Quote from LFSn00b :

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=447 Remember not to give out your details and login info, use them only when you login to LFS or LFSForum

Maybe Victor needs to bump it again

You should of made a very realistic looking form or email, and send it back to the guy who's trying to fraud and tell him: this is how you do it.

Quote from egghed6 :

they arnt the actual car pics, just pics i got off google images. But we hav got those cars-just not the exact ones depicted above.

Then what's the use of posting the pics? And if you just wanted to take a pic from google, I don't know what you searched for, but if I just want a picture of a 350Z, I need to search a long time before I get to this one..

Quote from MrPDR :

I cant believe this is an actual thread.

I believe it, you can make any dumbass thread you want. What shocks me is, the file has over 100 views..

I get that too sometimes, but when it happens to me I don't know who did it because I delete people who still have me in their list. Then they add me to a big convo and I've no idea who I'm talking to But I just go along with it And then leaven after a while.

Quote from hrtburnout :

Why does the Z have the steering wheel on the left? Also, why doesn't it have a plate on the front end? That pic looks like it was taken in the US of A.

Because the car IS in the USA:
http://www.dragtimes.com/Nissan-350Z-Timeslip-12017.html

I bet he just posted a pic of a similar car because he doesn't have a pic of his own. Or his parents moved to the US while he's still in the UK.

And in Belgium (don't know about UK) side repeaters are only mandatory when the car is longer than.. I don't know how many meters.

Quote from Thunderhead :

Here we go

Nice pixel, now where's the pic?

Just looked up the best-known chiptuning company in Belgium. And these are the figures for a Ford Fiesta 1.6 TDCI:

HP: 90 HP => 115 HP
Torque: 204 Nm => 260 Nm

Price: 653,40 euros

http://www.autotuneheinz.be/in ... p?taal=nl&menu=tuning

Quote from hrtburnout :

Does the Belgian government pay for health care? The Dutch govt. doesn't: we have to pay for our own. That adds another €150 per person to the monthly bills.

Depends, a lot of things are covered, some things aren't. Also depends which party you choose.

(In dutch: hier heb je gewoon de ziekenkas, je betaalt daar maandelijks wat voor, maar als er iets met je is worden de meeste kosten terugbetaald. En iedereen weet dat in Amerika de ziekenzorg op niets trekt :razz

Very nice car Big!

Scipy: your country seems to be very expensive on chip tunes. A company over here will chiptune your car and test it on a rolling road (with climatiser and humidity crap and everything, so the testing happens in the same way every time, it's the most expensive installation in Belgium), and their prices start from 500 euros. These days it's going towards 700 or 900 euros, but it's still one of the more expensive companies.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

What about a bigger turbocharger, intercooler, methanol/water injection, propane injection, nitrous, cams, pistons and other engine internals, intake manifold, increasing bore/stroke, bigger injectors?



They make midgets come to your house at night and piss in your gas tank.

Nope, the only tuning that gets done is maybe a higher flow air filter and a chiptune. I'm talking about young people, starting with a family and stuff, so no big changes to their cars. They just chiptune it because it'll drive smoother and will run more economic.

Quote from Rooble :

IIRC I remember seeing something similar to this on German TV one evening, some small tuning company knocked out a chip that gave this Golf Diesel more then double the power it had initially. I found it hard to believe until I thought it through for a moment and the only reasonable explanation would be, why develop multiple engines when you can just offer the same with less power?

Everyone gets the same car just with more or less the same gadgets and the only difference is the performance in the engine, nothings changed but they rake in more money. Its no real performance gain, but a more a performance release/unlock.

True, if I pass school this year, I'm getting a new Fiesta S. It has the same 1600 TDCI the Focus has, it has 90 hp. But in the Focus you have the option for a 1600 with 109 hp too. It's the same engine, just not available in the Fiesta. So I'm probably going to get it chiptuned to about 115 hp. Should be manageable. But only after half a year, so I know there's nothing wrong with the engine to begin with.

I've seen chiptunes tested on rolling roads, and most of them came out with better performance (meaning a smoother curve), and afterwards most of them had better mileage. And I'm talking about turbodiesels, these aren't modded in any other way except chiptuning, so I doubt it's the sound making the difference.

My dad thinks the same way like some here do: if a manufacturer could get higher economy and better performance, they would have done it already. But if you get a good chiptune, it'll get tuned for that specific car, every engine is different and standerd chips need to cope with every engine they build and cover the differences without too much notice.

I can't see how so many people (also people really into cars) can be so positive about chiptunes, and then I see other people who just have an idea about it, looked at people who did it wrong and go spread the word chiptuning is evil.

On chiptuning: I'm pro chip tuning, if done by a proper company, it'll make your car run smoother, you'll get a higher mileage and a bit more power.

On power for fun: I drove my dad's Mondeo 125 HP for a few days now, yesterday I returned back to my 60 HP Fiesta again, and actually I found it really fun to drive it. The steering is so light and easy, the car is hopefully going to be scrapped, so I can drive as bad as I like, it goes around corners very well. It was just awesome to drive it again.. It really surprised me.

Quote from Michel 4AGE :

The ambulance and uhm.. doctors-car (????) are standard cars from the Nordschleife GmbH, that means they are always there when the track is open, they are usually parked behind the entrance, on your right from the webcam' point of view. Looking at the time of the shot it's 19:20, that's the time when they close the Nordschleife and the ambulance and doctors-car prepare to go home after a hard day work

I think the little car with the hood opened wanted to drive a lap and maybe bad luck striked and the car broked down even before they entered the ring. Although that would've been luck actually because once on the Nordschleife it's damn expensive when your car refuses to cooperate. €175,- for a tow.

If you're halfway through the ring, 175 isn't that expensive.

My car got towed last week, and that cost 206 euros..

Quote from wheel4hummer :

Well, JamesF1 is the only smart person in this thread. Read his post, he noticed an inconsistency with the title of this thread!

No, I think he meant the OP is messing typing up... I can't explain it, but I understood that post different than you I guess

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

Just grab a S-Video/VGA cable. If your graphics card supports it, maybe even HDMI

S-video and VGA are complete garbage on a big HD TV. HDMI is the only way to go.
First time you hook it up with the other options, you think: yea, it looks alright, but once you used an HDMI cable you're astounded by how much better it actually is.

Nobody smart enough to look at his older posts and notice that he never did it before?

Now I'm ashamed to post that my screen is only 32"

Quote from wien :

AGP or PCIe? For PCIe I'd suggest this one: http://www.komplett.de/k/ki.aspx?sku=342813 or perhaps a 512MB version if you feel you need it. Excellent value for money.

PCIe

And needs HD exit of course, but I guess they all have those these days. That's why I bought the X600 in the first place.

So can anyone suggest me a good graphics card for around 100 euros? Don't want to spend too much on it..

Problem is I can't find the receipt I always keep that kind of stuff in a box, but it's not there. And the box it came with was used to stuff paper in while cleaning up my room. And I don't think the receipt would have been in the box.. I don't have a clue what happened to it.

Quote from Becky Rose :

Is there one with a multiplayer demo? Mebbe we can get an LFS war going - those who think LFS should support modded against those who want it pure !

Great idea, but I'm afraid the purists will be outnumbered.. So we get the better tanks

Quote from Stiggie :

Ok, as no one can either react seriously, or react at all on my other suggestion, here's another, simpeler one.
How about having the rear lights to interfere with the front lights, as in making a part of red light up in the rear, like in a real car?
Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... 7ORF4&feature=related
Here the rear light only goes red when the fronts are on..

Those aren't car lights, they're strobe lights and are probably wired to go on together.
In a way you're right, but the lights in LFS I think are meant to be high beam lights, to warn other people, and in that case the rear lights don't go on.

Quote from wien :

Since it happens in all games it's either drivers (unlikely given that you get the same across several different drivers), or it's physical. Fried/overheating memory most likely. Could perhaps be worth a try to reseat the heatsink and maybe apply a new layer of thermal paste, but the damage may be done.

Then I'll have to find the little screw driver set.. The whole card is covered by a metal plate, which is then covered in plastic...

I'll check it out later But I find it weird it overheats, it's not really old and I don't play that many games lately. Are things like this in warranty?