AFAIK the Yeti probably shares with something smaller like VW Golfs. No rear drums and a mechanical actuator for rear calliper.

Bung:

 

AFAIK the Yeti probably shares with something smaller like VW Golfs. No rear drums and a mechanical actuator for rear calliper.

 

Correct, no rear drum. Handbrake is mechanically activated via a lever system through the back of the piston.

I had some time at home with the weather at the weekend so I put the car up on jack stands and had a look for myself. I can't see anything obiously wrong but did notice a lot of build up crud and minor corrosion in the pad sliders. So I pulled them out, gave them a good clean and polish and re-installed everything with fresh copper grease. We will see how that goes.

Ordered 4 items from the Torpedo 7 on-line store that were on clearance. I've received 4 different shipping notifications over the last 2 business days. It appears the 4 items are going to be delivered in 4 different couriers from 4 different physical stores.

This Dell laptop and its dock

The laptop shows 19.5V DC at “4.62A/6.7A”. The latter works out to 130.65 Watts

The USB-C dock, a UD22 has a 130Watt PSU meaning that the i7-based laptop operates at a reduced capacity with an annoying warning indicator in Windows. 

Senecio:

 

Ordered 4 items from the Torpedo 7 on-line store that were on clearance. I've received 4 different shipping notifications over the last 2 business days. It appears the 4 items are going to be delivered in 4 different couriers from 4 different physical stores.

 

That Bürgen have decided to discontinue their fruit loaf due to low demand.😞

Now what am I going to have for breakfast?

floydbloke:

 

That Bürgen have decided to discontinue their fruit loaf due to low demand.😞

 

Now what am I going to have for breakfast?

 

MadEngineer:

 

This Dell laptop and its dock

 

 

 

The laptop shows 19.5V DC at “4.62A/6.7A”. The latter works out to 130.65 Watts

 

The USB-C dock, a UD22 has a 130Watt PSU meaning that the i7-based laptop operates at a reduced capacity with an annoying warning indicator in Windows. 

 

 

 

Must be a grunty laptop. I have a Precision 5470 which takes a pretty big PSU, but it's working with a dock fine (it is a new dock though - I think the dell SD25?)

Newly implemented reporting on our company vehicle usage. 

Considering I have "unlimited personal use" the amount of data collected to show exactly where I drive, at what speed and for how long would indicate that they care a little more about where I am and what I am doing in the car than they used to...

Date, Time, GPS co-ordinates, corresponding address, duration over the speed limit (even if it's 1 sec and 1km/h), Avg speed, top speed, speed limit, avg overspeed, Max Overspeed

For the month of August, I was off the road for 13 days as I was in bed sick: there's still over 50 lines of data. 

Makes the use of a company car quite unenjoyable, when that level of scrutiny is applied. 

I think I'd rather hand it back and take the $16k increase in salary then buy my own car. 

Handsomedan:

 

Newly implemented reporting on our company vehicle usage. 

Considering I have "unlimited personal use" the amount of data collected to show exactly where I drive, at what speed and for how long would indicate that they care a little more about where I am and what I am doing in the car than they used to...

Date, Time, GPS co-ordinates, corresponding address, duration over the speed limit (even if it's 1 sec and 1km/h), Avg speed, top speed, speed limit, avg overspeed, Max Overspeed

 

For the month of August, I was off the road for 13 days as I was in bed sick: there's still over 50 lines of data. 

Makes the use of a company car quite unenjoyable, when that level of scrutiny is applied. 

I think I'd rather hand it back and take the $16k increase in salary then buy my own car. 

 

Do they actually do anything with said data though?  Do you get any warnings etc?  Or just "here's your use".

If you were so inclined and they were actually doing things with it, you could do all manner of malicious compliance, create the vehicle equivalent of Strava Art, try and see if there's a maximum limit to the data generated etc.

Handsomedan:

 

take the $16k increase in salary then buy my own car. 

 

No brainer IMO. 

This is why I don't get how many oldies still think that cars and phones and computers as part of renumeration is a good thing. 

geoffwnz:

 

Do they actually do anything with said data though?  Do you get any warnings etc?  Or just "here's your use".

 

If you were so inclined and they were actually doing things with it, you could do all manner of malicious compliance, create the vehicle equivalent of Strava Art, try and see if there's a maximum limit to the data generated etc.

 

Ultimately, my emplyer is looking to reduce their fleet and this data is a great way for them to do so. 

By the way, this is totally an unrelated thing, but the GPS jammers that you can get from the likes of wish and similar are totally effective but illegal.

richms:

 

By the way, this is totally an unrelated thing, but the GPS jammers that you can get from the likes of wish and similar are totally effective but illegal.