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Tony has since sent me some lovely stuff, which my other half may well find framed and on the walls pretty soon! It staggers me who is actually on there, trouble is you can loose a day or two just trawling about on there! Same user name on there as here, I'm the resident Land/water speed geek!

SD, are you on TNF??? I was invited to contribute by Doug Nye, and as he is one of the people who encouraged me to write about motorsport, I signed up. Goldmine of info' drawings and photographs, and there are quite a few ex and current drivers on there too.

In the UK (which in my opinion is way behind many other European countries) most police cars and Ambulances (my other half worked within the Ambulance service until very recently) have lap tops, and hospitals now have an intranet (X rays are sent around the hospital now by this means), so access to a USB port is getting easier. The tag does have the Internationally recognised symbol on it, so although it may not be the first thing checked, it is slowly becoming common practise. Why I find it handy is the extra storage space other than the medical section. Twenty minutes with a scanner, and I have a jpeg copy of ALL my important documents on me at all times, passport, license, home insurance, car insurance etc etc There have been times in the past I would have been very grateful for that!!

I wonder if this is the same thing that they called me about and is tied up with HiFX?

I think next time we drive up (or down) to home, instead of telling my other half, "there's a British car", I'll just say, "that's so and so, off the forum"!!

Yep, gone that route instead of Rouen, Druex, Orleans etc etc. It's ok, and much of the N roads (N138?) are duelled anyway, but where they're not, one lorry can be a major pain! You do get the bonus of going down the Mulsanne staight though! Are you thinking Le Mans, Tours, Poitier, Angouleme as the route?

That's the route we usually end up going, but I am always trying to find something that skirts Paris a liitle closer!!

If factory fitted, it must have a switch (usually a key operated one) for the service department to disable it. If the car battery was disconnected from the car for a resonable period, the key fob and the alarm reciever will need syncing. The trouble with these alarms is that they will suck every last bit from the battery, when the voltage drops below a certain level it keeps registering the low current as a voltage drop. I've lost count how many batteries I've seen needed replacing because the alarm has drained the life out of them! If it's aftermarket, there's a birds nest of wires in there, and it will be shorting somewhere.

We come up from Belves regularly and I set Pontoise as a via point. I'm now suggesting you use Pontoise, but ten minutes with a good old fashioned map, and you'll be able to see a good via point, and I find this usually gets a good route, and one we have use lot. It's a system that may work for you!

They have e mailed a load of "bumpf", but in essence it looks cheaper, and more efficent, for example International money transfers done from my laptop without the 30 minute call to Lloyds. When I have disected it all, I shall post back!

I have recieved a call from Britline telling me they have a new partner to assist with International money transfers. HiFX have now contacted me, and it all sounds very good, but ever the 'sceptic' I wondered if any other Britline accont holders had been contacted or if anyone has any experience or knowledge of HiFX?

I think this is a superb idea, and you can add scans of important documents as well http://www.digitaldogtag.co.uk/utag-sport.html

Just in case anyone is interested, you can even add scans of insurance, licenses and passports on it! http://www.digitaldogtag.co.uk/utag-sport.html

I have a 265WT, and maps can only be updated by connecting the sat nav unit to a pc/laptop vis the data connection lead, and following the on line instructions. The sd cards can only be used Garmin travel guides/extra mapping and photographs. I'd power it up and use the reset, then connect on line and get the latest firmware, then it will load updated maps. There was a recall on the Nuvi range where batteries were frying themselves, and some were loosing data, but that should be on the Garmin site as well.

I too am curious about the back boiler Turbo Fonte, but can't see details anywhere!

That Turbo Fonte sounds exactly what I am looking for! Thanks

Thanks everyone, it gives me hope!

If I could find,  a wood burner with a back boiler, I could use the four radiators that are already in the house, but as yet I've not seen anybody brought/installed/ussing such a device?

Yeah, that might be a bit much for washers! Rising butts, much easier!

Or completely laterally, measure how much the door needs to have removed from the bottom to work, cut it from the top of the door, and put washers on the hinge pins the same measurement to lift the whole door, assuming of course it's not too much you need to loose!

But surely you wouldn't need permission to use a camera on your own land, including surveillance? I am about to install a radio pir as an alert when people enter the drive (it's about 400 feet from the gate to the door) and that just operates a bell, but was considering a camera, just to see if it was a car, a person, a boar or deer.

Well, as I say we're back in April, so if there's something British you'd like, just let me know!!

Will do. Does it have a software cd etc? And what would you like in exchange??

Ah, that sounds interesting. We're back April 21st if you can wait until then?

Hi Bob, yep, I have a spare one of those too, but you cannot use it in conjunction with a ASDL modem, and they don't have a built in one, where as a Live box does. I think it should work, so probably a case of sucking and seeing!