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Ah, I see what you're referring to now. Does look a bit odd, but I suspect that's either a trick of the light/camera or all Zeds are like that. Can't see anything that would cause it, nor it being a problem.

Looks fine to me, which bit are you referring to?

It's a gorgeous colour, but don't ever mark a panel as it's a nightmare to try and match. It's pretty much the only colour I'd consider buying another Zed in. As long as you like it though, who cares what anyone else thinks?

There won't be any noticeable consumption change, the difference between 97 and 99 isn't that pronounced. You'd get better consumption by altering your driving style than you would changing fuel.

Did someone mention a Beetle?

What's the oil level like?

Car looks gorgeous, great job Bin the eBay chav lights at the rear though!

Nah, wouldn't have made any difference.

If there ever was an invitation to, pretty sure that's it right there!

By his own admission, Karthikeyan came off the racing line as he suddenly found himself very short of grip. However, the fault still remains with Vettel as he cut back too quickly.

As I said earlier, you will be perfectly fine on 97RON. It's the difference between 95 and 97+ that causes issues, not 97 and 99. My Zed was run on 97 and loved it, as is the 911 and the Impreza.

Pre scrub with soft brush Meguiars Ultimate Shampoo with Soft Mitt Meguiars Quik Detail spray with Clay Meguiars Ultimate Polish Wait, no wax? After all that effort you really should get some protection on there, will save you a lot more effort in the next few washes and protect your hard work, too. Give it a quick wash and chuck some wax on there, the Megs liquid ones are better than nothing if you like their stuff

Surely the answer is to put BP, Texaco or Jet high octane fuel in?

I'd have haggled them down!

Sorry to hear about your accident I'd buy another Zed rather than fix that up, if I'm honest.

Already done, although I used Redex injector cleaner as it was all Halfrauds had. Yup, but it'll be done very much on a budget though.

Diamond, cheers fella

Sadly yes, it's pretty good but too light really so will look to fit the nonPAS rack at a later date.

I can touch your roots up for you anytime, sweetie

I've been after one of these since January really, but the search kinda went cold as cash flow was diverted elsewhere and with an upcoming holiday I'd decided to wait until I got back before continuing. That is, until I popped my head on eBay this week and saw the absolute ideal car in perfect spec and literally 5 mins from where I worked. It would've been rude not to take a look, and when it turned out to be exactly as described and at an utter bargain price, how could I say no? Picked her up today just as the sun came out: Not bad for £850, eh? She's a Eunos Roadster 1.8L, 123K miles but on her third engine which was only replaced in October with a 30K miler along with the clutch, plugs and leads. She was imported in 2001 and I've got every single MOT and service record since then, along with a bunch of receipts for the work done. There's no rust on her anywhere as the previous owner cleared it all up and sprayed her up to a fair standard. She's not perfect by any means, but then she doesn't have to be as I'm going to strip her down and use her as a cheap-as-chips weekend/trackday car. No fancy bits will be going on, I don't want to make it fast, I just want to make it fun for as little as possible. A few issues to solve: 1. Slightly erratic idle. Fine when I test drove it, fine early on today, but sitting anywhere between 1300 - 800 when I got home after a run. Got a can of 10K boost to run through the intake to see if that helps first. 2. Tyres are cracked to high heaven. Didn't notice that when I first looked, just checked for loads of tread (doh!). £30 a corner isn't too bad though. 3. Rev counter sometimes raises itself by 500rpm at 70mph for no reason. Revs don't rise, just the counter. Dodgy connection somewhere probably. 4. Central locking doesn't work on the driver's side. Meh. 5. Leccy windows are really slow. Driver's does go down eventually, but gave up waiting for the pax one to do the same. Needs a good re-grease of the runners. Other than that, and the other bits I want to do, she's a beauty. Looked at the suspension a bit closer today and under the grime she's sitting on the Bilstein dampers and springs which makes her a fairly desirable S-Spec model, bonus So wonderfully controllable on the throttle too, just enough power to get the back end out to play and hold it there. She's currently on utterly atrocious mixed tyres, Firestone Firehawk TZ200 on the front and Federal SuperSteel 657 on the back, and they're as bad as you think. It's a shame that all four tyres are really badly cracked as my plan would've been to run the car on mixed tyres and give a fair report of just why it's a bad idea, but they're too far gone to risk it. Best feature? The button that makes the pop-up headlights come up without the lamps coming on too: I was driving round with them up and giggling to myself at both how old-school and ridiculous that is but also just how incredibly cool it is too. She's awesome. Proper fun.

Never going to happen. No reason why it should, other than to placate owners of dodgy plates who are bitter because they couldn't afford the proper version.

I think it's best to leave it as it is, just gets too complicated otherwise

I spy a monkey!