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The plastic bit at the end that holds the round cable retainer has broken and the cable retainer keeps falling out. Anyone know of someone with a spare one?

Pretty much a waste of money these days - when it goes off means they just got you.

New Tompsom modem is running 12500kbps so a big improvement. A cabinet is going in near us June next year so then we should get even better speeds.

Got to be better than a Honda Odyssey V6 4WD though!

Been down to Jeff Gray on Friday and checked out a couple of X5's. I agree they are better looking than the Merc so I'm now looking at an X5. Haing just fitted Nav to my 740i I think I'll get one with Nav already fitted so am looking at a 2003 onwards model. Thanks

Finally got it all wired in today and am very happy to be able to say every thing is working perfectly. Rear subs: The improvement to base is very noticable, but without sounding out of balance - exactly what I was hoping for. 'We come one' by Faithless is awesome! The Pioneer reference series amps have made a noticiable improvement to the sound - and thats with the original door speakers still in place. Will get professionals to mount the door speakers. The reversing camera is also working great. The MKIII naigation system is also fully functional and we will use it tomorrow to find our way to a football tornament in Palmerston North tomorrow. I'll take some photos and post up here in the next day of two. I can now get all the boot trim off the spare bed and into my car which will make my wife happy!. Lot of thanks to Hotwire who hs proides guidance, technical adice, and even tested my navigation set up after i boiught it, and before i took delivery. I've enjoyed this project and will now have to work out what my new one will be. Exhausts through the bumper, H&R springs, transmission fluid flush are all on my wish list.

I'm looking arround at suitable replacements for the Honda Odyssey. The Honda Oduyssey is a fine family MPV but it isn't exactly a perfromnance machine, and while distinctly lacking much perfromance, it's pretty thirsty on the gas (55 litres for 400 km). I'm quite interested in the Mercedes Benz AMG ML55. Pretty fast for a SUV, and damn they sound great. WHile having full independant suspension they still have a separate frame so good off road capability. Only down side seems to be they have an enormus plastic housing for the spare wheel inside the back of the car. Not sure why as the lesser ML models don't waste space like this. The price of these seems to be getting reasonable - for example this on is $30,000. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=322389744 Is there some thing better out there for the money? Also considering a later model 2004/5 ML350 which has a 3.7 litre V6, and 7 seats (the back 2 seats are removable). E: Fixed link for the listing challenged ;-)

Try 'Hyper' - it's near Sylvia park and also online. I've got excellent prices fro Pioneer gear from them. They are Pioneer dealers and undercut Paul Money by $650 on each of my Pioneer Amps ($999 at Pauls, $349 at Hyper - with free delivery). It was a special but damn they do have good prices at times.

Into my F1 - went to Monaco F1 in 2008. Great experience.

I note he hasn't been back on since you posted LOL. Personally if I was going to pretend to have an car it would be something a bit more expensive like a Lambo. A 335i would be the daily driver.

Pretty cool - apparently the concpert was for citys where you park outside and then walk or take public transport to the office. One of their concept cars has space for 1 of these in each of the front doors. However not good for the general health of people who don't walk enough as it is.

Hi Pjay. Thanks for the help. I learnt something today! You are a handy person to know, and with great taste in cars too. Telecom are shipping me a replacement Thompson modem.

Thats a damn handy map - pity Telecom retail doesn't link to it. Found out my exchange went ADSL2 ages ago. Cabinet on it's way June next year,

Yep the data rate is 7547 and there is no help I can find on the Telecom site related to this specific problem, which I can tell from looking at the web is a problem that ocurrs often enough. My modem is the D-link DSL-G604T Generation II. It has a hardware version of C3 and firmware version of V3.00B01T01.TX.20070315 (dates from 15th of March 2007). The D-link support site only finds the older vertical standing G604 when I search support, but when I made an email support case it listed the GenII model. Got to wonder how many users this may be affecting. Syncing at 7547kbps when it should be closer to 24000kbps is quiet a fail.

Only firmware update on the Telecom site is the security update which the check sheet says I don't need.

Damn - checked my Dlink modem and even though it's running ADSL 2plus modulation the sync speed is only 7.5Mbps. Thats basically what I got when it was running on ADSL1 modulation. I guess I have to call Telecom and ask for an explanation. I have heard of this happening but that was supposed to be modems supplied companies other than Telecom.

that doesn't sound too good - thats got to make the eyes water - easpcially coughing after she dislodged the cartilige. I also didn't like the part about it lasting 6-8 weeks!

Ifd only, then i could stop smoking!. When my dad had sheep on the far that coughed like this he always killed them and used them as dog feed. Gald I'm not a sheep

Don't ya hate it when you buy tickets for someoen then they pull out! We were not able to get tickets for metallica as even though we qualifed for presales, online purchase process failed several times. Anyway we did the next best thing and bought the Blu-ray disk of the current concert in Mexico. Rocks!

Man I've got the nasty cough from hell. Can't laugh, can't exert myself, as once i start coughing it just goes on for ages. When I final can stop I'm sweating like a just run 5km and shaking with sore chest, and sometimes dizzy like I'm about th pass out, thats if i'm not dry reaching over the bathroom sink. Serriously not good. I got antibiotics on Monday but so far it's still getting worse. Comes with periodid fever and waking up at night soaked with sweat. Shouldn't be the flu as I had the jab this year. I know 5 people other people who have had it or have it. Anyone else affected? My tip stay well away from anyone coughing - i caught it from a firend who came skiing with us.

Seriously considering a week down South next winter; the snow is better 99% of the time and there are a lot more ski days. We are failrly committed to Ruapehu though as we have lifetime passes for Ruapehu so the cost isn't so bad (if you forget how much 4 lifetime passes cost!). Last year we came up for a lot of weekends and hired houses in Turangi using bookabatch - there is some bargins there and unlike Ohakune most don't insist on the 2 nites minimum on the weekend. Will do a midweek day trip if it looks perfect with my Son and ski the High Noon Express. Some really nice black runs out to the right as you ride up the lift.

After returning from our rained out ski holiday I put some time into sorting out the BMW wiring I need to tap into. Despite being somewhat under the weather from a nasty cough and fever I was able to learn all I needed to know from that WDS BMW wiring site. Turns out I have the HiFi stereo with 10 speakers and 10 individual outputs for the speakers from the amplifier. The Left Right Front and Rear outputs from the raido can be picked up from the 12 pin plug for input to the new amps. It also has a ACC equivalent wire which is white (not the white / violet I'd been looking for and still havn't located). I will remove the standard HiFi amplifier and remove the standard BMW plugs to the amp. I can mount the rather large cross-overs for my door speakers under the rear tray, or where the HiFi amp was located, and use the individual wiring to the tweeters and woofers. I won't be doing any wiring until I'm a lot better though.

Just got back on Thursday from Mt Ruapehu. Went up on the 24th and got our 1st days skiing the following Tuesday (which was perfect). The next day was wet so by 10.30 we were all soaked and by thursday (based on the forecasts) came back to Wellington. Of course Friday was OK LOL. This seems to have been the worst North Island ski season I can recall. Last year we skiied 23 days, this year about 7!

In the end I was unable to find the required white/violet wire for the ACC on but after much checking on the online BMW wiring site I have found a wire that will work, it's all white and used to power on the amplifier from the radio. If anyone who has fitted this to an E38 knows differently let me know. Issue with plate light was a broken join in the rubber gromlet between the boot lid and the boot. Fixed and all the boot lid trim back on and now the boot open / clouse switch isn't working. Probably another broken wire.

Thats pretty terrible download speed - whats the line sync speed? Unfortunately the economics of getting decent rural broadband using either copper or fibre is problamatic. Cabinets are expensive, as is trenching new fibre. The government has a rural broadband initiative but I don't know how that is going to work. I'd predict a mix of solutions including wireless eventually. Current DSL technologies are only good for about 5km, and DSL2 isn't as good at distance as DSL1. Comcom regulating that the modems had to run full power and not allowing Telecom to reduce the power level of modems close to the exchange has adversly affected those at the ends of long copper lines, while providing at best a marginal improvement in speed to those close by. Great intentions but infortuantely you can't regulate the laws of physics.