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I find it suspicious that it mostly suggests wheels with offsets around 40mm. The highest offset they suggest is 45mm. Meanwhile our stock wheels have an offset of 53mm. They even suggest 17x7.5 @ 40mm, which I'm pretty sure will have the front tires sticking out past the fenders. (The sidewalls at least... maybe not the actual tread.) Anyone know of a car with a stock wheels that are 17x7 - 17x8 with an offset of 60mm or so? It would be interesting to see if that forces the web site to show wheels with higher offsets.

It was indeed the 'supported files' thing. I even have an embarassing thread on MP3Car about it now. http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/road-runner/112833-missing-song-names-all-rr-skins.html I'll give Simplistique a try.

Yes I do, and Winamp works just fine. I'm going to try a couple of Winamp skins today just out of curiosity. BlackHole: I like the laptop idea, but I took a more conventional route. Refurbished Thinkpad for $550 = 1.7ghz Pentium M, 1gb ram, 80gb disk, bluetooth, wifi, and XP. I really like the idea of being able to take it out of the car and work on it. And half of the power management is built-in already (the rest should be taken care of with a ~$40 turn-on unit for ~$40 that I'll be installing over the next couple days). The only drawback so far is that its VGA output only does 800x600, not 800x480 (even after tinkering with Powerstrip).

I tried 4-5 different skins and music-browsing was broken in all of them. It can show the names of songs that are in WMA format, but not MP3. Funny thing is I'm in the middle of converting all of my WMAs (all lossless) to MP3s for compactness and (I had hoped) broader compatiblity. I would appreciate a .zip of your RR skin. I haven't given up on this stuff yet. Thanks!

Must rant now. After spending the last few days downloading and checking out various CarPC front ends, I think I'm only going to use my CarPC for navigation and data logging. I had high hopes for putting all of my music onto the CarPC, but I don't think I can stomach the user interface. I just want a music player with UI that is simple and efficient. Does anything like that exist? I never realized how tedious it would be to deal with such a large music collection using a touch-screen UI. Having 6 MP3 CDs (aka "playlists") directly accessible with 6 buttons really makes the factory stereo pretty attractive. RoadRunner has a bug or something, it will show lists of bands and albums (the directories), but it wont show the names of the songs. It all shows up just fine in WinAmp though. Go figure. Done ranting.

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OK, let's trade roofs.

Are there pics of this upcoming FMIC?

That would be sweet. I thought that code wasn't even in XP. Do you have a link? I just spent 15 minutes browsing search results for "EWF" over there and only found stuff about XPe, not straight XP.

I'm told (though not from an authoritative source) that booting XP does a large number of small disk writes, which will wear out flash memory within a fairly small number of boot cycles. I don't know if "small" is on the order of 5, 50, 500, or 5000, but the guy I talked to said not to bother. XP-Embedded has a feature called "enhanced write filter" that was added specifically to address this problem. Much as I like the idea of running without disks, I'm going to wait for XPe first.

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Can anyone point me to some open-source dashboard software? The closest things I know of are Enginuity and EcuExplorer, but both are made for general purpose logging, neither are really suited for dashboard use.

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