geoff-r

Just wait till (I don't even want to say his name) that toss pot in that building in London kills off the value of our cars, at the end of the day, lets face it they're gas guzzlers and not particularly good for the environment, petrol will rocket sky high and make them worthless. What I'm trying to say is bite the bullet and buy one, the sound of a V6 roaring beneath your bonnet has a 'use by date', enjoy it while it lasts and buy one, you won't regret it

I have been on and off for the last 5 years. It's good to be fair. One of the more consistent events of the year. I personally prefer JAE but didn't go last year and they never seem to be able to keep it at one location which is a damn shame, Billing was good, Peterborough was okay, I think Mersea Island (spelling?) was one of the best locations. Weather plays a huge factor as well as to whether an event is good or not. I'll be going to Japfest this year, want to get the Zed there

Only exhaust I'd really want and I want that, not nearly enough pics on the ad though!

Any pics of them? Also any pics of them fitted to your car for an idea of how much they lower it by, thanks

Well when I looked at mine to be honest I went for the color I thought suited the car the best. I wanted a white one but they're quite hard to come by so I went for black but it's personal preference at the end of the day the 350 looks good in any colour.

No, the dealer requested a new gearbox, but Nissan declined. I've only had the car two months and it has 17,000 on it, had 15,000 on it when I bought it. They will fix it, they just want me to foot the bill for inspecting it. They can get lost. Maybe I should take it to Renault ah well an engineer report will change that.

I've got a whine all the time and locked in a nice warranty battle with Nissan pending my independant engineers report. Bastards won't admit my 17k mile gearbox is no good.

My washer jets have frozen every morning this week leaving me with one hell of a salty windscreen on the way to work with nothing but a bottle of lucozade to de-ice it, and there's no way I'm using that!

No difference if it's an import or not. It goes by emissions. pre-2006 (I think) is 200 odd, someone will tell you the exact figure. But after 2006 it's £400 as is mine, ouch

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WOUK77 EGRR 202018

NATIONAL SEVERE WEATHER WARNING SERVICE

 

Flash Warning of

- Widespread Icy Roads

 

For the following areas

- Blaenau Gwent (Severe)

- Bridgend (Severe)

- Caerphilly (Severe)

- Cardiff (Severe)

- Carmarthenshire (Severe)

- Merthyr Tydfil (Severe)

- Monmouthshire (Severe)

- Neath Port Talbot (Severe)

- Newport (Severe)

- Pembrokeshire (Severe)

- Rhondda Cynon Taff (Severe)

- Swansea (Severe)

- Torfaen (Severe)

- Vale of Glamorgan (Severe)

 

Showers of rain, sleet and snow will become more widespread through

Sunday evening and Sunday night giving a covering of snow in places.

With temperatures generally below freezing there will widespread ice

on untreated surfaces, these conditions persisting into Monday

morning. The public are advised to take extra care and refer to

Traffic Wales for further advice on road conditions.

 

Issued by the Met Office at 20:17 on Sunday, 20th December 2009

 

 

 

Cant see me going far today!

Love this I live in Cardiff and work in RCT (Rhondda) this morning was fun to say the least. I opted to not be a pansy and give it my best shot, made it to work, but damn, this time of year really wasn't best to convert from a fwd civic to a rwd beast!

okay well it made me laugh, but I really want one!

It's not a good look for Rays. I've had some 10 year old TE37's that sounded in better condition than some of these alloys. I'm sure the weather here doesn't help. Hope you get it sorted out mate, but yeah £50 a wheel sounds about right. There are companies that will come to you and do the wheels as well, they have the whole setup in their vans, they're pretty good.

Oh I see your point and let it be known where I live there isn't one gatso and we have terrible roads in apparently an affluent area. It's just a bit of a joke really. I suppose we could go round in circles. But do they ever consult the general public, the very people these systems are 'designed' for? I highly doubt it.

These kinds of articles really wind me up:

http://pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=21159

I'd really like to see what other people's views are on this? Are the government completely and utterly out of touch with reality? Maybe that is a stupid question in itself. They are prepared to waste money on these schemes when we are dealing with sub-standard roads. They say the tories will get rid of a lot of these road safety schemes if they get in, but I trust find it hard to trust Cameron any more than Brown, they're all a bunch of lying tossers

Unless you're an immigrant benefiting from our fabulous benefit system what does this country hold for anyone anymore?

ESP is constantly saving my ass! Came out the other morning and it said ICY but I ignored it, turned out my street and I was sideways, and this was at low speeds. Doesn't help the fact that the zed is my first RWD car.

Well done mate, you gotta be pleased with how it came out as well!

Don't worry mate, once you get any little niggles sorted it should all be fine.

I keep telling myself that mate does anyone else have any ideas as to what it is? I'm going to have to check out that a/c belt later on and if there's anything else I can check that would be great.

i had burning rubber smell and it was a/c/ belt, swapped both belts and all gone - worth a try?

Might be worth a try, I'll try and take a look at it in the light tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion. On a side note I know the cars do well if looked after as a mate had one on 80,000 miles and it sounded lovely. I just get a little disheartened when problems pop up so early on in my ownership especially when the car is so young. Considering I'm coming from owning a 92 civic that never gave me a problem and lapped up the miles to the tune of 160k when I was running back and forth to uni.

Hi guys, now I swear I saw a topic on this before but I've had a good search around and can't seem to find anything. I can't say my Zed ownership has been plain sailing so far and is slowly but surely starting to leave a bitter taste in my mouth which is starting to get a bit disheartening. Whilst the car is great and all, little problems really seem to be getting in the way. My car had been with Nissan all last week so I was without it whilst I've been trying to push on with a warranty claim regarding the gearbox. When I got it back that was all irrelevant as I was so happy to get back behind the wheel of it. Now my problem and quite a concern since getting it back is the smell of burning rubber. Unfortunately this burning rubber smell is not the kind you get from laying down the power it seems to be happening more at idle than anything.

I really noticed this tonight when I left my car idle while I went in to get keys to move my bros car so I could get on the drive. I got back in the car and there was a thick smell of burning rubber. I popped the bonnet to have a quick smell but it was dark and I could only smell the burning rubber briefly. The major thing I'm asking myself now is if the car is going to be like this at 16,000 miles I don't want to know what it's like at 60,000 miles. I hope I see 60,000 though, but does anyone have any ideas? I'm racking my brain here, thinking is it the air filter for the fans? But then it happens when the fans are in the 'off' position. So my only other thought is that it's a belt catching somewhere. Any ideas?

I know this is going to sound a bit out there but does anyone think this could be a belt? I got my car back on tuesday and every now and then, sometimes it's quite strong, but I'm getting a smell of burning rubber in the cabin. It's not nice. I'm just wondering if the burning smell is linked to the whine?

+1 on the vest and the sticky things on the head light, as far I know you can get them from Halfords for not much and they come with instructions but never done it before. For the GB sticker hope for you it's not real, or, just put it up on the back window with some blue tack or something.

 

On the autoban be carefull and remember to stick to 70 mph

Stick to 70 and you may as well be stopped in the hard shoulder lol. I went round Europe with a bunch of mates in a 1.8 190 last year and it struggled somewhat.

But in answer to the original poster I think you can put the headlight adjusters on the 350 headlights just read the instructions and you do need the GB sticker on

Just be aware by the time you have added shipping and import tax onto them you are virtually at the same price as buying in the uk.

That was my reservation with the so called hidden costs.

Good to get a review of either side. Have you bought wheels from outside of the UK? Whereas they may be cheaper, I'm not so sure customs take lightly to them?

I'm just trying to do a bit of research before I take the plunge but I'm trying to get peoples reviews of websites/companies that sell wheels internationally. I say internationally because they can usually be cheaper, but then I may stand corrected on this? I'm specifically looking into a set of Rays, most likely 19" TE37's as I'm a sucker for TE's after owning a set on my Honda before buying my 350.

Sounds like you were lucky. Those that have the intakes in their engine bay will be fine, the filter needs to be submerged to suck into the engine, and then you really are stuck!