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My rear running lights were out after the car sat in torrential rain for three months while I was back in the UK. Started on the LHS, and cleaned the corrosion off the bulb and bulb holder. No joy. Probing with a test light suggested an earth wire wasn't quite making contact inside the bulb...

Cars been standing for about three months, in very heavy rain (even for summer here) and high temperatures. I'd expect the high temperatures to maximise the oil drain-off from the valve gear, and the humidity to promote rust, so I had a look before I tried to start it. Oil is a roughly 1:1...

Cars leakiness hasn't really been a big issue previously since I used to park under the local raised railway line, but I recently started getting hefty fines and had to stop (This may be an unofficial "Get that heap of the street" thing, since other cars still park there, but there probably...

(Dunno why the rotation, sorry) Back in the Yook for the summer break and saw this stuff in Halfords, a UK consumer-level car accessories chain. Now I like old thick oil, and I don't discount the alleged downside of newer specs with lower zinc levels. (I use SJ routinely and would use SG)...

One of. The fronts has a slow leak. Was going to put it up on stands before leaving but monsoonal rain put me off. Will certainly be flat before I’m back in 2 months time. If this will kill the tyre I MIGHT be able to arrange something, but if it’s not very damaging I won’t bother.

Yesterday, hundreds of fingernail-sized frogs hopping west. Do they know something I don’t? Today, far fewer fingernail-sized frogs hopping east.

Car had been standing in torrential rain for about 10 days (I;ve lost my overhead cover) and when I took it for a long run it initially had a squeek apparently coming from the steering column at fairly extreme lock. Odd because it persisted at constant lock, so I suppose it isn't originating...

Oil prospecting. Was down by the swollen river to get some "ground truth" shots for a remote sensing module I'm trying to put together and I found this, perhaps deposited by the receeding flood. Was on its side oozing a slick into the river. Seems to still be about 2/3 full. I'll haved to...

The wee soft metal things that hold the collar of a new shirt to the carboard in the packaging. Always thought I should keep them but if I did I don't know where they are. Trying to improvise replacement turn indicators from old bicycle reflectors (at top in picture below) They might not notice...

Definately aircon season here now, so unlimited quantities available. I intend using it for decoking, perhaps flushing the cooling system and maybe battery topup. Id guess there'll be some atmosperic dust in it (could filter it) and maybe some traces of copper and lead from the cooling coils...

They seem to have been chewing the box. The AC Delco one I have in storage has plastic film over the base which is tight-fitting and would keep them out, but the local brand filter has a rigid transparent lid which doesnt fit so well. been meaning to pre-oil them, and I suppose this might be...

Moving a washing machine to GF parents place. Fill up just before destination. GF tells them to put 92 in it. 95 is on the filler flap but that dropped off and is under the seat. I've put 92 in it without trouble in the past but I suspect it might now be a bit coked (runs on after switchoff) so...

Lonely Georgina is probably the last Tunnocks Teacake on the Isle of Formosa. When she's gone, there are no more.

Torturing my Technology English class with a MidTerm mostly on the IC engine. I've given them this URL as reference for preparation, and will base some of the questions (probably mostly vocab gap fill) on a reworking of it . http://www.fesconstruction.co.uk/KS3/Cams/stages_of_engine.html...

Picture the scene. You have been working on your laptop, perhaps with not much battery life left, and have to be somewhere else. You go to shut down the machine, and it comes up with an apparently mandatory "making Windows even better" update. Leaving aside the vexed question of whether, in...

Looking for a spare pair of old brake shoes to reeplace my suspected brake-fluid contaminated pair, I found I'd also kept the pair that prompted the last replacement, which have detached linings. If I was in India I might be able to get a "brake shoe wallah" to glue them back on, but here I...

I can remember having trouble with these before, but not as bad as this. Maybe I'm getting more bad-tempered in my declining years. Needing at least three hands is inherent to the design, but no matter how much force I applied, that barb wasn't going to unlatch. Any tricks? Special tools...

Slow drip from where the pipe joins the elbow on the block. I think the pipe would be difficult to remove. Don't know how the joint is formed. Might be threaded or brazed. Not much loss of coolant yet but its a fair bet that it won't get any better. I suspect y'all will consider it your...

Not seen or heard of this "stealth" property being specifically advertised before, though it might have been. Niche market for private detectives, perhaps "As used by Phillip Marlowe"? Its a 5W50. Is there any property apart from the high temp viscosity that would contribute to noise reduction...

Finally? Supposed to be SL 5W/50. What will all that VII do long term in a brake cable? (Hopefully nothing.) I say supposed to be because this was part of a big stash of old oil, some sealed, some not, that I found on campus a few years ago. This stuffs bottles were cracking so I decanted...