Gurjeet

cheers. turns out a couple of mates need tyres too on thier (non-Z) cars. might club together and see if he will sort us out a good price on a group buy type scenario

cheers dude. i am actually contemplating buying tyres from them too, there is a chap there who is quite keen to match/beat prices. he quoted me £567 for 4 Toyo proxes T1-R fitted/balanced/valves etc. Thoughts?

ok so the car is back, good efficient service from AC, courtesy car, wheels look good, head unit replaced and the clicking is now gone.

Overall quite happy.

Lets see how long it lasts!

eurovision?

'theres plenty more clunge in the sea'

legend

dude. been there, tried to buy the (T)shirt, got thoroughly shot down

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is there an official route for this thing? or is it under construction.

Just curious

you have a pm mate

'Especially since I am going to be like the 'stock' dweeb of this meet'

Dont worry chief, totally stock myself

A few pics from the run:

and a couple from when i washed my car in the sun today.

ah yes, the passenger. He is a little...different

having now realised how close these roads are to me, i reckon i will be out there a fair amount from now on.

Me driving my Nissan 350z on the Glen Fruin Road near Loch Lomond, voted one of the best driving roads in Britain. Chased by my mate in his Type R, soundtrack provided by Muse with 'Knights of Cydonia' and my passenger with his inane banter.

Tremendous day, vid possibly does not do it justice, the gradients have to be seen to be believed.

Still pics to follow shortly

drove a mazda rx8 192 and it was guff. felt like it had nothing under the bonnet, and had this weird whine noise as you went up the revs. the dealer assured me it was "engineered in for the sporting experience".

doing just town (4 miles each way) i average 15mpg. combination 50/50 town and motorway its 22mpg

aware that I am probably fighting a losing battle here, I might come out in defense of the humble PT cruiser convertible. On a road trip holiday to california a couple of years ago, i emerged from the plane bleary eyed at LAX to find one of these as my hire car instead of the sebring or similar i thought I had booked. Not best pleased, too tired to fight, i took it.

To my surprise the punchy 2.4 litre turboe'd lump was pretty fast, was a good car to live with, and the birds seemed to like it

legend. bring it on

31st seems ok for me, I think I will mosey along too

that merc looks absolutely beast, well complemented by the porsche. good find!

sounds good chief, count me in. cant do the weekend of the 2nd though, its the paisley beer festival!

i phoned nissan GB. They told me that the manufacturers suggested remedy for the bubbling is refurbishing the wheel. And he suggested that the rear axle replacement is specific to the 2003-2005 model years, and that nut/bolt replacement and greasing would be adequate for my car as they had apparently mostly sorted it by the time mine was built.

that makes sense on the wheels, i am not actually sure how you would manage to refurb a wheel for what is an intrinsic problem to the manufacture of the wheel. I shall give nissan GB a call and see what their take on it is.

so I went this afternoon. After a two and a half hour (!) wait, they said they would replace the bose, repair the clicking real axle by ordering some new bolts, grease them and torque them, and found bubbling on all four of the rays, taken some pics to send to nissan and said they would refurbish them. Not so sure about the last two solutions there, doesnt really tally up with a lot of experiences on here. Thoughts?

also, is there a specific TSB relating to the skipping bose? have had a look through the link above and can see the clicking axle thing, but all the TSB for audio refer to overboosted bass

any experience of parks over in east kilbride? they are my only alternative. I may still go in to AC tomorrow, even just to see what they tell me

so i phoned the arnold clark dealership in shettleston (east glasgow) to book in to be seen tomorrow. Told who I think was the service manager about the list of things to be done, and putting on my best colombo voice, asked him if he had heard of any of these issues before. Answer: no, never heard of any of those problems before in relation to the 350.

Oh dear. Think I may have my hands full come tomorrow