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Unfortunately there is a rather major flaw with this idea!! Do you have cats? If you did you would know that when they are startled they leg it, as you are trying to do with the water to get them off your bonnet. Startled cats will try to move as quickly as possible and will attempt to gain maximum grip on the surface they are on to propel themselves forward - for a cat maximum grip=claws out! Therefore, the worst thing you can do when a cat is on your car is try to scare it away, especially throwing/shooting water at them! Agree with Cal on the Lion dung/urine, have heard that this works quite well.

Yeah, that S80 loves sitting on the Ellon road - usually spot it tucked in at the turn off for Connon Coal on the stretch of Dual Carriageway heading from Ellon to Aberdeen - loads of folk come pinging up the hill and fly over the top of that blind crest and horse on down not realising that inconspicuos blue Volvo waiting to pull out from the junction is in fact lying in wait.

Fifth Gear ran a similar experiment a few years back with three motors - a mkV Golf GTi, Impreza STi and can't remember the third, maybe a Mini, and 3 different fuels - standard 95RON, BP Ultimate (97RON) and Optimax. Each car was run on a rolling road with usual BHP & torque measurements being taken and between each different fuel run the tanks and fuel lines were emptied and the ecu's reset to give decent results. Bottom line was on the lower powered car (mini??) the different fuels made naff all difference, in the Golf BP Ultimate seemed to give better torque results but the Impreza showed significant gains in both power and torque (up 8BHP I think) whilst using Optimax. Just found out that the third car was a Clio!

If you don't fancy the hassle of importing spacers from the states then funnily enough the ones to use are the ones made for the Corsa C (new one). I had read this online and then when I went into my friendly local Car Audio Specialists (NOT Halfrauds BTW!!) they said the exact same thing as they use them all the time when doing the fitting themselves!

Yep got a £10 voucher to redeem in their shop, might get an iTunes card or something now I'm selling the scoob. I see they have dropped the minimum fill limit for their "fill up 6 times in a month" bonus offers - used to be minimum 30 litres now I see it's only 25, makes it easier to rack up the points that way, and also get's you on first name terms with all the staff since you're never out of the place!!!

Yep, MS Paint FTW!!!!

Don't say that! It's like a kiss of death!!!

Seems to be back up and running at full tilt again.

Got a few ideas running through my head (there's a fair bit of space up there!!) so hopefully things can be covered, but for the initial period for what it's looking to cost it's not going to break the bank.....

I think, and this is only a "think", that the CEL light should go off after 4 restarts once the fault condition has been rectified - ie you have replaced the faulty sensor with a working one - however the fault code will remain logged in the ecu as a historical fault and will remain there until it has been cleared by a diagnostic tool of some description.

Cheers Stephen, now on day 3 and we're still not back up to full strength, make of that what you will!! I think that in the beginning the free board option suited things as the club was never imagined to get as big as it has by the guys who started the whole thing off, however I think we are now just too big and need to look at "proper" hosting services to save all this hassle every few months!

Funny you should pop up Andy as I was going to p.m. you to ask what hosting service SIDC use - any chance you could send through some details mate, once I get back on to the current forum I'll be taking a download of all the data and look into moving to a more reliable and stable host, even if that means paying for it...... But aye, Aberdonians through and through us lot - grippy as f@@k!!

No, unfortunately it's affecting everyone, and not just our board either! freephpbb3's homepage is slowly coming back to life although none of the links work and there's still some residual mySQL error messages in the header of the page. Fingers crossed all the data is still there.....

Nope, was sat in a meeting trying to get some online via my phone, had my brother on the phone at his work and mum online and phone at their home, none of us managed to get any. Got a text from my mum at 9:20 saying people were already selling them online for upwards of £120, robbing c#*ts...

Our host (freephpbb3.com) have been working on upgrading their software, unfortunately this seems to have hit the stability of their servers. I was able to get on a couple of times yesterday but in the most part it was down, as was their support forums. I wish they would at least tell us about their "planned updates", this isn't the first time that they have made a change to their software and had the whole lot come and go on a random basis like this. I realise it's a free service but a bit of customer care/support wouldn't go a miss, this was one of the main reasons we left iforumer as they went belly up for over a week before they eventually admitted there was a problem and even then they were not forthcoming with details. So I'm afraid we are just going to have to sit tight and wait on this one, again, and hope that it all comes back up as it was before.