditherers - national lockdown far too late which means greater economic harm than a shorter earlier one, no exit plan other than crossing fingers hoping for a vaccine, wasted money on test and trace which was identified as flawed from the off but left for months to fail day after day because it was managed by people with no clue and run by a consultancy that saw an open wallet. 

We should be casting an eye across to south east Asia and working out how they have done so well. As an island we should be nailing this, continental Europe has open borders, yet we still perform so badly. 

Stay safe!

Yeah I will find out in about 8 months time when the sun reappears about the glare 

but yes it looks a million times better the interior of the car looks brand new now (well it kinda is!)

Done a fair bit of work on the interior to make it feel new and comfy, last thing really is the dash which had been covered in alcantara but was quite faded and gone a very light grey colour. So decided this weekend would be the weekend to take a punt and get the dash & binnacle out, buy some suede dye and recolour the whole thing. 

Here is the dash out, took a fair bit of wiggling and then removing tonnes of bits like the plastic vents etc.

Cleaned and prepped the material, all brushed in one direction, then sponged on the dye. Dried and did a second coat. Got it to the right level of black I wanted which was not jet black but a premium looking slightly lighter black

Then got it back in the car, looks sooooo much better. 

Huge upgrade on the grey that was in there before. Took about 3 hours in all, getting the dash out, prep, dye, dry and putting it all back together again.