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The Vauxhall Insignia aerial has a nice fat base (lines up spot on with oem base) and is considerably smaller, probably half the height, looks standard fit but doesn't look like you have a remote control car.

http://www.likwidart.com/ This chap may be able to help. Rob is the bloke you need.

HKS filter sold. My first noisy mod for the 350. Get in!

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Is the HKS filter available or is it now sold?

Because you can get into a 350z for cheap monies, and you can't go on holiday because of the balls exchange rate, people with a little cash to splash will treat themselves to a weekend car. I'd buy one as a weekend car! I even bought one as a daily driver! Other people will buy a 07/57/08/58 plate used car because they're so cheap, business will boooooom. But you can't buy a 07/57/08/58 plate normal family car (Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Mondeo etc) because fleet companies are keeping them longer. So you look at a sports car (350z), but people will command top money for new/nearly new 350z's as it's the last run and all that crap, so you buy an older one, demand goes up. Then we all sell for £10,000 profit, easy! But on the other hand, it may not. I love the new/used car market!

Very true. We had a chap with an EK9 Type R in, no-one believed me that we could sell it for £5000-£7000, until they looked on Autotrader. We offered him something like £1200 as to us, it's a 1998 Honda Civic. Yet I could walk out tomorrow and buy an EP3, facelift with Air Con for £6000 easy. I took pity on him when one of my salesmen told him the trade in price, I said to him "I know what you've got, you know what you've got, sell it privately". Genuinely awesome cars will always hold their value, look at Honda NSX's! Sounds like I should be on some VTEC forum...... Basically, 350z's are wicked, don't worry about it.

Just thought of an example actually. When I bought my car (05/55 GT with 30k) back in December. It Glass'd at £11,300 ish, CAP'd at £9,600 ish. I bought it for £10k, I can only assume the place I got it from (through the trade) had bought it in ages ago and were losing money hand over fist on it, hence took £10k for it, but even then, I paid over CAP for it. Via Parkers today, they say £13,600, the Network Q one is £12,600. Mmmm?

Parkers seem to be a mile off. http://www.networkq.co.uk/nq/buyers/valuecar.do That's more like it but even those may not be 100% accurate. When valuing a car at a garage/dealership, we value it online via Experian. Experian show us two figures, Glass' figures and CAP figures. CAP always hit cars harder when it comes to trade prices, upto £2000 in some cases, but there is usually £500-£1000. In a 'normal' car market, we'd value our cars by Glass' but we found CAP is where you need to be looking. Cars were at one point behind CAP which isn't good. We're finding now, CAP is about right, the market seems to be ever so slightly lifting.

That drawing looks like some technical stuff!

It's very surprising what you find working at a car dealership. You can't whack a find like that, it makes my week!

Very nice mate. I had a spin in an SLK at work a while ago, I quite fancy some open top motoring in my life down the line, I looked briefly at a SL55 AMG, very tempted when they get a little cheaper one day.

Perhaps a trip to a Renault dealers may suffice. I was in a Clio 182 at work the other day, in the driver door, in a sealed plastic bag, there was a luggage net. Mmmm I opened the bag, the sized looked about right. And it fits perfectly, nice and tight! I bet you that Renault one is cheap as chips.

Serves him right for paying £17k for a Vectra Bloody damn right mate! It wasn't new either. List is circa £26k, you can spec them past £30k which is the scary thing! To be fair, that is list, a no-one ever pays list for a car, especially for a Vauxhall.

There are some serious serious bargains to be had if you're in the trade though. My 350z GT. Black, late 05/55, 29k on the clock, retail example. Up for sale originally at circa £16k, dropped to just shy of £14k. I bought it 2 months ago for £10k dead on. It's definately the wrong time to sell your car but by miles, the best time to buy. On another note, we had a chap in who bought a brand new VXR8, paid list price, circa £34k (not from us). He had it for 6 months dead on, put 9k miles on it and his missis left him so he downsized to a Vectra VXR. We gave him £23k for it, this was even before the arse fell out of the car market. Then he bought the Vectra for 17k, then the arse fell out the car market, he had that for 2 months, traded it in elsewhere for 12k. Poor chap.

I can't find Miss England on the Miss World site. But.... I have got off with Miss England 2008 once or twice. To be fair, we're old school friends and she was in my tent. Odd thing is, never found her amazingly attractive, lovely girl though. Still, high five for celebrity factor!

I'm in charge of the advertising/marketing at the Vauxhall Main Dealer I work for. I must be doing ok as for new car sales, we're the number 1 in the country for an independant dealership and number 3 including groups. I sort out our website, photograph cars, advertise cars, contant meetings with Autotrader with the never ending battles to stop them from screwing us over! It's not all fun fun fun. I think we had 120% of our 1st quarter target by mid January, and the salesmen could certainly be pulling their fingers out and making more sales! All in all, we're doing surprisingly well for the car market, and for a place that sells Vauxhalls!

Lovely watches! I'm in love with Breitling though. Buying a Breitling watch ended my last relationship basically, well it sparked off 'the talk'. Two days later they rang me up telling me that my bank had refused the order which was very odd to me and did I want to re-order. I said no. I'll stick with my Dreyfuss & Co. for the time being.

Well when it snowed the other week, I borrowed a Landcruiser at work, awesome fun this green laning! I took my car to work, someone said it's not that bad snow, I reckoned I'd be alright if I could get to a main road that had been driven on constantly....I couldn't.. Dad said as he rescued me from the cold "Perhaps you should think about getting rid of that thing and get a banger to drive to work and back" What the name of all that's holy would I want to do that for? That's it people, you must drive 4x4's because it's snowed for 5 days so far. 300 wet ones and 60 dry ones is not enough proof for Dad to have a "silly" car. Idiot.

I wanted a VX220 Turbo, couldn't find a nice one in 4 months Saw a 350z, they hadn't even crossed my mind, just always thought they were out of my price range, always loved them though. I thought "Ello....." My pro's and con's went like this; VX - Cheap parts and servicing (I work at a Vauxhall dealership) Spastically fast Looks very sexy Genuinely incredible to drive No traction control so I will have to pay attention Heaters are reportedly crap Ice on the inside of your windscreen Full leather You can take the roof off Remap gives good gains Engine sounds a bit pants really with an exhaust Repair work is a little expensive, seem to be damaged easily and easily written off It would have been my daily driver, but I'm a single 23 year old who's 5'8 and I'm fairly hardcore when it comes to sports cars, I'm quite happy with a hard ride (cheeky) and I'm not bothered about boot space etc. As long as the driving of the car is top notch, I'm happy. 350z; Looks gorgeous Sounds gorgeous Alright, not spastically fast like the above but she pulls very well Full heated leather 6 disc CD changer!!! Remote central locking The screens never seem to freeze over?!? Let alone on the inside Heater works Climate Control Cruise Control Bluetooth Traction control for those times every once in a while when you're not quite paying attention People won't drive into it in a car park thinking it's an empty space as it's obsured by a Ford Focus. It's Jap!!!! My first car was a Celica GT so I was very glad to stay Jap. I bought the 350z naturally, never looked back. Very glad I didn't buy the VX as it will have been a real struggle through our winter. It will have been brilliant in the summer, but the 350z is still fine in winter (snow excluding) and still as exciting in the summer. Roll on summer!

Nice one mate. Thanks for that. Do you know if it covers the holes in the bootlid? I've not taken the badge off so I don't know where abouts the holes are.

My keys are under my pillow as always!

Well to be fair, I'm exaggerating, it's outside some chaps house, I knocked on the door and asked him if he minded me leaving my car there, he sympathised and pointed at his MR2 Turbo But still it's not on my drive safely so I'm feeling a little sorry for myself

Well my car is now left parked 6 miles from my house, stuck on the slightest of inclines trying to get home from work after this evenings snow in Leicestershire. I was really really struggling. I found pulling off the tricky part. The odd thing was, booting it, opposite lock and shouting was working for me, just not when I got stuck. It was the perfect end to just one of those bloody days! I was at one point, on full opposite lock going in a straight line. I soon developed a little knack, boot it in first (opposite lock required), pop her in second, booting again (opposite lock required), ease off getting her straight, pop your traction control on and she'll keep you reet. Everytime I got some momentum going, I had to stop for parked cars. My only little silver lining of the day is probably I looked like a driving god drifting down the road. Still bloody crap though

As he first pulls of it sounds a little cack, but as goes by the camera and down the hill just round the corner, that sound is what I want. I heard a Bassani on a VQ35HR, that sounded ideal.