Decided to get a usb stick to put a few mp3's on as the sound via my cheap blutooth adaptor (playing songs on the phone) is very low. 

Glad to find i get proper volume playing songs off the usb stick.. but i'm being a bit thick here... how to hell do i set up the various atributes so it displays nicely on the (GID) display? 

i mean, there's 'name' which is the file name with .mp3 at the end, then things like 'album' 'album artist', 'album ID', 'featured artist', 'genre'  and so on, i tried filling in as many as i could, and that gives me loads of options to search for songs... but it looks crap when in the main play display mode....

I noticed that when playing a song (most of my songs are full albums in a single file... downloaded from youtube using a sound ripper) that it can have 3 lines displayed... all mine just say the album name repeated on top and bottom lines, leaving middle line blank.. except for a single one that i had something in the 'featured artist' part.. that showed up on the middle line.

Is there a write up somewhere on how to 'label' the songs on the usb stick so they show up best on the display in the car?

Anyone know where i can buy empty wiring connectors that vauxhall use in their looms, and possibly their terminals from?    i want to make a few mods to my car over the coming months and like to make my own looms up,   

I've just bought off ebay an auto dim mirror and the specific screen cover plate for my car (meriva) I will bond the cover to the screen after making a vinyl mask for the screen up on my vinyl cutter.

But i will need a plug that goes in the mirrors socket, i will have to wire it to the interior light circuit (or may run the wires down to the fuse box and give it it's own feed if i decide i need the 3rd reversing light wire connected to it)  

I know i can buy the short loom from vauxhall for about a tenner, but i'd rather get the specific bare socket if i can as my car dosent have the connector the other end plugs into.

(i imagine the pins are what i call 'jst' pins.. used on hobby servo's and pc floppy disk drive power connectors (maplins sell floppy disk wiring kits 'JW63T' an expensive way to get 4 pins and a socket thats no use.... but those pins are what i used to wire my indicator stalk to the instruments to give me the trip computer functions... i've got hundreds of them along with my jst pin crimper in storage.. but what box it's in is a guess.. i'm quite good at crimping them with wire nippers now tho.. gotta get them right or they wont go down the socket holes in the plugs)

Hi everyone I got astra J 2012 1.4 petrol n/a engine 100BHP, i've done my research on pedal box and will definetly purchase it soon as it does make a difference, i was wondering is it worth ecu remapping with only 10% gain bhp whilst at the same time using pedal box? Does anyone have same car is there any mods you done to make faster? My only problem is after 50mph it just goes up slowly not enough to overtake safely.

will pedal box off astra j gtc 1.4 fit the 2.0 diesel gtc . thanks.

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Any suggestions on what colour to go for my grilles, trim, and wheels. Want something different.


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Hi all, Jeff from Hereford, got a Astra gtc j from new and had a new gearbox fitted under warranty last year with 28,000 on clock, hope you faired better.

Does anyone have or can anyone point me in the right direction for a how to replace a boot lock solenoid as I need to do one tomorrow?
Many thanks.

 You do a swap on the 1.6 to a 1.4 turbo or is it too much work as I love the astra but want a turbo can't change car as tied in to mine  can 

Fancied a new trim colour just got to do the radio surround and door handle inserts

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The dreaded “service vehicle soon” message came on yesterday and after calling into my local garage they diagnosed a faulty no2 glow plug but they hadn’t got time to fix it. I’ve looked online and found there are 2 types, one with pressure sensors and one without. How do you find out what type my car has?
Thanks in advance


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