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Presumably a hose kit may cost more if its replacing coolant hoses as you may loose some coolant and have to re fill it etc.

Jesus christ.

Sealey are good, ive a few of their tools at home. Ive a big compressor and a shed load of air tools. My air impact wrench is a Metabo one. Had it a while now and still does the job. I wouldnt use it for alloy wheels mind, but use it for most other things.

Welcome!!!

Ive been using my missus`s car this week and hers was showing -5 when I got into it at 8.30 this morning! eeeek!

Yep, my mates dad used to always buy that. He`d buy an old banger with about a weeks MOT left on it, then tax it for 12 months. He`d run it until the tax ran out or the car fell appart - which ever happened sooner. Then he`d scrap it and do the same again!

Thats what I figure. It looks very black / white in that interior shot. I guess people thought the Orange was a bit more funky?

Yep these are mega rare. Im not sure why. When you opted for the GT pack, which gave you heated electric leather seats you had the option of either the Alezan Orange or the Frost Grey for an extra £600 on top of the price of the GT pack. For some reason noone seemed to ever want the Frost Grey ones. They all went for the Alezan Orange. Maybe the Frost Grey just looks really bad in real life?!

Welcome to the forum. I think google will be your friend with regards to the sat nav disc. Unfortunately ive the dvd version in my car, else I might have been able to help you out.

Welcome! I too moved from a golf to a zed. You`ll notice the build quality isnt quite the same, but the zed is a cracking car. 350 or 370? Well everyone is saying the 370 is quicker, but it depends upon which version of the 350 you go for. If you get the 313 model like mine, there is very little in it in terms of performance. I back to back tested mine against a 370z over a couple of days an actually preferred mine. But as with anythings its down to personal preference. 350`s will obviously be cheaper as they have been out longer. You can get an ancient one for hardly anything these days. Newer 07 onwards 313 models will be more expensive and a bit rarer. When I did a search a couple of weeks back they were as rare as z4m`s on garage forecourts. You`ll have more power than the older 350`s and have the newer facelift changes, but road tax will cost you more. Good luck!

Welcome! Cheap insurance at 21?!! You must live in the middle of nowhere! As a side note, a bloke down the road from me has the numberplate "GINGE" on his Audi!

Filled the juke up yesterday and it worked out at 54quid for 380miles. Which when I worked it out comes to a disappointing 48mpg, even though the trip computer optimistically said it was 54mpg. I know trip computers very often arnt accurate, but thats a huge difference!!! Most of it was motorway driving too. Will keep an eye on it!

Yeah, but factor in the OP may have had to go out and buy the tools, then waste 30mins to an hour of his own time... that £127 ends up looking not too bad!

I actually found my mums WRX hawkeye more exciting to drive than my Z Thats because you're a chav innit bruv. Just look at the F&F car you have now A few of my mates have scoobies. One only cost less than 2 grand and has about 300bhp. The other has about 500bhp and cost about the same and his mates one has 747bhp (i think that was the figure on the rolling road). 30->130 in a shade over 6 seconds.

Welcome!!!

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 Yeah, 20->30min job for us, but the OP probably didnt fancy doing it himself. Also, depending upon the garage, they may not realise you can just replace the reluctor ring, and therefore have actually done the whole drive shaft.

Does it work on diesels? Not convinced the missus would go for it unfortunately.

Jayne keeps saying no when I suggest the juke! Was the other way around for us. I wanted her to go for the Citreon DS3 as I much prefered the way it drove. It was more sporty, same sort of spec, more room for rear passengers and easier to drive / park. But, the missus preferred the Juke. I think she liked the more higher up driving position, but now is really struggling to park it. We had to spent a few hours Sunday in the local supermarket car park letting her practice her parking and she still cant drive forward into spaces properly. Sigh!

Christ some big variances in price there. Still I think the sky quote seems reasonable for what you have.

Exige eh?! Always wanted one of those. Clio wise, ive a 220bhp Renault 5 GT Turbo as well as my zed. They are totally different kettle of fishes. Better in some ways, not as good in others.

Welcome!!! Im not too far from you - northampton. So sometimes am about that way. Welcome to zed world!!

Will do, in the meantime, if you have any questions, dont hesitate to ask me.

Thats not bad at all. I seriously considered the Subaru when I was looking at zeds as a few of my mates have them and they have tuned them up to serious power for peanuts. £8k isnt bad, thats half what my zed cost. The reason I decided against it was I wanted a 2 door roadster, and not a 4 door family car. Also my missus wouldnt let me have one - she says they are too chavy! They are still on my list and when I sell the zed I still may get one. Hopefully i`ll be able to get some change left over in order to modify it a bit.

Well the missus needed a new car for her work as she has been doing a lot of miles, so after much deliberation and trawling around the dealers she decided upon the Nissan Juke. Looking at the various trim levels we decided on the 1.5Dci Avanta with the optional premium pack with nissan connect. Colour wise, black with the privacy windows and red interior trim. Brand spanking new the car came in at exactly the same price as my 5 year old 350z was last year. £16,500. The car does look nice in black, as it has black trim which goes around the wheel arches and below the bumpers, so if you have any other colour, then this black trim really stands out. With a black car it all blends in. The spec is pretty good. You get the sports alloys, climate control, cruise control, speed limiter, touch screen sat nav, bluetooth integration with up to 4 or 5 mobile phones with build in hands free and audio streaming from your phone. You get various drive modes which basically change the steering and throttle response, and even get a reversing camera. Driving the car is easy enough. The car looks high up and feels like a big car to drive. You cant really see the end or back of the car, nor the sides. So when your driving you constantly feel like you are virtually on the left hand road markings and yet when you look you are probably 2 feet away. Parking is easy enough although not being able to see the end of the bonnet means you need to swing out a bit more before driving into spaces. I just cant get used to the reversing camera however - something not right about looking forward whilst driving backwards! The engine is only a 1.5, but miles more powerful than our old 307 2.0 HDI shed which its replacing. The turbos kick in instantly but seem to run out of wind a lot earlier. Like most cars you get 6 gears, and cruising at motorway speeds is nice and quiet enough. The steering wheel feels great, really plush with all the cruise/speed limiter/radio & bluetooth phone dialing controls built into it. Pretty much the same wheel I think as the 370z I drove last year. Handling wise, the car was surprisingly good. I was expecting huge amounts of body roll, but it has none, or very little. The seats dont offer the same amount of support as my zeds, but are comfortable enough and hold you as much as you`ll need. The interior is nice and modern looking, everything is in the right place. The only gripe ive noticed is that to change the info on the trip computer you press the button near the speedo, which means its hard to do whilst your driving along. Id have prefered a button on the end of one of the stalks rather than having to put my hand through the steering wheel to press the button. Also, when you switch on cruise, the trip display changes to show you the mph you have set the cruise at, and disables being able to view the other info. Bit pointless if you ask me as you can see what speed you have set on the normal speedo - so why need two? The rest of the interior is practical enough - 2 massive cup holders near the hand brake, electric windows all around. The back & rear sides are tinted which looks good on the black car. The boot is a let down. Can fit like 2 ruck sacks in it. But then if you remove the board at the bottom you get a pull out tool tray thing which is empty bar a towing hook and a can of air for the tyres. Remove that, and you get another foot of boot space which gives it a reasonable capacity. Really Nissan should have thought about that a bit better and redesigned the boot area as it all seems a waste of space. I guess the reason being is that on these you do not get a spare tyre as stock - you have to pay extra for one. So they have this space in the boot sitting empty incase someone buys a spare tyre. All in all after week 1 we have done 500miles in it, averaging 53.4mpg. The first fill up was a bit of a shock mind you. We are used to putting 80quid in the zed and 80quid in the 307 at a time, so when this started clicking full at about 45quid we were supprised! Managed to squeeze 50quids worth in from empty though. Will see how the car loosens up and fairs over the next few weeks. The missus does about 35k a year, so it will get some serious use.