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392ci is 6.4 litres, Shirley.

Which just makes the bhp/litre even worse

It’s Friday, I don’t have much to do this afternoon, and the weather is nice at last. I might pop out to Aldi and see what they’ve got

Then come back on here about 6pm and do a drunken brocco-style rant

The mileage discrepancy seems to just be one MOT with no mileage recorded. All the others are consistent.

Temperature & pressure will go hand in hand to an extent. Assuming the coolant is water-based (?) it’ll stay liquid to quite high temperature as long as the pressure is kept high too. I was initially assuming the temperature would be similar to an engine but that’s not necessarily true. We’re no...

But are those seals substantially different to those on the shaft of a water pump on an IC engine ?

Anyway, looks like consensus is that you’re driving to Italy 8-) You could do it in a cheap cayenne turbo: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204738478084 Your 911/aston both need more miles on them Fag packet calc was the the 360 would drink ~£1k of fuel on the trip. Aston would be similar, the 911 should...

Anyway, looks like consensus is that you’re driving to Italy

You could do it in a cheap cayenne turbo:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204738478084

Calculated that driving to my dad's instead of flying saves about £3-500 and a tonne of CO2 compared to flying. How far is that, and is that based on several people? I did some rough calcs and it seemed that flying would be more CO2 efficient for travelling alone for Italy. IIRC Copenhagen, and it’...

Here’s an interesting theory: Back in the Osbournes' MTV heyday, Sharon claimed that she and Ozzy stopped doing drugs after Nicole Simpson was murdered because OJ and Nicole were their dealers. According to her, the couple had carved out a nice little niche for themselves as suppliers of gak to the ...

KiwiDave wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:44 am …Yeastie Boys…

<round of applause>

That would obviously work for a craft bakery too.

Hmmm…. I could perhaps undercut GG here….

That’s you that is.

If it’s particularly about dangerous beers, I have to recommend that 10% trucker lager that Lidl had recently.

Beany needs to do an update !

Coffee stop

Oh. Fair enough.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202403157598246?sort=mileage&advertising-location=at_cars&fuel-type=Diesel&make=Maserati&model=Quattroporte&postcode=MK168RN&fromsra Not an utterly awful idea. Maseratis do have lovely interiors. Where do they get those diesel engines...

Beany wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:54 am Re New Mini, that dashboard is a fucking joke

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/mini/mini ... r-pictures

I still greatly prefer it to the Tomy / Yaris disaster.

GG. wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:26 pm That's a very odd headrest arrangment - does it have a single strut?

Looks extremely uncomfortable.

Russian priests in a plane flying over areas at risk of flooding and praying that they stay dry. This is a parody….. right ?