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It will probably be a mechanical seal, we have them on all our water pumps, oil pumps etc and they work great. Dave is (of course) correct. https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.audiworld.com-vbulletin/1754x1648/front_axle_reservoir_e8feee0fe54ad516eecb620eb6a83c82835b4861_a9aa4706438feb190597bc24e49abf...

Is the coolant under any sort of maintenance schedule or is it a ‘sealed for life’ system where by life they make it hard for anyone but a main dealer to change and the real life cycle is more like 6 years? There is a resevoir with drain plug in each motor to deal with seepage. Just found this stat...

Sundayjumper wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:58 am But are those seals substantially different to those on the shaft of a water pump on an IC engine ?

I can't answer with any authority, but I'd guess fundamentally no different. Although I suspect they would be subject to higher temperatures? No idea about pressures.

I like some of the strong(er) Belgian beers like Duvel and La Chouffe, but I don't enjoy drinking many of them. Lagers slip down easier for me (current draught favourites Estrella & Birra Minabrea). I tend not to enjoy crafty / microbrewery type concoctions. Generally too strongly flavoured for ...

integrale_evo Yeah, I've been looking into it in a little more detail, and I'm still scratching the surface as opposed to diving deep, but I understand that in order to maximise (particularly continuous) performance manufacturers are deploying motor cooling circuits that go around the stator (sound...

drcarlos wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:14 pm Alpine test drive?

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NEXT!

Let it be so.

When do I get barred from the thread for enjoying Bud?

I have assessed your situation. You may consider it APPROVED.

Rich B wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:54 pm blimey, I was about to post the same thing.

Is this the part where we discover your best mate was my colleague?

Colleague/mate hired a T350 for his 25th. It was very good value, but the mandatory insurance excess of £3.5k (circa 20yrs ago) proved a great deterrent to push it too hard.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68792486

76. Cancer.

It gets better if you read the small print. One off charge of £3k plus VAT. Also the nicer cars have a little pesky asterisk: "* 1.25 miles charged per mile, minimum 50 miles per day. ** 1.5 miles charged per mile, minimum 50 miles per day. *** 2 miles charged per mile, minimum 50 miles per da...

Update on our E-Tron just added to the fleet running thread (page 1006 for future reference). Didn't want to post the same thing here also.

Took mrs mik’s E-Tron for a “larger car task” at the weekend. 25 miles from home on an A-Road the car suddenly sang out some loud warning chimes whilst flashing up “Electrical System Fault – Safely stop vehicle!” followed immediately by a 4WD system fault message, and then a warning related to the d...

What about the rod bearings?

NGRhodes wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:12 pm Because its used as extra paddock space

Aha - thank you!

We discussed this topic in relation to Lance Armstrong. Compete using as many performance enhancing drugs as you are happy to take.

Looks like someone has gone and done it.

https://twitter.com/enhanced_games

I had a passenger ride in a 3.0TD one of these with a taxi company last year and it was such a great place to be. Wonderful ride, really smooth gearbox and the dash at night was lovely. I don’t know when they were made till though. There is a burgundy one with cream leather I see regularly and it’s...

https://jacos-paddock.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/NurburgringGP.png When they run races using the full track - combining the new Nurburgring GP circuit & old Nordschleife - why do they bypass the Mercedes Arena and take the short cut between points 1 and 5 above? Combined circuit is obviousl...

Nice review Mik. What made you decide to pick this one out of the other brands out of interest? https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/house-garden/vacuum-cleaners/best-robot-vacuum-cleaners-b2349451.html We'd kinda narrowed it down to the Roomba J7+ or this one. The former seems to have str...