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Yeah, but EVs do it ugly.... real ugly!

IIRC, it was optional on some trim levels, while included on others. Select the drop-down for your pre-upgrade trim: https://www.parkers.co.uk/skoda/octavia/hatchback-1998/specs/ You certainly should either be able to buy the appropriate fittings, or just nick them off another trim model.

Not really - I'm a wastewater specialist. I can relay any questions you have to the reservoir team, though?

Tunes will change, comes the Pocky-lips, when guzzeline becomes the thing men value the most. Long after the lectrickery cars have gone, then He will come... out from of the ruins, out from the wreckage, out of the wasteland... driving the last of the V8 Interceptors... the Road Warrior.

I remember seeing a lot of this stuff being around, but we never actually had any of it ourselves apart from cheap cap guns from jumble sales. First proper pistol was a Webley Hurricane in 1978, which got me laughed at because everyone else had the smaller Tempest... But I still have it to this day.

What exactly is 'isolation', then? Is that like an all-day detention, but in solitary confinement? Speaking as someone who went to a uniformed school where some parents had money, and others were penniless working classers - The Haves were mercilessly contemptuous of anyone who ever (even for one day) wore/carried/did anything that suggested they were a Have Not... kids and parents alike. That would continue even beyond graduation. Every school in the area was the same, apart from the boarding schools where everyone was rich, but those non-uniformed ones where kids could wear anything they liked were the worst.

So was mine... It's gone back up now, but only by £100.

We stopped at York purely for the Jorvik centre, as the wife had been banging on about it for years. Didn't see much else of the area, really. However, on your way back down, take a good half-day or more to visit Bolsover Castle. Avoid their cafe food, but do take the time to explore every area and soak it all in.

Easy solution, then - Buy yourself a s****y new monitor!! Gigabyte are seriously coming out with some winning products at the minute.

Oh... well that's annoying, and a little sad to hear. In that case, I guess it's down to flipping a coin, really, or going through a supplier like Euro Car Parts and checking reviews of any specific aftermarket brands.

I've used Central Panels twice and recommended several times - https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=centralpanels&store_name=centralpanels&_oac=1&_nkw=octavia Their own site is usually better:https://www.centralpanels.co.uk/product-category/skoda/skoda-octavia-1996-2004/ I've had other regulators go, and quite quickly, but both the ones from CP (Front-Right and Rear-Left) have lasted over 5 years, with no worries.

Here's a curious one... Over the years, I've found my car seems happiest driving around 1800-2100rpm, and I gear accordingly. However, I've been paying close attention to the MPG counter on my MFD, and it seems to return a much better mileage around 2500-2800rpm. I'm talking the difference between 35mpg at 1800 and 55-75mpg when up around 2800, At the higher revs, the engine seemes to be really quite loud and it's just a bit beyond the point where the turbo starts tailing off. I'm not sure I'm happy driving with the engine this loud. Does this seem right, or is it just a wildly inaccurate MFD?

Click to watch on YouTube, select the three dots to bring up the menu, enable transcript, skim-read that - Your eyes are likely far faster than this bloke's staccato style of speech.

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. Alternatively, I know someone with a working WW2 US Army flamethrower....?

YES!!!!!!!!! Always, always, always, always, always change the bolts. They are single-use only. The previous owner of my car took it to a place that reused the bolts. The engine mounts came undone and the whole engine listed over, smashing its right side against the bay. It was very nearly written off and the previous owner had already pretty much dumped it. It's only by pure luck that my friend and I were able to salvage it... and that's the story of how I got myself a car for £60. So unless you wanna donate your vehicle to me, use new bolts.

I have a 140 litre air compressor in my garage. That does the tyres for everyone who parks their car close enough, as well as dusting out my PC, clearing the workshop floor, powering impact guns and other such tools, paint sprayers, sand blasters and a load of other stuff. You can find them pretty cheap, especially the smaller ones, and they really come in handy.

Dunno why it's important, but - Martial artist and student of both European and Western historical fighting systems for over 36 years, as well as hobbyist historian and avid reader... Yes, some fighting systems and training were kept hidden from mainstream attention... though it wasn't very hard to either hide or detect, especially in patriarchal societies where only men were allowed to study the arts, yet skilled female fighters were also mysteriously present. It also wasn't that common, generally, and much of the 'hidden secret' stuff was concocted and perpetuated by contemporary masters to generate interest in their schools. Westerners were just as guilty, and not just in their martial arts but all manner of trades. Even some text books contained deliberate errors to trip up those not officially initiated into the industry. It's understandable that one now expects to find claims of "secret martial arts" hidden in everything Eastern, because the marketing rumours were so pervasive and persuasive, but it has also become such a cllche that pinches of salt are no longer enough - You need a good handful or two! But really, the physical forms in Taiko drumming merely follow the general cultural mindset toward body mechanics and aesthetics, which parallel and imitate other aspects of life, from Kanji to Kagura dance, to Kinbaku and Shibari.

Other than the notion of using a set of stances and movements based on sound body mechanics, generally referred to as Kata, there's no such connection. It's often assumed simply because these and many other activities simply follow the same mentality and approach. The martial arts idea is often used for marketing foreign things to clueless Westerners. When kids started using Poi a few years back, they were all claiming it was some kind of Maori martial art codified into a performance dance, but it's all about as martial as Morris Dancing and juggling balls.

Any solution would probably have to support the majority of household activities for a good 10 hours of darkness. Maybe more... Right now, most seem to struggle with a desk fan!

Yes, I have indeed looked. That's how I know there's only a few fractions of a penny between what they offer and what we're on. RG1 is central Reading, whereas we're in a more rural part, several miles further on the outskirts. Octopus seems to require a decent mobile signal, which we don't get out here and is probably why we're not on smartmeters... heck, we don't even get gas or sewerage! As is, the best they could offer us is a tracker tariff, which we're already on.

It's more that this is similar to the same arguments put forward by the Eco-warrior engineers at work - "If you just pay out STACKS of cash on this funky thing, with blah-blah statistics and blah-blah figures, it will eventually be fully paid off in a couple of decades and you'll then be on free energy for about half the year... but concerningly in debt until then". So basically, wonderful if you have the money, but frakked through the wallet and up the bum if you don't. Like selling superyachts to the homeless... That basically just returns the same tarrif we're already on. There's a couple fractions of a penny difference.

So long as you're alright, Jack...

The absolute cheapest rate available to us was 46p daytime and 18p night, plus 45p standing charge. Word is that's going to double at the next round of revisions.

24cm is pretty close to 10", still. The wife has a DVD nav system built into her CR-V stereo. It's basically a 2-DIN size unit, but it's actually built into the centre console instead of being slapped on over the top of it. EV screens just look so amateurish... like they couldn't be bothered.

I once used public transport to get a full drum kit home from the shops. That alone was enough to get me looking at private vehicles. But since getting my own wheels, I've saved far more money by being able to buy things like food in bulk, buy cheaper furniture, buy tools and equipment that lets me do things for myself, and even get a job working at places that public transport just can't service. Plus there's the actual cost of fares, which have been getting ever more ridiculous in the years since I last used a bus or a train. Feel free to post any pertinent links...... So far all I've seen is advice on using padlocks... most of those even I can open in seconds with a comb pick, blade pick, rake, pair of shims or just a good whack with a hammer. The only piece of advice I wouldn't be able to counter is if you park with your wheels on the cable, but I doubt you want to do that... and none of them would stop me from cutting the cable for scrap value. Plenty of other things are also good investments. None of those are affordable for us which is, funnily enough, why we're still renting.