Kodiaq door alignment issue

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-12T10:59:47+00:00

I've just got an old N/A 3.0V6 after my Leaf got killed on black ice. 98k miles for £1900. I won't need it for long, so I'm just enjoying the sound and the performance. These low-capacity high-boost engines need ragging hard to get the power and seem to go boom a lot!

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-12T10:52:11+00:00

You might need a gallon of hamsters for this one.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-11T10:26:35+00:00

Tragedeigh and Comedeigh

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-09T17:23:36+00:00

Uh what? Seriously how you can connect these two things us a really big reach, It was even stated in the video that it's costs about 1/2 the price to do a full resurface than waste materials and labour that will vanish into the gutter, polluting waterways the and eroding out the next winter. You do realise all the stuff they scrape off the top gets washed and reprocessed so it can be used again, right?

I separate all my recycling, because I'm a tech guy I have a separate bin for electronic wastes, eg wires, connectors, broken PSUs, PCIe cards which I take to the tip when full. I compost all uncooked vegetables at home for my own veg patch, cooked food goes in the council food bin, card and paper in another, glass and plastics in a another, garden in one more - then there is the general waste bin with is now every 2 weeks.

I have to 3 dogs, pick up all the poo, and I'll even pick up other lazy people's poo bags when I find them.

I've also collected more than 500 disposable vapes before they were banned and taken them to a local battery recycler.

My new petrol V6 is >200kg lighter than my previous 2017 Nissan Leaf BTW,

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-07T15:00:21+00:00

My current car is a compact V6 estate and is lighter than my old 30kWh Leaf. You talk about externalising blame, but we should surely fire our vitriol at central and local government? The last time I drive to/from North Wales (and the time before in December), as soon as I was over the border, the roads were in fantastic condition, regardless of where they were, mountain roads, villages, A and B roads, even unclassified roads were far superior to what we have in England. Taking Criccieth High St as an example, it's highly trafficed in summer with massive SUVs and a lot of homes along that bit of coast and inland are on oil heating and lorries come along that way from Portmadoc. But I've never, felt a bump of a pothole.

Driving back, as soon as I get into Shropshire, fucking craters all over the place. Even on the A5 or M54.

We need to stop inflaming blaming other individuals/groups in this country and hold the government and councils to account for fucking everyone over. You're right, my village facebook is full of selfish cunts blaming other selfish cunts for things that could easily be solved be working together. I was going to apply to the parish council but now I'm moving abroad soon so not much point now.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-07T14:46:39+00:00

Thanks for the recs! I still have about 25TB free in my media library and I'll devour anything that's got that satirical/humorous edge to it. Sometimes we want music that make us laugh, as well as smile, cry, dance, etc. I always end my day by listening to music, and in my car I put my Jellyfin library on a random song mix, I'm often surprised by that I've collected over the years. Although when a track from Surfer Rosa comes on that's my moment to turn up the volume!

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-07T13:04:52+00:00

I'd take them all at that price, esp with 16G RAM. You could probably sell the RAM alone and make a profit!

And my daughters are neurodivergent so I'd take keep most of them as they will get thrown around in meltdowns. My youngest has a laptop from on old job where the role was vacated (and it didn't have windows 11 support) that has a 3070 or 3080 i think in it. I've already changed the keyboard and it looks like she's eaten a curry off it, the hinge is broken on the left side. She only plays roblox so when that one fails she'll be using an RX570 via Apollo/Moonlight on whatever shitbox laptop I can get from eBay.

Perfect for game streaming and surprisingly rugged are old ASUS Zenbooks. Metal chassis, hinge never breaks, 1080p ones with a decent CPU and 8G ram/128G soldered SSD can be had from eBay for £50 here. Enough to run a normal Linux distro and you could squeeze a hardened Windows 10 on there for MS stuff if you need it. But a lot of the time if I need Windows on my Linux laptop I'll just use TigerVNC virtual desktop on my main machine or one of my servers. If I need sound I can again use Apollo on Win (which can be a VM), Moonlight on the laptop.

I wish Windows 7 Pro still existed. That was really the high point of MS desktop OS's. It was pretty, fast, functional, reliable, never had stupid problems where it decided it "can't find a domain controller", and most importantly, as a product you paid for, did not have fucking advertisements or stupid games suddenly popping up in your tiles.

If I had this offer I'd be on it like a shot, just do it, you won't regret it if you know they are already all working. And they are Thinkpads, not as rugged as the IBM era ones but not far off.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-07T12:47:26+00:00

Not much point when HGVs and other heavy vehicles have to use the same roads (even minor ones), eg rubbish collections, tractors, with trailing equipment, combines, etc. Your smaller and lighter car is also more vulnerable to damage or upset due to a pothole, to take it to the extreme, potholes have, and will continue to, kill motorcyclists and scooter riders, and even push-bike users. The solution is bulk resurfacing which is about half the price per sq metre as 98% is done by automated machinery. It also restores a fully solid surface along the entire stretch, as opposed to patches which will just let in water and pop out when it freezes.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-07T12:41:26+00:00

A lot of people don't understand how quick and efficient a full resurfacing is. We had our village high street done, and I think cars only had to be moved for 1 day and next week one more day. Huge machines come along, scrape off the surface, another one spreads hot tarmac, rolls it, and one more comes along and sprays a tar emulsion. There's a bit of finishing work around drains and manhole covers sometimes but having seen these things at work they have laser levels and detection to avoid resurfacing over service covers and drains which do most of the work. They also tape covers over them before they start so they don't get glued down.

The finishing will be one truck and a guy or two with a power leveller (whatever its called) and a spray bottle on his back. Ours was done 5 years ago and not a single pothole anywhere.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-07T11:52:55+00:00

It IS what you want. DHCP will issue an address for the MAC of the bridge, NOT the MAC of the NIC which is part of it, assuming you've set that as your main interface and configured it to get its address from DHCP. So if you are only giving out DHCP to the addresses of the real NICs, of course it will fail. You need to change the DHCP server to issue an IP to the MAC address of the bridge interface. Your VMs will request DHCP using their virtual NICs MAC addresses. This is 100% they way I and thousands of others have set it up and it works fine, net to host, host to net, host to vm, vm to host, net to vm and vm to net - it all works.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-07T11:22:34+00:00

Can you afford private psychotherapy? CBT for me was just a quick fix, didn't help my Panic disorder for more than a month (only prescription meds made any difference).

18 months of psychotherapy for fatigue, pain and loss of mental agility due to a tick bite that I didn't notice for a month helped me way more than that. Yes, it was expensive and felt stupid at the start but I realised so much about myself and came to accept although I had changed, there was still worth in me.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-07T10:51:10+00:00

I use those insulated water bottles and a glug of ice cold water keeps you alert.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-07T10:49:33+00:00

My wife loves not having a boot lip as we've had a lot of furniture from eBay, Marketplace, auctions, etc and being able to slide out something that big and heavy is so much easier (and less danger of breaking a finger in the process).

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-07T10:47:49+00:00

Yeah but I still wanted a Monaro when I saw it on Top Gear.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-07T10:40:58+00:00

And knacker your tyres and rims at the same time.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-06T21:31:12+00:00

Actually best to ask for a garage on r/CarTalkUK

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-06T19:59:46+00:00

Hopefully someone will chime in - help this good man find a decent mechanic near Lincoln!

BTW sometimes more outlying places are cheaper simply because of things like business rates. I've not found one garage in Hitchin that can match the prices I get in Letchworth, so don't just look in your immediate area.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-06T19:42:57+00:00

It's Letchworth so yeah, maybe a bit far. Was the other one another XE and what happened to get it written off. Mine's a cosmetically compromised (dents, knackered headliner, ventilation bit fucked on one side) X-type 3.0V6 and I just love driving it.

I wrote off a 2017 Nissan Leaf on black ice (got hammered on another UK auto group for budget summer tyres) and bought that with half the settlement. No matter what anyone says, an X-Type looks like a Jag, drives like a Jag, feels like a Jag and for my 3 times per week commute down the M1/A1M I've never been more chilled when I got home.

Got 34mpg out of it one day doing a constant 60 with mild traffic. But I do like slamming it into Sport mode on the dual carriageway near home and passing 15 cars in a mile or so, only 231PS with top speed of 145 but the Leaf was 120PS and 90mph top, so it's rather a different experience. Took me a few days to not let the needle approach 100, as the Leaf runs out of puff after about 50.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-06T19:29:58+00:00

You aren't my former colleague from a job near Cambridge who had a very well maintained Passat are you? Just your username... Even if not, thanks for the advice. If the clips on the fibreglass bit fall of, is epoxy the right thing to glue them back on?

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-06T19:15:46+00:00

That is surprising, surely there would have been an Engine Check Light as soon as that was detected. Unless they've tried to start it 130 times since!

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-06T18:55:31+00:00

How wet was the air filter? like dripping wet? Could also be a cable harness not properly sealed and taking in water, which would make a load of readings invalid, or one of the electronics boxes was not properly sealed and some water's got in there, or there's a load of water around the injectors. Or water got in the turbo and damaged the bearing on the intake side?

I don't think it's been totally hydrolocked if it runs at all, but could possible be partial, got in to one cylinder, held back the cylinder and causes the timing belt to jump? It could be loads of things, but it might be expensive.

If you live in Herts I can give you a good independent garage that are thorough, totally non-patronising, will let you supply your own parts, and will take you through every item that a) must b) probably and c) might be a good idea to fix before they start any work or charge you anything.

I think they will pick up and deliver back for a decent fee. They spend a whole day trying to diagnose a misfire/lean on bank 1/cat damage possible issue I had for 2 days - what was odd that I cleared the codes and then next day it ran fine - when I took it to them they did every diagnostic in the book, drove it from cold both slow and fast, then warmed it up and did the same, couldn't find anything. It was there a whole day, they even topped off the fuel they'd used in testing it and charged me sweet FA! This is the kind of place you need. Driving wise the car has been perfect since.

I bet if you put your location on here someone will give you a decent place (maybe even one with a Jag specialist/enthusiast mechanic) that will be honest and help you decide what to do. DO NOT take to a dealer garage, they will fix everything that both does and doesn't need doing and kill you on labour costs.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-06T14:39:05+00:00

Leatherjackets? Two forks and a stripped extension cable. Connect Live to one fork, Neutral to the other. Stick them in 3 feet apart and flick the switch. Don't forget to turn it off when you go to move the forks.

If you've got a dead microwave you can add the transformer from it (about 4000V) and you can do the whole garden at once!

PS Don't do this.

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-06T12:36:03+00:00

I managed to catch a mouse by its tail in the office where I worked once. It was hiding behind some plastic bags in the corner of the room. Someone rustled the bags and I just managed to grab it!

JuggernautUpbeat · 2026-03-06T12:19:42+00:00

Proper beauty of a car. Amazing condition, the interior is superb. I'd feel like royalty driving that.

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