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Went to start the lotus this morning to take it round the corner and get the front re-sprayed and all I got was a click... uh oh! Second attempt not even any electrics.. double uh oh.. 9 minutes later I was at euro picking up a new battery and was astonished at how cheap they are at the moment http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/p/accessories-car-batteries/car-batteries/most-popular-car-battery/075-car-batteries/?444770751&0&cc5_995 £40 bingo! Car started first time and a reset ecu means it sounds like a rocket thank god it was something so simple. I figure the other battery was nackered it's been on the car for 7 years and its one of the stupid mini battery types only 35Ah :|

Its all gone a bit too metro for me. Apple were the ones setting the high standards graphically.. the calendar page turns, the notes looking like an actual notebook. They have really lost touch with that now and gone down the same route that windows and google (web) have gone. Minimal, flat, light colours.. great.. time and a place... but its now been done and as said before it feels like apple are a few steps behind everyone else. Control center good to have but its been standard for so long on other platforms. The setting screen is particularly disgusting mind and I cant see how to shut down apps as I could before, nor adjust brightness as I used to. Overall very underwhelming but I expect that is due to the hype apple carries with it as a brand.

I prefer the sugar free version. Good for metabolism

Awesome driving roads from Italy. A couple of guys from the lotus forum went on a trek across europe:

Well the lotus has been in the garage for a week now and its driving me crazy not having it When I bought the car I noticed on the service history it had "heaters to be checked - customer request" but no outcome. Sadly when I got the car delivered and I tested the heaters they weren't working (no fans) even though the dealer had said they were working when it left his place. After a while I had some intermittent success but eventually on a drive home during a thunderstorm they completely packed in. No amount of wiping away the condensation or driving with the windows open in the pissing rain could help me. I had to pull over on the A1 and wait for the rain to pass and let the engine cool down. It seems heat from the cooler at the front was just being thrown up to hit the windscreen and had made everything 100x worse. A quick call to the guy I bought the car from has resulted in a £700 fix, none of which I have to pay for. Happy days and just in time for shite weather to return in the next couple of months.

£580 to insure the lotus elise with just 4 years NCD, to be parked on the drive, 6k miles a year and the wench as a named driver. EPIC

Deffo I never thought I would go for the bright colours however I wouldnt have it any other way now. It adds to the overall look I think. Always gets the heads turning too

Ive had the lotus for a week now and so it's time for some pics! https://www.dropbox.com/sc/sc3ftud0sv7f52w/I6aWCTu58i Have to say its a frickin phenomenal drive its a 111r sports racer limited edition 2006 one of 100 made and 1 of 50 in the red and white so hopefully it keeps its value

Lotus is being delivered on Saturday after passing its MOT im wet with pre-cum already

Lotus elise sports racer 111r as per http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/lotus/elise-s2/elise-s2-111r--sports-racer----deposit-taken/1446305 Sent a good hour and half test driving it through the new forest yesterday was perfect weather. The car is epic! Getting it delivered next week hopefully

Bought the lotus!!1!1!!11!1!1!11

Adobe acrobat xi will do it for you. Pdf to word is easy with it

Aye I do like the exiges. The s2 s's are the only ones worth going for though unless you can push the boat out for a v6 . aside from the body the only real diff between the 111r and exige s is the supercharger which gives a more linear power curve. Saying that though you can get them to 320bhp with standard parts which makes a slight difference!

Sigh! lotus was sold before I got to it.. and was sorting out going to see this http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/lotus/elise-s2/elise-s2-111r--sports-racer--2006/1446305 on Friday but seems someone is going in to give over the deposit on tuesday.. f**kers keep getting to the cars too quick! Hopefully they dont bother tuesday..

Incase anyone is after a BMW or knows a family member after one.. the grandad wagon is up for sale in order to help fund the new lotus http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/bmw/e60-5-series-04-10/bmw-5-series-e60-e61-520d-m-sport-touring-2007/1483000

Long time since ive posted here but... going to go and see this at the weekend http://www.scottwalkers.co.uk/cars/car.php?id=162 been on the hunt now for 8 months but I cant say no to the mileage and quality. Theres a few "newer" ones around but they are all well out my price range or done 60k miles which is not what I want.

Got my wordpress up and running! http://blog.c-mobberley.com/ take a look Ive put up some tutorials all hosted from my raspberry pi

P = point load force L = beam length W = UDL

Ooo just saw this thread.. I've had my pi a few days now and currently running the following: Lighttpd Web Server mySql PHP CGI Webmin phpmyadmin.. etc etc. Owncloud - Dropbox replacement using my own passport hard drive (500gb). It works pretty good to be honest for opensource. http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Owncloud-dropbox-clone/ Wordpress - For both myself to blog about projects and the missus has her own for other shit... Ampache - more for a test of streaming files across the net in a kind of internet radio way. Overall its not great so I will soon be replacing. BubbleUpNp coupled with Pulse Audio + Grenderer + MiniDLNA - I HIGHLY recommend getting stuck in to this if you do not want to get in to the xbmc area (I wanted more webserver orientated at first). Here is a brief guide of what you can expect http://blog.scphillips.com/2013/01/using-a-raspberry-pi-with-android-phones-for-media-streaming/. It takes some time to set up but honestly its incredible what you can do. VPN PPTP - I know pptp isnt the most secure but I have nothing to hide. The VPN is purely due to going away to a lot of different countries with work and its to be able to watch bbc iplayer etc http://blog.wellsb.com/post/29412820494/raspberry-pi-vpn-server Ordered a ton of parts the other night so I can start temperature data logging (not happy with my british gas monitor its shite). Also want to set up an LCD panel on the top of my pi box to stream updates from Gmail, twitter, facebook etc. There are also some very nifty projects out there using cashier style receipt printers http://www.adafruit.com/products/717 if you get a mention on twitter you can be notified by the printout. I have now also moved my root file system from the SD card to a kingston data traveller usb. The transfer speeds are slower (due to crap usb) but its nothing you really notice. The main reason for this is to ensure I do not get wiped out by corruption of the SD card which has happened a couple of times now. By moving the file system over you only need the SD card to do the initial boot and mounting of your drives. After that the usb handles the lot, plus USB's are so much cheaper than SDs

For a simply supported beam in that instance the maximum bending moment would be at the center. Pete was close with PL/4 however that is not your max. That will give you the moment for just the point load. You need to also take in to account the UDL. Max = PL/4 + WL2/8

How about we all stop the hippy stuff of trying to adjust the earths temperature to what we "think" and "want" it to be so it can be "safe" for the humans.. let mankind heat the world up with all of our carbon and then let the earth manage this change by flooding us out. Then we will simply revert back to how the world actual wants to be and the cycle will begin again. The whine over global warming is getting so old now. It will not be changed and according to the youtube TED talk (with added music for dramatisation btw) the guy already said its done for and we can not change it so there we go.

Allo allo all quite some time since being on here but need some advice. Looking to get rid of my bmw 5 series for something along the lines of an elise but not a clue on how best to make the transition. I'm assuming my car to be worth more than an elise I expect I can get 13-15k for mine it's done 31k miles 57 plate and its a 520d m sport auto tourer. The Elise's ive seen are around 10-14k for the 111s and insurance is not much different to what I pay now.Am I best selling mine private here or push for part exchange (or full it seems?) or get the bmw dealers to buy it off me and run with the money?

You're massive compared to the days riding lboro

Retired riders yes! just do cross country now though