Fozzie

Good afternoon! Interview went very well. Even if I don't get it, I think I'll be moving up to a new position soon. The discussion about what the company should be focusing on was met with a good response. My interviewer said he enjoyed the discussion, so lets see what happens.

And 66p per kW of power from a fast charger... Cost a friend £30 to charge his car from 50% and that was only about 140 miles worth of range! So if you're in a hurry, it can be done, but bloody costly.

I believe the early 1.4 turbos had a lot of problems, it was a new engine that debuted in the Astra. They did a lot to fix it for 2017 onward models, so hopefully yours benefited. I believe the 1 litre turbo suffered with more problems however. Vauxhall can be a bit of a mixed bag, some last forever, others have no shortage of problems. My old Corsa would only work if you bashed the fuse box once a week. Something was loose, never found it despite a hundred hours looking

Thank you! I’m hoping that at the very least, it gets me bumped up to lead engineer, principle is a sideways step from there anyway. The principle position appeals as it looks more hands on, costing jobs, and developing the solution, which is always the bit I enjoy. I usually do well at interviews so hopefully can at least make an impression on the big bosses!

Good afternoon! Busy week coming up. I interview at my company for the role of principle engineer, and I have more experienced competition, but I think it will help me get my foot in the door. Birthday next week, looking after the dog while parents are away, and then fast approaching my holiday to Florida with the girlfriend. Need the two weeks off, haven’t had that much time off in 7 years

First thing to do is swap the RCD as you’ve already said. They fail safe, which isn’t good for your house remaining powered. If you think it’s the fridge or washer, you can check the fridge by setting it so it warms up, and then put it on the coldest setting to encourage the fault to emerge. The motor in the fridge can cause current spikes, especially if it’s old, corroded, etc, that can trip RCD’s. It becomes a game of elimination, which is usually expensive unfortunately! But hopefully just the RCD being faulty

Nominate the Auris driver in Trafford park this morning. New roundabout next to the Trafford Centre, I come up to it from the lane opposite the event city exit. There's 3 lanes leading up to a set of lights, the left lane is left only into the trafford centre. The middle lane is straight only, to the dual carriageway towards Eccles. The right hand lane is straight on, and right. If you go straight on, you are guided to the lane that takes you onto the right lane of the dual carriageway. Likely this by design, as 300 yards down this dual carriageway is a roundabout, and I'm turning right. Even though they've put x marks in the road to guide traffic, twats in the middle lane (ahead only) just cut over to my lane (ahead/right). And today an Auris did it without any indication, and I was half way alongside him. Had to slam on to miss him. Gave a 1-2 second blast of the horn, and raised my hand to basically say "What the hell! Look where you're going". I didn't swear or anything, just thought he was being oblivious. The guy then goes to Costco fuel, where I'm heading, and he makes every turn without an indicator. I'm not tailgating, so imagine he's just a bit of a useless driver. But as we go down to the fuel, he stares at me in his mirror and slows down... He definitely thinks I'm following him. And sure enough, he suddenly stops, and starts getting out his car to come at me. I really can't be bothered, so I just drive around him. He can bicker with me at the pump, but I'm not wasting my time. He jumps back in his car. He parks up near me, fills up, and does his best never to look over. Probably embarrassed he thought he was worth following to be called a nob, which just makes him more of one...

To be fair, we've all seen the American tv shows with bait cars... You might have actually deterred people from taking it

Last I heard, it wasn't coming to the UK. Believe the reason why is sales for its little brother haven't been great. The single cylinder CB300.

There often are new viruses, which typically go nowhere (hopefully not famous last words). But it's getting a bit irritating with China having the lockdown rules they do for pandemics, but next to no food safety rules...

Yep, I remember when I was 17. Worked at Somerfields, making peanuts, but the exchange rate was 2 dollars to the pound. This was also back in the day that air miles were actually worth something, and my old man earned enough of them through work trips to fly us out there for nothing. Used to buy any electronics I needed out there, like an ipod as you'd get the best model for lowest model money. Now running at 1.21... Been coming down for over 10 years. And inflation has hurt their prices a lot as well.

Morning! Grinding out the rest of this month at work, got a holiday in September. Me and the girlfriend are in our 4th year together, but never been on a large holiday abroad before, in part due to the pandemic. Going to Florida for 2 weeks, which is a favourite spot of mine. Was supposed to have been to Cyprus, Indonesia, and Japan by now, with Florida acting as "ye olde faithful" but I'm not complaining

In their defense I have no idea how to say your forum name either

Morning! Still getting used to being back at work after a week and a half in the Isle of Wight. Work issues seem endless at the moment, constantly arguing with clients due to a "solutions" team, whose solution to everything seems to be to agree to something, and then palm it off onto engineering who then produce a solution for them that usually ups the originally agreed cost, and makes all parties feel fairly pissed. ... Probably why they are doing a round of redundancies...

Sounds like something dodgy happened at the factory, but I think you've set a record for the most eff'ed bearing I've ever seen that hadn't shattered Thank your guardian angel for that one!

Oof, looks pretty knackered. Which side of the wheel did it come from if you know? Sprocket side or brake disc side? That was right on the edge of complete failure, balls are missing, corrosion setting in and bad pitting on the balls. And not even a standard Ducati bearing. Did someone own the bike prior to yourself? Maybe someone had a dodgy bearing and did a "cost effective" replacement.

Bearing failure at such a low mileage is most often a build defect of the bearing itself. Not always, but the most often in my experience. The bearing may have not been given enough lubrication prior to sealing (assuming it's a modern sealed type), or internal clearances that aren't to spec accelerating the wear. If the seal was compromised and corrosion was able to get established, this is another mode of failure. Usually quite hard to do on a bike so long as the dust seal is intact though, which is why my vote is on a build defect at the moment. Have you got the bearing? Or did the garage that took it out explain what they saw on it? The last failed rear bearing I dealt with had only done 25k miles, but it was heavily corroded internally, the grease had gone waxy as well, but the bike was 30 years old and ingress of things you don't want in your bearing is only a matter of time.

Happy birthday!

In recent years, I've started to understand unions even if I think they are a bit short sighted. Less people using rail, and going forward working from home will be more popular. So the service will need to shrink. Where will those people go who are made redundant? Not sure, although there is a shortage of workers in general at the moment, probably owing to the fact wages stink. Maybe an opportunity there to fix two problems, although if higher skilled roles like train drivers are lost, things get tricky unless you have enough near retirement to pay off into taking early retirement. But the big thing that bothers me, is this "whose going to pay for this" mentality towards any organisation that suffers strikes, I see it online all the time. You already do pay for it is the short answer. Businesses will always raise their prices in line with inflation, and we treat that as being fair, if a bit painful during times like this. But when those businesses then don't want to raise their staffs wages in line with inflation, this isn't "buckling up during hard times", it's a business getting more for less out of you. If tomorrow a law was passed that all businesses had to raise their staffs pay in line with inflation, we'd see the issue be dealt with far more aggressively than it is.

Ha! Sounds like a bit of a spatial awareness failure there. I guess the fact buses are considerably wider than most cars was lost on her?

He did ask if he'd find 3 gallons of fuel missing, even though we live 8 miles apart... Told him if that were the case, it has a fueling issue and I'll have to have another look Got a K5 GSXR1000 to do next, same job, front forks misting. That will also develop a similar fueling issue...

Good morning! Yesterday I remarked on people sat outside in the sun, drinking tea/coffee. Paved area acting like a frying pan, 35 degree heat. Proof we are living in a simulation surely? Glitchy behaviour like that, who'd drink a hot drink on a day as hot as this? Turns out, my entire team at work does. But what baffled me was they were complaining of the heat while sipping a 70 degree drink. I just can't get my head around it, I was freezing bottles of water all day.

I'm in a top floor flat, big black barn style roof above me. I cracked the loft open and it is so abysmally hot in there, I understand why at 3am last night, the thermostat still read 35 degrees. Today is hotter, but we have a thunderstorm at 3, that will cool the roof down, which is my only issue. Had to turn off social media for a couple of days, as I just can't stand the whinging of people who just politicise everything. Can't even begin to understand the irrationality of some people.

And as a little bonus. Look at what I sorted out the other day? A Yamaha R1, 1998 model, in the rare red/white scheme. It had leaking fork seals, and needed a full service. Leaky seal Some muscle and a fork spring compressor tool/holder to push the space down and expose the locknut holding the fork cap on. Once this is off, it pretty much all slides apart. Not the worst I've seen, but needed a good clean and a fresh seal Back on the bike, all cleaned up. I did the right hand side in half the time once I got my eye in. Fresh plugs, air filter, oil filter, oil, new sump plug. She was right as rain, and back to her owner the same day... I did take the long way back to his house... It don't half pull.

I got the bike together last night and took it for a ride around the car park next to mine, big open space. It is ok at lower RPM's, but it has a weird hesitation at 5-7k, and then seems to scream on through. I was thinking maybe a split vacuum hose, fueling issue, but I spotted that one of the coils has a weird... Hard to describe. Looks like furry metal building up on where it mounts to the frame. Suspecting that isn't any good, so will swap out the coils and spark plug caps, they're cheap enough.