Barry

For free food and a sightseeing trip around Dubai, it sounds like a good deal. Free food is always the best. The only downside is that you have to admit that you're a grown man playing Pokemon.

If you do the crime you should do the time. I don't see why fines should be discounted on any occasion. They're supposed to act as a deterrent and if you know that your fine will only be half of what it should be, it doesn't really deter you much.

What's racist about it? Just to clarify, I'm not racist at all. I dislike all people in equal amounts.

Singapore are getting autonomous taxis, http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/1/12337516/delphi-self-driving-car-service-singapore Its not even the fact that I don't want to ride in one of these things, I don't want to be on a road with them.

The problem is not the area the work is done in, it's the people doing the work. Pay peanuts, you get monkeys. I've tinted windows both indoors and outdoors and had very few problems. The surface of the glass has to be perfectly washed and squeegeed then covered in soap and any bubbles can be removed no problem whilst applying the film.

This refers to another problem with autonomous vehicles, Australia plans new co-ordinates to fix sat-nav gap http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36912700 Countries, entire continents are constantly moving due to the tectonic plates of the earth constantly shifting. Australia for example as show. In the above link, moves 7cm per year. If some of these cars are relying on GPS to navigate, 7 cm can be a hell of a lot when it comes to road positioning. 7cm can be the difference in passing safely or clipping a wing mirror or worse, a corner to corner head on crash. 7cm can be the difference between driving on the road or putting a wheel off the road into the sand and causing a high speed rollover. Bear in mind that this 7cm shift is every year. After 2 years it is 14cm, after 3 years it is 21cm etc etc. The Australians are compensating for this by overcompensating which means that the GPS position on the road will not be correct until 2020 whilst they wait and hope for technology to catch up which means the GPS system will never be accurate. In my eyes, this is nowhere near good enough. Do I want to be a passenger in an autonomous vehicle which thinks it's 21 cm away from where it actually thinks it is? Hell no.

Let's say there's is an average of 15% loss of power through the transmission, if the quoted figure of 1750 is wheel horsepower, the engine is producing 2012 horsepower. If the quoted figure is horsepower at the flywheel, there is 1487 horsepower at the wheels. Either way, it's still telephone numbers, a couple of hundred horsepower either way won't make a noticeable difference.

Poor Samir. Maybe he should just listen to the co driver?

Electric cars actually began in the 1800's, long before the first combustion engine car was produced. Although, here is one from the 1940's that caught my eye. The 1942 Oeuf électrique, or electric egg, had three wheels and ran on batteries decades after gasoline became the dominant way to power cars, and decades before Elon Musk decided to make electricity cool again. Its designer, Parisian Paul Arzens, worked as a painter and designed railway locomotives before moving on to cars. The bubble is made of hand-formed aluminum and curved Plexiglass, a novel material at the time.

That wasn't so bad. At least he didn't hit anything. But did you see the way the GTR flew past the M5 when he got going? That's the difference in horsepower and HORSEPOWER.

25 Lessons for Driving in Dubai 1. If your road map is more than a few weeks old throw it out and get a new one. 2. If you are in Rashidiya and your map is one day old, then it is already obsolete 3. Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. Dubai has its own version of traffic rules, which can be summarized as 'Hold on and pray!' 4. If it is your priority to cross, forget it and wait. 5. There is no such thing as dangerous high-speed chase in Dubai. Everyone drives like that. 6. When you plan to get a new car, ask first about its acceleration for 89 to 160 km/h (recommended: 3 seconds). Very important if you frequently use the Emirates Road. 7. All directions starts with Sheikh Zayed Road, which has no beginning and no end. 8. The morning rush hour is from 5:00 AM TO 1:00PM. The evening rush hour is from 1:00 PM to 10:00 PM. 9. Thursday's rush hour starts Wednesday evening. 10. If you slow down at a yellow light, you will be knocked behind by another motorist and then awarded a white ticket by the Dubai Police. 11. If you are the first one at the intersection when the light turns green, ignore the car honking behind you and count to five to avoid crashing into one of the cars jumping the red light. 12. Construction on all main roads is a way of life and a permanent form of entertainment. 'Sorry for the inconvenience' is an honor for your long-suffering. 13. All unfamiliar sights are explained by the phrase, 'Oh, we must be in Sharjah!' 14. Car horns are actually toys for Adults. 15. Anyone in a Land Cruiser, Tuned Patrol, Tahoe, Dodge, BMW or Mercedes with less than 5 digits in their number plate and tinted windows, has the right of way. Period! 16. If you are driving a Corolla, Sunny, or another Japanese car, stay on the far right lane. No comment! 17. Most roads mysteriously change names as you cross underneath intersections or bridges. 18. To ask directions, you must have good knowledge of Hindi/ Malayalam/ English. 19. A trip across town will take a minimum of four hours, although Sheikh Zayed Road has an un-pestered minimum speed of 150 Km/h. 20. It is sobering to realize the local Arab are taught how to drive by Malayalees. 21. 18 wheeler trucks are one of the fastest vehicles in Dubai; they can do 120 km/h on Hatta-Oman Road when fully loaded. 22. The minimum acceptable speed on the Emirates Road is 160 km/h. Anything less is considered downright sissy. 23. Al Khail Road is Dubai's daily version of NASCAR. 24. Dubai Autodrome has a new extension: The Emirates Road. 25. People staying in Umm Al Quawain reach Dubai faster than People staying in Sharjah.

All around I see cars abandoned. I mean obviously, totally abandoned, like they have been there for 6 months or more and are covered in dust. What happens to these cars? I assume they don't just get left there or the city would run out of parking spaces. Do these cars become available for sale anywhere or just get taken to a yard and left there?

Spotted these suitcases in mall of the Emirates and thought they were pretty cool. Expensive though at 950 Dirhams. Would be hard to make either. Got me thinking, I used to make table lamps like the one below out of old camshafts. Clean the oil off, bit of black spray paint on it, stick a bulb holder on and I got £100 (500 AED) for them. I also made a few animals out of old crankshafts for people as gifts. What other cool stuff have you seen made from old car parts?

An engine is only designed to hold oil in the sump. If you turn an engine full of oil upside down, the oil will find its way out anywhere it can. Dipstick tube, breather pipes, filler cap etc. Technically speaking, when an engine has been upside down, you should remove the spark plugs and clear the cylinders because sometimes oil can find its way into the cylinder resulting in hydrolocking when you try to start it. I was lucky enough that it started without any problems.

There are plenty of documented accidents involving autonomous cars, the latest fatal Tesla crash being one of the most famous, http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/30/12072408/tesla-autopilot-car-crash-death-autonomous-model-s I would never trust a computer to drive a car for me. The computerised Dubai train system is a fantastic thing but it's on rails, it has nothing to crash into. The open road is a whole other story. There are just too many variables and unknowns. The Tesla didn't see a 40 foot truck? What else is it not going to see? What happens if the road becomes covered in sand and the car can't see it anymore? What if the white line is obscured? What if there is a break in the roadside barrier? Check this out, an autonomous car almost swerving into another car which is only saved by the drivers quick reactions, There are plenty of other videos showing near misses which were only avoided by the driver taking action. One question I would like to raise is, how many of these people promoting autonomous vehicles would be prepared to give up their own vehicles and travel exclusively autonomously for the rest of their life? I don't think there would be very many.

I was going to suggest checking the engine and gearbox mounts. The only solution to the problem is to change them. Labour wise, it's not a massive job. It just involves putting a jack under the engine/gearbox, unbolting the old ones and bolting the new ones in. The price of the parts may be a different story. Phone around and get quotes.

It's pretty easy to test AC systems for leaks. It involves putting a dye into the system, charging it with gas then looking at all the pipes, connectors etc. through special glasses. The dye will come out through the hole and when you are wearing the glasses, you will see it kind of glowing and see exactly where the leak is. I agree with the above though, it's probably one of the Schrader valves. If it's not that, it's likely to be an O-ring. One thing you can do is to pour soapy water onto the valves and you might be able to see bubbles coming which would indicate that's the problem.

I'll start you off with one of mine, my Toyota Corolled. I was coming around a corner 'enthusiastically' with the back end out. The back wheel touched a manhole and I flipped onto my roof. Had to walk 6 miles home that night in the rain with no shoes on. I was really bummed about it because it was probably the most reliable car I ever owned. All I ever had to do was put petrol in it. It was so reliable that I went back the next morning with a tractor, flipped it back onto it's wheels, put oil in it and a battery and managed to drive it home.

The tilt on the wheels is called camber. Stance is how a car sits and includes camber, ride height, tyre and wheel width etc.

It's called camber. You can adjust it to control how much of the surface of your tyre touches the road. Very useful if you have a race car. But now the kids do it because it 'looks cool'.

Diesels don't have spark plugs, they have glow plugs which are a different thing altogether. Glow plugs are used to help start cold engines. They warm up the fuel that is injected into the cylinder to make it easier to ignite by compression. When you try to start a cold Diesel engine, a lot of the heat generated by the compression is absorbed by the cold engine block/liners, therefore the fuel is colder and harder to ignite. Diesels run better when they're hot.

Why does Sheikh Mo have 2 aerials? I also love the idea of shutting off their AC. Would be a good idea to also pull the fuse out of the electric windows.

How do you get 100 Pikachus on a bus? You POKEMON! But seriously, it's getting crazy now. I've read reports of people walking along train tracks in England and people walking through minefields, I think that was in Bosnia. Maybe we should just let these people get on with it and let natural selection take its course. How are humans ever supposed to evolve it we keep saving the stupid ones to let them breed and add to the gene pool.

ADCB metro station for example, Karama ADCB would have been a much better name. That way it's still named after the area it's in but the big companies still get their advertising.

I always hear people talking about US spec versus GCC spec but I'm relatively new here so I don't really understand it. It's just a different cooling system right? So what's the problem with buying a US spec car and fitting a better water pump and thicker radiator?