Free Talk Friday - June 6th, 2025

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• DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m a full day too late, but since I picked up my new car on Thursday in the late afternoon, the weather hasn’t been great for taking photos. So I share some from before picking it up when it was at the car dealership:

  Image Front view, surrounding cars cropped out

  Image Back view, had to censor out one of the salesmen in the background 😅

  Overall the Opel Mokka B is a great car, it’s just a bit tough getting used to such a modern car. My previous car was an Opel Astra J Sports Tourer, which was way longer but made in 2012. The new one was manufactured at the end of 2023, so it has all kinds of new tech I am yet unfamiliar with. I finally have a working sound system again, which is quite enjoyable. Also, my old Astra was a diesel, new one drives on normal petrol/gas. It’s good that the fuel tank is on the opposite site with this one, so I won’t accidentally put the wrong fuel in it. Driving comfort is very high and feels familiar to my old one, even though Opel changed quite a while back from GM to Stellantis platform. I hope this car will serve me as well as the old one did!

  Also, since I don’t know where else to put it: since quite a while I have a new Matrix messenger address, it’s @dave.anders94:matrix.org . The old one is broken/lost due to Onmail closing down and no opportunity to change emails on Element. Unfortunately all messages sent there are lost in the ether… Nowadays I use FluffyChat. I also changed my primary Lemmy app back to Raccoon since it allows me to edit my profile and bio, unlike Voyager. However, it sometimes does formatting weird - please show me if something I write looks weird on other appliances or webviews (Jerboa, Voyager, Alexandrite, etc.)! A little plus: @walden@sub.wetshaving.social , Raccoon shows the daily SOTD thread image in case you’re interested!

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  • walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Nice car!

    In the US, at least, it’s difficult to put diesel in a regular gas car because the diesel spout is wider and won’t fit.

    You can easily make the mistake of putting regular gas in a diesel, though.

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    • DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thanks!

      Oh, that’s an interesting fact. Good to know! Over here in Germany, and as far as I remember also in Switzerland and Austria, all spouts look the same but there are colour indicators like on this Shell pump station - diesel is almost always black, while regular gas/fuel is either green, red, yellow or blue (depending on the branding of the gas station you’re at: Shell = yellow or red, Aral = blue, and so on). I feel like the US solution is a bit more practical, though. Many people have wrecked their motors by putting the wrong fuel in their tank…

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