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Surely no one would be stupid enough to remortgage to buy a set of wheels

No disrespect to any businesses here, but if you rely purely on a mobile phone then you are a bit of a muppet. If you need to be contactable ALL the time you need more than one way to be contacted. Annoying when it does happen, but you should plan for it to happen. With regard to proving/knowing who was effected, I'm pretty sure they can find out exactly who was effected. I just depends if its easier for them to just dish out a discount to all vs spending the effort working out who was effected. Not hard for them to do it, but will require a bit of effort and might not be cost effective. No way you can easily prove you were effected and that would take a lot of man power for them to process all the claims. Cheaper to just give the whole base a discount.

New bearings turned up today as well as a few other bits and bobs. So started the evening with this pile of bits: and Which turned into this: Up tomorrow is my suspension being back and can get out on the bike again hopefully

Wonder how that works for MVNO's on O2, like GiffGaff. Guess they pass something back to us themselves rather than getting it from O2.

Yup. Three's advert shows it as being an NFC device anyways. Thanks. One of the guys here has just got one and confirmed it is NFC although he has no interest in using it! Just want to know if the new iPhone will be NFC, if not I will likely go for the S3 when my 3GS finally dies.

The only bearings left working/moving and not notchy on my bike are the headset! Was tempted to swap them out so that the whole bike has a new set, but they seem fine. Bottom bracket was seized tight on the non-drive side so have a new Hope stainless one in there now. Frame bearings felt fine, but thought while the shock/fork was out of action, might as well whip them apart and test, and found all bar a few were notchy and some were seized. Lesson learnt - check bearings more often! Very strangely, Evans Cycles were very helpful and removed the 2 double blind chainstay bearings, for free! Apparently they are quite hard to remove without the right tool from Specialized, as being double blind there is no way to easily get a drift onto them. And if you do then you can easily knock out the inner race and bearings leaving behind the outer race in the frame They also have a tool for that as it happens quite a lot!

You had enough of the bouncy bike now so back to the HT, or are you trying to make the Lakes feel as rough as the Alps? Our stable of bikes has grown once again - will take some piccies soon - but for once its not for me. My bike is currently in about 14 pieces waiting for forks and shock to return from Mojo and bearings to arrive!

Ah that will be fun then

Drop the roof and smell those lovely gasses

Common as muck over there

You failed to spot the major fun factor killer - the SLK isnt petrol 6.5 0-60mph, with 500nm of torque. Im pretty sure that will give the zed a run for it's money in a straight line. Until you get to a corner when the weight of the engine will keep you going straight While it has a LOT of torque, it still wont rev, so just doesnt have the same fizz as a petrol. I'll admit it will probably beat a 370z in a straight line once moving though.

You failed to spot the major fun factor killer - the SLK isnt petrol

Does the current S3 do NFC? We have some bling ones at work that do, but they're not for the public unless you happen to by an Olympian

Crankworx Slopestlye at Les 2 Alpes is currently live on webcast at http://www.crankworx.com Quality is great for a live stream, have it playing on the tv no probs

In that case, its what Colin described (oil change interval) rather than low oil pressure warning. Low oil pressure will show as a little yellow oil can symbol on the dials rather than the info screen.

Got a pic of what flashes up? If its the oil low warning symbol then thats not the same as the prompt that Colin is describing I dont think.

We can always create you a custom status (til the shiney new things come and ovewrite it!)

Wouldnt want it going to the green room

If you are sure there is oil in it, get it down the dealer. Its probably the oil sender unit that is goosed. I'd be tempted to add a few hundred mils of oil, wait a while and see if it goes up the dipstick. I find the 370z pretty easy to read so should be obvious. Only do this if its below H though!

Sorted

Good luck with retentions, there will be a few that will try it, but go check your contract for the statements on availability/uptime. I bet you dont have any SLA attached to it, so they'll just wave you good bye. I feel for people that lose business when phone networks go down, but really there's nothing you can do about it other than to have a landline and a mobile for a business. At the end of the day its the same as when a car breaks. You just have to try and get it fixed ASAP, its not always the manufacturers fault, sometimes things just fail. My understanding of the O2 problem was they didnt know what was causing it which makes it much harder to find. Its not like all customers in London suddenly went down. There appeared to be no common denominator which working in IT makes it a ball ache and a half to try and trace it

This. SN goes on almost as easy as a soft wax and hardens nicely like a proper hard wax (exc collinite!). Gives noticeably longer protection from what I've seen but is dead easy to top up when required.

Sounds like a valve failure from my understanding of torque converters, or some kind of actuator not playing properly. Not sure if thats a cheap fix or not on a Merc. Who'd buy a torque converter auto anyway..... oh wait Hope you get it sorted soon matey.

No sound??? You're missing the best bit then! Found my headphones, yay

I forgot to say "FOLLOW MY LINE!"