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- Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:44 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Santa list?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21752
Re: Santa list?
UK satellites? Any idea what the G in GPS stands for? Anyhow, the G stands for "American satellite" (Positioning System). Could be switched off tomorrow . Although that's true (which most don't realise), it's unlikely to happen. In peacetime, it would require the populace to vote in an id...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 12:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Santa list?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21752
Re: Santa list?
I'm not getting anything AFAIK, but the rest of the family are - dashcam for daughter 1, Skill for life for daughter 2 and a new tyre for the wife (proper one following puncture, not a spare!) They seem quite reasonable swaps to be honest. I'm not getting anything car related, because I'm in the IA...
- Tue Dec 05, 2017 1:02 pm
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
- Topic: Driving instructors and learners - do they drive like each other?
- Replies: 127
- Views: 119555
Re: Masters assessment
jont- wrote:Rolyan wrote: Many learner drivers accept that they have something to learn.
Right up until they pass their test
Hell yeah!
Lets face it, we tell learners that they don't start learning to drive until after they've passed their test. Then we moan about it when they change!
- Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:54 pm
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
- Topic: Driving instructors and learners - do they drive like each other?
- Replies: 127
- Views: 119555
Re: Masters assessment
+1 Plus, he said that there was no point whatsoever in developing observation. All he needed to look at was the distance he could stop in at his speed. so travelling at 30mph, he only needed to know what was happening 75 feet away. Now that explains a lot ... an awful lot! It's an interesting viewp...
- Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:41 pm
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
- Topic: Driving instructors and learners - do they drive like each other?
- Replies: 127
- Views: 119555
Re: Masters assessment
I have hill start assist on my Clio. I try not to use it, but can't switch it off. It feels like being a champagne cork coming out of a bottle. :( Sutely you can avoid activating it by holding the car on the handbrake. Or you can activate it but move off smoothly by getting the timing just right? Y...
- Mon Dec 04, 2017 12:37 pm
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
- Topic: Driving instructors and learners - do they drive like each other?
- Replies: 127
- Views: 119555
Re: Masters assessment
I was refering to a comment made by my examiner when I took my IAM test ten years ago, that most ADIs he'd examined drove like learners in as much they didn't make progress where appropriate. One of the most difficult associates I ever had was an ADI. In town an suburban environments he was fine. T...
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:51 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Limited Slip Diffs?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 43976
Re: Limited Slip Diffs?
jcochrane wrote:Not an MX5. Something with more creature comforts, even heated seats.....well it’s my age that’s what I say.
My MX5 has full leather heated seats, air conditioning, a really powerful heater, 4 speaker sound system....and a cup holder or 2.....what more creature comforts do you need?
- Fri Oct 27, 2017 6:18 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Run flats to 'normal tyres'
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13625
Re: Run flats to 'normal tyres'
I definitely don’t want to start changing the rims, and I would prefer avoiding the need for any discussions with the insurers, so based on the comments above I think it’s best to avoid run flats in the first place.
Thanks everybody be for the input.
Thanks everybody be for the input.
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 12:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Run flats to 'normal tyres'
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13625
Run flats to 'normal tyres'
I'm looking to buy a mini and many of them come with run flat tyres (and flat tyres warning lights).
I want to put 'winter' (all season or mud and snow) tyres on. I was just wondering is this possible (I'm not really sure of the run flat technology) and does it affect the insurance?
I want to put 'winter' (all season or mud and snow) tyres on. I was just wondering is this possible (I'm not really sure of the run flat technology) and does it affect the insurance?
- Tue Oct 24, 2017 10:13 pm
- Forum: In The News
- Topic: Life sentences
- Replies: 34
- Views: 44122
Re: Life sentences
But on the walk back to the boat, I made a mental note to count how many good things balanced it. There were dozens, from a smile, to holding a door open, to a car allowing others to cross, to people moving aside. Dozens of random acts of ‘niceness’ that more than balanced the one idiotic stupidity...