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PS note that converting your odo to count up in miles will leave its display as a mixture of km and miles. If that doesn't bother you then fine, it's a personal pet hate of mine.

Unless you've got a UK car, your car must have a converter to be able to show speed in mph. This converter scales back the speed signal by 5/8 to go from kph to mph. By using this scaled-back signal as input to the odometer (pin 5, probably a purple wire), your odo would count up in miles. See here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.betts/supra/TechTips/dsc_speedo_mph.jpg

Yes, should be no different to what Pete Betts says in his how-to. When someone does the entire km -> miles conversion (i.e. speedo *and* odo), the speedo and odo are separate parts of the conversion, so it's just like you've done half of it already.

spidedjack: I'm interested, how much are you asking? Do you know if it would fit an NA?

Hello B-Dub, OK, reading between the lines, I'm guessing you didn't realise that single turbo mkIV supras are highly modified, bespoke cars. Toyota never made mkIV supras in single-turbo format. I'm also guessing you think twin turbo systems can deliver more power because there's 2 turbos instead of 1. This isn't generally true, but it's an easy mistake to make. I thought that when I first joined this forum. If you want simplicity (in terms of the engine being standard-ish) and reliability, go for a twin turbo. If you want lots of power and are prepared to pay several thousand pounds more for it, go for a single turbo.

Digsy: I think the control board on mine has got a fault (possibly electrical, hard to say without diagnosis tests). The pilot light comes on, and you can hear the clicking as the spark tries to ignite the main burner, but I think the control board is preventing the gas from flowing into the main burner, hence the spark is sparking in vain. It is also showing signs of corrosion of some parts although I don't this has caused it to stop working. It would be a simple problem to fix if the manufacturer still sold the part, but I'm told they don't.

The shower wouldn't need changing: the shower's actually a high-pressure one and so having a combi would simplify it a bit (no need for the dedicated shower pump that we have at the moment). The thing that's holding me back from a combi is the age of the radiators and the connecting pipework (15 ish years old). Also, with a combi, are you limited as to what facilities you can use at the same time? Presumably I could have a shower whilst the washing machine (which is a modern cold-feed only model) was on, or would the demands of the washing machine kill off the incoming water pressure that the boiler needs? Sorry if that doesn't make sense, I'm trying to muddle through various things people have told me.

The elderly conventional boiler in our house has packed up, and by coincidence the hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard has got a weep on it (which probably isn't economically fixable). I'm undecided whether to go for a combination boiler or stick with a conventional one. I like the idea of doing away with the HWC and the header/storage tanks in the loft, and the pump for the shower. I don't like the idea of the 15+ year-old system springing a leak due to the higher pressure a combi boiler puts it under. The cost is about equivalent (replace conventional boiler and HWC, vs fitting a combi boiler and re-routing pipework to support it). Are combi boilers cheaper to run? Much less reliable?

... but you can't eat it.

Not quite what you asked, but if this describes your issue: http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?70712-Car-reluctant-to-start ... then it can be fixed by changing the contacts.

Excellent post by creative there. To the OP, remember that estate agents will talk up the estimated value of your home if you're looking to sell, so you're more likely to place the business with them and not a competitor who says it's worth £x less. That just causes problems down the line when properties are listed at unrealistic prices.

He might be right about it being undervalued, but it seems strange. Unless your current estate agent isn't marketing the property at all and/or haven't got it on somewhere like Rightmove, I would think there's bargain-hunters out there who sniff out keenly-priced homes. A lot of homes hang around on the market because they're overvalued (people wanting to sell for what they paid). Of course, if your current agent has all but given up on marketing it then the undervalued thing might be right.

Welcome to the club! Another Basingstoker here!

I'm no expert but I think chrispot's correct. AFAIK the definition of a non-interference engine is one where the path of the pistons never crosses over the path of the valves, no matter where in their respective cycles they are. Interference engines rely on the relative timing of the pistons and valves to keep them from smashing into each other. As you know, it's the timing belt that maintains the relative timing of them.

I thought both the NA and TT engines were non-interference, but that's only forum-lore (mainly opinions and unsubstatiated posts) that I've picked up on here.

He said he'll get hold of you when he gets home.

I know him. I will text him now...

I don't see anything wrong with it. They hide the sausage in the crust, sounds quite nice to me.

Lock up your bunnies!

I don't think leaving the kids at home is a great idea: who will look after them? Is avoiding interaction with the world the best way to bring them up?

I don't think you've crashed their "forum": I hear http://www.girlsinrubbercatsuits.net is a well-built site. It's probably a cookie corruption on your computer. Try deleting the cookies relating to that site (in Firefox: Tools > Options > Privacy tab, then click "remove individual cookies". In the box that appears, type part of the website address and clear all that appear. Other browsers will be similar-ish). Or, some forums have areas that you can only access when you've paid up.

Excellent! I wonder where the girl on the bike fits into it though? If it's related to a program on that TV channel, might have to sort myself out a subscription.

If the OP was mid-contract (which he was) then any phone company will take money if that contract is terminated. If that wasn't the case then anyone could take out a £35/month iPhone4 contract and cancel it after 1 month: hey presto, a new iPhone for £35! What we don't know is why Orange terminated the contract. Either admin error on their part, or perhaps the OP did it whilst drunk and can't remember.

It's the way of the world H. People try to bend the rules, seeing it as a victimless "crime" (I use the word loosely), but they forget they just makes things a little bit worse for everyone else.

Here's the property-as-investment bit: Maybe my post about house prices vs average salary was off the mark. I've googled it and came across this: http://monevator.com/2012/03/15/house-price-to-earnings-ratio-2012/ Graphs like this (http://monevator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/house-price-earnings-graph.jpg) suggest prices are overvalued, but that assumes the super-long term trend is a constant price:salary ratio, possibly a bad assumption. This graph (http://monevator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/House-price-earnings-ratio.jpg) suggests property is better value. I'm not sure what's holding house prices up. Demand/desire is strong, but demand by itself isn't enough. Lots of people would really like some expensive jewellery (or insert another expensive item of your choice here), but you still have to be able to afford it. Here's the pragmatic bit: To the OP: I would say go for it. The above discussion is concerned with property purely as an investment that appreciates over time. But there's a lot more to it than a cold, hard asset class. It's your home. Every month you're paying a (repayment) mortgage, you're increasing your equity in your home. Even if house prices fall, at that discount you're almost guaranteed to get back what you paid for it if/when you decide to sell. There are always doom-sayers predicting a crash in the housing market. Occasionally they will be right, but usually they will be wrong. When I was buying a house the Daily Express was running almost daily headlines predicting an imminent crash, so much so I was convinced the editor was looking to buy another house and hence was trying to talk the market down before buying. I clearly remember going into Tesco straight after signing the contract at my solicitors and seeing one such headline at the news-stand.