mac11irl
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i suffered another broken night of sleep, its really getting tedious again now. but thank god it was only an hr missing... out of 6.5 available. so i dragged myself out, half an hour late, and headed up my steep hills. it was dirty, tired and sore, abd failed miserably to get the whole way up the long hill climb without needing to push any of it. lost traction on the peat farther down than on other attempts, but i pushed a bit cracked on again to the proper top of the hill. then turned around in the fog and back down. this being able to make segments is brilliant, i now have a segment for the tough climb up, and another for the way down, to compare speeds both ways - up for the strength development and down for the rough riding confidence improvement todays steep descent was definitely faster, and ive started catching some jumps on the way too, eather than just locking the brakes to gently get down it. 8m38 to get up it and 1m58 back down will what the morning brings, im hoping to get out early before i have to go to my actual office for 3hrs of meetings 🤦♂️
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RTech have a great reputation, loads of experience with mk1s and other vag platform cars. many many many of the brisky mk1 vrs's have been through their workshop over the years. thats why theres a 14month waiting list
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if you dont know what the existing floor strength is, or whats underneath the floor, absolutely go as deep as you can. even with the quickjack, if the floor is that thin and unknown strength on unknown subgrade you could have a very messy accident..
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can you get a multimeter in there to check the wiring properly? id say thats your issue tbh... esp as it stopped working after the door was slammed shut.
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evening, check in the classifieds section and check the part number sticker to match it properly, but that looks identical to the one on my 1.6diesel elegance, so dont be thinking its "blackline specific"
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stop saying sorry most people are here to help each other out
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an hour lying on the floor of spud jrs room half asleep from 3-4am followed by trying to t myself back asleep.... no cycle was had today...
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just pop down this little hill, through the gate near tge hedgerows and then a short dink up the hill the other side... see... no problems... other than the incredibly steep bits, and no tractions on the rocks or in the peaty soil under the heather... and, the other pic was taken from the trail at top of the hill, just to the right hand side, about a 1km of pedalling away.
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i am so sleep deprived... i really need to retrain myself to go to sleep earlier. anyway, up and out just after 640, but needed to be back for 730, swmbo had to go to pick up school uniforms but also be back for a zoom training course ahead of back to work. so, i tackled Long Hill, but stopped at the top of the horrible climb to be back in time. i also figured out on Frid how to make segments from your logged route. so i made one from the gate to the top of the long hill climb. that average gradient thing is annoying. part of the climb is over 25%! but its not obvious. anyway, its nice to be able to log better sections now that i have done, and will keep doing. that top loop bit on my woodland route is a lap which id like to be able to look at oroperly, and now i can, once i pull it out later.
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replace the temp sensor id imagine.. it may look fine but, but could be damaged anyway. even try unplugging it. the ecu will assume a default value and work to that.
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i just learned a LOT in this thread..
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if you look at the build sticker in the boot or service book, it clearly says what engine code you have in the car, then your not assuming anything...
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yup, mechanism is the same for all of them. middle, push in, twist, pullout
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hi @Charlyss are you definitely sure its the motors? if neither window is working, if say theres a good chance its the switches or wiring loom is damaged.
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see my progress thread... im matching you nasty hill climb gradients in a couple of spots
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update... i just discovered i xan access my strava account on my work laptop and look at the route in much better detail. this the climb. . any wonder i had to get off for minute... edit.. another little adjustment if the cursor and its 26.3%. going up there again over the weekend, ill get a photo of it
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well after an evening where i found out my 3yr old niece tested positive for covid on Tuesday, 8 days after she was hacking and coughing when we met up over the BH wkend, for the first time since Spud Jr was born!!! and spud sr complaining of a scratchy throat the last 2 days.... i slept... sporadically. but i dragged my sorry arse out of the bed and went for a pedal. tackled long hill for the first time on the Sentier. wind kept knocking it over trying have it on the rock stack for the photo. i set the worlds 6th fastest time (on strava) for pedalling up there so pretty chuffed its a horrible ascent though, lost traction on the steepest bit and had to push up about 100m of it to get level enough ground to get going again. total time to get there, and trip total... the west to east dogleg in the middle is the uphill rote, the straight line is the faster way back from the holy year cross. cant pedal up that yet. the long hill climb starts at about the 5km point and peakes at about 6.5km its a dirty dirtyhill, because the top bit is reasonably flat, so the segment gradient appears kinda shallow at around 7.5%... but that climb is definitely more like 15+ percent
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is everyrhing tightened up priperly at the back end after the work being done and have you the tracking done after all that suspension work?
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okay, a slightly better couple of nights sleep, and i got up and out this morning. slightly chopped the route as i was about 20mins late leaving the house, and the tree cutting operation has expanded to now occupy a fairly sizeable chunk of the forest with "no unauthorised access" signs. so im gonna have to go somewhere else for my next ride out. i shall tackle the "long hill" climb instead a few times i think. means nor forestry fun, but a fairly tooth rattling descent from the top that havnt tried yet on the new bike. todays ride was also slow... the bloody headwind was strong enough to make me need to drop back a gear on the flat section before i even started climbing! i also got blown a good foot to the right while mid air off a pretty small jump (bump in the ground) on the firs short drop between 2 hills, maybe 18inches off the ground and landed on a totally different line to where i was plannning! it overall meant i was 4mins slower than PB to the peak of the main climbing section.... anyway, tomorrow or friday is another day. probably friday, ive site meetings to go to tomorrow, so i cant be faffing around in the morning.
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Belfast seems small from up there, @UndertheRadar
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Dia dhuit @jakeandrewmccabe tá mé thios í Tiobraid Árainn. you made me break more gaeilge there than i think ive used since me LC in 2002
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mmmm..... yeah, its hard to know to be honest, as i have a fuel card for place and tend to buy mostly diesel and "regular unleaded" for swmbo's car im not sure what the super availability is like, though CirceK do have a premium petrol and diesel options. .. will have a better look around over the next couple of weeks and report back
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so last night was an utterly beyond terrible nights sleep, but i needed to get out and clear my head this morning before the first day back in work after holidays. dont let the avg speed fool you, it wasnt a good trip. glad i did it, but just unhappy over all. not a good night or day today.
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aaaaand..... another night of interrupted sleep means another morning i physically couldnt get out of the bed. back to work tomorrow too, after my 2 wks off, so i really need some decent sleep tonight
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got a clear spell between the weather rainfall warnings yesterday morning, standard 16.5k route. nothing spectacular time wise but it was good to be out, esp as id spent from 3-430am half asleep on the floor beside spud jr's cot after he woke up roaring 🤦♂️ bloody rain woke me this morning at 4am, and i got back asleep around 5. alarm went off and i just stopped it, lay on my back and fell asleep again.. shouldve gotten up. wish id gotten up.
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