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Simon wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 2:27 pm

I like how this was a joke video and someone in China has now gone and actually made it

I have stumbled upon that T50 owner’s previous car
https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/20029201

Good point with the bearings. I think cars with ball bearings behave very differently when the bearings fail vs the older taper bearings. I've never had play or noise changing with direction on a bad bearing but they did all increase in noise/vibration with speed.

I’d still think driveshaft, maybe a bush or even an axle? You’d think it would have to be a component that rotates.

Speaking of X5s I ordered a set of TRW front control arms for it from Germany (they made the originals). They were only £80 a side and I ordered separately to get over the stupid ...

Hamilton got a penalty for the exact same thing last year I think so they’re pretty consistent on corner cutting when driving a damaged car.

Yep McLaren ballsed up the pit stop strategy. They’ve always been quite bad at strategy and not having a considerably faster car than the competition is really hurting them.

The overtake system is weirdly frustrating rather than exciting. Seems like it’s unnecessarily drawn out with the clearly ...

Been experimenting with growing mushrooms for a while. Finally got my DIY grow tent set up to a place I’m happy with:
https://i.ibb.co/hFFgGGKw/IMG-3006.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/5hcPkF1D/IMG-3009.jpg
Oyster mushrooms. Also have shiitake but they take a bit longer to grow.
As the proof of concept ...

This is dreadful…

Thought this was about the ix3

Damn
RIP

Just bought a Magnum for the first time this year - bog standard chocolate coated vanilla one. The chocolate shell has been reduced to the thickness of a gnats penis

the new owners collection is somewhat “special”… :shock:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Perrodo

link updated!


The dude became famous/hated after unfortunately taking out the leading Corvette in the ‘22 Le Mans
https://www.autosport.com/wec/news/corvettes-le-mans-victory-hopes ...

Hamilton got reprimanded for undoing his belts and waving to the fans on the cooldown lap

Agreed that £100 seems to be where the better shoes are these days
Loake have boat shoes section....so I already know where they sit on the scale :lol:

It's odd around percievd value though. Had a meal last night that was £60pp. While that's not common for me, I do wonder why that's considered ...

Remember when VAG lost £6 million per Veyron and then Bugatti were forced to make the Chiron profitable or have the plug pulled. Can’t really see if it was in the end.
I find Mate Rimac’s financials/background a bit odd. Young lad converts an e30 to EV, then starts a supercar company which has ...

We had loads of problems with blowing the 100 amp fuse. But were never pulling more than 18kw peak loads. A few months ago UKPN caved and upgraded the transformer 100 metres away. Turns out when they built 6 new heat pump houses down the road they never upgraded it as it was still within spec. So ...

I got the Sky Glass tv as it worked out barely more than buying a new TV when they had some special almost 2 years ago and I think Netflix is half price with Sky in general. Only paid channel I watch is the discovery stuff. For the F1 I stream off my PS4 via my parents Sky Q account. And in 12 ...

Maybe you had floaters

These have terrible packaging. The electronic parking brake is very expensive, sandwiched between the subframe and body, likes to fail frequently and unless you have a lift and are quite handy it will not be worth fixing.


A-ha, that doesn’t sound so helpful. Thanks for the knowledge. Are the ...