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  1. JetSet

    Wheel referb.

    Gold or Standard . Black just doesn't suit a GM car IMHO, Red too extreme and white too cheap looking Pete
  2. Either of those options should be O.K. How much negative equity is there on the car? Pete
  3. Welcome . It seems that the CD for the earlier 350Z is quite rare, I've been unable to unearth one. However there are several SatNav disk specialist companies that might be able to help you out, but you'll need to contact them first. The one below charges around £40 for a disk.....BTW, Nissan charge £495 for the DVD http://www.satnav-updates.com/ Pete
  4. Welcome to the forum I personally like the Red ones. Hmm, tricky. He needs to clear the finance and show you the documentation before you hand over any money. You should speak to the seller and see what he proposes first though. Pete
  5. My days of grubbing around under cars are well over Pete
  6. Yeah, we went down the Admiral route this year. The policy for 3 cars, 2 Zed's and a Clio actually worked out slightly more expensive than staying with the existing insurance, all 3 were with different companies. So why did I change, well the policy on The Clio only covered my daughter, aged 22 for 90 days a year, this one covers her for the entire year. In fact the Clio worked out at £600 with my 4 years NCB , the Zed's roughly £500 each with max NCB. Pete
  7. Yeah, they replaced the entire driveshaft, so effectively £130 for a ring . Seems to be a common problem with Clio's, I've spoken to someone else who also had to have the entire assembly replaced. Pete
  8. Wow, just 9 crimes in my area and 5 of those were at the 24 hour Shell/McDonalds complex on The A55. just one burglary and zero drug offences. Pete
  9. I sold my entire collection of "Autosport" on EBay, only missing 3 from 1971 through to 1992. I also had a few from 1968-72. Put them on EBay expecting or hoping to get £25 for the lot of them. In the end 2 guys had a bidding frenzy and I finished up getting £150 . Guy drove down from Nottingham to pick them up, they weighed an absolute ton. Sad to let them go but they were taking up a crazy amount of space. When I moved house in 1978 I made a bonfire with all the other magazines I'd collected over the years, they included MotorSport (monthly), Autocar and Motor and gave away the 1,000 or so football programs that I had Pete
  10. JetSet

    Headlights

    I quite often drive Caroline's 08 Roadster at night and the improvement is fairly modest TBH, but they do look a lot better Pete
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  12. viewtopic.php?f=9&t=39575&start=105 Looking at that list from September 2010 you can see that only a very small number of members 350 Zeds had under 10k on the clock and not that many with less than 20k. Probably very few left with less than 20k now. Pete
  13. 2 or 3 times for fog on the front in 40 years, back ones maybe 20 times. However I've also used them in falling snow a few times and the back ones frequently in heavy rain. Got pulled in the 70's for having the ones I'd fitted switched on when it wasn't foggy or snowing . Just too many drivers have them switched on all the time for the police to do anything about it nowadays I guess . Pete
  14. Happy birthday from me and Caroline Pete
  15. Protected no claims maybe? Pete
  16. +1, what a crazy world we live in. Try and adopt a child and you face nothing less than The Spanish Inquisition, endless checks, visits, interviews . Knock out 6 or more kids yourself..no problem . Pete
  17. BT07 ***? Saw that one near Sainsburys Chester on Tuesday and I'm pretty sure I've seen it in Waverton too. S. No, Just BT XX, that's right, a 4 digit registration number (and the XX part of the reg was a number below 20 ). Pete
  18. Yeah, just looked at the bill and it was actually £130 for the part, he told me that sometimes they can be repaired but this one was completely rusted through. Still, he passed my 350Z with no advisories Pete
  19. 1 No Sunroof on the Authentique 3 Yeah, broke one of them too, right at the bottom it was snapped off, that was spotted at a previous service. 5 Engine is remarkably smooth, starts first time even after it stands for 2 or 3 weeks, will check that ECU shroud in the morning, thanks. This wasn't the car I would have chosen as a second car, I reluctantly bought it from my daughter who needed the money to complete her University course....She is supposed to be buying it back from me at no doubt a much reduced price , she completes her Master degree next month and with a bit of luck will stop bleeding me dry Pete
  20. http://www.motyourcar.co.uk/ Just up the road from me. 1.2 Authentique It was a full service, oil plus brake and clutch fluid and whatever else they do. The ABS problem was down to the cog rusting away, Renault don't sell that part, you have to buy the complete drive shaft. Thanks for the info. Car had 14k when I bought it, previous owners were Bank of America and a district Midwife. I'm very light on the brakes, the distance I leave to the vehicle in front is legendary, but I guess I've driven it about 10k, my daughter about 3k and Caroline around 1k...I also loaned it to my ex wife who drove it to Cardiff and back, she breaks every car she gets Pete
  21. Have owned this for 5 years (its a 54 reg) and its sailed through the MOT every year with no advisories. This year however its cost me £700, including a service, to get it through. I knew there was an ABS fault but the part for that alone cost £180, then the handbrake needed adjusting, track rod ends had gone, the suspension needed new bushes, there were also some "boots" , whatever they are that needed replacing. Advisories on the passenger seat belt, not returning quickly enough and pitted disks and apparently only another 3k of brake pads left means that its becoming rather expensive to keep Wouldn't mind, but it only has 28k on the clock so it has to go Pete
  22. Well, I saw the pics before they were removed and have to say that apart from the huge squarish side skirts and the rather weird headlights it actually looked quite good. . Pete
  23. As above, the first one was a GM coupe on a local registration DE 55xxx, the second one a black roadster on a very expensive looking private plate BT xx. Pete
  24. Hmm, are you very tall?, he's listed at 1.78m (5.10) about average...he is pretty slim though, 71kgs. Many years ago I was in Rhyl and James Hunt's World Championship Mclaren was on display in a Texaco station. Didn't have my camera but cheekily asked if I could sit in it . Just about squeezed into it, How on earth 1.85m Hunt managed to drive this is beyond me, he must have had very short legs and arms Pete
  25. It's all a matter of opinion. I reckon they look best unpainted on Blade Silver and GM, on all the others then painted looks better Pete
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