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Messages - Kevin Wood

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General Discussion Area / Re: Volvo help, please....
« on: 10 August 2007, 09:44:37 »
I've got a feeling a load of the electrical gubbins is in the back of the car, along with the battery. Definately some sort of fuse box back there, from memory.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re:  Saw a car crash twice today!
« on: 10 August 2007, 22:49:50 »
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drunk driver!

With a Skoda Estelle to enjoy I'd probably be tempted by a swift couple before each journey to numb the pain  ;D

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Camcorder advice
« on: 28 July 2007, 20:01:23 »
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we managed childhood without camcorders.....

Too right. But I didn't always manage to escape the all seeing eye of Dad's Standard 8 though.

Hence miles of footage of me in nappies and Mum in a miniskirt  ::)

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Jimbobs Coolant Leak
« on: 09 August 2007, 22:17:13 »
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The suicidle sparrow collected in the front grill during the test drive was removed on return, how does a bird traveling at a few mph into a car traveling at 60...ish mph end up embeded into the grill arse first!

ROFL!  ;D

I guess he was trying in vain to escape impending doom. Or he had turned inside out.

Doesn't beat my Pheasant that wedged itself between the wishbones on the Westie and was gradually being sauteed (and plucked pretty well, too) on the brake disk. I often wonder where its' head ended up. I suspect that it was above the top wishbone at impact whereas the rest of its' body was below  :( It was a pleasant parting gesture for him to arrange to completely miss my braided brake hose though.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Jimbobs Coolant Leak
« on: 06 August 2007, 22:31:10 »
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Set it on manual....and set to lo.....its the only way to control fan speed ive found and it stays where you set it....try that

Will do. If it's controlling temperature you appear to have manual control of it but then it decides it knows best every so often >:(

I've got an intermittently squeaky bearing in the fan motor too, which doesn't help.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Jimbobs Coolant Leak
« on: 06 August 2007, 22:18:21 »
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I have managed to get 4C coming from the air vents (probe stuck down inside the centre air vent).....ok not as hot as 30C outside.....that was on manual...slow fan speed and set on LO....actually what i think i mean is the climate is rubbish on auto.....not the actual aircon.....i have a probe stuck in the centre vents all the time measuring air temp......what i have found ie today....outside temp was about 20/21/22 internal temp set on 20C....climate could control the temp inside....when cloudy....any sign of sun....it just put the fans on max....temp from the centre vents went up (as faster air temp will go up) ....and it just seems to loose control of keeping the temp down....so you just get a noisy enviroment and not that chilly!.....reason i thought maybe i dont have latest version of climate...as you say this better at keeping fan speed down  :-/

Hmm. Must get mine sorted, especially if going to Italy for hols!

Mine manages about 10-11 deg c out of the vents, at half fan speed or thereabouts and that was earlier in the year when it was cooler outside.  :(

I agree regarding the climate. It just isn't comfortable to shift that much air through the car except for the first minute or two after it has been standing in the sun. I constantly turn down the fan speed on mine, and every time I adjust the temperature it whacks it up again  >:(

I'd be much happier with manual control of the damned thing, to be honest. Climate solves a problem that never existed in the first place IMHO.

Kevin

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I have a feeling the triple head system I referred to just has the one card.

Has the machine got express PCI ? Just thinking otherwise 2 of the cards will be a bit slow.

Kevin

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I've got a G450 (or G550? :-/ ) at work doing dual head and it is a bit ropey.

One monitor (the main one, of course) starts up in some odd display mode where you can't see the login prompt and sorts itself out after a few minutes (not such an issue because it's just about as long as it takes the coffee machine to furnish me with a double espresso).

It tends to flicker and redraw the display at random too. I had hassles to get it to do dual head in the first place, and certainly had to install a different driver, and IIRC, I went through a few before I got a combination that (sort of) works.

Maybe the dual head mode is not co-operating with the other card in there?

As TB says, I'd be thinking about ditching the Matrox card at this point.

Only application I've seen for triple head is the glider simulator a couple of guys at the gliding club built. 3 DLP projectors with screens in front of the front half of an old glider fuselage giving 18o degree coverage, pots attached to the control linkages. It's awesome!

Kevin


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General Discussion Area / Re: Ban for speeding question
« on: 08 August 2007, 00:23:40 »
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Virtually by default, all speedos over guestimate your speed so as to stroke the ego of the driver and the car manufacturer.

When I registered the Westfield the requirements of the single vehicle approval test (which may or may not be the same as for full type approval) were that the speedo was not allowed to indicate below the true speed of the vehicle. From memory, at an indicated 70 MPH, the true road speed had to be between 58 and 70 MPH. Had it been 71 MPH it would have failed. The vehicle was run on a calibrated rolling road to measure this.

Compare your speedo with a GPS and you'll find it indicates over the true speed (GPS speed is pretty accurate on the straight at a constant speed). I've tried it in every car I've had and a few more, and I don't think I've ever come across one that under-reads.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Anyone want to spend a few quid??
« on: 08 August 2007, 23:41:09 »
Yeah, was looking at that earlier and wondering if it'd drop into the Westfield  8-)

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: SAD DAY
« on: 27 July 2007, 16:34:11 »
What a bummer  >:(

I hope you can sort it. Looks like it didn't do that much damage although the wiring is obviously going to be in a mess.

Insurance wise they'd probably write it off, but with parts from a breaker a DIY repair might not be impossible. Might be worth hanging back on getting the insurance involved until you know if it can be a DIY fix. Once it's written off, depending on the category, there may be no way to save it.

I'm sure there was another Omega on here a few months ago that had an electrical fire in that area, and someone else mentioned burning wiring around the power sounder (also in that area)? I wonder if there's a common failure that we can identify and prevent.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: I ve had Enough Day II
« on: 08 August 2007, 15:59:26 »
... and that pesky K series is in the garage repairing itself...?

Still, I'm sitting in an office  >:(

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: the peril,s of ebay omega,s
« on: 08 August 2007, 16:54:34 »
At times like this I find myself trying to think of something better.... But it's no use. Try as I might to come up with the perfect snottogram I'm drawn back to the closing paragraph of the infamous NTL letter:

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I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my cats litter tray, as an expression of my utter and complete contempt for both you, and your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they have not become desiccated during transit - they were satisfyingly moist at the time of posting, and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider them the very embodiment of my feelings towards NTL, and it's worthless employees.

 ;D

The full text:
http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/NTL_Complaint

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: the peril,s of ebay omega,s
« on: 06 August 2007, 22:28:12 »
Can't put in print what I think of this guy. Shows what use EBAY feedback is. Looks like his record is pretty clean but on the other hand he sounds like a nasty piece of work rather than someone who you just caught having a bad day.

Hope your little'un is Ok and is able to understand that you can't let these types get under your skin.

I'd elevate this everywhere you can- with the police, ebay and anyone else you can think of. The tw@ deserves to be put to some serious inconvenience over this.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: General Starting problems......Help
« on: 08 August 2007, 09:56:13 »
Sounds like a set of noid lights might come in handy to see if the injectors are firing...

http://www.abbeypowertools.co.uk/car-service-tools/car-electric-testers/showitem-8029-57798.aspx

Although car batteries are pretty safe if you're careful not to short them, modern HT systems are a bit nasty. If I need to check for a spark I generally wire a strobe light in series with a plug and aim it through the windscreen so it's visible when cranking rather than doing the old trick of holding a plug against the block.

I used to shrug off electric shocks as an occupational hazard but now I'm a lot more careful in my old age ;)

Kevin

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