Pictures

I would love to be able to put faces to the names of fellow list members, how about posting pics of ourselves with our beloved XM's or is this a Baaaaaaaad idea ?

Colin.P

The thing about the forum currently, is there are no (unintentional) prejudices triggered by
the way another poster may look and the written word is taken at face value; I guess we
may all look like escaped convicts/America's most wanted!


Or like this:



...how would anyone concentrate on oily dirty car bits?

Andrew

Oh man ! for her I would give up all my tinkering with oily, dirty car parts

Colin.P

Sure, there wouldn't be any time to spare tinkering with dirty oily old Citroens!!

Actually Colin, to answer your question in another post and help PeterN,
I dug this out from elsewhere:

to use www.photobucket.com and load the picture you want you simply follow
the prompt:



Then when it's loaded into the database highlight and copy, then paste onto
this forum the code for your chosen picture that is highlighted in blue in either
of the equivalent screen shots below:


OVERVIEW SCREEN OPTION

OR


SPECIFIC CLICKED TO VIEW SINGLE PICTURE BIGGER OPTION

which ends up showing up on this forum as:



Andrew

Dammit, i was looking for this post a few weeks ago so i could figure the posting images thing out, im hopeless with the forums search engine .

By the way, your looking good Andrew

D

So that's how it's done. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to put together such a fantastic set of instuctions

Best wishes, Colin.P

Photobucket has had a slight facelift since the screen grabs shown
so I've just saved some new ones:

1: Where you get started on www.photobucket.com - remember too you'll need to activate
a username with password access on their system to post images. The images/video upload:





2: To get a specific picture you click on the upload option which will pop up a search
dialogue to choose what you want to post:





Which then uploads onto photobucket and is catalogued onto your user account where
it is viewed in two ways:

A - small thumbnail with annoying dropdown options box which plays hard to get:




the code required for a forum picture insert is the whole string such as:
[ IMG]http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g318/Andmcit/Picture24.png[/IMG]

*To get the code to display, I've slipped a barspace after the first [IMG)



B - a larger image filling the screen better when clicking on the previous thumbnail:








3: After all that, it can be copied and pasted onto the script entry as you would any posting,
giving an end result of:



The odd quirk with photobucket is their images always lock to the same width that you can
have some choice of the scale for so there's no chance of showing the final picture much
bigger than the previous step B shown above it - mind, in this case it was a small size to
start with!

Andrew

Thanks again Andrew, here goes then, I'll give it a go



Cross fingers, Colin.P

Flippin eck !! it worked

Now to bore the pants off people

Cheers, Colin.P

A picture speaks a 1000 words etc!

Andrew

Your Xm is very smart

No not boring, we like pictures on here

What's the story with the wheels Colin; were they a Citroen accessory? Are they 15's?

Andrew

Thanks for that Citroenmad, more pics to follow now I know how

Hi Andrew, The wheels are just "off the shelf" aftermarket 15" wheels with citroen centre caps, they came with the car - actually, the photo I posted was taken on the day I bought the car, It looked nice and was totally unmollested but was VERY tired... lots has been done to it since - next on the list will be a complete respray in the same colour so's I can repair and lose all the little dings and scrapes, just got to get the money together first

Cheers, Colin.P

It does look nice Colin , is this the one you swapped the injection system on then?

D

This post has been edited by dean on February 06, 2009 11:51 pm

Hi Dean, yes, this is the one that got the Bosch EPIC to Bosch mechanical pump swap

I'll post some more pics later.

Colin.P