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Germany is closer than China isn’t it

Mine needs a new front bearing but the whole hub needs taking off and everything is so corroded that it’s going to be like opening a can of worms. A job for summer. Next year.

On the M5 above I remember when I overheated my 6 series all of the plastic pipes turned super brittle. Cracked the coolant ...

It's a piss take, especially all the chocolate based stuff being replaced with god knows what horrible substitutes. The price of wholesale cocoa has fallen for over a year

"A VERY EASY REPAIR."

Well repair it yourself you cunt

Explosive Newt wrote: Fri Feb 27, 2026 6:15 am
Is it a standard 18 inch wheel? They are surprisingly cheap. I got a new one from Tesla rather than repair when mine cracked as I was a bit skeptical about a weld repair on it.

It’s the 20” wheel.

Bloody hell

My tyre fitter reckons it’s repairable but he’ll take it to the wheel repair people tomorrow.

Got some remarkable efficiency out of the Tesla. Did almost 50 miles with just 1 kWh.

Ok it got some assistance from Alcoholics Anonymous
https://i.ibb.co/d4zDRxxg/IMG-2004.jpg

What really happened was a cvnt in lane 3 of the motorway didn’t spot me in lane 4. Just started coming over and I ...

Outgrew my little cart so I’ve ordered this as it’s so cheap that it caught my eye
https://www.sgs-engineering.com/sgs-mec ... net-stc300
Actually has a slightly smaller footprint but is much taller. Should take a while to fill this one.

In terms of stuff uploading your data I’ve got a few good ones I’ve discovered over the years. A Meross smart switch was somehow consuming 10gb a month (apparently stuck in a firmware downloaded doom loop but I don’t believe it as it worked totally fine). A PTZ camera which recorded locally on SD ...

The Waymos are a coming

Changed the differential on the brush cutter. The dealer here wanted £1500 for the part. After ordering it from America and paying all the taxes it was £450.

F150 is also lighter. The aluminium bodied pick ups are surprisingly light weight for their size.

This evenings practice race start went well again. They have amended the start procedure by flashing a blue light a few seconds before the red lights start to come on which gives drivers time to rev the engines. The Ferrari however seems to consistently launch like a rocket with Lewis overtaking ...

That is some peak Italian engineering

Yep, which will most likely go through but it will be for the 14th race of the season. If either Mercedes or Mclaren have a rocketship it should still give them a decent advantage.

The last thing I read about the Mercedes engine made it sound much less like clever engineering and much more like plain cheating. Supposedly they do have the expanding piston design but apparently that’s relatively simple and other teams do too but their unique thing is that they have an extra ...

The onboard battery is something like 2kwh. Perhaps the 30kg weight saving should have been used to allow a bigger battery capacity… Also the battery will essentially be doing a full cycle on every straight. No idea if it’s still one of those components that has a limit but I imagine they’ll be ...

It’s a very dark silver.

Today’s traffic jam was made slightly more interesting by a Eurofighter Typhoon

Only a model though

Also there was an armoured tracked vehicle on another lorry that I didn’t photograph. I think it was an Ajax. Looked new and modern but not full tank sized.