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  1. Doodle

    What makes the perfect Winter car

    As previously mentioned, Panda 4x4 or some small Japanese AWD supermini (usually Suzuki or Daihatsu). They were de rigeur where my dad lived up in the hills in Northern Italy.
  2. Doodle

    AMGmeister adds to he's fleet

    This is clearly an imposter. Guards! GUARDS! 🤣
  3. Doodle

    MERCEDES-BENZ (R129) SL73 AMG

    Yep, knocked it out of the park. :thumb: The question now is, what does one do with the proceeds?
  4. Doodle

    Any IT security experts here?

    This is what we plan and write IT policies for, so that when SHTF at whatever level you're prepared (in so far as one can be) for it. It happens far more than the general public realises - much of the time they get nothing and nobody hears anything about it. Occasionally it's worse, you fix it...
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    Biggest Car Engines

    The worst bit is that dip is entirely artificial to exacerbate the cam profile changeover, because racecar feels. Put correct mapping in place and it disappears entirely.
  6. Doodle

    Biggest Car Engines

    I suspect Gordon Murray's T50 must be up there, given that it revs to about 10 million?
  7. Doodle

    Biggest Car Engines

    Not exactly road going though 😆 On the subject of 500GPs, many summers of youth were misspent in the company of one of these; Krauser 500 in an LCR chassis, campaigned by a family friend. . You'd swear it was actively planning to murder you at any given moment.
  8. Doodle

    Biggest Car Engines

    Cut said motor in half. The Rotax 125s in the Aprilia RS (et al) were 33-34hp in full fat mode.
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    MERCEDES-BENZ (R129) SL73 AMG

    I believe you're right on the latter - now that I think about it every time I've seen this, it's been on a facelift car. 89speedster - thank you for your candour. At this point I won't be bidding any further but I'm sure it will sell well.
  10. Doodle

    MERCEDES-BENZ (R129) SL73 AMG

    It's weird that they've changed the vented panel behind the front wheels. This isn't part of the AMG kit, but isn't required to make it fit either - the external shape is identical. Even by SoB standards, it's an unexpected addition although not necessarily unwelcome in terms of flow. I don't...
  11. Doodle

    MERCEDES-BENZ (R129) SL73 AMG

    For the money that it will inevitably attract you'd want it to be perfect, and there's a fair bit that doesn't sit quite right for me. The cosmetics especially feel like they've been put together after the event: PF plastics on a facelift car Breakers writing on the underside of the grille...
  12. Doodle

    oil level reading on dipstick is too high on my Mercedes e280 class w211.

    The amount of oil that will continue to drain back to the sump after 30 mins is minimal, in fact modern oils are designed to leave a certain amount remaining to provide better cold start protection. Again, if that was a factor then there should be an upper limit stated. Personally, I probably...
  13. Doodle

    oil level reading on dipstick is too high on my Mercedes e280 class w211.

    I really think you need to go back and re-read that again. It does not mean what you appear to believe it does. The determining factor is solely whether the engine is not at operating temperature. Having briefly started the engine is merely an example of where that situation could apply. If...
  14. Doodle

    oil level reading on dipstick is too high on my Mercedes e280 class w211.

    "if the engine was not at operating temperature". That would seem to describe an engine that hadn't been started that day.
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    oil level reading on dipstick is too high on my Mercedes e280 class w211.

    Per the instructions in the 211 owners manual: Checking the engine oil level To do so: the vehicle should be parked on level ground. the engine should be switched off for at least five minutes if the engine was at normal operating temperature. the engine should be switched off for at least 30...
  16. Doodle

    Nest Generation 3 Thermostat only running central heating when the hot water is also active.

    That's a pretty poor circuit diagram from Potterton - as explicitly printed it cannot work because what is providing power to the #5 connection? I suspect there's an internal link between L and #5 to provide power to the CH circuit, a quick prod on the controller connections with a meter would...
  17. Doodle

    Nest Generation 3 Thermostat only running central heating when the hot water is also active.

    No, that wiring is nothing to do with the Nest. This house has an old Y-plan system boiler in it, so that is legacy infrastructure that links the boiler, the motorised diverter valve, the central heating pump and the hot water tank thermostat. It also connects to the controller, which previously...
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    Nest Generation 3 Thermostat only running central heating when the hot water is also active.

    ISTR encountering something similar to this when I wired up my Nest unit a few years ago. I ended up comparing the wiring diagrams and discovered that my timer unit had a couple of internal connections that didn't exist in the Nest unit, so I had to reinstate them via extra link wires in the...
  19. Doodle

    Sl320 is there a how to fuel tank drain

    Doing pretty much the same thing the OP wants to do ;)
  20. Doodle

    Gold wrapped w126 300se?

    1 million Somali shillings is a little under £1500 - sounds about right for a J-reg 190. 😆
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