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Have recently completed my TV aerial saga. Moved in about 4 years ago into a 2003/4 build with one TV socket in the main room with non-shielded coax running from it into the loft. I decided some months back to connect a loft aerial and got a Blake blk-lp56K which I ended point to the local...

Why are Openreach faffing on with separate ONT units and hubs? My sister, who's upgrading from FTTC internet to FTTP, has been told she needs a double socket for the two hardware units. With our FTTC internet, we were both supplied from our ISPs with a combined VDSL modem/router so surely a...

From above, "outside field strength, then deduct 10dB for the roof materials, add 7dB for the log gain, deduct 2dB for cable and termination losses " For mine, it works out @ 55db. The field db is 60 and for the relay transmitter the aerial in pointed at and a log periodic, which I have, is...

Regarding the wall plates, I use inline f-plug connectors fixed into blanking plates with hole drilled for the connector. Will bin the above mentioned booster!

In my opinion the booster is faulty. For the price of a new booster, I can get another log periodic aerial provided its at least 0.6m from the other. The cable runs layout in my fine art below,

Although the Freeview website quotes 'Signal strength: Good' for all channels and both TVs are Freeview enabled, the booster does not perform as well as I expected. Aerail lead plugged into the booster and the two cables out to the TVs. I do however have suspicion that some older cable already...

Recently got a 2nd hand booster to supply a couple of TVs yet when plugged into one TV with around 50% signal and 100% quality on its own without the booster, the booster is reducing the signal quality to around 60%. The led lights on the booster so I presume there's no issue with power. Is...

Fitted National front discs/pads to my sister's 2019 Fiesta over a year ago and still going strong. 01.2024 I fitted a Juratek front discs/pads set to my Bora TDI and over the past few months, with only 13k covered by the discs/pads fitted, started to get steering wheel shake when braking. Have...

The DTV/USB option had disabled itself in the source menu. My Toshiba freeview TV has the TV source option but no DTV/USB option so presumed it was the same source needed on the Technika TV. With DTV/USB enabled again, all channels are loud and clear. From what I've read TV source is for...

Likely!

I was quoted kit KP15503XS-2 by the Gates website for the engine. Belt, water pump and tensioner are in the box.

10.2019 reg, 1.4 843A1000 engine Does the engine mount, water pump, crank pulley or belt tensioner need new bolts when changing the belt?

Is anyone using this stuff? My niece had bother last week when a plastic spout broke off the stat housing causing a major leak. She got some bottles of Prestone ready mix for top up but ended up having her Fiat recovered. Engine is 843A1000. Still has three full bottles so figured getting...

I ordered a Gates brand stat housing which has all metal spouts. Gates part no TH42288G1 if anyone needs a replacement.

'69 reg 356 1.4 model The spout has broken off, presumably due to heat fatigue. The local Fiat parts say only the entire stat housing is available, not the spout on its own. Its got a hex collar so looks to be a screw in fit. Anyone know where I can get a new spout separately?