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NGRhodes wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 10:16 pm Never had an EGR/emissions issue and had nothing but Dervs since 2016.

Have you ever opened one of them up for a look inside though ? Mine has full main agent service history and no warning lights. If I wasn't me I'd never have known.

nuttinnew wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 8:01 pm

NGRhodes wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 11:00 am Had our cat put down this week (had a stroke)

I know I shouldn't laugh but... cat... had a stroke....

Was it on the old Top Gear where they had a M3 going round a track and an “economic” car with a small engine which then consumed more fuel. I really can’t remember, was donkeys years ago. Yes, I think it was a Prius, but it was stupid, because unless you're richb, you don't drive your M car flat ou...

Plus longevity. I'm sure that getting (relatively) huge power & low emissions from a small engine must mean it's quite highly stressed and unlikely to live much past its warranty period.

nuttinnew wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 10:52 am

I'm sure it's apocryphal but here was a story that Morrisey had a classic car restored and the workshop deliberately mis-wired the dash so that there would be a light that never goes out

holy fuckballs, that's atrocious :lol: Diesel, EGR, emissions, blah. This is what they do. Short runs are terrible for diesels, long runs better, but it happens eventually. I went for a short drive, I think it pulled slightly more smoothly. Maybe placebo. It must have been reading pressure OK-ish b...

Bing, fcking, potentially, go.

Looked like this:


Now looks like this:


It probably means the whole intake looks like that but I can investigate that another time.

<r>This is interesting regarding the too-frequent service intervals:<br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Update. After taking my car to a local RR specialist (and not JLR who are less than useless) it turns out that my oil viscosity is fine at 10.9%. The soot levels in my DPF are c.7g. The problem was a block...

I don’t know if Range Rover are the same but the ad blue tank on Jags is also designed to be purposefully difficult to refill so that you end up taking it to a dealer (located under the spare wheel, doesn’t tell you how much it requires, and if you overfill it damages something). For the RR it's un...

MikeHunt wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 11:42 am Toyota didn't a much better job, as did Land Rover mentioned above.

Toyota did a great job there ! It matches very well with all the other BMW switchgear in the pic. Handbrake, iDrive, AC.

240PP - 2012 Audi A5 3.0 TDI, 2005 Porsche Boxster 987 S 3.2 Andy - 1995 Mazda MX-5 V8, 2013 BMW M135i, 2006 Smart ForTwo, 1992 Honda NC30, 2004 Honda CRF450R Supermoto, 2005 Honda CR125R, 2011 Ford Transit T350 140 AWD 16vcento - 2012 Jaguar XFS Portfolio, 2022 A3 Sportback 30 TFSi, 2023 Kuga PHEV...

Funny you should mention surprisingly short service intervals. Mine was last done in Oct and has done about 6k miles since then, the stated interval is 12 months / 16k miles, but it is asking for a service already. Googling it, there’s a LOT of people experiencing the same. A few appear to have been...

It's a Merc "thing" innit, putting everything on one stalk. I hate it too. The Vito was the same and didn't even have the excuse of needing the other side for the shifter.

Gavster wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 9:33 am That guy deserves a beer

If it turns out to be correct - absolutely !! I'll be putting the price up by £1k

Or from a Range Rover Sport. It’s at least slightly more generic looking, not blatantly BMW.

Fnarrrrrrr.

Is the steering wheel nabbed from something else too ?

what else have you been "fixing"...? I think the standard reply to that kind of question is “your mum” ? :D It didn’t cross my mind they would be stretch bolts, I think I’ve only ever encountered those on cylinder heads. From googling they seem to be M10x30. I’ve got plenty of ordinary M1...

Possible progress on the Bentley. A very nice chap contacted me through eBay to say the knocking noise is likely to be the bolts securing the top mounts. They’re stretch bolts and if you re-use them (which I have, several times now :oops: ) they bottom out and appear to be tight, but aren’t actually...

Excellent. You really got your money’s worth from those