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Has anybody else found out that you can cancel the facelift TC's snow-mode by flooring the throttle? I haven't quite worked out if you have to do it twice or just once yet. It only does it when the car puts itself into snow mode. It doesn't work if you turn on snow mode yourself.

There's a name for this kind of play on words. There were some good ones in the month before lasts New Scientist. "I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder. I wonder why I wonder why I wonder why I wonder!" or (I just found the original article again..) "Think how much nicer it is to ride in a taxi and think how much nicer it is to ride in a taxi than it is to walk, than it is to walk and think how much nicer it is to ride in a taxi than it is to walk."

Yeah. Did the first decat on girlfriend's father-in-laws ramp. Easy peasy Second decat should be arriving today.

I didn't start 'til 3:30. Already done a few jobs by then Quite chuffed with the fuel pump - took less than an hour all in. I was taking the piss with the 'performance tuner' bit BTW just in case anyone's wondering

Fitted new spark plugs Fitted new breather hoses Fitted new air filter and fitted new Walbro pump. Decided to come back to the fuel filter another day since I didn't have a 14mm pipe spanner to hand, and thought I might be trying my luck for it to go smoothly twice in a row. All in all, a good days performance tuning

yup

I've done it now. It does go down to 13ft/lbs, it's just that the scale only starts off at 22.5, so I had to guess where the marking would be a little bit. 13ft/lbs feels plenty tight enough, and I'd hate to round off the threads in there

the mkiv.com article says 13ft/lbs. My torque wrench doesn't even go that low - it starts off at 22.5. Is 13ft/lbs correct then?

I know but why bid for something if you don't want it! Anyway, it's a done deal now Ah, I see what you mean re: the full set.. you thought my offer was a joke offer. Fair enough. Sorry for going off on one

They can't be genuine OEM if they're made out of fibreglass I'm afraid. Or were you just meaning "should I buy genuine OEM or cheapo replicas?"

You have 'em then. Postage + paypal fees come to £25 so if you want to pay £65 for a half used set of pads then be my guest! £140 - £150 for a *full* set new, so I presume that makes these worth £70 new...

Why?

I'll give you £30 + postage for 'em.

ZZ baby. Cool

I had Fleetwood Mac on last time I was in the car (friday) and today I bought a few CDs from Music Zone.. Bad Company live Level 42 Mr Big Tenacious D - the one from the new film that I haven't seen yet.

That'd probably be the easiest solution all round, no need for additional NICs, but I suspect Jake is connecting directly to the cable modem rather than through a router, so he's being given a public IP by the modem and therefore can't do that.

It's in the TCP/IP preferences for each interface.

It's quite a normal thing to have multiple network cards, it's known as being 'multi homed'. Just think of a router/firewall, or an MS Windows machine running ISA Server. It would have probably three network cards : 1 connecting to the internet, one connecting to the private LAN, and one connecting to machines in a DMZ, i.e. machines which are accessible to the outside world (webservers etc.)

The two cards will work fine together. You'll want to make sure each network uses a different subnet; e.g. 192.168.0.0/24 for the first and 192.168.1.0/24 for the second, or 10.x.x.x. etc. Just so long as the network part is different (e..g the bit masked by the 255s in the subnet mask). You would then be in a situation where your machine doesn't know which to use for the internet, so, you could either manually configure your IP addresses, and leave out the default gateway on the interface that you *don't* want used for 'net, or, more properly, just set the Interface Metric (this means the 'cost' for using the interface). The lowest metric takes priority. So set the NIC which is connected to the Sky ADSL to 2 and set the preferred one to 1. I have to say I'm not sure if it would just work even if they were on the same subnet.. the machine might just send the ARP broadcasts out of both NICs and therefore still find a machine whether it's on NIC1 or NIC2, but for simplicity I'd say make sure they're on different subnets.

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It's definately knackered isn't it

It is yes, if they have put any dye in. It's actually a UV dye, so although you can sometimes see it, it's really meant to be seen with a UV lamp as it glows really bright purple. The dye is usually only put in to check for leaks, but not on a normal regas. I think, anyway.. Mine would last two weeks or so before it needed filling again (in the old car, not this one).

Me too. It does a good job of demisting, without having to have the temperature up high.

Lets hope it stays working. The compressor not engaging is usually always down to low/no gas in the system, and the usual reason for that is that the system has a leak somewhere.

I don't think it's fair that one side of the feedback gets removed and not the other. Surely if the feedback is going to be removed, then it gets removed on both parts? Or should I just keep out of it?