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You might want to fit some Grayston Spring Assisters to cure that.

£5,652.99, someone's had a nice car for that!

And don't mention re-sealing it on Xbox Scene, as you'll get some snotty t**t claiming that it's fraud and reporting your post, then stupidly admitting on the board that he's reported it. Apparently. On-line play is fine with a modded 360, for now at least. Samsung firmwares lock themselves down so the 360 can't read them (which is the same behaviour exhibited by the newer Samsung drives anyway). Hitachi firmwares are stealth firmwares, if the 360 reads the firmware from the drive it looks exactly like the original, because the hacked firmware is in charge of its own read/write process!

You could've kept going, the pumps will grind to a halt when the tank's at 80% or thereabouts. You were probably almost there though, only another litre or so to go. Get the system serviced ASAP. Could be a leak. The only smell should be noticeable by people behind you, the exhaust fumes smell like someone's running a Calor gas heater!

No gas smell here. Romano Sequential Vapour Injection (multipoint) system. No problems when the system is switched over to petrol, but it can give a bit of a jerk if switching back to gas whilst still under acceleration. By the way, if the gas runs out it switches to petrol automatically. Never been told not to run it dry, nothing in the instructions saying that either.

Mk.2, got a 75 litre (60 usable) Stako toroidal tank in the wheel well, only lose about 1cm of boot depth. I get about 240 lead-footed miles (mixed, not much motorway) out of it.

I remember back in August 2004 Swansea Council looked into a call centre plan which threatened to privatise the IT jobs. The result? The entire IT department went on strike , closely followed by the binmen who went out in support of them. Whilst the binmen went back shortly afterwards, the IT guys stayed out for eight weeks! Goodness knows how the council coped (or how much it cost them trying to).

Likes his motors, doesn't he?

You're not planning on dropping it into the LS, are you? Would be a hell of a job (batteries, motors front and back, gearbox, engine, ECU...) I doubt if anyone's been unfortunate enough to scrap one yet!

...but what are the chances of losing it later? She's throwing away £795!

SVA'd as well? Would be nice if it came with all the reports, could start bringing more in! :P

<rant> There are certainly some directorates in certain LAs in which money seems to be no object. For example, can you see the gain involved in swapping everyone on the first floor of a small office building (a building used entirely by one directorate) to the third, and vice versa? I certainly can't, nor can I see the gain in effectively taking two floors of people out of action for a whole day whilst these moves take place. And this is one of the key public-dealing departments which will wail "Services will suffer! People will suffer!" if you threaten to cut their budget! And all this despite a multi-million pound cut in funding hanging over the LA next year! It's a pity the staff aren't forced to take annual leave for office moves, the resulting uproar (they'd play hell and refuse to budge) would at least stop the management shuffling their staff like playing cards. At the moment the only beneficiaries appear to be the removal companies hauled in to move the cabinets and equipment! A few carefully worded FOI questions (regarding money spent on office moves by said directorate) coming from the local paper and I'm sure it would hit the fan big time! I'm just amazed nobody's done it yet. </rant>

Takes a real understanding and sense of perspective to do stuff like that. Awesome.

Working in local government myself I don't see how we can gain by outsourcing to a company that (unlike the council) is in it to make a profit. Council Tax payer ends up paying for it all. Keeping jobs within the authority means that any payments between departments are in reality just "funny money" whirling around within, neither a profit or a loss. As soon as money goes out, money is spent. Doesn't matter if for example in-house sparkies charge £75 per hour but Cowboy Electrical Ltd do it for £50. In-house sparkies in reality would be cheaper, just costing wage+fuel+parts, not the £75 levied by their department, which in fact would just be pushed from one council pot to another. But hey, that's just my opinion...

Signed up! http://www.myspace.com/mspritch

Extension of original 90 day warranty to 12 months will apply to USA only. UK buyers had a 12 month warranty anyway.

Go for it, what have you got to lose? You'll need some jeweller's screwdrivers to pop the latches on the case (unless you cut your own release keys from a CD tub or buy the Xecuter case opening kit), a Torx 10 for most of the screws and a Torx 8 for the 8 screws holding the heatsinks and the 3 (pop the plastic off for the third) holding the front PCB.

How is Geoffers, anybody heard from him?

Three Red Lights Of Death can be fixed using a hot air gun and some foil. Remove the GPU heatsink (the big flat one). Insulate the connectors (and most of the board except the areas surrounding the RAM and GPU) with the foil, paying particular attention to the eject and pad-learn buttons as they melt easily (trust me, I know!). Heat the board up using the gun for 2 minutes maximum. Keep the nozzle moving around, don't forget to do the underside (more RAM chips) too, but be careful not to squash those buttons at the front when you do so. Now concentrate the heat on the chips themselves rather than the board, but still moving the nozzle around. Once again, 2 minutes maximum. Let the machine cool down, then reassemble. This method will fix error code 0102, and maybe others (got a 0110 error to fix this week sometime). To get the error code:- When the three red lights are flashing, hold the pad-learn button and press eject. The lights will start to rapidly flash either all four (0), one (1), two (2) or three (3) quadrants. This is the first digit of the error code. Keeping the pad-learn button down, press eject again, this will give the second digit. Keeping the pad-learn button down, press eject again, this will give the third digit. Keeping the pad-learn button down, press eject again, this will give the fourth digit. Keeping the pad-learn button down, press eject again, this will return to the three red lights of death.

Had a "sunrise" effect starting to show on my passenger-side mirror. Got it swapped under warranty. Judging by the fact that the glass had also been replaced on the driver's side before I bought the car, I guess that one had already gone.

...RAC had to tow you home 'cos you had no spare, etc. etc.

...and if a traffic cop pulls up behind you, you're nicked!

Great news. You're out, now all you've got to do is stay out! Hope the painkillers are doing their job!

At least they're not trying to turf her out 'cos they need the bed! She'll be out when she's REALLY ready to be out. Chin-up Bazza, chin-up Janey too, you'll be home soon! ^_^

You're having Flashlube fitted, so this should protect the valves. I've done over 20K, no problem. Who gave you the scare-story?