Thunder in the tunnels 8

[ph1l5]

shorts! said:

But surely that's part of the fun.
I use sat nav as much as traction control, ABS and airbags.
Getting a bit lost in London with TVRs passing in all directions is brilliant.

Wacky racers always springs to mind at this event.

[Jhonno]

Hmm.. I may pop along for this.. Will see how the week goes.

[Quietlybonkers]

Jhonno said:

Hmm.. I may pop along for this.. Will see how the week goes.

Just PM Mr Chips for the joining and route info

[Jhonno]

Quietlybonkers said:

Jhonno said:

Hmm.. I may pop along for this.. Will see how the week goes.

Just PM Mr Chips for the joining and route info

I have no PM function?

[ph1l5]

Jhonno said:

I have no PM function?

Click on his pistonheads profile and on the right it should say email me

[Quietlybonkers]

Yes you do. Find a post made by Mr Chios, click on his name, and on the next screen click on " email me " over on the right hand side.

[Quietlybonkers]

Can I suggest that all us last minuters check out the .itn file attached to Dave (Mr Chips) email? I tried it tonight, and my Tom Tom said there was no content in the file. Dave sent it to me again, and the new version worked. Be daft to be trying to sort it at 2am on Sunday.....

Edited by Quietlybonkers on Sunday 7th October 21:06

[DonkeyApple]

There is a mild irony in all this satnav chatter for a meeting of PW's creations.

[Jhonno]

ph1l5 said:

Jhonno said:

I have no PM function?

Click on his pistonheads profile and on the right it should say email me

PM aka E-mail... Ahhh. Yes I have that.

[SagarisChris]

Just a quick question, has anyone loaded the .itn file on to a satnav successfully? Ive got the latest tomtom go live 1005 and apparently it doesn't support .itn files!

[yosini]

Hi,

There's a decent little application that runs on PCs and converts ITNs into loads of different formats - it loaded Mr Chips' file fine and outputted it to Google Maps for me. Can't remember what it's called but I'll have a look tomorrow at work if anyone needs it.

Cheers

Joe

[chevy-stu]

SagarisChris said:

Just a quick question, has anyone loaded the .itn file on to a satnav successfully? Ive got the latest tomtom go live 1005 and apparently it doesn't support .itn files!

Alot of the newer Tomtom's don't support itn files .. I just bought a refurbushed Go750 for that reason alone..

You can of course just enter the waypoints manually to create your route, as any other Garmin/Navman etc owner can... or just print off the map over a few pages and bring a navigator/co-pilot !!

[Quietlybonkers]

SagarisChris said:

Just a quick question, has anyone loaded the .itn file on to a satnav successfully? Ive got the latest tomtom go live 1005 and apparently it doesn't support .itn files!

Hi Chris

We found that both Tom Tom satnavs we have between my son in law and I loaded the file, but only the newer (about two years old) Tom Tom IQ LIve actually displayed it, and I must have messed around with the menus for about five minutes before load itinerary suddenly appeared on page two of the main menu. The older one loaded the file, but we couldn't find anywhere in the menus the ability to use the file.

I then found that the M4 route was fine, but that the main route wasn't - the sat nav said the file was empty. I asked Mr Chips to send me another copy, which he did, and the new version loaded fine.

So I can confirm that the file works, and that it is a fiddle getting it to work. Email me if you want my son in law's phone number for a chat as to how he got it onto the Tom Tom.

[R 6UY S]

SpeedBuzz said:

slideways said:

=Name=||=Car=||=Coming From=||=Brooklands?=||

Alexdaredevilz	Riding Shotgun in Lean Machine	Yellow Submarine Town
Harrytsg	450 Chim	Epping
Grey Ghost	450 Chim	Sarf Essex
7TVR	T350C	Sarf Landen
900T-R	430 Chim	Rotterdam NL
Barneycerb	cerbera	Hampshire
The Big G	V8S	Surrey
Hoover	430 Griffith	Knebworth	?
AGell	Sag	Essex	?
Lone Star	T350C	Essex	?
PoleDriver	Cerbera 4.5	Hampshire	?
MrChips	Tuscan 2S	Berkshire
ChimpofDarkness	Chimaera 4.0 (Lean Machine with as passenger)	Watfordshire
Macey	Tuscan	Berkshire
Ph1l5	Chimaera	Berkshire
B3NNL	Tuscan 1	Somerset
LesterShaw	Chim	Stansted	?
MPoxon	Griff	Essex
Seeby	Chim	Epping
Marpug	Griff	Sussex
DustToGlory	Cerbera 4.5 L/W	Knebworth	?
Dave 500	Cerbera 4.5 L/W	Surrey	?
Dave 500	Chimaera 500	Surrey	?
TVR Andy	T350t Red Rose	Oxford	?
X 7USC	Tuscan Red Rose	Surrey	?
Haircutmike	4.6 stripey	Surrey	?
Sibby	Tuscan	Surrey	?
Byker28i	Cerbera 4.2	West	?
Quietlybonkers	Chimaera	West Norfolk
Silver	Chimaera 4.0	Essex	?
cshaw600	Cerbera	woking
Blues	Chim	Berks	?
Andy Pandie	Tuscan 2S	Hants	?
TV8	Chimaera	Bromley	?
Wedgeinald*	Tasmin 280i Wedge	Berkshire
Magpie21	Tuscan 4.3	Oxfordshire
TN1 (Lev)	Sagaris	East Sussex	?
The_Edge	Cerbera 4.5 RR	Kent	?
MrZigaziga	Tasmin	SE London	?
Buffoon	S6 Cerb	Essex	?
Colin RedGriff	Griff 500	Berkshire
Cats	Tuscan 2S	Surrey Berks Hants
Cidergestion	T350 Red Rose	Gloucestershire	?
ChrisnChris	Tuscan	Hants Berks Surrey
Stumpage	450 Chim	Welwyn	?
Shorts	T350t	Herts	?
FactoryPilot	Sagaris/Tuscan	Bucks	?
mrcyeo	Tuscan	London	?
Tommy Long	Chimaera	Northampton
Timja	Chimaera 450	Herts
BrightYellowTVR	Chimaera 400	Berkshire	?
Steve in Stoke	Sparkly Chimaera 400	Stoke!	?
MADMAX2	128db Chimaera 400HC	Worcestershire	?
Ali G	Griff 500	Local Yocal	?
DanR100	T350	Essex	?
morgie	4.2 Cerbera	West Sussex	?
Shadowman450	Chimaera 450	Surrey
Session	TVR T350c	East Sussex
nigelb777	Cerbera 4.5	Kent
RodMod	Tuscan	Essex	?
Jimbolian	Cerbera 4.2	Leamington Spa
EggsBenedict	Chimaera 400	Kent
TVR500Morgan	Chimaera 400	Berks
davemac250	griff 4.3	Holborn
Tanguero	Cerbera 4.2	Kent
SteveSprint	Griff 4.3	Bucks
Chris	Sagaris	Wiltshire
CrazyIdea	Tamora	West Norfolk	no
NiceCupOfTea	S2	Kent/SE London	?
slimtater	T350	Derby
Tuscan 22	Loud Tuscan!	Cambridge
Bartesque	Tamora	Guernsey
Chevy-Stu	loud pink Camaro on shepherding duties	W London
aide	Cerbera 4.5 RR	London
Blackiepaul	LS7 Sagaris	Solihull	?
wazzal	Tuscan 2 Convertible	bucks	?
DonkeyApple	Typhon	NW London
Simon51	Chimaera	Bucks
Loose450	Chimaera	London
BL04NDO	T350	Berks	?
yosini	Cerbera 4.2	London SE10	?
shep1001	Tamora	Dunstable - Beds
zippee	T350 4.3 (v. loud)	St Neots, Cambs
Willikins	Tuscan 1	Watford
P400PLS	Chimaera 400	Gloucestershire
rxgreentiv	Tuscan S 4.5	Newbury
Thistle	Chimaera	Berkshire
ChopperTVR	Tuscan2	Essex
D14 AYS	Sagaris	Surrey
Cockey	Tuscan	Bournemouth
Skiver	Chimaera	East Anglia
LaserTam	Tamora	Essex	no
GrazzerDBazzer	Tuscan RR	SE London	maybe
Noisy	Tuscan S running loud pipes	SE London
Slideways	Chimaera 4.8 twin turbo	Essex
SpeedBuzz	Sagaris	Essex	:?:
R 6UY S	Cerbera LS	Sheffield	:?:

Will give it a go if the weather holds!

Edited by SpeedBuzz on Saturday 6th October 09:55

Same here if the weather is not too bad..... and if i get my clutch working properly.
Is anyone else going from Sheffield/S Yorkshire?

[lestershaw]

if you are going to display your pistonhead name on your windscreen, it might be an idea to use a car parking sticker as they come off easily when you want them too,
just a thought :-)

[B3NNL]

As my PH name is my numberplate, I'll not bother with the sticker.
Mind you if the wrap is completed in time, I doubt you'll miss me!

[tuscan 22]

Does anyone know where you can get your pistonheads name and logo from?

[lestershaw]

sounds interesting :-)

[Grey Ghost]

South Essex pre-meet

I know there are a few groups getting together to arrive at the meeting point in a convoy so does anyone fancy meeting up at Thurrock Services (Esso site) at 5:15 to wander over to the start point in a convoy.

We may even have to go through the Dartfod Tunnel as they usually have the bridge closed for some form of maintenance early doors at weekends

[ph1l5]

tuscan 22 said:

Does anyone know where you can get your pistonheads name and logo from?

I know where you can get you're user name and a lightning bolt sticker