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Drove my zed in the snow on Falkens and survived to tell the tale drive to the conditions depending on what rubber you are on, clearly some tyres are proven to be much better than others, but if in doubt don't take it out!

You wont get to 350bhp with NA mods, unless you spend an utter fortune going beyond the usual exhaust, intake etc. mods. I had a DE and got an extra 17hp with sports cats, plenum spacer, exhaust, intake work and a remap. That cost nearly £2k on its own. For the brakes, chat with Alex about shims, they often get lost over the years but sticking them in with the pads can prevent the squealing.

I dont think there is any worse feeling than leaning on hot fading brakes and the car not stopping, you suddenly could not give two hoots about how much power you have

There is I am sure a graph which shows brands of tyres along one axis and the amount of welly you can give it without losing it on another. Accelera wont lose traction if you are driving at a stupid slow pace, but then why bother with a 350z. Any decent prem/midrange to prem tyre will work with 80% of situations. And unless you live in the mountains just get summer tyres. What I am seeing a lot on 350z's at the moment is because the cost entry point is so low (circa £3500) people with much smaller maintenance budgets are buying in with excitement of owning a V6 2 seater but struggling to put the proper stuff on the car - an owner can easily spend the cost of the car on new brakes, clutch, flywheel, tyres and a few services.

Tiny little mod that makes all the difference in the car, engine start sticker for the start button which was just a plain metal button Also took time time out to remove the passenger seat. Need to grow skin back on my hands but got there in the end! They head off to the trimmer next weekend for the makeover...

Well done guys, pretty sure we stopped in a few of the same spots ourselves last year! Now just fingers crossed you dont get any post come through in the next few weeks from ze swiss police with a speeding ticket inside

Making the most of whats left of the summer

When I got back from Como last year pulled out of Dover and first thing that happened was to have to drive the long way around 4 or 5 middle laners on an empty A road!

With insurance its an algorithm with some very basic inputs based on claims data. I moved two streets away 4 years ago, literally 200m and my insurance went up 10% Things like job title make a big difference, Sales Director and Commercial Director will give you two different quotes. Insurance is blindly driven off the back of data sitting on a database and you either get lucky or you don't depending on what inputs you give. As Dan (Ekona) said what about a car that gives sensible prices back? At 20 I was driving a 1.6litre ford paying £600 a year insurance and even then that was half the value of the car. The reason insurance costs are high for 20 year olds wanting to drive a 300bhp RWD performance car is their data shows that profile of people generally don't fair too well in them when it comes to making claims.

You are going to have to pay the premium I am afraid, there are a few younger owners on here who pay a fair bit but thats the price of ownership.

Absolutely this, 350z in standard trim with touring wheels looks very underwhelming but some Teins new wheels/spacers and it looks a whole new beast.

Well worth this work just to give the drive an improvement across the range, just for accuracy its at the flywheel not the wheels you got 329? The torque looks the best result for me rather than any peak BHP measurement, around a 10% increase across the revs up to around 4500rpm

I would happily get into an EV family car, they are soulless functional machines so suit the role perfectly Main barriers at the moment are the initial outlay is still not worth it and there is no overnight charging facility for the majority who live in major cities. It just isnt a practical ownership. Yes some EV articles I agree are overly against them, but conversely have seen plenty which are overly positive that ignore all the real barriers that exist for many car owners. First thing first is to switch our actual energy supply to renewables. Next the production and disposal process of EVs needs sorting out too that is currently ignored in any carbon footprint measure in any articles I read. Then more research is done into alternative forms of transport aside from EV which is more scalable - its all good and well electrifying cars for the 'haves' of the world when billions of africans, south americans, and other poorer parts of the world still drive around in big diesel mercs. Getting a large proportion of the UK into EVs by 2050 is not really going to have much, if any, notable effect on global warming if the rest of the world is doing something else.

I think we should all thank our lucky stars we are around at a time when we can enjoy sweet sounding cars that were designed for driving before they get taxed/politicised off the roads and replaced with the EV drone experience. I also agree with the horrendous move to touchscreen tech, its a disaster waiting to happen beggars belief that it is deemed ok when so many laws are being mooted around anything that distracts you from the road be it a device or even eating/drinking.

Actually the petitions that are active are around the Heathrow expansion, so yes we all must get into EVs immediately or the world will end and our children will die but its ok for the government to sign off on an extra 700 planes a day to fly over populated areas in the name of commerce.

Park on public street. There are three chargers about ten mins walk away that are usually sat with Smart cars on them all day but otherwise its a drive over to Sainsbury's for a few there. There is no petition for EV charging, I am sure proper charging terminals will arrive in a decade or two though

It is all political tit for tat though. Take car ownership away but the investment in public transport has not been sufficient for decades. Blow tens, potentially hundreds of billions on HS2 whilst local services literally fall to pieces. London's public transport is poor when you look at its peers in other countries which are cheaper and better. So where does the government recover the billions it gets in taxation from vehicle ownership in future? As usual, its very early stage, no practical planning, ideological thinking without any sort of way of implementing it.

Yes EVs will be taxed along the same lines as ICE cars are now once they become the market share leader. The tax relief right now is just to stimulate the market to switch over. Not heard the removal of legal right to ownership, that does sound very draconian and not sure if its even legal, surely its against the 2nd amendment/constitution my right to own a vehicle!

Point is, where EVs are most needed i.e. in cities, most people do not own driveways. Therein lies the challenge.

I would love to have a driveway, but then would be living miles out of London which makes commuting much worse - my time is more important than a driveway, and to be honest where I live is absolutely perfect with a great network and wouldn't want to swap that for the sake of a driveway!

Wonderful if you can charge the cars on your driveway but what if they are parked down the road because you dont have the luxury. Remove the home charging element and they are not as convenient - so stand by my previous comment, to say that they are just as convenient is simply not true and exactly what the guy in the video pointed out that not having done the home charge first found himself making extra stops. How would the motorway hike have been if started with 30 miles in the batteries. Driveway charging is essential otherwise it adds potentially hours to a trip depending on its length - what if you drive 500 miles a week on a commute, you will also need to go off and stop at a charge point for an hour and just sit around. I guess it depends what your personal circumstances are - if you have a big driveway fine, if you dont, its inconvenient, by quite some margin.

Just a completely left field idea, but the fans are spinning in the right direction? Without looking it up and from memory if they are disconnected and the wires put back on the wrong way around they spin the wrong way. Disclaimer I could be making this up but sure I read it on here somewhere!

Yes do get the colour lined up properly. Not for me either, seems a bit flat? Whatever that means! But as martin said, its your car as long as you are happy dont worry about getting a high 'like' count for it!

Im sure an EV if you have a driveway to charge up on each evening and do little around town stuff is perfect. People that say they tour the country in it and use it all the time and there is no difference to petrol cars in terms of convenience are just making stuff up to justify the car in my humble opinion. I am not going to waste money now on an EV which I cant charge at home and have insufficient infrastructure for to charge it anyway so will stick to the ICE until they become practical.

Thats no mean feat, wrapping is definitely an art, well done! Be interesting to see how long they hold up.