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Sounds like most of the UK owners have to stump up as well one way or another not if they go to proper dealers

"a cheeky chappe named Sarnie decided to test drive a Zed" he had abit of Bird's yellowest custard before going to the dealer... Since childhood he always had a fetish for yellow . this is put down to the fact his mother force fed him bananas from an early age.. not to mention WHERE she force-fed the bananas...

"a cheeky chappe named Sarnie decided to test drive a Zed" he had abit of Bird's yellowest custard before going to the dealer...

SIXTYTWO grand for a 5 year old car...

course they do mate, it's just that they will have to pay to fix the things

ooo very nice!

oh and

it's ok I would have searched for you but I'ma bit busy

a search should give you all the info you need... there's a window reset procedure, and yes it is a fairly known fault

mine's still there... when the oem wheels go on in October I'll have it done then. but there's 2 fixes out mate... dealers should be ALL aware of it...

hmm interesting they mention a V6 TT engine...

forget about it mate. Neither economically feasible nor easy at all.... do a search for ecu, utec, and normally aspirated gains... most popular FI kits are Vortech SC and APS TT watch out for the HKS TT kit due out soon

lmao H5's brought his family on the forum!

ffs give me time, I'm translating it on the fly!

back on topic.... I learnt that I was right: wider tyres makes for more grip, fact. I had a first gut feeling that F1 cars could not be that wrong to choose as wide a tyre as possible and here's the reason, translated into english from Italian, courtesy of an Italian member of the 350Z club, race engineer I'll surely use wrong terminology in English, but hope you will still understand the goings on... "there are 2 reasons why wider tyres produce more grip, due to the laws of physics : 1) from a physics point of view if you consider non-deformable objects, the resistance generated (= energy trasmitted by the tyre) is proportional only to the energy that lies on top of it, multiplied by the grip coefficient. So if I increase the width area that touches the ground, the energy doesn't change. I simply have more surface, on which there is less specific energy (kg/ sq. cm) and I have no improvements to the " tangent strenght" (no idea on that term I'm afraid) transmitted. This is only valid for non deformable objects, though A tyre is NOT a non-deformable object and the wider is the contact area to the ground the less is the specific pressure for every sq. cm of tyre, and less is the deformation of the tyre. Deformation causes a loss of grip (adherence) 2) from a statistical point of view, not all tarmac has the same grip coefficient. With a wider tyre, you increase the chance of finding points on the tarmac that have a higher grip coefficient, and you reduce the risk of temporarily lose traction because say 30% of the tyre is touching a different type of tarmac. Consider that, once traction is lost, you go from a static friction coefficient (can't find the translation of this "moto di puro rotolamento" ) to a dynamic coefficient (again "moto di strisciamento") and the latter is always smaller than the former. In other words, if you break traction, you will have to take the foot off the gas to get back to the "puro rotolamento". Hence another reason why it's better to have wider tyres. So, unless there is excessive air pressure in the tyres which penalises traction, wider tyres give more grip." phew, that was hard

washed mine tonight too, in view of sunday! (study day tomorrow ) needs a waxing but looks nice already

they cost $369 from Kinetix direct? (and you can get a discount from them too...) shipping price sounds very good though, considering this "custom friendly way" suggested elsewhere

not yet, just get hold of a postcode and we'll do it there and then

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yeah mate any diy guide is appreciated... if you need any help with the plenum let me know, I'll Pm you my mobile, I've done it about 3-4 times now

naaa it'll be ok mate wanna try and make this one too, will prob be straight after work for me though, so earlier

This happens on mine (2004). Rattling stops when i have the clutch pressed in(rattlting is quite). Sometimes i dont hear it when ive just started the car, just notice it when coming back from journeys. Clutch also vibrates a bit when 1st pressed (1/4 way pressed). Noticed these first month after purchase. Still under warrenty and wondering weather to take it in cos hate people at the garage! that's the clutch "judder" and I don't think there's anything you can do about it, my car is the same. That's not a fault afaik

nice to see you are already in "help the forum members" mode! :teeth:

guys are we sure it's not the "normal rattling" once you release the clutch while stationary?

? care to share the info? was it in the UK? PS there's nothing to save really, once you stat messing with cars, one option is that they can blow up! Hey Minel - just been clocking your piccies - awesome car, like the one with the nurses especially! How did you get the shine on the car - what have yolu been using - Zaino? Oh - you got PM GT Meguiars' NXT exclusively mate thanks for the PM, I knew about that 1 already I put it down to poor tuning