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That was me. Yay ! Been seen again. It's my commuter vehicle for now :)

The story was linked off digg.com - apparently it's an MMORPG site (massively multiplayer online roleplaying game, I think).

Seems they've taken it offline for now, there were about 2,000 people on the thread. It might come back on later, but for now, for your viewing pleasure, a partial mirror : http://fesk.net/mirrors/showthread.php.html

Have a look at this... http://www.flyffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17438

Cheers - have seen these. Am continuing to work on my own for now, more for the fun of doing it and having it exactly as I want it than anything else. I've got Datascan working under WINE for now, so it's one of those "when I have time and nothing else is important" things.

I'm in the process (a very slow process, lots of other things going on) of writing a linux server daemon that will talk to the ECU through a datascan cable. I've got the initial server pretty much done, just taking lots of time writing header files with all the addresses and codes in. My carpc is linux-based, and I wanted something native to talk to the engine.

Cheers - mine's a UK car so no convertor. Thanks for the help, I know what I'll be doing over the next few nights :)

Cheers. I have thought about getting a new cluster, but I wanted to make sure that it was really that before I bought one; I've removed it and checked for dry joints etc within the cluster already, but I think I'll have another go at that as well as cleaning the connections. With regard to the other point, do you think driving in the medium-term without any feed from the speed sensor / etc will do any harm ? Was thinking that if there's no feed giving the speed, the ECU may think the car isn't moving. I'm aware there's a different feed to the ECU than the one to the clocks but that's about all I know in this area :)

Hi all. I've been having a couple of issues over the last few months that are mainly niggles, since ztech (thankyou) fixed the major bits. My speedo works intermittently (it's not the speed sensor, ztech checked it); it mainly does one of the following 4 things: Stays at 0. Stays at 180+ Reads speed between 100 and 160 (when driving normally :) ) Sticks at 60 or 120. I'm pretty sure that it's just the loom between the speed sensor and the clocks, as it works when it's been dry for a while and also when wiggled a lot. Additionally, just recently I've noticed that either my fuel consumption has gone mad, or the odometer isn't working. So far I've had 45 miles out of a full tank - it only seems to work now when the speedo is working, but that didn't happen before. Finally, it's also hesitating quite severely on some occasions (always when the speedo isn't working) - when pressing "go", the car thinks about it and then takes off. I'm intending to clean the connections etc, but I'm a little worried that I might be doing some damage - I imagine the car thinks it's not moving at all when I'm driving, and wondered how serious that is... Sorry for the long post, please help ! :confused:

Just to let you know : I tried using velcro for sticking a GPS bluetooth unit to the dash (as a temporary measure). Worked fine until we had some hot weather, then the heat made the adhesive on the back of the velcro turn into runny goo. Stained the dash a little bit and took quite a bit of cleaning off.

Guy makes up advert, posing as a sub. woman after a dom. man. Then he posts all the replies including pictures and email addresses (and quite a few are from people's work accounts). http://www.waxy.org/archive/2006/09/08/sex_bait.shtml#073203 Seems he may be guilty of violating privacy laws...

I got the guy to show me when it was on the lift, there are several finger-sized holes all over the multiple "excessively corroded" areas. I'll put some photos up this weekend.

Hehe, yep. I'm going to get a special plastic bag to put the car in when it rains or whenever there's more than 30% relative humidity I think.

I know it's not a small amount :) Just been to a local welding shop for a quote, £300 all in. Lucky day :)

Thanks for your advice - was having thoughts along the same lines myself. I'm kind of hoping that I will be fortunate with pricing; I've found a welding shop in York that has a great reputation for doing this kind of work at a good price and I'm going to see him again tomorrow. He had half a bus on the shop floor next to a couple of sports cars and a volvo when I went last time so I'm thinking he's at least trustworthy. Here's hoping...