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So picking up my new car tomorrow and stuff. Kirby can I steal your couch for tonight. My beer is done secondary fermentation on monday as well so I will be picking up a keg amd some bottling equipment.
Congrats on new car... mine smells like new car and cigs, don't ask me how that's possible... but that's the way it is.
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It's pretty nice, a Passat TDI Highline. The diesel will be nice and torquey with really good fuel economy.
I doubt it will happen in NA any time soon, but a lot of Brits are switching back to gas cars because the Diesels are being hit with new regs and taxes some where they require a separate tank full of "blue" (more or less pigs ****) for emissions and won't even start without said tank being partially full. I personally was expecting to own a diesel Mustang in the next few years, but it's looking like LPG may be the way to go on larger cars.
Our Fire Brigade recently got new trucks in with these tanks, who seriously makes an emergency response vehicle with an emissions required fluid that disables the vehicle if it's empty...
Our Fire Brigade recently got new trucks in with these tanks, who seriously makes an emergency response vehicle with an emissions required fluid that disables the vehicle if it's empty...
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Most vehicles here, including my passat, take DEF. They will run without it, but extended use without it can derate your engine. And at 1 tank per 4-5 tanks of fuel it's not a huge issue. Especially on my car were one tank is almost 2000 km.
Call Dori's cell laters.
The stuff here is a separate tank and is injected into the exhaust (I dunno if it's pre/post-cat) so it has no effect on the engine which is why it's odd that it can decide whether a vehicle will start or not.
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=83046
I'm coming back to the states soon and look forward to being berated by hippies with bike racks (usually attached to SUVs or worse) berating me at the fuel pumps for killing the planet with my less than 5K miles per year "race" car. I'm no genius, but my commute car has always been my cheapest car and my fun car get used on weekends and at the track only, unless odd situations like here in the UK arise: my cummute is 4 miles round trip so I've been using the "race" car mostly. When we get to North Carolina in a few months I'll likely pick up a good MPG car depending on the commute, besides my goal for the Mustang will likely net a 4mpg car and it's bad enough at 10 :p
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=83046
I'm coming back to the states soon and look forward to being berated by hippies with bike racks (usually attached to SUVs or worse) berating me at the fuel pumps for killing the planet with my less than 5K miles per year "race" car. I'm no genius, but my commute car has always been my cheapest car and my fun car get used on weekends and at the track only, unless odd situations like here in the UK arise: my cummute is 4 miles round trip so I've been using the "race" car mostly. When we get to North Carolina in a few months I'll likely pick up a good MPG car depending on the commute, besides my goal for the Mustang will likely net a 4mpg car and it's bad enough at 10 :p
Perrin, ****** Superhero wrote:
I'm coming back to the states soon and look forward to being berated by hippies with bike racks (usually attached to SUVs or worse) berating me at the fuel pumps for killing the planet with my less than 5K miles per year "race" car.
I like getting in arguments with those kinds of people, or even better, hybrid owners. When they get all up in my face, I pull the "Well, I telecommute for work, so my carbon footprint is tiny compared to anyone who drives to their job. Put that in your Prius and smoke it." card.
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Aliekber wrote:
Perrin, ****** Superhero wrote:
I'm coming back to the states soon and look forward to being berated by hippies with bike racks (usually attached to SUVs or worse) berating me at the fuel pumps for killing the planet with my less than 5K miles per year "race" car.
I like getting in arguments with those kinds of people, or even better, hybrid owners. When they get all up in my face, I pull the "Well, I telecommute for work, so my carbon footprint is tiny compared to anyone who drives to their job. Put that in your Prius and smoke it." card.
I like the idea of earth friendly, just not for the reasons most people do. I love auto sports, but my car makes roughly 200HP more than factory and has cleaner emissions than stock... yet I fail certain states because I have 2 cats instead of 4... um ok. When I first moved to the UK I failed emissions because I had too much 02 in the readings. I had to tune my car to burn fuel less efficiently in order to pass...
As to those sorts of people, I've not really run into any in the UK but in Colorado it happened all the time. I'm thinking NC won't be too bad but I could be wrong.
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