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Post by steve63 on Mar 22, 2022 8:04:21 GMT 1
At work we have to use BP stations to fuel the vans, we were paying £10.99 for 10 litre drums of adblue now they are about £17.99 , pish. The guy selling the car I have now told me it uses Adblue. I thought about it and decided to still buy it. When I went to pick it up and asked him about the Adblue filler he said he made a mistake and it doesn't use it. Looks like I had a lucky escape BTW why would the price of Adblue have gone up so much? Where's the logic in that? They don't pump that stuff out of the ground, it's basically pi$$ isn't it?
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Post by stusco on Mar 22, 2022 8:21:59 GMT 1
Just Googled adblue your right it actually is pish (urea)🤢🤮
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Post by steve63 on Mar 22, 2022 8:28:40 GMT 1
The big display at Asda with the prices on has stopped working. Maybe it reached it's limit or it changed that much it blew a fuse? Could be they turned it off because it's too embarrassing. Cost me £32.00 to fill my VFR and I put about 18 litres in it to brim it. It was Super Unleaded though. I remember being upset when it cost me £11 to fill my GSXR1100 on a motorway in Italy in 1990. It took a few years before that record was broken. I've said for a lot of years that the Government (whichever one it is) control the people not with information or lies as some people think but with money, want people to not do something? Put the cost up. Do it slowly enough and people will still do it but maybe not as much. Alcohol, smoking, driving, speeding, using gas, water electricity etc. etc. My 1.8 petrol Vectra was doing 40 ish to a gallon and I was reasonably happy but the tax kept going up and was nearly £300 a year. I jumped ship and bought a diesel which is £20 a year to tax and does 50+ to a gallon but it cost me a lot of money (in my terms) to buy. Obviously cost the Government zero money for me to change and the government have now decided that diesels are the spawn of the devil as well now so it didn't quite work for them that time Drop a frog in hot water and it will jump straight out. Put it in cold water and heat it up and it will sit there until it boils to death. Substitute frog for people and here we are. The 'funny' thing is that most of us have already paid income tax and NI on the money we buy our petrol with so every £1 we spend on it was £1.50 to start with before we hand it over
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Post by steve63 on Mar 22, 2022 8:30:54 GMT 1
Just Googled adblue your right it actually is pish (urea)🤢🤮 I've just had a brilliant idea!! Don't steal my idea. In fact I'm not going to tell you what it is but I will tell you the name of it.......Addyellow........... Now where's that big jug of water?
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Post by chrisg on Mar 22, 2022 12:34:08 GMT 1
Just Googled adblue your right it actually is pish (urea)🤢🤮 I was told it is pig pi*s. Didn't believe him at first but apparently it is. My car has a separate tank and only needs topping up every 8-9k miles.
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Post by steve63 on Mar 22, 2022 14:02:18 GMT 1
Just Googled adblue your right it actually is pish (urea)🤢🤮 I was told it is pig pi*s. Didn't believe him at first but apparently it is. My car has a separate tank and only needs topping up every 8-9k miles. In all seriousness I would imagine it's manufactured somewhere like BP's chemical plant at Saltend. I mean how easy would it be to train pigs to piss into a bottle and on demand? As soon as you had trained one it would be ready for bacon and then you would have to start again. I shouldn't say this really but have you seen the shape of a pigs err, sausage? and that's just the males............ It would be easier to collect Hippo sh#t I do know for a fact though that Pringles are made from the McDonald chips that are left over at the end of each day.
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Post by tony2stroke on Mar 22, 2022 14:08:42 GMT 1
I was told it is pig pi*s. Didn't believe him at first but apparently it is. My car has a separate tank and only needs topping up every 8-9k miles. In all seriousness I would imagine it's manufactured somewhere like BP's chemical plant at Saltend. I mean how easy would it be to train pigs to piss into a bottle and on demand? As soon as you had trained one it would be ready for bacon and then you would have to start again. I shouldn't say this really but have you seen the shape of a pigs err, sausage? and that's just the males............ It would be easier to collect Hippo sh#t I do know for a fact though that Pringles are made from the McDonald chips that are left over at the end of each day. Someone has seen animal farm
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Post by chrisg on Mar 22, 2022 14:25:52 GMT 1
Ive spent a lot of time in abatoirs over the years and its unbelievable what is considered acceptable processes.😟
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Post by steve h on Mar 22, 2022 16:56:39 GMT 1
Just Googled adblue your right it actually is pish (urea)🤢🤮 I've just had a brilliant idea!! Don't steal my idea. In fact I'm not going to tell you what it is but I will tell you the name of it.......Addyellow........... Now where's that big jug of water? Doing that is nothing new. Everyone used to piss in a pot for fabric dyeing, leather tanning, gunpowder manufacturing process's. They have been taking the piss from use for centuries..... and continue to do so to this day...sans the urine.....
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Post by steve63 on Mar 22, 2022 17:34:50 GMT 1
But if you were even poorer you couldn't afford a pot. Hence the phrase didn't even have a pot to piss in.
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Post by steve63 on Mar 23, 2022 8:35:46 GMT 1
I've just had a brilliant idea!! Don't steal my idea. In fact I'm not going to tell you what it is but I will tell you the name of it.......Addyellow........... Now where's that big jug of water? Doing that is nothing new. Everyone used to piss in a pot for fabric dyeing, leather tanning, gunpowder manufacturing process's. They have been taking the piss from use for centuries..... and continue to do so to this day...sans the urine..... When we lived in houses with dirt floors (around 1980 here) people would just just piss on the floor. Teams of men would go around and scrape the top layer off and take it away. They used it to make Salt Peter for gunpowder. Human urine was used with Alum to make a fixative for dye until the late 1800's. I learned this at the shale mine at Ravenscar They used 200 tons a year at their peak. Now that is taking the piss on a massive scale maybe only just being surpassed today?
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Post by davecroucher57v on Mar 25, 2022 15:26:00 GMT 1
old shaped transits run great on heating oil.
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Post by steve63 on Mar 26, 2022 21:18:24 GMT 1
old shaped transits run great on heating oil. It's dearer than diesel now so there's no point
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Post by steve63 on Mar 26, 2022 21:45:50 GMT 1
Saying that I've just spent quite a bit of time reading a thread on Piston Heads about running diesels on heating oil and vegetable oil
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Post by bigkenx on Apr 6, 2022 21:44:37 GMT 1
I wonder what mayhem will happen now the oil prices have gone up c**ts pinching oil etc then the laws on diesel changing big 30tonne diggers that can’t run on red anymore tanks getting drained small time landscaping businesses getting their tanks popped with a hole for fuel never mind gas and electric going up I remember when folk where trying to rig the gas and electric some where having house fires just to save a few quid . I was digging some electric cable in not long ago and a old bloke walked up and said what you doing and I replied we are putting a bigger mains cable in as the pilc that’s in can’t cope with the demand with these electric cars etc and they will have to have more power stations be looked at me and said why don’t we use less then we wouldn’t need a bigger cable then we were happier back in my day.
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Apr 7, 2022 19:07:50 GMT 1
Back onto car fuel
Couple of things.
Firstly, is why if Tesco can sell a litre for £1.58 are Shell trying to con £1.85 out of folk
Secondly, are we all getting hoodwinked by this new hybrid car sh1te?
My 6 year old diesel Ford is at the dealer awaiting out of stock suspension parts so forced to use hire cars
Like all things to do with new cars there is a shortage
Gave 48 hours notice bit they couldn't find me a hire car
On day 3 I got a call saying if I would take a manual they could get a car to me in an hour
It turns up as promised and very surprised to see a brand new (first hire) Toyota Hilux crew cab invincible X. It's fecking huge, no boot, 2.8 litre turbo and managed a mere 30mpg over the 500 miles I had it. I swear I could see the gauge move 😆
Called them to get it changed and they delivered a 3000 mile Hyundai Tucson hybrid
Brilliant I thought, this will be better
Got it Monday with a full tank. It was on fumes by Tuesday dinner time. Filled it Wednesday morning and now just had to fill it again this afternoon (Thursday)
It's averaging 36mpg but drove to Penrith yesterday so 240 mile round trip which was all motorway
33mpg 😳
Are these things not meant to be better? My wife's 7 year old petrol Clio can do near 40mpg
It does a bloody good job telling you it's running on electric but it's apparently still using a feck of a lot of petrol
I'll stick to my diesel Mondeo, mid 40's mpg whether pootling or hammering on 🙄
Steve
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Post by cb250g5 on Apr 7, 2022 19:18:17 GMT 1
A hybrid is just a car with 2 engines, which ever one is working has to lug the other one around, extra weight for no good reason, unless you live in London or similar, and they exempt you from the congestion zone tax/fine/charge what ever you want to call it.
My Tesla is still great, just saying...
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Apr 7, 2022 19:30:21 GMT 1
A hybrid is just a car with 2 engines, which ever one is working has to lug the other one around, extra weight for no good reason, unless you live in London or similar, and they exempt you from the congestion zone tax/fine/charge what ever you want to call it. My Tesla is still great, just saying... Tesla is a different matter Its electric, not a bad range and a decent performance These self charging hybrids are a joke I reckon that while accelerating trying to keep it on electric a moped could out drag me ☹ Steve
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Post by wassy06 on Apr 7, 2022 19:43:07 GMT 1
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Post by cb250g5 on Apr 7, 2022 21:08:42 GMT 1
I'm trying not to sound too much like a Tesla fan-boy, but the Tesla only dedicated superchargers, 125Kw to 250Kw mean that there aren't really any charging worries, or long delays. My only worry, with them selling so well, is that the continued expansion of the network isn't keeping up. Never had to queue yet, but I've been charging when the sites have filled up & people had to wait 10 minutes or so. I was quite tempted by the Jag I-pace, but the Tesla charging network swung it for me.
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Post by donkeychomp on Apr 7, 2022 21:27:28 GMT 1
Personally I'll never own a hybrid or full on electric car. In my lifetime I can't see petrol stations ever not selling petrol, I may be wrong but by that time I'll probably be using a zimmer frame as my means of transport. All this reminds me of the Rush song Red Barchetta where petrol cars are outlawed and one hero risks his liberty every week taking out a classic car trying to evade the police in their electric things. It also scares me to think that one day in the future cars and bikes I love will never be seen again, unless in a museum. Sad times, and not necessary at all.
Alex
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Post by steve h on Apr 7, 2022 22:05:00 GMT 1
I'm trying not to sound too much like a Tesla fan-boy, but the Tesla only dedicated superchargers, 125Kw to 250Kw mean that there aren't really any charging worries, or long delays. My only worry, with them selling so well, is that the continued expansion of the network isn't keeping up. Never had to queue yet, but I've been charging when the sites have filled up & people had to wait 10 minutes or so. I was quite tempted by the Jag I-pace, but the Tesla charging network swung it for me. Its the expansion of the electricity supply network that will have to keep up with the tesla network. You cannot just keep adding more and more load without putting the necessary infrastructure in..... Going to be a lot of work for cable jointers, transformer installers and all the other essential workers. Installing one of those superchargers will be hellish expensive on some properties like my folks place in the "sticks" and on overhead L/V lines
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Post by veg on Apr 7, 2022 22:23:09 GMT 1
Used my lads polo 1lt to drive to Essex over 65mpg sat at 75mph and a little urban stuff blew me away. Yes it’s gutless but once on a major road didn’t really miss the porker or the tiv.
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Apr 8, 2022 8:57:44 GMT 1
The little Clio is the same
900cc turbo 3 cyl petrol
Wouldn't say it's gutless as its quite nippy but reminds me of a 90's turbo diesel
Pull away, nothing, nothing, oh sh1t!
Quite a knack to driving it smoothly. You have to give it throttle then as the boost is about to come in back it off a bit
Mpg on that ain't a problem. It did a whopping 300 miles between MOT's 🤣
Steve
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Post by chrisg on Apr 8, 2022 16:20:27 GMT 1
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Post by steve h on Apr 8, 2022 18:15:29 GMT 1
Breakdown vehicles will all need a generator to charge electric vehicles when they have flattened their batteries.... while they are blocking a lane on the motorway after they have been sat there for 4hrs in freezing cold weather...
Unbelievable that a car with the advanced tech that can drive itself... comes to an unmovable grinding halt.... that you cant push onto the hard shoulder...if there is one, (more clever b*****ds at work) Brilliant!
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Post by chrisg on Apr 8, 2022 19:02:08 GMT 1
You would think that EV's would have an "Emergency" button to get you home on half power, say 10 miles?
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Post by steve h on Apr 8, 2022 19:09:32 GMT 1
Or a method of disengaging the drive train somehow....it's a safety issue, not only for occupants of said vehicles, but also for other road users.... I'm amazed that the "issue" has not been addressed by the pencil squeezing HSE types... but lets not be picky and question the green narrative, we might get canceled off here.
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Post by cb250g5 on Apr 8, 2022 19:40:58 GMT 1
Can't speak for any other EV, but my Tesla starts to cut back on performance when you reach the last few % in the batteries, with many a warning on the dash. No excuse for not pulling off the road if that happens. Not experienced this myself.
Plus it has the ability to disconnect the motors so it can be pushed. There are 2 similar modes, Tow-mode and Car Wash-mode. I think car wash is for those car washes where you get pulled through on a rolling road sort of carry on, and you need to be in the car & it be unlocked. Tow mode is for when you are being rescued and the car can be empty and locked.
The modes are activated by the 12V battery rather than the 400V one, so even if the drive batteries are completely flat you can still use the dash to do stuff.
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Post by donkeychomp on Apr 8, 2022 22:15:50 GMT 1
Reading back a bit...if that Daily (toilet paper) Mail article is true and vehicles are responsible for 7% of the worlds emissions...why the f**k are we going to stop making them?? What's causing the other 93%?
Alex
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