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I’ve noticed it’s been harder to find good car parts recently. Usually searching a part number will result in loads of US based choices but not much here. Earlier I was ordering stuff off RockAuto (American seller) and a lot of the stuff in my basket came up with an error that it could not be ...

I have a refuse chute. One big glory hole in the wall by the elevator. Everything goes in, no recycling. It's bliss.

I thought fat is good

Full fat here although it’s more like skimmed now. When i were a lad full fat milk had cream in the top section of the (glass) bottle


You get supermarket or delivered? A lot of stuff is homogenised these days sadly. Ours is delivered and we'll often still get cream in the top. We could ...

Wife went diary free years ago, so changed to Oat Milk. Now I actually prefer it and don't particularly like milk in my tea or coffee (other diary products are fine, ice cream etc).


Weirdly I am the same, for me milk in coffee tastes weird, a bit like ghee so I always have oat milk in a hot ...

No point crying over spilled Mik.

Are you still in London?

New ix3 with CarPlay

didn’t know you could get EV specific brake pads


From google ai:

Electric vehicle (EV) brake pads are designed to handle, higher vehicle weight, silent operation, and infrequent use due to regenerative braking. They often feature special coatings to prevent corrosion and advanced materials ...

If you do buy a car from that particular dealer make sure all the work has been done. There’s a bunch of random jobs Caterhams like repacking bearings, frequent clutch fluid changes, making sure certain bolts are done up tight etc. They’re the ludicrously overpriced ones who gave Aston Martin after ...

Rest of the parts arrived, didn’t know you could get EV specific brake pads - not sure why they’ve painted the inside of the pads orange though but they missed the lightning bolt

The brake discs are also very light for their size, must be some clever alloy.

Yep I don’t hate it, think it’s better than their other efforts.

Mustang is looking good

I got a chuckle from this - Tesla arm arrived. Look at the state of it, it was wrapped up nicely and the box was mint on the outside so I guess Elon fired the QC people too

He could save some more money by not painting it…

Because we are a net importer of energy? Should we drill baby drill?


Was the same even when we were a net exporter up to the mid 2000’s.
What other factors do you think mean the war will affect us most?


I'm just setting out my case for maybe why we should riot and that it started long ...

Rich B wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 3:35 pm

Mito Man wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 3:22 pm The war will affect us the most out of the G20 economies in terms of inflation. Supply chain disruption generally hits the UK harder.

Because we are a net importer of energy? Should we drill baby drill?

Was the same even when we were a net exporter up to the mid 2000’s.

Thought this was about the upcoming 993

In general our 'energy' is vastly overpriced, and it keeps getting more so. The war will affect us the most out of the G20 economies in terms of inflation. Supply chain disruption generally hits the UK harder. Why is this? This delta isn't a Trump related issue.

I’ve noticed something incredibly stupid with my LG Gram. The cooling on it is so bad that it can’t run without throttling back to potato speeds if it initiates turbo boost. It took me a year to figure this out once I downloaded a program called HwinFo - all processors at 100 Celsius.
Does the ...

I still don't understand why the Americans aren't rioting in the street at this point. If crazy gas prices and mocking the church isn't pushing them over the edge....what will? Aren't they both sacrilegious?

It's fine anyway, only 2.5 years more to go :lol:


We're paying almost double what ...

I still don't understand why the Americans aren't rioting in the street at this point. If crazy gas prices and mocking the church isn't pushing them over the edge....what will? Aren't they both sacrilegious?

It's fine anyway, only 2.5 years more to go :lol:


We're paying almost double what the ...