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Changing the air filter won't cause it. Unless you disturbed something in the process. Have a look around to see if you have knocked a pipe or wire off or something has become loose.

My father is planning on coming to UAE on holiday soon and I want to take him shooting. We are both experienced in many calibers from 12g shotgun to .556 assault rifle. Where can we go to shoot some targets? The best I can find is Sharjah gun club but 5 dhs per shot for 9mm handgun is a joke. I don’t even want to get into their larger calibre Pricing. So where to go to shoot some targets and not get ripped off? Would even consider a clay shooting session.

I watched a pink floyd documentary a while back. It showed how they made the song “money”. Hours and hours of cutting and pasting tape and looping and relooping it. You can do that now in 5 minutes on a pc. Really puts it into perspective the amount of work that went into older music and makes you appreciate it more.

I used to work on a lot of Peugeot’s back home. Heater matrix failure was a big problem, particularly on the 306 and partner/ equivalent Citroen Xsara and berlingo. Coolant would drip on your feet when you were driving. Book time to replace was 6-7 hours. I got into a place where I could do them in an hour. Loosen a few major bolts, slide the dashboard back enough to get your hands behind it and you could fly through the job. It helps a lot when you have taken something apart before and have the proper tools in reaching distance. In doing this, I also discovered oxidation was a major problem so I added an extra earth wire on the cooling system and once repaired, it never failed again.

Sure, it's good advice. AC systems are designed to run on gas and lubricant. But there are some times a few drops of UV dye added to the lubricant will help you find a leak if you are sure there is one, hence my first advice of testing vacuum first to see if there is a leak. The dye will just help you pinpoint it. The other way is to charge the system with dried air then go around all the connections with a sponge and some soapy water but it's hard to do where there are rotating parts round the compressor and the evaporator where you can't get proper access without removing the dashboard.

Looking forward to this one coming out. Been a massive Queen fan since I was old enough to select the tape and put it in the hifi system myself. Remember tapes? Rami Malek is the man for the job. Was originally supposed to be Sacha Baron Cohen but he tried to make too many changes to the movie.

I got to drive an E30 M3 last year. The whole never meet your heroes thing was true in this instance.

Entirely possible. You can stick a vacuum on the system and leave it for a few hours and watch the manifold gauges to see if it goes down. The other alternative is to charge the system and add UV dye and look for physical leaks. BTW that diagram doesn’t seem to match the fuse panel. Are you sure it’s the original cover? Anything posted here is purely speculation. The original fault codes would help a lot.

All compressor clutches (that I know of) work through electromagnets. When you power it up, the clutch locks and the compressor spins up. Not sure what the mechanic was talking about. Get a price for the control unit from al habtoor then you can go to saaja and get a second hand one. The relay isn’t expensive new. Do you have the exact fault code the garage got from the computer? Then we will be able to advise better. If it is a pressure sensor code, I would be tempted to jump the pins in the plug and see if the compressor starts running. Crude but it wan work. Not recommended as a solution though, only for diagnosis.

Lift the lid off the fuse box under the bonnet. There will be a diagram telling you which fuse and relay is which. The one marked MG CLT is for the compressor clutch. There were a batch of faulty relays around that time and Toyota replaced them free of charge as a recall. Enter your VIN here to check if your car is affected, https://vinrcl.safercar.gov/vin/ It is also possible that the electronic control unit has failed, I have seen it happen on Toyotas before. You need someone with a proper diagnostic computer to check it.

The 32” thing was a joke. I’m stuck in a partition now and that’s the biggest screen I can fit at the end of my bed. Actively looking for a studio apartment now so hopefully we can get a bigger screen and some proper speakers.

Radio stations here suck. Radio 2 99.3 is the only one I would ever listen to. It plays "classics". Internet radio killed it all. I can tune into some random station in America and listen to Striker playing a live concert. Why would I bother with terrestrial radio?

I read the reviews of black panther and they were enough for me not to want to watch it. last movie I saw in the cinema was a quiet place. Good movie, 7.5/10 but I swore that was the last time I would ever watch a movie in the cinema. The people sitting next to us talked and talked to the point where I had enough and turned round to them and said shut the f up, if you want to talk go outside and do it. There is zero cinema etiquette here. And the food is expensive a f. 30 dhs for unbaked nachos? I'd rather watch at home on my massive 32 inch screen and enjoy my home made ice cream.

@treks you should give this album a listen to full way through. It's old but it's a classic. I always imagine if Pink Floyd started making music in the 00s, this is what they would sound like. Very progressive with a side of metal. Some really odd time signatures too. A nightmare for anyone wanting to learn guitar and play along, you need to forget everything you ever knew.

Watched Mississippi burning with the wife last night. I had seen it before but o reckoned it was one of the movies you should watch before you die so I put it on. Wife was horrified then when I told her it was a true story she was even mor horrified. Her main word through the movie were "I hate white people", and I constantly reminded her that I am white and at the end of the movie, white people saved the day. Really good thought provoking movie raising the issues of racism.

This is a nice mod

Generally most speed limits are 100kph but you can push it to 120. The road to Abu Dhabi has a 160 limit so I can understand.

Caparo T1 anyone? 1200 bhp per tonne https://www. Pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/caparo/all-models/caparo-t1/8151565

One off Civic Type R pickup built from a pre production Civic by Honda. Just for fun.

The last Metallica album Hardwired to self destruct wasn’t a bad effort. It’s no Master of Puppets but there a few decent stand out tracks on it. The majority of modern metal sucks, most of it is screamo and metalcore crap, baby’s first metal band kind of music. There are some bands making good music though. Striker from Canada put out some good stuff, like a mix of NWOBHM and speed metal. Anybody got any love for Die Antwoord? Now that’s something interesting to listen to. Just a shame they stopped making music but they haven’t officially disbanded so hopefully we’ll see something from them in the future.

Open the dash clocks, find the beeper and either unsolder it or stab it with a screwdriver. Can’t be deactivated as far as I know.

It’s a pretty even split in Ireland petrol/diesel. But mainly smaller engine petrols and big engine diesels. MPG and the price of fuel has a lot to do with it. If the fuel is costing 7-8 dhs per litre sometimes you can have a petrol car that does 20 MPG or you can have a diesel that is producing the same power and does 50 MPG. I can do 30k miles in a year so it’s a no brainier. Its a lot easier to tune diesels too. 30 minutes of tweaking a mechanical injector pump and turbo can see an extra 30 BHP for no money and not much effort. Modern stuff can see an extra 80-100 BHP with just a remap but the clutch and gearbox can suffer. Some diesels can sound good too. A straight piped Scania V8 makes a wonderful noise snoring down the road. I guess the only answer I can give is that I grew up with diesels so it’s just in my blood. Have diesel tractors on the farm and I spent a long time working as a truck and plant mechanic so there’s that too. Big V8 petrols, even V and straight 6s aren’t so common and you need to be pretty well off to run them.

https://www.wired.com/2010/12/swedish-speed-camera-pays-drivers-to-slow-down/ Stay under the speed limit and you get entered into a lottery where the prize fund comes from speeding fines.

Ok so let’s hear some car related confessions My first, me and my friends bought a Volvo 340, way before any of us was old enough to have a licence. It was my turn to drive one night. I launched off a huge jump, missed the corner and landed half way up a telegraph post and knocked it over. There were no phones in my village for 3 months and to this day, nobody knows who did it.

So what new music is everyone listening to now? I got into Ghost a few months ago, really digging the new single. Can't wait for the new album. I dont know what genre to stick them in, they're just Ghost.