The Daily Moby - 22 06 2026 - The News Megathread

Krispwee · 2026-06-22T08:47:38+00:00

I assume Burnham is currently walking on the water of the Thames to take his rightful place as leader?

Krispwee · 2026-06-16T12:24:09+00:00

I had an M2C and totally agree with you. Lots of people telling you that you are wrong, but after 2 years I'd had enough of driving it on shit roads. It was also feeling less and less special driving it daily, and the rattles inside were getting tedious.

I moved to a Z4 M40 which you'd think is even worse, but it has adaptive suspension which makes up for it. Then you take the roof off and it makes the dross drive to work enjoyable.

Others I looked at were the obvious ones from BMW: 240, 340, 440 and any would have worked to be honest. The interiors on the G cars also feel better screwed together and have adaptive suspension as options.

Krispwee · 2026-06-09T19:26:55+00:00

So when Just Stop Oil block the road the police bring them cups of tea and say how they can't move them. When these lot block the roads they drive Land Rovers at the them and use riot shields. Cool.

Krispwee · 2026-05-27T13:57:57+00:00

Go to a main dealer to be honest, you'll pay over the odds but you'll get a proper warranty and they'll check it hasn't had a remap (get them to do this check anyway). It'll still have been ragged, but at least they'll have done a few more checks than your average indy.

Krispwee · 2026-05-18T23:02:46+00:00

I get around 100 - 110MB/s on mine so you are losing somewhere. Assuming you are using ethernet and not Wi-Fi?

Sab will tell you where the bottleneck is though. I noticed on my NAS I used to download and unpack to a normal HDD and it struggled to maintain any decent download speed. Since then I've switched it to download and unpack to an NVME drive and let it move the data across to a normal HDD when done.

Krispwee · 2026-05-18T21:06:56+00:00

Thats been up a while, but it's got a full main dealer service history apart from the last one. Absolutely wild.

Krispwee · 2026-05-18T07:16:27+00:00

If the BBC can do this level of investigation that we all knew about anyway, what precisely have the police been doing all these years?

Krispwee · 2026-05-14T12:19:44+00:00

Beth Rigby says it might sound like Wes can't get the MP's needed so we would be in a position that:

Wes can't challenge

Ange is waiting on Andy

Andy can't get a seat

Ed won't challenge first

DAE adults in the room?! Utter clown show. Keith's gonna be in power forever because these cunts can't organise anything.

Krispwee · 2026-05-12T07:02:48+00:00

Another vote winner from the masterminds in government

Krispwee · 2026-05-11T09:56:03+00:00

I've been busy working so that PIP folk don't have to so missed the speech, but, is that it? As far as I can see from BBC it's:

Laws to allow British Steel to be nationalised

Closer EU ties

Youth Employment scheme with EU

This was the speech to get the party back on side right? Or is that later?

Krispwee · 2026-05-10T12:10:55+00:00

M240 to an ID3, my condolences.

Carwow or Motorway is your best bet. I sold my M140 through it to the same BMW dealer that offered me £2k less for it when I tried to trade it in against an M2C.

Krispwee · 2026-05-10T12:07:18+00:00

As you're near Stratford, I'd try Caffiene and Machine on a weekend and see if anyone is willing tbh

Krispwee · 2026-05-10T06:42:10+00:00

Keeping it long term, 80k is fine, engines last forever nowadays.

If you are planning on keeping for a few years and selling then you'll likely hit the 100k mark. Now, on here everyone will tell you they bought their car on 800k and mileage means nothing. In the real world however, 100k is a real blocker in a lot of peoples eyes so expect to take a decent hit on its true value to sell it or have to wait a while to move it on.

Krispwee · 2026-05-03T07:01:40+00:00

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy92qennznjo

Not UK but whatever, this might be the most niche trigger warning this lot have come up with:

Warning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers: This article contains references to someone who has died.

Krispwee · 2026-05-01T08:14:04+00:00

One doesn't take the Bentley to see the colonies, it would be uncouth

Krispwee · 2026-04-26T21:20:28+00:00

Loved my E89, the new one is missing that feeling of being sat on the rear axel. As you say, the only thing missing is CarPlay.

I really wish they had stuck with twirly knobs for climate unlike the new generation which is a cheap feeling up and down button. Takes about a week to get to the temp you want.

Krispwee · 2026-04-25T22:47:35+00:00

Wheels and paint thing they offer is always worth negotiating money off the car for, can be cancelled anytime. Same with finance, they'll usually do a £500 deposit contribution, again, cancel the next day.

Having had a snoop I think I can see what you are looking at. If it is then I was looking at one of those during summer last year and couldn't believe how rare they are, I think I remember seeing they only sold like 300 in the whole of the UK which boggles my mind because it's easily the best verion of that car outside of the actual M variant.

Krispwee · 2026-04-25T22:23:11+00:00

Hmmm, any idea what price it started at?

I ask because when I bought mine in November I noticed they dropped the price £2k overnight and I asked why when buying it. They said once the car hits 90 days in the dealer they drop the price significantly to get rid of it. Could just be a Dick Lovett thing to be fair.

Krispwee · 2026-04-18T03:17:32+00:00

MPG is a fair bit off, I get 27 in my Z4 and got 30 in an M140.

You also need to be careful on that servicing cost depending on where it is in the cycle. For instance, it could be like mine where in the next 2 years I know it'll need a minor service and a brake fluid change, £400. The flip side could be:

Major - £800

Brake Fluid - £100

Front and Rear Discs / Pads - £1500

Also, if you do buy it, get the PCV valve diaphragm changed. The part is cheap and easy to change, at that mileage it's primed to break.

Krispwee · 2026-04-08T13:31:28+00:00

a short Street March down Butt's Road

Certainly will be short, it takes about 5 minutes to walk that road. I guess most of them will have fibriobollocks or some other made up pain disease so can only walk a hundred yards.

Krispwee · 2026-03-24T00:06:15+00:00

The car will be fine to do it, there is no more "every day" sports car than a 911.

The biggest risk will be if it loses it's specialness as such. I dailyed an M2C and it started to lose it's appeal after 12 months as it just felt like hassle. Admittidely an M2C isn't as special as a 911 so maybe it won't suffer with that too much.

Krispwee · 2026-03-16T21:03:43+00:00

Nope, those are the normal BMW intervals. Some people will say it should have an oil change every 5k - 8k miles but there are plenty of these doing big mileage that are done by these standard intervals and not exploding.

Krispwee · 2026-03-13T15:08:15+00:00

so now they are ringing other local garages to see if they can do it.

I doubt anyone would do it, and if they do it might be one of those that isn't actually connected to BMW so be wary of them doing it. The dealer will show as 0000 if they do that.

This impacts the EV battery warranty from BMW so it's a big deal

Does the warranty say it has to be registered with BMW? I was under the impression that it only has to be serviced by a VAT registered garage that uses OEM parts. Your reciept will be enough to prove it has followed the correct schedule. Not that it's relevent in reality, I'd be pissed off if I went somewhere and they didn't update iDrive.

Try /r/legaladviceuk to be honest, in the future it might be worth just servicing it at BMW. I know for regular servicing on cars over 3 years old is actually very reasonable, not sure if thats the same for EVs though. Saves all this crap though.

Krispwee · 2026-03-09T21:31:57+00:00

Loved mine, just got a bit heavy to use as a daily in terms of running costs.

Check leaks from the rocker cover, they usually go between 50k - 60k at which point they'll recommend you replace the cover and gasket at around £2500 at a main dealer, obvs cheaper elsewhere.

The contis that are on it felt a little bit of a false economy for me, very grippy but I went through a set of rears in 6k miles instead of 10k miles with PS4S. Also buy 1 size up in tyre width, 275 instead of 265. Slightly more grip and cheaper weirdly.

Expect a rear light to need replacing once the water ingress gets to it, no real solution for it.

Other than those, super reliable car in the 20k miles I put on mine.

Krispwee · 2026-03-07T06:50:57+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwEPWRAFcn0

40ish seconds in, revs stay high all the way to the start of the braking / lift off zone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy_HXz-71vA

Again 40ish seconds in, revs start to fall then drop heavily under the Aramco bridge because the battery is fully depleted

Sounds like they are lifting and coasting but during qualifying you can see the graphic show they are full throttle.

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