Steviekid

What sort of ballpark price would be reasonable for a same colour blowover in Ayrshire or the Central belt?

Can you still get these frames made?

If anyone is really bored at work and has the time can they vote for our local rowing club to get some funding by following the steps below! Cheers!

To vote first click on the link: http://communityforce.rbs.co.uk/project/863

1. At the top right corner of the page click ‘register’

2. Insert your name, email address and a password of your choice. Check the box to confirm terms and conditions and submit registration

3. A few minutes later you will receive an email confirming your registration. On this email click ‘confirm your registration’. This will take you back to RBS website

4. In RBS website at top right corner of the page click ‘login’ and enter your email address and the password you registered with

5. Click on ‘find a project’

6. Next check the search ‘by project name’ box and type ‘Dumfries Schools Rowing Association’ into search field

7. Click on ‘Dumfries Schools Rowing Association’

8. Click on ‘vote for us’

A friend of mine from work for some reason bought a Citroen C2 1.4 diesel from a large dealer in the area a few months ago and paid for a 12 month warranty. The car developed starting issues within a matter of weeks and hasn't been right since. It only holds 50mph uphill and the mpg went from 70 to around 50. It has been back at the garage 8 times since then (including them sending it to a citroen dealer a couple of times) but is still exactly the same. They have asked for reports each time about what's been done but the garage has refused. The courtesy car supplied also has a £2k insurance excess so they're too scared to drive it anywhere!

The garage (Border Cars) are now basically saying that they acknowledge something is wrong with it but since there's no fault code on the diagnostic they can't do anything about it! Needless to say my friend (and myself) think this is unacceptable! I've told her to either ask for a full refund, another car or to get it fixed at a decent garage and try and get the money back from Border Cars. Does anyone know if she'll be legally entitled to any of the above?

This is the same garage that tried to remove a locking wheel nut from my girlfriends RX8 and destroyed the wheel (then refused to supply a new one).

Would 6 of these be sufficient to light a bathroom that's around 4 square meters?

Two of the worst have to be Steven Seagal and Christopher Lambert, they're just awful!

It's not like we're in another galaxy up here!!

I've built a bigger shed so I don't need this one anymore but I don't really want to skip it. It's in good condition except the sides are bowed out (very) slightly. It's the same as this one at argos.

Collection only from Castle Douglas (DG7) I'm afraid!

Thanks for the heads up, I hadn't seen that on the website. If I order anything from them I'll borrow a handler so I can lift them off the ground.

Cheers guys, I've got some different gravel samples on the way. My original plan was to monoblock the area but I really can't be bothered trying to get the levels spot on, at least gravel will be a lot more forgiving. My house is just off the street so no one else will be driving on it.

I'm in the middle of doing my driveway and was planning to cover the whole area in 40mm blue slate chips but I'm getting conflicting advice on whether it's suitable. One supplier has told me not to use it whereas other websites actively market it for driveways stating it's quieter to drive over etc. Does anyone have it at their house? I don't want to buy eight tons of it if it's going to shred my tyres!

http://www.decorativeaggregates.com/slate/s060/Blue+Slate+Chippings+40mm.html

I'll take them if you still have them. PM me your paypal address or let me know how to pay if that's not ok.

Cheers that's worked straight away! I've never had to do that before when I've fitted new drives!

I've just installed a third sata drive in my PC which isn't working. I got the usual "device successfully installed" at first start up with it in, and all three are coming up in device manager as working but the new one doesn't appear on the "computer" window which still thinks there's only two.

I've been into BIOS and the original two hard drive's are listed as MASTER but the new one as SLAVE. I was under the impression that master/slave didn't exist with sata drives? There's no option to change it in BIOS either and it makes no difference which sata port it's plugged in to.

Has anyone come across this before and know how to solve it?

that should be ok

Thanks for the help!

150mm is not enough, if depth is a problem then 300mm with a top layer of mesh would suffice,

Ok will go for that option. Will I need to go deeper than 16 inches (around 400mm) then? The car won't be tight up against the wall.

600mm deep concrete foundation

600mm? I was planning on about 6 inches (around 150 mm)!!

Can't help on the foundations but have you checked with your local planning department? I'm not sure if you'd need planning but worth checking as you are altering water courses potentially and sometimes councils are funny about people altering front gardens in estate areas. Last thing you want is some nosey neighbour phoning them!

AFAIK it needs to be over 1.2m high to need planning. My neighbours are helping me build it so don't think they'll complain!! The council doesn't actually control the area anyway, it belongs to a housing association as I found out when getting the kerb dropped.

I was going to build a retaining wall in my garden so I could build one end up slightly then ultimately monoblock the whole lot to get three cars off the road. The wall at it highest point will be around a metre, and pretty much flush with the ground at the other end. The guide I was using said the thickness should be a quarter of the height so I was going to make it out of two rows of bricks with 450mm wide foundation.

I've since had loads of conflicting advice from neighbours/friends etc that it needs to be much more substatial (one row of bricks and two breeze blocks wide with two foot wide foundations!). I've currently dug the foundation 450mm wide and down 16 inches below ground level. Does this sound enough? I'm now planning to build it from a single row of hollow concrete blocks tied in with rods and filled with cement. Will that be strong enough? What sort of depth of concrete foundation will I need?

Cheers for any help!

As Ollie says above really. I'd like to clarify that this issue arose due to the only new modification this year - an Apexi SAFC that I fitted to fix an idle issue. I told Sky about this on the phone (calling it a piggy-back fuel controller), however it had been listed as larger injectors on the paperwork I subsequently received from Sky. I crossed this out and ticked the box which I though resembled it most closely which was "ECU remap" (not ECU upgrade). Sky's system must class this as a new standalone ecu and remap and hike the price up.

Big thanks to Ollie for sorting this out and apologies for ranting on here before contacting him (I was having a crappy day yesterday). If one of the mods can change the thread title or delete it entirely that'd be great.

Steve

Most if not all insurance companies will try charging extra for more risk.

I appreciate that, it's the fact that every modification I ticked on the sheet I had told them about over the phone when I got the quote. I'll give them a phone later on, I'll need to cancel the policy and get a refund anyway (it doesn't kick in till the 24th).

I got my renewal through from Adrian Flux a couple of weeks ago - £420, not too bad but I wanted to add my gf on as a named driver so they came up to £450. I phoned Sky (I've had a policy there until a year ago) and went through all the details listing all the modification honestly, the vast majority of which are the same as a year ago. They quoted £420 so I took the policy out.

I got the paperwork through the other day and there were loads of mistakes on the modifications list, things listed I've never had, other stuff missed - my SAFC had turned into larger fuel injectors!! I corrected the mistakes and sent it back. I've just had a letter through saying that because of the "extra" modifications they want another £120!! Think I'll be back with Adrian Flux after all.

I'm pretty adamant that im not paying, am i right to think this?

Yes

You might as well check the wastegate actuator is working properly too, it's only a two minute job. Stick a foot pump onto one of the feeds and block off the other. It should start to open at 12psi and be fully open at 18psi.

Thanks for the replies guys. I access hotmail via the website and through live messenger at various computers - home, laptop and at work. I don't have any anti-virus as I prefer to do a full hard drive format and windows reinstall every so often to clean out all the crap. Sounds like I should do that shortly again!