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General Car Chat / Re: Bits and Bobs

« on: 30 November 2011, 18:46:41 »

Quote from: Broomies Mate on 30 November 2011, 18:39:54

Irmsher offered a Steering Wheel which had the wood effect, possibly the carbon effect too.

I happen to know the wood effect wheel is extremely rare and when one does come up for sale, it fetches stupid money!

Not sure about the Carbon effect as I've never seen one!

EDIT:

Carbon;

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Irmscher-Carbon-Leder-Lenkrad-Opel-Omega-B-Mj-/330649908505?pt=DE_Autoteile&hash=item4cfc453519

Wood;

http://www.ebay.de/itm/i-IRMSCHER-WURZELHOLZ-LENKRAD-OPEL-OMEGA-B-VECTRA-B-NEU-/150708128641?pt=DE_Autoteile&hash=item2316e78b81

Very nice, would the older type wheel fit a 2003 car,

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General Car Chat / Re: Bits and Bobs

« on: 30 November 2011, 18:36:45 »

Quote from: Webby the Bear on 30 November 2011, 18:32:52

Any pics of the new face mate?

Not yet, bin busy at work car looks like its been used as a land rover not cleaned it for over 3 weeks and still need the eyebrows painted. Once shes done will up the pics.

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General Car Chat / Bits and Bobs

« on: 30 November 2011, 18:27:40 »

I now have my new grill and eyebrows

, what I'm after now is a really NICE exhaust trim that will fit the twin pipes on a 3.2. Anyone have one, seen one or knows somewhere that sells them, something similar to this

Can't get away with buying X2 of the above because there is not enough room between the pipes to allow two to fit on, dont want to go down the road of cutting welding etc unless I cant find another option.

Also did Vauxhall offer any other option to the standard steering wheel, not sure why but in the back of my mind I seem to remember seeing a carbon type one somewhere once upon a time. Tried a few searches but nothing or am I looking for something that dos'ent exist.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Another nail in the privacy coffin

« on: 29 November 2011, 19:25:15 »

Quote from: Desperate Den on 29 November 2011, 10:28:57

There have been some interesting points made here.

The only thing I would say - by way of caution - (having just a wee bit of experience here), is be careful of what each of you as individuals except, as being reasonable, in the present and proposed level of surveillance carried out by way of police/security service/government/local government and private enterprise initiatives.

Howsoever it's dressed up, the need to extract even more information becomes evermore imperative as enough is never quite enough - this will lead to intrusive regulation in how we in this country lead our everyday lives - it is not acceptable (in my view at least) to have our every move monitored by those charged with our protection.

If people were aware of the nature and amount of information held by some of the organisations I've mentioned, they would be very concerned to say the least - and rightly so.

I was told once by a relative, who worked for a certain establishment in Gloucestershire, that information - irrespective of how it is used - is power, it is therefore disappointing to me that many organisations within the governmental and private enterprise structures in this country are becoming too powerful by far, especially for the good of those of us who live in it.

That hits the nail on the head perfectly.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Kwik fit insurance fit up

« on: 28 November 2011, 22:32:35 »

You choose the effective date of your insurance no matter how long you have had the car.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Another nail in the privacy coffin

« on: 28 November 2011, 22:25:21 »

In fact you only have to watch a program like Big Brother (total c**p I know) as a demonstration of people being watched, controlled and manipulation.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Another nail in the privacy coffin

« on: 28 November 2011, 22:10:15 »

Quote from: Albs on 28 November 2011, 22:06:52

Nothing to hide,nothing to fear - thats what Hitler told the jews,Stalin told the Russians etc. etc.
The point is,when our government is constantly watching/ monitoring us we have lost our privacy and our freedom,and it demonstrates that they have forgotten that they are supposed to serve us.Not the other way round.

and the end result was loss of freedom and control.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Another nail in the privacy coffin

« on: 28 November 2011, 22:01:58 »

Quote from: Webby the Bear on 28 November 2011, 21:54:53

Quote from: Kevin Wood on 28 November 2011, 20:13:02
Sounds like daily mail "dangle berries" to me. There is no "signal" from your mobile phone unless you are in a phone call, apart from a periodic "ping" to the network probably a couple of times an hour. If there were, the battery would last about an hour.

Even then, they wouldn't be able to "track" phones as it would be impossible to identify individual phones due to the encryption.

And no, TomToms don't "track" mobile phones either. They might report your position periodically if you have the live service enabled and your phone paired to it via bluetooth but that's a very different thing.

.....plus the express as they are effectively the same shit!!!!! i sometimes think DM & TE are worse than the sun as they seem to feed the ever increasing doom merchants and hypertension sufferers!!!!!

even if it was possible that all phones and calls are traceable...... well so what? dont do owt illegal. i very much doubt that someone will be listening in to any of our phone calls anyway irrespective of our personal level of self imprtance

The so what could be a stalker keeping tabs on a possible victim.
I know a man who uses the previous site link I posted to keep tabs on his wife as he is paranoid shes not throwing straight dice.

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General Discussion Area / Re: would you complain

« on: 28 November 2011, 21:40:29 »

Sounds like Manchester on a Saturday night

.................. The only difference is nobodies complaining

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General Discussion Area / Re: Another nail in the privacy coffin

« on: 28 November 2011, 20:50:45 »

Quote from: Kevin Wood on 28 November 2011, 20:13:02

Sounds like daily mail "dangle berries" to me. There is no "signal" from your mobile phone unless you are in a phone call, apart from a periodic "ping" to the network probably a couple of times an hour. If there were, the battery would last about an hour.

Even then, they wouldn't be able to "track" phones as it would be impossible to identify individual phones due to the encryption.

And no, TomToms don't "track" mobile phones either. They might report your position periodically if you have the live service enabled and your phone paired to it via bluetooth but that's a very different thing.

http://www.followus.co.uk/

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