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It's a 120. 150 came in in 2009.

Particularly like all underside very rusty and corroded which describes mine but I think the MOT man has been too polite to put it quite like that.

Even in smoke control areas you can burn wood legally. There's a huge list of exempt stoves. We burn on ours all winter, but just let the thermostats on the radiators and underfloor heating take care of using less heating oil when the stove is on. I have looked at running some or all radiators...

In a Land Cruiser? :laughing-rolling:

This was closest to the correct answer! Ended up going through my box of bits I've bought and never got round to using, and came up with a small pre-formed pipe that should come off a front caliper. Connected to a rear axle hose. Plugged with a bleed nipple. Bleed nipple on its own wouldn't...

That's a posh way of hooking another ring spanner through the open end of a combi spanner :-)

I had a completely unmodified gear stick snap above the ball and come off in my hand on my old S3 LR. It did have a tendancy to pop out of first so I was holding it in place coming down a very steep bank. That was exciting.

Folks. Any tips on a get me off the side of a mountain fix for a holed brake pipe? Have tried to crush it for about an inch with mole grips which is definitely an improvement. If I try to fold the pipe back on itself it just splits. It's the pipe running along the chassis to the back axle, so no...

Aren't they supposed to come together if someone attacks one of the members? And no one is doing that.

Had my refurbished injectors from Specialist Diesel Ltd | Diesel Parts Car Truck Bus & Tractor - [Leaving Land Cruiser Club] 90,000 miles later they're still good. Going to outlast the rest of the car at this rate.

For completeness I can tell you (as of this morning) the ! warning light also comes on solid if you pop a brake pipe. Hopefully the balancing valve still means you have some brakes at this point, just much less than you were expecting.

3.9 times unless of course you don't divest from your business interests when in office.

That 200 looks like the sort of abomination you'd see at a motor show in the 1980s when a "coachbuilder" got hold of a Jag saloon for a client in the UAE with a penchant for falconry.

I think we've already been here, but the highway code itself isn't legislation, but it refers to legislation throughout. It's just much easier to read than the road and traffic act. Not all points in the highway code have directly linked legislation, but the highway code is often cited in court...

Same principle as with a car. There is an offence of careless and inconsiderate cycling.

250m up in South Wales and it's very underwhelming. Probably be dragging a tree out of the living room later now I've said that :-)

What whole thing? I imagine they like electric cars because they are good at generating electricity and seem to dislike air pollution in cities. Grenoble had low emission zones years ago. Also see very few big 4x4s about, in the countryside anyway. X3 is a big SUV in most towns. Always struggle...

https://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/on-ne-renoncera-pas-emmanuel-gregoire-et-david-belliard-devoilent-la-zone-a-trafic-limite-au-coeur-de-paris-17-02-2022-66F7NHQ2HVHR7AF4T3E4PAXWSI.php My French isn't great by arrondissiment 1-4 car free by 2024.

The bad news is Toyota drop links must cost the largest multiple vs the cost of a pattern part of any Toyota part. They generally aren't far off £100 each from the dealer. If it's the bolt that connects to the ball joint on the link, did you stick an allen key in the end of the bolt part to hold...

My Morris Minor wasn't, and that was more than 20 years old before I had to start welding it.

Sort of replying to my own question but I stumbled on this. There was a class action in the US about Tacoma chassis dissolving. Toyota replaced a number of vehicle's chassis under recall, and also rolled out a set of chassis plugs to fill up (some) of the holes.

Personally I can't see how we decouple speed and "how you drive". Of course there are other facets of driving quality, but I'd argue the others are less important individually, and much harder to empirically measure, and so much harder to be sure you are complying with. Bit of git when you get a...

As a driver of a car that occasioanlly does 25mpg on diesel, my guess is it would likely not cost me more. But I would temper my view if it looked like seriously impacting those who could least afford it. I think the whole picture is to penalise congestion and reward mass transit alternatives...

Loads of cars already have black boxes fitted, the manufacturers are just twitchy about how well they publicise it. BMW presented at a tech conference I was at at least 7 years ago about their telematics informing the local dealer about when you had a bulb out so they could pop round to your...

Cars have to comply with The Road Vehicle Emission Performance Standards in UK legislation. I think there is a small change in as much as average emissions for manufacturers is now calculated for just UK sales rather than EU wide, but otherwise the categories are the same as the Euro standards...

28K for a single cab V6 petrol. 32K for a double cab. You can't buy a V8 diesel there, if you could another 4K looking at SA prices. So lets say 36K Plus is it 22% import duty on a pick up? Is 44K. Plus shipping. Plus registration. Plus all the faff to arrange shipping and registration. Doesn't...

Just try buying one. 53 week lead time being quoted at the dealer last week.

This. Mine has 220000 miles of every-day off-roading and towing. The "only" things that have gone wrong I'd say are just mechanical wear. Lots of suspension bushes, wheel bearings (I think 4 so far), injectors. Rust will kill it though. Need a clean one and then regular oily stuff spraying...

Literally the only bit of mine that isn't rusty. Although that's where the spare wheel is bolted, so I can't actually see there.

Taking riding on the pavement out of the argument, because generally that is wrong; perhaps because the alternatives are deemed too dangerous but it complicates the infrastructre discussion here. Why shouldn't cyclists choose the legal route most appropriate to their journey? I do this in my...

@Juddian as someone involved in road haulage, what would be your view of getting more freight onto trains? And then much more local road transport to the delivery point. Not necessarily with today's lines and rolling-stock, but also conceptually?

We have that. It's called VAT. The trick would be making that a higher rate for EVs. Sort of the opposite of red diesel. Although, fold your tin-foil hats everyone, smart meters!

Roads are paid from general taxation. Everyone funds them irrespective of how they use them or what vehicle they travel in. Clearly VED and fuel duty is part of this, but it's a pretty small part (all fuel duty + VED is about £28B pa, out of £800B pa in general tax revenue, so 3.5%)...

@GeekOKent What new rule? Giving way to pedestrians waiting to cross at junctions? On the road cyclists give way to pedestrians at junctions. On shared use cycle paths cyclists give way to pedestrians, full-stop. I assume at the gazillion junctions on the average cycle path it's give way to...

Worth a call to your local dealer. Batteries are about the only thing I'd buy from mine, but the price and availability is usually good.

How does what work? Cyclists have to give way to pedestrians at a junction, same as a car. Cyclists have to give way to pedestrians on mixed use paths. Some cycle lanes come, some go. There are very few useful ones. This is a good local one, about 15 yards long. But at least the surface is no...

Isn't the point of Krown to stop getting more rust? Rather than turning existing rust into something blacker. I thought it looked good, although only 6 months on.

I stand corrected. £21.30 for each person to hit, plus 41 pence per mile if a doctor needs to travel. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/158

Batteries are wired in parallel. They both are drawn on to start the car. If one is bad it will affect the other as they try to balance out. On a warm day you only need one battery, although you can feel the difference. At this time of year you want them both to be good. Clicking then working...

Is that right? Got any citations? I didn't know hospitals in the UK charged for A&E.

I think worn injectors in this engine sound like worn tappets, but could be my unrefined ear. Easy to check with Techstream. About 40 quid for a cable and software these days. Few posts around on this forum about using it. Well worth having just to read engine codes when you start to get those...

Big section in the highway code applicable to pedestrians. Green cross code is just an advertising campaign, although it is referenced in the highway code. Pedestrians should take care, but drivers should take more care. If someone walks out without looking along a stretch of road away from a...

Appreciate I ramble on, but I did get to that in the second sentance :-) Out in April in printed form.

The code isn't law. But it can be used to define what is careless or reasonable if a prosecution is made for dangerous or careless driving for instance. If something in the code is written as something you "must" or "must not" do, it is law, but the law is being replicated in the code rather...

You drive at a speed that gives them the opportunity to cross, or if they start to cross you are able to avoid killing them. If they don't start crossing you speed up again. It's really, really easy. Almost all people understand being hit by a car hurts. Almost all people are not going to dive...

That's only where doing so makes you visibile to traffic on slow roads, coming up to a junction where you will need to change lane, or where it would be unsafe for a motor vehicle to squeeze past. The theory would be drivers know it's legal so don't try to aggressively pass. As an aside the...

I still can't see people intentionally walking in front of cars. All well and good being in the right when you're lying in hospital, at best. And I can't see people queuing up to cross up at busy junctions away from predestrian crossings. But time will tell. And the highway code can always be...

When you are turning look for pedestrians crossing or close to crossing and be ready to give way. Slow down enough to do this. It's really easy. If you want to control a thing that is very easy to kill people with just be careful with it. This isn't even a big change. You've always had to (at...

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