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Hi all, Not been around these parts for a while... I'm trying to plan a nice weekend away with the wife for our anniversary and I'd quite like to tie in the hiring of one of her "dream" cars - either a Porsche 911 (964) or Lotus Elise. However, there seems to be a real shortage of sports car...

Conscious that I've not put up any photos of my car, which is now for sale, so thought I'd better before it goes! Gave it a bit of a scrub ready to sell - a quick decontamination followed by Blackhole and Tough Coat: [URL=http://s4.photobucket.com/user/acrebo/media/1-2.jpg.html][/URL...

So some of you may know that I owned a nice E46 320d M-Sport: Unfortunately, the recent introduction of our second daughter to the family has meant that we really needed something bigger. A nice economical estate, cheap to run and insure, etc, etc... Well, at least it's an estate :approve...

Today I thought I'd take advantage of the rare sunshine to give the car a bit of a rescue after the worst winter I can remember, ready for the summer... I'm a lazy fucker so only have a few 'after' shots but the process was: Wheels cleaned and de-ironed, tyres and arches scrubbed and Espuma...

Saw a tidy looking white 172 Cup (replica?) in King William underground car park on Saturday. Cliosport sticker on the back so it's certainly been owned by a member in its life at some point...?

So, the situation as it currently is: 2 x HDD's in my PC. One is 600GB and has Windows and all of my programs on it. The other is only 114GB but stores my music and photos, etc. I'm going to buy a 60GB SSD to put Windows and some of the hungrier programs on to (Photoshop, etc). This will then...

... if you haven't done so since owning your car. Not sure why, but figured I'd crack out the Gliptone on my front seats, steering wheel and gear knob this evening. I imagine they haven't been cleaned since new and the water afterwards showed: No pics of the seats, they're matt black after...

Hi all, A bit of a random one this but hopefully a bit of variety in here for a Saturday afternoon! I've always enjoyed pottering around with computers and did a bit of HTML stuff back when websites were still in their infancy. Then I grew up, got a career, house, wife and kid and haven't...

Wasn't forecast today, twatting Met Office. However, I did get a chance to test out my Scholl S17 and Spider Sandwich Pad on a square foot full of RDS' and I'm very impressed. Ads likes short working times.

http://www.apple.com/support/ipodnano_replacement/ Mine's been sat in my car with a dead battery for months. Bargain!

I'm now decided that I'm going to give the GS2 a whirl after years of iPhone ownership, but don't know whether to keep it safe with black or rock out to white. Any real life experiences of the white one? Does the novelty wear off, leaving you with a big gay white phone?

Seems to have some good deals on there, any experience? My upgrade is due next month and they seem able to offer far, far better deals than O2 can.

Anyone done one? Following on from my thread on knocking a wall down, the bigger plan is to create a proper built-in AV set up. I've had a browse over on AV Forums, where people burn money for fun, but has anyone on here undergone a project like this?

I've been out of the detailing game since getting fed up in the summer and flogging my polishing kit. However, I want to build my supplies up for the summer when I'll do a bit of casual car cleaning / detailing for nearest and dearest... So, has the hand polishing game moved on from SRP yet...

As the title, does anyone know of an insurer that doesn't bend over someone who decides to change car mid-policy? I had to pay extra to move from a 172 Cup to the Bora when I changed before and I'd rather not do that again this year when I change cars...

When using a proxy, obviously it hides the website that you're viewing... But will the history just show constant visits to said proxy site? Just thinking, my IT department might decide to look into me visiting the same site all the time!

As the time approaches when we'll our little bundle of joy arriving (December), my thoughts go to replacing the Bora with something newer... ideally with warranty and the lack of MOT requirement for a year or two. Also, as the missus will only be working part time, the need for a diesel...

Any detailers fancy tackling my Bora? She's pretty swirled up... :( Based in Exeter, have access to an indoor unit nearby, looking for paint correction only.... can pay in cups of tea, bacon sarnies, a cold beer and a bit of cash. :) Anyone skilled with a rotary that would fancy being...

Hi chaps, anyone got any recommendations for a cheapy TV for the bedroom? I need it to banish the wife to when the WC's on! Around 22", £150ish?

Got up at half 5 on Saturday to drive up to Stoke, where I picked up this: It's the old car of the chairman of 106owners, Fuzzy Orange, and he's looked after it well! It came with a sunstrip and countless website stickers which have all been removed (FCS one comes off on Sunday). It's...

Seen a pretty damn cheap 172 Exclusive with 186,000 on the clock and 'part service history'. Having not really kept in the loop with 1*2's in recent months, is this something I should even consider parting with money for!?!

Can anyone give me a bit of a guide to working Megs 83 by DA? General consensus seems to be it needs working for 4-5 minutes per square foot... but how long and at what speeds? It's a Kestral DAS-6 BTW. :)

I was planning on spending £800-900 on a nice new set of wheels for the Bor-ing when I had a bit of a reality check and decided that I'm going back to standard with it. I never drive the thing and it's sole purpose is a motorway hack for the missus. So, with potentially £800-1000 now "freed...

Driving up the hill into town, I pulled out of the road by Shauls Bakery as you were held up by a pedestrian crossing. You were a couple cars behind me on the way into town before turning off onto Magdelan Road. Looked nice. :)

Can't recall if I'd put any pictures of my latest car on here (probably have somewhere...) so thought I'd create a lil' thread for those that may be interested. There are further plans afoot, but financial commitments mean that it's a slow and steady 'project' (not really a project, but...

I'm trying to set up WinSCP to connect with my iphone via OpenSSH. I've entered my iphone's IP address as well as the default username and password (root & alpine) and it connects fine. However, I then try to navigate to my "Themes" folder to drop some themes in and it just idles and doesn't...

Thinking of picking one up for the missus' birthday; the cheapest seems to be around the £160 mark for the console on its own. Any hidden-gem retailers / etailers around selling them cheaper? Seem to be holding their value bloody well!

The consensus on here seems to be that if aclio is rear-ended and the boot floor is creased, even slightly, that the car's are often written off as it's too difficult to repair. Is this pretty much always the case? I'm asking as my mates 172 was bumped from behind and there is a small crease...

Just been out giving the car a bit of a polish and, whilst working on one of the doors, the backing plate has just ripped apart (the point where the screw plate is glued to the hard yellow foam that has the velcro on it...). Luckily it happened over a few seconds, so I could see/hear it coming...

You know, the ones that make half the room go "awwwww yeah!", and the other half just look at you with disgust and shake their head...? So far I'm rocking Apache by the Sugarhill Gang, but it's a bit old hat now. Any inspiration?