So... what car do you guys drive when not flying?

[Quickstatus]

40psi

38 LC200 - based on observed tyre wear
42 VW Passat Alltrack based on observed tyre west

 

[JessicaTam]

Is that what is recommended for a Defender, or do you have other reasons to go what seems rather high? I notice @jb747 agrees so I'm interested in why. The recommended pressure for my Everest are 35psi, moderate laden.

The Defender is recommended from about 38 and up. Vehicle manufacturers will generally specify a little low to give better comfort. Tyre manufacturers will go higher for better performance. I take a happy medium.

Oh, this is on Maxxis M/T. When I have the road tyres on I go to about 42.

 

[Quickstatus]

IONIQ5

Logged on at exactly 1259 pm. Started doing configuration and at 1301pm the IONIQ5 was sold out.

Orders opened at 1300 for 120 vehicles

 

[TheRealTMA]

Logged on at exactly 1259 pm. Started doing configuration and at 1301pm the IONIQ5 was sold out.

Orders opened at 1300 for 120 vehicles

Quite a few people are buying immediately whatever they can get then reselling them after delivery I suspect.

 

[jb747]

Tyre pressures should be a variable. You adjust them as needed. For on road use, a higher pressure minimises sidewall flex, and thus temperature, and holds the thread open. Off road, you shouldn't be going so fast that side wall flex causes too high a temperature, and the lower pressure allows the tyre some degree of flexibility around sharp objects. When I've travelled any distance off road, I've lowered the pressures as much as reasonable. I'm limited in that my RRS has huge brakes, and so 20 inch wheels are the smallest I can use. About 25 psi is as low as I can go. I actually have a second set of wheels, at 21 inch, for on road use, and they're always at 40 psi.

 

[Quickstatus]

Tyre pressures should be a variable

There is reason why the “50 psi club” exists on YouTube.

I’ve been as low as 12psi (deliberately)

 

[jakeseven7]

Has anyone got / known anyone who has got a Polestar 2 yet?

Running ruler over it or waiting for Polestar 3 (but that might be a while).

 

[kookaburra75]

I wish

It even had a picnic basket and a box of wine in the back

 

[JessicaTam]

I wish
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It even had a picnic basket and a box of wine in the back

Brilliant!

 

[kookaburra75]

Brilliant!

MrsK inquired whether I could use my skills from my misspent youth, but I sadly had to report that my ability to hot-wire cars had been lost. She asked 'why'!

 

[JohnM]

I hear the tyre pressure comments above, but as someone who is likely to drive several to many hundred clicks on bitumen before potentially heading back and forth between that and marbles-like lateritic gravel in the SW of WA or onto a mix of something like those marbles and usually pretty solid dirt (often at its best better than bitumen) with some bits of more ragged stoney stuff/washouts in the WA wheatbelt/goldfields and wanting to stick to cruising speed, I don't want to be constantly fiddling my pressures. So the compromise for me is to go with the tyre placard pressure.

But I keep a compressor with me. And of course, for anything rough, I pressure and speed-down - but I don't pressure-up. 50psi on pea-gravel doesn't sound too good to me.

 

[Cossie]

I wish
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It even had a picnic basket and a box of wine in the back

Actually I have seen two on the road this trip, one last week in Austria and one a few hours ago when I was driving to Berlin Airport, it’s good that they are being driven.

That number plate would be highly sought after as well.

 

[tgh]

Mining the archives here.. be kind please...
The older brother of one of my friends bought one of the first e types , it raised considerable jealousy among our group ,as we were not allowed to even touch it let alone sit in it...
I had a longstanding Jaguar "thing" after almost wetting myself with excitement at a the very British glory of new 3.4MK1 with electric overdrive seen at the Melbourne motor show.
I had been telling a local farmer about my adventure driving the local boy wonders v8 Chev Impala convertible and he offered me a drive of his MK1 2.4 manual . With customary confidence I was punting it along , came to a curve in the road and almost ran out.. it was a bloody truck!!
Used to an FJ Holden that had incipient roll oversteer on tap all the time, the Jaguar actually had to be driven…what a let down...

 

[kookaburra75]

Mining the archives here.. be kind please...
The older brother of one of my friends bought one of the first e types , it raised considerable jealousy among our group ,as we were not allowed to even touch it let alone sit in it...
I had a longstanding Jaguar "thing" after almost wetting myself with excitement at a the very British glory of new 3.4MK1 with electric overdrive seen at the Melbourne motor show.
I had been telling a local farmer about my adventure driving the local boy wonders v8 Chev Impala convertible and he offered me a drive of his MK1 2.4 manual . With customary confidence I was punting it along , came to a curve in the road and almost ran out.. it was a bloody truck!!
Used to an FJ Holden that had incipient roll oversteer on tap all the time, the Jaguar actually had to be driven…what a let down...

I know person in the past who owned an E-Type. He had work done on the suspension and brakes, with modern components being added that made the car more drivable, or more to the point, less crashable. Apparently there are a lot of after market kits for old British sports cars

 

[Cossie]

Not even sports cars, you can buy completely new mk1 and mk2 Escort bodies, panels made in the UK, not cheap thin Chinese copies.

 

[Quickstatus]

mk1 and mk2 Escort bodies

Do you have a link. Might be good for electrification. Is subframe included

 

[Cossie]

There was a company building these using Chinese panels, but the body fit was appalling and needed a lot of extra work, can’t remember their name, but this company is meant to be good.

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[jb747]

It even had a picnic basket and a box of wine in the back

Good picnic if you need an entire box of wine!

I have two friends with E-Types. One has had his for over 40 years, during which time he's rebuilt it a couple of times. The other belongs to an ex QF engineer, who rebuilt it from a very poor state. It's a work of art now.

 

[Cossie]

There is a guy in the next suburb over that has rebuilt a Jaguar SS 120. Wrote a workshop manual as it proceeded, superb!

 

[Quickstatus]

Thinking of doing a car repaint. Recommendations please on how much to strip out and paint recommendations - number of layers etc

Vehicle still driven