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by Rolyan
Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:44 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Santa list?
Replies: 21
Views: 21125

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...
by Rolyan
Mon Dec 18, 2017 12:40 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Santa list?
Replies: 21
Views: 21125

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...
by Rolyan
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: 116198

Re: Masters assessment

jont- wrote:
Rolyan wrote: Many learner drivers accept that they have something to learn.

Right up until they pass their test :lol: :headbang:

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!
by Rolyan
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: 116198

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...
by Rolyan
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: 116198

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...
by Rolyan
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: 116198

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...
by Rolyan
Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:51 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Limited Slip Diffs?
Replies: 44
Views: 42563

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?
by Rolyan
Fri Oct 27, 2017 6:18 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Run flats to 'normal tyres'
Replies: 11
Views: 13312

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.
by Rolyan
Thu Oct 26, 2017 12:02 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Run flats to 'normal tyres'
Replies: 11
Views: 13312

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?
by Rolyan
Tue Oct 24, 2017 10:13 pm
Forum: In The News
Topic: Life sentences
Replies: 34
Views: 42739

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...

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