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  1. Steve JL

    Sky Broadband - BE migration

    I was migrated Wednesday/Thursday last week. First I knew was the home oh one dying. The letter said it was happening on March 31st. Call bt to report the phone line as down and come home from work to a working line on Thursday evening. 3 hours of talking to sky agents I have found out that I...
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    anyone own a BEC

    Yeah I have a Megabusa,built it myself and on the road in 2009. Its done 6000 miles since the build. Love it to bits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rPa9XFocA Busa's need dry sumps so factor that in to costs, pretty much everything else apart from Blackbird engines don't. R1...
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    My Mini MAME arcade cabinet build.

    This lots of it too :D Top job OP love it mega cool project
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    Route planner for a nicer drive?

    If you use a TomTom or Garmin with the capability to use ITN files (itinerary planning) you could try TYRE http://www.tyre.tk/ It lets you plot a route in Google maps then save and send it to your sat nav. We use it loads for our runs out. Everyone has a copy then there is no mad panic...
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    Toyota GB dodging repairs on new cars

    Interesting reading. I cant comment on the OP as I was working at TGB for a number of years until recently,although I will be watching this closely.
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    *** The Car Cleaning Thread ***

    Gave mine a going over again earlier this week. I have been using Britemax Extreme Elements and have topped it with Souveran Concours - note the pictures are before waxing this is just with Extreme Elements. Very impressed with this stuff and good value for money.
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    E-tip gloves

    I have a pair,used them last weekend when I was out in my Westfield,did 130 miles and was surprised how warm my hands were. Bear in mind this is with no windscreen or heater.
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    Good Cheap Server - HP Proliant Microserver 4 BAY - OWNERS THREAD

    Mine was delivered on Friday,not had a chance to open the box yet! If you want to shift the original am on Mike I am placing a wanted ad in the MM. Another thing when you say you had slow write speeds in unRaid do you know what was causing it? I was planning to use that myself but having...
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    Caterham 7

    Get a Westfield you know you want to ;):D
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    Help diagnosing a mates problem(involes car not starting after 2 days)

    Did you activate the alarm so that the doors were locked when you measured the drain? On a lot of modern cars it can take quite a while for the CAN system to go to sleep. Given that its been to a VAG dealer I would have thought they would have checked the drain and would probably know how...
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    Help diagnosing a mates problem(involes car not starting after 2 days)

    Check the interior lights are going out (boot first), then also check that the vanity mirror lights on the sun visors are going off. Had it on a Cavalier a few years ago kept checking for current drain and couldn't locate it. Eventually discovered that the switch was faulty on the visors...
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    Go Pro Hero HD Motorsport

    There are loads of GoPro mounts on that rain forest site ;) My laptop with SD card reader built into it struggled to play the files,just use a USB2 SD card reader now and it plays them fine now. I initially thought it was the file size but found that copying them to the laptop solved that...
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    Go Pro Hero HD Motorsport

    Sorry agnes you have got me confused when you ask about focus? You cant change the focus its fixed. The suction mount is very strong I wouldn't have any hesitation to use that on a car at all. I just hang mine off the cage and so have friends who have used it. Might be worth adding a lanyard...
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    Go Pro Hero HD Motorsport

    R3 mode seems to be the best setting as you tend to get a bit too much fish eye otherwise. It's all on the forum anyway :D Ride safe :cool:
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    Go Pro Hero HD Motorsport

    Yep I have one, two 32GB cards,loads of mounts and the LCD BacPac. Video linky below http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeqHQsQELPs Managed to cover the microphone as it was the first time using the LCD and had not removed all the plastics :rolleyes:. Fantastic bit of kit. You may...
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    Lexus ISxx £10k

    Personally unless you are looking at doing stellar miles I would not get a 220,pootling round town does them no favours. DPF and fifth injector problems cost £££ 250 engine is pretty bulletproof and so are the autoboxes. You might find a manual petrol if you are prepared to look around/wait...
  17. Steve JL

    Pistonheads Sunday Service - Mercedes-Benz World 11/9

    Nooo don't say that was going in the Westfield but no roof at all will put paid to that :( Fingers crossed it improves
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    Driving in the Rain

    Did a very wet trackday on Friday. Actually very surprised at how far you can push a car in the wet. Did learn that R888's don't like standing water too much - neither do I come to think of it :eek: Wild horses wouldnt get me out in those sort of conditions normally but it was certainly a...
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    OCUK Rolling Road 11 - Saturday March 19th 2011 - Eurospec, Guildford - Pictures, graphs, discussion

    Thanks glad you enjoyed it. The noise issue is the one thing most BEC's struggle with sadly. When I had to go through the SVA test I just squeaked through on the noise levels. I am running a different exhaust can now which is much larger than the factory supplied one. The other problem is...
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    OCUK Rolling Road 11 - Saturday March 19th 2011 - Eurospec, Guildford - Pictures, graphs, discussion

    Cant be bothered to get the scanner out. I did take a video of it on my phone but it plays wrong will try and sort it out now although I know Kosta has a few videos of it What noisy fan :D
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