HaydnH

Even though I haven't signed anything, I'm fairly certain that the act of requesting a quote, receiving the quote and accepting it form an automatic contract. I'm also fairly certain that "satisfactory quality" is an automatic inclusion in any contract regarding sales of goods/supply of services. That contract would certainly be with the estate agent who in turn would have a pretty similar contract with the contractor doing the work regardless of if they signed anything or not between themselves.

Just thought, if you guys have another baby, would it be delivered by STORQEN?

Personally I'd want it programmed for keyless entry in to the Z... that mod would be the nuts!!

Actually, the landlord can do that themselves. As most of the boiler is new and the system has been thoroughly drained recently the risk is pretty minimal. See the "Who can assess the risk?" section of the below, or all of it if you want more info: http://www.hse.gov.uk/legionnaires/legionella-landlords-responsibilities.htm http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/myth-busting/2015/case357-consultants-letting-agents-exposure-to-legionella.htm

Hi All, I'm looking for some advice which I'll probably ignore and get professional advice anyway... but thought I'd vent on here for my own sanity! I've recently moved in with the other half so have a flat that I own and want to rent out. Initially when I bough the flat (back in 2007) one of the internal doors had a cat flap cut in it so I replaced it myself, swapping from brass to silver hinges in the process. Unfortunately I never quite got around to changing all the other hinges so among other things the flat needed some work doing. The list of work also included: - Hinges as above - new washing machine/dishwasher. - sanding+oiling a wood floor. - fixing a rotten skirting board under the shower (which turned in to a replacement wall, tiling the shower cubicle, new taps, tray and skirting board). - gas safety certificate (which turned in to 2 inspection hatches for the flu and about £800 in replacement parts for the boiler). - C02 alarm - new carpet in bedroom plus new threshold between carpet and wooden floor in hallway As I'm fairly busy, I decided to ask an estate agent if they'd be interested in organsing the above work with their management team and then renting the flat out when done, this was back in late September (!!!), a quote was given and the work started. Most of the work has been done to a good standard, apart from: - after replacing the hinges the doors wouldn't close! - the threshold now won't fit due to the door not being square - the new carpet had a "bump" in it due to bad fitting - the c02 alarm was never delivered. I've given them 3-4 attempts to come back in and sort the issues, on the second attempt they managed to damage my door frames (which have now been touched up, ish) and the last being at the beginning of December when I was away for a week when I stated I was away and wanted it finally sorted when I got back or I'd be finding a new estate agent. On my return, nothing had been fixed so I collected the keys and walked away. I've now gone to a new estate agent who have recitifed the doors and C02 alarm, I'll live with the carpet/threshold issue unfortunately. They've also found me a new tenant after 9 days who will move in tomorrow. Anyway, I paid for most of the work above, but held back the money for the doors after seeing the first attempt until it was put right. Regardless, the contractor is now pursuing the rest of the money even though I had to get someone else to complete the work and the first estate agent are saying that as I'm now not using them they're walking away and putting the contractor, who they hired, directly in touch with me. I never signed anything with them, but surely they're the company I hired regardless of if they contract it out? On top of the above, I've now had to get someone in today to do another gas safety certificate as the contractor is witholding it until the above is paid (even though I've paid for the certificate and been asking for over a week!). I've also missed out on 4-6 weeks rent and I've had to pay an extra month's council tax! Any thoughts? Personally I'm out of pocket but just want to move on... if the contractor really wants to go to small claims court I'd happily ask for the money I believe I'm owed. Haydn.

Any update?

My cars parked outside in this shitty weather?!? Maybe I should come and collect it so it's in it's usual nice home.

Oooooh I'll have a AAM twin turbo kit please.

I reckon you should add weight to the specs for all your alloys... it drives me insane having to hunt the internet for weights.

Triphammer is great for tabacco flavours: http://triphammer.co.uk/product-category/tobac/

My recommendation is do it and see. I'm interested to see how it turns out... but please do a before/after dyno.

I wonder how much long tubes, cams, head porting and ITBs cost including fitting? £3/4K+ Compared to about, £4-6k to install a Vortech kit on a revup for about 440hp?

You mean they're adding scratches for free? Nice!

Out of curiosity, how much would changing the cams I wonder how much long tubes, cams, head porting and ITBs cost including fitting?

I don't find them harsh and they have 32 hardness settings (although admittedly I find the first 10 or so too soft for any practical use).

At the top of any forum (not thread), to the left of "start new topic" there's a "mark forum as read" text link... which intermittently fails for me.

I got one of these recently and it's fine, didn't shop around though so you may get it cheaper elsewhere: http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/c/Nissan_350Z_3.5_2008/p/car-parts/car-electrics-and-car-lighting/electrical/car-battery/?444770057&1&226a00ae1d7997a61702bd839cff4cf296efe685&000020

I thought my Z had all the optional extras but it has never handled my meat...

OH, and for anyone reading the above and thinking "how bad can the video be", trust me, don't watch it. I can't apologise to Ekona enough for sticking that in his head. (sorry again, I should have made the don't watch it more clear).

I just did. At least the cord guys went quickly. The drowning was awful, but the RPG into the car was horrendous. What is really awful is that none of them were struggling or looking panicked at all as it was being setup, and you know that's because they go through dozens of mock executions beforehand so they just assume this is another one of those. When it sinks in it's real... I can't think of anyone I'd subject that to. If anyone thinks we should leave them alone, go watch the video. It's not hard to find. "isis drowning men in a cage" will get you there as the first link, but please be aware that it's horrible to watch. That doesn't mean it should be avoided though. Sorry!! The calm faces struck me as well... that and the video production quality, apparently they purposely recruit people with those skills from western universities. Horrible doesn't even start to cover it.

Some say Alex invented the combustion engine.

<grumble>I know this is likely an issue with the IP Board software rather than the 350Z forum, but does anyone else find that the "mark this forum as read" link fails sometimes? You click it, you get the 3 dots at the top, the dots vanish and the links unbold. Then you load the forum list and that forum is bold again with the same threads unread in it. Shouldn't the software have a return value for the mark as read function and not unbold the threads if it fails?</grumble>

MeisterR on here is another contender for coilovers, most people (including myself) seem happy with them and their not that expensive.

Before you look at a solution I you have to consider what the Daesh problem actually is. What they want is for every Muslim to join their forces to start a world war against the non-muslims and eventually end up with a peaceful world of believers only. They'll settle for nothing less, so how can you possibly negotiate with that, "hey come meet the G8 leaders for a chat to discuss all non-mulsims commiting group suicide... oh and leave your belt at home pelase"? I doubt building their infrastructure etc will help, sure those not radicalised already would be happier, but the radicals will still want the same thing but now with easier supply lines and communications available. Will bombing help? I doubt it, but it might weaken them and honestly what other options are there? I honestly think Daesh are absolutely sick, I'm not sure how many people have seen the video which includes drowning men in a cage and wrapping explosive cord around people's necks (Don't watch it! Really!), but I'm not even sure I can call them human anymore, they don't deserve human rights. Whatever happens though, we need to learn from our previous mistakes. If you're going to get involved, don't walk away and leave a power vacuum for people like Daesh to walk in to, work with the governments in the region to create long lasting prosperity and stabilisation.

Phone their sales number, surely they can advice which battery they manufacture would fit a 350Z.