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• Any question answered...

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 22 hours

  

  one dérailleur chain... and two quick links is the answer

  This is why I love this place! What a great idea.

  singlespeed HG splined sprockets

  Yes.

• Any question answered...

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 10 hours

  

  Chain advice

  1. What's the go to budget 3/32" chain (single speed)?
     
  2. What's the go to budget 9 speed chain (1x9)?
     
  3. Whats the easiest quick link to remove for 3/32" and 1x9 (to swap between chains)
     
     

  Cheers.

• Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 4 hours

  

  Stateside, but a pretty smashing deal on a 904cc air-cooled Thruxton: https://www.triumphrat.net/triumph-motor­cycles-for-sale-wanted-usa-canada/957592­-2009-thruxton-5500-boise-idaho.html

  (obvs £/$ makes a less good deal than it would have been)

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 4 hours

  

  I don't have a proper jack or supports - just the spare tyre one - so it sounds like it's best done by a garage.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 6 hours

  

  Have you checked the ARB links?

  Is there an easy way to do this?

  Googling also brought this up as a possible reason for the knocking.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 8 hours

  

  Thanks for the replies. Decided to book it in for another look. £40p/h investigation which seems reasonable to me.

  @Dammit - what about going old school with a piece of paper with the cities and route numbers?

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 6 hours

  

  • ~35k mk6 golf 4 door auto
    
  • consistent in the sense that if you go over a bump on the driver side at a moderate speed it makes a noise
    
  • idk if the size of the bumps makes a difference, I'll check. Going over them slowly enough will prevent the noise.
    
  • Haven't tried trying to recreate the noise, but apparently the garage gave it a good shake - things like grabbing the wheels when lifted and checking for play.
    
  • Indy garage. Mrs. H felt they were legit.
    
    

  I know noises on cars are notoriously difficult to locate, but it really does feel like it's coming from the rear driver side corner. I still wonder if whatever she drove over it stuck somewhere.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 6 hours

  

  Bumping my previous post. If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it. Cheers.

  So the noise in my car...

  The sound is coming form the rear driver's side (if you drive over the passenger side there's no noise).

  • The sound is like the noise made when you drive over a manhole cover - sort of heavy metallic du-dum.
    
  • The sound is made when going over bumps.
    
    

  The garage had a good look at the car - taking the underside protective covers off and giving the wheels a good shake. They couldn't spot anything visibly. My OH said that they gave it a pretty thorough looking over.

  We took everything out of the boot (except the spare tyre). I had a good look at the spare and found some loose bolts that I bagged up.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 6 hours

  

  Cheers. That's useful.

  I think I got one with the passenger extra.

• Religion. Discuss ( or should that be argue )

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 6 hours

  

  Without religion the world would probably be a more peaceful place.

  Venezuela?

  Chinese Uyghurs*?

  Criticise me if you like... They all bleat on about “one true god”

  Bit ignorant to assume all religion follows the Judeo-Christian tradition.

  *although I guess if they weren't Muslim in the first place there wouldn't have been an issue, so you're probably right, it's their fault.