Now this would benefit the 480

MatBat · Post by **MatBat** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 8:34 pm

Would be a good mod for the 480 if you frequent multistory carparks!

pol · Post by **pol** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 8:42 pm

you'd need some pretty powerful gas dampers / springs to lift the heavy, scaffold pole doors!

pol

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 9:06 pm

I'd love that

Jamo · Post by **Jamo** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 9:34 pm

Now thats a mod!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

volvofox · Post by **volvofox** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 9:44 pm

yep, but than do it good, mercedes/ferrari like, hinges in the middle of the roof. However, the round topright angle of the door is quit ideal for a hinge like this, as opeing, it will not easy hit anything. Gas dampers are out of the question, the door is so heavy the springs must be too, so you need to hang your hole body on the door to get it down

I am thinking interactive electrics, like some mercedes benz doors

Hmm, full stop here.... this will be expensive!

Luck
JPF

Ben Harris · Post by **Ben Harris** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:08 pm

Could you use some kind of hydraulic system? ... kinda like they do with bus/coach doors. That way you could open and shut the doors at the push of a button... or even cooler would be that you could use a keyfob to open them remotely!

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:15 pm

you had me worried for a split second then then ben!!
except I don't know my number! everything else fitted!

Thought maybe some virus ahd put that there

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:17 pm

Worried me also, Win2000 IE6 / Pipex

That's me!

Ben Harris · Post by **Ben Harris** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:17 pm

I spotted someone using it on another forum, and thought it was kinda neat! I thought I'd give it a go on here. If it's too big or annoys people, I can take it off....

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:26 pm

hang on a minute martin, so on your computer it showed win 2000 /pipex?
Mine shows win XP / aol etc... so is it actually detecting bits from our computers?
Or am I just being dim?

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:27 pm

yes, it is displaying your real, live, IP informaton - it's nothing special technically - it's looking at the HTTP referrer header in every http packet you send (except the ISP part, which is a simple lookup to the IANA ip allocation tables)....

Very effective though

*update* In fact I dont think it's even looking at IANA tables, I think it just chops the domain from a reverse DNS lookup...

volvofox · Post by **volvofox** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:30 pm

ah, yes, .... of course ! I knew this, (not)

luck
JPF

MatBat · Post by **MatBat** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:35 pm

Cunning!

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:36 pm

big brother is watching you!

Turbo Twat · Post by **Turbo Twat** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:26 am

Back to the subject, yeah!! nice doors always have wanted to do this to my 480 as doors are so long/heavy and seem to be constantaly shutting leg in them due to lack of space would be a nice subtle mod.

Have found a company that specialise in these type of conversions, don't have details to hand, but can dig out if anyone is interested!!

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 7:26 am

Nice sig, Nice doors!

Gimle · Post by **Gimle** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 8:51 am

Nice mod indeed

Turbo Twat wrote:Have found a company that specialise in these type of conversions, don't have details to hand, but can dig out if anyone is interested!!

You will let us know the details when you have them, no?

hereagain · Post by **hereagain** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:32 am

The stuff Ben did makes your PC display YOUR OWN INFO ONLY on your screen...You may have seen software adds on the internet sow you WHAT YOUR PC REVEALS..they do the same as Bens...show you your own info only on your own screen.. bastards!!!..this tricks people into buying their software!!!!

Ben Harris · Post by **Ben Harris** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 1:19 pm

It's not something I've written...

It was simply a graphic signature that I saw someone using on another forum, so I looked at the properties for the image, and took a look at http://www.danasoft.com who are the company that had generated it. I'm fairly certain that the way it works is pretty much how Dragon described, and all it's doing is taking the information from the headers and serving you back a customised graphic. I don't think there's any kind of conspiracy involved to get you to buy stuff in this particular graphic, - or did you mean that as a general comment for other adverts? If it's gonna cause a problem/concern, let me know and I'll remove it!

Gimle · Post by **Gimle** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 1:50 pm

[quote="Ben Harris"]It's not something I've written...

It was simply a graphic signature that I saw someone using on another forum, so I looked at the properties for the image, and took a look at http://www.danasoft.com who are the company that had generated it.[quote]

I for 1 think it's quite funny

Would quite nice if you wrote it yourself though

:D

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