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General Discussion Area / Plea of help from Rover peeps...

« on: 09 January 2007, 21:20:38 »

Right, one for the Rover people here, I know there are a couple...

Looks like HG has gone on our Rover 25 - 1.6, made Feb 2000, 70k miles.

Is this a DIY job?  How difficult,  and any guides?

How much do you think from garage?

Bit gutted, as we need 2 cars, and being one down is causing us a big problem.  Even if it is DIY job, not entirely sure its within my capabilities

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General Discussion Area / OOF - Part 2

« on: 10 January 2007, 20:16:47 »

I was an early adopter of internet, using since early nineties, and have been a member of many interent communities.

Despite this, I am still (pleasantly) surprised and humbled by the spirit of members on this forum - willing to put themselves out for other members in their times of need.  I have received much help from people here (both this forum and when some of us were members of another forum), but I have been really touched by the offers of help in my recent hour of need.  Mrs TheBoy is disbelieving that so many people, most of whom I have never met, have been so willing to put themselves out to assist. And the car isn't even an Omega.


So, on behalf of the forum team, I would like to thank all those who help out others in their hour of need, be it with advice here, or physically assisting.  You are the people who make the forum what its is in my eyes...

But also on a personal note, I would like to thank everyone for the help and advice regarding Mrs TheBoy's Rover gasket failure, and in particular to JamesV6CDX who has agreed to come over and help me get the car running again.  I would also like to thank Marks_DTM who has put himself out for me on a number of occasions now.

As I say, I am truely humbled...

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General Discussion Area / Prefacelift Climate - a favour

« on: 11 January 2007, 09:21:51 »

I'm after a quick favour of those of you with a prefacelift with climate (in particular early ones, or those that have had the panel replaced possibly with an earlier one)...

Can you check how many different fan speed settings you have...

TIA

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General Discussion Area / OOF - Part1

« on: 10 January 2007, 19:49:27 »

Our first member signed up on 10th July 2006, exactly 6 months ago.

We've had some fun and games, esp behind the scenes which hopefully not many people have noticed, but all in all it has been a total success.  Significantly surpassed my expectations, thanks to all the members here making this place what it is.

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General Discussion Area / Computer storage/backup

« on: 08 January 2007, 19:54:17 »

I had to go to Derby today to build a server.  As it was doing its automated build, I was obviously a bit bored, and once I was bored of the games on my PDA, it got me pondering about the backup robot I was leaning against.  So I did a bit of maths and after a few guestimates, I reckon that robot could be loaded with 600TB of tapes at any one time. Thats 600TB native - hardware compression is usually 2:1, so 1.2PB.  What the hell do people need this amount of storage for  :-?

So then I started thinking about computers - the server I was building had 32 DIMM slots, each filled with a 1GB module....

Even consumer stuff, you'll struggle to buy a PC with less than 160Gb drive....

Before computers, where did we keep all this info?  And is it progress?

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General Discussion Area / Thanks Marks_DTM

« on: 07 January 2007, 17:14:59 »

Change a front wheel bearing for me today, old one had 'a bit of play' in it.  Also tightened the play in the steering box.

So a public 'Thanks' to you Mark

No rumbles from the front, so a result there , and also the steering wheel felt more connected to the car, so I'm a happy boy

I don't think its quite sorted the strange handling - that bit along A46 after straight bit, there is a sweeping right a mile or so before roundabout, went round there to test it at xxxMPH and it started to step out, almost as if tyre was a little flat.  Would that be due to that other suspension problem you found?  Also, still a tendency to wander sat on the M1 at 85mph...

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General Discussion Area / 12th night

« on: 05 January 2007, 22:30:49 »

Therefore the christmas decorations come down.  Mrs TheBoy dealing with the tree etc, I will deal with the christmas smilies here. Sounds fair to me....

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General Discussion Area / IE6/IE7

« on: 03 January 2007, 21:38:25 »

Stats from this site show IE7 is getting close to overtaking IE6 this month.  Some of my other sites, it has already done so...

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General Discussion Area / Tunnies coolant guide

« on: 04 January 2007, 13:49:31 »

Now in Maintenence Guides.

Comments here.

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General Discussion Area / Tunnie's Cam Sensor

« on: 01 January 2007, 16:17:22 »

Every time Tunnie comes round, I end up clearing P0340 (cam sensor) DTCs from his ECU...   ...I told him last summer to replace it.... ....so a quick poll...

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General Discussion Area / Merry Christmas

« on: 24 December 2006, 22:42:49 »

Thats it for me for a couple of days - entertaining outlaws tomorrow, and my lot on boxing day.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas


PS: Anyone starting oil threads etc will get my wrath on my return, resulting in permenent post count reduction . Unless one of my kinder moderator colleagues gets there first and saves you...  

Have a good one,
Jaime

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General Discussion Area / T reg GLS - £2.5k

« on: 22 December 2006, 11:29:46 »

Blimey.

2nd hand car place next door to where I work, T reg GLS (dunno engine size, my eyesight at that good), £2499.

Admittedly its an estate, but I still think they are having a Bobby Moore.

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General Discussion Area / [m]: Omega-B Facelift 2001-2003 Petrol Perfromance Data

« on: 22 December 2006, 17:54:37 »

[moved] [link=http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1166809964/0]Omega Technical Info[/link] [move by] TheBoy.

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General Discussion Area / Need Key or ECU program

« on: 18 December 2006, 22:07:58 »

Extra special discount for key programming or ecu stuff for a few days - see sticky at top of every board

Merry Christmas.

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General Discussion Area / Betamax man has struck again

« on: 10 December 2006, 22:46:45 »

I need a P4 processor.

Easy task I hear you ask?

Only I need a LGA775 socketed one. Still easy?

Only it can't have EMT64...

Anyone know where I can get one? Or anyone got a working one lying around?