Jump to content

Long Wheel Base

Members
  • Posts

    10595
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Long Wheel Base

  1. Sjoe not good. Pity there aren't any pictures in the article.
  2. I will have to do some research into this. As a mechanic I am not too clued up on relays etc but I am sure I will grasp it once I look into it. PS: I haven't seen you on the bike for a while? Am I just late for work or you wisely staying at home where it is warm?
  3. Thanks, good to know. I don't think mine is locked but will investigate. All my remotes are 4 button at the moment. 1 is gate open/close, 2 is gate open half way with auto close after time period(I use this when leaving on the bike), 3 is garage door open/close and 4 is the light in the garage door motor which I have removed the bulb because it decided it didn't want to switch off anymore no matter what I pushed or did so I will look into reprogramming button 4.
  4. Thanks for the info, luckily my gate and garage door are both centsys nova so it might be easier than I thought.
  5. Ok so just checked the updated calendar as I has missed the cancelation of Canada. So nothing this weekend but then it is France and Austria twice all back to back.
  6. During lockdown last year we had a few incidents in our suburb of fence jumpers and all of them broke into cars parked outside garages or took gas bottles visible form the road etc. The guy across from me doesn't have a garage anymore(it's now a flat) and all his cars park in his front yard and his lightie left a laptop in the car and they smashed the window and took it. So one of the local security companies sent a message saying these type of incidents are on the rise during lockdown and these guys just take the path of least resistance so as bad as it sounds you just need to have a bit more than your neighbor and they will just go next door(but targeted premeditated robberies it doesn't matter what you got). So as soon as we were allowed out of our houses I went off to Nemtek and bought everything needed(think it cost me like R12k). I installed it all myself according to the law requirements. I don't have a COC but I would need one if I sell my house. Colleague of mine recently sold his house, he never had a COC as he had also done it himself. He called an electrician, the guy asked him to whatsapp pictures of certain things. Electrician asked him to change a few things(he had to add 1 extra earth spike and put one earth wire in trunking). He did that and sent the guy pictures. The electrician sent an invoice for R1100, it was paid and the next day the COC was in his post box. I have it for basically a year now, have had to fix a wire twice(first time the stupid flashing light thing they sold me to let you know there is power was arcing and it melted the wire and the 2nd time was my fault when I was trimming the tree on my pavement and a branch swung down and fell on the fence) but I bought a big roll of the stainless wire so have plenty to do repairs. The alarm has gone off 3 times. A bird fried itself as well as a lizard(the bird must have hit live and earth and the lizard was on the live and then earthed himself to the pole) and then a branch from a shrub thing in the neighbors garden which he now keeps trimmed. I am not worried about something going wrong or the system shocking someone unnecessarily as I may not be a qualified electrician but I know how this stuff works so there is nothing wrong with my work. I have also done the job probably better than some "qualified" installers. For eg All my lugs onto the earth spikes are soldered and shrink sleeved whereas I am pretty sure most guys don't do that. All I need to do now is hook it up to my alarm system as it is currently separate and I or my security company don't know if it goes off if I am not at home. I wanted to let the system run and sort any potential niggles before I have the guys at my house every few days due to a branch setting it off. Also, some sort of remote activating/deactivating device would be nice. The unit sits in my garage and if it goes off in the middle of the night I will have to go outside as my garage is not part of my house. I am not sure if you get anything like that, still need to find out.
  7. Thanks, G. I'll have a look.
  8. So it's just a normal R5 with a "fancy" paintjob(not to my taste) and then the mooi mooi campy and a serious price tag? Spez mos teamed up with McLaren a few years back and did a tarmac with the McLaren logo and a different paint job but I don't think the price tag was as high. As soon as aliexpress sees this there will be 63 of them on the start line in each group at CTCT in October.
  9. Don't worry, you can start watching again. The blue eyed boy is starting to fade away and soon we won't even see or hear from him again and F1 will be as fun as the last 2 laps of BAKU after he made a rookie error with brake magic bias and the 2 rookies in the HAAS' beat him.
  10. How do we clear our notifications? We used to be able to view all and then clear them. I can't seem to find an option to clear anymore.
  11. Yoh I made that mistake once. At work I said F1 is a religion in my house and a very religious dude came down on me like a ton of bricks. I had apparently insulted him, his church etc etc.
  12. I was at the lego zone at our local toyzone on Friday(They have like a separate room in the shop that has all the lego in, it's awesome) and they had those sheet things. A few different sizes, flip they pricey compared to say a lego set of sorts but I will definitely get some at some stage. I have seen someone take a plastic table and stick the sheets to it. Looked cool but not practical imho. I see you have lekker ones with roads and mountain looking things on. The ones I saw were just plain.
  13. Those semi slicks probably make more noise than the general grabbers.
  14. Phew, luckily my white double cab is a datsun(well sort of, nissan-datsun, same thing..........)????
  15. Funny enough, lego make more tyres than another other tyre manufacturer in the world. https://www.coruba.co.uk/blog/lego-the-worlds-largest-tyre-manufacturer/
  16. SCORE!!!!!!! The wife walked into Makro and on their bargain table there was this. Marked down to R399 and we get a 15% discount. It is a box of just random pieces but there are some pieces that we really do need....... The twins' 3rd birthday is this weekend and they getting some other smaller boxes of lego and the oldest is getting a box of minion lego as well. Not sure when we will give them this box but at the moment it is stashed. They have a holiday next month, might be a good time then.
  17. Apparently these days you can't ask someone that question like that. I believe you have to ask what do they identify as. PS:I am still struggling to find comic sans on this new site.
  18. You mentioned "got tired of servicing" and "range rover fanatic" in the same post. Well played.
  19. Just checked the calendar now, next 4 weekends are race weekends. So that is 5 weeks in a row. AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!
  20. YOH the thighs on the lightie 2nd from the left.
  21. I have had no issues with my garmin varia. I have the first one, the newer version is apparently even better. BUT, it's a bit pointless if you not using it with your edge.
  22. Ineos seems to bring the "best" out of a rider. How long before Poels and Landa go back as workers.
  23. Yeah you didn't miss much. A few times I said I would go back to bed or start getting ready for work but just carried on watching and ended up being late for work????, They only finished at like 05h30 our time.
  24. Yeah that list is not far off. Russel also technically had a DNF yesterday but I think maybe laps completed throws things off a bit and Latifi had that stop and go story so I think the team just pulled both cars tbh. But still, Mazepin has basically finished last every race. Mick had some issue at Monaco and had to pit extra but was consistently quicker. I heard Mazepin was complaining that the FIA are nailing him for transgressions but the top guys are doing the same and getting away with it, he's not wrong tbh but he has a target on his back. Lets just hope the Russian mafia don't get involved????. Also, Mazepin has less penalty points than a lot of drivers, Norris is the naughtiest of everyone according to the points system but we let that slide????.
Settings My Forum Content My Followed Content Forum Settings Ad Messages My Ads My Favourites My Saved Alerts My Pay Deals Help Logout