Rob

My first ever car, a 903cc Seat Ibiza MK1, was run for a good 14 months with no maintenance so on e day I decided to check the oil. Dipstick was dry. As I was at Uni I asked a mate "How much oil do you put in an engine?" Note I did not quantify that question with "when topping up from a low dipstick." My mate had no idea of my intentions and presumed I meant an empty sump, so he replied "About 5 litres usually, depending on the car." Off I drove to Halfords, £4.99 later and 5 litres of bog standard oil went into the filler cap. It ran quite smoothly....for a while.

I watched it last year cos Aguilera was on it as a guest singer. Why on earth anyone thought it was a good idea to have the poor "hopeful" try to duet with Aguilera singing "beautiful" is beyond me. Did they think something else was going to occur othar than Aguilera blowing her off the goddamn stage? I was half expecting Freddie Mercury to crop up next.

I've been watching those programmes about electricity with Dr Jim Piccalili and he demonstrated Humphrey Davy's experiment in the Royal Institution where he brought two carbon rods together and made a carbon arc light up the entire room. The very first electric light was way too bright for common use. It seems we are going backwards in development, due in my opinion to so called green issues and lobbying.

I've only seen it once, a long time ago. I think, that my opinion was that he wasn't what he said he was. However, I may well be overlaying the lies of Usual Suspects over Spacey's character in my memory. I loved the films ambiguity though, a similar device to that used at the end of Total Recall. Comparing the two films though is like comparing a surgeons scapel to a sledgehammer.

I never liked him when he was on Pop Idol either.

I laid mine up for nigh on 2 years, and kept the tyres at around 65-70psi. Apparently car manufacturers do that to new cars while they are kept in fields or storage yards.

It was so suitable for the road it seemed to want to spread itself all over the surface of it.

I really hate it when the "CONTACT US" link goes to just an email page, or even causes my Outlook to create a new mail.

Again, if the white paint used on every inch of our road network by the DoT, local councils etc, is causing accidents, someone needs to be told.

I meant Beanie babies. We did sell a couple of Radley bags on eBay a while ago and got a good price. You should do OK. However, when we tried to sell those Radley "bag bags," the yellow cotton bags that you can store the bag in, eBay blocked us from sellling them.

My wife bought loads in the '90s, some at £50 a pop. "Oh they'll be worth loads in the future" she said, mistakenly.

I've touched on this before so thought I'd raise the issue again that there is clearly a very serious design flaw with the Supra. Namely that the back end can kick out under normal driving, as many people have further confirmed in this very thread, often initiated by the auto-kick down. In the many years I've been here, there have been constant crashes all caused by the rear end going and never the fault of the driver. It seems very odd that Toyota never had any recalls about this, given that in recent years they had a massive issue with a lot of their cars with the accelerator jamming open. Although in that case, despite Toyota doing work on hundreds of thousands of cars, it was widely accepted that there was no fault at all, and it was in fact the drivers hitting the wrong pedal and then jumping on the bandwagon rather than admit their own mistake. In the crash on Motorway Cops there is a clear disparity between Littlenum's description and the chap on the telly. If littlenum was driving normally and hit ice, spinning off, rolling his car, totally destroying it and putting himself in hospital, how come he was the only car? No one else did that. When I see those YouTube videos, usually in America, of icy roads, there is car after car shunting, sliding off, ending in a mass pile up, its awful but you can see how the conditions have caused such carnage. The witness chap was quite vociferous, now I appreciate when a loud exhausted "racing" car comes past, people will jump to conclusions but he did seem to be saying littlenum roared past overtaking on the sliproad and went out into the middle lane before losing control. Littlenum says nothing of the sort happened, so that's quite a difference in story. TV companies are notorious for bigging up storylines to make good telly, so maybe they were lucky in collaring the greatest BS'er on that stretch of motorway and he made the whole thing up. Although, he's got nothing to gain in doing so, he's not paid for his words on telly. Its no skin off his nose to say something like "the car in front, I hadn't noticed him before as he was doing nothing odd, just suddenly span out and crashed. Its awful that this can happen to anyone like that." Anyway the point being, if Littlenum was driving normally, touched some ice and destroyed his car, putting himself in hospital, there is clearly something drastically wrong with the design of the Supra. Yet now in 2011, no one in this club has put any thought into it.

yes, I had to replace the rear "T" split three years ago, and my new MOT mentions corroding to brakelines.

11 months too late

Bum shards. Just noticed the thread in Was it You.

Anyone we know. It looks like he did a fair old job of destroying a stripped out, rollcaged, carbon fibre bonneted Supra. The witness in the car he passed on the slip road said he banged out into the middle lane and started to spin as he accelerated away, catching some air, rolling into the bank and back onto the carriageway. Police officer reckoned the rollcage saved his life.

When I was working, back in the Education sector, I took some photos of completed Nursery projects I had designed, some of them had kids already in them, playing. I've just been outside and put my own windows through.

Clearly a paedo, taking photos of his own child, actually licking an ice cream, on a pink Vespa. Its some sort of sick Lolita thing going on, did Sara Payne die for nothing? They should string him up in a gibbet, in the shopping centre so that his entrails dangle out, dripping bodily fluids onto the floor (with those little yellow plastic "slip hazard" signs of course, can't compromise H&S rules).

This reminds me of the poor chap who died down Southampton way many years ago. He'd dinged his wheel and everyone told him not to drive the car, some were offering him their spare alloys for free. Yet he went ahead, and the wheel failed at speed, killing himself and a motorcyclist. Don't be another like that.

Thread Exhume!!! Having jsut got my NA back on the road after 18 months of lay-up with usage similar to what Homer was doing, mine too is juddering when pulling away. I shall follow the above advice and continue to monitor.

http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?88190-Brake-fluid-pouring-out-of-caliper!!!!-help&highlight=splitting+caliper Check that thread out. I'd seriously consider renewing the seals between the two halves of the caliper. If it fails, it will fail under extreme braking, and you don't need me to tell you what'll happen then. You've broken the caliper open, OK that was a mistake, but don't make an even bigger one now. Re: Dude's right too. Get it sorted before you kill yourself or someone else.

Ah, so UK spec brakes. I think you've over egged it a bit there, you only needed to undo the sliding, mounting bolts to the rear to allow the caliper to swing up. You've effectively dismantled the whole caliper. Without checking, I think there will be new gaskets required to reassemble. Check the maintenance docs to confirm. You need to do a full refurn now to rebuild them, with new grease, boots etc etc/ The reason fluid leaked out is because you opened up the body of the caliper. You'll need a full bleed now too. Hope you don't want to use the car tomorrow.

When you say, "split in half" what spilt? The metal casting of the caliper?

Well yes, if you were stuck in a muck filled trench, or advancing through France, at least you knew where the enemy were and what they looked like.

Thanks for your answers guys. So in summary it never, and possibly extremely rarely happens that a soldier will refuse to fight, or patrol. I suppose unless you get isolated and held out in the field for a long period, you're all rotated on and off duty to prevent battle fatigue. Again, unlike WW1 where soldiers were pushed to the point of being gibbering wrecks because no one understood what was happening to them. Watching those programmes really brings home to me what a difficult job it is out there, where the enemy is just so elusive and deadly. The two parter called Bomb Squad was terrifying. When my Civvie idea of landmines is all from films,so I expect to see metal plates and shiny tripwires that you can stick a toothpick in and cut, the truth of the situation would see me shipped home in disgrace. So hats off to you guys for going to it and dealing with the taliban. That was the other thing, the taliban, if they're not planting IEDs, they're growing opium or shutting down schools. Is there anything they do that isn't evil villainy?