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Just got back from Beamish, survived the nephews & nieces, just. Actually enjoyed the day really. Have a season ticket now, so will go back again, no doubt. This early steam locomotive above was running, an Elephant locomotive replica, cost £333,000 to build back in 2001.

Some bloke did a test of electric cars to see what the maximum mileage is before the cars die completely. Quite apart from the absolute idiotic price of these cars the furthest was 270 odd miles. Unless I'm forced by legislation I wont be buying an electric car any time soon.

For those that are interested, this is how you remove and clean the UEC (Underhood Electrical Centre), with photos, on an Astra H and Zafira B. This is worth checking when you get Throttle Pedal Fault Codes or other weird Codes. The UEC is prone to getting water in it and can cause all sorts of...

managed to source a list of upto date fault codes, may come in useful (admin, maybe sticky??) P0030 O2 Sensor Heater Circuit Range/Performance (Bank 1 Sensor 1) C-29 P0036 O2 Sensor Heater Circuit Range/Performance (Bank 1 Sensor 2) C-31 P0100 Mass or volume air flow circuit high input C-10...