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You'd know if you got a puncture at 70 (I have) the car's handling goes all over the place.
Besides the monitoring system (I've seen plenty) and non are totally reliable.
2 examples, When I worked at Renault, the detectors would go off, without the tyre going flat. The "fix" was to either replace the whole system (4 sensors, receiver box and related wiring) or to reset the parameters from 2psi to 99psi, thus by-passing the system.
Mum's Mercedes has a sensor which goes off if the tyre loses 0.5psi.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
A 2.5Di Transit pushrod engine will do 400,000 on the same oil. A 2.4TDCi overhead cam Transit engine will break if you look at it wrong.
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Ridiculous prices though and totally over engineered- if Pete Cornish made door handles thses would be his...
http://www.dline.com/brands/d-line/underside-1/
£120 for a set over lever handles + you have to have a special lock which costs another £70..! But amazing quality- the onlyhardware ever specified by Norman Foster and Richard ROgers' practices...
When I did my house up in Shep Bush I blagged £5000 quids worth off them as a favour to me for all the years I worked for them- the bathroom fittings are amazing...
http://www.dline.com/brands/d-line/underside-1/
And lifetime warranty...
The guy that designed them all, Knud Holscher, diesigned the Porsche push bike and also the world's definative colostomy bag...and he designed the famous Danish coffee pot tht you can knock over and doesn't spill...
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What was the recall on the Prius a few years ago, wasn't it a fly by wire brake problem or something wasn't it?
I will never understand the over engineering of actuators and solenoids/relays operated by a digital pulse and digital technology.
Definitely prefer mechanical designs and simpler ABS pumps and wheel sensors reading the cogs for example of you want some degree of traction control. But even that was crap. LSD are advanced for me and they are mechanical.
I guess digital has it's advantages, but it gets to a point where the whole of your house heating, lighting, blind control and media won't work if there is a solar flare or your IPad Air battery goes. Killing people in foreign lands by digital tech remote drones is definitely the ultimate in digital technological advancement, but again it creates more problems than it solves.
Ultimately I think we should go back to the water wheel.
Cars that run on computer chips are just wrong.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Air migrates through rubber. Truck tires can lose 2 psi per month as a result of air passing through their sidewalls – like a balloon that shrivels up, but much slower.
That’s why regular inflation pressure checks are a must. Even if there’s nothing “wrong,” you can still be losing pressure.
And, when oxygen passes through rubber, it can come into contact with steel cords, causing them to rust too.
Between aging rubber and corroding steel cords, oxygen reduces retreadability.
And it was on Simon Mayo's homework sucks so much be true
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein