MORE for LPG than petrol? You live in a crazy place :(
But don't be a stranger, or we'll convoy over and invade you :)

Ahhh, you're talking about wing mirrors. They move to the memory location just fine. I misunderstood and thought you meant the driver's mirror which doesn't (but did on our old 5 series of similar vintage)

Hmm, does this mean that the mirror on The Duchess should move automatically? (01 Vogue with memory seats)

Some people are just a waste of breath. I've had the LPG conversation with people who seem to think I'm selling fuel magnets or magic beans. Frankly, if Simon can't talk the guy round to LPG he must be one stubborn mofo ;)

Sadly BMW screwed the pooch with vehicle security and ended up having a LOT of locked and alarmed vehicles being stolen by scrotes armed with an OBDII cable and a blank key fob :(

http://jalopnik.com/5923802/watch-hackers-steal-a-bmw-in-three-minutes

I know people have been caught out recently by Photobucket deciding that it's actually time to earn some money.
I don't know how competitive it is but I use hosting from easily.co.uk
I have the 5gb package which is way over the top for my needs but the 1Gb thing is £25 a year which should be OK for quite a few How-Tos :)
https://easily.co.uk/linuxhosting.php
what you don't get is any kind of web interface or app to integrate with uploads from your phone, but if you can handle FTP then it's a piece of piss to upload stuff and link to it.
Cheers!
Morat

Trimming tips.
After you've stuck down the material (don't get too hung up on getting it into the corners of the grab handle recesses or it'll leave creases in the corner no matter what you do) cut it close to the edge apart from the back edge, the sides running from the back to the C pillars and the front edge by the windscreen.
In those areas you want to leave enough to bring the headlining up and over the edge of the fibreglass and stick it down.
Try and get the sunroof opening trimmed tight to the board because the sunroof surround doesn't appreciate too much material being rammed into the lower channel - and put some clean gloves on when you refit the sunroof surround because it stains very easily and is obvious when you're in the car.

The sunroof blind is easy. Cut it flush at the back, leave an inch at the front so you can wrap it up and over to glue it down at the first horizontal raised plastic lip (you'll know it when you see it). For the runners, there's a raised plastic line on each side about 1/4" inside from the edge. Outside this is the part that slides so try not to spray it with adhesive and trim back to those lines with a really sharp knife to leave bare plastic for the blind to slide on.
Enjoy :)

There was an Ascot edition Classic so I suspect that's where the badge came from.

I meant blueplastic 😀

Are you interested in a sorted One? 😀

I think the grey ones are pretty good, although one might smell of barbeque a bit from last year ;)
I was very careful not to drip ketchup all over it...

Gilbert - that's a hell of a lot of motor for £620 and I'm sure you'll have it running like a sewing machine in a couple of months. Nice one :D

Holy crap - no wonder you've been quiet!
Really glad you got sorted out. I felt rubbish leaving you hanging but my pink ticket had expired :(
And you didn't really want me watching and making dumb comments until 4am did you?

Thanks for showing me how to fit and adjust a P38 sunroof and thanks for fettling the Duchess. She's been sleeping soundly ever since :) Great result.

I think the heat took quite a bit out of people this year. I've still got a sore neck from being out in the sun trimming round headlinings and I never usually burn in the UK - even when I venture south! Anyway, that San Miguel in the pub afterwards was freezing and bloody marvellous - and I don't normally drink lager.

Cheers all!

Gilbertd wrote:

I could when the pair of you were following me. OB's headlights were a bright white but not dazzling in my mirror (so obviously set up properly) whereas yours were decidedly yellow looking. A bit too yellow looking I thought, are you sure you've got bulbs in there and not candles?

Tallow candles :)

Probably just filthy, and I was behind two dust clouds instead of just one :P

Shed envy!!

Feedback via Gilbert was that he could really see the difference between Orangebean's lights and my stock setup.

Well, I enjoyed that :) It was so hot I'm bringing a sun hat next time to protect my shiny pink hair and I think Orangebean did actually have a touch of sun stroke (I was watching you quite carefully at one point!) It was pretty tiring working in that heat but lessons were learned and we did reach a decent standard once we'd worked it out. I'm probably going to have nightmares about those grab handle recesses :(

Hopefully you've all eaten something since lunchtime so it's too late to blame me for any food poisoning and everyone seems to have got home safely!

I'm really chuffed with my new headlining and it has passed inspection from Mrs Morat whose only comment was "Who had the dirty fingers?" oops. I guess the cleaning kit needs to come out. Never mind, eh :)

I'm not going to tempt fate, but the Duchess has been parked outside since about 2100 (there was a crash on the M42) and she hasn't complained. That's all I'm saying. Thanks Marty! and thanks for organising the headlining kits. They really are top notch.

I hope Sloth got his suspension working properly, I felt bad leaving when it started looking fixed but the barby was packed away so I was no longer useful. Thanks everyone for bringing food and buns, and I think we can safely say that Waitrose mineral water tastes exactly the same as any other but their instant light barbeque coal is streets ahead of Tesco.

Best of luck to everyone :)

Gilbertd wrote:

Morat, I think know I know what the issue is with the latch - is it saying the door is open when it's not? Can't quite remember... but if that's it, then I can fix that in about 20mins.. it will be down to the the mounting holes drilled for the new switches. I'll whip it out and put an extra pin in, as that will stop and flex in the mounting for the new switches.

Yup, that's it but it's intermittent so the alarm goes off at random moments. If we can investigate, that's fantastic.

Here's a long shot - does anyone have any roof clips for a dog guard? (preferably lightstone). I've got the guard but not the clips. They're not expensive but I've left it too late for delivery before Summer Camp. It's no big deal but it might be neater than putting in a new headlining and then cutting into it.

I'm packed now - just waiting for my wife to come home and take over the child minding :)
I'll be heading down from my mates in Quorn so a couple of hours away in the morning.

and in other news, I'm hoping to sort the Headlining, Bug Marty about the LH-F door switch and maybe have a look at the burn on my passenger seat but that's only if Orangebean has time because it's hardly a showstopper.
If anyone has time to drive my car over poor surfaces and give a second opinion on the tank slappers, or even help get it up in the air and have a look underneath, I'd be grateful.

Could we have a final roll call so I can plan the cooking?

Morat
MartyUK
Orangebean
GilbertD
Dinah
Smiler
Sloth
LPGC?

Pumps do definitely vary but I've never heard of one filling the tank completely full. LPG gauges are all crap in my experience, everyone uses their trip meter instead. 180 miles is about my record for a 70 litre fill, one day I'll get round to taking it back to Simon for a tweak after the new O2 sensors and MAF.