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I've hadaclamp meter for years, bought one initially to read current in AC motors. Made up a short extension lead with a live loop hanging out so I could read current in things with flex and 3 pin plug. DC version is good when fitting towbars....makes identifying wires under the van easy when...

I've never had a vehicle with either speed limiter or cruise control. On a recent course they stuck up a pic of a duel carriageway and asked what the speed limit was....consensus was 70 .then I mentioned differing speed limits for types of vehicle, The mainly urban car drivers seem to have...

I got mine off fleabay, theyre branded xgody, one on van has got a rear camera plugged into it which shows constantly in top left quarter of screen, I've mounted it high at rear so it's looking vertically down , shows the towball at top of screen so I can reverse right up to things The...

When I was a kid family transport was an old landrover, long journeys we had a couple of car seats in the back, notbolted in. My first vehicle was a mini van with no belts...had eleven in that once. Then cars had front belts, started of with static belts. I started to watch motor sport and...

Never seen the point of expensive locks in glass doors or if there's windows that the scroats can smash

We fit thumb turn cos it means should you ever need to exit rapidly inmiddle of night there's no need to find a key. Similar if you want to lock the door in a hurry when a mad axe man comes up the garden path. Even more convenient for the approx 50percent of us that don't carry keys in...

We recently stayed in an air b & b with a downstairs loo and steep spiral staircase. After one night of emptying a large yoghurt pot out the bedroom window I got dragged to a supermarket and bought one of them tupperware type cornflake containers, large enough to contain a whole night's...

Do the simple things first.....check the coolant level,

Every Other creature on the planet sprinkles and scatters it's only some humans that seem intent on collecting excrement or have a problem with it.

Make more sense to ban the use of earphones in the street

bet theres no figures for who supports a lower limit where they dont live:)

Nobody is really worried about city speed limits , it's the apparently illll conceived rural ones in the middle of nowhere that really piss people off.

Going by the TV programs if plod finds anyone with more than a pittance in cash in their car they're assumed to be a drug dealer and it gets conviscated

So what if the banks paying 6 percent... Taxman will take 20 percent if the stache is declared as income. Difficult bit is finding things to spend it on that don't generate records that taxman can trace. Don't want to pass all of it over the bar.

30 mile journey at 30 mph takes an hour , at 20 it takes an hour and a half therefore at any one time there will be 50 percent more cars on the roads in urban areas making more traffic Jams and even lower overallll speeds. Engines will be running longer in lower gears hence even more...

I once had a 4 speed sturmy archer....never seen another so must have been quite rare. One Xmas I got a speedometer , driven by the front wheel.....aim was to get it to 40 mph on the slope down to the village. Never see those yellow rain capes now, or sou westers, or the sheepskin gloves...

So far nobody has mentioned the health benefits of gently cycling for us geriatrics. I find gentle cycling has been good for my knees. We've got a local bird reserve (medmerry) that has miles of basically flat gravel tracks , our seaside village has a track along the seawall, basically...

I've been looking into ebikes recently , currently intending to go electric in the new year. Need a tricycle for the wife and a bike for me. With the iveco mwb tin tent transport isn't a problem. I'm intending to put a 250 watt road legal front wheel conversion on my existing mountain...

Even now they're supposed to have a reg number ,the towing vehicles, and working lights

Pretty much the reputation that Irish workers have over here. Our retirement flat needed a new pressurised water heating system.... which needs building regs certification..... got a local plumber to do the job..... first time I've ever paid a plumber to do anything.