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Maybe he's just trying to work out why his Mondeo doesn't look that nice inside? :D It's the shopping bag in-hand that makes it for me though :D

OT! That really is a great interior, super top job. I have to say I do like the admiring look from the guy you can see in the reflection :lol:

Bear in mind I we're all technically kids too :D just we're the nice ones :) Not saying all kids... just ones that think it's clever/funny/acceptable to throw anything, let alone sand at a C :)

Beats sending them to jail, just castrate em, it cuts down on the testosterone so they're not as agressive, chops them out of the gene pool and it's a lot cheaper than prison :D

I hate kids

From what I've heard it's about a grand to get it installed from scratch But I think a lot of that cost is labour, because you gotta do a lot of plumbing and buggery behind the dash to get it in... good luck tho mate, let us know how you get on

So how many Calibra's do you see around now? And in what condition? :) Personally, I don't mind if people say they're horrid cars, those who have them know they're good and it stops monkeys getting them and abusing previously cared for ones. They can go get an MR2 or somesuch instead. Yes they are expensive to run, but compare it with the amount of money you lose in depreciation by buying a less fun to drive car new. This way you're actually getting something in exchange for your money :) Roll on the raddo :D

sweet, I shall read that later. I want mine as a stealth install with no hacking of beloved Corrado tho :)

yeah I was thinking some kind of mini ITX based system, not sure exactly what, but I'll see what will fit.

It just goes to show how good this forum is, I've been scouring here for a while now and I know what I need to look at when I go lookin for a Corrado. I saw one yesterday that was a dog, but there were people calling up when I was there to put offers in on it. Make sure you check it over thoroughly before you buy it, it's like all 10yr old cars, they need to have been looked after. If you just go out and buy the first Corrado you see then expect to sell it on in a couple of years at a profit and spend no money on it, then you are going to get a shock.

Yeah, like Henny said, a PC is much easier to cobble together. Then you can get emulators and get it to run X-BOX AND PS2 games and have room to spare to run every single NES game ever made too :)

Ohh ok I thought you meant 802.11b camera's rather than general RF. Got me all excited for a bit there. For that price you might as well use USB web cams and run the cables through the car. Could stick a hub behind the dashboard and you'd get a better picture too. As far as power goes, my plan was to hook up the ignition power to a serial port (not directly!!) to give the PC a hibernate signal, then when the ignition is turned back on the PC comes back to life without having to wait an eternity for it to boot. If you only have a few apps running it should be fairly stable, and you can always use the iPAQ to do a proper restart on it if needs be. Being able to use the cameras as part of the security system would be nice, but I don't see any easy way of doing that at the moment. As you say, you would get 30hrs tops out of a battery and you don't really want to come back to your car to find a dead battery. You may be able to hook up some low power sensor to shut the PC down when the juice gets low, but sounds like too much effort to me. I wonder how hard it is to make up those scrolling glass type covers for cameras like they have on F1 cars to keep them clean... :)

Ooh Cambridge eh? Can I come drool at your dragster sometime? :)

yeah the ipod is the easiest and cheapest way to do it, but I have issues with anything Apple and it just doesn't satisfy the geek in me. Now the mini wi-fi camera and VAG-COM thing sounds VERY cool :D :lol: Where can you get these aforementioned cameras? I've wanted to get some ip addressable cameras for a while, but when I last looked they were abotut £150 each. Plus with this system I can use my proper DJ software that has a full on cataloguing system and can generate playlists based on a whole set of criteria. I'd also be able to haul the MP3's over to the iPAQ to listen to on the move. If you were going to get really sad... err I mean cool, you could then use the wi-fi cameras to record movement around the car and catch anyone dinging your doors. Although that would mean the PC needs to run all the time, so you could get some battery drain issues.

I thought Skynet were the bad guys in Robocop? :) I've seen a MkIV Golf with a PC behind the dash and a 13" TFT where the passenger airbag used to be, but I don't want to cut the car up to do it. After thinking last night, I was thinking a Mini ITX mobo where the first aid kit goes, with a wi-fi card, then use an iPaQ to link to it with remote desktop to control it.... not sure how much cheap iPaQ's are tho... hmmm.

Anybody put a PC in their C? I really want MP3's in my car and I can't be arsed with burning CD's all the time, so fitting some kind of hard drive would be good. At the moment I've got the option of an ipod, or fitting one of these beasties somewhere http://www.ramms.co.uk/sitxmbds.htm you can get them to fit in the space of a head unit if needs be. I'm thinking hook that up in the first aid kit place and plug it into an amp in the boot, with one of them LCD screen head unit size things in the dash. Need some kind of controller tho. hmm... Any thoughts?

Well I'm getting a VR... it's fast enough for me for now and I can have fun in it while I save up for a mental kit car :D:D

Ok if you're gonna be really picky, if you want exclusivity and a lovely brick red leather interior, get a Campaign Good point about the production runs tho :)

It seems to me if you want mental nutty stupidness and the exclusivity, get a G60 and you can make it fly. (maybe not literally) If you like the purr of a VR and are happy with reasonably fast performance, get a VR

You know a cars bad when it has 2 different keys, broken heater controls, damp carpet and no work done on it other than oil changes and the odd lambda sensor. Especially with 110k on the clock!

Which usually makes it ok. Yours also doesn't look like it was puked up by the chav god himself. I call him chavlore. :lol: Hmm now where's my beer....

Yeah I thought that too, but I thought I'd check. It doesn't matter, the whole car was a dog anyway :) Got another 2 lined up to go see at the weekend though

I just went to go look at a C and the drivers side carpet was damp and slighty sticky.. am I to take it that the matrix has spewed it's guts?

Don't you go starting with the ladyboys again! :lol: