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Not £10 each, just £1.40-something. I bought 6 for myself this week from Nissan themselves (Glyn Hopkin in Bishops Stortford), so that's definitely the right price.

Interesting, not a name I'd ever really considered. Good rates on the springs though, assuming they're linear. Looks like more money I'll be shelling out soon then...! Cheers for that Adam.

DO WANT Almost bought an early V8 before the Zed, just couldn't live with the potential for bills and unreliability. Would love to own a 350 Sport one day, though.

You're 2% undersized on the front and 5% undersized on the back. Switch to the stock 225/45/18F and 245/45/18R and it should sort itself out nicely.

Disconnect the wastegates on both turbos, means you can't go into boost and I'd leave it on the stock ECU to control the fuelling. It'll run pig rich but that's better than the alternative... Or you could be all sensible and hire a trailer for a day. Probably the better solution for the sake of £50.

What would be best for a 2006 roadster, running Michelin PS2s on the stock Rays, for someone not worried about how the car looks (i.e. major drop really isn't needed) but wanted less body roll without making the ride stupidly stiff? I've no intention of changing the shocks themselves, and the car will remain a 90% road/10% track car.

Flight Control and Bejewelled 2. These are the reasons to buy an iPhone. Oh yeah, and pr0n looks so much better on the iPhone screen than any other phone out there. Gets you some weird looks down the gym, mind.

Any idiot can drive in a straight line. I'd much rather be doing 30-60mph on windy roads than 140mph on a boring piece of road.

I've had both gens of the Ford Ranger, and for £4K you'd almost certainly be looking at the older version. We've still got our old one, and while it's been absolutely bulletproof (maintenance has been the bare minimum and less for over 100K miles!, it's survived a coming together with both a Transit and a thumping great lorry!) it's hardly the last word in comfort. Does what it does very well though, although I would agree that either the Hilux or the L200 are probably better buys at that price point.

That's alright then, I'm sure the magistrate would've totally understood had you actually been caught.

A Nano version would be rubbish, as the main attraction of the iPhone is the decent screen size. Any smaller and it'd be a waste of time. I believe there's an annual keynote speech planned for June anyway, so expect it to be announced then with a release in July, and regular stock to be around November time if it's popularity is anything like the 3G. You won't be breaking an existing 18month contract, they'll simply sign you up for another 18 months and charge you an extortionate upgrade fee if you only got the 3G within the last 6 months. Well, that's my guess anyway, but tbh if you've got a 3G I can't really see what the iPhone 3 will have that would entice you to upgrade anyway: Certainly the 3G didn't do that much over the 1G, hence I've still got my trusty 8GB one. The 3.0 firmware will be along in a few months, yes.

Agreed, but with the current proposals we'd end up with a two-tier system anyway, more or less the same result. I just hope that Ferrari, Toyota and Red Bull all pull out and others follow, and then we can watch Bernie's empire crumple around him. Horrible little man, he's only desperate for the money side of it all and cares not a jot about the actual racing. Let the teams decide what they want to do, not one crusty old git.

For once, I'm going to agree with Ferrari on this one. Does anyone really want to see a pikey version of F1, 'cos that's where it's headed with caps on spending, no refuelling etc. F1 always used to be about the pinnacle of motorsport engineering: Getting the car to go as quickly as possible, with the most grip and the most control. The last few years have seen the sport deviate from that, and I don't want to see cars with ridiculously strict limits imposed. If they want to save money like that, why not just give them all a bunch of road cars, a fresh £20 note each and a bucket of paint so we can tell them apart? I want an F1 that pushes the very boundaries of what is technically possible, not one that is governed by a rudimentary sum of money.

AE86 Corolla was RWD, as were early Starlets

It could technically void anything to do with the suspension components or anything attached to them, but they'd need to prove beyond doubt that the Eibach or TEIN stuff caused the damage. Seeing as how there's very little can go wrong anyway, it wouldn't stop me changing them over, just remember to tell your insurers.

Looks like a standard ISO connector to me, you should be able to get something from the 'net to go from the 350Z to ISO, however I'm not sure how that's all going to tie in with the Bose at all. It might be that Pioneer expect you to use a Pioneer stereo with it, and that whilst it's possible to tag it into a stock head unit, you'll need to start cutting and soldering to do it.

I don't disagree that it's as loud as Satan's arsehole after a night on the curry, but no way is it louder than even the stock stereo at level 20+.

Cheers bud, if I'd only put them on without tearing I'd have kept them on permanently, as I really liked them. Gone for something totally different this year, the final batch of vinyl arrived this morning so I can start putting it all on soon!

Bear in mind that mine's a ragtop, the noise may well reverberate differently in a tintop but I still maintain it's nowhere near that extreme. Pop the bungs in and it's very sociable.

It's not that loud, don't worry! Even with the bungs out I could happily hear the Bose over the exhaust, roof up or down.

Pretty sure I couldn't do as bad as job as Nissan did even if all I had was a set of blue Crayolas

Sounds cool bud, what colour you going with ? Ummm... Azure blue! I wasn't entirely sure on the colour at first, but it's really grown on me and I'd just like to get it perfect as it should be, and the only realistic way of doing that is a respray as the car is stonechipped to buggery I'd like to try something different, but unless I strip the car right back to a bare shell there'll always be a remnant of the old colour there, and as much as that shouldn't hurt the resale value I know it will, so I'm trying to be a little sensible as well.

I'll pop mine up as well... 1. New discs all round 2. Get the stickers on for Le Mans! 3. Fit the rest of my Summit bracing 4. Plenum space & MREV2 plenum 5. Lowering springs 6. Some kind of chip, not sure of piggyback or full replacement yet 7. Full respray, pro detailing and a healthy dose of Armourfend 8. Engine swap if I keep the car long enough And hopefully in that order too! First three will be done very shortly, others may take a while longer but I'll get there eventually.

Who wants to speed on motorways anyway? It's boring and no fun at all, far better to stick your cruise control on and just relax.

Aphex Twin, Cypress Hill and (early) Linkin Park? This man speaketh much sense. Bonkers is alright, but it's going to get very boring very quickly. Must admit I'm a bit partial to some of Slipknot's last album right now, and I'm listening to Out Of Control a fair bit in preparation for seeing Girls Aloud in a couple of weeks