It's strange that the Nissan Cube is the first car that I've driven in a long time that I actually trust.

Audi's own instructions don't tell you to check the oil level by hand?

Gorsh.

Glad you asked?

Sorry I was responding to previous suggestions (not from yourself!) that I was some sort of negligent moron

Really? That's a lot of oil.

Just spotted this - more oil = better oil cooling.

Which don't exist.

Oh I must have imagined the comments then.

Which don't exist.

I just don't get why anyone would rely on the oil warning idiot light before topping up (which is possibly past the point of increased wear being incurred as a result of low oil pressure), especially if the engine drinks oil, as this one seems to. How hard is it to pop the bonnet and check the dipper every fill up/whilst topping up screenwash etc., it's a high performance engine after all, and the cost of a new 'un is horrendously high.

Mechanical sympathy, much? Crickey, if I did that on most bikes I've ever owned, they'd have been toast.

Crickey

I dunno, that's not an reasonable summary of this post I reckon:

At his age I'd guess so, yes.

You pair need to kiss and make up or start ignoring each other because this is getting fucking tedious.

The "warning bong" sound in my M5s was the same regardless of the problem, whether it was a low temperature warning or a "your engine has crapped its pants and thrown a con-rod out on to the street".

Luckily I didn't have any issues with the second M5, but I had so many mechanical faults with the first one (all covered under warranty) that I became conditioned to associate the warning sound with a £2,000 bill.

This made the "low temperature warnings" all the more pant-shittingly terrifying.

It's strange that the Nissan Cube is the first car that I've driven in a long time that I actually trust.

I always get the fear on long journeys that my car is definitely going to break down, but not the Cube.

Incidentally, I've never had a car break down on a long journey.

one beep for everything?

Maybe there needs to be an escalation, but done like a polite human interaction - a quiet 'ahem' for minor things, 'uh-oh' for middling things, and screaming for major things.

Or, for expensive luxo barges, a sequence of 'kerching' sound effects, as you know it's gonna cost you.

The focus has a yellow light and a red light, but only one beep sound, and it has a little display that can show some text (eg 'power steering fault' - RED light). The mazda has simply a picture of a spanner.

As above, wouldn't unburnt fuel be swept through into the hot exhaust and then explode?

Which would give you additional thrust, so is a good thing.

The mazda has simply a picture of a spanner.

Which would give you additional thrust, so is a good thing.

I need enough thrust to push forward an 80kg me, and 14kg bike and weight of pulsejet. I might use tandem. Hmm.

[What idiot uses one beep for everything?

You want to watch Colin Furze on YouTube, he loves his pulse jets:

You want to watch Colin Furze on YouTube, he loves his pulse jets:

I mean, I know it goes about the spirit of what he does, but; oh Christ put a helmet on at least, man!

I mean, I know it goes about the spirit of what he does, but; oh Christ put a helmet on at least, man!

If he drops this V1-mobile, surely a potential knock to the head would be the last of his worries, more the impending "kaboom" and fireball?

I've never heard of this guy but by crikey, what a bloke, man after my own heart x 1000. Sod the noise, sod the neighbours, sod safety...... sod everything.

Says the guy who doesn't ride in winter. Bk-brrrk *flaps wings*

Oh, good point.