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Ah, thanks, yes that's useful to know, and yes, the boiler has had a good innings! I'm in a rural area and we don't have gas, so it's an oil boiler too. One of the reasons for considering the car port, was that we think we'll be forced down the road of heat pumps at some point, but if we did...

Yes, that's the most common. Just grab an armful of lock, and really wrench on the wheel. The new regs will be very much a two-edged sword. These fora are packed with threads moaning about how complex modern cars are, and how it's almost impossible to work on them without plugging in a...

Well, I haven't drawn it yet, so I'm just guessing at overall height. If it's a lean-to, then it won't be as high. Obviously, I'd like to have full standing headroom under it, plus a bit, and then if I go for a double-pitched roof, I'd like to keep it the same pitch as the house, or it might...

Ah, OK, must be a different design. It would be pretty obvious if it had one - they're on the control panel:

BlackCircles have usually been more expensive when I've been shopping around, so I haven't used them before. There are loads of other online tyre retailers to choose from. My current favourite is Camskill in Whitehaven. https://www.camskill.co.uk/brands/whitehaven_tyres.php Very high...

Some Honda generators have a switch with a hare and a tortoise on them. When the switch is to the tortoise, it idles slowly and then increases RPM as the load comes on. With it switched to "hare", it runs at constant speed. The latter uses more fuel, but is handy if you have a big electrical...

I find Mintex pretty good for the money. Brembo make some fantastic stuff, but I think they're doing a bit of "value engineering" of late. I got some Brembo coated rear discs and pads for my old Alfa. Also a new handbrake cable and reconditioned calipers, but the bloody thing only JUST...

That's amazing! They normally rotted like crazy - even from the showroom. Bloody naff Russian steel...

Probably too late now, but I'm currently paying £83.68 a year for my 1989 Alfa, fully comp, with business use! That's with Autonet. It's an agreed value policy (£4k) and there's a £400 excess and a 4000 mile a year cap.

A mixture. Some still have purely mechanical steering locks, others have electromechanical locks. However, cars have had mechanical steering locks for decades and people have still nicked them - so they're not the answer. Like you, I am surprised (appalled even!) at the number of ways a...

Yes, the Sud was special! A mate of mine, had several of them, when we were students. Absolutely rotten as peaches, but boy did they go! (And handled well too)! Some say the Sud was the first hot hatch, and I wouldn't like t disagree.

Oh! I forgot my Citroen CX! How could I forget my CX?!:oops:

A vastly underrated car, IMO. That one is still with me. It's my 4th. Their lack of popularity kept the prices down. Believe it or not, I gave £600 for that, in 2009! Values are starting to climb, now, but still low, compared to other similar '80s cars. The problem was Saab's insistence...

Thanks for that. The boiler was new in 1995, I was just wondering if the regulations had changed since then?

Loads! First one I ever got the use of, was my mum's Reliant Rebel. 750cc of brute power (all 35 horses)! Ended its life with a 1600 Ford Crossflow motor in it. Then I had a Bond Bug for a bit: Then a couple of Citroen DS models. (Paid £75 for one,, in 1985 and the other was given to...

Hi All, I'm thinking of putting one next to the house. I'm imagining a sort of heavy timber "pergola-type" structure, but with an ordinary pitched roof, covered with slates to match the house. It'll be right next to a boundary, and somewhere between 3.5 and 4m tall, so I'm assuming I'll need...

I'd certainly got for a good used one from a scrapper if it's an old car.

We had something very similar on a Nissan (albeit a T30 X-Trail), but I think that (in front wheel drive mode), the drivetrain is very similar to the Primera of the same era? It started out, almost like a misfire under acceleration. As the OP says, nothing felt through the steering wheel, and...

Just an update, if it's of any use to anyone. I measure the current drain again, but WITHOUT the smart charger connected. As before, I did this without opening any doors and was careful to do it without breaking the connection. In other words, I clipped one meter probe to the cable and put...