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My fuel light is on --- brace yourself

Alignment done - £35 for partial alignment as the rear was good - duration circa 25 minutes - clearly an indicator that the price quoted in the original post is pie in the sky stuff

You mean the dozen or so cycling taking up a road space that takes thousands of cars each day into one of the busiest city in the England? of which it has a few dozen charge points to charge up EVs- and probably get fined £100 in the process for staying too long I have no anger issues, just a brain - I suggest you drive down to Bristol and see how bad it is - then factor in major arterial roads getting basically chopped in half for a few bikes, not only are you increasing polution due to congestion you are making it ever more worse for emergency services to navigate the ever ending mayhem. A brain its called

They will sure miss the £600+ VED on my car, they blamed Covid for everything previously - now they are blaming Putins WW3 - oil war on the west.

I like a good watch and have a few in my collection worth 'a bit' and they can say much about someone - I am not a fan of Rolex, they do very good watches no doubt but much of it is due to marketing, ask anyone in the world to name a prestigious watch and they will most likely say Rolex - what they wont mention is IWC, Audemars-Piguet, Grand Seiko, A. Lange & Söhne, Vacheron Constantin, Patek Philippe and probably others I missed. A good watch is an investment and you cannot underestimate the craftsmanship and skill involved in making the watches mentioned, like this

With the on going saga with petrol and diesel prices - A lithium battery car fire took Firemen 4 hours to put out, using 9000 L of water; 5 Fire Engines; 1 water tender; 2 Fire Battalion Chiefs & 1 Hazmat Officer to control the scene. They had to turn the car on its side to access the lithium battery to put the fire out. A lithium battery-powered bus in China caught fire & spread the fire to a total of 50 adjacent lithium battery buses. and.... Totaled Tesla goes up in flames three weeks after crash a pit and 20,500 L of water were needed to put it out and.. It was a lithium battery on a WV all-electric car that caused the fire that sank an entire car carrier ship in the Atlantic ocean -- check the google When PG&E shut the power off for a week during the Northern CA wildfires, no one could charge their EV cars (unless they had a gas or diesel powered generator)—time they didn’t have to spend charging them during immediate evacuations. Those who couldn’t— who had to abandon their lithium battery car during emergent evacuations—when their lithium battery car caught fire, it created a toxic magenta-pink ash cloud. A single Tesla battery weighing 1,000 pounds requires extracting & processing some 500,000 pounds of materials. At this rate, over the next 30 years, we will need to mine more mineral ores than humans have extracted over the last 70,000 years -- forecast for EVs between 2030-2035 will mean tens of Billions of batteries need mining Tyres on a EV need to be replaced much sooner than on a ICE car - so add burned tyres to the climate change manifesto. people still think its about the climate? I said it a few times, but the problem with society now is we are too dumb and dont question anything - the smart people always ask questions when things go awry, I am a Electronic Engineer with first hand experience working with lithium batteries and I am asking questions every day in my job about everyting I come across, let alone what is going on in the world over the last few years - so batteries, I know all about them - I have rigged up a basic but still quite dangerous 100W solar panel in my new shed to feed my outdoor lighting in the new decking area I have done, its good for that kinda stuff - EVs are a different kettle of fish entirely, the majority of people have simply no idea what they are getting into All we are told is they are saving the planet which is absolute BS, to put it mild.

Well this has turned, the thread can you read the topic? Good lad now do as you previously mentioned.. jog on. Since you mentioned my coffee is done with my trusty gaggia titanium, and has served well for about 4000 cups now, double shot works every time.

You are getting ripped off, it's just that you don't know it. People can make their own mind up as to what a rip of is, one's disposable income has nowt to do with it, but dealer's need to get money from someone

I don't need to apologise, I just dont like getting ripped off is all - changing spark plugs, oil and fluids is as easy job for any semi competent person to do, and in many cases you can do a better job than a main dealer by taking more care and attention and using far higher quality materials than they ever would. I may not be a mechanic but I am an Engineer and can do most jobs at hand, I paid £300 to an electrician to do basic outside work and he done a bodge job, took forever, installed a CCTV camera in the wrong place and never revisited to move it where it should be, he also took junction box glands of mine which were not his, so I am finishing the taks myself and got dewalt tools to enable me to do so - I would have done a better job myself and pocketed the £300 The post was about wheel alignment and he was getting ripped off, garages rip off people - Lexus included

So I hurt your feelings? I said on my post, especially older cars. But old or new they won't burn themselves on high end parts, just your wallet.

Why is it ignorant? You think a dealer will fit high performance parts as part of a service? Heck you would be lucky if they used decent quality oil. But whatever floats your boat

Dont know why people do not fix their own car, Lexus or otherwise - its madness especially on older cars - I am not even a mechanic but do most of the work myself on my car - certainly all the fluids and spark plugs - brakes I will leave to my indy - give him the parts let him fit. £96 to my indy last year to fit and install 4 x MTEC slotted discs and Brembo pads and 1 rear caliper, purchased OEM refurbished (£100) - I gave him the parts, discs were £174 and pads £82 for the front and £31 for rear - total cost £493 and you wont get parts of that quality fitted at a dealer

I've a booking Friday next, it's £70 inc the VAT, that's with a Hunter system. It's a place outside Bristol

And adding pointless bike lanes - and park and rides -- in Yate they spent £4.5 million on a park and ride that no body uses, and idiotic bike lanes to Bristol taking up valuable road space heading into one of the most congested cities in England. Bristol has so many charging points its like the land of the future Its like they are deliberately wearing out the patience of people

Would believe you

You forgot to add gradual decommissioning of combustion engine cars to that. The world is no different now than it was 10 years ago, the only difference is whatever scaremongering bull government's tell you.

All one can do is give advice, if an owner wants to pay 100 plus for alignment that's their decision

For standard alignment ? that is a rip off -- for 4 wheel correction with a Hunter or such its still a bit much -- I would go back to what I said previously and query if your Lexus Ct needs camber/toe etc adjusted? the majority of cars dont - sports orientated ones probably will I had a sticky rear caliper on my Subaru - if you jack up the car and spin the wheels, then hit the brakes and try again -- if the caliper is sticking it wont spin - I got an after market part as OEM ones far too much money for what they are.

EU shamed: Russia rakes in £79.4bn in energy exports since start of war: 'Support Ukraine' THE EU has been shamed as Russia made £79.4billion during the first 100 days of the Ukraine war from the sale of oil and gas according to a new report. By JAMES LEE 11:16, Mon, Jun 13, 2022 | UPDATED: 11:16, Mon, Jun 13, 2022 So you could argue this 'war' is an elaborate scheme to accelerate the decomissioning of combustion cars arsoss developed countries Air pollution stinks in major cities all over the world - moving to EVs wont fix it -- why? because combustion cars have basicaly zero contribution towards global greenhouse gases in the UK itself, globally most of the contribution is from coal and the 20 or so firms behind a third of greenhouse emissions world wide if you think EVs are a good idea go outside in this fine weaather and burn your laptop and smarthpone and take a few sniffs I suspect the ones in agreement that everyone needs an EV to save the planet are the same ones who were listening to 'experts' about flattening the curve and taking as many experimental drugs as necessary to do so. on a side note - -1.99/L for VPower today

The USA is in the same boat with this fuel price nonsense, they get over 80% of oil from Canada But the excuse American's are told is Ukraine war hence

'Fast' For how long? a pricey Jaguar IPace will get about 200 miles on a tank doing 70mph, so less than half of my 14 year old 6 pot Subaru which can go further, quicker, I can get around 35mpg doing this speed constantly and with its full time AWD with 50:50 bias and a torsen LSD it will handle superior to a EV with its monstrous battery packs on board

Blaming COVID and the Ukraine war for everything is absolutely bullock, Shell and BP are just laughing at us mere mortals. This is just pure greed and gradually wearing the patience out of people to get rid of perfectly normal gasoline cars to turn them to digital automated sheep for the digital age of 2030 As for EVs, they are not for me for 3 reasons. 1. I drive quite brisk and had I am EV I would a) have to spend about £100k for one that can do 500 miles on a single charge, or b) suck up a bog standard one that will have me charging the damn thing up every other day and between long runs and having me stay in hotels overnight The Subaru of mine (3 litres) been to Ireland in the last few weeks, Co Kerry on a single tank - from South Gloustershire, that is driving at around 60mph average I would think also as well as plenty of runs near to 80mph Get me a EV that can do that..unless you are driving like miss daisy you wont - we are told oh, EVs are quick - well yes they are up to about 5 seconds, try maintaining that speed eh? see how your range anxiety is then 2. They are dull as a dishwasher to drive, dont get me started 3. Combiustion cars in the UK contruibe basically nil greenhouse gases globally, its not the cars that is the problem its multinational companies and coal that is the chief culprit but governments and science eperts are making you feel guilty about the planet

Hunter and other systems like that read camber, castor and toe settings from the reg plate and the wheel attachments are used to see what's going on and information is sent back to the display where the fitter can see what needs adjusting. It's more involved than Lazer tracking which is suitable for most cars, indeed I would question if the CT200h needs full on alignment in the first place and the two hours suggested seems pure folly, rip of at it's finest

You might be confusing Lazer tracking with full alignment, I doubt you can get hunter alignment or such for much less than 70, for the standard tracking about 30/40 tops seems to be fair price

2 hours is bull, that would make me walk in the fist instance. To a compdetent person its 30/40 minutes tops