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Omega General Help / Re: NCDC2013 a question for the boffins
« on: 26 February 2024, 09:29:20 »
I understand.  :y
Ideally, try and grab a 32MB card from Gay of E, with the Vaux/Opel stuff already on it, then just nick his Tech2 when you need it and swap the card to talk to yours. Swap card back when you return it :)

Tech2 hardware does support 2 cards plugged in at the same time, but I don't think the GM software supports that :(

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Or a DTM 2.5 - they were producing around 400bhp, but seem to be rare as rocking horse shit.  I seem to recall one company bought them all up and stripped most of them for parts for the hill climb lot?

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General Car Chat / Re: Land/Range Rover insurance
« on: 25 February 2024, 11:12:42 »
I was driving past Sytner Land Rover dealer in Wakefield this morning. Someone has parked a Range Rover outside with proper magnetic signs on it saying
Do not buy a Land Rover from Sytner   UNINSURABLE

Another happy customer.
I know the media have a downer on Range Rovers, especially the tree hugging leftie mob like the BBC/Sky/Fail etc, but....

Her old man drives an old Honda Jizz - he is very old, so its his duty to get in everyone's way, especially as he likes reasonably close to that YZ250 fella ;D - and his insurance company has just written to him saying they are no longer insuring Honda Jizz's in the UK due to cat theft.  I don't see the media having a wankathon over that.  But I suppose as its not a JLR product...

He's managed to get insurance elsewhere, but the risk is deemed so high, the insurance is far more than the car is worth.


I know of someone at work who had a (then) newish Toyta Auris* hybrid, who was unable to renew insurance for the same reason. He ended up having to go somewhere else far more expensive.


*I think - the Astra sized shitbox one.

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General Car Chat / Re: Land/Range Rover insurance
« on: 25 February 2024, 11:05:49 »
Our scheme too is salary sacrifice, so you end up saving a shit load on NI and income tax.  BIK currently is in the £10-20 pm bracket on the EV's on our scheme (which range from shitbox pointless Citroen whatever with less range than a Sinclair C5, to iPace/big Mercs and Beemers), although BIK is due to steadily increase going forward as the government are missing out on important income to waste on HS2 and other money pits.

The zero tax on EVs is also due to be phased out from next year - our scheme strangely doesn't include VED.

So our scheme covers everything during the length of the lease, except electricity, BIK, and road tax.  Obviously if you abuse it enough to need wear and tear items like tyres too frequently, I think it's likely they might be miffed and charge. There is an excess on accidents, which I think is £250, but increases if you keep crashing.

This puts something like a Dual Motor Tesla around £500, excluding BIK and VED, which is potentially almost worthwhile (ignoring any views on Tesla cars) if I lived somewhere where I wouldn't have to frequently charge away from home - EV charging at public charge points makes petrol and diesel look dirt cheap.  EV isn't yet for me.

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General Car Chat / Re: Who's this ? own up
« on: 25 February 2024, 10:52:03 »
And the knob jockey with the dash cam is an even bigger prick.  Just like cyclists who wear cameras. Shouting and swearing over nothing.  I'd like to give the idiot something to worry about.

Everyone makes mistakes when driving, so do they need to be plastered all over the Internet?  Dashcam owning wankstains.

Although in this case, clearly to turn right, you have to force your way out a little (or wait for cars to be banned), which the Estate owner did.  The dashcam knobjockey should have predicted this, and lifted a little, it was hardly impeding his progress, as the estate owner had clearly got gaps both ways, that just didn't quite align.

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Omega General Help / Re: NCDC2013 a question for the boffins
« on: 25 February 2024, 10:43:02 »
A bloke a mile from me has recently acquired a Tech2 for his Saab, but not sure if he has the correct bits (cards? ) to interrogate my car or its headunit.
Unit is identical, just the card is different.  If its the right sized card - they came in 10MB and 32MB IIRC - then TIS (for Vauxhall/Opel) can reprogram the card for Vauxhall/Opel, and TIS (for Saab) can program it back to Saab.

However, I get a nagging feeling Saab used the 10MB card, Vauxhall/Opel is definitely a 32MB card.  The cards themselves are also unusual, in that they are PCMCIA Linear, not the more common PCMCIA ATA.  This means you can't just use a 32MB CompactFlash in a PCMCIA adapter.

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General Car Chat / Can I buy one?
« on: 23 February 2024, 18:54:12 »
I saw this garage at the weekend....

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Omega General Help / Re: NCDC2013 a question for the boffins
« on: 23 February 2024, 18:41:46 »
If you have the facility, refreshing the firmware can fix a bucketload of issues on the NCDC and NCDRs.  It seems the flash starts to suffer bit flipping now they are old.

Pretty certain I have no NCDCs any more, I think I binned the last one only a couple of weeks ago.  Now it's possible it's still in the garage bin, I'll take a look over the weekend to see if the faceplate is serviceable.  If not, VXL V6 might have a faceplate?

Trouble is, I know of only 2 perfect NCDC faceplates in the UK, and they are both currently in 2 of Gixer's Omegas ;D.  Any faceplate will have some level of broken clips now.

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But to answer your question, the Central Locking or Alarm module (depending on spec) is located in right side front kick panel, behind the large audio connector.

They don't usually go wrong, and are difficult to repair due to pub varnish.  If you swap it out, you need the matching remote fobs and ideally the donor cars security code (so you can program new keys)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Boots
« on: 23 February 2024, 09:59:03 »
Can you imagine, I'd be straining that hard, I'd rip the bathroom door of its hinges!
Nothing a Naga Chicken wouldn't fix. Explosively. ;D
Tiffins used to do a cracking Chicken Naga, really tasty and spicy, but without being inedible hot.  Sadly, the others here either don't do one, or its just a vindaloo/phal with a few naga chillies in, so just stupid hot, but tastes of ghee.

My potty is relieved.

Next time you're passing Alton we can sort that out. I know a place... ;)
Its a date :y

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General Car Chat / Re: Land/Range Rover insurance
« on: 23 February 2024, 09:56:55 »
Insurance does appear to have massively gone up in the last year, and is continuing to do so.  Bear in mind that a scratch on an EV is often enough to write it off, and the amount of pointless shit fitted to the front of most cars because drivers cant drive, all makes insurance repairs rocket.

I not on the TV ads, LV now state "Insure your car for as little as £299" *.  A year ago, I was paying around £200 for each car.  I renewed back in late last year for £300, and its gone up yet again in those few months.


*I think that has to be the stated price that at least 10% of their customers pay.

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General Car Chat / Re: Land/Range Rover insurance
« on: 22 February 2024, 15:42:11 »
Aren't JLR offering insurance to those that claim they cant get insurance, but on the understanding that they don't leave the cars unlocked, or the keys in them?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Scams
« on: 22 February 2024, 15:40:30 »
Those that believe they can't be duped are often some of the most lucrative, and relatively easy, targets. Generally referred to as Suckers in the cyber world.

Spear fishing and whaling takes a bit more time and effort, so tends to only get used for specific circumstances, usually for information, rather than financial reward - think spying, be that governmental or business.


I sit on the edge of this sort of stuff in my day job, and have many dealings with some properly clever people who can get most people to give over stuff they know they shouldn't. via various means, including techniques similar to hypnosis.  "Anyone who feels they can't be conned is an egotistical idiot"

Obviously, most scams are at least initiated by lower cost scammers, the type that pretend they are from Microsoft/Sky/BT/Police/Bank and want you to install Teamviewer on your PC so they can sort.  As a rule, these tend to be easier for our brains to pick out because none of those organisations cold call you to tell you you have a problem.

Lastly, if you're stupid enough to use Arsebook - other equally inept social media platforms available - you have to accept that *everything* you have ever entered is now public domain, no matter what your privacy settings are.  If any of your virtual friends, or their virtual friends, or their virtual friends or their virtual friends etc etc have ever posted *anything* public, all your private stuff is available with the right tools.  Which, given the stupid passwords we tend to use in the English speaking world, generally means your passwords for most sites are guessable - at a recent event, our clever peeps used a camera to scan our names as we came in, and then used their Arsebook tools to come up with 3 likely passwords for each person...   ...about 70% were correct :o, with the remainder of those that had Arseache, they had enough info to socially engineer the correct passwords.


We are currently at a heightened level of various factions poking around looking for ways in anywhere, as the Admins here can testify - not that a small little car forum is much of a target.  Utility companies are particularly sort after at the moment, and Southern Water has already fallen victim this year, and one of the US water companies being compromised last year.  To this end, its worth remembering that you need to keep your smartphones, tablets, PCs, security cameras, set top boxes, TVs, routers and everything else fully up to date, and stop using stuff that is not up to date.

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General Discussion Area / Re: British Army’s Race Action Plan
« on: 22 February 2024, 09:06:10 »
If we ever went into a real war we'd be rubber ducked!
Define a real war in the context of a digital world...
Given how late the government are to the party about securing critical infrastructure, makes no difference, we're still Donald Ducked!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Boots
« on: 22 February 2024, 09:04:57 »
No chillies in a genuine Vindaloo just vinegar and mustard seeds, TBH a restaurant curry is nothing like the genuine thing. I make my own from scratch ,recipes from good cook books.
If I want the real thing, I have enough friends from that part of the world, and go see them and sit round the table.  Because I'm a heaven, they even let me use cutlery ;D
I wonder what they do if you were a heathen?
LOL, I'm just always heavenly ;D

Could have sworn I typed that properly, but who knows if it was me, or the spillchucker.

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