Barry

@umarcrespo333 the problem with buying a cheap one is that you don't need it until you have an accident. By that stage it is too late to find out that it's crap. @Gaurav search on pistonheads forum. There's always regular discussions on them. I don't take much notice but it's work having a read.

I love the modern retro style. This will be crazy expensive though and the vw fanbois will keep the second hand prices up.

Don't need a license for the desert, that's the beauty of it. Through one thing and another and me getting screwed so many times I still haven't managed to take my test but I still made it to the desert and loved every minute of it.

Can't recommend a specific brand but I can recommend buying 2. One for the front and one for the back. 90% of the accidents here seem to be rear end collisions. It's good to keep your ass covered, literally speaking.

The beach and the desert are 2 completely different animals. Beach sand is compacted and full of sea shells. It's nearly impossible to get stuck unless you're dicking around. The sand in the desert varies. It's always moving. You can hit a soft spot and get buried into the axles very easily. You won't face 30 meter dunes on the beach, you won't fall into bowls at the bottom of dunes etc. I just want you to know what you're getting into. Yes it's still sand, but it's very different sand.

If it's your first time, I'd recommend going on one of the Carnity desert drives. You'll be safe and if you get stuck, someone will be there to pull you out. Learn the basics before you go out alone.

Hi Byron. Welcome to Carnity!

With the regards to overnight storage of electricity generated from solar, Tesla are currently building the worlds largest lithium ion battery, 130 MWh iirc, for a wind farm in Australia. Wether this will be used for long term storage or like a giant capacitor to balance things out, I'm not sure, but it does show that we are moving in the right direction. Obviously though, it will not be possible to build thousands of giant lithium ion batteries due to the limited supply of lithium and the impact on the environment. Maybe Zinc-air will become a viable solution? There is also the option of building huge salt water batteries. Salt water is something we're not short of.

I have some Xbox360 games for sale. 45dhs per item or will consider swap for any version of Guitar Hero with controllers Grand Theft Auto 5 Call of Duty Ghosts Call of Duty Black Ops Watch Dogs Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Forza Motorsport 4 Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter If anyone wants to buy all games, I will throw in 5 days Xbox live membership free.

Eek I hate doing cooling system flushes. It's simple but time consuming and customers know it's simple so they expect it to be cheap and argue when it's not but what they don't realize is that it can take you a full day of messing about between doing other jobs, filling it, bleeding it, running it up to temperature, draining it, scalding your wrists in the process and doing it all over again 5-6 times.

Building new power stations is an issue but what's more of an issue is what's being used to fuel the power station which is mainly fossil fuels, i.e. coal, oil and gas which have limited supplies and as the supplies dwindle, the cost will go up. Some stations are using semi renewables such as willow but even that isn't a proper solution as growing it takes up a lot of land. We're a long way off nuclear being a safe option, look at Chernobyl, Sellafield, Three Mile Island, Fukushima, it takes very little for things to go wrong very quickly and when it goes wrong it really goes wrong. I think it was only last year that the sheep on a mountain in Ireland, thousands of miles away from Chernobyl got passed for human consumption due to fallout. The real solution is all around us. It's the wind, water, sun. All completely renewable and all completely free. I still can't understand why the UAE is using gas and working on nuclear plants when there is a vast expanse of desert that could be planted with solar panels. These particular methods, wind, water, solar aren't like building a traditional power plant. You can install the units one by one and hook them up to the grid as you go along and add more to increase capacity as and when required.

We all know the Achilles heel of electric cars is and has always been the batteries. They're heavy and they don't last long enough. Scientists in Australia are now working on Zinc-Air batteries as a viable replacement for current Lithium Ion batteries. They are lighter, cheaper and have the potential to store 5 times more power than Lithium Ion. They also claim to be more environmentally friendly. The problem with them is that recharging is difficult because of the lack of suitable electrocatalysts to reduce and generate oxygen during the discharging and charging of a battery. These rather smart Australians have come up with a solution using bifunctional electrocatalysts to enable the discharge/recharge process. As it's still early days, the technology is not without its problems. After 60 120 hour cycles, the batteries lose 10% of their efficacy. So while not an immediate solution, this technology is definitely one to watch out for in the future. Like it or not, electric cars are here to stay.

I know a guy who was working on a building site in Ireland. Not the smartest guy. The dumper was low on diesel so the foreman told him to go and fill it. After 30 minutes, he still hadn't come back so the foreman went to look for him. As he went around the corner, he saw the dumper coming down the road with diesel splashing over the sides of the skip. He literally filled the dumper with diesel.

It's called plastidip

Where do you even start to clean that mess? I guess the only thing you can do is take the engine out, put it on a stand, strip it to the bare block and start with a gallon of paraffin. I'd imagine there will be clearance issues when you're putting it all back together though.

On the plus side, it will mute a rattly timing chain.

The story is that a guy was driving home late at night and it was extremely foggy. On a bad corner he saw the reflection of the eyes of a cat sitting on the wall and realized there was a corner and made it round the corner safely instead of plunging down a ravine. He then went home and invented what we know today as cats eyes. And that's how they got their name.

Some tourists are having issues with the name "cats eyes" in the U.K. and believe the British are actually removing the eyes of cats along the road so they are now being renamed road studs. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/13/cats-eyes-extinct-council-adopts-road-studs-tourists-read-signs/

Ever wonder what would happen if you put 5 litres of screenwash in the oil filler cap then drove the car?

As a mechanic, I will choose an inline engine because it's easier to work on. Ever had to lift a boxer off its mounts to change spark plugs? Or remove the engine completely just to do head work? As a driver, I'll choose the boxer. The lower center of gravity makes for good handling characteristics. Unless you're driving a 911 where the manufacturer still thinks it's a good idea to hang the engine out behind the rear wheels. But you could point out the same with Audi who hang their inline engines out over the front wheels.

Photobucket changed their policy a few weeks ago. Can't hotlink now unless you're a paid up member. Nail in the coffin methinks.

Sorry I missed you guys. Was supposed to go but I ended up working an 18 hour shift instead. Glad you all had a great time!

Buy a mustang, fit a body kit, you can be as cool as this guy

Texting and driving is a dick move. I see it every day. Put your phone down, pull over and text back. If you cant do that, deal with the consequences of an accident. my wife got in a situation, taxi driver wasnt looking where he was going. hit the back of another car. my wife is now fucked. every day i have to rub her

No issues man, Its a very cool and fast car but it's very simple to work on. I have worked on many before. The problem is people hear corvette and panic. If you need any help, PM me, I have the software to read the ECU and the experience to work on fixing it.