Allisport fabricate intercoolers. I don't think they're that pricey.

But – WTF would oil be coming out of an intercooler? Intercooler normally refers to an Air / Air heat exchanger – ie, a radiator full of pressurised air from the turbo, cooled by ambient air in the engine bay. There should not be significant amounts of oil in it.

On the other hand, a Chargecooler is an Air/Water heat exchanger, you have pressurised air from the turbo being cooled by the same coolant that runs through your rad. Obviously, that could concievably leak, but it wouldn't be leaking oil.

You'd also notice a fair performance difference, and possibly fault lights due to excessive intake temperature with either of these items being leaky.

I'd do it in Excel (by the looks of the formulae, you already are).

First row as year 1 – go Beginning funds | End funds

Beginning funds would be your £100, end funds would be =A1 * 1.05

Second row would begin with =B1 + £100, then second cell (B2) would be =A2*1.05

Then just select the second row, use the little marker in the bottom right of the selection to drag and fill for as many years as you want. You may have to use some ! marks to force some references to be static.

I've messed with Linux for years. It's crap if you've any wish to do much beyond internet, email and the occasional letter.

It doesn't happen solely during the hours of darkness. Round our way, it happens in daylight too.

My view is that if you want casual sex, there are plenty of ways for people to get it. There's no need to solicit it in public places, which effectively excludes others from the legitimate use of the amenity.

Don't see anything wrong with dogging.

I do. Viewed from a position of "We're all men of the world here, yadda yadda", then it's not grossly offensive.

However, view it from the position of someone like my mum, who is very ignorant of these things, and it's pretty grim. She goes to the woods to walk her dog. She doesn't expect to find the car park to be full of cars containing single blokes looking a bit leery. As a result, you get publicly funded amenities become no go areas for a lot of people. It's antisocial.

I bet there was no dealing with ancient rusted on fasteners on those cars 😆

It's pretty pointless changing Euros for Kuna though. You pay once to convert GBP to Euro, then again to convert Euro to Kuna.

Surely it's just easier & cheaper to stick the Euros in a tin for the next time you go to the Eurozone?

He's obviously a complete mouth breather.

I'd go down the route of finding out the proper dimensions of a plot. You cannot argue with a tape measure.

Have you actually spoken to him?

Move his rope back?

Allotments will be a standard size, so surely it's just a case of measuring yours and measuring his. Any sane person will back down at that point, as the potential for a dirty tricks campaign on allotments isn't worth the aggro.

Both of you should be keen to not escalate things. It's far too easy for someone to nip round with some roundup and ruin someone's crops in the dead of night.

You want the local money – kunas. I had some Euros too, and they're useful if you take a trip to Montenegro (they're not in the Eurozone, but they use Euros!). Didn't try spending them in Croatia though, and never saw anything priced in anything but Kuna.

320D .: it's commonrail.

About half a gallon a day.

Best thing you can possibly do is look at what calories are in everything.

I know a lot of people go "Oooh, Calorie Counting" and assume you must be an anorexic for going to such lengths, but it makes a huge difference to what eat and how you lose weight. A lot of flavourless "diet" foods are no less calorific than the nice equivalent, and are far less satisfying.

Say, Special K Bar VS a 2 finger Kitkat or Blue Riband. The Spesh bar is foul, the other two seem like quite a nice treat. All contain more or less the same calories.

For a great many kids its.

Aye, but if you're the kind of parent who worries about your kid's GCSE results, your kid is pretty likely to not be of the cohort who fail to get 5 A-C.

My view on GCSEs is this – 5 A-C grades is not difficult to get. Really, it's not. If you've been at school, and you were awake during the lessons, and your home life is sane, you should get at least 5 A-C grades.

Anyone who's bright and pays a bit of attention should be able to get mostly A-Cs across 10 or so A-levels.

Most A-level courses can be entered from that sort of a position. A-levels do make a long term difference though, as a lot of grad employers ask for your A-level results, even if you get into a decent course through clearing.

Edit: Re Convert's post above. That is nuts. A natural consequence of ever inflating A-level results though. I did mine a fair while ago now, but I messed about and even then there were still modules where I got close on 100% in some subjects. NB: This is not a surf-mat style post. My actual final results in A-level were horrendous.

TBH anyone on here posting about how they added petrol for anti-waxing in their Perkins prima engined Montego should just be quiet.

Modern diesel pumps are very different things to kind fitted to older cars. A common rail diesel engine can easily run at fuel pressures of 30,000PSI.

You're basically posting the equivalent of this:

"A mate's got some Fox forks, should he service them?"

"Nah, my open bath Marzocchis were fine, even after I didn't change the oil for 3 winters".

I'll have one whilst they're being given out. I won't start any earlier than the 27th of Sept though!

Technically speaking, he shouldn't even lock / unlock it. A lot of diesel cars start the fuel pump with the plipper key in order to avoid waiting for fuel pressurisation and glowplugs to warm up.

Unless it's a fleet car and someone else will be footing the bill, no. It's not a case of it definitely breaking down tomorrow, but of being likely to break down prematurely in the future.

The fuel pumps are pretty sensitive, and can cost a fortune when they go. I believe it can be in the order of a £1500 bill. I would suggest any other option – get the AA to drain the tank, borrow or hire a car etc.

If he is an AA member, I suggest he gives them a ring and explains the situation. They may be able to sort it for him quickly.

Increasingly comments like how it handles on the edge and people banging on about driving experience make me wonder if those making them have the sense nature gave a chicken.

You don't need to be anywhere near the limits of grip to be able to tell the difference between good and average handling. Richard Parry-Jones, who knew a hell of a lot about vehicle dynamics, used to reckon you could tell if a car was any cop in 50 metres of low speed driving.

I do most things on the car DIY. Brakes, services, resprays (they're rather longwinded though!), electrics etc.

I let the garage do things like cambelts on the car that's needed for A to B travel though. You don't want to spend all weekend desperately trying to get something done so you can get to work, and rushing between motor factors on a Sunday afternoon.

No amount of precise handling and great road holding is going to make any difference on the motorway is it?

Nope, but it makes a difference at either end. Even if the whole thing's dual carriageway, you can always enjoy the roundabouts 😆

But seriously, beyond the corning ability, body control and throttle response do show up on the motorway.

I used to do a lot of motorway miles when I had the 406. It did motorway miles very well. But it really felt like every A and B road journey was a missed opportunity, and it did my head in.

Goodyear Eagle F1s.

I also like the Nevegal DTCs on my pushbike – I find that I'm not lacking grip compared to the Conti RQs / Fat Alberts I had on before, despite the massive drop in size. Maxxis Ignitors are a bit faster rolling, with a bit of a grip trade off.

TBH there's been a huge amount of rubbish posted on this thread.

You can make FWD cars that handle (see the 205 GTI, Ford Puma & Ka MK1 etc.). Equally, there are some odd handling traits to FWD – it's very easy to go from power understeer to lift off oversteer in a moment, and the corrective action is to get back on the throttle – completely counter intuitive.

Same goes for RWD. Nowadays, there is little need to be terrified of flying off the road backwards into a ditch, particularly with traction control and ESP so prevalent. Snow is the downfall of any car with wide summer tyres, more than RWD specifically – Volvo made RWD cars long after everyone else had switched to FWD, and they're a) Swedish and b) Safety obsessed.

I really struggle to understand the mentality that "It's just for A to B". In an ordinary car, you can go from A to B. In a good car, you can go from A to B and really enjoy the experience.

no distinction between public private and quasi public employment which has been classed as private even though it's delivering state funded services (i.e. council refuse services, National Rail, public sector services administered by the likes of Capita etc.)

That also stuck in my craw. A large amount of government spending is funnelled through the "third sector" – ie, charities. Very common for things like needle exchange programmes etc. which can be politically sensitive.

If the OP drives a VRS, it's fair to assume that handling and performance is part of the equation.

Personally, I would look at the BMWs, particularly for an estate, as what's considered "good handling" by the mag reviewers seems to alter considerably with the type of car being reviewed.

I had a HDi 406 estate, which received universal praise for its handling. It didn't really handle. It gripped very, very well, but it didn't handle well. The tendency was towards understeer, and even with new suspension arms & correct geometry, the front wheels would toe out under braking, causing the car to follow any imperfections on the road. The seats weren't well suited to pressing on either.

On the other hand, it's difficult to not make an entertaining RWD chassis. Even something as shite as a Volvo 340 can be fun once you've got the hang of it.

And what is the sole reason society has changed to allow us to commute large distances to work?

A mass of things. The car enables the movement of people, but if it didn't exist, something else would.

For a start:
The division of labour, leading to ever more specialised jobs.
Location based economies, leading to the movement of companies.
Housing availability, crime rates and cost.

It's very difficult for a couple to find jobs in the same city, and even if they do, it's often not possible to live at a location that provides two sensible commutes.

Taking Nottingham as an example, you have an affluent city centre with lots of employers, but it's surrounded by areas with a high degree of economic inactivity (in terms of the formal economy, at least), and plenty of crime. There are nice areas close to the city centre, but as they're limited, they're pricey. Lots of people who work in the city pretty sensibly choose to live in fairly remote suburbs.

Add in the fact that companies can relocate fairly often, and that people do tend to want to live with their spouse, it's amazing that many people do live within cycling distance of their work.

Surely this is exactly the kind of thing you'd ring On-one and ask?

Lexis Nexis is the answer, for any future googlers…

You have a point. I'll see if librarians can be contacted by telephone.

Vango do em. 5cm thick, decent.

Just keep everything to the letter of the law and get on with things.

Agree 100%. I'd certainly not be turning down paying custom with the hope of keeping someone like that happy. I suspect that if you stopped running a B&B entirely, she'd start on something else. Probably that everyone on the street should paint all the external woodwork to match, or that one of your trees is too tall.

Often it's difficult to get the cable tensioned up enough. Try doing the low limit up a bit before you tension the cable.

If you can buy some Vinyl off ebay, then DIY would be reasonably easy, assuming you just want to do a simple wrap of the upper (ie, square shaped piece of vinyl.

Spray the whole thing with lots of water with a bit of fairy liquid in it, lay the vinyl on, position it, and squeegee out the water.

By the time you've got the vinyl, I doubt you'll have a great deal of your tenner left, but you'll probably have enough left over to redo the job several times.

So you can have it both ways.

You can. My favourite kind of both ways is a Desktop and a 12" Netbook. That way you have a good computer for doing proper work, and a properly portable machine for travelling around.

Nowadays, all but very high end laptops are only portable in the army sense of the word. It can be carried around, but it's not something you volunteer for.

£10 sounds dirt cheap to me!

Laptops are horrible from an ergonomics viewpoint. If you're working on a PC for a good amount of time, a desktop is much better. Even if the performance / price was the same, I'd still have a desktop. As it is, the same performance is always a lot cheaper in a desktop format.

Touchscreen devices are also pretty poor in my view, due to ergonomics again.

I'd expect it to be a 29.8mm on a Steel frame.

27.2 post Alloy frames tend to be 31.8mm.

In most UK city & town centres, it's not possible to park on the road for free.