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It was new car time for my Wife (again) after a strange 12 months of car swapping. She had a 2017 Dacia Logan MCV 1.5DCi for 2 years or so but decided in Spring 2023 that the Logan wasn't 'cool' enough and bought a 2015 Mini Cooper instead. The Mini was an awesome car, but very quickly my Wife...

Looking to put together a small home server for some basic tasks. We currently have an old Rasberry Pi B+ which sits quite happily running PiHole and I want to be able to access and use PiHole on my phone werever I am. I have tried a few times to get it to run NordVPN so I can access PiHole...

I understand lots of cars will be different. But what generally is the default mode in cars with smart charging if the battery sensor is disconnected? Context... My Duster leaves the battery in varying states of charge. When you start up the car it will charge at 14.8v for a period of time...

My Dacia Duster and it's little 1.5DCi engine is coming up rapidly to it's 30,000 'full service' in the next couple of weeks. I'm considering using a diesel IVD cleaner on it, but wondering if anyone had any experience of them, any reccomendations and are they even worth it?

This is a weird one, admittedly. Bit of a rant that I need to get off my chest but I'd appreciate some feedback. I'm being made to feel like I'm in the wrong here and I don't believe I am. My Sister got engaged 2-3 years ago and made whispers to my Wife that her soon-to-be Husband was going to...

Currently working through a project for my Duster which will require the use of a second deep cycle battery. The battery I've selected is a small 7.5Ah unit that has a max charging current of just 10A. I'm trying to work out if I need a B2B charger or if I could get away with a simple relay...

When I stripped out my arch liners for undercoating I found a sound deadening pillow in each arch. Both of these pillows were soaking wet and muddy so I made the decision to ditch them. So far I can't tell much of a difference, if anything, but I would like to replace them as they were...

I'm looking for peoples experiences with running TCW3 in diesels? Specifically more modern direct injection diesels that are emissions strangled. I've had previous experience of running 2T oil in diesels but it was an old Peugeot XUD9TE with indirect injection and an old Bosch VP44 fuel pump...

We have a Ford B-Max with the 1.4 Sigma engine and a manual gearbox (The B-Max is a 'tall' MK7 Fiesta with sliding rear doors for those across the water). My Wife and I are talking about purchasing a 'totalled' Fiesta ST next year and doing a full conversion as the 1.4 is painfully slow unless...

How does everyone store their socket sets? My Father bought me a large socket set when I turned 17 but the box fell apart a number of years ago. In addition, I've collected a few extra sockets, extensions, torque wrenches etc. I'm currently storing everything in a toolbox on socket rails but...

This might be a strange one, but this is BITOG, so it's allowed. Now I've been driving for a little over 13 years and have accumulated an estimated 250k miles driving many different vehicles. Only once have I experienced CV joint failure and it was the inner joint of my first car, a '98 Peugeot...

My Wife has been debating replacing her trusty Dacia Logan MCV for the last year or so. She settled on a Mini Cooper or Cooper S in Red to match her '97 Mini that's currently undergoing some restoration work. We looked at a few '16 to '18 models in our budget but they weren't the best examples...

More of an observation than anything which I found a little strange. My Wife has just bought a 2015 Mini Cooper which she is picking up on the weekend. Being the BITOG'er that I am, I just popped the VIN into the Mini website and downloaded the user manual for no other reason that to look at...

Our Classic Mini comes with a ~35litre fuel tank as standard giving us a range ~250miles this is mounted on the left hand side of the boot. The early Cooper S models had the option of a 2nd fuel tank mounted on the right hand side of the boot giving an additional ~25litres. These tanks are...

So my Father has been asking me for a few weeks to take my Mothers car out for a drive because the brakes seemed a little off. The car in question is a 2021 MG3 with 12,500miles on the clock. My Mother is a District Nurse so lots of short stop/start journeys that are quite hard on the car...

Following on from THIS thread, the weird brake pedal is fixed. But now seem to have a new issue. The symptom is a pull to the right under light braking only. When you brake moderately heavy or anchor on, it pulls straight and true. This is following work I did to the car on the weekend. This...

Following on from THIS thread, I've just ordered a new master cylinder for my Wife's car. Is it necessary to bench bleed a new master cylinder before installation? I've a lot of mixed arguments now. What makes me even more curious, I cannot find a MC bleeding kit here in the UK. I can import a...

I've noticed the brakes on my Wife's Daica Logan feeling a bit poor lately. While the brakes worked, there seemed to be excessive travel in the pedal and a lack of modulation. The car has discs up front and drums in the rear. I replaced the rear brakes 6 months ago as one of the brake shoe...

Looking for a way to keep an eye on my Dacia Duster, especially during towing. I've used the torque app and my cheap Wi-Fi ELM327 module to see what information is put onto the OBD2 port. I'm interested in coolant temp, oil temp, oil pressure, boost and EGT's (pre-DPF). All bar the oil pressure...

So these came as a factory fit on my new Dacia Duster. Anyone had much in the way of experience with them? It's hard to form an opinion on them as they are they only tyre I've experienced this car with. I will say the tread pattern doesn't look anywhere near as sophisticated as the Michelin...