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10 minutes ago, Reorte said:

Hadn't noticed that. Wonder what her "normal speed" was.

Had to get home before that bottle of white wine she opened and drunk half before going to pick the kids up warms up to much to finish on her return.

12 hours ago, 298 said:

 

Rule 7 though. "Thou shall not look at foreign layouts...."

I know, over 20 years ago I used to work in Japan a lot and brought back tons (well a bloomin’ lot) of Kato N stuff in my luggage and built and layout, all DCC with simple clip in decoders without taking the bodies off the EMU/DMUs remote points with built in motors, quad point crossovers as one piece and far, far better detail and completely different league of running qualities of our own home grown N gauge back then, Farish might have been clockwork compared to the Kato locos.

I didn’t dare look in the model shops when working in Europe…….yes OK I did, but at least didn’t get tempted as well 😆

2 hours ago, scumcat said:

But as basil fawlty would say don’t mention the cost😂

Exactly, and that’s why I did, as AS seem to be able to include all this extra function and detail for less cost than the competition, regardless of “overheads” which always seem to be the excuse, just more likely a better profit margin required.

2 hours ago, alastairq said:

I'll have to try to take a photo of the two pages...

That’ll be interesting 

44 minutes ago, DaveF said:

 

 

An alternative is to switch on the air con and put the fan on full, that usually makes it start.

 

David

I would have expected that would be the normal defrost procedure, high heat (AC doesn’t work above approx 3-4 degrees anyway), and full air on screen, what does it say in the

manual?

46 minutes ago, admiles said:

 

It's a 2017 (67 plate). And it's a Toyota C-HR.

Aha sorry my mistake, for some reason I thought C-HR was a Honda nomenclature, in that case my points stand, seems crazy it doesn’t operate the same as other Toyota/Lexus stable vehicles.

1 minute ago, Reorte said:

It looks like it would be a bit of a chicane with the parked cars (which seem to have marked places, so can reasonably be expected to be there). Downhill on a straight road it's the sort of thing that could catch out an inattentive driver. I'm not excusing the driving at all, and it should pose no problem at all to someone paying sufficient attention and driving to the conditions, but "good enough for decent drivers" is lower than the standard is, as much as ideally that's all it should need to be.

But it did it’s job, it slowed down a less than attentive driver 😁

1 hour ago, big jim said:

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23181759.brighton-council-urged-act-mum-crashes-elm-grove-bollard/
 

Person drives into traffic island then blames everyone else but herself!

 

Just as well there wasn’t someone stood  on the crossing

 

It was really rainy and it was about quarter to five, so it was already getting dark,”

 

also…..
 

“We were coming down the hill at normal speed.

 

 

Ridiculous case of not driving to the conditions, any excuse.

1 hour ago, alastairq said:

Comments on the 'driving' thread [to which I have barred myself from contributing....]....made me take another peek at the owner's handbook for my '67 Mustang.

Sure 'nuff, two pages on 'cold weather' driving, including snow, etc, using a 3 speed auto gearbox [Ford C4].

Seeing as the home market was the USA, where snow, etc is a regular occurance, there seemed to be an attitude of, ''it's snow, you car will cope if you follow this advice''.....despite the car in question being a basc, cheap, bog standard vehicle...not some over inflated Porsche, or whatever.

Not having had sight of, or even, bothered, about seeing what today's new cars say in their brochures, I do wonder if the manufacturer's advice is, ''with snow, shut garage doors, stay at home?''

So what was the 1967 advice?

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

The second one was a BMW.

Problem is people can fit cheap carp replacement parts to anything nowadays and often do!

3 minutes ago, 298 said:

 

Oh great. So OHLE modellers are going to be asked "Why don't YOUR pantographs go up and down?" as the most popular question instead of "How do the wires go across baseboard joints?"

 

But yes, it's fantastic Accurascale can do it at both ends and still maintain weight and all axle drive. I tried it 25+ years ago with a Hornby 90 and the pan mechanism (from a RC car) and battery lights took up the rest of the body.

 

Don’t forget though HO models have had controllable pantos for years, and in G scale for decades! It is just Accurascale are now bringing the kind of detail and model engineering enjoyed outside of the UK to our market now and amazingly for a lower cost than than we pay for the same old same old we have had for years, AS have really started shaking the UK model tree and great models have started falling from it, from other manufacturers as well.

2 hours ago, AY Mod said:

 

she did exclaim "Oooh!" when I gave her a bit of F17.

TMI

2 hours ago, AY Mod said:

 

Don't tie everything back to price as other companies may have more structural overheads; if you do you'll always find a reason not to buy something you may need on that basis.

Might have been meaning the quality and engineering.

9 minutes ago, admiles said:

 

If it is broken it's been like since new.

How old is the car?  Seems strange they are saying it needs a new traction battery, Toyota/Lexus have been making these hybrid drives forever and they are bulletproof normally.

As for the demisting if required at low temperatures it should work from key on, whether it needs engine or from battery power, that’s how our RX450h

worked.

edit, sorry forget yours is a Honda, forget my remarks they probably just got it wrong 😁

First pic looks like an attempt at a DIY ventilated disc, how very strange it failed.

I bet the driver was showing off in McDonalds car park how he/she saved money doing it himself rather than pay for some “proper” rip off priced genuine ventilated discs, maybe along with MoT tests we should have IQ tests for drivers?

49 minutes ago, Class 158 productions said:

Couple of photos of the 155/004 pack compared with the 005/041 pack. 

Fan motors louder than actual motor, pack is running smoothly. 

Does the fan in the non motorised Loco work?

16 hours ago, Dunsignalling said:

 

Portes Cochere, if you please. 😉

I suppose really being public school it should be raeda domus, my mistake 😉

16 hours ago, melmerby said:

Never saw any letters and very few telephones

Typical Post Office worker 🤣

52 minutes ago, melmerby said:

We had that at the GPO, although we were able to, through our ability to use 'local purchasing', circumvent buying the authorised product where I worked (most GPO sites couldn't).

The Izal version was even tested against soft tissue in our labs and although they declared that it was waterproof and the soft type wasn't we still had the soft stuff.

Didn’t you just pick a few letters off the pile when the you felt the urge to go? 😁

2 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

The ride to Lithgow is even more spectacular once you get past Emu Plains. 

EMU plains, is that the same as carriage sidings? 😉

2 hours ago, Vistisen said:

I have a hybrid and that actually uses a small petrol powered heater to warm the car up rather than using the battery.

I hope they warn you against using it in a garage, our Range Rover had a huge warning label on the visor warning of using the cabin pre-heater in an enclosed space, and as you programmed it it also flashed the warning on the screen as well.

Will the car not climatise the cabin when plugged into the charger?

2 minutes ago, 30801 said:

 

My phone charges to 80% and then stops. It starts again later so it hits 100% just before I normally start using it.

Blimey I use mine so seldom my phone would be on tenterhooks just waiting, I assume it has “learnt” your usage pattern.

1 hour ago, ianmacc said:

Just picked up the railroad intercity executive power and dummy car pack as with retailer discount it was a pocket friendly (by 2022 standards) £123. The power car white lights work but obviously not the  dummy car red.  Strangely though the power car white lights still illuminate in reverse direction! Is this a design fault or just my set? 
 

I just run the detailed buffered DVT at the rear so this isn’t an issue to me. 

I still baulk at the idea of paying £360 for a diesel loco and a coach (effectively), I think the premium set is a lovely model but just not worth the cost over the Railroad set which I have, it works it just lacks finesse.

12 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

At the schools I went to, fags were just the explanation for smoke seen drifting from the back of the bike shed.

Public schools had carriage sheds 😆

1 hour ago, adb968008 said:

Meet this company…

https://www.evri.com

so bad it changed its name from Hermes.

They don’t think Hermes was the correct message for a delivery company, EVRI stands for every complaint ignored, a much better message 🤣