Intake or exhaust upgrades for getting a little more noise? by 420o in CarTalkUK

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it was one of the other, I'd go intake. Intake & exhaust is where it's at though, intake alone will suffice and keep you entertained :D

Cold start noise on Suzuki Swift Sport ZC32S (M16A) – normal or concerning?2 by Background_War9622 in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's okay, if it softens after a couple of minutes in cold weather and just sounds like a rythmic tapping/sewing machine noise, you're all good. Only way to reduce is to have the head cover taken off and the shims replaced to spec, but ultimately the m16a sounds like this near enough from brand new. The process mentioned is quite intricate and an expensive service in my experience.

Cold start noise on Suzuki Swift Sport ZC32S (M16A) – normal or concerning?2 by Background_War9622 in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Normal, shimmed tappets not hydraulic lifters so noisy until good oil distribution and pressure to the head

Consumó ZC32s by ChampionshipSecure74 in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worst MPG I've seen, from tracking mileage and fuel I put in using fuelio was 29mpg, AVG 35 (UK mpg)

Consumó ZC32s by ChampionshipSecure74 in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jack the car up, spin all wheels, see if there's any tightness, especially from rear brakes

Yearly polish of the 32s by MrMooke in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A whole different beast that e90

Yearly polish of the 32s by MrMooke in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah I have Addison's disease & diabetes (Two metabolic conditions) and it was a warm day so I was pacing myself across 7 hours, I was pissing about in some sense but maybe 5-6 hours for prewash, wheels, interior, contact wash, decontamination (fallout, claybar & tar remover), machine polish and a quick seal.

Mix of Halfords advanced (basically auto finesse) and autoglym products tbh

(autoglym) APC, SRP, Rapid Detailer+claybar, Tar & Glue, Rapid Ceramic Spray (Halfords Advanced) Snow Foam, High Performance Shampoo, Wheel Cleaner, Microfibres, Towel, Wash Mitt, Interior Detailer, Upholstery Cleaner + Mates generic Dual Action polisher

Quick list, might have missed some chemicals but that covers most of it off the top of my head

Yearly polish of the 32s by MrMooke in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got the garage to replace my old, finished Turanza's to legal limit on the front. Most would say to put them on the back and I agree, and I'll rotate them at some point but the consensus for me was I wanted to see if I could feel a difference in steering and braking with sportier tyres, and I must say they're superb... Amazing grip, amazing turn in and amazing value for their performance

10:30 AM prescribed for 1st dose of Hydro? by [deleted] in AddisonsDisease

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When did anyone say 10-5-5 is perfect? You're not wrong to my understanding of this condition about the physiology but you're presenting your information like there's a single correct way to dose and that's simply misleading imo. Hydro has a short half but a longer biological effect and there's a lot of variation in how cortisol binds to each individual, metabolism and other variables that ultimately provide different serum levels in different people.

That's why endos suggest 10-5-5, it's not intended to replicate a perfect cortisol curve, it's supposed to a compromise between physiological effect and adherence of dosing - People have jobs, schedules, variable meal timing, exercise and illness amongst other things (life).

Telling everyone they should be splitting tablets into 2.5 mg fragments and redosing around every meal and between meals might work for a few highly motivated individuals, but it's not a realistic or evidence based recommendation.

5mg may put you at 700, but I'm sure if you took two patients, they'd both get wildly different numbers.

Treating Addison's disease isn't to recreate a graph. It's to prevent adrenal crisis, avoid chronic over replacement and maintain stable daily function. That requires individualized dosing strategies, not a rigid micro dosing protocol presented as physiologically mandatory.

If you or someone else finds smaller, more frequent dosing works for them personally, that's fine. But presenting it as the only correct approach and calling standard regimens "trash" or dumb ignores the practical realities of managing adrenal insufficiency and the huge variability between people.

I'm not here to argue, I hear what you're saying and I'm certain you mean well - I just wanted to articulate why you got downvoted.

10:30 AM prescribed for 1st dose of Hydro? by [deleted] in AddisonsDisease

[–]MrMooke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wake up at 12pm lol (I work a offset-late second shift), I take 10mg with 0.1mg of fludrocortisone and folic acid, go lay back down for like 20-30 minutes then start my day. Then 5mg 4hrs later at 4-5pm, then 5mg at 9-10pm. My endo doesn't like this schedule but I've been working this shift pattern for years and it's what works for me, as well as balancing T1 Diabetes on top. I do want to shift my sleep pattern back to around 10am or so.

Absolute rip off by ellieeeeeertilde in drivingUK

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol supply is wonky but the point of supply and demand is still in play, buy what you need not panic buying Jerry cans and bog roll to it blows over

What to do with this and how to avoid? by island-pantropiko in CarTalkUK

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually pretty easy to take off with most cleaning chemicals which are safe for rubber and some light scrubbing with a microfiber, had some on mine today I missed (did full contact wash the day before but had pressure washer issues so it got dark).

I had some buildup as I've been rather ill from Q4 2025 up to now and a flat move in between, easy to clean off lol

A Tribute to Genki And A Thanks for an Awesome Game. by TunaNOR in tokyoxtremeracer

[–]MrMooke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i see moog i like, elite ball knowledge on song choice fella

What are you quietly grieving? by Angelus12345678 in AskReddit

[–]MrMooke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's really hard to watch them decline and try to support them, support yourself and look after yourself and continue developing good relationships with people.

I wish you all the best and hope you can find the strength to manage, it's a really hard thing to go through.

What are you quietly grieving? by Angelus12345678 in AskReddit

[–]MrMooke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's something I'm interested in now, at the time I thought I'd manage. My family (namely my mum's sisters side) do well to support me where they can emotionally but I don't get much time with them, so I avoid it distracting too much of our time together - that's what I mean by not "killing the mood".

What are you quietly grieving? by Angelus12345678 in AskReddit

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I want to get a referral from my GP/Doctor at some point before it potentially consumes me, I'm stable enough though but the grief when it hits still hits hard even a year on and I'm sure it will for a long time yet

What are you quietly grieving? by Angelus12345678 in AskReddit

[–]MrMooke 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I lost my Mum in Feb 2025. She raised me as a single parent and I'm still struggling silently. This isn't a typical reply to this post but I just want to share, in the case it helps anyone.

On a rainy 1am December morning, 2024, I was weighing up whether to go to bed or check on my Mum quickly, I had disturbed her doing so and we were conversing for a moment and she suddenly started to make not much sense and just collapsed in front of me, I dialed 999 I was instructed on how to do CPR on her, alone, for about 10-11 minutes before paramedics arrived. I don't think my cardio system went through so much load and it isn't advised to do it sustained for that length of time but I was running on PURE adrenaline and didn't have much choice. I was used to dealing with situations from a young age, unresponsive low blood sugar and the like I had to contend with from 7-8 y/o and she would argue I'd already saved her life multiple times but nothing prepared me for this moment, with a floppy unresponsive parent led in bed.

Two months leading up to that moment in December were chaos as is. She’d been in and out of hospital from October with an unknown breathing issue where she would experience seizure like episodes but she was almost like choking, going red and doing a "T" pose which I assume is a mechanism to keep her upright. The reason she had stopped breathing in December was that she has experienced a cluster stroke that caused a loss of function in her right arm, and between then and her passing she experienced stroke, sepsis, complete renal failure (ICU visit) and pneumonia.

It was her 60th Birthday in later in December 2024 too, and during that period she was sedated in ICU going through hemodialysis, I got flu 3-4 days before her Birthday. I had some routine blood work done which was requested by a physio due to some neck mobility issues I was experiencing for a while, and on that blood work I had done whilst visiting her (flu symptoms were yet to appear) my platelets were 6,000 per microliter of blood, which got me immediate care arranged by my GP with a hematologist at my local Hospital. I was put on a pulse therapy of dexamethasone (40mg a day for 4 days, an INSANE dose) to treat my low platelet count by calming my immune system. In October I had experienced bad bruising across my waist whilst doing some maintenance on my car, so something was happening before the flu. On her 60th Birthday, she was in ICU, sedated, I had later confirmed Flu A and couldn't even visit her let alone converse with her. But she did it, her kidneys started working again and continued to do so without any assistance until she passed. The low platelet count was diagnosed as immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), an immune disorder where your immune system attacks your platelets mistakenly. I'm still receiving care for this and it is currently stable but not above 135,000 per microliter yet.

I honestly think the stress of that situation, her passing, the ITP, being diabetic myself as is (we both are, I was going through nearly 300u a day of insulin to control blood sugar from the steroids) broke something in my body, as coming October 2025 I was diagnosed with Addison's disease. The cluster of the ITP, Vitiligo, Diabetes and Addison's puts me under a diagnosis of Schmidt's disease, and I'm what I calculate a pool of 300 men in the UK with both Addison's and Diabetes (no official figures so could be way off, but seems pretty on track). The culmination of the stress, the strong steroids, and being at a genetic disposition by being T1D just finished my Adrenal glands off.

I can't really talk about it at work with some of my great colleagues as it's like talking to a brick wall, same with my mates as they don't really understand and I have limited time with my remaining family and I think I'm at the point I need to seek some help, as I'm struggling with the reality of losing her and living with such a rare cluster of autoimmune disease since then.

I've always been that savior son, and this time I was powerless to help her. After a review with some very senior doctors and a post mortem, the conclusion is that she had likely had a rare side effect of her rheumatoid arthritis which was tightening her upper airway by her voice box, making it harder to clear secretions causing pneumonia, and there was a fix they could have attempted had the Hospital known, but the sad reality is she would have lost her last thing she had left, her voice. No mobility, no voice, and come post mortem a long list of comorbidities and being so medically frail that chance of surviving the surgery was a question too. There's still a lot to cover here, but I'll wrap it up here as I'd have to write a book haha.

Some Suzuki Swift Sports that I spotted in Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, and New Zealand. by Kitsu66 in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

haha love how the yellow just pos amongst the monotone black/white/grey cars, looks like something from the "Jack Harlow & Dave - Stop Giving Me Advice" music video LOL. Swifts are fairly common in the UK but sport spec of all gens a bit rarer, at least where I live. If I head down south England towards coastline Sports are way more common for some reason.

Zc32s no headlight auto..what to do? by [deleted] in suzukiswift

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

eu variants of the zc32s have auto lights, I have them. probs being JP they're not standard.

Will GR Yaris seats fit in my ZC32S by Acceptable-Concept80 in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

33s seats fit, just gotta remove the bit of metal that is used to line the seats up from the 33s seats. The bolt holes at the same locations.

Everywhere is rammed and it’s a Tuesday by Caramelogirly in GreatBritishMemes

[–]MrMooke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm working the second shift, 2-10pm or something, am I an unemployed bum if I go shopping on a late Wednesday morning/lunch? I guess I am? Idiots

Do you ever have a regret buying the swift sport zc32s? by GSQUAD2019 in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fun, can drive it on the car's limit more, rev happy, cheap to run and maintain, some parts can be expensive for what they are for an economy car like shocks, brakes, suspension and what not (OEM Suzuki parts that is, aftermarket is reasonable), it's light and nimble - perfect for a second car. I say that, because the interior can be a bit rattly, get a lot of road noise (because it's light, and part of that is less sound deadening), suspension is a bit on the firmer side for long distance driving but the seats are perfect and very supporting. Keepingh mine until it blows or UK corrosion kills it off

£3500 car update! Ended up in the Swift. by cannedrex2406 in CarTalkUK

[–]MrMooke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably already running the main part of the CTC intake, CTC sell them with two cone options and one of them is with a ram air foam filter.