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all that plastic rubbing the gorgeous new paint! Great to see it home.

You tried Zmanalex and Jon @ Emperor?

Crikey that's low balling

Love the idea of being able to flood the whole complex (it sounds better than house!) with (blue flashing) lights at the touch of a button. Also knowing which entry points are open. Wife tracker sounds ideal, almost worth getting a wife for in the first place

Any beachhead into my network is a risk that needs eliminating!

Depends on the brand of foam (I think BH auto foam is 4% panel impact ratio) and ultimately the throughtput of your lance. Fill your lance with say 100ml of water Strap it on your pressure washer gun Spray into a bucket until the 100ml in the lance is done Measure how much is in the bucket Do the math to work out the total flow for 100ml of "product" from your lance (E.g if there is 1 litre in the bucket, then you know 100ml of product = 1000ml when it comes out) Now you know how much water it takes to empty 100ml of "product" from the lance. Then you just need to follow dilution based on the suggested panel impact ratio of your particular brand of snow foam, et voila.

I had a play with the Home app after reading your post. At first I couldn't get to grips with it, I know everything is supposed to be intuitive these days but occasionally I wouldn't mind some instructions However, once I got my Apple TV set up as the automation hub, it all started to make sense and now I've binned off the Philips Hue apps altogether Thanks for nudge to use the Home app http://www.imore.com/how-make-your-apple-tv-or-ipad-home-hub

I'm gonna keep going with the vertical fan angle, might come round to it. As for following the instructions... hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

I haven't really got to grips with the Home app yet, I still use the Hue one for now. Even with the Hue app, they tried to push me onto the newer version 2 (the one with the multicoloured HUE text below) but I didn't like it and went back to the one with the HUE text in white. It's just right for the job IMO, nor sure what else I want lights to do that it doesn't cover.

For the last 3 and a half years the Polished Bliss PA Foam Lance ( http://www.polishedb...lance-cat2.html ) has been my weapon of choice when it comes to covering my car, backyard, neighbours and local kids in snow foam. The last couple of washes though it stopped picking up the concentrate from the magazine and I ended up with crappy, runny foam and, after 10 minutes, only half my foam used. I did service the lance but it simply refused to draw snow through like it used to. It's had a good run, been used a lot and fairly abused through it's life. Step in Monza Foam Lance ( https://www.monzacar...w-foam-lance/0/ ) whilst I was looking for some replacement MF towels I noticed they had a deal on the lance, and a tenner less than PB. As you can see, they're more or less than same thing. Both vary the jet width and the mix of foam to water with a couple of simple twists. There's a bit more heft to the Monza one and they've also opted for a vertical jet instead of a horizontal one. I'm not sure about this yet, ended up with a bit more on the deck than usual. They also slap on some instructions... but who reads those. What I do like is that it sits perpendicular to the ground when locked and loaded, my old PA lance was a good 30 degrees off perpendicular, so I always ended up holding the lance at an angle, like I was an extra from Menace II Society - this sits better and therefore the scavenge tube has a better chance of getting every last drop of foam. On to the important bit, the foam. I was using the BH high activity (which means thin and runny, not thick and creamy) foam. The cleaning power of this stuff is second to none, I probably could have skipped the TBW if I'd been in a hurry today. Foam is decent and dwelled just as long as I would have expected from the PA lance when it was new. After enough time to fully rinse the lance through and get my phone out, it looked like this on the bonnet. And this on the floor Decent foaminess in my experience of this foam. Thick enough for you to do a Z without touching the paint All in all a decent lance, nothing major to separate it from the PA lance, in summary: - it was three quarters of the price - the Monza lance sits better on my karcher gun than the PA - the Monza goes through the foam quicker than the PA (even when it was new) which can be a good or bad thing, depending on if you like to save a few minutes covering the car or do multiple foam layers. Like it. Would recommend it on this usage. Obviously no idea yet if it will have a longer lifespan than the PA Lance (which was a very good lance BTW). If it goes as long, I'll be content with it. Worth trying if you're in the market and fancy having a tenner off. Here's an unnecessary photo of my Z badge

I wondered who'd notice! She never answers back I've be toying with the foreign Siris on my iMac, I think Australian or South African are the sexiest sounding.

Totally agree, the potential risk is huge as more devices join the party, you don't have to be a big Mr Robot fan to realise there's opportunity for exploitation. For the time being I'm limiting my exposure to three LED bulbs and the risk of Chinese hacker invoked disco attack! But it won't be long before there's "my automated house was hacked by next door's teenager!" stories. It's a shame firewall rules are so tedious to implement.

think inflation has made that £1 now Or €0.01 or $0.01

Yeah, the new techs always have irritatingly opposed and conflicting standards, which ironically hits early adopters hardest, even though they've helped push it on. I wonder if there's standardisation in the pipeline?

bought some sonax ...wow completely different to simoniz ...if you do anymore than one panel at a time it dries like concrete found this out to my detriment and had to go over with the cheap stuff to get it off. It's grabby as ****. I tend to spritz it on the wet panel and then towel dry as normal to avoid this, you still get nice protection. When it runs out and if you have a pressure washer and want something dead simple to use, with good protection results, forget the QD and go for Gyeon Wet Coat. It works by magic. Edit: I also like EcoTouch Quick Wax - a total doddle to use. https://www.eco-touch.co.uk/collections/car-care-products/products/quick-wax

It's just the boudoir, I usually only go for white, yellow and red, the blue and purple isn't commonly used.

It tickles me that the collective press spit the dummy when he was playing on snapchat, but then he spits the dummy in the press conference. His salary would be a fraction of what it is if the world's media didn't pay any attention to F1. He's easily the most interesting of them off the tarmac.

I recently picked up some "smart" bulbs and I quite like them. The novelty of being able to assign the three lamps all different colours and define "scenes" is kind of fun. There's the fairly useful timers to wake me up in the morning with a gentle, warm glow. Them switching themselves off automatically when I leave the house and back on when I come home - as a geek, I think it's really cool. I love the Siri integration too Has anyone else dabbled in the smart fad and got any internet of things things in the house? And, crucially, are they any good?

Ok, will do. 1) Humpy (370) 2) kbad 3) Zeus(in 350z) 4) AaronC350z 5) wez370 +1 (370z) 6) Wendy (350) 7) stevod 8) Wasso 9) CJRamze 10) cov350z (350z) 11) 350Russ 12) ollydykins 13) Valy (350z) 14) modo 15) shad0wca7 16) Irn Bru +1 350z 17) Andymac183 18) Hodaka +1 19) nissanman312+1 20) Amyzed (350) 21) ZeppoJeff (350z) 22) Ekona +1 23) Dicaprio +1 24) Davedutch + 1 25) SHEZZA + 1 (350Z) 26) -G- +1 (380RS) - Date Dependant 27) Harryjax +1 28) Andy_Muxlow +1 29) Scott_f91 (370Z) 30) Nso93 31) kentar0 32) buster + mrs buster 33) Justthejedi +1 34) Chesterfield +1 35) Brimstoneboy +1 (350z) 36) Sisson18 +1 37) Millyuns 38) Beavis +1 39) G1en (350Z) 40) SuperStu (350z) 41) mopedmark +1 42) 350zElkins +1 43) Zebedy +1 (350z) 44) Paddy78 (350z) 45) Paul K +1 (350z roadster) 46) Shire + 1 (350z) 47) 14N (350Z) 48) H5 +1 (350Z) 49) Gizmo (350z) 50) davey_83 51) Will370z (370) 52) joshallen1993 (350z) 53) jamieebury +1 (350z) 54) AtoZed 55) Ioneabee (F-Type) 56) Marzman 57) JetSet +Caroline (350) 58) Brummiestormer +1 59) Andy James +1 (350z) 60) glrnet +1 (350z) 61) AndyG8nby +1 62) Gudzy (GT86) 63) STYLZ +1 (350Z) 64) Mondo +1 65) Markst +1 (350Z) 66) SUPRAWOOKIE +1 (350Z) 67) The Big Meister 68) Monkeybrain1234 69) blind bandit +1 70) philw99 +1 (350z) 71) 350zedd (350) 72) Jonny B +1 (370z) 73) MrsNiki +1 (370) 74) mikeyazure+1 75) Strudul (350Z) 76) Willsy1980 (350z Rdstr) +1 if dates and newbies Allowed... 77) Stuggerz +1 (350z) 78) Oggieteepo (350z) 79) Richesio (370z) - Date Dependant 80) Paul_B 81) Rob350

1) Humpy (370) 2) kbad 3) Zeus(in 350z) 4) AaronC350z 5) wez370 +1 (370z) 6) Wendy (350) 7) stevod 8) Wasso 9) CJRamze 10) cov350z (350z) 11) 350Russ 12) ollydykins 13) Valy (350z) 14) modo 15) shad0wca7 16) Irn Bru +1 350z 17) Andymac183 18) Hodaka +1 19) nissanman312+1 20) Amyzed (350) 21) ZeppoJeff (350z) 22) Ekona +1 23) Dicaprio +1 24) Davedutch + 1 25) SHEZZA + 1 (350Z) 26) -G- +1 (380RS) - Date Dependant 27) Harryjax +1 28) Andy_Muxlow +1 29) Scott_f91 (370Z) 30) Nso93 31) kentar0 32) buster + mrs buster 33) Justthejedi +1 34) Chesterfield +1 35) Brimstoneboy +1 (350z) 36) Sisson18 +1 37) Millyuns 38) Beavis +1 39) G1en (350Z) 40) Varley16 41) mopedmark +1 42) 350zElkins +1 43) Zebedy +1 (350z) 44) Paddy78 (350z) 45) Paul K +1 (350z roadster) 46) Shire + 1 (350z) 47) 14N (350Z) 48) H5 +1 (350Z) 49) Gizmo (350z) 50) davey_83 51) Will370z (370) 52) joshallen1993 (350z) 53) jamieebury +1 (350z) 54) AtoZed 55) Ioneabee (F-Type) 56) Marzman 57) JetSet +Caroline (350) 58) Brummiestormer +1 59) Andy James +1 (350z) 60) glrnet +1 (350z) 61) AndyG8nby +1 62) Gudzy (GT86) 63) STYLZ +1 (350Z) 64) Mondo +1 65) Markst +1 (350Z) 66) SUPRAWOOKIE +1 (350Z) 67) The Big Meister 68) Monkeybrain1234 69) blind bandit +1 70) philw99 +1 (350z) 71) 350zedd (350) 72) Jonny B +1 (370z) 73) MrsNiki +1 (370) 74) mikeyazure+1 75) Strudul (350Z) 76) Willsy1980 (350z Rdstr) +1 if dates and newbies Allowed... 77) Stuggerz +1 (350z) 78) Oggieteepo (350z) 79) Richesio (370z) - Date Dependant 80) Paul_B 81) Rob350 82) SuperStu

Thanks, that tells a storey Yeah, one of increasingly unlikely complex processes! They may as well have added, "North Korea could come and clone you from some used bog roll, grow you in an accelerated growth chamber and use you to top up their electric meter from your Barclays account." Nothing is impenetrable, it's about managing your risk. If the effort it takes to do a hack is high and the potential reward to the crim is low, don't worry. You wouldn't refuse to drive your car because you might have a tyre go pop on the motorway. And that's a much more likely occurrence and potentially worse consequence

So you're in Essex and have an orange car and a positive bank balance, their can't be more than 3 of you! Easy to find

If you look at the amount of hacking of private individuals which is done by technical exploits versus social engineering, I'd say (without the benefit of stats) an exploit of your fingerprint is less risky than a password. So I really wouldn't worry about someone exploiting a technical weak spot of fingerprint authentication on your device, so long as you haven't recently lost your finger and device, and you've not bought it second hand where someone potentially could have monkeyed with it. http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/social-engineering-leads-top-10-list-most-popular-hacking-methods-balabit-survey-results-2096149.htm

I think you'll find with the Bose setup and an aftermarket HU you'll have bigger issues with it being too quiet. http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/107583-how-to-busters-rca-headunit-volume-fix-guide/ http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/84472-busters-mod-without-hacking-the-head-unit-harness/

Mine gave up on warm start, it was one of the camshaft position sensors. Replaced them both and it's been spot on since. Touch wood.