marzman

Yeh i've seen it. I love cadbury's adverts nowadays...! Class

Cat and fiddle 5 miles from me!

Happy new year Ho...!

Im interested in this depending on date and location... as far west as possible for me...!

Yep - have a bash yourself. Not done the ed but i've done a couple of my old cars no problem.

I got it on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0338946304 its only about 2"x1", couldnt be much smaller really. i cant fault it. On the sellers recent feedback he's recently sold the autolights kits too - none on there currently though...

I think mine does this occasionally... but is due to my aftermarket alarm. Rarely it wont start first time, so i have to beep the alarm on and off, then it starts perfectly. I dont know if you have an aftermarket alarm?

Not sure where you mean matey, but it is wired - so you'd have your work cut out if you mean mounting it on the door... However, the LED light is bright, so im sure the distance wouldnt be an issue - it would still reflect if you could get the angle right. I didn't mean on the door. Meant on the dash, but at the far right. The texture of the dash there is the same as the testure on the door lining. Was never very good at expressing myself in writing...probably why I'm not a novelist. Should have just asked if there was a set place it had to be put, or if you could put it anywhere on the dash within reason. Oh, right. No, you can mount it anywhere you want, as long as you can get a good angle and see the reflection.

I started my car a few times yesterday, with the AC controls unplugged and the gauge pods unplugged - and no engine check light problems... i have a 2003 JDM. Not much help i know. Sorry.

No, suprisingly you cant see it from the outside! Yes - you can see the unit on the dash, but other drivers wont see that, but you cant see the projection at all - its weird! Not sure where you mean matey, but it is wired - so you'd have your work cut out if you mean mounting it on the door... However, the LED light is bright, so im sure the distance wouldnt be an issue - it would still reflect if you could get the angle right.

Have a look on here mate... http://www.350z-uk.com/forum/viewtopic ... olley+jack

So just how long at what temp did it take? I've been curious about this for ages. I've also seen that you should stand the light on wet cardboard in the oven ? I used a black&decker paint stripper and went round the edges of the light. The glue is thick black messy stuff. You cant use anything to pry it apart, you have to simply pull with your fingers. I honestly wouldnt recommend doing it - unless you're prepared to go and buy a new light, ad there's a high probability of balls-ing it up!!

Yeh maybe - but i dont use the pod speedo - thats always on outside temp, and i find the dash speedo to be too far out of eye-line...

Hey, i finally got round to getting the pics off my phone... i did end up taking the headlight unit apart - just for fun in the end. It turns out the the hazing is on the inside of the lens. I rubbed the plastix cream onto the inside for about 10 mins, and you can see how good the results are I cant say whether this will stay clear if re-fitted, as i wont be refitting mine - and also note that its decidedly difficult to melt the headlight unit apart...! Its do-able, but took me well over an hour!! See the pics, before - half done - and after...!

Hey all. Right, my headup display arrived this morning, so i installed it today and am very pleased with the results I was hoping it would be GPS based, but it wasnt - it needed to be wired in. So i spent a couple of hours on here/google and found all the info i needed. Right, below is the Kit - this is the Valeo - Speed Visio unit (think its spanish). The installation requires 3 wires to be spliced in - Power, ground, and the VSS (vehicle Speed Sensor) wire. Having trawled through posts on my350z etc, i found out that the best place to get to the VSS was from the 'Unified Meter and A/C Amp' unit which is a large white unit under the stereo. To get to this you have to remove the center console, which is VERY easy to do - takes roughly 5 minutes. I used the following guide: http://liljerk.morpheus.net/350Z/dash_removal/ You dont have to remove the whole center console - just the bottom part, so you can get to the white box - which is the Unified Meter and A/C Amp' unit - then unscrew this (via the screws underneath) and pull it forward. You'll be able to see that the wiring harness behind this is clipped into the mounting unit using a little popper, so you'll need to undo this with some pliers so you can pull it forward more. Now, the VSS wire is found on the middle plug (grey - M49), and is pin 26 - which if you're looking down on it is the top row, 3rd hole from the left. My wire was brown with a white stripe. I found the wiring info in this document - on page 47: http://www.myzroadster.com/files/2006%2 ... al/atc.pdf EDIT: If the link dies again, its "http://www.myzroadster.com/files/2006%20service%20manual/atc.pdf" NOTE: This document doesnt mention the vehicle speed sense wire, but it definitely is pin 26...!! So, i had to splice into this cable, and also chose pins 22 and 29 for the power and ground feeds. This makes the unit switch on when the key is turned to position 2. For the splicing, the install kit came with 3 little splice boxes - a very clever way of connecting wires - you just place the wires in the little box, and with pliers close the lid, and it does the connection for you!! Im from the old school of a swiss army knife and some electrical tape, so these were a real treat You can see in the fuzzy pic below what it looks like with these wires spliced: Next up, i had to choose where to route the wire... so using a bbq skewer, i taped my wire to it and poked it through to my footwell (needed to remove a vent cover by the pedals, and pull the carpet back a bit to get it through). Now, i've not finished tidying up the cable yet, but it ran nicely up by my steering wheel, and fits in the gap by the clocks and round up onto the dash - you basically cant see it at all. Lastly when pointing at just the windscreen, you get kind of a double image of the speed, but it comes with a transparent black oval which sticks to the windscreen (with water - no glue). I didnt want to put this on really, but it really clears up the image so will leave it for now. See the pics below for what i mean! Anyway, after messing with the calibration for 10 mins, i got it in sync perfectly with my speed pod - so its spot on! Normal glass: a not very good video: I'll take some pics of the finished mounting location and quality tomorrow, as i was rushing and had to go to a party tonight!

Funny - i had chrome surrounds on my BMW, and i ended up blacking them out... we're never happy leaving things standard are we?

I've just got home from a family do, and have been shown an iphone packed with downloaded apps tonight, and all i can say is It was ace!! So much software (all of which he said he's downloaded for free...) I was talking to him about the head-up display i've just fitted to my car today, and he has one on the iPhone! It shows speed, and other stats, and reverses them ready for you to just place it on your dash boaard!! I dont know how well it works, but it was ace!! Other software he had was a speed camera warning system - telling you about static units, various traffic programs. A very useful train times app, listing the departure/arrival times at a given station... and the app that totally blew me away (although it was pointless) - A list of CCTV traffic cams throughout london (hundreds of them), and you click on one and it instantly brings up a live feed of that cam!! I need to get an iPhone asap after seeing all this tonight!!

Yep, no problem. Did mine from a Rav 4, and i've jump started a few cars from mine too.

Also PM Neil on here... i think he has the wheels pictured, and offered me a useful contact for them when i was looking at Finichi rims...

Brilliant! Thats what i get for taking sneaky looks at the forum when im at work...!

...so... how come it came out red?

Oh, and nice work Jay... how long did you send on prep? Not the colour i would have gone for, but looks good.

I remember the days...!! I would be spraying something on my beemer every other day when i was a student!

That is perfect!!! Thats what i want...!!!!!

Just seen this on Pistonheads. Love this paint finish - the same as on the AMG Black models... How mean would it look on the zed??? http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/844467.htm