OV9

Couple of minor compact updates. Before Christmas I managed to find a very rare compact armrest / centre console setup. I’d been looking for a couple of years, even considered buying a car with one in just to take it out and sell the car on 😂 The leather cover was trashed, so I pulled it to bits and...

Not everyone is posh enough to own BMWs

I've always jump started directly battery-to-battery, because that's the equivalent to having a charged battery ? I’ve always done this too. The argument I have seen a few times is this pretty much what is stated below During jump-starting, we connect the boosting battery to ground rather than to t...

Same. Everything I’ve read forever tells you not to go battery to battery, but I always have where possible because it’s usually nice and clean and a grippy shape. And I can’t see what difference it would make to anything having it earthed to another lump of metal connected directly to the battery. ...

There’s a kind chap on a local Facebook group who will come and take them away for free

Got a call earlier asking if I could pop past the sister in laws after work as her car wouldn’t start. They ( her, my mrs and nephew ) had jump leads but couldn’t work out where to connect them as the battery is in the boot. Popped bonnet, found a red plastic cap with a + on it, connected jump leads...

Does it have a decent cup holder?

Decent list, but could he design a corsa ashtray?

Just wondered whether it could possibly be an actual failure somewhere or just some attention seeking weirdo / user error like a lot of these things turn out to be. Driver arrested https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13192851/amp/Police-arrest-Jaguar-Pace-driver-31-suspicion-dangerous-driving-...

Mk2 golf GTi was about the cheapest thing we got quotes on when my step daughter was learning. Didn’t actually fancy letting here loose in it though

Lando was lucky with the start. It was a very obvious jump which left him out of position. He did come to a complete stop, and made a poor actual start, and no other drivers reacted to his jump. It seems the stewards actually used some common sense there despite it being an east penalty to prove.

Just wondered whether it could possibly be an actual failure somewhere or just some attention seeking weirdo / user error like a lot of these things turn out to be.

Are they brake by wire?

I’d buy an f40 and delta integrale immediately, would have to find storage for the f40 but would happily start using the lancia straight away. Would be perfectly happy with a decently sized secluded property in Norfolk/Suffolk with a large barn / workshop. I’d keep several of the cars I already have...

Have fiat just admitted in the most obvious way possible that their new 500 looks worse than the model it replaced?

Is the ‘new’ fiat 500 already old enough that a current version styled to look like it is retro?

I don’t know how a Damon good thrashing is any different to a damn good thrashing but I’m sure it’s worth a try

Alleged race fixing / using their power to overturn a stewards decision….

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/68465516

If you haven’t already, take it for a Damon good thrashing and get it properly hot, might just be throwing a hissy from little use

Buy a £15 obd2 reader from Amazon. Even if it doesn’t give you a full description it will give you a code you can google. Sod waiting a month then having to pay someone to do it

Found a screw in the mito tyre, that explains why it was losing pressure. Thankfully a good couple of inches in from the sidewall.

Popped the tyre off, stuck a plug patch in, seems to be holding pressure fine. Job done.