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coldel

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  1. Like on this one, look at pics of the back http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201310019054283
  2. I know, Ebized and those skid marks eh...
  3. Hmmm, photo of the tax having expired is not exactly inspiring! And the rear spoiler is missing? Single DIN head unit (if I had space for a double would certainly have had it in there but all to their own I guess). Floor mats missing on both sides? Assume no heated seats by the looks of it. Also says in the ad that it has headlight washers but they are not on the photos. Might be hard to shift if you want to sell on...
  4. I would argue the Zed is quite literally falling into the same bracket of affordability and accessibility to much younger more boy racer types... (not saying that is you btw!)
  5. Absolute muppets Kwikfit, why on earth can't they even do the basics right.
  6. I used them for the plates on my old Zed
  7. Can't remember exactly but plates that are made up should have the company that made them written on them and some standard letters/numbers
  8. Looks good but both plates are illegal though
  9. Depends where you are, I live in west London so have to deal with about 2 weeks snow per year, clearly I wouldn't buy another car when I commute by train anyway. When it did snow I just didn't drive it but it really isn't a big dent in my usage time during the winter months. Just think about me in my VX220 during winter before you worry about your heavy, wide wheeled, comfy and warm Zed
  10. Could do with some carbin fibre caps on that Dave Very black though - send it off to RTB and get some wood effect aqua graphics on it
  11. coldel

    Aerokit?

    I bought the 350z side steps from them, good service and communication and fitted perfectly.
  12. Wow liked that, a lot. Think the VX would like it even more, might have to go investigate....
  13. Looks rubbish, why would you want it to do that?
  14. Saw it at the cinema, it was very eerie to look around at faces when the inevitable crash happened at the end. Its like we were all waiting for something that no one wanted to see. I was also watching it live on TV when it happened, Murray Walker was in pieces commentating. He heard that Senna was DOA at the hospital and was reporting it out whilst the grand prix was still on going. He was just breaking up and you could hear him crying live on air.
  15. I remember 1st to 2nd was a problem, grab some proper Nissan gear oil with molyslip makes a big difference. BT, yeah I ended up having a right argument with it - Pardon?! Are you taking the BEEP! Stop saying Pardon. I am speaking really clearly its effin obvious what I am saying! Mount the phone in a cradle and press buttons.
  16. Sorry its not Nissan, but a great set of cars none the less! https://www.google.com/maps?ll=36.494182,140.267944&spn=0.511157,0.891953&cbp=12,113.69,,1,0&layer=c&panoid=tB_dM3PHPBNi8y1LdmeO-g&cbll=36.527093,140.226548&t=m&z=11
  17. I think you are not reading my post fully, I said, yes there could be a difference of 3% say in a lab but out on the road you put your foot down for 2 minutes and that difference is gone. Is it effectively day and night in reality, not at all. I guess being IT then to be the same things have to have an identical code frame or the like. Which is fine but being a statistician you dont look for things to be identical, you try to measure a difference, which is different to measuring if something is identical. In the real world, it is almost impossible to find two things you can test alongside which makes the test identical, which is why you have statistical difference testing. Simply being 1% different (be it chemically or otherwise) is not actually different given certain variability from a statisticians point of view. Nice clash of careers as understanding the same concept me thinks ... There is an interesting article done by a uni in Australia on its cyclists. They tested them exercising until they lost 5% water content in their bodies, then rehydrated them with nothing, water and sports hydration drinks. Clearly the ones that took on water did better than the ones who started exercising again without anything. Actually the sports drinkers did better than the water drinkers - advertising you often see on TV now. Cut and dry you might think. They then repeated the test, this time the three groups took on water, sports drinks or nothing at all intravenously so they wouldn't know which group they were in. All three groups independently of each other performed equally well. So yes, you can try cars out on the road, you can draw conclusions for yourself, but be aware that you yourself are a bias and it can be a big one.
  18. It should stick to vinyl though I would have thought, as I say just adhesive and vinyl wouldnt repel that?
  19. Still stand by a lot of peoples comments that its the same stuff, I don't think its invalid to say it is - yes companies add their own little mix into it afterwards but generally it is petrol at its base point of collection. Once added those mixes compose of maybe 0.5% of the content added (total guess!) which each company adds. So the base is the same product. Thats generally how I read it when people say 'its the same stuff' Do they make a difference? Probably, is it significant, probably not. In a lab environment with stable testing conditions if BP is worse than Shell by 3% in a measure such as mpg that difference can be wiped out in about 2 minutes of country road driving. I still haven't seen any evidence on the net showing a conclusive test that one works significantly better than another. No offence to home tests but I prefer to see things tested properly before coming to a conclusion (hey I did stats as a degree, you get programmed to test things) and simply running a car on one fuel then another is in no way comparable (weather changes? driving habits? road types? did you go on a few long drives over summer on holidays vs tucking the car away in colder weather? people in the car other than the driver? drivers weight! contents in the boot? did you flush the fuel system through before switching fuels? etc etc) all these things are variables of differing impact levels, these impact your test, the more variables you have the bigger the requirement for the difference to be to prove that the difference you are seeing is real and not a function of the test itself. So yes if you saw that there was a 50%+ difference you are probably right to have a claim the fuel makes a difference GIVEN the variability in the test, if you are looking at 5% 10% differences the chances are its not fuel related and more likely something else your variables are creating. I have googled for a real 'proof' of one bettering another, and there is nothing, if it is so clearly cut and dry one is better, how comes there is nothing out there saying so apart from many debates by under-qualified people to have the debates such as us?
  20. Cant see why not, they are just adhesive like anything else? I could be wrong as cant remember the post exactly, but the decals were to go on the switches rather than the wheel weren't they?
  21. Rtbiscuit can get you hexis vinyl also which is high grade stuff
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