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Traded her in on p/x yesterday so no longer for sale. Take care Zedders, I will be jealous every time I see one of you driving your Zeds! Topic can be closed now, thanks Mods.

Thought I'd stick a few of the photos on here to save clicking through to the ad on PH. Remember, I am open to offers!

Sadly, I must sell my beloved Zed. I know it often gets said, but I am genuinely gutted, it will be a sad day when she goes. A fantastic motor, looking for a good home. There is an ad with more photos posted on Freeads: http://www.freeads.co.uk/uk/motors/cars/nissan/8551649/nissan-350z-2005-05-manual-petrol-42000-miles/view Here's the basic information... Black 2005 (05 plate) Nissan 350Z with the GT pack and factory option Rays forged alloys. £11,250, will consider sensible offers. - 41500 miles - 3.5L V6 - Electric Windows - Electric adjusting heated mirrors - Electric folding mirrors - Electric adjusting heated leather seats - Climate Control A/C - Cruise Control - Factory fitted BOSE amp, speakers and subwoofer - Steering wheel stereo controls - PAS Current TAX and MOT, FSH The only "non standard" things in my Zed are the air filter and the head unit. The head unit is now a Pioneer DEH-7100BT. I still have the original Bose headunit to include with the car, but it suffers the typical Bose skipping issue. Generally in good condition throughout, there are a couple stone chips on the bonnet, and slight scuffing on a couple of the wheels... as you'd expect from a daily runner of this age. Service history was all Nissan until the last service which was performed by an independent, with the Nissan service sheet used for reference to ensure the service conformed to Nissan's schedule. I supplied the oil (Silkolene) and plugs for the last service to ensure my Zed got the best. Feel free to ask any questions here or contact me directly by private message and I'll send you my mobile number.

Yeah I'm enough of a geek that I'd downloaded and had a flick through most of the owners manual before I'd bought my Zed

FWIW, I just bought a set of Denso Iridium plugs from Opie for about £50.

I agree, there will be as many opinions on here about which tyre you should get as there are types of tyre Glad to hear you've got your new rubber ordered anyway, I'm sure once you have matching rubber all round and they have a few miles on them you'll be pleased with your decision and will be able to fully enjoy your Zed

I can only add my opinion to this thread, based on my own experience, and I feel its very relevant to your problem. I bought my Zed last November and I had the exact same problem... the dealer put brand new tyres on the rear when they serviced the car. Obviously when I collected the car I thought this was a good thing, two new tyres thrown in the deal! Too good to be true? Well, yes, as it turns out. I went through the winter wondering whether I'd done the right thing buying the Zed. Surely this car should out-handle the Celica it replaced? But I had to be soooo careful through corners if there was any hint of wet (remember this was November/December) and even accelerating. For example, there's a junction I pull out of every morning coming to work and on both the 2nd to 3rd change AND the 3rd to 4th change I had to be careful... too snatchy on the clutch and hard on the throttle and the back end would twitch and the traction control cut in. To be honest, if it weren't for the traction control, I reckon I'd have been in a ditch over the winter. I got the money together and decided to gamble... a set of Vredestein Ultrac Sessantas all round. £640 fitted. Even before the tyres were scrubbed it was like I was driving a different car. A thousand miles later and I have SOOOO much more confidence in the car and am getting a LOT more enjoyment from it. The Zed feels so much better balanced and composed. It turns in sharper and I get better feedback. I'm back to grinning as I zip through corners. The difference for me was quite pronounced. I had Bridgestone 040 up front and some cheap brand on the back, so pretty dire. No doubt on some combinations you can get away with mixing tyres front-to-back.... BUT... the point is I don't know why having all the tyres match makes a difference... I might be able to offer some ideas about mixed compounds and tread patterns and what the electronic bits are getting told, but ultimately I don't KNOW. And I think there are very few people on this forum, if any, that can really claim to know 100% of the science behind the grip that keeps us on the road... and THAT is the reason I think we shouldn't mix tyre types across the axles... it is the ONLY way you can be SURE that you're setting the car up as well as possible, and in the way the car was designed to be driven. It takes a lot of arrogance to claim otherwise! Whatever your experiences to date, I hope you'll consider that view. Do you want to drive your car fast through a corner thinking its "probably alright" mixing tyres across the axles, or do you want to know you've given yourself the absolute best chance of maintaining grip? Frankly, I'd rather trust the engineers and designers of the car than myself. If none of that convinces you... I'm pretty sure that one factor the car uses to judge whether the traction control should cut in is the difference in speed between the front and rear axles. Logical really, isn't it...? Whatever you decide to do mate, I hope you get the car sorted out and can get on with enjoying it

it does look a bit like it, maybe it got lost in the grass somewhere...

To be honest the guys actually wanted to do something like that, swooping over the car while it was moving. Kristian, under the Nissan canopy, has swooped in to the back of a moving Navara. He's one of the Skywalkers team, and here is the video link I mentioned earlier...

Depends what else is going on, we might have another go.

I'm afraid I'm not in the photos, I took them, these guys are FAR more experienced than I am, they are all world class skydivers, I have been extremely lucky to have the chance to photograph them at all, and had to get special permission to take the car on to the airfield. The idea came when I spotted Kristian's canopy with Nissan under it. I'll post a link to a video of the stuff he did for Nissan previously when I get home. We also have video from these jumps today i'll put online ASAP. What a cool day

Got a better angle/moment with this photo but not with the Nissan canopy...

Some of you may remember from waaaay back when I introduced myself that my hobby is skydiving. This week a pretty unique opportunity presented itself and I was lucky enough to be able to take advantage. The result is this photo, I hope you enjoy It is my car and it was taken this evening

Me me me me me!

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haha, well spotted!

Blimey, you must have been gutted when you spotted the damage. FWIW, I would let the garage and Max Power sort out between them who is going to pay for the damage, take the money and the car and then get it sorted yourself... at this stage I wouldn't have much faith in them buying a bonnet and fitting it, and I certainly wouldn't expect them to get it done soon so you're probably better off doing it yourself. Good luck getting it sorted, and enjoy the car when you finally get it

Ok, I don't have her any more, but the name she was given before I had her was Cornflake and I called her Flakey. She would be about 3 years in the photo and was about 15 to 16 inches tip to tip. Her fave things in the world were locusts for dinner, and soaking up the rays under her heat lamp most of the day, which is exactly what she's doing here! :-)

True, though the issue was actually space for the viv in the house I've moved in to rather than space in a van! Luckily I was able to rehome her with her own viv etc through the breeder I'd got her from originally and knew she was going to a good home where they already had a couple rep's. I miss her... but I really don't miss having to keep the locusts and other bugs to feed her!

Yeah I get wind noise and whistling through the top corner of the window of my drivers door, it just doesn't seem to sit right against the rubber to seal properly. I can put my finger in it and the whistling stops! It also happens at higher speeds, like yours. 70 of course

Whenever I see your avatar it makes me miss the dragon that I had. She was a rankins so a bit smaller than yours, around 15" I think. The typical sandy orange/yellow colouring. Such a funny character. She loooooved a juicy locust for dinner. Unfortunately the vivarium was just too big to take with me when I moved so she got rehomed with the viv

This link was posted in another topic which I've been saving for when I clean out my TB.... http://www.technosquareinc.com/350reset.htm

I'm afraid I can't be of help with that, I've only swapped the HU which I run through the Bose amp and speakers. There are quite a few threads on here that discuss your options.

To counter the argument of the rears being bigger... the car was designed, built and tested that way, hence it is set up to drive that way. If you adjust the relative levels of grips between the wheels (front to back, left to right, whatever) then you are moving away from the condition the car was designed and tested for. Would you recommend someone fits the wider wheels on the front? It seems like a more obvious thing to recommend against, right? But if you mix tyres around the car how do you KNOW you haven't just put the greater overall level of grip at the front of the car? Which we all know we don't want on a torquey RWD car. The way I see it, you can probably get away with having front/back differences in most circumstances, but the only way to be sure you're getting the safest conditions and the best from the car is to put a decent match for relative levels of grip around the car. I can only express my view... which is largely based on the fact that I understand a lot less about the dynamics of a car than the people that designed it

Probably I may not be able to explain exactly WHY it would make a difference, but I'm willing to believe that my own and others' experiences suggest that mixing tyres between the axles can lead to unpredictable grip situations and therefore frequent underwear changes