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I've got a lathe like that... ONLY the manufacturer's genuine oil will do the job! From his very own oil wells and his very own refinery.... ;)

Yes indeed. I didn't say everyone could run an EV for nothing from their own solar panels - I certainly couldn't! But the point I was making, is that Aveatry's bizarre conspiracy theory about fueling-up with water not being available because the government wouldn't want anyone getting free...

Many of them fire fighters, it would seem! Squirting water at burning cars has been used as a fire fighting technique for about 100 years now.... :rolleyes:

In fact, it's so useless as a fuel, we actually use it to help put fuel fires OUT!

No, it's more to do with.... "science"... :rolleyes: People with solar panels can collect sunlight energy for free and the government is delighted for them - in fact the government is even giving out grants to HELP them do it!

Sounds like a very different reason to me!

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Good luck with that...:ROFLMAO:

If a hydrogen car is 50 MPH faster to a diesel car, why are we looking at electric? If a rocket car is faster than a hydrogen, petrol, diesel or electric car, why are we looking at any of those other forms of propulsion? My guess, is that it might be because speed isn't the only quality we...

Manufacturer-specific standards are more and more common these days - and for the reasons JohnD's Google search suggests. The traditional oil classification systems just can't keep up now. Way back in history, oil technology wasn't good enough and we had to use different oils in winter and...

You need to give it some serious work to do. Mine are similar, but I don't let them get that bad before using them hard. A couple of really hard stops from as high a speed as you can safely manage, should do it. I typically find a quiet road once a month or so, and brake really hard from (I'd...

So would I, but I know some of the engineers concerned, and I know they didn't want to do it either. This is forced on them by regulation.

No, there's no "scam". The car manufacturers don't like it any more than you do! It's a regulatory penalty under the UK's New UK Car and Van CO2 Regulations: Total UK fine for exceeding the limits (which ratchet down each year) are: £86 X (Average fleet CO2 - Target CO2) X Total number of...

No the bean counters don't like them - costs them a lot under warranty! On average, a wet belt will reduce CO2 emissions by about 1% because of the reduced friction. That's what's driving this. It shows how absolutely desperate manufacturers of ICE engines are getting for CO2 reductions now.

Yes, I've heard the same from a Ford engineer. It's not so much the driving style and burning all the fuel, but the driving style that (if driven like Miss Daisy), leads to more "active" regenerations, rather than "passive". In the active regenerations, a lot more fuel is injected, and some...

Not sure if this will help, but I recently did a wheel bearing on Mrs. Avocet's Skoda. It was a bolt-in bearing pack. The three screws that held the bearing pack to the front upright were 70 Nm plus 90 degrees, but I don't think they were the stretch type. The big bolt that tensions the wheel...

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On mine, it was brake fluid and cabin filter. Every 2 years, regardless of mileage. We got change out of £300, even from a BMW main stealer! 2 ways of looking at this, I guess. 1. That's a ludicrously large amount of money for brake fluid and a pollen filter. 2. Under £150 a year for main...

The Heatgeeks one will be a guesstimate. I just went on their website, stuck in my address and a couple of details and left its algorithm to "do its thing". The Octopus one was after a bloke came and spent about three hours here, measuring windows and the like. The Heatgeeks one came with an...

Update. I went on the Heatgeeks website and just initially, got an online quote. I was quite surprised at how much higher it was than Octopus, to be honest! Heatgeeks £5050 for a Vaillant aroTHERM plus 12kW heat pump and Vaillant uniSTOR PURE 150 L Standard water cylinder and two radiator...