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I think a lot of the new terms are Americanisms? I still call the rod between the end of the steering rack bar and the front upright, a "track rod" and I still call an anti-roll bar an anti-roll bar! The rods running either forwards or backwards from a subframe to a bottom arm, so as to form a...

The important distance is from the centre of the balljoint ball, to the mating face against the locknut on the track rod. That's really hard to measure accurately without destroying the joint. As Mottie says, it'll get you "somewhere near" but if it gets it exactly right, it will only be by luck.

Guys! You're getting sucked-in, here! I regarded the purpose of this thread as being a kind of "fly paper" for internet fora! Nutjob was perfectly happy, replying to himself on here and it kept him off the other threads. Now look what you've done! :ROFLMAO:

I had to laugh the other day, someone described modern cars as all having the "angry Chinaman" look! It's true! They all seem to have narrow headlights and styling cues, angled downwards towards the centreline of the car! It's just "fashion". "curvy" will come back in at some point. The...

This might come as a shock to you, but "designers" really don't get the final say in how a car is manufactured. ;) I have an '80s car in my garage, on 60 profile tyres and 15" wheels. They're skinny too - 195. That was quite a sporty car in its day, but when I take it out now, after driving my...

:ROFLMAO: The car industry makes slow cars for people who want to go slow, and fast cars for people who want to go fast. It really doesn't care which you buy, so long as it gets your money. I don't have a problem with you buying a slow car if that's what you want... However, you're going to...

Yeah I know... ...and iron ships will never float! 'Tis the work of the Devil, mark my words;)! Witchery, I tell thee! No good will come of it! Where will it all end? That's I what I want to know! Flying machines, I shouldn't wonder!

Yeah, that's pretty gross. Mind you, we had all the same comments about the "jelly mould" Sierra when that came out, because it didn't look like the "Dagenham dustbin" it replaced. People don't like change... Jaguar said they wanted to go more "niche" and I think this model will definitely...

They're leaving it a bit late then! Tesla started selling EVs here in 2008 - volume ones in 2014. How long were you planning on giving people to regret their choice? Around 65% of UK Tesla drivers replace their Teslas with another Tesla. Industry average overall, is closer to 42%...

Yes, there's definitely a growing trend towards EV adoption... :)

A chap on another forum I hang out on, is on his second, and is delighted. His first had a bit of a steering vibration that was impossible to cure - apparently a lot of early ones suffered from that, but after a load of moaning, they offered him a cracking deal to exchange it for a new one...

Yes, I daresay. If they weren't, Fiat would go out of business. Same applies to all cars. Those whose owners are happy with them, are likely to get another. Maybe that's why the Tesla Model Y is the world's best (or second best, it's a while since I've looked)-selling car, eh? ;)

I know plenty who are very happy with theirs. The build quality of the Chinese-made ones is a fair bit better than that of the American-made ones. Not my cup of tea, but generally reckoned to do the job pretty well...

Yes, 4 wheels under the bed. It's about 6' wide, so I can't afford to have the wheels sticking out either side as well.

I just run whatever I can find with a suitable load rating on a 10" wheel. Given that's 500kg minimum, they're almost always 8-ply trailer tyres, though. It's hard to think of anything on a 10" wheel that would need to carry that sort of load. The only thing that might be an issue, is whether...