stevie_b

Good thread, enjoyed reading that! Unlikely to be the cause of your 100mph issue, but the car might have the 112mph speed limiter fitted: all the Jap ones have it (Japanese law possibly), although that would probably cause the indicated speed to stick at around 120mph ish (speedos are optimistic as I'm sure you know).

Lead software developer at a hedge fund consultancy.

It's a long shot, but does anyone have a wiring loom for a 2002 (old shape) Vauxhall Vectra they'd be happy to sell? It's for my brother-in-law as his car developed an electrical fault and fried part of the loom.

And that, my friends, is why referendums are a bad idea in this country.

I didn't vote this time. I didn't receive anything through the post, no leaflet drops, not even a polling card. I didn't know for sure that there was a local election in my patch until I looked up the results this morning on the BBC website.

Attached is a Bansky near the A1/M1 junction just outside London.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13524208, last item in the list. Rumour has it that "Peas" is a London-based graffitti artist. I agree that adding the other words presumably to spoof the phrase/song title "Give Peace a Chance" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Peace_a_Chance) was genius. Someone on the internet (so it's got a 23.1% chance of being true) reckons the other words were added when "Peas" was up before Bow magistrates for graffitti-ing a train. This twist, if true, would make the additional words even sweeter!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17921127

Did all of you actually have PPI insurance (that wasn't specifically requested by you) as part of your loans? The banking industry reckons that as many as a third of claims coming from claims companies are either false or fraudulent. Fair play to the claimants if PPI was mis-sold, but if it wasn't (and you know it wasn't) then that's parasitic. I'm not too surprised. The claims companies are aimed at people who just see £££ signs when they see the adverts on TV or in the papers.

The ad could do with an asking price too.

For her, I think a quickie is "only" 12 hours of non-stop, bone-crunching sex.

Ask Branners if Dragonball 2012 can take a detour via Munich.

Read. Enjoy. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/01/munich_incident/ She obviously needs a proper man who can get the job done.

Good for you chap, I really hope it works out for you.

Yep. You need to remove the driver's side boot trim panels. The motor and mast are located between those panels and the outer skin of the car.

It's a nice thought but I think it would be hard to make it profitable. The internet-only dealers have low overheads and could undercut a dealer who has a showroom to drive them out of business, unless that showroom dealer has a strong established reputation (e.g. Jurgen). Good for driving costs down (temporarily at least), but bad for the dealer who is sacrificed in this way. Like others said, yout couldn't really specialise in supras: target market not big enough IMO. You'd get plenty of pats on the back from people on here, but that doesn't pay the mortgage.

(From my PM): You'd need to fit a top speed delimiter to the car to delimit it. There's no other sensible way. It's possible that the speed converter you've just removed also has a delimiter built into it. Was yours a Thor converter? I think those ones say on the box whether they include a delimiter or not. If yours does have a delimiter built in, you jsut need to re-attach the 12v (red) and 0v (black) wires, and the delimiter output wire (yellow). Failing this, connect odometer pin 6 (see the Thor diagram) to the ECU pink wire: this will leave the car speed-limited again. You get the engine light when the pink ECU cable isn't connected to anything because that's the ECU's main (only?) speed input. When this is cut, the ECU doesn't know what speed the car is doing and throws error code 42 (faulty speed sensor).

"When I hose my car I use a technique to push off the shampoo and then the hose will be turned off straight away. ...." -- That's commendable. However I suspect a lot of people just leave the hose running whilst they faff about. "Agreed. That's the government for you. Rip off businessmen running our country and robbing our pockets...." -- the government doesn't run the water companies any more. "The surface of the planet is like 95% water. Whats the big worry. If im at the point of turning into a fossile through severe dehydration I shall stop using my hose pipe. If this dont make sense I couldnt concerntrate with the noise of the rain hammering against my window." -- you wouldn't last long drinking just salt water. "ill be using my hose pipe. i pay my waterbill so ill use what i want" -- So when a resource becomes scarce, you use more of it to make a stand.

It kind of is clocking the car, but there are I believe reputable companies out there who can do it. Best ask the traders on here I think. I think you get a certificate to say when it was done, what the "before" number was and what the "after" number was. The certificate (or receipt or whatever) is hardly worth the paper it's written on, but it does provide some documented evidence of what's happened. The hassle of this is the main reason why I left my odo to count up in kms even though my speedo reads in mph.

It's Mother Nature breaking wind.

I *think* the cable colours are accurate, but not 100% sure of it.

I'm confused, are we now discussing curing serious diseases? I thought it was about building a communal supra for £1200-ish.

ThomasB: yes, that's basically all you need to do. Yes, they're usually easy to reach from just removing the dash fascia (only need the central part really, but to get that off the other fascia bits need to come off too.

Would you consider a 7-seater Discovery that needs some clutch work? If so I'll show this thread to my mate who might be interested in this.

Is this a 7-seater car? I know someone who's after a people carrier. They currently have a 7-seater Disco that needs a new clutch and associated bits and bobs.