Quote from Bawbag :

Have you guys seen the spray stuff that you spray on but peels off like a plastic coating (If you want it off that is..)

Plastic dip....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WS14Jnyf5Q

Much cheaper solution to refurbishing them a certain colour..

Holy crap that looks amazing.

My main wheels aren't brilliant (lots of kerb rash), want to get them refurbed but even £120 is still quite a lot of money.

My winter wheels look like absolute shit (but they were free). No point getting them refurbed but I'd love to.


How durable is the finish? Does it just change the colour, or does it hide some of the marks as well? Can you get lighter colours (i.e. I prefer normal silver wheels, or this at the darkest...).

Quote from sinbad :

besides, even if you took it to the most expensive ford dealer for the service, and they charged full whack, when you spread that cost over the 40k miles since its last one it's not going to be much per mile!

LOL....z

Quote from robt :

Jakg, cant you do the service yourself? Its only an x-flow engine, theyve been around since the 1950's! Parts would be very cheap and wouldnt take you half a day.

I could do, but...

I've never done an oil and filter change on my own before - in the past on the ZT I've always found a garage who'll do it for what the oil + filter would cost me, and I get a stamp in the book

Air filter = easy

Fuel filter = probably easy

Spark plugs = very easy BUT the theads very very dodgy on the engine on one plug. If I **** up, she'll kill me, if they **** up, then they'll fix it...

Had a look today - all the sparkplugs were way way way too gapped (and didn't look like they'd been removed in a very long time)

Regapped (to 1mm ish) and it runs fine.

Also convinced her to book the thing in for an air filter / fuel filter / oil change / sparkplug change.

Job done

plenty of colour as in one colour - i.e. it's a good mix of OAT / water, i.e. is not just pure water or something ridiculous.

Quote from PoVo :

EGR Valve stuck or filled with crap?

Try shut the EGR down by blocking it if all else fails

Don't even think it has an EGR - we talking an old design of engine here.

Quote from Agniz :

Wait, what? No oil, filters and spark plugs were changed in 40k miles time? O__________________________________o

She says it was services when she bought it (private sale) but imo no receipt / stamp = no service.

Quote from bunder9999 :

might as well check coolant while you're at it. not because it's related, but because i know a few people who beat the piss out of their cars and they all seem to die with cooling related problems (overheating, head gaskets, etc).

The coolants fine - I have no idea when (or if) it's been replaced, but it has plenty of colour (it's OAT) and the levels are all ok (I've managed to at least train her to check the coolant / oil levels etc occasionally...)

Quick car question...

My girlfriend has a Ford Ka (1999 - 1.3), which seems to be juddering really really badly at part throttle, she's also complaining it's down on power.

Despite my protestations, she hasn't had it serviced in her ownership (the last stamp in the book was in 2006 at 17k, it's now on 57k!).

Might not be related - but I think the cat's on it's way out (rotten egg smell from the exhaust).

Will have a proper look at it before Uni tomorrow - So far I'm thinking of checking the oil (to make sure it's not sludge...), the fuel filter (she routinely runs the thing with no fuel in it), the air filter and perhaps the spark plugs.

Any other suggestions?

Quote from Klutch :

Its not hard to do, if you can spin a spanner you can do it. Hardest bit is removing the engine/trans as you'll need an engine hoist.

Not worried about the physical aspect - more pitfalls I hadn't thought about (like disposing of fluids etc).

Would probably leave the engine / gearbox in the car when it got weighed in - nobody's going to want to pay for a KV6 with 120k on the clocks, especially when it needs a cambelt changed (30k overdue - the guy claims its been done, but has no idea if he has the receipt and hasn't looked in the service history.... yeah right)#

EDIT - Chassis worth nothing for sale, best use would be for scrap. More things like the interior etc I would sell for cash.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

No but it's quite easy. Just sell bits you don't want. Did the Rover die?

The ZT's fine - but I've seen a rather tasty Rover 75 for sale near me.

£500, lots of optional extras - would probably get £800 for the easy to remove bits, which leaves me with a shell (which i'd get £100 for) and a private plate.

Just trying to work out the potential pitfalls.

Random question... anyone here ever broken a car for spares before?

Quote from RiseAgainstMe! :

public philanthropy. No one can really say for sure right now how much he has anonymously donated to various causes. He was fairly private person.

Maybe absolutely nothing, maybe tons and tons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Philanthropy

http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/0 ... d_jobs.fortune/index4.htm

I suddenly feel a hole lot more normal

(happens to me as well)

Quote from Rappa Z :

(Although, who said Mrs. Geraldine can't work?).

Geraldine now works for LFS "full time" in a customer support role afaik

Quote from Dandy Dust :

When the Devs have figured a apropriate financing/sponsoring - model I´m affraid...

There is no "financing". Scawen has said in the past he does not believe in paying for the rights to use cars in LFS, when effectively he is actually advertising their products.

Normally he gets cars in exchange for something - i.e. the MRT to let the FSAE guys test setups (and wings from memory), the BF1 for the F1 thing, and now the Scirocco / Rockingham for the competition they were running.

Do you really think we'd be at a stage with a good quality imported model, interior textures, good physics base etc if there was a strong risk someone could pull the plug and make it all in vain?

Quote from peejayh :

The puzzling thing is that I can make a new Host "site" where I can nominate a track,car,race length, etc, etc and stay on it and race away on my own for days if I wish but I cannot invite anyone to join in. Its utterly daft when it was easy/peasy years ago. Perhaps you could, on your own, set up a host and invite someone to join in with you provided that you advise them of its password and, let me know if your set up enables you to host a track for one against one racing.
I would like to know if you are able to carry out this seemingly simple set up.

A quick explanation.

From the outside world, all other users can see is your router (as your on BT - your BT HomeHub). Obviously your router does not host an LFS server - your PC does.

Opening ports is basically a way of telling the router that if it recieves an LFS-related request, to pass that to a specified PC (i.e. yours).

You don't need to open a port to connect to another server (thus why other servers work fine), but you do to host one. You can of course host a server without opening ports - but no-one will be able to connect.

If you call BT, tbh I doubt they'll be much help.

If you have a BT HomeHub 2 (the black one) theres a guide on what you need to do here.

It's nothing to do with LFS - pretty much any hosting will require this.

Quote from RiseAgainstMe! :

...

How much, out of interest?

What always really annoys me is the terrible quality pictures dealers use for their cars - it's nice to see in the US they do things a little differently

£65 from a guy at work

Needed a little... "modification" to fit in my laptop though...



Damn 7mm HDD slot.

Depressingly - exactly the same as the last time this thread came up. 3 years ago.

From memory - Scawen is full time, LFS-only, Victor is full time (although has a few other projects on the side) and Eric is actually a dolphin (or something like that).

Quote from Guthix :

After doing some maths and stuff, i figured that if there's sold 5k or more S2 Licences the devs have made roughly 5 million NOK (Norwegian Krone)

In 2005 there were 10-20k S2 licenses sold, and 10k S1's sold...

That works out to ~£480k.

But remember, a 3 way split (which I doubt happens but still) over 8 years brings that down to £20kpa. Plus, Scawen's said in the past that they only actually "get" ~50% as profit. Plus, remember that not only is Scawen living of this, but also his wife (who now works on LFS full time) and supporting a child as well...

(yes, I know the figures I've quoted are now 6 years old, but even if you were to double it, it still doesn't make them millionaires - even if you were triple the license sales that would still only put them a little above the UK average wage)

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Quote from dadge :

except it's not winter...

Yeah, but they'll do as a temporary set of wheels for a few days.

Quote from JO53PHS :

Is that a while you wait on your driveway job or a take the wheels away to the workshop job?

If you want a higher quality finish I'd recommend the latter, but if you find a reputable company (i.e. not some bodger) they should still do a reasonably good job with the equipment in the back of their van.

Take the wheels away (well I deliver them - but they want them for 3-4 days).

Got my winters so not a big problem...

Somebody local is offering to refurbish the ZT's wheels for £120... very tempted...

Quote from Tox Laximus :

Devs always put little gems into the code of their servers so they can look like gods to us mortals

Inherently you've never seen Scawen's laptimes.

Quote from Tox Laximus :

6 server fps is insulting my eyes, LFS (Lag Fest Supreme)

You really need to learn the difference between PPS (packets per second) and FPS (frames per second).

Quote from Forbin :

Here's an example (no longer a WR, you get the idea): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kACdhgzNmjc

Probably the best example is ~0:55 in... If you were following from behind and weren't an alien I could well understand how that would look almost like they had a better car than you.

It's all in the car control.

Quote from TehPaws3D :

I'm pretty sure victor and the gang already know your account data

I'm pretty sure my bank know my password & account number, but they still ask for it every time...

The whole point is that the OP wants to prove his identity.

Quote from dadge :

i agree with Kev, although it might just look like the speaker is put into a wooden box and then covered with carpet. if you're making your own cab, you need to think about the direction of the speaker (facing into or out of the cab). also, where to position the air inlets. some bassbins have sponge in them to help keep the sound clear and the (excess) vibration low.
because your car is essentially a cab, keep the bass speakers as low to the floor as you can. tweeters go high )not too much higher that head height)

I know that PA systems go for specially designed boxes, but for car audio they usually just specify the size of the box & port - i.e. for this sub, Hifonics quote 3ft³ with a 4"x10" port.

AFAIK only one manufacturer has started going for the more PA-style box designs with the JL PowerWedge.

EDIT - Either way, i'm fairly sure this will sound better than my last setup - I have a better quality, more powerful sub, a more powerful amp (which means loads of headroom), a ported enclosure, and probably most importantly a quality enclosure - my last sub box was an eBay-special prefab made out of ~15mm chipboard which is falling apart and most likely leaking air like a bitch. The new box is made out of 1" thick MDF and is literally as strong as a rock.