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Ok guys. had a mate round and he took one wheel off. 1st thing we noticed is that the castlenut split pin had broken? Now this is a 2 owner car and 2009 and i got it with 10800 on the clock. The back brake pads were about 5 mm. I decided to put the calliper back on and get some different type of spacers. there are some on ebay that are black. item number 170695613711. he put this in the description "PLEASE NOTE: THESE SPACERS HAVE A CENTRE BORE OF 72.6 ON THE WHEEL SIDE, THESE WILL ONLY FIT IF YOUR ALLOY WHEELS HAVE A 72.6 CENTRE BORE. PLEASE MEASURE " Can someone tell me if this will fit my bog standard 18" wheel car please as this 30 min job is a nightmare? 2. Do the back pads have a habit of wearing down so fast or did the previous owner enter the 24 hre le-mans. about 3 times? They must be a really soft pad to do that to a rear in what is now 12000 miles. As to replacement (tell I am new to this) I see red stuff, yellow stuff. Loads of stuff. What is the best stuff please for my car. Someone said Green stuff!! And last of all. Going back to the castlenut. Should there be a spacer between the nut and the splitpin? Reason I ask is that there is a hell of a long way to go 1" approx if the nut does come loose, as nothing to stop it! Any discounts on pads and spacers please!!!:) That lot should keep you amused or laughing ya socks off. Chris1 where are you??? Thanks in advance for your anticipated imput and humour over the next few days:)

Thanks for all your help again guys. I shall take the wheel off and have a look 2moro. Peter

No wonder he got rid of them. Strange how it says that there are nuts in the box. Maybe they ment Hazel Nuts! Is it something a layman like myself can do or shall I take it to a garage! Or does anyone live in Surrey and like some dosh! Peter

Unfortunately not ebay item 320766228182 thats if it will let you see them now i have them. The holes are straight no seats. there are 10 bolts that are M12 but the head is rounded off. Frustrating that i cant upload photo's without stressing. And Nuts are missing. It is the system 6 kit. Peter

Hi I have the car out side will all the wheel on and the nuts. It just says that the pro 6 system comes with nuts to hold them on. I have 10 longer wheel bolts with a rounded head. cant put pictures on here as it takes up to 3 days and i would like to tackle these tomorrow! Peter

Hi. I got a Eibach Pro-Spacer 20mm system 6 kit of ebay for the rear and the guy said they were new and never been on a car. Well they seem new and the bag of bolts are there but the description from Eibach is as follows:- System Description: Eibach System 6 Pro-Spacer kits contain 2 spacers with a pass through system and a centre collar. They fit onto the hub by locating the spacer over the wheel studs. The wheel is then attached by using wheel nuts which are supplied in this kit. See diagram below for more information about this type of wheel spacer system. There are no wheel nuts supplied just 10 wheel studs. Any idea as to get round this please as clearly I have been duped. I do not want the hassle of sending them back. just a quick no thrills solution as to wera I can obtain the quality of wheel nuts beffiting the system. As if I put steel nuts on won't they react with the alloy spacers? Regards Peter

I think I might just pass up. But thank guys. every time I post on here I realise how much i don't know ha ha:) Peter

Any way I can make the clutch softer? And no i dont mean put SpongeBob SquarePants under my foot. mind you if it shuts the little twerp up I might just do that:) Peter

It was a thought that obviously was doomed. My 350 is a 2009 with 12000 on the clock an was an exchange. As l have already spent out on mods and have Supercharger en route from states it is not commercialy viable. I shall just have to put up with it Cheers anyway Peter

Hi Does anyone know if possible if I can change my manual gearbox for an auto please. Reason I keep fracturing my left Footballers foot bone. Metewhatever and it will never heal so it can be quite painful. Just need to know whats involved apart from the obvious and if any traders here. The cost of the swap pls. Thanks Peter

Chris is bang on with the price if you have no discount for the laser Alignment. £75 for the machine and £15 a quarter + vat Got some one to ring them today on the pretense of having there wheels done:) Peter

Thanks for that. When the gaitor comes I shall take a look. Dammed annoying what! :) Peter

Correction Guys. RSR Coulsdon on the Ullswater estate. Think thats because we were slating WLMG Sough at the time :)No mistake on the price as we took a lexus 600 hybrid down and got charged the same. I got trade as my mate owns a company called Performance Sports Cars and they let me off the balancing and just charged for the Alignment. I get Trade myself as before I got to ill to work I restored leather car interiors (4releatherrestoration) more as a hobby as I never knew what to charge people. The only colour I will touch now is black and thats my own as they are simple to do. anyway going off topic. Not sure about the true cost of tyres but I paid £803 for the 2 x 275/40/18's and 2 x 240/45/18's no charge for balancing or taking a brand new tyre of another Ray. I give them a drink and I think if you look after people they will look after you. Unfortunately RSR have been taken over so the odd little exhaust rattle repair or quick pad change has had to stop. I even have a guy who used to work for RSR (Bruce) who if you give him enough work will charge £30 per wheel instead of going rate of £50 to smooth out those flying pavement attacks:) Really must read over my posts as i confuse myself let alone anyone else. Oh any cures for gear nob rattles? I got a carbon Nismo (£80) and at certain revs it sounds like a leaf flapping in the air vent! The trip to Preston wore the tyres in this weekend and well pleased. Peter

Full Geometary test and 4 wheels balanced on my Zed that I got from WLMG £75 from RSR Ullswater trading estate Slough. WLMG do not have the laser alignment equipment that RSR have. So I think they may contract the work out and lump a bit on for themselves. In this case a good deal. The ramp that lifts the car into the air and you put a checkered octangle looking checkered patterned paddle on each wheel, and the machine throws a laser at each wheel simulatiously and gives a colour code REd it's out of tolerance. Green it's in. Then it's just a matter of turning the nut on the camber arm left or right until the red turns to green and fine tune. I did do a post on it. WLMG put 2 new tyres on both the Zeds i got from them and both cars had not been balanced. I even watched the guy at Shepperton do my Nissan Pathfinder. He span the wheel. Put the weights on then instead of spinning the wheel again, he went to take it of to put it on the vehicle. I made him spin it again and it was 5 grams out of balance. I would only use them for Warranty work. PM if you want details. I am away until Monday midday but it would pay to travel. I do get trade discount, but I am sure if you tlet other members know where you are they will steer you on the right track. Incidently in Grimsby my mate runs a coach company. The drivers are always smacking the wheels and he gets charged £90 for every coach!! You are having the pee taken out of you at those prices. Regards Peter WLMG

Ok Folks it's all sorted now and a big thank you to everyone especially Chris`I as I actually understood what he was saying:) One the rear I have the Bridgestones. 275/40/18. And the front 245/40/18. £800 with discount. No traction problems and it really does feel "Planted" it thats the correct word to use. Anyway within 20 mins of putting them on I overtook a slow van on the A217 Banstead By-pass and drove straight over 2 lumps of 4x4 laying slapp bang in my path. I slowed but a double bump at 50mph had me fuming. Glad to say I was extreamly lucky as the only damage was a sprained right wrist and a dent in my ego. Anyway a nice 4 hre drive to Preston tomorrow should run them in. I hear there is a meet for Toyota MR2's and some other jap stuff at the Ace of Spades cafe Sunday week. My mate said he knows of a few Zeds that will attend so I am going along. Might see some of you there! later Peter

I think I should change my ID to NERDI !!

I knew it. As soon as I go and get a gear nob and handbrake someone comes along with something better. Sod Law!

Thanks for that. Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees

I am having same problem as you. No answer even though there is someone that makes them on here. Those other 2 you mentioned. I asked him about fitment and he wrote back saying i might need a mod made up for it to fit. So i am steering clear as it looks like a long job!! Peter

Hi. Do you make the chrome handbrake lever's please? If not can you direct me to someone who does as \u know someone on here does make them ! Thanks Peter

Thanks for that. All i know is this guy makes Nobs and brake levers:)

Thought I would try this thread as it concerns "Handbrakes" I was told by a couple of the members that there is a chap you makes gear and handbrake levers on this site? I did ask 3-4 times over the last week and apart from a few jokes, no one seems to be able to help, and I can't find him in the adverts. So if someone could actually help and link me to him I would be obliged. This is quite important as I can't stand the site of this rubbish bit of ugly black plastic car any longer. Thanks in advance. Peter

Ok guys a big thank you for all your input and I have ordered 245/40/18 for the front and 274/40/18 for the back. Thats got to be £1100? Must put the others I took off in the sale section as fronts only done 900 miles a rear 1500. Cheers Peter

There is nothing wrong with the oem on the car. I just wanted to widen the backs, to fill out the arches a bit so took the width up 3 sizes. As 275/40/18 only has a 0-07% different I am banking on them working. So I will get them changed the backs 1st and go for a run. Then if I can get away with the 245/45/18 OEM from the rear and put them on the front I will. But the difference between stock 225/45/18 and 245/45/18 is +2.73% Not sure how it's got into such a mess or why such a simple thing should be so complicated. When I got the Zed I joined 2 Forums. This and another. One of them had all the sizes and combinations for the Zed on a chart that a member had compiled. Ask me can I find it? Actually no don't ask. I will print of your input and arm myself with it when i go to the tyre place. Thats if it ever ever stops blooming raining? Even my Tropical fish are hiding!! Peter