JetSet

I collect all the little bags of Silica gel that seem to come with everything these days and place them in strategic places in the car. I remove them once a week and dry them on a radiator. I don't seem to suffer much from fogging in the Zed, Renault Clio is much worse as is Caroline's Roadster, which is to be expected. People who wipe their inside windows with their hands or a rag/glove to remove moisture make the situation much worse, just gives the moisture a better purchase on the glass. The front screen also accrues fine dust very quickly from the blower and needs to be cleaned properly every couple of months ,I use an IPA-Water solution, but there are several commercial products available. Pete

Looks great Pete

Welcome Pete

Welcome Pete

Yeah, 3mpg sounds about right as does the 7bhp loss. The percentage loss of mpg looks to be pretty constant over a range of cars. Power loss is much more obvious in cars with 60 or so bhp, rented a small Suzuki Swift? in Arizona and had to turn A/C off up a lot of hills as 60 ton trucks started passing me . On some cars A/C won't come on if the outside temp is less than 3 centigrade to prevent damage from icing, don't know if the Zed has this feature though . Pete

55 Reg'd cars and earlier should all be in the cheaper tax bracket, a (very) small number of 06 reg'd cars are also in this band, those registered before March 26th 2006 I think. Pete

Correct . Tyre pressure drops a couple of PSI, increasing resistance. Oil is thicker too, takes longer to get to operating temperature. On top of that, cold air is denser than warm air, so fuel burns faster... Pete

A very common affliction that one Great review, sums up my feelings pefectly Pete

That was on a Skyline apparently. The very similar N1SMO is owned by Andy Middlehurst, Nissan Motorsport dealer, no info on the car though. Pete

Without going into the rights and wrongs of using V-Power there is no way that any petrol should be cloudy or hazy. There are very strict standards applying to fuel and a batch of hazy petrol would be rejected straight away. Cloudiness would mainly be caused by small globules of water from steam cleaning a tank without drying it out properly but there are other reasons, for example, rust in a holding tank, contamination from a different product, dirty hoses, etc. This kind of thing was pretty common in the 70's, should have been cleared up by now though. Pete

You can also add me! 1. Mitch - 2 rear for roadster please 2. un1eash 3. BACON - Full set please 4. Demolition49 - Full Set 5. captain (all lower case - full set please) 6. Chris`I (side windows) 7. introspect - 2 small ones (Lowercase please) 8. CharlesB - full set please 9. Demolition49 - ANOTHER full set please 10.GLR (like this not my username) in blue?? Please (full set) 11. DoogyRev (another full set please in Silver) 12. Sparky, full set please. (as close to sunset colour as possible) 13. Millzzz (Side windows, internal white please ) 14. gort (rear only)blue 15. ChrisS (full set orange) 16. Cholula (side windows) (and if colour choice available, prefer silver, but happy with whatever) 17. JetSet, full set in Silver Thanks

Any chance of getting an estimate from somewhere else? Pete

Quite a few on here have come from The Civic Type R so you should get loads of feedback and comparisons. Welcome to the forum . Pete

Welcome onboard, you're gonna love it here Pete

Yeah, I've got one. PM Sent! Pete

Yeah, profit margins on 95 octane are very tight, they make a good profit on Super though. Pete

I'm just about to change all 4 tyres, 3 of them still have 3-5mms but they have started to crack having been on the car from new, 2006. This only came to light when ChrisS fitted some spacers for me so if you're a low mileage user like me its worth inspecting inside the tread pattern. The 4th tyre is fine being a replacement for an unrepairable puncture only 3k ago. I'm going for the same tyre all round, Falkens, as I believe its the best and safest way to approach it (and cheaper than the OEM tyres anyway). It does leave me with one perfectly good tyre but I'm sure I can find a new home for it . Pete

O.K, lets take the USA, in many, in fact most places 91 Octane is the highest you can get and 93 seems to be the highest available anywhere. Now because the Americans use a slightly different way to calculate their Octane rating (they would wouldn't they ) which means that 91 in the US is the same as 94/95 here and 93 works out to 97/98. The simple way to work out octane ratings is to use reference benchmark materials, for example 100 Octane would be 100% Iso-Octane, 95 Octane would be 95% Iso-Octane and 5% Hexane, simple really. Anyway, I digress, to get higher octane ratings used to be easy and cost effective, you would just add TEL , Tetra Ethyl Lead and this boosted the octane rating as TEL is a very good anti knock agent. However, the law changed and TEL was considered to be too dangerous to human health so Oil companies had to come up with something else. I worked for a company that came up with a solution that not only increased the Octane rating but helped to make the engine run a tiny bit better. Big profits involved here for what are quite small amounts of additives. Companies that we sold the additive packages to, Shell, Esso, Mobile,etc also make big money from selling these on to you and me. The Americans just aren't interested in paying more for fuel, they think $2.50 is outrageous, so very little of the Octane booster is sold over there. So, is it worth the extra cash to put the super dooper fuel in? Well, you can't get it in The States and the majority of Zed owners seem happy with 94/95 Octane fuel. From some of the engine tests run with the booster, engine life was certainly extended but who wants to keep their car for 180k miles? My advice would be if you are running on the track, put it in, for everyday use, don't bother, you're just contributing to the already vast coffers of the Oil companies. Here's a typical American pump BTW. Pete

Yeah, it was in South Korea and he was peeved that the woman in the lift didn't stop the lift door from closing seeing as he was disabled. He only fell about 20 feet, enough to kill him though. Very sad, but he must have realized the consequences of his actions. Pete

A lower profile tyre will throw your speedo out and it'll increase your mileage reading, If I've done my sums right by about 11% by going from a 45 to a 40. Pete

Welcome, nice colour . Do you have any wheels on the front? Pete

Welcome . Pete

Very nice, great colour too . Pete

Back in the day..... Pete

First off, Welcome to the forum Yeah, that was me, didn't really catch your plate though, daydreaming as usual, eyes are rubbish, etc. Didn't know there was another Zed in the Buckley area, car looks very nice . Pete