Central belt? You must be not very far from me then...?

Your mate with the 940, he wasn't from Skye was he? A friend of mine's young lad started driving about seven or eight years ago (scary, someone who was a couple of years above me at school has a son in his mid-20s and grandchildren in primary school) and couldn't get insured on anything "sensible" for a 19-year-old. They sat there with eBay open in one window and one of the comparison websites open in another, trying insurance for different cars. Turned out a Volvo 960GLE was actually pretty damn cheap to insure...

Hello. Late to the party on this one but as you've probably guessed, this is a rather different community to rr.net - not that I'm slagging them off, or anything, they just do things differently.

If I got jealous and banned everyone that had a tidier P38 than me, then this would be an incredibly quiet site.

Just to clarify the situation, I don't give a shit about collecting your PII, but I take all practicable steps to ensure that all the site data is stored securely. If you want to add links to your blog, social media accounts or your phone number, photo or inside leg measurement to your site bio or signature, that's entirely your decision. Because this is non-profit, GDPR does not apply.

The site is currently hosted in England. If there are significant adverse effects from Brexit I'll most likely move the hosting to Germany, either on a dedicated server or AWS. If Scotland leaves the UK following Brexit, then I will plan to move the site hosting to Scotland once it regains EU membership.

I can't stress this enough, though. What you put on publically-viewable parts of the website is down to you. As long as what you post doesn't breach general standards of decency or actually break the law, I don't mind what you do, but it's entirely up to you to behave yourselves. No-one has offered to buy the site or your data, and even if they did I don't feel any great need to sell out.

If you have any questions about the security and integrity of your data on this site, please feel free to ask.

I know your not supposed to sell stuff on the forums but

You're allowed to sell stuff on this forum as long as you're not taking the piss.

If you ever turned the ignition on with the throttle pot unplugged, there's a good chance it's learned an incorrect voltage for the idle setting.

What happens is, when the throttle is closed and the throttle pot voltage is around a certain threshold the idle stepper controls the idle speed as you'd expect. Off idle the stepper screws all the way out, and when you shut the throttle suddenly it'll wind slowly back in so it doesn't suddenly slam the air supply shut.

The ECU only seems to learn the lowest voltage it ever sees, so with no throttle pot on it'll see idle as being 0V, and when you reconnect the throttle the "real" 0.5-0.7V idle voltage will be seen as the throttle being somewhat open.

Unfortunately you will need some diagnostics (Nanocom does it) to clear the adaptives. You can bugger around with expanding the mounting holes for the throttle pot into slots to rotate it round a bit, that works too.

The cheapy Br*tp*rt gaskets I bought when I did mine earlier this year (in the snow!) looked identical in every respect to the Elring gaskets apart from not having Elring stamped on them.

I've had water half way up the windscreen, from the bow wave going through a hole that turned out to be roughly level with the bonnet. The biggest problem was the water running in through the heater...

All the usual suspects are showing them as "No Longer Available", and there's some comedian on eBay who is auctioning one with weeks to run and a starting bid of eight quid ;-)

The tool ;-) I ground a wee bit off the jaw so the collet could pass through. I tried holding the tool at an angle to let me slip one side of the collet out but only succeeded in launching the valve spring and "hat" into the kitchen ceiling.

I found I needed to "modify" mine a little with the grinder.

So Google have posted my earnings for the month and a bit, and so far the adverts served to not-logged-in Russian spambots has earned the site £1.01... I promise I won't spend it all at once ;-)

I hate to say it, but I kind of like it. You wouldn't lose it in a car park...

Well, blocks of IP addresses are assigned to particular organisations, and as they are split down records are kept of who owns what. So, you can locate an IP address pretty approximately. I see a lot of traffic from South America and Russia (Panama seems to be a favourite jumping-off point for internet scammers), just randomly hitting pages throughout the site.

Most of the spammers that sign up use domain names along the lines of "canadian-pharmacy.info", or webmail accounts from yandex.ru which is like the Russian Google.

I added Google Adsense adverts for not-logged-in users to the Alveston Red theme (the forum default). These are not shown to registered, logged-in users, only to Guest users (of which there seem to be quite a few, hello Russian bots!) a few weeks ago.

It's currently sitting at an estimated earning of 68p per month.

Is it the Clarion one or the later one? If you've put the wrong code in you need to hold down a button, possibly "BND" to reset it.

I could pop round with my EAS cable if it helps? You can then get the thing off the deck, and unplug the EAS relay to stop any further dicking about.

Think Miah had to do something to the plugs under the coolant header tank to get the engine to connect on his.

Give me a shout when you're up ;-) Shame it's not next weekend, you could have come along to the rally at Bathgate!

There's a little plastic lever that's called a "cam" on the parts site that wears out and lets go of the little plastic peg on the handle part. They're a couple of quid, and replacing them solves that "not springing back properly" problem too.