What made you happy today?

[exeterjeep]

7 minutes ago, windymiller said:

ried the odb2 scanner in the evora for the first time and got "cold fill limited" error ??

sounds like the error code for the washing machine.

Was there not a Pnnn type number as that would be easier to look up?

[Sparky]

On 30/10/2021 at 02:58, windymiller said:

new washing machine turned up despite having to talk to india yesterday, fitted and working, tried the odb2 scanner in the evora for the first time and got "cold fill limited" error ?? 🤣

Think you've got confused and plugged the scanner into the washing machine.

[exeterjeep]

This made me a smile - when I thought how much would be produced in 2 years, when I just read the headline..

Notorious beggar ordered to not defecate in street for another two years

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/notorious-beggar-ordered-not-defecate-6156135

[windymiller]

got told today looks like we are getting a grant for the survey to be carried out on dads windmill as its now been put on the at risk register, finally hopefully we can start to adress things 🙄

[march]

😁

[Sparky]

Them Esprits is funny lookin'.

[exeterjeep]

Prefer the esprits with the twin headlights. 

[march]

These are a lot cheaper!

[exeterjeep]

but rustier?

[eeyoreish]

Glad to see you’ve kept the original seat 👍

[thebartman]

Carbtune'd (all balanced to within 2mm) and Colortune'd the Silver Greyhound today - and all now ab-fab 🙂 (slight weakening of mixture on Cyl 1&2 ; 3= fine; 4 a little weak - all in 1hr 30 mins - no bits lost, no bits found and all tools/implements accounted for 🤣🤣

[PaulCP]

Today represents a milestone which we never thought we would see back in Nov 2016.

It is 5 years to the day since I was diagnosed with incurable stage 4 lung cancer and 3 years, almost to the day, since I was informed that the cancer had spread to the brain, resulting in me having to surrender my driving licence for a 2 year period, subsequently reduced to 1 year.
Unfortunately I was informed of the reduction to 1 year the week after I sold my beloved Evora, I just couldn’t face seeing it in the garage and not being able to drive it for 2 years. (Blasted DVLA!😠)

The cancer is a very rare form, caused by a mutant gene, (I am a lifetime non smoker) and whilst incurable is treated by drugs which, having initially reduced the size of tumours, is now keeping the cancer stable and so far I am in the fortunate position of remaining reasonably symptom free.

I have to give vast amounts of credit to the NHS and, in particular, the oncology team at Ipswich hospital for the impeccable support they have provided in arranging for quarterly scans, (which never changed during the height of the pandemic), gaining access to the drugs for how they have handled the situation over the past 5 years.

As my GP keeps saying to me, “forget all the minor adverse stuff, at least you are still here”

Long may it continue 🤞🙏

[windymiller]

fantastic to hear some good news !!!! just buy another evora now ?

[PaulCP]

Not quite that simple Alan, I could end up having to surrender my licence again at the next scan, or the one after and so on.

I keep looking but don’t want to go through that situation again. I just live in the knowledge that I have owned one of the best cars ever produced. 

[2GOOD]

I’d missed that you’d got your licence back so soon after selling the Evora Paul, but good news on the drugs doing such a good job 👍 

[windymiller]

54 minutes ago, PaulCP said:

Not quite that simple Alan, I could end up having to surrender my licence again at the next scan, or the one after and so on.

I keep looking but don’t want to go through that situation again. I just live in the knowledge that I have owned one of the best cars ever produced. 

If you need an Evora fix I'm not that far away I'd be happy to pop up to Woodbridge like it there

[pete]

Lit the fire for the first time this year

[RobinB5]

Got to sit in our Simrod EV test/mule vehicle in Leuven this week:

I work in a Siemens group focusing on test and simulation tools with a particular focus on automotive. Aero, structural, vibration, thermal, electronics, NVH, CFD, FEA etc. etc. the Simrod is used as a demonstrator for our tools. Had a demo of acoustic simulation+test where we isolated the sources between wheel, structural vibration, external aero turbulence etc. so that you could turn each of these off/on in an emulation to appreciate their individual contributions. Was really cool. I'm helping out in the thermal simulation of the inverter, last thing you want is for your power Mosfets to exceed their 150 degC maximum rated junction temperatures whilst caning it down the straight.

The seat was as, if not more, tight as an Esprit's, but maybe I drank too much Belgium beer and was suffering hip expansion

Used by most OEMs, check out these capabilities if you want: 

 

[Kimbers]

After much debate and a test drive and offer of just below my asking price...............

I talked myself into keeping the Evora. During the test drive I was talking to the buyer (Who you will meet soon as he has since bought another) and doing my sales pitch about how wonderful this car was and how you can never find another like it...... and I talked myself into keeping it!

So, it flew through the MOT with a light adjustment, had a full service, clean and polish and is now up on jacks covered in a nice secure lock up for winter.

Roll on hot weather so I can get her out and play!

[Chillidoggy]

I only manage to find MOT stations that are drive through.

[thebartman]

All my local ones are drive in / reverse out ...

[march]

Watched a Weasel take down a bloody great Rabbit in the field today - I was wondering why a Rabbit was running around randomly in the field until I saw a tiny angry bundle of fur bounding after it until it eventually grabbed the bunny by the throat and settled down for a snack. Honey Badgers have nothing on these guys.

The Weasel must have been a quarter of the size of the Bunny - and the dogs are finding freshly dead bunnies everywhere - got to love these little guys.

 

[DDubya]

11 hours ago, march said:

Watched a Weasel take down a bloody great Rabbit in the field today - I was wondering why a Rabbit was running around randomly in the field until I saw a tiny angry bundle of fur bounding after it until it eventually grabbed the bunny by the throat and settled down for a snack. Honey Badgers have nothing on these guys.

The Weasel must have been a quarter of the size of the Bunny - and the dogs are finding freshly dead bunnies everywhere - got to love these little guys.

 

That’s a Stoat.

[march]

1 hour ago, DDubya said:

That’s a Stoat.

The one I saw was quite small and matched the images of Weasels online. I have checked again and size wise it was a weasel but tail wise it could have been a stoat so who knows. Whatever it was it was doing us a big favour by reducing our rabbit population which is slowly demolishing our Devon hedge banks. I don't know if they work in groups but we are finding lots of dead bunnies at the moment and they don't look mixied.

[DDubya]

Marc, a friend of ours is a registered Dartmoor marksman, was out shooting the other day and shot a similar video. Stoats are renowned for attacking rabbits. Seems the first attack puts bunny into shock and then heads back for the kill. Great video whether a stoat or Weazle👍