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Brilliant news

It's a bargain until you put your car in the ditch, especially in this weather.

Nice one, let us know who the specialist is as well as it might well be handy when the warranty ends. Will you get it back in time for Xmas?

Terrible news Andrew, my thoughts are with you, Phil and your family at this time.

You'd install it in the main pipe after the y-pipe in the case of our vehicles. It's going to throw the lengths out a bit, but only by the thickness of the flange so should be perfectly fine.

Let me guess, it's got one big single turbo like the last FQ-400? LAAAAAAAGGGG city. It does look the part though, and yet at that price you'd have to be mad to want one.

You'll have to prise my dead cold fingers from the steering wheel before that ever happens Thanks for all the messages guys, much appreciated

That looks proper chav. And that's saying something coming from someone from Essex.

It wouldn't surprise me if top-spec 370Zs came in at £35K, given the ****-poor state of the pound right now.

That Celica one looks far better than I thought it would. Presume it's just the standard OEM spoiler as fitted to the sport and premium (or whatever they were called) models?

And there was me thinking I could let another year disappear quietly into the gloom of despair at almost being 30... Thanks guys! Shame I'm gonna be stuck at work for most of it, but then that's the price you pay for being all growed up and responsible and stuff...

Bugger, doesn't look like it fits the Roadster

No it doesn't, it looks nice

That's beautiful, and I love that rear bumper as well

I'm just a big tart really

Slightly off topic, but TurboTomato as in vx220.org TurboTomato? If so, hi! :bye: I can't help but wonder if these roof issues are related to the cold weather we've had recently: What's the minimum temp that the roof can be safely stowed at? I've not got my manual to hand to see, if there even is one (temp that is, not manual).

I've had to do the whole lifting off thing in previous cars at Bedford, so know only too well how frustrating it can be. Any decent exhaust place should be able to knock up a removable silencer for you for small money, not sure where you're based but I'd be tempted to head towards Hayward & Scott if you're anywhere near them. Brilliant work and very reasonable prices too. And if you do go, let me know how you get on as I may well have to do the same

Told ya you'd get done on the drive-by You could make it a lot quieter by getting an additional silencer cut in on the main pipe before it splits for the two cans. Get it put on flanges and it's then removable for road driving and you only need put it back on for track work. That's the easiest and cheapest way of doing it that I've found.

I haven't got a problem with it, but given the amount of monitoring that goes on in that tunnel I'm not convinced that they'll be too impressed with a group of loud sports cars driving through it repeatedly whilst either a) speeding or slowing right down then gunning it in 2nd gear, and capturing it all on film. Even the seasoned tunnel runners only ever used to do the crossing once for this very reason, and preferred to head into central London to take in some of the tunnels there. How I'd know that though, I don't know. I'm not trying to be a killjoy here as whenever I go through it I very often do , but then I'm only ever going one way and carry on normally the other side. You may well get lucky and have a brilliant time, but then you may well get stopped and done for various petty offences. I think it's only fair that people know the risks.

There's a minimum speed limit of 10mph IIRC, and Rich is right: They'd nick you in seconds. They might do anyway if you keep driving back and forth...

Again, there's differing ways of saying things, I think we can all agree on that. I'm not saying that it's okay for 400 people to post on a thread crying "Too expensive!" as that's blatantly unfair, but to abandon all comments seems a tad draconian when there's a perfectly acceptable way for the seller to have extraneous comments removed if they so wish. The Zed in question was at the extreme end of the scale, but where do you draw the line? New Nismo exhausts are, what, £1200 now? Would it be okay for a person to offer a 3-yr old one for sale for £1150? I think we all would say that's an unreasonable price, but Joe Bloggs who has just bought his 350Z finds this place, pops on here, doesn't read all the threads about the cost of various items (which, given the lack of use of the search by some people, is already enough of a chore as it is) and sticks his head in the For Sale section hoping to grab a bargain. He knows of Nismo, sees the exhaust, doesn't see any others for sale and decides he has to have it. Through no fault of his own bar naivety, he's paid a fortune for something second hand he could've had brand new for £50 more. Again, there's a lot of ifs buts and maybes in there, but it could happen. I'm trying to make a point about FS threads in general rather than the specific thread that started this conversation. Yes, of course I agree with everyone that says that threads shouldn't be bombarded with negativity and anything breaching the realms of sensible good taste should be removed, but there will always be a case where a passing comment or two could help the site and its members, even if it's for people to say what a bargain something is and how good the seller has been with transactions in the past. There's a good side to being able to leave comments, too. As it stands now, people can ask for threads to be locked and removed of all comments if they want, or it can be left open and free. Giving people the choice should always be preferable if circumstances allow, surely?

Thing is Rich, you're still comparing all this to your experience which is somewhat unique in that everyone told you your car was overpriced and it didn't sell, and then you found a car that was at a dealer, so is always going to be more expensive than a private sale, and that was overpriced too as it hadn't sold. Both prices were over the top, and both cars didn't sell because of it. You were more than happy to tell the dealer that their car was overpriced: I'm not sure I can really see the difference between that and here. Okay, I can see the difference obviously, but you see what I'm getting at.

neither should he, we are supposed to be a like minded community Wouldn't really call it an attack as such, as he was asking a ridiculous price for his car and someone called him on it. If words like "lying cheating thieving git" had been used then that would've been quite inappropriate and would've deserved some kind of modding. Should a community let people rip off it's members, whether it's intentional or not? I've not been here long enough to speak for this place, but personally speaking I feel that any kind of locking or censorship of FS sale threads does nothing but hinder the community as a whole. There's a difference between passing comment and having an uncharitable pop at someone.

Agreed, but he did it on a public forum where he knew people could post anything they want after he left. If he didn't want comments then he could either have asked a Mod to lock it or simply post somewhere else.

If you don't want comments on something, then don't post on a public internet forum, vis a vis the Silly Hat Rule. You may enjoy wearing your Brand New Trendy Hat and want to post pictures of it on the interweb, but if I deem it to be a Silly Hat then I'm perfectly allowed to tell you so. If you don't like it, then don't post. This place seems pretty sensible to me right now in that you're allowed to pass comment on things for sale ("That's really nice, proper bargain!" through to "That's overpriced tat") as well as ask questions in open forum, but if the OP doesn't want anything in their thread then they can PM a Mod to remove it for them. Assuming the Mods are happy with this then it seems like the best of both worlds.