Recent content by smorris_12

I've never bought a MAF but the stories are always that non-OE ones never work right. Must be some sort of generic calibration that doesn't suit BMW ECUs. However, I've bought lots of mechanical Febi bits over the years and can't recall any problems with them. I fitted a pair of Febi N52 VANOS...

It's a different colour, looks to be the same shape.

I bet this was Google AI spitting out the idea. Modern run flats have been out for over 20 years now and people have been being rid of them for just as long.

I *think* the chief easy/hard driver is whether it's an automatic or not.

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Not wanting to be bloody minded (or even mildly disagreeable, I hate conflict) but the PDC is on the back... 😁 But, and I will stand you several pints for it, thanks for actually replying: Bloody bastards the rest of them, sitting there in their ivory flavoured towers, laughing at me with their...

There's been quite a rise in AI comments on YouTube videos, possibly as a test/training ground. I wonder if people are doing similar with forums?

That's the sort of value I'd expect to see for a working motor.You won't get an accurate reading on that with an ordinary meter; it's just too small. If you just put the probes together you'll find it'll read some small but finite value. All you can really tell is that the motor will draw current.

I'd have the one with the least number of owners and the most miles. That way it'll have been shaken down and used and probably treated better than ones that have been through many hands and only pass as museum pieces sitting unused in a garage. I don't think Z8s will be mileage sensitive like...

I've done my own tracking for years so I don't gorilla the clamp ring down like a garage will and even when I've replaced both halves and slathered the join in copper grease, a few years later I've found them where it's needed a bit of a blast from the blow torch to shift things again. So they...

Windows doesn't have any say in where files go tho. It just lobs them in the general direction of a device driver that gives it to the SSD. It takes care of everything else.

Norton has always been more of a problem than a solution. Eh? The reason for defragging HDDs was to get big files sequential to save the head banging around the place more than usual. There may be slightly more indexing involved on an SSD but any defrag savings would be several orders of...

The best solution is to never turn it off. It acts as a dehumidifier and since they got away from piston compressors, there's little fuel penalty. Certainly not on the engine sizes we're all running! This is that has always confused me. I did think it was illegal but have always been surprised...

There was quite a good YouTube video I saw recently of someone a good job of it that having bought a little vacuum pump. Found it:

One of my PDC sensors has decided that it's bored of looking out of its little round window in the bumper and has gone off for a little mission of its own inside. Maybe it's doing some cleaning and tidying, I'm not sure. So, a question for those who are forever removing bumpers before I join...