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Well I sold my IS 2 weeks ago and got the Leon Cupra R. Got to be honest don't miss the Lex yet... :P

Just been looking around for Facia kits and found this web site that has one for most make of cars, so I thought I would post it here if any one was looking for one!?!

http://www.caraudiocentre.co.uk/category.asp?category=328

Ray

:D :D :D

Well I test drove the new IS250 the other day (Friday – Monday) and I thought I would share my views on the car incase anyone is interested! (I know loads of people have already done this but I thought the more reviews the better)

Surprisingly when I got in the car I wasn’t overly impressed, I thought the lay out was plain and boring and the passenger side of the dash board was to big and bulky. I thought the layout of the centre console was OK but I really didn’t like the clock at the bottom (looked like it was taken out of the Rover) and the “passenger Airbag is on” light always being illuminated. But that was all over taken by the Speedo layout, now I’m a bloke and simple things please me and I think that it is probably the layout and looking console that has been designed.

So I drove the car out of the dealership and straight into a petrol station as they only left vapors in the tank!. I then had to travel down to Eastborne which was one of the reasons I wanted it for that weekend.

The first thing that really impressed me was the engine, I got in the car with the impression that the engine was obviously bigger but not much of an improvement after reading articles but as soon as you put your foot down the car leaps into motion and shifts a lot quicker then I thought it would, I especially like getting 85mph out in third gear!!

The ride was very comfortable and smooth with hardly any road noise, whilst driving down the motorway I started playing with all the toys and even though it’s a bit of a gimmick I like the Orange and Red settings you can have on the Speedo so when you get to 80mph orange light comes on inside the Speedo and 100mph it changes to red.

The stereo is superb and a big jump forward from the previous one. I didn’t have the multimedia pack so good only knows how good that sounds.

Don’t want to go on to much so I have listed a few likes/dislikes below but from my first impression of the car it has now totally changed and I want one!!!

Likes

Speedo layout

Sound System

Plug in MP3 player and is well hidden away

Keyless entry and start

Engine power

Smooth Ride

Gadgets!!!

Fuel economy

Size of the boot

18” Wheels

Reading lights

Brakes

Dislikes

Rear window visibility

Location of boot and petrol cap release and not lit!

Rear leg room

The car in silver (back does not look right :P )

Guys,

My insurance on the Lexus is up for renewal soon. My current insurance company (Directline) wanted £905!, but have gone with The Halifax for £642.

I'm a 26 year old male, 3 years NCB, no accident history/clean licence.

I'm the same age age and claims discount and I pay £390 with privilage! :P

You sure mate?

I thought they only took people on who had 4+ years NCB? (just checked their website).....

DOH! yea good point! just realised I've got 5 years nc!! Really should concentrate more! :D

Guys,

My insurance on the Lexus is up for renewal soon. My current insurance company (Directline) wanted £905!, but have gone with The Halifax for £642.

I'm a 26 year old male, 3 years NCB, no accident history/clean licence.

I'm the same age age and claims discount and I pay £390 with privilage! :P

Well its a good way of getting people into road rage!!

Had about 7 minutes spare.  A bit of binary and hex knowledge goes a long way towards the end!

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Who needs knowledge when you've got scientific caculator in the PC!! :D :P

Like that one! 3.42 minutes left!! ;-)

Thanks mate!

Right, I'm going to be upgrading my this weekend but I heard a rumor that the % free bar at the top of the page doesn't recognise the bigger disk so it says you have run out of disk when you actually have say 80gb free.

Is this true??

Thanks

@Scarface

Does Fasthosts work ok with front page OK? Looks like a goos host!

I've got all my DSL connection but the web space that came with the connection is being used for something else, so I only need about 50MB of space.

Hi all,

I'm going to be starting my only little company up soon and I need to buy some space from some where. I know there are loads out there but can anyone recommend a good supplier that isn't overly expensive?

Cheers

Ray

Format the Hard drive and reinstall Xp mate. Then put it on your Network, it will save you a lot of time in the long run.

If you can't ping it, its not on the network! format the laptop and start again mate!

When you added the laptop to the doamin did it ask you to enter a domain account to add it to the domain.

Can you logon to it useing the local admin account?

Are the IP and Subnet addresses set to the same range as your domain?

Can you ping the laptop from another PC?

And just as a side line, you did Virus check it before you conected it to the domain? Reps have all kings of crap on their laptops!

Stop

Right I want to join in! :D

I don't know much about politics and I don't vote but I'll tell you now vote or not I'm english so if I want to moan about them I will.

Very nice, I'm not jealous at all!! :D

Got any pics of them on your car?

Just an up date I took the card back and got a Linksys one instead and every thing worked fine :)

I tried useing the netgear software aswell as the XP one. Looking round the web that card seems to have a lot of problems with XP and SP2

FYI the card was WG311

Yea, done it via the XP setup aswell which moves the settings to USB and copies them to the other PC

I not useing a access point as I don't really need one, as the laptop is going to connect to the internet via the PC and backup the laptops files.

I have given both a static IP and same network but still won't ping.

I think that maybe its a problem with the netgear card as thats the one that keeps dropping the connection.

All firewalls are off, I think I'm going to try a few things tonight and if it doesn;t work take the card back and get a Belkin or something to change.

Thanks

Right then, a question for all you wizz kids! :P

I've got a dell laptop and a PC with a netgear WG311 PC wirless card in. I'm trying to set them up as a ad hoc (peer to peer) conection.

The problem is, is that they see the network but I can't ping either PC and the Netgear keeps connecting a disconnecting every 10 seconds.

Anyone got any ideas on what the problem might be?

Thanks

Whats this stuff called, might give it a go! :D