Mike Duffy

BWAHAHAHAAAA!!!!! I'm so upset! Budweiser frogs... how can he have known my weak spot? He's got such an intellect! You staying in on your own again tonight attention muppet?

Boo hoo hoo! Three replies eh? Pram, toys, mess everywhere.............

Mac Congratulations on your massive post count on the Scary Devil thread. Top work and top attention muppet baiting. But then again, I am one of your sycophants so I would say that... ( Off out for beers now. Enjoy the fun... ( Dots*3

Nice one mate. You gave me the answer I was hoping for!

Yeah, but what's your second favourite after the Belmont?

Nice one boys, plenty of stuff to look at there. Think I'll try Jeff's suggestion first as it's free! Does anyone know if the rear rotor/drum assembly comes off after just removing the pads? Or do you have to remove the caliper to get it off?

My handbrake's really crap. It does less than **** all. I've adjusted the rear shoes through the holes in the rear brakes and I'm sure it temporarily got better and then went back to normal. Could be wrong though. Any ideas? I can't see how they could need replacing as they don't exactly have a hard time of it. Got an MOT due (actually overdue) and was wondering if this was a fail also.

Because it was a pile of crap! I had the Z and the Carlton at the same time. The Carlton was always bust and the parts were about 10 times the price of the Z parts and 100 times as rare. E.g. coil pack £2000, rear diff £2500. I heard of one bloke who had to have a replacement engine and it cost him £20,000.

Astra Belmont SRi Cavalier SRi Lotus Carlton 300ZX

I like the domain name. :)

Nasal sex is not to be sniffed at.

**** her nose... what's wrong with her right leg? http://www.tekniq.org/bmw/care28.jpg

Cheers everyone! I've got some poo I'm going to put up for auction on e-bay. I thought I'd open it to offers here first. Will exchange for a large portion of sleep.

...the birth of William Anthony Michael, born yesterday night at 22:50, weighing 8 pounds 6 and 3 quarters. And it didn't hurt me one bit. http://www.symatix.co.uk/personal/will.jpg

I'm kinda' hoping Jane's going to start eating meat again once the baby lets go and drops out of her.

What if you earn less than 5K or between 100K and a million?

Sorry mate. Glad you're ok.

Just done this mate. Cost me £180 for the filing fee and that was it. No hassle whatsoever, just a couple of forms. Should be done and dusted in about two more months. Let me know if you want any more info.

No way! Really? Bit of a suck ar5e vote winner though. Not complaining though if they promise to do away with IR35 and section 660 though.

LOL! Now that raised a smile! Good work Nelson.

So ULead's the clear winner then...

Cheers Paul I'll try that tomorrow. Anyone know how easy it is to replace the alternator if that's at fault? And any ideas how much? Mike

Cheers everyone. Voltage across battery terminals is 11.91 with engine off. Drops to 11.69 with engine on. Alternator? Oh, and no fires yet but thanks for the warning! Battery staying firmly connected from now on.

Hi all. Not had chance to do any comprehensive testing on it yet. Been re-tiling, re-carpeting, re-patio-ing, re-painting and re-wiring. Apparently new born babies love that kind of thing so I have to get it ready! Charged the battery up with an external charger and the car runs fine for the moment. If I disconnect the battery while it's running, the car still idles fine. But when I try to drive the car with the battery disconnected, it dies as soon as it starts to rev harder. Am I right in thinking the car should run fine without the battery? And if it's going to die, it should do it at idle rather than high revs? I presume the car is running off the battery somewhat rather than the alternator, hence the good running at the moment (until it discharges again presumably!) Which I would presume means that the alternator is not functioning correctly? The wiring must (I think!) be ok as the car can run when it's draining some charge from the battery. I know I need to do some better testing but that's all I've had time to do for now. Based on my somewhat sketchy results, would it seem likely that the alternator is at fault?