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opening the front door in the morning to drive to work and seeing my 350 parked on the drive ready to go.

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great to see you got this down to a reasonable price, insurance is a tricky thing sometimes, always best to be safe than sorry, last thing you want to do is try and fiddle the system and end up losing your car because you decided not to declare something. worst of all would be hitting someone else, and wrecking both cars and have your insurance invalidated. never mind injury claims. its a necessary evil (but comes in handy when you really need it)

totaly accept what your saying, however as stated the reason i put it into the kerb was my over enthusiasm to push around a corner i should have know better on, i knew it would kick out, the only suprise was by how much. I am able to drive without this kind of thing happening. i totaly admit fault and do not blame a lack of grip or balance issue etc. If im wrong, im wrong, but i think i will be fine. Considering i have not had the car long, i dont expect to notice a massive difference in handling as i am still getting used to the car as a whole. As i say, appreciate the comments and accept its not the best way thing to do with tyres, but also have to be realistic, with regards to wasting 4 decent tyres instead of 2. Luckily it summer and the roads should be fairly dry. I expect to have changed the fronts by the time we get to the bad weather later in the year.

kwick Fit quoted £10 a corner to fit and £24.95 for the laser alignment.

it would be nice to see them review the uk 08 model with the new engine, and see if his opinion is different.

no i was previously running bridgestones all around. Im pretty sure the reason it kicked so much is i pushed the go faster pedal to far, and it was too tight a corner, and it was fairly damp. I would change all four but as none of the tyre realy needed changing i cant realy justify changing them all. I am only changing the rear two, because i have put a slight tear in one of them, the damage is not to bad but given the car i would not feel confident that it would not go, the garage said it probably would not but i would rather be safe. As soon as the fronts get down i'll be swapping these out for the Toyo's. As with other upgrades, those will have to wait a while.

many thanks to everyone.

two tyres ordered from Camskill, just need to find someone to fit them and work out how to put them in the back of the car to get them to the fitters, should be fun. anyone got any ideas about fitting price?

yeah will get it laser alligned, have seen a local garage that does it for £35 so not too bad, decided to get toyo's put on the back, and will run the bridgestones on the front down. best price i have seen so far for the toyo TR1's is £166 a corner, fitted at my location. costly mistake but could have been a lot worse.

I have a renewed respect for my 350 as it bit back yesterday. pushing it a little too hard (i realise this now) round a 90 degree corner, very sharp, generally very slow corner the back end kicked out , it came almost half way round generally this has never been a problem, but as i was correcting the slide, the front ran out of room and i was heading towards the kerb , i did not have the space to pull it back in line fully and clipped the kerb, which unfortunatly pulled the back end in quickly which then slapped the kerb as it straightened up . luckily there was no one around to laugh at my stupidity and no one coming the other way to for me to hit. i have kerbed the alloys which is no realy problem, they had been kerbed by the previous owners, but have torn part of the side wall on the rear, its not deep but i dont fancy putting to much strain on it in case it does give way so it looks like a new set of rear tyres, and the current ones probably have another 10k or so left on them, bummer. theres no other evidence of damage, will have to get it checked out but everything looks straight and the car drvies fine luckily. In one sence im pretty glad it happend, it will stop me getting complacent, i was looking to go on an instructed driving course to find the limits and beyond, safley, this just makes me want to do it a bit sooner. and as it was a low speed i'll be a bit more careful when in a hurry. I did not see a mishaps topic, maybe the forum could do with one, or am i the only idiot on here?

nice pics but whats with all the multistorey car parks?

OK checked window again and the window is returning to the full up position as far as i can see but it looks like the door seal might not be in properly. could really do with a second opinion. is there anyone near Basingstoke that would be willing to have a look? If it is the seal are these expensive to have replaced? thanks

Im having this problem with my passenger door, at first i thought it was because of some cracked paint above the door, but just had that fixed and the noise is still their. I did not think it was the window becuase it does go down and then back up when the door is opend and closed but when looking last night it appears to be not going all the way up. When i try to move it up the extra bit it does not budge, but the motor clicks. Having read the post this looks like it needs resetting. Can you confirm this is correct, and how much time this is likly to take, the uk weather is unpredictable and don't want to get caught short with my door in pieces. thanks

only thing about cleaning a car to that degree is you would not want to drive it doen the road as it will only take a few hundread yards to get it mucky again. but must say looks fab, pics make it look concourse clean.

Hi, Welcome. Good luck with the hunting.

thanks for the response on the Rainex thing, I dont think its the wipers as the effect is all over and on all windows, side included. I suppose the previous owner must have had them all treated, i dont see any areas where it is faded so it looks like it must be fairly recent. yes still new to the car, had it two weeks now! and loving it, not yet used to the accelleration in first, im a bit too soft in 1st i think, not pulling away quickly enough, i need to find a quiet car park to practice.

on this issue, are all 350z windows treated with that 'Rainex' type product, i noticed the last couple of times it has rained that the water acts like the windows were treated but wasn't sure if this is just the type of glass they use for 350z's?

Welcome

be VERY carefull with this, i used to work for a solicitors firm dealing with car accidents. Picking a hire car of your choice is very dangerous. Insurance companies will pay reasonable costs, you have to mitgate any costs and hiring a top end car will probably not stick and you will find yourself lumbered with the bill. Check with your insurance company, you may have it written in the policy that you are entitled to a similar car but i doubt it, most of these wordings have been changed. Credit Hire is also a mine field, check the contract carefully, there is a lot of small print. As it's probably only a small paint job your probably looking at a week max for the work to be done. It's probably not too much of a hardship to take standard courtesy car. If you are in sales you may be able to swing them to push for a better car but, check first. Trust me i have seen a lot of people make BIG mistakes thinking the third party will pick up any cost. If you have any problems let me know i might be able to offer a few pointers. Good Luck with the repairs and claim

if you try the court thing you can get the forms online i believe and the cost is about £50. If they dont submit a response within 21 days you can apply for default judgement and you win because they did not respond in time. If they do respond and you dont want to go to court you can drop the process and not have to pay anything. If you have £50 quid and an hour or so to fill in the paper work it's possibly worth a try. If you do go to court and lose, be aware you will end up woth a bill for their costs. Double check on the info above though, its a few years since i dealt with this and things may have changed. Good Luck

I have noticed that i can't always apply the steering lock on my car, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't usually when the wheels aren't straight. Anyone got any ideas? it had an HPI and that came out clear so i don't think it was broken in theft, was wondering if its a common fault or just mine. It's not a big thing if it doesn't work properly, it would just be nice to know. Thanks

welcome, had my 350gt for almost 2 weeks, definately no regrets, straight line speed is good, but going round corners fast is the dogs bollocks.