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I also take back what l said about ARC Having the best workman For the job. It transpires all the craftsmen are down at Slough and all the wannabes Are at Park Royal. I believe there are some reputable Nissan Dealers in South Croydon called Ancaster? Does anyOne know if they are any good?

Mill hill is the hub for the performance cars of WLMG. they sent me for a test drive in a 55 plate that failed it's safety inspection. Failed it's mot. Needed 3k for new disks and pads and exhaust Box. Plus the 2 front tyres were below legal limit. Had someone crashed into me and been killed all cars involved are impounded and checked by police safety examiners. I as the driver would have been charged for driving a vehicle in an roadworthy condition and could in a worse cash senario been up on manslaughter charge. it is one of many ongoing things that is going On between WLMG and myself at present. It would appear that the company buyer purchased the car cheep off the internet then shoved full dealership price on it and only sent it for mot inspection when a punter comes along to buy it. It's an adoptive policy of repair maintenance as opposed to preventive maintenance that franchise dealerships have adopted to maximise profits. However on this occasion it backfired as they tried to sell it to the wrong guy. This 2009 plate I got of them is not that much better. I hate WLMG and every lying conceited trickster who is Trying to lie their way out of their obligations. Bit off topic but they are champagne prices for servicing and cowboy workmanship and attitude. Steer clear

Ironic really. I purchased it on 21st march. Recieved it on 25th march drove 40 miles in total and was damaged on 27th March. Think it's some kind of female conspiracy. I only went out because A woman contacted me re purchasing my narrow Boat that was for sale at hampton Court. She never turned up. On the way back a woman drove her car into my side. The Repair centre is owned by a woman? Peter

Well folks 5 weeks on and I still have not got the car back. It did arrive 2 days ago and I sent it straight back to the repairers in Park Royal who I recommended to the insurer? They had forgot to do the front bumper yet the insurance agreed 7 hrs R&R. The car was washed and polished!! But somehow on the 9.5 mile drive from the workshop to my place it got covered in rubbing compound and polishing machine swirls. The inside was covered in dust and there were dust hand prints all over the dash and sat system. The leather was not much better and the Bose woofer I think is supposed to be black? In fact I have seen cleaner barn finds. I have had a mercedes hire car from the 3rd party insurers at a cost of £160 + Vat a day x 38 days = £6210.60 and rising. I could get a nice little Zed for that. Total bill will be over £15k easy. The happy chappie is the car hire owner!! Peter

Can't find me passport!!:)

I agree with not posting the plate without the owners permission. A lot of cars on auction sites have there plate covered up. One reason is you can get applications to see the name and address of the registerd keeper. So if they posted on here they are off on holiday they could be burgled. The one that gets me was a neighbor of mine upset someone and they had identical cars. 2.8 granada. The upset guy got some plates made the same as my neighbors and would put them on his car and speed through gatso's and hit over 100mph on the Motorway. On one occasion he filled up the car with fuel and did not pay from a local garage. Just imagine the inconvenience. It has to be up to the individual plus number plates are covered by the data protection act as they expose private details:) Peter

Well I am glad they never churned up the turf:)

have bought a roll of acoustic capret 12mm thick. Am going to take the boot mat out and use it as a tenplate. Spray glue it to the underside of the boot mat then put an anti slip rubber matt on top of that. maybe the same for front floor pans. I am a bit peeved because why on earth they did not intergrated the system like the Pathfinder Adventura I just do not know. The only reason I could think of is that all the Zeds had a bluetooth module fitting and the sat nav was an optional extra, They have kept the 2 systems seperate. Bit of a sod when I want to dial out as l am a member of the "Shoot on sight brigade" of people all those who drive and text use phone other than hands free when driving. Surely there must be a way to sort this voice thing out. maybe the mic is to sensitive? Or should Iearn Japanese. I think japanese for I love you is Anata ga suki desu! wonder what pardon is!!! Peter

It's the rottwieller syndrome. he who barks the loudest gets all the attention. Must be at least £200 claim for day off work and a proffesional bodt valeter to clean that up. But then I am an antiestablishmentarian and have nowt else to do except champion the cause of the underdog dadadada??? Peter

Well confused.Return button? Apparantly I cant enter the phone book manually. I have to say phone entry. she says name please. repeat name please. number then I say store. She says name stored. Only she doesnt she says pardon all the time sometimes very rapidly I have named her "The Bitch" !! Peter

All 3rd party have admitted full liability and her Insurance is paying for everything so it's all new stuff from Nissan and the firm I contracted to do the work is ARC at Park Royal North just of Hanger lane at Brent cross. I have used them before and there workmanship is beyond reproach and they will of course give me a new Ray Alloy. Bridgstone Tyre to match the other one and will not skimp. Thanks for the offers. As for the Doctor being in the Phone. I am disabled but thought it was hilarious when the car kept saying cancell and ringing her. I think this is some kind of initiation test from you lot. You got to the car before i collected it and fed it some widgets:) Now about this phone. I have the manual and the adaptor i got of a chap on ebay. I slotted it in and entred 1234 and it talks to my Iphone 4 no problems. It's just the female voice just keeps saying pardon. and cant seem to understand what I say. English is chosen but the amount of times I was forced to use the F**K word to her was real bad!!! Any one else had these troubles? Thanks to the guys offering to help with parts. Had I been paying myself i would have been well up for it. Regards Peter (thenoname)

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Well folks I thought I would share my 1st weeks experience of being a 350z owner with you. I purchased BT58CPU last friday from a main Dealer who gave me £1500 more for my Pathfinder than I paid for it 2 years ago. Bought it home from Ruislip to Morden and lovely car to drive. Saturday late at night I went out down to gatwick just for a gentle play!! Sunday well that was it for my Z:( I was going along Hampton Court Way towards the A3 and acording to my POGO alert plus tracking system I was racing along at 17mph. Bottom line is a car turned right from the BP garage across 2 lanes blind and into my side, Result 1 pancaked nearside RAY and cut tyre just 3 days old. Front bumper damage. Needs a new Drivers Door and maybe the wheel arch. A guy I know spent 4 hrs trying to refurbish the wheel but by his own admission he feels with the amount of gunk on there the integrity may be compromised. So it will need replacing and laser alignment. The driver an elderly lady and her 2 passengers all agreed that my car was invisible!!! WEll confused now. Well the lady driver said. Your car is the same colour of the sky a dull grey and I can't see that colour car. I then looked down at the damage and said well thats not invisible is it my dear? And to add the sun is out the sky is blue forget the raining in my heart but tarmac is not blue it is black!!!. Anyway her insurance was absolutely brillient and has offered me a service that far exceeds my own AXA. Manor car hire in Warrinton (who provide premier football stars with vehicles to wrapp up in tunnels by Portugese drivers who like to pull the windows down to listen to the roar through the tunnels and then not looking where they are going pollaxe a new 430!!) have been instructed to provide me with a like for like car for as long as i like as i am not driving a bent Zed. They have given me a 1 year old mercedes grand edition CLS auto that is nearly as fast as the Zed. Not that that is an issue. However the guy said. Insurance companies tend not to see Nissan as a super car but an average vehicle even though the GTR out performs a Porsha Turbo 911 and until they do we are not treated with the same respect as a ferrari or Aston owner. And the initial fight I had to get AXA to use Nissan parts only. Not inferior parts. They say I am entitled to BStandard kite mark parts only. yet they were not paying and Acromas (SAGA) the at fault insurers want me to have Nissan parts and give me a decent car? AXA my own insurers only wanted me to have a car whilst mine was at the repairers. The bottom line is we need to watch out for budget car insurers like Swift and AXA as it pays to get a better one if you can. Also get GAP insurance like I have as it is well worth it. Another point is AXA tried to argue is that they wanted the details of why my old insurance would not insure the Zed. Purely because the CO-Op do not insure that car for anyone period. Infact out of the 250 insurance companies on go compare at least 180 do not insure a Zed. I then told AXA that I am going to get the new shape GTR and went online for a quote. They themselves along with 220 would not touch the car so i said would you like me to write down all 220 would not quote insurers!!! A lot of lessons to learn. And just to wind me up another notch l got a bluetooth module that fitted and works fine but all the female voice in the car keeps saying is Pardon!!! 3 hours to input 16 names. and the 1st name i got in was my doctors and she must have dialled it 30 times. good job they were closed. So although no one can help on the repair front It would be good if we could get some imput on Insurances attitude to Japanese technology that far surpasses our own. If Nissan bought out ferrari they said they would have a veyron eater out in a year at a third of the price? Any help please with the bluetooth witch that constantly says pardon would be nice. Kind regards to you all Peter (thenoname)

I think most of the questions have been answered. Ebay or Dealer it looks like!!! Peter

Hi all. Could ome kind sole tell me if the 350Z's came supplied with the Bluetooth Phone module or you had to pay for it as an extra? I just picked up my 2nd hand 2009 Zed with sat nav and I thought the sat nav was the same as my Pathfinder Adventura. Then I opened the arm rest and it was missing? If they did come supplied stock I might get them to buy me one:) Thanks in advance and appologies if this has been written before. Peter

Would speeding bullets set of the Gatso's or are they to fast ha ha. Ok we shall kill that and concentrate on refresher courses for us older guys. At the moment I have to have a medical every 5 years for my PSV and HGV. Surely some one who has a condition and has an attack at 80 mph on the motorway can cause just as much damage as swerving as a lorry does. If I was driving a truck and a car swerved into my path My 1st thoughts are to swerve if not I could catapult the car into oblivion or more often than not into inocent traffic. I dont think a five yearly medical and refresher day would not hurt. Peter

Can't argue with any of that. I put down on my Firearms I suffer from Ankylosing Spondilitis and Chronic Cluster Headaches otherwise known as suicide headaches. However suicide has never crossed my mind. But then I could be a lier and put down there is nothing wrong with me and I suffer from Bi-polar. As we both agree we have the toughest gun laws in the world if a check to ones Doctor was made compulsary I truley think we could make our nation stand out and send a message to the rest of the world. It still would not make aquiring a gun water tight but certainly close the gap. And as to diactivated weapons I personnaly would like to see the action wealded and hot metal poored down the barrel. Mu mate has a Side by side diactivated shot gun with a certificate and all they have doen id drill 2 holes in the barrells. I inter changed the barrells and put a 12guage in each chamber and missed the 1st clay but got the 2nd? Certificate has the London proffing house official stamp on it! Any views on that rabbit! peter

I like your dad was transport manager but it was not for me so itaught the subject at Herts College instead, Yep Speed limiters are a pain in the arse when going up hill as they slow you down when you have a load on. You need inertia to carry you up the side. Then you come upon a truck going a slight bit slower so some drivers come out and overtake at the brow of the hill. Then as you go down the other side the nearside truch gains momentum so speeds up and as he is heavier gets pushed down the hill faster than the overtaking one that is lighter. Hence you know the rest 2 trucks side by side 56mph for mile after mile and neither giving way. I gave the name in an earlier comment on this post of the main offender. Statistic wise and based on a % basis as you have to remember there were less vehicles on the roads. There were 40% fewer incidents involving coaches and trucks 25 years ago than today. Unless all vehicles have some kind of speed limiter then it wont work as efectively. I believe the japanese have limited all cars to 120 mph. Correct me if I am wrong. Every one tends to blame bus and truck drivers and sometimes this is the case but the idiot who hurtles onto the motorway straight into the outside lane is a cause of swerving. As is the constant convoy of Nissan micras that sit in the North Bound middle lane on a Friday pm of the M25 M1 and in reverse on the Sunday evening that bewilders me. Why does this make of car behave in this manner? Is it some kind of built in function that when it is overloaded it just goes straight to the middle lane and site there? By the way the only 2 vehicles that are allowed to cruise in the middle lane are Ambulances on blue lights for obviouse reasons and PSV's in fog or falling snow when visability is down to 100 metres.

NO in the fuel shortage 30 years ago they reduced the overal speed by 10 mph across the board for eahg type of vehicle. So Motorways for cars dropped from 70 to 60 and duel carriageways the same. Trucks and buses were reduced to 50 Bearing in mind a bus or coach (Alarge bus) by definition could do 70 as well on motorways. And the official ruling or State Law these speeds still stand. When the fuel crisis was over we just assumed it would go up again so we all went back to 70 on the motorway. When the law says it is 60. It's just one of those daft subjects of truth that give us a laugh and take our minds of the serious stuff for a while. Peter

As no one has responded as to why the speed limit for cars on the motorway is 60 and trucks and buses is 50 I will tell you Back in the time of Ranald regan and maggie Thatcher there was a worl fuel shortage. Or rather we would not pay the price the arabs wanted. So Regan put a blanket speed limit of 55 across the USA and we by act of Parliament lowered the speed limit acordingly. When the full crisis was over there was no act of Parliament ever bought out to counter act the previous one so the 60mph still stands as case law. One of the daftest is truck speeds. Trucks can do 60 mph on the motorway but EU legislation says they must be fitted with a speed limiter divice set at 56mph. So if a truck is doing 60 mph as down hillover run will do that and as an ex trucker you do not apply the brakes with a heavy load as you will heat up the wheels and start throwing the cheap nasty retreads through the winscreens of cars killing people. So you use the exhaust brake./telmar or what ever to hopefully slow you down. But it wont have no effect at 40 tonnes or as I had 80 tones down reigate hill so you just hang on. All the driver can be charged with is a defective speed limiter, But they are not defective as some of the people that carry out tacho checking do not under stand the basic principle or purpetual motion. However Truck tail gateing is every where and every day and if you are overtaking they will move up even closer. This is one dangerous monouver that never seems to be stopped. Not that I am saying it isn't. And by far the worst offenders and the biggest name in hit and run incidents and overturning there truck on the motorways tailgating and killing people is the international truck company Norbert Dentressangle Trucking. They always seem to be at the centre of it and dissapear leaving the aftermath for others to clean up. They took over were Trathins Coaches left of 30 years ago. /

Proplem is the substances used for illigal drugs often have a dirivitive in for prescribed drugs. For example I take Morphin and oxicontine which is stronger than the Morphine and the prednisolone prescribed steroid has the same side effects as its illigal conterpart anabolic steroid. I get violent mood swings if I am not carefull but have learnt to control them as the pain eats most of the effect up. As does the Morphine and Oxycontine. But they are all I believe made from Opium. Or as the Yanks used to say Anlodipine and ever since Doctors gave this "Anlodipine out" willy nilly 200 years ago it has been the done thing. Especially with innercity doctors who have less time to see patients and no time at all to research their back ground. When using the computer enhanced awareness test I would 1st of all run through it with the guys on the course without medication. I would then go and take some Oral morphine and do the same test. My speed increased by average 40% my reactions slowed 60% and i missed pedestrians and bystanders by inches. Only trouble is I had to get public transport home as I will not drive if I feel effected. I only have to look into the mirror and look at my eyes:) I now never use slow release pain relief of any kind only oral morph as it is quickly in and out of the system. I am driving at 12 noon tomorow so I will not take anything after 12 noon today? But none of this is on the medication bottle. It used to say on class 1 prescribed drugs "Do not drive whilst taking this medication" Now it just says "This medication may make you tired or drowsy. If effected do not drive" I would like to see the Autopsy report for Mr Moat and see what was in his system as only people who are truly ill or depressed commit suicide otherwise it's down to chemical unbalance in the adrenal gland proberbly caused by self administered drug abuse. He chose death by cop but took out inocent people with him. I am still not against tightening of gun laws as we have the toughest tests in the world. All that would happen would be more and more guns dissapearing off the register and not being accounted for. However I have I am friends with several firearms officers and regularly go shooting with them. We all agree one thing that the application forms could be amended. At the moment it says have you ever been treated for depression etc, If you put no in the box they never contact your Doctor as they are so understaffed. and now they have taken the out of hrs payment off of them even less thorough tests will be done. i think that every application should consist of a medical with your GP just as PSV and LGV. This would stop those with depresive illnesses and the ones that Take anti depresants getting a licence. Not sure about MR Moat but I just made a phone call and was told off the record that there is a mention of Bi-polar disorder. Might explain as Lithium is a strange drug? Peter

Your both right I started on a tractor and was ploughing fields and taking corn and wheat from combines by the age of 11. I saved all my money and bought a 3 wheel vespa and drove it round the farm were I worked and as the farmers fields stopped about half a mile from were I lived used to take it along the track and park it in the field. No good in the wet and snow though. Even in the army we learnt our 1st test on landies and trained in a compound called the Nursery at rushmore Arena near Aldershot. I have a profile on FB and the amount of girls who put down there no 1 bug bearer is slow drivers. They even ask for boyfriends with fast cars. So thats were the boy show offs come from. One other thing to add. because of the nature of my illness I sometimes take large doses of prescribed sreroids. They make me go from calm to wild cat in a split 2nd so I avoid driving as much as I can when on them and count lamp posts when annoyed in standing traffic. I always leave early for hospital appointments. I was 1st put on high dose steroids at the tender age of 16. I wonder what would of happened being a red headed 18 year old if I had been on these prescribed drugs whilst driving. My 1st road car was a volkswagen karmann ghia. That would have hurt being hit by that. Illigal steroids are freely available to anyone that will pay? I used to do a night run to Manchester from Heathrow with a artic full of parcels. One of the other drivers was a young body builder. he used to take anabolic Steroids. It was nothing for this maniac to undertake on the hard shoulder and that was before limiters when our Scanias would do 85mph. The amount of people he pulled out of cars and hit yet no one ever did anything as they were to scared. Not sure what the law is on illigal steroids. I hope they are classed as a class one because they are a sure killer of the inocent. If anyone wants to visualise a person on steroids and drugs look closely at Rraoul Moat!

Maybe, but we should all know the rules and expect to suffer the consequences. Anyway, I think the money from fines goes to Central Government not to the councils. In any case its not the fines that hurt, its the penalty points, that's why wealthy celebrities spend thousands to avoid a £60 fine....so, if we drop the fines but keep the points what will the whingers say then Pete I never read this properly. Yes definately keep the points:) Well said Peter:)

The council or county that took the cameras out i believe said the money goes to the Police. If everyone did keep to the speed limit we could be faced with a giant wall of traffic which would very quickly grid lock the road network So we must maintain a staggered speed to prevent this. But who would want to be the slow and who would want to be the fast, I am not against any sherking and evry debate will have fores and against thats what makes it so interesting. Do the crime do the time as they said. My gripe is non licence holders or wreck drivers killing people!! Isn't it funny how we all like to own a fast car then try to keep the speed down. Anyone know the gate code for Dunsfold areodrome?

Now I dont work for the company I shall tell you a story. I was free lance driving instructor to a large TFL London bus company. They always have short falls of drivers. When a country joins EC and you can take your pick the law on international driving licences is that all they have to do is swop for a uk licence as their licence has to be recognised. The main Ec country that UK recruits from their test standard is a lot lower than ours. And the cosequences were distasterous. Crashes left right and centre. A spate of low bridge incidents and people knocked down on crossings. These drivers are out on the roads all over the UK and this also includes truck drivers. Enough said. I suppose as we get older and wiser we learn more but we never stop learning. I was lucky I took all my driving tests includinh HGV and PSV in the Army so racing and showing off would get me an audiance with the sergant major. We all need to take our minds back to passing our test and getting our 1st car. I was taught how to pass my test. Not how to drive. That we teach ourselves and the main difference between the time Iwe took out test and now is we tend to take more chances because we are more confident. But then I took my test 36 years ago and a lot less traffic about. In this country I truely believe the test should be a lot tougher and everyone should have a refresher course at set intervals. yes I know this is expensive and a lot of people will disagree. just because I haven't had an accident in over 30 years of driving isn;t down to my driving skills and does all the certificates I have does not make me a better driver. It is down to pure luck. Because thus far the drugged up junky or **** head has not come hurtling towards me to put my skills to the test. My 1st reaction would be to swerve, but swerve into what. I won;t have time to look and see the young woman with the baby buggy on the pavement. Or the pensioner at the bus stop. And it is not in my nature to play russian roulett. So what is the answer as all the training and skills in the world will not prepare you for those waste of spaces. If you or your actions cause the death of someone because you are under the influence of drink or drugs or have stolen the car or not insured and no MOT tha you should be given a life sentance period.