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My zed has been my daily for 13 years now. Loved every moment of ownership. Thankfully my commute is quite congestion free and I get at least one good 45min drive a week in the evening with hardly any traffic. Apart from brake pads and tyres she's not really needed much. Still on original clutch and exhaust. Starting to squeek from the rear suspension now and I had to touch up the driver's seat bolster this year. Not many cars I can think of that I would still find as desirable after 13 years and 60k miles that I could have bought for £30k back in '05 How have you other long-term owners been finding your zeds and are you now tempted to upgrade?

Every 1-2 years or so my sensors will throw a wobbler and the engine light will come on. Happened first in my 2 nd year of ownership from new under warranty and Nissan just reset it and said don't worry as long as it doesn't come back. Got this a few years back For a tenner it saved alot of faffing with the pedal dance tonight when the EML came on. Same ol same ol.......O2 sensors again if I'm not mistaken. A quick reset and a spirited 30 min drive home and the light hasn't come back. Anyone else have this code pop up every couple years?

Wow.....even the W brace looks new. Bagged yourself a good example there for sure

Still amazes me how these "secret handshake" procedures work

.......with mine it turned out to be a sensor behind the steering wheel that went faulty. Clock spring I think. About £100 on eBay 2nd hand if it is

If it keeps reappearing check the connectors beneath your seat in case a stray object like a bottle of water etc has knocked them loose

Got these from Amazon for about £6 https://www.amazon.co.uk/WINOMO-Polishing-Sponge-Buffing-Adapter/dp/B071LFWJ3Y Used the hardest orange pads twice now to correct headlights and the black softest ones twice to apply a paint cleanser to the bodywork before waxing. The orange pad made light work of correcting yellowing headlights. Mine weren't terrible as they had been done every 1-2 years for a while now. The pads washed up as good as new in some fairy liquid showing no sign of wear after 2 washes. Not used them for paint correction though but for £6 to do the headlights and for glazes etc I think they're good value. At first I thought they'd fall apart and disintegrate but they've proved me wrong.

Years ago the tailgate and rear plastic bumper on my wife's car got caved in. The body shop used filler on the bumper and then a textured black paint. The finish was pretty good. Bit after 5 years it had gone a chalky white, similar to 20yr old faded trim. Gtechniq C4 had no effect. Rather than use those ghastly sticky back to black dressings which streak and run in the rain, I remembered SuperStu's write up on Solution Finish paint. The bottle was ordered and arrived. It was so tiny you'd struggle to cram 2 Rolos in it Alas Stuff did say a little goes a long way so I wasn't too worried. The stuff was amazing. Dabbed a bit onto a MF and wiped on. Blended into the surrounding couple of inches and the colour match is PERFECT. The only evidence is the slight change in surface texture from the repair beneath. the pics below are after 3 months. No maintenance or top ups and I still have over 90% left in the bottle. ......and not so noticeable standing back So a big to Stu for the heads up

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That's a mighty fine zed You could sit in a deck chair next to it and just gaze at it all weekend! I remember when I goty zed I parked it on the drive and sat at the dinner table looking out the window at my zed at breakfast. Breakfast lasted about 3 hours that morning

Got some cheap £6 eBay tripods to raise my worklight! Just gave the zed a wash incorporating the Aldi light and the 2 little tripods The Aldi light is the one at the passenger rear wheel with the eBay one just visible at the passenger front. Smaller cob worklight on their new tripods

Saw you stuck in school traffic as I crossed the road. Didn't come up to wave as it would probably look like a random odd man chasing you down

A mighty fine chariot there

Nice to see another sunset orange zed has found a good home. Welcome to the OC

Very menacing in that pic^ I bet many a driver has caught a glimpse of that in their rear view mirror and pulled into the slow lane to make way for THE BEAST

Lovely calipers....... really finish off the car well.

Now that is a sight to behold. And the sun was shining today too

That pic of the zed looks like she's "stopping for a drink" is not something you see often........very special photo that. WORTHY OF A CALENDAR ENTRY

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First time I've seen the blue accents alongside the blue tinged tailpipes..... Looks great

Sounds fair. Glad you have a solution

^I'd rather have a Nismo 370z over a Scirocco R Congratulations on your new acquisition. Remember to post up pics

Was in Aldi today and picked up their rechargeable led worklight for £20. No mention of wattage, but rated at 600 lumens and 4 HR run time. 3 yr warranty. Here's a side by side comparison with an "allegedly" 20w typical Chinese light from eBay. The Aldi one is much slimmer and compact on the left. The bigger eBay one is very slightly brighter in practice but only if you look hard enough. Used it tonight to wash the zed but only managed to clean the wheels before rain stopped play so no piccies of it in action yet. The QC from an Aldi supplier should be more reliable than the unknown eBay stuff and I'd rather pay the £20 at Aldi than risk taking a punt on an unknown supplier for £17 which is the cheapest I've seen for a 20w one.

Really caught some nice glowing pics there.

Good luck. Post up pics when you acquire your new zed