revtothelimit - motorbike forum

Well compressor actually. I have an old SGS compressor that I use rarely. Switched it on the other day and it kept blowing air out. I decided it was the switch / valve block which was only £10 from ebay so tried that - no improvement.

So in desperation I asked Claude (AI from Anthropic who I like as they won't help trump do illegal stuff).

Claude walked me through everything and between us we came up with the answer - which cost nothing, the way I like it.

The transcript is here for anyone interested:

https://www.iansoady.org.uk/claude/Conv ... Claude.htm

Yeah, I use it all the time for car fault diagnosis stuff, surprisingly good, saves a lot of faffing. Also pretty accurate for looking up part numbers.

How does it fare with,"there's a noise coming from the front of my car"?

Skub wrote: Wed Apr 01, 2026 4:51 pm How does it fare with,"there's a noise coming from the front of my car"?

Predictably - rubbish in = rubbish out - but it'll give you the most likely causes, and it will be quite insistent over the most common causes given the information you have submitted.

Noted.

I've been agonising over an intractable problem with indicators on a bike I want to sell, and decided to give Claude AI a go. I wasn't expecting much, but the responses I got were far better than I could have imagined. It's opened up another avenue of diagnosis that I was completely unaware of, so full marks to Claude...

I was very sceptical originally but have been very impressed. Experiences will of course vary.....

You may like to post the conversation as I did so people can see the process.

I don't have a website to host it on, and not sure if I can just post a Word transcript of the conversation up here...? On second thoughts I'll just cut and paste the transcript into the thread that relates to the problem, and link here.