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I got some black mutekis off tarmac, look sweet and no sign of rust as yet. http://www.tarmacsportz.co.uk/GB/Muteki_Super_Tuner_Closed_Wheel_Nuts/350z-MutekiSTClosed.aspx

Stupendous. How do I bet on this?

Good effort, recovery partitions don't float my boat, when you need them they're probably already bust Give me a floppy with command line and some stuff to type in off the Internet any day! Why would they disable safe mode? Like you'll be able to use msconfig from windows when you're boot is lunched, great thinking MS.

I really like the existing, but from those, 2 is great and I think 1 would be if the -uk.com text was slightly taller/less squat.

Cool as.

Love the new door rests. Mine are nasty. What colour did you go for? Best place to send them too? It was just the plastidip offering in black. Did it myself, with plastidip it's no big deal as you can simply peel off if you make a mess of it. However, I found the finish looked nice, but didn't stand up to usage. Looked very tired after a month or so. I'd recommend you give it a go to see if you like the finish, but if you want something durable I'd suggest a proper paint over plastidip. I've since replaced with RT's fantastic carbon dipped version and am refurbing my old ones with better paint. However, using real paint is much more difficult than plastidip so it's been a bit of a learning curve. If I can't get it right I may just sand them back and give them to my local bodyshop to do a pro job in satin black, it shouldn't be expensive if they have the paint on hand.

What Pete said. See if you canget some utilities or maybe even a trial version of windows onto a USB and see if you can run bootrec (well that's what it was called in win 7) or if you have a "good" win 8 installation create a recovery USB. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/create-usb-recovery-drive You may need to enter BIOS at boot to make it boot from USB. Good luck, I spent Sunday arguing with a win 7 installation boot loader problem for my folks, I'm never going back to the dark side...

I'd never really given wheel weight much thought, I've since learnt the error of my ways, but the bloke who refurbished them made a big song and dance about how much lighter they were than he'd expected. Must be a good thing.

I think all your future posts should be bilingual, with a Spanish version underneath. Good practice and it gives the place a sophisticated European vibe.

Por supuesto. Good effort for giving it a crack, it's a relatively well structured language to get going in I found (compared to my butchering of French!). I did some Spanish classes for a month in South America and loved every minute of it. People are much friendlier when you hack up their language than if you use the shout in English & point system. I wish I got to practice it more, but not too many Latinos around these parts. Think I may look out for a course now you mention it... ¡Suerte!

Don't sweat it. This is same response I usually get talking to glamorous women It's the "you don't look like you should be talking to me" response. Keep going and you'll find a salesman on a bad run, or with half a brain, who will treat you like a potential customer and not patronise you. Next time simply say thanks, turn around and light up the tyres as you burn through the forecourt.

I was thinking about this when my scorpion recently started making a racket, but it's since been sorted. The only style single exit that got my juices flowing was the big, central, oblong one sticking out the back of a lambo.

Stop the world, I wanna get off.

good luck in the hunt

Good job you shifted all the heavy sound proofing out to make room for all the lightweight metalwork! Nice work in there.

Where is this cable (roughly)? Planning to do this soon and would be good to know where it is. Don't know if you've seen this but it's super handy for routing cables, removing trim, getting a reverse light feed etc. http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/56481-kenwood-ddx-4028bt-rear-cam-install-–-superguide/ Good luck with it, I had to slip on some captain brave pants when pulling the rear bumper loose. I was sure it was going to break!

Yup that's the one How do they go in BM? Is it some sort of male connector I need put on the end of the wire? Or just jam it in there?

Hard to say, depends where you are. As a loose guide I damaged my front lip (grrrrrrr, don't ask) and the body shop have quoted me for the full lip to be sanded back, colour matched and resprayed for £65 (woohooo). That's in the frozen north though, could be a lot more painful for a bumper darn sarf...

Sneaky pioneer people have two manuals, user (useless) and install (useful). I now know which is the "in reverse" signal input to the head unit. So if I splice in another cable to the reverse light, then run it along the video signal, it should be back of the net. I can't face doing this again today, but at least I know now. Just need a length of fairly low grade wire to run as the signal and some sunshine, so I can start ripping it all out again!

Cheers Alex, this isn't the case. I thought the same thing at first, but I've since learned my lesson from scouring the web. It only goes live in reverse, but the settings in the head unit in the video are set to "CAMERA ON" which simply forces the head unit to camera input even if it is off and displays a black screen (as there is no power to cam). This confirms it's not on perma live. If that all makes sense?

Cheers BM. I did wonder this when I was doing the install, I thought there should be a second "signal" wire along with the video feed and I was kind of hoping that the HU would simply know it was in reverse because the RC IN phono video signal powered up. Apparently not, this is too sophisticated, I have since realised that camera confusingly shouldn't be set to ON (as per the video) as this is for ALWAYS ON - in case you wanted to watch out the back as you drove into cars in front. In normal operation, it should be set to OFF and then it picks up the reverse signal in the back, as per your post BM. Next question. Which one of them 3000 connectors in the back of the head unit is the reverse "signal" input? The manual is totally useless and there weren't many holes which didn't have something jammed in.

So I installed the fleabay special reverse cam http://www.ebay.co.u...ME:L:OU:GB:3160 into my Pioneer AVH-X2500BT. I took the power from the reverse light (pale green with silver band) via scotchlock and grounded to the bolt from the Bose amp bracket in the boot. Ran the cam video feed through the boot, up the passenger side door carpet/trim, under passenger dash and into back of headunit. It was all looking so good. But, when I switch on the headunit it simply switches to the reverse cam automatically after a few seconds, even if reverse not engaged. When reverse is engaged the cam works nicely and picture is fine, but the head unit won't disengage cam when out of reverse. I've gone into the headunit settings and checked the polarity, it should run off battery, but I've tried ground too - same result. Vid below shows it all happening in real life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8DqUPMhhTU&feature=youtu.be Any suggestions welcome, so long as they don't involve ripping the centre console out again, which is a b@$£@rd to put back! Cheers.

Can any of you horsey people please recommend a saddle soap (or similar product) for softening up a leather jacket (cow hide)? Sorry for drift off topic.

That is the shizzle, love those bench seats but not so cool on the track, iPod hack and you're away!

You just became my personal hero. Awesomenutz with amazeballz on top.