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This could be by design. Are you sure there is supposed to be power at the switch at all times? Can you confirm that you do understand the engine off/ACC ignition requirement?

Ah yes, so I see Well, to be fair, my actual spoiler mechanism wasn't bent. Mine was simply bits of mud/grass, and the very thin aluminium plates needed a tidy/straighten-up. The big solid bits were perfectly straight. It really does seem to be a sensitive mechanism.. like I say I didn't have any bends in the solid parts. I only skated up/along a hilly mound -no front end damage.

Firstly, you can only bring the spoiler down manually if the ignition is set to ACC or something.. engine has to be off. Secondly, my Active Spoiler did the same as yours after an accident (in my last car, the UK one).. the light on the dash would blink. All I had to do to fix it was to unbolt the brackets a bit and straighten them out. The system seems to be sensitive to resistance.

They are utterly amazing monitors though. Fabulous looking and great display.

I paid £450 for my 20.1" Ultrasharp from Aria.co.uk Now you can buy OEM-ish 20.1" for £160

.. and that fucking wing. Jesus.

It looks nice except for the odd nose, and it's a few grand too expensive IMO.

I'd like to buy a black phase-2 Spider (modern chopped-GTV one, not the original one, just before they introduced the new nose on it) as a bit of a summer posy car more for the girlfriend, but she just thinks they're weird looking

A '93 car would never have been originally gunmetal. Gunmetal is a facelift only colour.

Alfa, not alpha! I think it's something to do with the proper back to basics sports car feel of some of them.. perhaps only older ones (GTV was a bit like being in a WW2 plane cockpit.. except more modern of course). There's a certain buzzy feel about driving some of them, and up until recently (156, 147), who would choose one except for somebody who really wanted something a little bit different.. a poor mans distant link to Ferrari, putting up with quirks and potential unreliability. They always (usually) sound nice and some of them handle well. There was definately a buzzy feeling about lifting the clutch up in 1st gear and pulling off in my GTV. It was only a 2 litre but there was something about it. The oddly huge gear selector, which just felt good. The dials which started at 6'o'clock in their deep binnacles, and of course an all round nice leathery smell and feel.

I'll proof read the spelling and grammar if you like It's whether BTW.

Old news I think. It's gone into production, all sold already I think. Maserati engine. My Alfa wasn't particularly unreliable. The major problems I heard of from the time I spent in rec.autos.alfa-romeo were generally related to Alfa not giving a realistic life-span on the cambelts so the cars would look more viable as lease cars, when in reality they needed changing at 48,000 miles ish. There aren't any rust problems any more, except for mild steel exhaust pipes.. Oh actually I forgot.. my gearbox started breaking up inside at ~12,000 miles and had to be replaced. Hmmm

We watch the Grindhouse pair on Saturday night. We started with Death Proof, which I really liked after a little while and loved the ending, then we watched Planet Terror. Both great movies.

Basically, this is how it has always seemed to me: You are a business who wants to advertise. What you do is you tart up a car, speak to Banzai or similar magazine, and get them (pay them?) to do a feature on your car, plugging your business as a car tarter.

Last time I tried to send a laptop it was £20. The time I tried to send a PC, they said it was too heavy. edit: I see what you mean though (http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?catId=400031&mediaId=51000711 ), but when I have asked they have given me the choice of Special Delivery with some kind of insurance\cover, and normal first class (I suppose that's 'Standard Parcels' ?) with next no cover\insurance. I don't think I've ever been offered add-on insurance for an extra £3.50. So I accept that within-UK parcels can be reasonable, provided you don't want tracking, insurance, next day, etc, but international parcels are still far too expensive. It was £60 to send some SCO Unix books to America, it costs more than the cost of a replacement hard drive to return a hard drive to Ireland, and just as much to return a faulty Iomega REV drive to the Netherlands.

I'm sorry but I disagree. Whether simple letters are reasonably priced or not, parcels are absolutely ridiculous. Have you ever had to send a parcel out of the country? Say to Ireland or the Netherlands, or anywhere in Europe? It's extremely expensive, so much so that it's not economically viable to compete with those in other countries in Europe when it comes to selling goods across borders. And anything weighing over 1.5kg or so costs nearly £20 to send within England.

I just done it. Finally. 55 seconds though, and I cheated by looking at one of the winning answers mentioned in the comments.

Leaked? How.. bad capacitors?

Of course, it makes perfect sense. Whether or not you're making up excuses is another thing entirely though.. I have no idea

What, you mean like traffic cops on strike? That'd be OK (if it wasn't for Gatsos I suppose).

It doesn't have the /savecred parameter does it? Other than that, I dunno Seems a bit of an odd way to do things anyway. Are you saying there is a "runas /user:bert sophosupdate.exe" in HKLM\SW\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run or something?

Yeah. Something like that. You can either have heated, or electrically-folding, not both. Seems most (all?) facelift cars have the electrically folding mirrors.

Yep. Something's broken.

LOL

Shall we start a poll?