AK350Z

Anything to keep the miles off mate

Hi Colin, hope you're well. Presumably you've had a few motors in the intervening years since we last met! No sign of any gallery issues yet, pressure is still as good as when it was new. Here's a more recent pic....

Hi guys, hope you're all well! Sad to report the Zed finally blotted it's copybook after 13 years of ownership! Clutch slave cylinder went on my 35k mile garage queen, probably just the rubber perished from lack of use 😂. Anyway I had to get recovered from Newcastle - which took 8 hours on a Friday evening- and back to the garage and home. All sorted with uprated slave from Torquen, and did the clutch while the box was off, because you might as well eh? All back to normal now ( this was a few months ago), and although I'm only doing a couple of thousand miles a year max, I still always enjoy getting it out so it's probably going to get buried with me at this rate! This was the only big bill it's ever given me, apart from it's 10 year big service and Uprev at Abbey, but that was elective so can hardly complain.

Just for anyone searching in the future, I replaced the self contained dab aerial for a official Kenwood stick-on that has the foil grounding strip to stick onto the a-pillar, usually with a bit of paint sanded off. Reception is now much improved, and usable in most places apart from the usual rural blackspots around my area. So pretty happy now https://www.dynamicsounds.co.uk/kenwood-dab-a1-interior-windscreen-mount-dab-antenna-aerial.html Also managed to find a correctly fitting facia for my HR model, despite the link name. http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/ct24ns04-facia-plate-for-nissan-350z-2003-gt

Hmm, anyone know if the non- Bose aerial is amplified? Might try one of those splitters if not, some people have had success with those. Anyway here's a pic. Also turns out I got the pre facelift double din adapter, so that needs sorted too

Yeah its not A1 round here, but i've got 2 DAB radios in the house, The Transit has a factory one, and the aftermarket Kenwood unit with a sticky foil antenna that was in my old Multipla runabout are all much better. Hence why i think there's maybe something wrong, it's really ropey. In fact the one in the Multipla was unreal how easily it got a signal.

Hello All, finally got round to putting a new HU in after 12 years lol. The install has gone fine, I've got a non-Bose car, so with the right adapter harness it was pretty straightforward. The only issue being poor DAB reception ATM. I went for a Sony XAV-AX3005DB, it included a generic DAB antenna, but this one just sticks on your windscreen, rather than needing an earth on the A pillar: Here Antenna power is "on" in the menu, and the antennas plugged in. I read in one of the guides there is a power wire for antennas, but that seemed to be for FM rather than DAB? Ideas welcome!