Noice, I like a nice long dashcam compilation. I've barely managed to scrape together five minutes of footage all year lol.
Renault recently published a new teaser of their upcoming Arkana model. The car will be a C-segment coupe SUV based on Duster's platform. It is to be revealed at Moscow Motor Show on August 29. This new Renault will be built in Moscow, Russia for domestic and other markets, which most likely won't include Europe.
That's a interesting word choice for a model name. I'm also wondering what engine the Arkana will come with. It could possibly share engines with the Duster, but it could also be using another Renault engine.
That's good news for me then. My new oil pump helped but I thought I still had a problem somewhere else. I've never had a car with a pressure gauge before so I just figured it should stay around the middle. The needle pegs at 75psi until the car warms up, then drops back down, but I guess it did fix it after all if that's normal.
Cold oil is much thicker. Thicker fluid, harder to push through a narrow pipe, need to apply more force, hence higher pressure reading. I work for a company that makes oscilloscopes, including a few for the automotive diagnostics market and accessories, we've got a lot of gear for logging this kind of stuff. Welcome to why cars wear more when cold. Hell the reason why pressure gauges are gone now is specifically to hide the dangerously high looking pressure from less knowledgeable driver's and sost them worrying. Other common one, temperature gauges are usually deliberately wrong too
Makes sense, ignorance is bliss. I mean in my car it's even marked red on the gauge so it didn't seem like there was any way that was a normal reading. --- Post updated --- Speaking of my car, it's continually enhancing it's reputation as an aggressively un-sporty old man car. In addition to the copious beige and velour, I just noticed in the owner's manual today that the handbrake is even connected to the front wheels. That combined with 73hp and horrible, nose-heavy handling makes hooning of any kind basically impossible even if I wanted to. Obviously I didn't buy a beige car with 73hp to do doughnuts in parking lots or run passes, but it's funny considering Subaru's current reputation.
What Subaru reputation? Modern Imprezas are exactly like that - aggressively un-sporty family cars. Who else would buy something that does 0-100 kmh in 12+ seconds?
Until you get to the factory turbo models, which tend to be wheeled by either a. people with more aggression than skill, whose progress around an autocross course can be reliably tracked by the screeching as they fly off the course at every somewhat difficult corner, or b. vapelords who think air suspension and full-body vinyl wraps are cool. I wouldn't mind owning an STi on the face of it but I don't even want to think about the lengths I'd have to go to to make people realize, at a glance, that unlike other STi drivers I actually care about skillful tuning and driving and also realize that modern EDM is a cancer which is killing music.
Or, you get the early impreza which replaced the Leone mentioned above. Most of the Subaru rep comes from Impreza WRX and STIs, even my 01 does 0-100kmh in under 6 seconds stock. Also powers through corners pretty well. A few YouTubers recently summarised the sportier Impreza models quite well (well, anything up to 2012 or so). These says they excel at nothing, but there's also nothing they're bad at. Back around the turn of the century though, not many vehicles in class were awd
My dad used to work at a Subaru dealership and number of Imprezas that came back with wheels ripped off after unplanned off road excursions was astonishing. Even their other models are seen where I live as being kind of hip cars for outdoorsy people.
For what? Cold starts? Just adjust it until it stops smelling or smoking. Not to lean or it will not start in the cold. Pre or post 73?
Post 73, Its a motorcycle style one, not like a car where it is on top of the motor. Trying to get it a bit more lean because it floods sometimes.
