The part that impressed me was that he sprayed oven cleaner on the valves, then baked them in the oven to clean off the encrusted gunk.

I’ve put two wheels up on the curb, in order to get just enough room in the gutter so I could crawl underneath and fit a new exhaust.

It’s always worth remembering, “power tools make mistakes quicker”. Sometimes its worth doing things the manual way so that if (when) you make a mistake, it’s hopefully easier to rectify.

I’ve never understood tint. The windscreen is still clear, so if I’m driving in bright sun, I’ll have to wear sunglasses, at which point I can’t see through the other windows properly because it’s too dark.

The plastic filter cap on my Peugeot 206 put up quite a fight sometimes. Other times it would unscrew easily. I think the trick was to wait until the engine was completely cold.

We get our milk delivered, and most days we get a two litre plastic bottle. On Saturdays though, we get a two litre bottle, and two glass pint bottles (because my friend likes drinking straight from the bottle when he’s hungover).

I’ll admit that the US version makes more sense in this case.

Unless we want to annoy an American, in which case it’s Zed Zed Top.

Ah, this is what we call them in English:

Seeing these two comments together:

Can’t you get 100+ octane “race gas” for cars anyway? Presumably that would work just fine?

Here in the UK, unleaded is cheaper than avgas (in the sort of quantities that a light aircraft would need). So switching over would save money.

Volkswagen already do something similar, in that they share engines (and practically every other part) across VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda.

In the UK we’d call it ‘crabbing’.

Here’s the official word:

The few people I know with an auto-only license all failed the manual test several times before taking the ‘easy’ option. So yes, there’s a bit of a stigma.

If you grow up on a farm in the UK then you also learn to drive a tractor young, less so if you grew up in central London.

The full list for the UK driving test is (https://www.gov.uk/driving-test/what-happens-during-test), but a few highlights:

There’s definitely been a change in the UK over the last decade or so, where automatics have become more available, cheaper, and better, but even twenty years ago they were seen as being expensive, slow and thirsty, and the lazy choice.

I’m from the UK, and I find driving an automatic difficult (for the first few minutes).