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Sorry got the wrong end of the stick there! Thought I was on a different site there for a minute.

As suspected, fuel regulator issue. Seems to be fine now. Sessioned test day at Brands Hatch tomorrow, going to duck out of work at lunchtime and do the two afternoon sessions to try it out pre-Donington on Sunday.

Yeah. Slept in my old mk2 Octavia, wasn't a patch on the T5. T5 the result of a redundancy payout and a profitable purchase then sale of a T4 Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk

Picked the Swift up earlier today and went out for a drive round town. It's a great drive. Filled up earlier so I'll see what I can squeeze out of the 42 ltr tank Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Problem swiftly and amicably resolved today in Huddersfield have returned the car for a refund and even got a lift home. My faith in online forums has been restored think they made a difference to the outcome.

Meteorological Autumn Feels like feckin winter with the North wind blowing.

You can buy my entry and track passes and away you go. Simples.Edit: you'll need some long sleeves, a helmet, a driving licence, oh, and a car!

It's still spring as I've yet to see summer.

Many points to be raised here, most of which I expect to be shot down with because of not being one of the "known faces" of Briskoda but hey... If he had screenshots of the folder structure of the files from your NAS, then regardless of your understanding of IT security, you've ballsed up. MAC address filtering is hardly worth bothering with. AV and firewalls are not foolproof, I'm guessing you're not the only person in the house who uses this equipment? Someone else could have something malicious in their profile on your computer, or on another computer in the house. You did right to not allow him access to anything, but then if he has your folder structure in front of him, then he essentially already has some kind of access anyway, unbeknownst to you. If he was seriously malicious, he would have cryptolocked your stuff and just held you to ransom, IMO. The info probably did come from Shodan, it's a fantastic tool (named after what I remember to be a fantastic game, although I last played it 20-odd years ago so there may be some rose-tinted specs involved) You may have blocked access to the web portal of the NAS, but have you made sure to block all the sharing ports (21, 137-139, 445, 2049 if it does NFS, 443 if it has a secure web server, or WebDAV server, etc). You may find it's leaking information over another port, and you may find that if it's UPnP-enabled then it's just created its own NAT port forward without you even knowing (under the guise of being "helpful") Have you made sure that all guest access is disabled if you're using an account which doesn't have a valid username/password on the NAS I think Nick's idea of a guy standing outside with an aerial is nonsense, since I assume as an IT professional your wireless network is WPA2 using CCMP encryption? I can only actually remember a single vulnerability in WPA2-CCMP, which was the "Hole 196" vulnerability from 2010 whereby an attacker could potentially receive any particular client's unique private key and decrypt it, but that requires the attacker to actually be on the WLAN in the first place (so more suited for coffee shops, hotels, etc with a public WPA2 "secure" network). There may well be more though. The fact it's an Iomega with "the latest firmware" doesn't fill me with confidence given that iomega.com has been domain-squatted (meaning that a) it was allowed to lapse and no one cared about it any more for the next 2 months where they could have still renewed it even after it expired). I'm guessing that Iomega as a company are now well into end-of-life, and their products even more so. Personally I would be looking into my migration plans to a new NAS - it may be fine now, but it'll die eventually, and you'll be on your own with a set of disks that may well be inaccessible in any other appliance. As above, I prefer my disks in a more generic software RAID, currently I run a nice "self-healing" ZFS mirror, if my box dies I can throw those disks into anything running FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, OpenIndiana, FreeNAS, Nexenta, etc. I have a ton of options, which you may no longer have if Iomega have indeed kicked the bucket. Personally I think a new NAS should be close to the top of your list. Changing your SSID with an attacker connected is less than ideal, if the router admin page isn't encrypted in its own right then the attacker (if still connected) could sniff out the HTTP POST that you send to the router containing the new SSID/password you want to use, in which case as above they're straight back in again. I couldn't find any solid reference to Nick's "Santander exercise" as I seem to recall he never provides useful links to the guff he refers to, but I assume it's this - http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/aug/22/santander-withdrawals-fraud Home IP addresses are almost always dynamic, so just because the IP doesn't match NOW doesn't mean it didn't match at the time of the offence, given that there was a delay between the fraud and the receipt of the letter saying the customer wouldn't be refunded. Also if someone had hacked the WiFi or their computer, then it WOULD have been their IP address on the transaction. So the assertion in the last line is complete balls; if the IP address of the fraudulent access was not your IP address, then someone has your banking credentials but not necessarily access to your network (still bad, obviously, but in a different way). When done correctly, modern wireless networks are pretty secure so access is unlikely given OP's status as an IT professional.

My wife annoys me most because she cannot tell where the alloys end and the kerbs begin.

Not quite driving, but being a passenger in a 22yr old Mazda had me smiling a lot. Then putting a deposit on it later in the day

Yeah it's a gobby ******Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

you're iPad says more than you do

That reminds me of a great Distillery visit and tasting. Blair Athol Whisky. Check out Blair Athol 12 Year Old Flora and Fauna. Again they say Peat or Light Peaty, but i do not get that and i have smoked herbal. (i think it was peat.)

Thank you so much for this thread. I've been inspired to buy the ELM327 adapter and the Carista ap and I'm intrigued by the whole thing. It's opened up a whole new aspect of car ownership!

Or a giant seagull.....

I just text sandy an he says hes sure they remapped his via the OBD port...i couldny remember as the owner of ecotune had one of the coolest dogs iv seen and it would leave me alone so i spent most of the time playing about with it I will say it was a very nippy car when we went home though

Today whilst in west London,i gave way to an ambulance on blues&two's, when trying to pull out after the ambulance passed the driver behind me did not let me out,i named him "silly man". A mile up the road in the usual 9mph slow moving traffic the "silly man" cut up a minicab,i chuckled as the minicab driver gave a naughty hand signal,then even better the "silly man" got trapped behind the minicab driver (I think maybe on purpose) in a yellow box junction and yes the lights turned red so he blocked the junction and the council issue cctv tickets there for £120.00 £60.00 if paid in 14 days. Today I liked council cctv and the minicab driver. Well it made me smile :clap: .

I'm gonna punch you...

Summer? what is this season you talk of?

When my postman stops wearing shorts, it's cold and must be winter. Last one had them on even when it was snowing. We managed into Nov last year without the heating on fully

I just realised that the OP stated he DIDN'T want peaty!!!! I'm a muppet. I've recently finished a bottle of Dalmore and it was very nice, although a tad expensive. Got it half price from the Whisky Shop

That doesn't work around here, where the correct approach to a roundabout is as follows: Approach roundabout at 38mph, align number plate on the Honda Jazz with any lane markings. Check for approaching traffic, if there isn't any, perform emergency stop and wait for some, if there is some, pull out. Or if you're in a rush to get to the garden centre, doctors or post office, don't waste time looking right, just go in accordance with what you do in the same place every week. Take a perfect racing line across the roundabout at 10mph. If you're turning right, make sure it's a wide-narrow-wide use of the apex. Exit roundabout, then give breakaway signal and leave it on for the next 3 miles.

^^ all the time. More so when you've used that word a few times in the same letter/email/document.

Me too, " Virgin Experience Day " I was thinking more of a ride on a 25 year old 6 foot Blonde :yes:

Suspect the outside space is a safety requirement, to allow deployment of the curtain airbags, and deflection of the doors/pillars in side impacts.

I'm being induced on the 17th! So obv me and Dan wouldn't have been able to come lol but 24th works better! The 3 of us will be there :-)

None of the tuners I have approached seem to be aware that there are different engine variants of the 1.4 TSI twincharger engine (CAVE & CTHE)), let alone that there are different ECU's. I do not believe that any of them have managed or even tried to bust the encryption on the latest incarnation - why would they? It's an obsolete engine& therefore the number of people seeking a remap is small & dwindling. I believe the ECU can be remapped by removing it & the security seals & reprogramming the EEPROM directly - a labour intensive & risky business, but remapping via the OBD port, not a chance, I say & as others have said Dyno print-offs would be available if it were possible. I have now completed my 2nd day with a TMC box (rather than the Bluespark, of which I was rather a fan). I must say first impressions, TMC is better. But that's only a subjective impression, I have nothing on paper to back it up. But I may have soon - if I can justify spending another 60 quid on another Dyno test!

The car can do text messages anyway. I'll miss out on WhatsApp ones alright but given that most of them are from herself and are almost illegible for the most part it's probably for the best!Sent from my SM-N910F using Tapatalk

No sports diff. But being the A8 Sport Exec you get a lot of toys including Bose, surround cameras, heated and cooled perforated leather seats etc... Plus adaptive cruise, blind spot monitoring, lane keeping etc... Unlike most Audis where you have to add everything. But yes, it is a lot of car for the money. I like the towbar.

Bloody good price that ST3. Cheapest one on AT is still over £14K and yours had over £2K's worth of tasteful mods. Grrr, i'm kicking myself for not having spotted it sooner. Can I be pre-emptive and have first dibs on your mk 3 Focus RS when you offload that?

Summer was on a Wednesday in early June. You must have forgotten

Yes the more reputable Companies will be but there will be some that somehow aren't quite as concerned shall we say? Mind you some of those I wouldn't want to eat a take away from let alone have one delivered by some spotty with attitude yoof on an angry wasp without an exhaust! Not generalising too much here of course. :no:

You can buy a complete kit off e-bay for £14.99 http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?poi=&adpos=1s4&ul_noapp=true&geo_id=32251&MT_ID=11&crlp=71670124112_807&keyword=autoglym+lifeshine+kit&rlsatarget=kwd-3295053547&_nkw=autoglym+lifeshine+kit&device=c&crdt=0&treatment_id=7&clk_rvr_id=893101658441 The dealer then charges you £235.01 to apply it.

The NA and Canadian Mk7 Golfs are made in Mexico with I believe the exception of the R that is still made in Wolfsberg....I suggested that perhaps the Mexican cars arent quite so well put together on the GolfMk7 forum...caused a bit f a furore with our friends over the pond :-)

I for one will be watching this with interest, as this was a mod I intended to do to my Monte (for the asthetics) and because they wouldn't sell me a VRS with a Monte body kit. but as many people have said it's your car and do it for you, I've done lots of mods other people didn't like but they put a smile on my face!

Update from post #7 21135 miles covered and the oil is still just above the hatched area of the dipstick. No perceivable change there. No oil spots across the back of the car. Still no misfires or engine lights since the fix. Done a couple of long trips over the summer but its still mainly covering short journeys around town.

Agree with this! Loving our Roomster. Being a Black edition helps with the outside appearance imo. Black with tinted windows also helps disguise the funny shaped window lines somewhat. My new Fabia as nice as it is just seems a little too normal in comparison.

And today's smile was bringing it home :clap: Hopefully some better photos to come, as we go along! But needed to a.) mark the purchasing occasion and b.) get the hood down

http://www.royalmilewhiskies.com/product.asp?pf_id=266700002843 CAOL ILA Unpeated 15 Year Old but be quick most have sold out, best whisky Ive had, not cheap but glorious, unpeated and cask strength , he is 70 after all !

One of the non-multibuy Macallans below. https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/B-40-Macallan.aspx

Delivered an RS3 yesterday to a customer on a 65. Bet we have about 200 cars going out this month.

No, they are true stories. Every single one of them..... And his dad drives a Ferrari estate too...

Too soon??

I've bought a few bottles of the Aberlour Cask strength Whisky from Waitrose. It doesn't have an age statement but it is guessed to be about 5 years old. What it does have is a very merry sherry taste. It's like drinking Christmas in alcohol form. A kind of Christmas pudding of a whisky It recommends that you add a drop of water (I realise many do anyway, I do too) but you can drink it neat. The fact you can is even more surprising as the whisky is around 61-62% ABV depending on which cask it's from. It's a great sipping whisky that leaves you warm inside in a big way

17?! 15 for me.