nelmo

I've got a Lexus RX400h (for your budget, you could get the newer 450h). Hybrid, so £250 Road tax, basically a Toyota, so incredibly reliable (mine has 125k miles and still in great nick). Really comfy, lots of toys and pulls my 1600 kg caravan with no problem. The 3.5L engine is great (270bhp on mine, more in the 450h) but despite hybrid, economy isn't great - 30mpg average, 20mpg towing but it is a big, powerful car so I don't think that is too bad. My mate has a Volvo XC90 (old one) and seems OK except has worse economy than mine.

You need to find the flux capacitor...

Whenever my Windows laptops have died (normally because of a virus) , I install Ubuntu until some bit of hardware goes and then it's new laptop time. I've just had to do that with my 6 year old ex-Windows 7 laptop and I'm just trying to get the Emerald software working on it. It runs but I haven't tried actually connecting it to the ECU - hopefully, it will be OK.

9 years old?! Is it maybe just decomposing? :-)

Done the trick - many thanks...

If you sell it as an auction, I thought they got a percentage of the selling price, up to some maximum? If you sell it as a classified ad, you pay £15 (may have gone up now - couple of years ago) and that's it.

Hmm, I've installed Ubuntu now and the Emerald installs and starts up but I can't load any maps. The open map command sees the files but nothing happens when I select one; no data shows in any of the screens and I don't get any error message. KT, do you recall having to run anything else to get it working? I've installed Wine v1.8.

Excellent, thanks.... ☺

Just as I need my rarely-used laptop to run the Emerald software, it seems to have gained some virus or something that is making it run like Usain Bolt's one-legged dog. When this happened on a previous laptop, I installed Ubuntu and it was brilliant. I'm thinking of doing this again but I need the Emerald software to run - anyone else running Ubuntu and the Emerald software? (Emerald doc is a little old, suggesting XP as the latest OS it is compatible with! . I've emailed Emerald but I'm not sure they'll know).

Sadly, looks like their journey is over early - but a great read and a great idea for a trip.

I've done exactly that - check my blog (link below) for pictures. The hardest part was finding the right tap size to use on the thermostat (3/8" BSP) . I put the 2nd water temp sensor in a special adaptor in the pipe coming off the thermostat (that is for the temp dial which isn't as important). I think all the detail is in my blog so I won't repeat it here (select the 'cooling' label).

Ah really? Bugger - I was hoping that the thread either in the main part of the knob or in the silver adaptor would match my lever. If not, that's even more rubbish than grub screws...

Well, having said they're all using grub screws, found a threaded one: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/401160279042 Not going to lose much if it turns out to be pants and the item seems to be for 2 of them? Why would anyone want 2 identical gear knobs?

Hmm, for under a tenner, I don't think the ones I've been looking at have too much of that Thanks for replies gents...

Piddling question - I fancy a different looking gear knob but all the interesting ones don't seem to be threaded but have grub screws to keep them in place. Does that fixing method work OK? I can imagine it might get a bit wobbly?

OK, panic over - wriggling the propshaft seems to have sorted it. Thanks all...

Well I had some sideways movement but I never tried turning the shafts. Now that it's in the car, I'll try turning the propshaft maybe?

Hmm, no can do - car is not on wheels yet (single garage, no space, leaving wheels as late as poss). The 'box was professionally reconditioned, so I'm not expecting it to be an actual problem with that, I'm assuming it's me not getting the lever or pedal right. Even when I first got the 'box and before I put it in the car, I was never able to put the lever into any gear - is that not normal?

I'm still building and not got as far as starting the engine but I wanted to try check the clutch and gearbox (MT75 mated to a Zetec). I've setup my clutch pedal so that the clutch arm is almost at the end of it's slot in the bellhousing with the pedal fully pressed and I've adjusted the gear lever (standard GBS quickshift) to be vertical when in neutral. However, I still can't move the lever into any gear - doesn't even feel close. I don't think I can do more on the cable end (there are 2 or 3mm left before the arm touches the end of the slot) - any suggestions about what I'm doing/done wrong?

To go off on a bit of a tangent, according to https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/make/caterham , there are currently 2,300 Caterham's registered in the UK BUT 1,500 of them are SORN'd That site works by V5 description - anyone know what is written on their V5 for a GBS or RH (I'm interested to know how many GBSs there are)? EDIT: Just noticed that 'Robin Hood' is listed as a make on that site and there are 2 (two) registered in the UK

Well, AS were good for me - no problems with delivery. They did send me 1 wrong pipe once but 1 phone call and they sent me the correct one without any charge.

I had the same dilemma. I've bought the gauges from GBS and they do sell the plugs and flying leads for the 2 main plugs on their main loom. They aren't on their website so you'll need to call and ask for them. They charged me £50 or so for both flying leads and plugs. I haven't seen the CBS instruments but being half the price suggests they may be dubious quality.

Thanks all - something was coming on but I couldn't tell if it was main or dipped. However, I think my switch is the problem...

When you switch on high beam on a standard H4 bulb, do both filaments come on or does the dipped beam filament turn off? By the way, don't try answering this by staring at your headlights and flicking main beam on, unless you want to do a Ray Charles impression for the next 10 minutes

Surely that answers your own question? Reminds me of the Blackadder lines, "doing the thing we have done 17 times before [walking across No Mans Land to attack] will totally surprise the enemy"