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...and not just tucking the Zed into a garage come October Because on a balmy january morning you can give it a little clean, C5 up the wheels and she is all set for a drive

Personally would avoid unbranded stuff - think Alex has reduced the price of his clutches of late could be wrong though

Stunning looking car

... ok just a jokey title but bloody hell this guy was lucky http://news.sky.com/home/video/16144036

Good deal that not many blacks come up and if you want to avoid the higher tax rates and get a later car this is spot on

Taking mine in next weekend, might leave flyeyes on just to see what they say, if its a problem I can just peel them off. Otherwise I would expect the Berks to go through. I havent read over the rules in full, but no new rules about original fit reflectors have to be in place is there!

I paid about £20 for some very nice black splice nuts from these guys - good prices all round

Thats how I read it It must have a cat and must pass emmissions

I think its an excellent first attempt So refreshing to actually see 350z products all slung onto one page on a website so I can compare across - and its based in the UK!

My MoT due in late Feb, a week after due date of baby - so taking mine in next weekend - no problem getting it done much earlier often its good when selling a car to stick it through an MoT, 'usually' cheap and easy to do and adds a bit more to the sell capability of it.

Handle came with a bunch of different sized rubber adapters, I just tried each one on the exposed Z handbrake lever and used the one that fitted

Handed £8.5k over to a fella in Coventry, we were sat in his living room at the time though and I arrived without the cash - I test drove first, then we went to the bank together. Another time I did a bank transfer with the other person, whilst in the bank and we sat and filled out the V5 as well before handing over the keys to the car outside.

Was saying the other day if someone opened a physical shop in the midlands which stocked 350z stuff it would have queues at the door.

Tarmac had some very nice chrome and carbon ones last year - i bought an identical one off ebay in black and carbon - super reception!

Well actually they do, and the price difference in the second hand market is around £400 to £500 depending on dealer or private sale. The extra it costs when new isn't reflected in second hand value and that is true of many cars. Essentially, the difference between a fully loaded car and one that isn't is that one sells easier than the other and the buyer will only add a token value to the fully loaded model. There is an argument to made in that people buying second-hand cars probably have more consideration for resale value than people buying new cars - lets face it, no one buys new cars with the hope of getting anything like the purchase price back, unless it's something REALLY special. Phil Like Sarnie says, have to disagree, more loaded cars sell for more - at pretty much all levels. I recently spent 2 months looking at tens of Ford Focus's in the £2k price bracket, could have snapped up a decent 1.6LX for £1.8k no problem but hung out and bought a similar mile/condition Ghia for £2.2k - I paid for the premium kit, and that was a cheaper one that I had to wait 2 months to find and buy the day it went up for sale. When I was looking to buy a Zed, spent about 4 weeks doing it, noticed in that time non GTs sitting on autotrader longer than GTs, but in my view they were somewhat overpriced so whether they were there because they were non GTs or because they were overpriced is open to debate. Zeds suffer from seasonality as well, after I bought mine prices of Black GTs went up and I was dead chuffed with my bargain - now though the price (taking into account 9 months of time passed) is way down on what I paid because we are in winter. So you are at a good time to buy I think. By all accounts it happens each year from what I have read on here.

It makes me laugh this - not because of Taras being ripped off which annoys me - but laugh at companies (including ebay) that complain bitterly that we shouldn't buy counterfeit goods, that we should be vigilant, look out for rip offs and report them - only to find they couldnt give two hoots when you do report it.

Key word is innapropriate - in that you have repaired some wiring using an old bubble gum wrapper and its contents or something of the ilk I suspect!

I have flyeyes and will probably peel it all off prior to MoT in Feb.

...I quite liked this article, I don't want this thread to go down similar routes to the striking threads we have had before but gives you an insight into how trade unions mindsets are, and why its so hard to get them to see anything from a different viewpoint. http://news.sky.com/home/business/article/16142805 His ideals are good, create jobs, support over worked workers, more productive. Firstly creating jobs has to be good. Supporting over worked workers, again yes like that. More productive, probably true but so so hard to prove. It is just a shame that it skips from these ideals straight to 'hire more work less' without any practical argument to back it up. He references 'survey results' all through it which is good but I dont think he is when he mentions 'pointless presenteeism' which I dont think is prevelant in the private sector, of all the people I know they are not hanging around to show a face, they are to ensure the business stays afloat. Ultimately, there is no solution here, simply stating that one million jobs are potentially there and saying companies should recruit more is just ridiculous. I am not sure if he has looked at the growing jobless totals, companies cant afford to keep employees let alone hire and people are working longer hours to cover the time left by the people made redundant.

I had a missed call from a Watford number, it is the customer care number I believe. I also got an 'urgent' email asking me to call them as they need to clear access to my account to check the transaction and need to ask me security details to confirm I am me.

Cheers Dan Looking at the above - very chuffed I kept my OEM bumper and restyled it than bought a Nismo!

OK didn't see the bit about super/turbo charging it...

"A catalytic convertor fitted as original equipment but missing will be a reason for failure" Assume Berks HFCs still do the job and will pass through the MoT?

Thank goodness for that, drives me mad having to put up with cars going around with these HIDs blinding you in the other direction, to the point even the other night I almost had to stop as the car coming the other way completely blinded me and I couldnt see anything at all in front of me.