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This thread makes me want to sell my Zed, after driving it to Southampton on the weekend and glancing down to notice I'm nearly doing 100 is a bit worrying, at those speeds you feel it in a normal car and would be going some to get there but the Zed breezes up that speed! And will someone please tell me, what is the deal with the bloody 50mph stretch on the M4 just outside Cardiff. It's not only annoying but dangerous, people bunch up and brake all the time!

You can either go in through the wheel arches to get to them or take the front bumper off and remove headlight completely - this is the more time consuming but i find it easier. Arch liners is my preffered method, can have them replaced in 5mins Nice one guys might have to give it a go if I ever get mine back lol

If Nissan had agreed to putting a new gearbox in in the first place then none of this would be happening. I just didn't expect to buy into a 2 and a half year old car that is riddled with problems. I'm really thinking about how I'm going to go about this one now. To be honest where I am right now with it I would have rather never taken it to Nissan and complained on the problem, from a drive-ability point of view the car is worse off now than it was 2 months ago. They have created a huge headache, not just for me but for themselves. They are quite simply incapable of carrying out mechanical work on the car. It is a shambles for a car manufacturer not to be able to do their job and an utter insult to hand a car back to a customer after they say they have tested it and assembled it to the best of their ability. Not too sure where to take it with the car now.

I would dread to be the person who calls me up. I am fuming. It grinded from 4th to 5th gear when they gave it back the first time and now it grinds from 5th to 6th. What the hell are they playing at? Shifting the problem from one gear to the next. To say I am angry is an understatement. I think unfortunately this might be the last straw, the car seems to have lost all of it's magic for me and has become the biggest disappointment ever. I am on the verge of getting shot of it now

Martin, I have to say I gave up phoning Nissan's CS, the one time I logged the case they were so useless I thought I'd go face to face with a dealer. Anyways, it's Round 2 for Nissan now, the car is back quite a bit ahead of schedule to be honest. I have not driven the car yet, the old man had to pick it up for me but he reports it seems fine. I will be reserving my judgement until I've driven it. Might take it to Southampton tomorrow so we'll see how it performs then. We did also get a result regarding our disatisfaction regarding the way the whole situation has been handled. The car came back with a letter stating that the next service will be paid for by Nissan, lucky me it's the P3 up next as well!

That's a point, how do you change the side light bulbs? Hate the colour of the side light bulbs.

Pics of the lowering please? I'm sorry it might seem like a pedantic question but I could be very interested if I see pics of them fitted to the car, thanks.

I can confirm the car stinks. Finance is a shambles.

hahaha! It is funny, but sad at the same time. He will probably be dead by 20.

PM me the reg number. I will find everything out for you, put your mind at rest...

Come on Wales! Oh wait...

Makes you sick, my tax pays for war. Can I opt out? I doubt anything will happen if N Korea don't have oil, after all wasn't Osama just an excuse to wage war and gain control of oil fields.

un1eash said it perfectly, he is right.

Why do you have to put these carbon goodies up? I'm very very tempted!

Tax: Paid up front but (435/12 = £36.25), Insurance: Paid up front (800/12 = £66.66), MOT: Never had one, Petrol: £150/month So £252.91, and it's technically my second car, ouch!

+1000000000 Jaguar and Aston too Feel for you mate Ironically my old man has had issues with both of these manufacturers. Bad body work and components failing! I despair with these manufacturers. Just wait for the letter Nissan will be receiving!

I'm sorry but I really need to rant on this and to let others know about the terrible, sometimes non-existant customer service that Nissan 'offer'. If anyone has read my thread in the Warranty Issues section of the forum (viewtopic.php?f=28&t=29478) then you might get the jist of my long running warranty battle with Nissan. Basically in short, back in November I booked the car into Nissan for a check up, and I specifcally asked them to have a look at the gearbox. Fine, the Nissan garage looked at it and immediately rang me telling me that they'd spoken to Nissan UK and asked for a new gearbox. Nissan UK refused until further investigation work was carried out, at my cost. I refused as the car had 15.5k miles on it. So I took the car away and did some work myself. I got an Engineers report done on the car, at my cost and took the car into Nissan again at the start of April armed with my report. The report had the desired effect, they promptly removed the gearbox and checked it. The layshaft along with other components were found to be faulty. To my joy they offered to rectify the problem under warranty as they should have back in November. The Nissan garage then went to Nissan UK requesting a new gearbox, Nissan UK refused once again but instead said they would provide the parts to rebuild it, anyway there was a 6 week wait on a new gearbox (I wonder why?). 3-4 weeks passed and I got my car back. I was so happy, I started it up, the whining noise had gone. I was ready to love my car again that was short lived until I drove it, realised 1st to 2nd gear was a little stiff and the syncros grinded every single time from 4th to 5th gear. My disappointment couldn't be measured. But still it went back to Nissan. 1 week passed and I'd heard nothing. I tried to call the garage but typically, as I have everytime I've rung them I was confronted with a robot answer phone. Then a few days later I was left an answerphone message stating that another component had been found faulty and was on back order with no known date. I tried to call them back and got nothing, just an answer phone. Meanwhile I have been unable to go to the Nissan garage as I work 5 days a week and they're shut by the time I finish work so my old man has been doing what I can't do, seeing them face to face. I just got off the phone to him while he was down at the dealers and he said "It's bad news", the part has now turned into parts and those parts are on back order until late June. So what he's now trying to find is what parts they changed in the first place, as they stated they replaced all the internal components of the gearbox and to find out what the hell they are changing this time round. This could have been over a long time ago, this could have been sorted when I first took the car down there by listening to their customer and to their authorised dealer, it needed a new gearbox there should have been no dispute from Nissans point of view. Nissan UK might try fob me off, but there's one problem. I'm not a fool and I can see through their complete and utter bullsh!t excuse of a company and customer service. Maybe I should remind myself, they're only popular through making Micra's and lacklustre family saloons. I'm so very close to selling it and never going back to a Nissan as I feel I have been treated so badly. But is it all really worth this effort for someone else to enjoy all my hard work once the car has been put right?

Well I'm only now learning the true extent of my problems with Nissan and to say I'm fuming is an understatement. Quite simply put they're a tight arse company who really couldn't care less about their customers once they have snatched your money and run (I know, I know, all car companies are like this) and their customer service at the dealers leaves a lot to be desired. In short, if I ever get my car back, which is now looking unlikely until the end of June, and it's not right, it's gone. I'm so very tempted to sell it regardless because I resent dealing with a company that has no customer values. This has easily been one of the most disappointing cars I have ever owned, and it's not because the car's no fun, it is, it's simply because Nissan are sh!t. I believe if they had done the work they should have in the first place (replace my gearbox with a new one) then I would have the car back by now and not contemplating selling up.

He was in Aya Napa so i got it off his mate, its his name on the logbook as previous owner though. The videos awfull huh These are better songs though I really like his new song I'm partial to a bit of hiphop/rap now an then. But he's absolute mince. His lyrics sound like they have been written by a toddler. It's all about the beats with Skepta! Lyrics are never up to par.

Brilliant offer there. If I had my car I would snap this up! I know my bro would definitely be up for this but his suspension needs to be setup correctly.

I'd have a club sticker, I already have my name on my car allbeit a simplified version on the numberplate so I don't really want my name on it

I never bother personally. That said I rarely see another Zed on the road.

Tell me about it mate. To be honest Nissan have really left me in the dark with this one. Very poor customer service and an update I received yesterday was really the final straw in my opinion. I could voice my opinion on their customer service and idea of warranty but I think some of the language might be over the top. Anyway they can't tell me when my car will be back as the part they should have fitted in the first place is on back order with no known delivery date. Absolute crap!

Paid 16k for my 313 last October and it had 15k miles on it. Not a GT, odd spec, but not having a GT never bothered me, I'm not a fan of electric seats or cruise control

Alright don't rub it in