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Nope, he's on about a D1 Throttle Controller box.

If you think it's time to move on, then it probably is. I get bored of cars pretty quickly which annoys the missus but pleases the bank manager no end, and I've yet to regret selling up and moving on. There's so many different types of car to own out there, and no matter how good the Zed is there's always something better/different out there that should be tried. 335ds are great cars and poky as anything, not a bad thing to move on to at all

Right, but have you actually checked the level yet? If not, I would suggest doing that pronto.

If I won £2M on the lottery, no way am I spending only £150K on cars! As such, I'm bending the rules and heading down to the Porker garage and grabbing a GT3 for fun and track work, and a convertible 911 tubby for cruising along at the weekends and for the missus to drive. That'd do me nicely I think as both cars are very reliable and yet very useable with proper storage space for weekend bags and things.

There's many reasons I wouldn't buy from S20004U, but I'm struggling to see what's wrong with that car. Three and a half years old and six owners really isn't anything to worry about that much, as three of the owners could well be garages that bought/sold the car in the first place. Also, since it's an '06 it's not impossible that whoever purchased it didn't do their maths correctly regarding road tax and that made them want to sell quickly, or perhaps they just couldn't stomach the running costs fuel-wise. It's not hideously overpriced for the age and mileage (don't forget that the garage has to make a profit somewhere, so if they bought it for £12K then that's about right), and with the extra bits and pieces it's not a bad car for the right person. Always buy on condition of the car first and foremost. S20004U does have a terrible rep when it comes to selling cars, I know, but if that was for sale anywhere else would anyone bat an eyelid? Unless the OP knows exactly what (if any) issues that particular car has, then I'm inclined to say that there's precious little wrong with it as it stands.

There probably already is if you jailbreak it.

No, it doesn't. No idea where the OP got that one from.

I'd certainly expect it to be, yes, especially coming from Nissan. I could be wrong, but definitely give it a good read.

Can't help your problem, but I'd personally check the small print on the warranty as that sounds like utter tosh to me. Never heard of a main dealer warranty not covering the electrics at all.

Trouble with doing that is you lose any claim for insurance purposes, which is why I'll never ask to get a package marked down in value just in case.

A service is a service, there's not really that much that can go wrong on a P1. It's not like they're dropping the engine/gearbox or anything.

Yeah you'd think, but would you want to take the risk? How much is it up for?

It would need to be around £5K-£6K to even be worth considering. I'd rather have a straight high-mileage '03 then a water-soaked '05, as electrical gremlins don't always show up at first...

I currently drive a '56 Ford Ranger Thunder 2.5L and am waiting for my Wildtrak 3.0L one to come into the country, and I'd still take a Ranger over either of those. Pound for pound you get far better equipment in the Ford than you do in either of those which is why I decided to get another one. The same applied three years ago when I bought the Thunder, so things haven't really changed too much! The L200 is the better looker by far, but then if it's for work it really doesn't matter that much. The Hi-Lux is the other one to choose, and for reliability I'd choose that over either the Mitsi or the Nissan.

You'll likely have issues as that's a 5% difference in profile, sadly.

One could even buy a metal stamp and just emboss a manufacturers name and serial number (real or otherwise) onto a cat, if one so desired... /walks off whistling nonchalantly

Much thinner soles and width means more feel through the pedals, and there's the flameproof side of it as well. I got mine from Demon Tweeks a few years ago, and if you can get to their showroom it's worth a trip as they've got a ton of stuff in stock and you can try them to make sure you get a comfortable fit first time.

You don't have to speed just because you own a sports car you know...

Look, you're thinking of this in the extremes i.e. Nankangs vs R888s, when the difference between the compounds and treads will show up with ANY two tyre makes. I would no more put RE050s on the front and PS2s on the back as I would do the first combination mentioned. If you have tyres that give differing grip levels at different times and in different temperatures then at some point you ARE going to have an issue, and it's juts a case of how bad that issue is going to be. It might just be a an extra bit of slip at >5mph turning into your road, or it might be a full-on tank slapper into the armco on the motorway, and that's the problem: Unpredictability. There isn't a car manufacturer in the entire world that puts mixed tyres on their cars, and there's a very good reason for that.

It's not about pushing it either, the differences between compounds can be so extreme that it could catch you out on a gentle motorway sliproad if the conditions are right.

It's not about driving on ice, it's about how the rubber reacts to the road conditions no matter what type. To blindly say that it's not an issue is to completely misunderstand the entire point and is borderline idiocy. One day you will get caught out and at that point you'll probably wish you listened a bit more, or just blame it on that magical diesel spill that appeared from nowhere.

Has more to do with the different compounds than the tread depth (although that will have an effect as well of course). Better tyres on the rear = understeer and better tyres on the front = oversteer. Trouble is that both front and rear will heat up differently and react differently to wet conditions, and you'll never quite know what's going on which is why it's dangerous IMHO. Profile is irrelevant in this context, as I was referring to the two different makes of tyre rather than the sizes.

First off don't mix tyres on the Zed, so either get a pair of T1-Rs or a pair of PZRs and do it sooner rather than later, and then adjust your pressures to suit. I assume that's not the same size all round though?

Depends on what tyres you're running. As a rule 35psi all round is a good place to start, but tyres with softer sidewalls (eg T1-Rs) will need a couple of psi extra, whereas harder ones will want a bit less. I run the PS2s at 33F/35R.