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They used to pay something towards it but that's been stopped now. Was only for cars up to 4 or 6 yo IIRC.

Aye, so I heard... first time I passed it I wondered when (and why) you'd bought a red Rover 600 Iain.

Would imagine that all of them fit the same way. Couple of poppers out of the bottom of the bumper and push back in over the top of the splitter then a few self tappers to hold it on properly.

Good to hear you're still around Jools... not so good about your son but glad to hear he's on the mend now though. Still pass your old house every few days on the way into work

Got a revolution one on mine, an easy fit and has lasted okay so far.

I lasted about the same in the 4.2V8 Avant that I had... was just too nose heavy for my liking on back roads and I just never got on with the semi-auto box on it either, traded it for the 06 STi I have now and haven't looked back.

Very sad all round. It is something I look at now when choosing a car, drove the sister-in-laws 106 diesel a few years back and would hate to be in an impact in something like that as I'd imagine there'd not be much left of you afterwards.

Could have been worse... I had a close shave years ago with the Discovery V8i... had been bombing into work as normal without a problem. Got into it around lunchtime to head to the other office and pulled out the car park, put my foot on the brake and nothing... turned out I'd burst one of the calipers Was so lucky it happened at 10mph or less rather than the 60-ish I'd been doing on the way in. Also lucky it was at such a slow speed 'cos the disco has a transmission brake and I'd probably have fooked the drivetrain or just spun out of control trying to use it to slow down. Glad to hear you got away with it as well... would hate to be going at speed and then find out I had no way of stopping

Was that the one with the young guy in a recently purchased Puma or something similar? Turned out I knew people from both vehicles, was someone at work that was best friends with the parents of the boy and the wifes boss was driving the other car. Seen the "devastation" on both sides... shows that it doesn't really matter who's fault it was both sets of families (and friends of the family) were quite affected by it all.

Generally a laptop that has a dodgy m/board would get chucked in the bin by me, would remove the HDD and slave it on another machine to get the data off though. Not worth spending 2-300 on sorting an old laptop when you can buy a new one for not much more (unless your old one was a mage-spec'd one).

<chuckle> ...and your point is Was as close as I (and probably others) could come.

Wouldn't stick a drive from an newer machine into an older one if there's anything of value you want off it... stick it in an external HDD caddy and you'll get what you want without fooking it, if you stick it in the older machine there is a chance you will fook it somehow (IME) and it's not worth it.

Go to Maplins and you'll get one straight away. Remove the old one from the laptop and put it into the caddy and you should be able to look at the HDD on another machine straight away. If not don't fook about with it... wait until someone who know what they are doing with it can have a look. Basically if you overwirte the existing machine you can lose data, as long as you don't overwrite it in any way then you should be able to get everything back again. Would have thought that milk, etc would fook the m/board, but as Stephen mentioned, let everything dry out and you may be lucky, but definitely leave the HDD out of the machine for a bit just in case. Should show up in a normal machine on an external USB quick enough if it's okay. Was just gonna say if you'd been close enough to ABZ you could have met up and I'd have had a look for you, hopefully if there's someone close enough to you who can maybe help check it out for you.

06STi on Anthracite 19" TSW's.

Woohoo... good to hear that you got a good outcome out of it. Yours was on the rollers just as I was leaving (only just made it timewise for the party). Was relieved to hear your "problems" weren't down to your self mapping.

Depends... you might have got away with killing the m/board only... where abouts are you? Should be able to take the HDD and place it in a caddy and attach it via USB to a normal PC.

Think my peak torque (from memory) is about 4k... seem to remember yours being a lot lower than that.

Woohoo... 4th most powerful car on the rollers and it's std My torque was fairly equal with the bhp, ~300-ish as well. Was getting that a lot higher than Aarons though, shows the benefit of the remapping getting it moved further down the rev range.

Cool... sounds good to me... certainly sounds a hell of a lot cheaper than a Milltek dp or centre Sports cat.

I might sound like I know WTF I'm talking about but I'm not that different to you Just have a quick check of all airlines to/from the boost gauge to see if there are any splits/leaks in the system.

You don't have an air leak in the pipework do you? Would imagine that an airleak could leave the system sitting at zero pressure regardless of the actual boost at any time. Would be worth checking all of your connections to/from the gauge.

Would imagine that they are all the same, but do the likes of Milltek, etc have different connections to "std" 3" systems?

F**k... sucks to be you by the sounds of it... if you didn't have bad luck you'd have none at all. Generally (IME) you should get negative boost at idle and +ive once above a certain rev range, as some people have said, could be an electrical issue if it's not moving at all.

I wish... Been playing for so many years it's embarrasing... I should be a guitar god by now if it wasn't for ignoring the guitar in the corner of the room for years at a time Thing with it that I like is finding the odd tune here and there that you'd not heard before and realising how good it was, plus the downloading of tabs for the ones you've been playing in the game and trying to get good at them on the real thing as well

F**k... not good news. When the wifes Leon was hit and run a while back we used a place outside Inverurie... can't mind the name offhand... Lethany body shop or something... small out of town place and it cost ~£300 to sort a rear 3/4 panel that looked like it needed replaced... bloke sorted it and you'd honestly never know it'd have been damaged in the first place... was a non-std colour to sort as well.