rabbitstew

I think tax & insurance should all be linked. In my case, for example, i have 2 cars and 2 motorcycles which im currently using. So all 4 of my vehicles are taxed, mot`d and insured. I can only use one at once, so why do I have to pay tax on my other vehicles when im not causing any more wear & tear on the roads? Likewise with insurance, I can only drive one car at once, so really the insurance should be calculated on the highest risk vehicle (performance/risk/value) and anything lower risk should be free.

Nice car. Ive been toying with getting an american car for a while now. Nearly bought a supercharged stingray a few months back, until my sensible side said it probably wasnt the ideal car to leave parked outside my house.....

All uk cars have brembos don't they? Indeed, all UK cars had brembos. If I remember rightly, if you do a number plate check on the reg it will tell you if its a GT or not. I seem to recall mine even had it listed on the logbook. As others said, heated leather electric seats, bose stereo and cruise control were the GT pack. Sat nav was a £1200->£1400 optional extra, and the Rays wheels were another £1500 odd on top of that, although a lot (if not all) 2007 cars onwards came with the Rays as standard.

On the HR cars the belt is easy to see, its right at the front of the engine. Nissan will sting you about 85quid to change it. However, you can change it yourself in 5 minutes and the only tool you need is a 1/2inch bar to pull the tensioner off the belt and an allen key or screw driver to lock the tensioner back whilst you fit the new belt. Id also go for a gates belt rather than the nissan one. I found on my HR it would SHRED the belt after just 20k miles. God knows why as nothing was catching the belt and the pulleys were all perfectly aligned and had no play in them.

Welcome!

I remember test driving a 1996 E36 M3 Evo back in 2000. It was on the forecourt of my local BMW garage for about £30k if i remember rightly. Have to say I was very underwhelmed with it, although I do remember it was the first 6 speed car id driven! They are very very cheap now, being an older car and so im seeing more and more of them around my area with young lads turning them into drift cars etc.

I remember looking out of the rear view mirror of my Renault 5 GT Turbo once and seeing flames on the gear changes and thinking "wow". Until I realised a newspaper had caught under the car and had caught fire on the exhaust...

And the best colour too! Welcome!!!

Reminds me of many many many years ago when I had my 220bhp Renault 5 GT Turbo as a road car rather than the track car it currently is, and my mate`s younger brother (he must have been about 10 years old i guess) kept nagging and nagging and nagging me for a passenger ride in it. One Saturday I finally gave in and took him for a quick spin. We got back home and I said "so what did you think" and he replied it was awesome, but he couldnt see a thing. Turned out as the bucket race seat was mounted low, and he was like 4 ft tall or whatever a 10 year old kid is, he couldnt even see over the dash.

Ive 3 oil filter removal tools and the only one I ever use is the good old fashioned bike chain style one. Had no problem removing the zeds little oil filter using it. The only time ive had to buy a slip on oil filter spanner thinggy in order to use a 1/2inch wrench on it was for my Ducati 996 which requires the oil filter to be torqued up to some ridiculous measurement in order to stop oil leaks from it - typical Italian engineering.

As others have said, it doesnt sound like this might well be an OEM system. My 2007 Roadster had the OEM sat nav and just below the display on the dash there were all the buttons to use the system. Behind the drivers seat there was the dvd drive built into the back of the car in which the sat nav dvd ran from. There was no remote control or anything like that for the system.

woah... thats made me remember, ive got one of those flame thrower kits in my garage somewhere. I completely forgot I had one!!!

:scare: indeed!!!!!

It's a very personal thing. I walked from a mint 2007 roadster because it had the frost grey seats. They looked too boring, a kind of dirty grey colour. For me the alezan orange really set my twilight grey roadster off, but I've seen them in zed coupes and they look shocking. I think the reason they look so good in the roadster is because of the black fishnet style middle section you get in the roadster seats. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk

Had my stag do there a few years back and loved the place, loads of nice bars and ideal for shopping. You cant go wrong really.

Thats it really. In the UK, the GT pack was an optional extra from the dealers, and most dealers pushed this "pack" like mad. Most buyers went for it as it represented good value for what you got. As Lexx says, you got the cruise control, headed electric leather seats and a bose stereo system. I forget exactly what the GT pack cost, I seem to recall it was something like £1600 extra, which on a £32k (depending on the year you went for) car wasnt much. So you`ll find most 350z`s for sale do come with the GT pack. On top of the GT pack, you could fork out even more (£600 extra) and swap the black heated electric leather seats for Alezan Orange or Frost Grey/Blue - or at least you could in 2007 for the zed I got. Non UK cars came with all sorts of different weird and wonderful specs, so you may find imported cars labeled as GT with slightly different specs.

Whilst servicing is easy on the zed, I found the biggest costs were things like new set of tyres (nearly £700), brake pads (£250 - me fitting them myself), and insurance (£900+ for a 40+ year old with 20 years ncb). Servicing parts came to something like £60 which if i did myself saved me about £80 over what the dealer wanted in labour for the service, so servicing was probably the smallest outlay for me. Outside of those bits and £450 of fuel every month, the biggest cost by far for me was depreciation of £5k per year. Still, best thing I found to do was to work it all out on a month-by-month spreadsheet so you dont end up with any hidden costs.

Owner must have like an unlimited budget or something reading through some of that thread.

Glad that doggy is doing well. As an animal owner myself, I hate that emergency trip to the vets, which ive had to do a couple of times myself - with mixed outcomes.

Im with admiral and they normally email me my renewal through before my insurance expires, and like all insurance companies you then play the "why is my renewal twice the price of any one else" game with them on the phone before they then happily half your premium. The auto renew thing is just so they can grab your cash as quick as possible. Ive had it 3 times now where ive cancelled my insurance with the insurance company only to have them still steal my money out of the account as part of an auto renewal.

Another vote for Brian James, also Blue Line do some nice trailers, although in both cases ive only ever used & owned the non enclosed type. Price wise, which ever one you go for wont be cheap, although if you buy one 2nd hand you`ll find it will hold its value really well, so if you need to sell in the future your unlikely to loose anything on them.

I wouldnt worry about this. Now ive actually got a toddler and need to use these spaces, i notice that 9 times out of 10 that the person parking in the child & parent bay doesnt have any kids with them at all.

Good fun though.....got an R1 as well. Sold the ZX10R as the front wheel was never on the ground and scared me shi*less. Yep, cant beat it for value for money. Ive had my R1 since 2001, so its getting on a bit now, but still gives you a hell of a buzz. I splashed out on a Ducati 996 last year as well to add to my collection of toys.

That's why I like motorbikes, ridiculous power to weight ratio. I've had bikes easily capable of doing 0-100 I'm under 8s. It's a huge rush. Me to. My R1 hits 115mph in 2nd gear and will continue to pull, pull, pull, pull until you bottle it and ease off the throttle. Only problem i find with motorbikes is keeping the front wheel down.

Dunno, when had a 370z for a few days, in back to back tests, I personally felt my 313 was a lot more responsive and quicker. Might be purely psychological as I was more used to the 313, but to me I was quite disappointed and it made me dismiss the idea completely of the 370z being an "upgrade" over a 313 350z. Sure, going from a 276bhp DE model 350z to a 370z im sure I would have noticed a big difference, but from a 313 to a 370 I didnt. Still, 0.1 second quicker on that list apparently!