Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Yeah definitely don’t replace a single tyre

Up until a few years ago I used to drive our cars at work. If a tyre went we replaced one not a pair. My work are quite risk averse but at no point has anyone said change both tyres.
The cars were all shapes and sizes and 2 litres up, some would have some heavy kit built into them and they would be driven hard when necessary hard being on blues and twos. Nobody was spinning of into the bushes because of a one tyre being older than the other one on the axle.

Ah, this would make sense. I hired the Passat in Euston and immediately took it to France.
It was modern enough that it used GPS to reconfigure the LED headlights to right hand traffic, so why it didn't fix the ACC I don't know. Still it put me off, and I've never desired it since.

My boss came back with different advice to everyone: Do two or four

Pretty sure this is literally the advice everyone one here gives every time this question is asked?

But you basically said you need 3 replacing.

The only time i've ever changed a single tyre was in a very specific occasion where the car had almost new tyres on and one got the sidewall damaged down to the cord.

Otherwise always do the pair on the same axle at the same time

^^ Whenni was getting my car set up at Centre Gravity they had another customer there with odd handling - turned out he had different age tyres on the same axle, albeit same tread depth, and the different level of grip was causing the car to pull to one side under hard acceleration.

What is lfgss approved roof bike rack? Is there anything I should be mindful with a carbon from? (except low headroom spaces)

I'm after a cordless polisher. Nothing too expensive. Sub £200 incl battery and charger would be perfect.
Any recommendations?

I’ve recently been using a Thule 599 and been impressed- most hassle free rack I have ever used.

Long shot but has anyone fitted a roof rack to a 3 door mini without roof rails?

I’m currently looking at a discontinued rack from the US which would cost almost £600..

I can’t find a rack in the U.K. that works, and to have rails installed on the car is way more expensive. There are some cheap universal racks on eBay, I could gamble on one of those first.

Seasucker type rack?

Must it be a roof rack? Rear racks are cheaper and just fine. You'll get better fuel economy as well with cycles out the wind.

What's the consensus on using a soft drill brush attachment on alcantara?

It's actually for an alcantara sofa but asking here as someone may have experience doing alcantara car seats?

FWIW would be using with this stuff:
https://www.koch-chemie.com/en/products/pol_star

Thanks but yeah, as primarily I want it for a roof box.

The seasucker looked good, and was initially thinking that, but I need this to remain on the car, I don’t have space in the flat to store anything when not in use.

I assume anyone can just undo a seasucker and steal your roof box? It will be parked out on the street most of the time out of my view.

I'm after a cordless polisher

i'm also wondering this. there was an egg on my car a few weeks ago* (when we had hot weather) and it has fucked up the lacquer a bit. tried t-cut + cloth but didnt do the trick so wondering if i can use something a bit more aggressive before taking it to the pros

*no idea why. parked on street. assume annoying scrotes of guildford

Where abouts are you?

You can have my rear bike rack for a mini. It's an exodus one like this:

Would be cool if you chucked me some money or made a forum donation, but not the end of the world as its just taking up space and the mini it was for got written off by a delivery van.

Ah v kind of you but I’m after a roof rack so I can fit a roof box.

I wouldn’t have anywhere in my flat to put that when not in use. Rep tho. Thanks dude.

Ah! Sorry I misread that.

Fwiw my folks used the OEM bars with the (thule) OEM box and they worked well together.

Like these
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285914957541?

Looking at the universal kits I don't see why they wouldn't be fine.

Yeah but I’ve not got the roof rails to fit the bars unfortunately… you can get them retrofitted but it’s megabucks

Yakima once did a rack for minis without ‘naked roofs’, but they don’t do it anymore and weren’t common in the U.K. anyway. Thule don’t do them either.

What mini?

This was for an R56.

2019 3 door Mini Cooper. (F56).

Assume yours had rails?

OK. It's a totally different system*. Which looks a million times easier if you of have them.

I'd say give the generic one a try. The only thing is it may have a lower weight limit.

*you didn't need rails there are these hidden slots all are built with.

I'd go for the ebay jobbie. Try it out and if it's not fit for purpose return it

New (not new) car day. Very blue.

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I'm very fond of the boxy mk1 octavia. A vrs in yellow will have to happen at some point.