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30 mins run time - kids have it good these days. Remember when they lasted 5 mins and begging for AA batteries or waiting 8 hours for them to recharge.

Learned something new today. So when you take your car in for an MOT the tester inputs the VIN, not the reg. And so my dad learned that his Caterham doesn’t exist. It’s not on the system. The tester was concerned at first thinking the car has dodgy history, but was then told it was bought from new ...

Feels like people just aren’t driving very much. Roads in and around London feel far less busy now. I suppose between the much greater adoption of EVs and WFH it’s a much lesser issue these days than last time around.

Feels like a non issue and a way for Tesla to justify selling their annual brake lube check. In winter when there’s the greatest amount of corrosion you also have a cold battery pack with barely any regen so you’re mainly using the friction brakes which sorts that issue.
I guess there are people who ...

Sticks like Sh*t

I have an old King Dick spanner.

Ended up not watching this one, not even the highlights. Seeing the cars going slow at the Esses to recharge and then dying before hitting 130R during quali was enough for me. Then I saw a clip this morning of Hamilton’s engineer telling him to go slower in the corners to have more battery on the ...

Well got my fuel, and filled my car but it won’t be going anywhere soon. It was only 1.5 miles to the petrol station and I could smell brakes. Rear right seized

Buy stabila, and only stabila


The Wickes one was £25 and the Stabila was £80. I guess I know why now :lol:


If you buy cheap spirit levels check they’re still good by spinning 180deg and it should still read the same. I still check mine regularly even though they’re not cheap ones. If not ...

I need 20 litres for the quad bike so I’ll look like a prepper filling up my can

jamcg wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2026 1:57 pm Buy stabila, and only stabila

The Wickes one was £25 and the Stabila was £80. I guess I know why now

You know when the bubble splits into 2 bubbles, you spend 30 seconds moving the level gently side to side but it’s still 2 bubbles, then you move it a bit faster and then there’s 4 bubbles. Then eventually there’s a big bubble and a little bubble aaargh bastard

Silverstone Museum?

I’m still finding it all pretty vague to the extent of being not helpful when I test it with stuff that I know. I guess they’re all strongest at coding though which I know nothing about.
Like they’re a 6/10 which is ok if you want general knowledge but not helpful in the real world.

Thought we all identify as cvnts here

Can you imagine the Venn diagram overlap for car buyers under 25, who can afford to buy M cars with cash, then spend £10,000 + modifying it, willing to throw away the guarantee on a modern ludicrously complex car and afford the insurance premium.

It’s pretty small, like at that point you’re mainly ...

They went from making somewhat nice stuff 15+ years ago to near Mansory levels of ugly recently.

Yep. Ukraine developed their own anti drone system which is only $2100 per hit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_(drone)
Can draw your own conclusions why we’re still using $300,000 ammunition to shoot them down.

The M3 was in 2022 - gold brakes but black wheels.
Looked at my photos. Last year the M5 touring was green, the M2 CS was just violet and not Daytona violet. That’s the only violet BMW that I could see. There was a Spectre in what I’m sure was Daytona violet but they had renamed it something else to ...

And all the energy infrastructure attacks so far have been by Israel haven’t they?