Wheels

Incase anyone was wondering, yes you can run Audi / VW wheels on your F60 Countryman. The center bore is a bit different but its so close that it works without issue. Below is mine with Audi S5 wheels.  

ISCSI Woes

So if your like me you may have been getting emails from WD (Western Digital) saying your MyCloud device is going out of support. I have been largely ignoring these but the deadline was fast approaching and I just wanted something that worked better. I knew the MyCloud just ran a software raid with mdadm […]

RMAN backup errors ORA-19510 and ORA-27045 on NFS share

I got this error below ORA-19510: failed to set size of 261894 blocks for file “/oracle_backup/PRD01_14816_3” (block size=8192) ORA-27045: unable to close the file Linux-x86_64 Error: 5: Input/output error First thing,  let’s get the size of the backup piece (261894 * 8192) /1024 /1024  = 2046 MB  = 2GB We are currently  using a Windows […]

e90 328xi troubles

So over the last four weeks I have been battling a strange issue with my 2007 328xi. It was running fine before I went on vacation for about ten days, when I came back I started it up as it had been sitting for a while. It had a slightly longer start than usual and […]

Aftermarket Radio With Stock Bose AMP

I just felt it would be good to share this as I searched quite a bit and only found small amounts of info. I have a 97 A4 1.8T Quattro and it has the Bose amp in the trunk and I really wanted an updated stereo. I went out and got one and after pulling […]