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Was the demo car white then? If so, I'd never have ordered a car without seeing if they'd got the colour match any closer. That said, I wouldn't have ordered the car full stop without seeing what the colour looked like in the flash anyway. Go with your gut. Red is also a really boring colour, so at least you didn't pick that first (or silver!).

Netgear, Netgear, Netgear. I personally wouldn't touch anything else, although this free black thing from Sky I'm using now isn't actually too bad either to be fair to it. Are you connecting via wires or wirelessly?

Must admit I'm not entirely sure why everyone has jumped on him for shifting at the redline in first either: As long as the car is warm first, then there's no issue at all. I wouldn't do it every single time, but every now and then won't hurt the car. It's a sports car after all, not a people carrier.

Snake oil. Utter garbage, and would do far more harm than good were you to actually ever fit one.

Synthetic leather is horrible, tacky, sweaty, ugly, cheap, nasty, thin and makes it look like you don't love your car at all. Think that covers it.

I loved mine on the VXR220, made me feel far more in touch with the car although it did get a bit frustrating trying to reach for the stereo

Any chance of adding the reg plate of the car and name of the place to the thread title, just to help anyone in case they try and go through the same thing as you?

I could barely manage enough enthusiasm to get halfway through the SP game before I gave up and realised what an utter travesty this was compared to the first one (which wasn't actually that great either, come to think of it), so how you've been brave enough to stomach it for that long is beyond me!

Put it this way, running the Zed without any exhaust in place at all but still with the stock cats on is exactly the same volume as having the K1 fitted, just a different tone. Without any cats at all it would be impossibly loud and you'd get stopped by the police within minutes (and rightly so IMHO). Either get a K2 exhaust and decat or go K1 and leave the stock cats in. I would go for the latter, as otherwise you're going to be swapping your cats/decat pipes over twice a year for the MOT.

Best way to go IMHO. Leave the Rays on all the time unless going to a show, not a bad idea at all that. *steals idea*

Miata.net for the tyre size calculator. Just to add that another downside to big wheels is the blunting of performance due to the huge increase in unsprung weight, but I do appreciate that a lot of people put looks over performance so each to their own and all that.

You can only attach 3 pics per post, but you don't have to start a new thread every time! Just click the 'post reply' button on your original thread, add the contents of the other three threads to that and then a kind Mod can delete the rest of the threads for you.

I'm assuming that the OP went with Kwik Fit as they were miles cheaper for him in the first place, but I'd be interested to know who else he got a quote off of? Btw that £300 they're asking sounds very much like a standard modded car loader, in that they charge you a great big sum (like most non-specialist insurers) because you want to mod but then only charge you an admin fee every time you change something else.

That FCCUK forum is an absolute mess, and has possibly the most disgusting colour scheme I've ever seen.

Take the badges off and wait until your insurance is up before moving though, else you'll waste the year's NCB you're on. Bear in mind that you're also uninsured whilst those badges are on, so best take them off anyway until this is sorted. Which company are we talking about btw?

I've never seen the kit, but it cannot remove the MAF altogether as the engine would simply hate you and refuse to run sensibly, and possibly cause serious damage as well.

The only thing that should cause a CEL with regards to the O2 sensors is not running any cats at all, as the sensors then think there's something wrong as the emissions are miles too high (which, of course, they will be!). The O2 spacers lift the sensors out of the gas flow, so that they don't see as much crap in the exhaust as they would do normally so think that the cats are still there. It's not a perfect science, but for 99% of the time they work very well.

The only reason I ditched mine was for iPod connection. Other than that, I had absolutely no problem with mine sound-wise at all.

Personally I don't think it's worth it unless you get both the movie & sport packages as well, as otherwise there's just too few channels for your money. I absolutely adore mine and don't begrudge paying the money every month, for the use it gets in my house it's well worth it.

Already taken by the looks of it, it loads straight to 350z-tech.

Fair enough, just me being curious was all.

Does this mean that the forum will be actively supporting the 370Z, rather than just take a passing interest?

He's a really nice guy, he knows his stuff, he talks sense. He'll never get voted in.

Eh? And there was me thinking Doric was foreign! Translation please! "Hello my good man, how are you on this fine day? My, you sure were correct about these beautiful cars being a bit quick off the mark, my monocle damn near flew out when I accelerated! I have driven up to 160mph on it which is an absolutely stupid thing to do on a public road and thus I do consider myself to be a bit of a foolish person for this act. Oh my gosh, I do believe we share a similar taste in wheels! This is terrible, and I am deeply upset as it means we cannot ever go to the same ballroom together now so I guess the days of the Tango Twosome are numbered sadly." Well, I think that's what he said anyway.

Swap the stereo now before you flog the Astra, then when you come to sell the Zed you'll still have an immaculate Bose to put back and sell it with That's what I'm doing, anyway.