StevePeel

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• Coffee Appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 16 hours, 20 minutes

  

  Get a lamp timer and set it up before bed.

  Use 60g coffee and only fill the water up to 1l. If you use the full 1.25l you’ll need 75g of coffee and it will probably overflow.

• Coffee Appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 23 hours

  

  Naked portafilter on a manual lever might be messy, you get bits squirting in all directions if you haven’t got the prep absolutely perfect. You might be into it, it’s not my thing. Plus you can’t actually take advantage of watching the extraction, which is the point of the naked pf, without contorting yourself into some odd shapes whilst pushing the lever.

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

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 7 hours

  

  That’s just the sort of thing I was thinking of. Thanks.

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

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 16 hours

  

  Love it. There’s a red coupe near me.

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

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 8 hours

  

  Nice one thanks

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

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 11 hours

  

  Are trackers still a thing (for security, not for snooping)? Anyone use one? How much is reasonable for the annual monitoring fee?

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

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 18 hours

  

  The 130i is now booked in for all the various bodywork maladies to be addressed. £550 and will be done in January. Also sorted the wheels, the originals were corroded and ugly. Refurb would have been £400 and I’d lose the car for a week. I found some immaculate used wheels from a 3 series on eBay for £350, nothing fancy but very correct looking. They’re now on and fitted with a brand new set of Michelin Cross-climates.

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

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 6 hours

  

  Thanks @Nef
  @TRA I’d like mine to have the same long and busy life. I always admire cars like that because they’ve all been through several uneconomical repairs which shows the love the owner had for it. That’s why these used to be £1500 and now they’re a lot more, all the unloved ones have died or are on the way.

  @Fixedwheelnut wow that looks intense, so exciting having bodywork done.

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

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 17 hours

  

  I’ve spent this morning appreciating the aesthetics, the engineering etc too. 3000 miles in this now. I can’t really imagine how any car can be more comfortable and fit for purpose whilst being so engaging to drive.

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

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 days, 22 hours

  

  Now’s the time to start stockpiling carburettors to replace all the dead ECUs in 2040. You mark my words.

  Seriously though, I’m with @TRA above but there’s going to be problems with all cars. My mk2 Golf that I dailied up to 3 years ago developed a problem with its carburettor and no mainstream garages near me had anyone experienced in working on them (it’s a particularly complicated unit on that car) and my only solution was an uneconomical full replacement with a non-OE Weber. So even if the technology is relatively crude, the skills will die off sooner than you might expect.