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I've used the Autosmart products at work, it's good gear. Tardis is top notch for what it does, it does give me a headache though One of those small bottles will be all you need for a long time. Platinum is pretty good, easy to apply and remove, does give a nice and crisp shine. If I could just recommend one thing you could maybe start doing, is Autosmart Highstyle. I find it top notch for tyres.

Even if your hot hatch accelerates at the same rate of knots, would you not rather be in a 350z? It does accelerate quickly, doesn't give you the kick in the back, but it's really not slow. As above, it's quite deceptive, toe it watch the speedo needle whip round. Plus you have the noise!

Just turned 23 when I bought mine (although I do look 16). Financed it at a base rate, very cheap car for what it was. I don't earn a staggeringly big wage. £250 ish per month for the 350. Insurance is £700 or something, I just pay it in one go. Always have. First car was a Celica GT at 19, insurance was £1700, paid it in full, and the car. All my savings. Oh and I've smoked like a chimney throughout (not in the cars though), I do occasionally go out but it's not really my bag. Been on a few extravagant holidays. Fuel, I just put more in when it's running low. No idea how much it costs me. 3 tanks a month? I don't spend money like it's going out of fashion, I will never spend my whole months pay by a mile. Because I do that, I don't really check my bank balance, I just spend and work it out in my head. Then I get paid, and I have more money than when I got paid from the month before. I do live with mummy and daddy. I'll buy a house when I find a girl worth marrying, it'll half the mortgage.

That's about £574,000 isn't it? You high roller you!

I had just turned 23 when I bought mine That's just how I roll!

Get one. They will have HPI'd the vehicle, if they haven't, they're very very silly. They will probably keep it for the the dealers filing but get them to photocopy it for you if they won't do you another. I think our HPI's (at work) cost around £4 ish. Check the date, make sure it's nice and recent.

I'm very tempted to have it away but the lack of cup holders means it's a no no for me. Oh well! Practicalities ey!

I'd be interested in the same kinda thing! I'd prefer an identical version to the Nissan burger, but just saying Datsun.

Looks great! Really really like the wheels. I'm assuming not particulary cheap? Are they twinned with lowering and spacers? The stance looks spot on.

Tis great living with a 350z. Had mine for 3-4 months now. It can drink fuel, but I'm not too bothered, I knew it wasn't a Polo Bluewhale or whatever. When it's out of go faster juice, I put more in, easy! I'm single so with two seats, it's twice as practical as I need. It has a boot which to put work bag which contains my sandwiches (it's more than big enough for it) It's Japanese, so it'll start on cold mornings and get me to work (excluding snow) It has lots of torque, I don't have a need to change down as much (last car was a Celica) It turns heads, in a good way. Not in a 'check my Saxo with 5" exhaust' way. It sounds beautiful! People I find pull out in front of me rather cheekily, I can only assume this because 'I'm a young flash b4stard in flash car etc' but with many horsepowers, overtaking is no problem. It can get annoying if there are no safe overtaking opportunities, but pop her in 6th, relax, and save a little fuel. Get one bought!! I absolutely love mine to bits.

I'm a little confused about the tyre width section he's posted.... Not to worry. I'm assuming these are the same sizes as standard wheels (18's) and the Rays. So if someone snapped these up, refurbed them, you could just put on the tyres you have now? (Assuming you have 18's)

Always thought they were the car phone mics Bugger, same here! When I'm on the phone, I kinda talk towards them...... Where is the phone mic? Black thing at the bottom of the 1st pic is the mic, near the winscreen Nice one mate! I was half in the right direction!

Always thought they were the car phone mics Bugger, same here! When I'm on the phone, I kinda talk towards them...... Where is the phone mic?

Looks the actual tits mate, nicely done We all know it's 10x cooler to have some Mine's shiney bits.

That looks familiar! Well done on the JP shoot by the way

I'm afraid he never got round to going, not much help there! Sorry mate.

I'm a little bit happier now! Thanks Squarehead

I shouldn't listen to idiots at work! Even if it was £400 a year, I'd pay it just to stick two fingers up at the goverment! I've had a bad day anyway

Well yeah. I did some research and it looks like all us pre-06 ones are staying in band L?? http://www.autotrader.co.uk/EDITORIAL/C ... guide.html I'm hearing so many different things about this, like we're going to be paying £400, then we're going to be £210 for 2 years. But looking at the Autotrader link, we're staying at the price we're paying now....?!?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/7293011.stm I got told about this today, needless to say I was apocolyptically mad

A mate of mine who lives pretty close to Syston is very tempted with this one. He said he's going to have a look on Saturday. If he goes and sees it before you, I'll let you know how he gets on.

You will not get a Haltech and Tomei cams and a set of buckets and proper head gaskets and a remap etc.etc.etc. for £1000. unless you are proposing to do the work yourself. Sorry to burst your bubble mate but no point in this I am afraid. The 1k was just rough cost of cams and fitting - cams £500 fitting for 10 hours work £500. Already will be getting an ECU and mapping, so price was just extra on top. A lot of the american sites rave about cams and headers so it's good to hear that it's basically a waste of time, gives a different perspective from someone who's trusted in the local Zed community My pleasure Chris, just don't want you wasting your money mate. Please note my comments are purely based on my own personal experiences and some one may be along later with a different view but it is a lot of money for very little gain. I just love your quote of 10 hrs labour, I can do this swop out with my eyes closed and even with my eyes open it would take much longer, try 3 times that and you are getting close. Alex. 30 hours to fit some camshafts?!?! Does this include making them yourself with a nail file? How come it takes that long?

Er... Je voudrais dix panache sil vous plait? My guess would be the traffic alerts are turned on, just unfortunately you're getting news of a traffic jam from Rouen. If it all worked fine before, it must logically be the Kenwood?

If you're after a hot hatch, an Astra VXR will knock spots off most of them, especially the Focus ST. The Cupra K1 is seeing very very good gains from a remap. An Astra VXR remap will see you hitting around 260bhp at least, with a Remus exhaust which you'll be able to get pretty cheap now everyone is upgrading to a Milltek from Thorney MS, and a different fuel map, you'll see 290bhp. As it's a Vauxhall, it's cheap, cheap parts, cheap servicing. I had a Astra VXR Nurburgring for a few days (it's a white one with a pretty loud exhaust), driving it pretty hard with some medium cruises in between, I averaged 26mpg. Get a black one with anthracite 19's, as subtle as it's going to get. Can you tell I work for Vauxhall.... If you need to know anything about Astra VXR's, give me a PM, It's unfortunate, but I know just about everything about them.

That drawing looks like some technical stuff! Sure does! My install plays music! Dude, I forgot how to put CD's in the changer the other day. I pressed eject, and 1 (empty) thinking it would ask me to insert CD, which it didn't. 5 mins driving along swearing at the CD player, then saw the 'load' button. Idiot! I can't be doing with this ICE stuff. I'll be happy if my BOSE played CD's on a cold morning, which it doesn't.