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A lot of older vehicle engine (and bodywork/floorpan/chassis) issues do not occur in today’s cars Richard. Modern engineering and assembly methods, controlled by advanced computers and intelligent ‘robots’, result in very fine tolerances. Moreover, the tolerances are repetitive: each and every sub-assembly and every final production of the same model,is built to the same accurate standards. Advances in oils and lubricants are science-driven: oil and filter changes do not need to be as frequent as in the past. Corrosion-proofing and metals technology have led to companies like Hyundai and Kia offering long warranties against corrosion.
That said, it still makes me slightly uneasy, as an old school grease monkey, when I learn that my iX20 only has a service every 12 months or 24,000 miles. Yes, you read that right: 24,000 miles. I used to change oil and filter every 6,000. Hey-Ho, times they are a-changin’, as Mr, Dylan sang.
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I'm out.To misquote an old phrase Richard:
You can fool some of the Chinese some of the time. You can fool all of the Chinese some …well, you can guess the rest.
The Plastic PoTUS is playing a very dangerous game with the world’s oldest surviving civilisation. Those inscrutable buggas have long memories and inventive revenge methods. IMO, If he keeps poking China in the eye, he will learn a bitter lesson someday.
When and if he ever repeals his control of this Huawei mess, he will have dragged the UK into whatever the Chinese decide to do in retaliation. That will include us of course, thanks to our poodles in “Intelligence” Services, directed to follow the USA line as usual. Just as we followed the US line over Crimea and Ukraine: had we remained neutral, we would be trading with the Russian Federation. It is not necessary to actually like a nation, in order to trade with it. Playing the American poodle has earned us nothing but disrespect and hatred in much of the world. Let us see how many of the Trade promises by the PP, actually bear fruit when we are finally out of the EU. If they do not suit American business, they will not happen.
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I'm out.Good info Graham, thank you!
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I'm out.May 24, 2019 at 6:11 pm in reply to: Has anyone else been offered the Windows 10 May 2019 Update ? #33600Apparently the next incompetent PM or Cabinet Minister will have their incompetence recognised as “doing a Theresa”. Until and unless replaced by Boris Johnson*, in which case it will probably be “doing a BoJo.”
I always thought she was doing her best at a bad time in a very difficult job, with the ground prepared by someone ‘doing a Cameron.” Unfortunately her ‘best’ started out poorly and just deteriorated. Had she been a football manager,
oppositionfans would have all been singing “You don’t know what you’re doing.”At every game.
*Save us from that, please save us!
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I'm out.Can’t help Dwynne, but I do recall my granddad, 3 generations gone from North Wales, had learned Welsh so that he could write a column for the Swansea paper that he wrote for. Saw himself as Welsh, although born English in Staffordshire and his great grandfather was our last Welsh-born family member. Always impressed our Welsh ancestry upon us grandkids.
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I'm out.I note that the Y6 comes with the latest Android 9 (Pie) and Google are committed to upgrades for that os. So it doesn’t put me off either Steve.
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I'm out.As an ex-grease monkey and workshop foreman, I used to see many older, highly polished but low mileage cars with corrosion issues. One former customer (long deceased) was an elderly lady who had been in the same ATS unit as (then) Princess Elizabeth during WWII. She bought a Vauxhall Chevette* brand new and we began MOT and servicing work on it after 3 years of ownership. IIRC, it had managed just 3,500+ miles in that 3 years and her mileage was increased at the same rate for several years. It was kept on grass in the open, which is the very worst way to keep a car: the grass breathes out moisture. I could not convince her to have a drive made, even though she owned a paid for large house and was quite wealthy. The result was that there was corrosion at the first MOT in load-bearing points and brake pipes, and more every year. I almost pleaded with her to buy another car and have a drive or at least a concrete standing, but she would not have it. When she died her nephew, her only living relative and fortunate beneficiary, offered us the car for £500. I chuckled and put it on the ramp to show him the previous repairs and the ongoing corrosion. “We don’t want it,” I told him “it’s not worth £50.” He had it scrapped. Even the engine was rough: I used to take it for a blast down a local dual carriageway, to try to blast away some of the krap. It was seriously coked-up, coming from a time of leisurely motoring, I doubt she ever exceeded 30 MPH!
And yet there were older, very high mileage cars that we maintained, which were regularly serviced and kept properly, which ran perfectly and did not suffer more than corrosion at an expected rate.
The one job I would never carry out, was an engine flush. I have detailed my reasons here before: basically it removes the ‘varnish’ from working parts that oil and heat have plated the parts with. When fresh oil and new filter is put in, the oil has to get up to the top of the engine when started. There is metal-to-metal wear before the oil gets there. It takes many miles before the varnish is replaced.
*The unofficial trade name for a Chevette in my time, was a ‘Shove-it’.
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I'm out.” It’s all about the west not being able to spy, not the east being able too. As atm both sides can, if we go 5g our intelligence won’t be able to spy as easy. ”
There’s a lot to be said for that viewpoint Steve. I am more suspicious of US and UK intelligence organisations than I am of China’s. Or Russia’s, come to that. I am no Labour supporter and I think Corbyn is about one step to the right of Lenin, but I would bet that Corbyn is on the radar of MI5 and the CIA. Just as Harold Wilson was.
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I'm out.My Gdaughter wanted one of those to replace her ’55 Kia Picanto. After taking a new post at Barclays and earning a lot more, she decided upon a test drive of a Fiat 500 and rejected it outright for more or less the same reasons you give, Nolan.
She decided to keep the Picanto: it still runs beautifully, has put on some hard miles under her driving and is worth peanuts if she sells it. Then she wants a Hyundai like granddad’s.
Sensible girl!
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I'm out.My Android phone Thread #33561, answered well by Nolan and Dave, contained a question relevant to this thread.
IMO the Plastic PoTUS has made series of stupid, unintelligent moves which will eventually bring his overprivileged life crashing down around his ears. I believe that the time will come when his supporters and voters realise that he has not made the USA great at all, but has achieved the opposite. When the first real economic slowdown leads to a trickle of job losses which become a flood, those supporters and voters will understand who is to blame and the jig will be up.
Unfortunately it will be the ordinary Americans who will inevitably suffer, not the PP. Nor his Big Business pals. That’s if he doesn’t take the USA into a war in an area which has many previous hard lessons going against it. Let us hope that, should that happen, we have a government which follows the precedent set by Harold Wilson, who refused to involve the UK in the slaughter of Vietnam. Not that shown by T B Liar, who set us upon a course from which we still suffer today.
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I'm out.Thanks Nolan, thanks Dave.
We have been agonising for long enough over replacing our WFoxes. Tomorrow I will take my missus down to the CW Louth shop and buy the Y6.
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I'm out.I seem to recall a MM contributor (Mark Pickavance?) building a computer out of a beer keg, another actually within a workstation desk.
Sounds like the kind of far out thing Mr Pickavance would do.
Tadka, I have a TP-Link TG-3468 Gigabit Network adapter kicking around, no use for it myself. Happy to send it for P&P. I will have a look in my spares box in the shed tomorrow. I also have a 60GB IDE Hdd, used lightly since I went SATA after blowing the mobo. Still works fine, but P&P on that may be prohibitive.
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I'm out.On a similar theme, I am reading this book atm:
In fact, I am totally engrossed in it. Everything I ever thought and believed about life on this earth, everything my gran’s beliefs, passed on to me, were about, all came to a head for me through this book.
Basically, a farming family that had been gradually losing money on an estate owned by their family for generations, decided to “Rewild” the estate. It has succeeded beyond their expectations and they now have animals, insects and plants that are almost extinct in the rest of the UK, by the bucket load.
If you are of my generation, you may remember events such as fields full of Lapwings (‘Peewits’) – Skylarks ascending like a VTOL aircraft, to fall far away from their chicks, then fake a busted wing crawling along the ground to lure predators away. Hundreds more Lepidoptera (moth and butterfly) species than there are now, skies full of birdsong from many more bird species, grass snakes and lizards in the sandstone around my village… I could go on and on, but read this book please, it is an eye opener. Read how the ‘fact’ of not enough food for 7 billion people, is totally untrue. Read how even peoples on the edge of starvation, waste food and how much food is wasted in developed countries. Read how the scientific and Nature establishment will not face the truth and/or believe the plainest of evidence when it is presented to them.
The book is here: http://tinyurl.com/yyl4uj3r
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I'm out.VFM:
You do not post on the Brexit Thread pages now due to a lack of interest by others in your often specious arguments and often unsupported ‘facts’. So you sneak it all in here under “Other Stuff”. Your points concerning the strength of the £ are hereby destroyed:
Add to that the looming tragedy of British Steel and Ford’s proposed job losses:
Many other companies will follow. Not so rosy now, is it? I won’t be returning to this, so save your comments.
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I'm out.Sorry, I didn’t know that BL. As my declining sight can tell no difference between that and HD 1080p, I have never considered it.
I often wonder what my parents would make of even 1080p. Or my big brother, who passed in 1988. For my dad, the big news was colour TV, which meant he could watch snooker without wondering which grey ball was which. And football, which let him see shirt colours again, that he had not seen since his last live match many years before. That’s when he began stealing TV time from my mother!
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I'm out.Richard, sepsis was their main concern at the times I was infected. It began in my nose and sinus, made me feel horrible. After I presented myself for the first time at Grimsby, they kept me waiting 4 hours until results came in. Then they saw my records regarding chemo and cancer and I was wafted into a holding ward sharply. I had informed A&E staff about all this, but they are all just so rushed off their feet.
I spent a week in the Amethyst ward, which is solely for cancer patients out of chemo but still with immune system issues and infections. I had been trying to
walkstagger about a little for the first 2 days, then they told me I was supposed to be isolated. No one had told me that, no notices on my door. I was very overheated all the time, but eventually got over it. Then a few weeks later I was back and this was worse: temps up to 41ºC as I say, the little weight I had managed to recover slid away. Some nights I was convulsing and the bed was so wet with sweat I thought I must have had a bladder movement. I was blitzed with drugs until I got fed up with being woken from a rare sleep of more than an hour, to take more pills. Happily this time they gave it some research and found the right combination that saw me out of there. I take your recommendation and can solemnly assure you that I do not require a repeat performance!As I said earlier. I have a triple CT scan next Sunday and am looking forward to what I hope is a good verdict from that. Any other result, will be faced if and when.
Best wishes to you and your wife for a continuously improving outcome.
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I'm out.I would make a fuss about the scrap people (amenity site I assume) since the object is RE-USE before so called “Recycle”. If you are an “anti-social network” user, make a big fuss there. Somebody will at least send you an unwanted PC case to keep you quiet. Les.
Les, I don’t know about the IoM recycling amenities, but here in East Lindsey the staff at our local dump face penalties if they give away anything brought in. If they try to sell stuff, those penalties include instant dismissal. The staff at our local dump are really good and helpful, so people accept this. Plus there are big signs all around the facility, warning customers and staff.
Tadka, do you have a local FB “Marketplace” or Buy & Sell Group? I joined this Group last year in my area and extended my membership all over North & Midlands. Examples today were 3x PC old desktops (free) several more modern for sale, desks/workstations. Also a massive pile of brand new plywood sheets. Loads of stuff always available, cheap or free. You could also try Freecycle, where I have moved quite a lot of stuff, (after threats from SWMBO) that just would not attract a sale at all. Sorry to say that I had to take one old case to the dump last year: no one wanted it then, even free.
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I'm out.Nolan and Richard, thanks for the good wishes.
Supposed ‘pain killers’ have different connotations for myself and my wife. SWMBO cannot take anything stronger than Paracetamol: anything stronger knocks her out. One session with Co-codamol presented me with a zombie wife who had no quality of life and just wanted to sit all day. My missus does not like to lose control and that episode frightened her badly.
I have always had high tolerance to pain and have spoken here before about my resistance to taking drugs that I consider unnecessary. There is enough necessary medication already in my medicine drawer, without additional potions that do nothing effective. My last two hospital stays were caused by infections to a reduced immune system and high temperatures. (At one point, 41ºC: informed later that they were so worried they considered sending for my wife) It was discovered that Paracetamol was the only drug that was effective in bringing down my temperature. I have rarely suffered headaches since an operation during Army service found and dealt with a nasal problem, so I take Paracetamol very rarely.
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I'm out.That must be for those who have no terrestrial channel services BL, right? As it’s also on Beeb1 right now.
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I'm out.May 18, 2019 at 4:11 pm in reply to: Tory Leadership Candidates prepare to woo their colleagues………. #33446Let’s hope Maggie’s Ghost comes to haunt the whole rotten, power – hungry, demonstrably incompetent bunch!
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