******* Motors Chat Thread *******

The annoying thing in my local garage wans park at the pumps get fuel and take forever inside doing a big shop as well!!!

Do us a favour - go back to not posting anymore, im a regular and could do without reading such horse sh1te.

I always leave my car at the pump after topping up, but always straight to the till - none of this hanging around at the deli waiting for a jumbo breakfast roll

Once, I got abused before I got filling up. Some small man in a, surprise surprise, miserable sh*tbox c*ntkai went to start shaking his head and started nonsense about "could you not see I was going to park there" to which I replied "there are other pumps free, what's your problem" I shouldn't have to justify why I picked the first available pump to me for the correct side of the car. Maybe he didn't like the fact I was driving Mrs Pigeons BMW either, thus supposedly demasculating his turd burgling mobile

This escalated into me being slightly more curt, and possibly vulgar. The small man f*cked off then parked at a pump and didn't get fuel in his piece of scrap bastard mobile. "Did you not get to fill up, love?" didn't go down very well when he came back out and drove off in a huff. Tough in the piece of scrap, not so tough out on his own. Wanted their bastard mobile as close to the door as possible so they could show off their scrapbox thinking their the bees knees. Typical c*ntkai wanker

As for me, leave the car at the pump, pay and go. I don't see the problem, helps the staff behind the till too. Unless you block the agri/kero pump and go get half a weeks shopping. That's a different kettle of fish that warrants lots of abuse

Good aul Facebook, the amount extreme groups that I was recommended to join by their algorithm when I was on there. I was only in a few motoring and wildlife groups.

Left for various reasons. Forums like this and Detailing World are ghost towns now.

Maybe I'm just old fashioned (or just difficult) while there was some very good and knowledgeable people on the groups, I couldn't stand the lack of organisation on the platform.

There were no stickies or knowledge base threads so the same questions kept getting asked and answered. An innocuous looking post could have a great discussion below it but you wouldn't know as there was no view count.

I also found that once a group went over 2000 people, that was when the angry posters arrived and the tone became adverserial for everything.

/Rant over :)

Every kind of grouping tends to have a fixed life. People move on, people get nasty, the wrong kind of people win the power struggle and then it all goes besh1t. It can take a while to find a new group where things are ok again, then you get a certain amount of time out of that one before it falls apart.

Looks a bit like a DeLorean. 😄

Anyone ever get the tyre warranty when buying tyres on tyre leader? Am I reading it right that if I get a puncture, they will send me out a new tyre? Do I get to keep the punctured tyre? It seems too good to be true.

"The Guarantor hereby undertakes, under the conditions set out below, to ensure that the Tyre(s) purchased by the Beneficiary has (have) a higher resistance than is expected for normal use, with regard to the risks of punctures and bulges. In fact, the legal warranties provide an overall guarantee against Tyres that are not in conformity with the usual use or unfit for the use for which they are intended. However, these guarantees rarely allow the Customer to obtain a replacement tyre in the event of a puncture or bulge. This Tyre Warranty Plus provides the Beneficiary with a more extensive protection against the risks of puncture or bulge under the conditions and subject to the exclusions defined in this Warranty Contract. In other words, the Tyre Warranty Plus functions as an extension of the field of legal guarantees to the benefit of the Beneficiary. The Beneficiary's attention is drawn to the fact that the Tyre Warranty Plus is not an insurance product insofar as it does not guarantee the Beneficiary against extrinsic risks at the level of tyre resistance that the Guarantor undertakes to guarantee for the benefit of the Beneficiary. The Beneficiary is free to take out an insurance product with an insurance company to cover these risks (vandalism, accident, etc.) independently of this Tyre Warranty Plus."

"Excluded from the scope of the Tyre Warranty Plus:  the sale of any non-tyre products or the provision of any services by the Guarantor to the Beneficiary;  all sales on the Website of one or more Tyres to Customers who have not subscribed and/or paid the price of the Tyre Warranty Plus at the same time as the order for the Tyre(s) concerned.  Any tyre with a unit price greater than 150 EUR including tax. "

A ratio of 25% anti-freeze to 75% distilled water for temperatures down as low as minus 12 degrees celsius going up to a ratio of 60% anti-freeze to 40% distilled water for temperatures as low as minus 56 degrees celsius and everything in between.

I have a spare at home in the shed to keep me going. Not idea but I’ve never had to use it either thankfully.

When calculating MPG do we use UK or US gallons??

Also known as Imperial Gallon.