Dash Rendar

Wow, that was quick work too. Well done. Wish I had the skills that you guys have.

Hmm, well, *properly installed remote starts on Supras* can't be launched (into shop windows) remotely!

Nah, it was a surprisingly cheap upgrade for the alarm I've already got. Ed, for another 50 quid or so, I also had the remote boot release feature installed. I thought you might find that particularly useful. P.S. As Rob says, it's impossible to prime the system while still in gear, so there's no risk of remote launch! (There are some very clever safety features on this module. Very impressive design...)

Don't knock it 'till you try it.

Did the rims have strange colouring, like you might get on a newly cooked manifold? If so, I've seen that car quite a bit in Bracknell, on my lunchtime running route. It always needs a good clean!

Remote start is awesome. I've never had so much fun with a car. In crowded car parks, I wander past the cars shouting "START" at random. When I get to my car, I shout "START" while secretly pressing the button in my pocket. The car starts, onlookers look very surprised, and I don my shiftiest face while getting in the car and pretending to steal it. I've also pretended to talk to my watch, saying "Please start KITT." IMHO, it's the best mod you can get, so do it!

Yeah, based on that Envy link, the Z2 looks like a very different wheel to the ones posted.

I liked it. Remininiscent of the superior but classic joke, "The Italian Who Went to Malta."

Matt has and says it worked fine. So I'm after one too... of either colour!

Don't be daft! There's no way we'd ever let this thread die. It's just possible that you've become the most famous person in the world...

It could be a factor, because my passenger side lock was also very stiff and my wife was struggling to open it from the outside. I took the door card off and lubed it up, and now it opens okay, but the central locking problem remains.

Any chance I can buy one of these off you Keron? (PM sent.)

I can't decide if I love it or hate it. But I would never drive it!

I've got dual digital gauges by SPA Design: http://www.spa-uk.co.uk/design/gauges/. I've got one that's oil pressure / water temp, and another that's fuel pressure / oil temp. Great gauges, with threshold alarms, and great for saving space. The dual digital gauges are here: http://www.spa-uk.co.uk/design/digitalgauges/

Sweet, I'll have to get my hands on one then.

Matt, did your blue relay do the trick? I'm getting desperate and thinking about taking mine into a Toyota service centre!

It's the central locking button inside the car that's not working properly. It only works to lock the car, but won't unlock it. I had the alarm checked out my professional installers a few weeks ago, as I'd initially that it was the alarm at fault. But that was before I realised the it doesn't work using the switch in the car either.

I've had the door card off today. Been unplugging and reconnecting everything I can get my hands on. But it still doesn't work. In a nutshell, the central locking button on the driver's door locks the car just fine, but fails to unlock it. It used to be intermittent whether it would unlock, but now it seems to fail all the time.

In a nutshell, yes... Any device that sends/receives data via your router is ultimately downstream of your ISP. Consequently, once your phone is connected to your wireless network, it's on your LAN and thus totally divorced from any data restrictions you may have if using 3GS (or any other phone data tarriff via your phone provider). Not so correct. A wireless access point is just a device that allows you to connect wireless devices to an existing hub, switch or router. A bridge is a device that enables you split a network into two segments at the physical (MAC address) level, such that network traffic in one does not jam up traffic within the other, and vice versa. I have an old but accurate page that explains it here: http://www.just2good.co.uk/bridgeSwitch.php. However, without knowing a few more fundamentals of networking, this probably won't make much sense, so it's probably not worth pursuing (unless you read all the previous articles first). These days, bridges are not often used, since switches are, in effect, multiport bridges.

Ha ha!

It's funny in a tragic sort of way.

Personally, I do find the wifi much quicker than 3GS.

Awesome. Let me know how that goes!

Thanks. I did find that thread earlier when I first saw you mention it here. First I'll have to see if it's red or blue!

... both good ideas, although neither are effective against a more determined hacker, so the most important step is to secure the traffic with WPA. (Ideally, do all three.)