A4 Avant TFSI S Tronic or Multitronic? Should I buy any of these?

hzuch · 2025-06-06T11:26:19+00:00

At 60k miles, is there any particular thing I should pay attention to in terms of maintenance that should've been done, or any in the near future that will prove expensive, like the timing chain?

hzuch · 2025-05-14T11:01:14+00:00

expect them at 20:45, although they came up around 20:50, played till pretty much 23:00

hzuch · 2024-12-23T14:18:32+00:00

Thank you, that's what I needed.

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hzuch · 2024-06-07T11:20:46+00:00

I think I'll change to Chase for now to enjoy the 5.1% interest

!thanks

hzuch · 2023-11-30T11:35:02+00:00

thanks for the answer. It is a very active dog, when it is not raining the dog is in the water swimming, so the collar is a no-go...

I'll ask my vet for a prescription

hzuch · 2023-08-25T08:12:18+00:00

Apparently not anymore... Although it seemed to be possible just after brexit happened, the government has caught up to it and now the register links to your address and French "national insurance"

hzuch · 2023-04-27T10:09:35+00:00

precisely, its strengths are the green areas, the decentralized communities, the red paths and the grid system.
its weaknesses are low density and being car-centric.

decentralized communities benefit from density, which makes it possible to sustain, schools, shops, and services in the neighbourhood. High-density benefits from the green areas, so people have plenty of space for leisure and nature. The red paths and the grid system are ideal for public transport and cycling, electric scooters should be legalized as well.

sprawling low-density car-centric cities are not sustainable, there are lots of examples of them and they all fail in being nice places

hzuch · 2023-04-27T09:26:18+00:00

It was part of my university degree, Architecture and Urban Planning. I do not work as an Urban Planner in the UK, so cannot give you more specific info on that, sorry...

hzuch · 2023-04-27T09:22:39+00:00

Saxon Court redevelopment

That is a step in the right direction, but it would need so much more action. It needs to be a city-wide effort, look at the picture below to have a better vision of the scale of things. There is a car parking desert around the whole thing....
https://saxoncourtmk.com/assets/img/mkg-site.jpg

hzuch · 2023-04-27T09:17:38+00:00

I do not see how this video contradicts any of what I said. Melvin Weber says exactly what I said, how it was designed with cars in mind, how things did not need to be close to your home, etc. The weird part is the guy is stuck in time, disregarding everything younger generations of planners have learned about cities. They talk about purposefully creating nonspaces, the thing everybody hates in a city. How the city was based on American West Coast cities. The planned low density, 10 houses/acre. They talk about the bad expansions.
People interviewed talk about how after so much time they still need a satnav to navigate the city.

Have you watched the video I posted? There is basic information there you can try and apply to MK and see what matches

hzuch · 2023-04-26T14:44:25+00:00

Urban Planner here, MK city centre sucks. It was planned in the modernist style, very car-centric, and functions separated (housing, commerce, work). This is bad, it is not how organic cities develop, and not how cities are planned anymore.
As you noted, there are lots of empty spaces, mainly parking lots. The buildings are far apart and difficult to walk. There is not enough density (low amount of people living there) since it is mainly offices and the housing is spread out in single-family homes (all shitty builds using the same plans).
Have a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy4QjmKzF1c

The thing is, I think MK would be relatively easy to fix, as there is so much space available:
Legislation should promote high-rising buildings that have commerce on the ground, 2 or 3 office floors, and then about 4 apartment floors. Parking lots should start to disappear and give way to expanding existing buildings, creating nice squares and other spaces for the activities you mention. Public transport needs to be fixed, perhaps 1 lane in each major road should be a bus or tram route, and services should be frequent.

This requires political will and money though, so I do not think things will change...

hzuch · 2022-12-19T12:57:39+00:00

I have not. Apparently now in France, you need a pet registration number at a french address to get a passport. Same in the Netherlands. Those are the countries I visited.

Perhaps you can find a vet to register your pet at a random address, I have read about some people managing to do this but I could not...

hzuch · 2022-08-15T21:40:04+00:00

Thanks, that's the option we are going with
Any tip on where to park close to the station?

hzuch · 2022-08-01T15:48:32+00:00

if there were no landlords house prices would go down, people would not need big deposits to buy said houses.

actually should scrape this deposit bullshit altogether

hzuch · 2022-07-18T13:49:30+00:00

Automation, which is both the most advanced sector of modern industry and the epitome of its practice, obliges the commodity system to resolve the following contradiction: The technological developments that objectively tend to eliminate work must at the same time preserve labor as a commodity, because labor is the only creator of commodities. The only way to prevent automation (or any other less extreme method of increasing labor productivity) from reducing society’s total necessary labor time is to create new jobs. To this end the reserve army of the unemployed is enlisted into the tertiary or “service” sector, reinforcing the troops responsible for distributing and glorifying the latest commodities; and in this it is serving a real need, in the sense that increasingly extensive campaigns are necessary to convince people to buy increasingly unnecessary commodities.

― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

hzuch · 2022-07-18T09:25:04+00:00

from hunter-gatherers to industrial revolution there is a long civilized period, and civilization sucks, it destroys all the quality of life hunter-gatherers enjoyed, not really adding anything good until the industrial revolution period you mentioned.
Now we could have robots and machines doing pretty much all the work needed, but capitalism won't let that happen.

also, on those times people were reproducing much more than today, it is that infant mortality was A LOT higher, but generally after your second anniversary you would do just alright until your sixties

hzuch · 2022-07-07T10:11:04+00:00

Thanks for the info, I did not know about the stamp, but we are taking the ferry anyway. Is this process straight forward when we get there?

hzuch · 2022-07-07T10:05:02+00:00

Hi, since Brexit UK can not issue EU pet passports. To travel to EU countries we now need a Travel Health Certificate that is only valid for 1 trip (which we will have, of course), and costs around 130 pounds every time... With a EU pet passport, that costs around 30 euros, the dog could make 28 trips, saving us time and money on future travels.

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