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| RhynoCZ wrote: | Snow, snow, ice and more snow...
Today, I spent 200km in my recently purchased rwd car, driving in the mountains, going sideways in almost every corner, and it was so much fun! I forgot how entertaining could winter driving be, when the conditions are just right. It's been some time since I drove a proper rwd car in winter. Luckily, I can fully dissable the ASR (Anti-Slip Regulation) in my w210 E200 Kompressor, so everything feels natural, just like when I used to drive my w202 C200, that had no such systems at all.
I feel much safer driving a rwd car on snow than any fwd car.
*ASR turns the car into a understeering brick. Which actually feels more dangerous than just having the neutral Mercedes-Benz sedan steering with oversteering on demand.
*Also, I have got a fresh set of tyres on the car made by Riken, one of the cheapest tyres on the market and I am very amazed how well these work in snow, while they are quiet and fuel efficient as well. I purpously stopped the car on a steep incline and even in very deep snow... and I had no isssues setting off in the desired direction. The same goes for the grip when braking on snow. ABS didn't have much of a work to do today. It only got very rarely triggered. |
most of my cars have been 3L pluss rearwheel drive
at the moment got a5 quattro and one of the wheel speed sensors is on the blink and need changing
i want in the mood to jack it up and get under it while its minus 5 out side
so at the moment is randomly switching in and out of the 4 wheel drift rally fun mode when ever it feels like it
the ESP system on the audis works prity well and is not obtrusive but dame anoying and keeps you on your toes when its turning on and off randomly |
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| Posted: 16:59 - 12 Dec 2022 Post subject: |
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| dave001 wrote: | most of my cars have been 3L pluss rearwheel drive
at the moment got a5 quattro and one of the wheel speed sensors is on the blink and need changing
i want in the mood to jack it up and get under it while its minus 5 out side
so at the moment is randomly switching in and out of the 4 wheel drift rally fun mode when ever it feels like it
the ESP system on the audis works prity well and is not obtrusive but dame anoying and keeps you on your toes when its turning on and off randomly |
I had to replace one of the front wheel speed sensors on a VAG car. Whatever you do, remember it's made out of copper coil on two metal pieces, so if you want to use a screwdriver and hammer to get it out, tap only around the sensor, never in the middle. If put your screw driver in the middle of the sensor and than hammer it, it will destroy the sensor and you'll be pulling/drilling the rest of the sensor out of the whole. On some cars it can be done without taking the brake rotor off. Going in through the lug bolt hole.
Maybe you'll be lucky and just pull the sensor out, in my case the sensor was the original one, fitted 18 years ago. And once I ''stabbed'' it with my screwdriver, I had to remove the brake caliper, brake rotor and then chissle and grind the remains of the sensor out of the bracket hole.
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| Posted: 07:45 - 13 Dec 2022 Post subject: |
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Heated saats, Heated Screen. Winter Tyres and enough power to amuse myself smugly going past the many abandoned BMW/Mercedes.
4" of the white stuff and the SouthEast grinds to a merry standstill. Admittedly that was yesterday but today what oils my gears is a mandatory WFH day.
It's been 14 months since i did this - see how long it takes to get my home office above Baltic 
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| UncleBFester wrote: | Probably cheaper to heat that too. |
Indeed well, the car will always be making heat either way!
As for heated anything- you lucky buggers. It's weather like this, and getting up earlier to spend the extra 10-20 minutes time 'defrosting' the car in the morning that I really think heated windscreen would be a great investment.
It would be tempting to smash it on purpose and try and get my insurance to supply a heated windscreen (they do exist for my car in aftermarket world, i've researched), but I just bet my luck they demand to supply an 'original spec' - double the price (31 year old car) - plain old no thrills one instead. 
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You can get kits for seats too - my old 90s Del Sol has them retro fitted into S2000 seats. Makes it genuinely civilised to use all year round. Plus as it's an import, it came with climate control as well as AC. The UK spec ones don't have that 
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Had a big lie-in.
Played Bass guitar for an hour.
Ate some nice chocolate.
Drank some good coffee.
Had some spicy cauliflower soup.
Sampled some found sounds around the house.
Did the pre-production to the samples and loaded them into the drum machine.
Got a nice groove going.
Then...opened my birthday presents.
Don't think I've booked my birthday off work before...will be doing it again. 
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| Posted: 22:54 - 14 Dec 2022 Post subject: |
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My Big-Meeting-day went well (I think).
No doubt if it didn't, I will hear about it in the morning
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Made a mod to an electric hand plane to make it into an ultra wide hand held jointer ... will now make a stand to hold it and make an ultra wide stationary jointer |
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| Posted: 14:45 - 20 Dec 2022 Post subject: |
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Went to my boat today.
Took my booster starter pack with me, to aid starting the engine .
20 seconds pre-heat , one turn of the key and away it went .
After all that fffffreezing weather over the last week, I wasn’t expecting the engine to start so easily.
Happy Pepperami is happy
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The solstice jam is on albeit a smaller group of us....which suits me fine as any more than 4 musicians together can often end up with volume war.
Prof D - Drums
Dr Zimm Zodiac - synths and vocals
AJ - Vocals
Me - Guitar, grooves and rants.
It'll be great to have us rattling the roof tiles again.
Gearlist; Premier 5 piece kit, iPad, 58 n 57 mics, Melody Maker & JC40. Pair of bi-amped speakers and a Soundcraft 10 mixer.
My pedalboard is Wah..Big Muff Pugilist distortion phaser (set to max) a little delay and the Plus pedal. Ebow and taking the Sony D50 field recorder.
Yes I am looking forward to it...yes Dr Zimm will think he's too quiet (because he's bleedin deaf and won't admit it)
AJ will think it's too loud because he usually plays folky acoustic stuff.
Prof D (our paraplegic drummer) will amaze us...yes he is a professor.
I will try too hard and forget it's only a jam.
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It was really good.
The best people I know making music together.
Pity I have to be up in few hours for work....still buzzing.
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Thick as pig crap co worker, talking about a 19yo lad who was fostered at 3yo. And doing the idiot finger thing when saying parents.
Tried to tell him, some people, see the foster, adoptive parents as real family.
He just made a dumb ass joke, trying to explain that, giving birth to you, doesn't make you family went straight over his fat head.
Full 30min break then him trying to argue over the radio for an hour, like a tweenager, been told they are wrong.
Nearly pulled him out cab and decked it little shit. For the stupid comments he was making about:
Family is only blood,
Parents are the ones who had sex,
Ect,
In the end I offered him to say that stuff to my wife. She was adopted at 7yo with her brother and twin sister.
We met he biological father few years ago.
15mins in to meeting him, she ask me if we could leave. The bloke had been waiting with the same mobile number for 30YEARS, for her to call.
Honestly a felt heart broken for him.
When driving back. She told me:
'I'm glad I got that out my mind. My family are my family. He is a sperm donar.'
He has met met my wife. And knows she is a scary ass lass.
He suddenly went very quiet.
She is part of the 80's/90's foster care home system.
If he had said any of that shit to her what he did to me, he would have 5'2 1/4 (gets mardy when you forget the quarter). Raining a hail of abuse on him.
If the boy starts again, he will get a slap.
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I’ve had two sets of new neighbours since early this year and we’ve introduced ourselves, chatted in the street often, but I always forget new names. It’s difficult to ask twice and the longer it goes on the worse it gets. Thank goodness for Christmas cards then! I started the ball rolling and got cards in return, happily without the, “from all at number 17” letdown. I now know their names, and in the case of the Eastern European couple, how to spell them.
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