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Last time I did this on my UK car it was a nightmare with me having to go get an angle grinder. This time around I already had the angle grinder out. I used a wire brush and wd-40 on the threads, and I have a 1/2" sq. drive 5mm hex piece for the breaker bar instead of a 5mm allen key. I only needed the angle grinder on three of the nuts. The job was actually a pleasure to do on this nice sunny day, although I got some tinnitus from the angle grinder I'm very grateful to Paul Whiffin / Whifbitz for supplying the drop links and nuts at an exceptional price and delivering very quickly too. I think that'll be my first choice place for OEM parts now as he's much cheaper than Mr Manley.

I am trying to straighten the steering wheel after the wheel alignment was done. The spline on the steering wheel is either too far left or too far right, so I want to adjust the track rods. I can see the 15mm and 19mm hex, onto which I can only fit an open ended spanner. I guess a flare-nut spanner would be better, and I do have a 15mm one of those but not a 19mm one. The nut seems very tight though. Are there any tricks and is there anything I definitely shouldn't do e.g. apply torque to the track rod itself/u-joint? cheers.

Hi. With wheels in the air (car jacked up), when I move the wheels quickly from the wheels themselves rather than the steering wheel, there's a sort of knock 20 degrees each side of centre. It feels like something has moved as the wheels have come close to centre. Just curious, as I also have a vibrating steering wheel above 80mph, which I am mostly thinking is poorly balanced wheels or a bad tyre. cheers

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:-) I think it's a bit of an exaggeration anyway. He teaches self defense, fight-club style. I'm not sure he actually does karate.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/willgreenwood/5159447/School-of-Hard-Knocks-Sport-has-the-power-to-change-lives.html Wish I had Sky. It's a good show from what I've seen. He's the "short Scouser with more black belts than a Mutant Ninja Turtle"

Christ knows, but I wouldn't expect them to be doing much at tickover as soon as the engine is started.. ? Are any of the pumps.. water/ps/anything electric rather than engine driven?

Lol :-) The charcoal canister makes a very quiet chug noise doesn't it? She says it's so loud that you wouldn't drive the car because everybody would be looking.

She says it's coming from the engine area, so not fuel pump I wouldn't think. It's a Walbro that's been in there for about 18 months. I might pull it out at the weekend and have a look anyway.

I haven't heard this firsthand, but the missus has twice now. She goes to start the car, and it's making "flapping" "fhh fhh fhh fhh fhh fhh" noise, but apparently the engine itself sounds OK beneath this noise. She turns the ignition off and the noise continues for about 30 seconds. She tries again and everything is hunky dorey. Main fan and electric fans (facelift car) look fine. No sign of anything that could be catching on them. Any ideas folks? What else might continue to run after the ignition is switched off, for up to 30 seconds (she's a woman.. it might only be 5 seconds) ? She says the noise was "constant" rather than slowing down after the ignition was turned off, so something catching on a flywheeling part doesn't sound right.

Isn't it 2.74 pints, at 90p/litre ?

Heh. I might sell it one day but for now I'm keeping hold of it, never know what's around the corner. Can actually drive faster now though (less attention), and the car sounds more futuristic. You hear the turbo whistle more than anything.

Just removed the Trust PE-II exhaust and fitted the stock unit back on. Ahh, so nice and refined. Feels like a modern piece of engineering While I was picking up the exhaust, my mum made me take the 17" OEM rims too, and now I'm considering what colour to have them refurbed in, and maybe fitting those in place of the 18" Volk GT-AVs. The OEM rims are so light - must make the car feel better.

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Anywhere will do. Find a screw or anything.

yep, here.

erm, can't remember but I do remember it wasn't rocket science

the horn plug from the old wheel needs to be used.

Yeah very much so. Here's the analysis results for the .dll, called through Run -> rundll32. Doesn't look good. http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/9ec1b577f2bf5688597dc1c911bea47d Here are the results for twext.exe, called through Winlogon -> Userinit. http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/ae4eda13de80161b65b3a18122ead92f c:\windows\system32\a.exe , doesn't appear to be called from anywhere that I've noticed yet, but obviously suspect filename and file date: http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/ae4eda13de80161b65b3a18122ead92f c:\windows\system32\userinit32.exe , called via addition to Winlogon > Userinit, hidden from Windows API and only visable with icesword, but registry modification was re-creating itself after removal. File timestamp on this one is 2004-08-11 , same as most stock XP files. http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/cf0b882c689a513443845f3edea5cb16 Microsoft Antivirus (whatever that is) misses this one. c:\windows\usebexuyiruburu.dll - can't remember where this was called from. Think it was HKCU -> Run, whereas others were HKLM -> Run http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/4407b4eb1474268be3033b8268608877 Again Microsoft Antivirus does well while nearly all the other 38 antivirus programs fail. NOD doesn't find a thing. Is it time to switch to Microsoft Antivirus?

What's concerning me is how the page is modified in-line and the url and certificate are spot on.

Computer has various infections on it by the looks of it - twext.exe which I've come across enough times, and various random .dll's fired up through rundll32.

I've just come across something concerning that I haven't seen before. Customer's computer appears to be infected with something. Banking websites such as rbsdigital.com , lloydstsb.com, hsbc.com , well, the website displays perfectly except that the security phrase box asks for the whole phrase instead of just particular characters from the phrase. It's as though something is intercepting and re-writing the page as it's displayed (url and cert look fine, dns of sites resolves fine). Anybody seen this before?

I rang O2 to check and they said no Oh, that's interesting. Good to know, thanks.

Anybody know if it's possible or if any providers generally offer the ability to cap usage on a mobile? e.g. if there were 600 inclusive minutes in the monthly allowance, then do not let the user go over that, and perhaps block other chargables too?

I've been using PS3 Media Server for the last two weeks now and it works wonderfully. I'm having to use wired ethernet though since my wireless isn't good enough up in the bedroom. It's marvelous though. So much better than the network media player thing I was using before. My quad core [email protected] (overclocked) computer isn't able to transcode certain Blu-Ray rips in real time though (WVC1 (VC-1 Advanced Profile). I suspect this is because it's using mplayer which is using win32's codec which doesn't multithread or something though, although the latest CVS of ffmpeg does it natively. I've got Blu-Ray rips down to about 3.5gbs now too with 5.1 AAC sound, into an MP4 that the PS3 loves. I'm probably going to stick with DVDs for my movie collection though, they're easier to play on more devices. Anyway, it was just a bit of feedback. I'm quite impressed with it.