NeilMH

If, with their help, I get through the next 74,000 miles as well as you have done Mr SMD, I will be very happy. Sometime I might even get something modified - I am plan heavy but cash light at present!

Right .... now I'm back home I can give a proper answer - not a smartphone without my glasses on one! The symptoms were: 1. When the roof appeared to have successfully opened and the roof compartment appeared to be successfully closed the roof dash light dash remained on (this would happen from time to time). 2. When closing the roof would go through approx 3/4 of the closing procedure then stop with the back part of the roof (with the rear window in it - at 90 degrees to the ground - affectively upside down). 3. Occasionally it would work! 4. It appeared at one stage that the reason it wasn't shutting was because the passenger side headrest appeared to be catching against the lower part of the roof as the seat moved - this was a red herring. The part was the the NS storage catch switch - which was sticking. Hope this helps. I am not convinced that I would have found this out anything like as quickly as they did (or at all).

It was the switch on the nearside under the roof compartment that identifies if the compartment has shut properly or not.

I read your previous postings martinmac - hence I was a bit apprehensive when the roof wouldn't close!

My grateful thanks to Scott and Charlie at Abbey. The reason I am so pleased is: 1. Roof had been playing up from time to time but chose to pack up once the weather deteriorated and I hadn't got a garage. 2. Abbey agreed to take it immediately to get it under cover. 3. Brainpower rather than the contents of my wallet were used to solve the problem - they listened to the various symptoms I had noticed - repeated testing/analysis to establish a pattern - narrowed down the problem - examined the faulty component and its mounting in detail rather than binning it - found a way round the issue by repositioning and securing the faulty item 4. The result of this was just 2 hours labour to pay for (not the replacement of umpteen switches or sensors) 5. Plus....the roof works 6. Plus friendly service, lifts to and from station. Thanks once again to Abbey Motorsport.

+6 Abbey

Good news = winter wheels and tyres on. Bad News = drove off with locking wheel nut key still on wheel = nowhere to be found. Good News 1. Have the piece of paper with the original key code on it. Good News 2. Kevin at Ancaster South Croydon a) finds key from code double checks with one of their master keys c) has one in stock. Good News 3. £19 and 30 mins later - back in business. Ordered a back up one as well. Thank you Kevin. Thought I would post on here just in case someone else has this problem.

Halfords used to sell oil pumps for about £12. I have used one to get oil out of a Caterham Gearbox successfully.

Thanks Dblock. Makes sense to me, so I'll try that. They seem too soft all round for a setting of 32psi.

I have 17" wheels with 50 profile tyres for the winter. I searched on here and various other places for pressures. They all seemed to say 35 ie. the same as 45 18s. However I then looked at my cd manual (usa version) and that appears to say pressures of 32. Does anyone know which is right (or best).

PM sent. Neil

I can certainly recommend abbey: 1. I got fed up with doing my own servicing after too much time crawling under everything from a 2cv to a caterham 2. They are nice people to do business with 3. I think the significance of a dealer stamp diminishes as time passes. 4. They can provide solutions which the nissan dealers can't. They have already saved me money/provided superior solutions to 3 common 350z issues.

Sounds brilliant. My shopping list is getting bigger (subject to house move and other budget related stuff going according to plan)....maybe next year..... plus too busy for now. I find your feedback on your various acquisitions very useful.

Great Mini. Road tax for Z's pre the 2006 cut off date is around £245 - I think it's £400 or so on later cars.

Great car.

Received mine this morning - very pleased. Thank you very much for doing this for such a good cause.

Pop charger purely for the noise. For performance (low cost option) I would go for the standard airbox with performance filter (cosworth or similar).

and good luck with the search.

If you look directly across the engine bay laterally, the highest part of the cone should be about the same height as the crease in the black engine cover, just ahead of the Nissan badge. I would not expect the cone itself to be much higher than that. The flexible rubber bit on the heat shield will, of course, be higher. The underside of the cone is likely to be very near to two sections of the wiring loom but both are protected by robust sheathing so that should not be an issue.

Plus we both have normal weekday cars ... so 95% weekend use only.

how on earth do you work out whos turn it is? +elfman, mattbowey etc 90% of the time its an early trip out to an event - I drive one way, him the other. I allocate alternate weeks at the beginning of the year - but no big deal if someone wants it on their off week - never been an issue. Eg he wants to take his wife away for a dirty weekend - no issue and vice versa. Lower cost equals lower risk of marital discord. Has worked like this for years - 2 Caterhams, 1 Elise and now this. Agreement signed re death or destruction but not needed yet!