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Rolling radius to be correct for 18s has to be a 45 profile? I think?

Yes watched that also (have to say best TGT episode for some time!) and you could tell within 10 seconds how the whole review would play out. May never really slates a car unless its got a Nurburgring association. Still think the car is hideous, although I can see the attraction of getting something different from a big run production car like a beemer, but for me at starting price of £50k there is way too much competition out there.

Definitely, dont make it easy for people by publicising your reg, VIN etc.

For an occasional driver this will be fine, I am sure if cars were crashing off the road frequently due to dodgy cardepot discs we would know about it.

£7k might even stretch to a decent HR 350z

To be honest, go for a much more cared for one for more money. This screams money pit. Google 'I bought the cheapest [insert car name here] on the internet and it cost me..." see what comes back up Did you check to see if he had receipts for the new brakes, tyres, tie rods, wipers, bulbs etc. which were all fails/advisories on the Nov 2017 MOT fail which disappeared in 2018?

The App doesn't do that for free, if you select the box it comes up with a page telling you what it will check for you if you select the payment option further down.

Download Vehicle Smart app on your phone. You can check MOT history/tax etc on it

You could just contact them via ebay (not the phone number) and ask them some questions, if they come back asking for deposits or any other sort of rubbish like 'my friend is away, the car is in storage' blah blah just forget about it. A look at the number plate and its not been taxed since Nov last year and has an awful mot history with loads of issues with brakes/exhaust/tyres driven to beyond legal limit etc. Sounds like an uncared for car which will have lived a hard 96,000 miles...

The standard Rays are a great set of OEM wheels to be honest, certainly will improve the ride vs those 20s and are probably a fair bit lighter.

I think you generally get what you pay for with brakes. Pootling around cheaper ones wont be fading or failing apart in the calipers - I have a Celica GT4 and bought EBC red stuff pads and grooved discs all round for £300 reduced from something like £550 on deal at brake depot. Worth looking out for seasonal deals etc?

Not an expert on roadsters but pretty sure I read somewhere on here that if the temperature is below something like 5 degrees it is likely to not go down properly...

I think that there in is the problem government squabbling like kids in a playground over whose ball it is for the last two years has resulted in net progress of zero. We look an utter shambles to the EU and the rest of the world

I don't think its as black and white as you might think. There is space in the middle for critical observations to be made impartially. We have to accept we are leaving, ditch the second referendum idea, lets get on with it. BUT that means JRM and his other pie-in-the-sky cronies actually produce something implementable and pragmatic, so far nothing they have contributed is worth the paper its written on. Forget ideas of having all the freedoms we had before but without paying anything for them. Forget these stupid notions of not paying our dues to the EU and so on. Barclays have put in place the plan to move assets outside the UK and stated this is contingency planning for March 29th, there can be no argument here as to whether it would or would not have happened - Brexit is directly responsible. I think we have to accept in the middle ground this is a cost of Brexit, the country will see its tax income hit because of this and its a bad thing for the economy no debate to be had. The response from Brexiters should be more constructive around how we now cover losses to the countries economy, because this will always be possible - it shouldn't be denying it is having any negative effect as it's not constructive nor truthful and just creates even wider divisions making this country a weaker economic place.

So lets turn the debate on its head, is the decision not to build the car here a good sign then?

Risk and profit come hand in hand, any financial planning for a business involves looking at risk and assessing if you can afford worst case scenario - business thrives on certainty (as you have said if I could see the future I would be wealthy!) business cannot see the future only mitigate the risks. Of course if we had a deal with the EU which made frictionless trade with them then I am sure it would have been more likely we would have built the car here as planned. No one is saying brexit caused this, but denying it was a factor when Nissan have said it is, well thats just a head in the sand behaviour that was prevalent in the PR on both sides pre-vote.

As I say, head in the sand... "While we have taken this decision for business reasons, the continued uncertainty around the UK's future relationship with the EU is not helping companies like ours to plan for the future," he added. "The future" here is key. Easy to point at diesel and pretend brexit no deal isn't important but what's next? Business decisions are made to support overarching strategies, Nissan have made a point in their statement that no deal is bad, a government can either listen and act or stick it's head in the sand and point the finger elsewhere...It's the hard brexit bandwagon in play that tries to convince people no deal doesn't matter. Hundreds of business leaders have said otherwise. To be quite frank, if you think no deal brexit has no part to play in this you have no idea on how global business operates.

The power of trading blocs eh Let's not kid ourselves. Brexit isn't responsible solely for big companies moving out. It was a factor for some under an agreed deal. Under huge uncertantity (any one with an ounce of sense knows business is built on reducing risk) like no deal and the current squabbling in parliament companies with global operations have the globe operationally to play with...it's undeniable it's a factor, it has to be.

What's changed is that Nissan agreed with the government that a deal would be in place and certain conditions would be there. This was well publicised. Breixters had a vision that is quite frankly unobtainable and preventing government pushing a deal brexit through. Now we are left in limbo due to very foreseeable infighting in parliament Nissan see the guarantees made by the government post vote disappear and with it any agreement on car production here. Remember the majority of cars we build are exported the UK market and various trends we see here are not indicative of global demand. This is the impact of global markets, something brexiters work hard at convincing people do not exist. The bandwagon as you call it is the head in the sand idea that brexit is not relevant to these decisions. It absolutely is a factor and leaving no deal is hugely damaging to many industries as most industry bodies have been crying out against for the last few months.

The official announcement from Nissan today said a number of factors are behind the decision including Brexit, they specifically called it out. Any common sense tells you building cars in a country that potentially will be throwing up trade barriers to exporting/importing must have an effect.

Somewhat ironic. I remember vote night and seeing Sunderland jumping for joy at getting something like 65% vote leave. Thought at the time about Nissan and jobs and like they were cheering in their own demise.

Any reason you want to do it? I have an import car (not a zed) and actually prefer the indicator stalk on the right, feels like it is in a much more natural position for some reason!

You can buy water proof watches but take one down to the bottom of the Pacific with you and I suspect it would fail. Sounds to me like the sales person might have oversold it and you may have heard something that hadn't been said. The words on the invoice don't really stand for much they will simply say it was sold in as paint protection and the invoice is a typo. It would be up to you to prove them wrong than them prove themselves right...

Try the insurers on here listed in the traders section. They will be used to calls from the forum with all sorts of modifications etc. I have used Adrian Flux, Chris Knott, A-Plan in the past (all three have insured my imported cars) there is also Sky insurance as well.

Not entirely true - there were benefits to basing financial centres in London that outweighed any taxation costs (such as infrastructure, a massive concentration of skilled labour, government support as the main industry of the UK, actually taxation of financial institutions was deemed favourable in the UK etc). Whereas Starbucks offshored to avoid paying tax full-stop. If it was a tax issue the banks would have gone a long time ago, they don't need an excuse to do anything they wield enough clout to make their own decisions.