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Of course... :rolleyes: The hose might have been in perfect condition, but you were talking about a caliper and hose connector, which, by the time you finished butchering them and took the photo in post#57, clearly weren't...:ROFLMAO:

So... let me get this right then... You stripped that, by trying to spin the caliper on with your frail and delicate hand? No. You cross-threaded it by hand, and then you were mechanically inept enough to keep heaving on the spanner until you'd completely mullered the thread all the way up...

Indeed, but Nutjob didn't deliberately order that. He just ended up receiving it, completely by chance, and was trying to claim some kind of superpower for ordering parts... ;)

That is quite impressively ham-fisted... :rolleyes:

Congratulations on your buying skills. It takes real talent to order a crappy no-name caliper and open the box to find a recon one in there! :rolleyes: (Assuming that's what it is, or course...). Slightly more curious as to how anyone can be ham-fisted enough to "break" a brake caliper?:unsure:

:ROFLMAO: Maybe you just don't understand sarcasm?:rolleyes: My car is very rare - a couple of dozen examples still on the road in the UK, according to the DVLA's website. When the old one started leaking, I wasn't exactly spoiled for a choice of suppliers of replacements. So "any port in a...

Congratulations! :rolleyes: Mine wasn't... Surprised it would fit a BMW if it was?

Yes, it does change slightly. Also it changes as the tyres wear. Growth at speed is pretty minimal for a road tyre.

But what were you checking the mileage against?

Yes... but are they telling the truth...? ;)

I guess it can be quite hard to separate out exactly what's being used by the rest of the house and what's being used by the charger? The "app" that came with my car, tells me I've used 103 kWh so far this month, but I've no idea whether that's electricity that enters the onboard charger or...

You could always go back to getting rinsed for diesel, if it's a real problem for you...?

That part is - but that doesn't mean the losses are any less enormous. However, it doesn't take into account the energy used to get it from the refinery into the tank. We need to decide what we're moaning about here - overall system efficiency or inaccuracies in the "official" figures quoted...

Hi All, We're in a wet part of the world! The house was built in 1995 and extended in 2008. The roof and pebbledash are decidedly grubby and mossy. We were thinking of getting it cleaned, a few cracks in the pebbledash repaired, and coated with that "ProPerla" water resistant, breathable...

Just like if an ICE car manufacturer posts up an "official" fuel consumption of 50 miles to the gallon, but you find you're only averaging 45 - except massively cheaper! I think just about everyone knows about them? As you said earlier, the vast majority of the petrol or diesel people buy...

Hi All, We're in a wet part of the world! The house was built in 1995 and extended in 2008. The roof and pebbledash are decidedly grubby and mossy. We were thinking of getting it cleaned, a few cracks in the pebbledash repaired, and coated with that "ProPerla" water resistant, breathable...

See Post #46. Odometer accuracy is covered in ECE Reg 39, which is a type approval requirement for mass-produced cars in GB and EU. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202501902 Annex 4 if you're interested.

Yes, they take more energy to produce. 20,000 seems like a reasonable figure to break-even with the equivalent ICE on CO2 emissions, when charged from the UK national grid. It might be more like 30-40,000 miles in a place like Poland where a lot of the electricity is generated using coal, and...

That's a bizarre way of looking at it?! You're conflating two different issues there? Your previous posts have been complaining about the discrepancy between kWh you put in the other vehicle and kWh that the vehicle says it has consumed. Now you've switched to what you're paying for it? The...

The regulation for speedometers (on mass-produced cars, at least) demands that they should never under-read (which is fair enough, I guess). They're allowed to over-read by up to 10% + 2.5 MPH. The result of that is that all car speedometers over-read slightly - typically 5% or so, in a modern...