The G Man

He looks right at home there Ellie, sadly for Nismo, has a betrothed undenuted Patterdale waiting for her

C'moan The Accies

Yup, even my insurance company were on the ball, cover note arrived next day after asking for it to allow the registration, this is what usually holds things up

^^^^^ this.

 

You normally get the same number back. Leave it to car dealers and it's a fricken nightmare!

 

Not all dealers are a nightmare, my plate was switched from my old car to my new one and the original on my old car reinstated, all sorted out by the dealer with no fuss or drama.

 

 

 

How long did it take though?

 

My family all have 'private regs' and when they have changed cars they've been quoted 14 days for changing plates hence delaying the car! I normally do it for them at the DVLA office and it takes 10 mins although sometimes it can be 7 days but at least you can have your new car!

Took my docs in a week before, all ready on 1st Sep pick up, all cool. Did it through the Glasgow office of the DVLA when I originally got the plate and yes it took 10/15 mins, but I'm lucky that I have one of their offices relatively close, some don't. Dealer was hassle free, some aren't.

Wisny me

South and North Lanarkshire council have failed again to put any of the millions of tons of salt on any of their roads, useless, feckless and utterly abysmal. Haven't seen a gritter all day, and they aren't clearing the motorways either, never mind the MAIN routes through towns.

Fail, fail, fail!

If no one can get to work you cretinous arseholes, then we can't pay your wages Get round the feckin schemes, bunch of throbbers, same year on year

Absolute disgrace

He's gonna be HUGE

My Patterdale could do him though

^^^^^ this.

 

You normally get the same number back. Leave it to car dealers and it's a fricken nightmare!

Not all dealers are a nightmare, my plate was switched from my old car to my new one and the original on my old car reinstated, all sorted out by the dealer with no fuss or drama.

Try Demon Plates, you will have to send off or scan and email your licence and/or passport (proof of id) and your V5 (proof of ownership), this is the legislative demand and not the online plate makers.

Yup, looking at the thread with the Stillen mods and dyno results is interesting. Ideally I'll have something done by then but I don't think that it will be imperative to give him a good thrashing

Has no one had the electronic limiter removed then? Or has Nissan made this an expensive and prohibitive process?

The links above to the Merkin site is all 350 related but still makes interesting, although complicated reading, for me anyway

Vicky, no probs Lot's of practice is good Oh and the M90

Neil, would that be Hamilton Rd duel carriagway?

What I need though is facts, cold hard facts to bust his ass and put his gas at a peep

Mibees Done Knockers a few times in my Rex

Got a "Help for Heroes" track day at RAF Valley in Wales next year and the 370 is up against the RS, both on the circuit and the main runway, fastest speed on the main runway to be ajudicated by the RAF Police with their radar guns .

There may be a thread going up for this, depends on the take up and, no I can't get you invites to Wills and Kate's wedding .

I don't think it'll be a problem on either the circuit or the "drag race" to beat it as I know the RS drivers capability and mine but I don't know at the mo whether we'll run out of runway before I hit 155 and can safely brake, or he can hit his reputed 163, doubt any of us will get very close.

What I do know is, he's doin' my fechin head in with his shopping trolley stats

Ok we know that the 370 is electronically limited to 155mph, apparantly, not having tested this capability. But does anyone know of the true top speed and if so, can you back it up with any solid, attributable evidence?

Having a bit of a top trumps discussion with a Focus RS300 owner, which has an apparant top speed is 163, and is not limited, that's it!

Nice as long as the BBC don't find out the forum is giving the thumbs up to streaming it's latest DVD...

You'll still watch it though Don't think it's a Beeb site

Don't know if this is the right place, here goes anyway Enjoy

jeremy clarkson the italian job

Feel for you, within a day of fitting my first, aherm, "mod", Z dustcaps , they were gone

Hope you get it fixed with little hassle

So in return for having a damaged car, having it sent away for repair twice and having a decent area of the paintwork not fully match the rest (there are still differences in one side to the other noticeable now), I have received precisely ZERO from Jaguar or Hatfields in compensation, not even an offer of a cut price service, never mind any actual compensation.

My 370 goes in on Monday for the bonnet to be re-sprayed, due to a manufacturing fault( a few spots of dust that was sprayed over at the factory) and a mark on the roof due IMO, to an over zealous valeter on prep before I picked the car up.

I'm still struggling as to whether I let the dealer loose on the paintwork, do they have the facility and knowhow to repair this "self healing" paint?, will the paint match be perfect? (I'm expecting it to be), if it's not, how much hassle will I go through to get it right? etc etc etc.

These niggles are borne of the fact that I identified these problems within the first two weeks of ownership (amazing what you can discover by detailing your car), along with a busted B Pillar trim external. The dealership in question took the relevant photos and apparantly sent them of to Nissan for Warranty approval, they also ordered the B Pillar part.

I heard nothing, nada, zilch from them until one day they called out the blue with "Does your pillar trim have a light?", no says I it's an external part, "Oh, we've ordered the wrong part", "Have you approval from Nissan re the paintwork issue?" I asked, "What paintwork issue?"!!!WTF!!

So as you can see I'm not overly confident on this with this dealership! It's actually putting me off the car!

What, sometimes, should be a simple piece of customer PR, "yes sir, no problem sir, we'll fix that", turns into a major drama and can destroy your faith in a mark. I've had it with Mazda, Seat and BMW as well, with varying degrees of contempt, but I would say, for every unhappy customer, there'll be thousands of satisfied ones.

I also agree that on other car forums, there is varying degrees of "moderation" and on others, like this one, it's fairly open. Sometimes owners of "new" cars join these forums because they have a problem, and invariably a whole lot of threads are started, that to an "outsider", would make it seem that, the particular mark is riddled with trouble.

Anyway, my tuppence worth and the Jury is still out at the moment on the Nissan dealership that I've bought from.

linda and her mates are going here http://www.citation-glasgow.com/home.html, next Saturday, looks quite nice fo r drinks/food/chat

I'll get the lowdown next week

8th suits me Dunfechindee We won't have to share shoes, will we?

Ach, only kiddin', I know it's underwear you share

I'm defo up for one of those when I get my 70

 

Get a sound clip up soooooon

 

Paul

Noooooooooooooooo! I'm getting one first, there can only be one in Scotland

Hoping at least 4 numbers and the 2 stars come up tonight first

Ok now all we need is a date and time Bearing in mind December is busy, busy, busy

Then a list