Can anyone tell me why this isnt complete bollocks

[Tim Streater]

I conclude from this that T r o l l is not a motorcyclist.

[T i m]

Bwhahaha ... aww, the poor goblin thinks he has got as handle on me but as with *everything* the goes on about, he's 100% wrong.

I called myself a motorcyclist in the same way I'd call myself a cyclist, car driver, boater and pedestrian ... because I am also all of those.

What I'm not is a fanatic about any of them ... so hence why I wouldn't call myself 'a biker' and in spite of maintaining / rebuilding all my own bikes and other vehicles including building the kitcar. I wouldn't call myself 'a petrolhead'.

But hey, whilst the Streater goblin continues to lie and try to spread FUD about me, he's not harassing someone else.

Cheers, T i m

p.s. I wonder if the Streater goblin (with his 'fine arts degree' ) would be able to handle a painting by numbers as we were about to give one to the charity shop. Might take his mind off the whole Brexit farce / collapse and calm him down a bit?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The ability to open any window in the car without having to stop and get out I find rather useful.

[FMurtz]

Where do you get tin foil and what is it used for now?

[Chris Hogg]

Specialist research suppliers such as Goodfellow

I used to have a few sq.in. of tin sheet. Malleable, a bit like thin lead sheet.

[dennis]

Its used against the old satellites with valves in them as it works better on the old stuff than this new fangled aluminium foil.

I could tell you where to get it but the mind control satellites appear to be stopping me from remembering where.

[Charles F]

I've just done some experiments with my keyless Toyota and key. The way this normally works is that the key has to be within nominally a metre of the door to be opened, and then touching the inside of the handle will unlock the car. To re-lock you touch a different marked part of the handle. In practice the distance at which it stops working is about 1.6 metres - for me full arms stretch with the key in one hand, and touching the door handle with the other.

I tried wrapping the key in aluminium foil, and one layer fully wrapped with no gaps stops it working completely, however close the key. I then put the key in a small tin (steel) box with a tight fitting lid - for size it had previously contained a bar of soap. This, surprisingly, had no effect at all, and the maximum range of working was to all intent and purposes the same.

I think it's reasonable to assume that the box reduced signal strength at the key at least to an extent, so the implication is that the maximum working distance is set by another parameter - timing of handshaking between car and key perhaps? If that's true, then keeping the key well away from the outside walls of the house should, on this car at least, stop the bridge scanner system working.

Thoughts on this?

One reassuring thing is that although this is a nice car that I like, it probably isn't on the shopping list for thieves with the technology to steal it!

Charles F

[Andrew]

But card clash will prevent any of the cards responding correctly (assuming more than 1 card in close proximity).

[Andrew]

'Back pocket' ?.

How do you stop an accomplished pocket-picker ?.

[Andrew]

making hats ?

[T i m]

Ok, but when (how often) do you do that?

I mean, *I* rarely open the rear windows on our Meriva and typically only open the passenger window if parked up and want a bit of cross draught.

Plus, the rear windows on the Meriva are still manual and I can reach both from the drivers seat (but not whilst driving obviously and my winders are on the *inside*) so not a big enough issue to require electric windows in the rear. ;-)

In many case's it's the same with central locking. It's often only me in the car so I don't need all the other doors unlocking. In fact, it's often a pain if I only press the button once, start the car and then realise my passengers can't get in (and the locking knobs aren't as easy to open as the non-electric ones).

Or if you have an electric sunroof and the person with the keys has locked the car (with your door open) gone indoors and you can't shut the sunroof.

Cheers, T i m

[Dave Plowman (News)]

All the time in this weather. ;-)

(I'm not a lover of air-con. Fine days are so rare, I'd rather open all the windows and sun roof. My other car being a convertible)

Many cars have an option for all the doors to lock when you move off. When I fitted remote locking to the old Rover (it already had key central locking) I included this.

Err, isn't that the responsibility of the driver?

[NY]

I much prefer air con to having to open the windows: it keeps the car to a comfortable temperature without the noise and strong air blast you get from opening the windows while driving. Many cars act like an organ pipe if you open the windows to the wrong amount - you get a low-frequency throbbing and end up having to open the windows far more (or open all of them) to minimise that.

The only time I open my windows is when I'm stationary to cool the car down when I return to it on a hot day, before I set off - or to clean the driver's door mirror!

Even without aircon (eg if it needs the gas replenishing) I use the blower full-on rather than driving with the windows open. The throbbing and the continuous buffeting of the turbulent air with the windows open gives me a headache quite quickly.

[Bob Eager]

Not to mention insects, pollen, etc.

[T i m]

Who knows why aluminium foil is only shiny on one side (without cheating)? ;-)

Cheers, T i m

[T i m]

Fine days may be rare in the UK but my Tinnitus doesn't appreciate the wind noise much above 30 mph. ;-(

Yeah, my mates BMW Mini Clubman did that when we drove it and I hated it. If I want all the doors locked, I'd like to decide when / if it happens.

Ok.

Technically, yes, but when driving the family car and you forget, it's handy for 'others' to do things like that easily. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

[Steve Walker]

I like air-con and I like it as cold as possible - I have been known to think that I should turn the temperature up a bit because I can see my breath!

I still sometimes drive with all four windows open instead and nearly always open them all for the first minute or so of driving in sunny weather to let the trapped hot air out, so that the air-con can then cool the interior faster.

SteveW

[NY]

I've occasionally had condensation on the *outside* of the windscreen level with the air vents when the air-con has been on too long and its cooled the glass enough to condense moisture from the air outside. It doesn't happen on a very hot day because the air is normally fairly dry, but I once left it on when the sunny day started to cloud over and (presumably) become more humid.

[tony sayer]

Try it in the microwave oven. Make sure its unplugged etc an i think you'll find as long as the base station isn't across the other side of Yorks that is.. It may well work..

[dennis]

Apparently because people like it like this. We won't get into an argument about rollers will we?