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Yup, same stuff. If it's not even reaching the stick, if you start the engine and turn the steering from lock to lock, the reservoir will be filled with aerated fluid.

I'm afraid it was me that accused you of bollox but only in that you were saying that BT were in breach of GDPR by opting you in to FON, knowingly or not. BT have your personal details anyway, your name, address, bank details, every single telephone number you have called, the amount of data you have downloaded from the net, etc. All of that they have, and are entitled to have, as you are a customer of theirs. The other data they have, as they supplied it, is the MAC address of your home hub. However, what they are not doing is publishing any personal identifiable information. Anyone can see that my BT hub has the SSID of BTHub6-WR3Q but they can't find out who owns it just from that. OK, they can conclude that it is in my address as the strongest signal they receive from it is when they are directly outside but that still doesn't identify who owns it (other than it belongs to that bloke that lives in the house of the corner with 3 P38 Range Rovers parked outside).

As for personal information that is pseudonymised, in just the same way as some of us have Googled RRToadHall and found that his real name is Carl Christy, anyone can Google Gilbertd and probably find that it is regularly used by a bloke known as Dick Gilbert (who is actually called Richard Gilbert). If anyone was then interested enough, they could look up the voters list and find my address. So should the voters list be subject to GDPR as it contains personal information that allows you to identify someone, or does the fact that you already know the name mean you already have identified them?

Finally, anyone that doesn't use the FON service can simply switch it off on their own hub (which means they will then no longer be able to connect to anyone else's) but nobody else can connect to theirs. They opted in, knowingly or otherwise, to a service, not to having their personal data revealed.

Yes, red ATF. If you unscrew the cap it has a level measure on the underside with two marks on it. When not running the level should be up to the top mark.

Groaning steering is usually a sign the level is low.

You sure that's power steering fluid? Looks more like coolant to me.

But it isn't a car, it's a Land Rover.......

I've never seen UJs without grease nipples, in fact on the service schedule, they should be greased every 24,000 miles which would be a bit difficult if they didn't have nipples.

But shitpart also source parts from OEM and 'other' suppliers. The genuine Dunlop air springs will often come via shitpart in a blue box too.

The rear seals I've always used are Corteco from Island but they don't list a Corteco for the front.

davew wrote:

Is your address and the fact that you are a BT Broadband Customer 'personal' information: I would say so !

Utter bollocks. No different to someone seeing you using a Tesco carrier bag to put the contents of your kitchen waste bin in the dustbin and concluding you are probably a Tesco customer. Personal information is anything that identifies the person not where they do their shopping or who they use as an ISP.

I opted in in May 2011 when I moved to my previous house. I admit it may have been that the default was In so requiring an opt out but it was still made clear what was involved. As for identifying customers (and therefore coming under GDPR), how does knowing what address contains a BT home hub identify the owner or provide their personal details? It doesn't, so there are no personal details being given out. OK, so I can tell which of my neighbours are using BT, which are using Sky and which one is using Talk Talk. How does that give me any personal information? That fact that the couple living at number 2 use BT doesn't tell me anything else about them. What personal details can be obtained by knowing that someone uses BT as their ISP and live at a particular address?

As for the attempted analogy about the power company, that would only be relevant if your broadband was metered but FON is only available if you are on an unlimited tariff. If you are on a capped tariff then it isn't an option.

I'm still a little confused why someone would need to use you internet connection to send SMSs, emails maybe but not SMSs. An SMS is sent over the mobile network not via the internet. And why would he choose to use your service when there are thousands of others that he could use? In the village where I live there is a population of 2,455 people, so, assuming 2 point something people per household, that's roughly 1,200 households and there are 416 BT FON hotspots in the village. So if I wanted to go and use someone else's, very slow, connection, I could but why would I choose one over the 415 others available? Now if you have changed the password on your main connection to something easily guessed, then he wouldn't be using the throttled back FON connection, he would log in to the unrestricted one. Then you could simply block his MAC address. In the old days you could log in virtually anywhere as anyone with an SSID of Linksys often hadn't changed the password from the default of password. Alternatively, why not just turn off FON on your hub? You won't be able to connect to anyone else's hub but as it seems to bother you so much, why would you care?

Shouldn't be a problem, everyone knows women can't reverse......

When I opted in to the FON service I was told clearly that by doing so I consented to my own hub being made available to others. FON access is limited to 1Mbs so if you've got a fibre connection running at 50 Mbs, then it is using 2% of your bandwidth. Big deal, especially when you consider that if you are connecting over 2.4 GHz wi-fi then you are only going to be using half of your available bandwidth anyway as 802.11g protocol runs out of steam at around 24 Mbs.

BT aren't revealing the locations of their customers either. If you live in the middle of nowhere and are the only house then it's pretty likely that the FON hotspot you can see is from your house but not necessarily. If you live on a modern housing estate, or even better, in a block of flats, how would anyone know where the hotspot is located from the multiple address? The other way of not revealing your address is to change the SSID on your hub to something other than the default BTHub6-xxxx then it wouldn't be possible to link the FON hotspot to any particular hub.

Oddly, I have the exact same problem on LPGForum and have to mark each forum as read otherwise it shows unread posts. That's Firefox V64, (64 bit) running under Windows 7.

I've done it a number of times on my car and others. The modern boots seem to be some sort of vinyl rather than rubber and don't seem to last that long at all. Can't help with a part number I'm afraid as my local motor factors sells them in numerous different sizes and I just got the ones that are the correct size. You'll need a ball joint splitter like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/NEILSEN-TOOLS-CT1578-JOINT-SEPARATOR/dp/B0044ZRTWE as the fork type will damage the actual ball joint.

Change the bags. For 100 notes it isn't worth risking burning out the pump.

Aragorn wrote:

But its left me wondering, shouldnt the interior lighting time out after 10minutes or so, so as not to drain the battery if a doors left open?!

Yes it should. Unless yours, being a very early one doesn't, and it was something they thought about afterwards.

You need a bigger hammer......

If you are looking at LRDirect,I'd go for the Hardy Spicer or OEM ones. They may be a bit more but from known manufacturers. If you don't have a vice, use a big hammer......