DannyBoy

Is this not sort of a moot point with the zed? Numerous tuners have stated and proven that the zed WILL run on an anti-det map if you run it on regular unleaded. Putting aside all the speculative 'this will destroy your engine' stuff, I think it goes without saying that running on an anti-det map is not going to make as much power as running on the normal map on the correct fuel. DB

Price? Seems like good car but what are they asking? Would probably pay 7.5k Max for that age/mileage/spec, and then probably only if I'd really fallen in love with it. DB

As Doogy said, repair it and paint it. Cheaper than buying another one and more satisfying too DB

Apparently the insurance/legal system in Russia is so corrupt that unless there's indisputable evidence of fault it's pretty much whoever can come up with the biggest bribe that wins. This is why there are so many of these videos from Russia, because something crazy like 60% of cars have a dashcam of some sort installed. The way some of those cars just dissolved when hit by trucks it properly scary. You wouldn't have a hope in hell. DB

Thanks guys, that's what I thought as well unfortunately. However, when she reported the accident the police told her (of the record) that if they prosecute him for his parking (which as he was two feet from the kerb on double yellows they will) then insurance tends to find no fault on the part of the person who wasn't breaking the law. Sounds sketchy to me but we shall see. DB

Hi all, hoping someone on here might have a better idea about the technicalities of such things than I do. My step-mum has just collided with (reversed into) a parked vehicle. Said vehicle was parked on double yellows and by all accounts shouldn't have been there. Where does liability lie here? Common sense would dictate that whoever was moving was at fault, but the car that was hit was illegally parked in a really stupid place (opposite a parking space). Would this go down as 50/50? does anyone have any experience of a similar incident? Thanks in advance. DB

They're all surface mounted LEDs of various types except the main interior light up by the rear view mirror. The soldering itself isn't THAT hard as long as you know what you're doing and have a steady hand. The problem is that if you do mess it up and burn the circuit board it's going to get really expensive really fast. DB

Just had a quick look and that red shouldn't be a problem. SMD and glrnet are indeed correct, I'm smack bang next to Heathrow. DB

I haven't done anything in red yet, but trust me; if you have a colour in your head I can almost certainly match it. DB

My car has been sitting in a garage with its gearbox in bits for the last two months, so I haven't had it to fit the parts to. To be honest even when I get the car back I'm planning to do a full LED and gauge face conversion at the same time as the interior swap, which takes it from an hour's work to a full weekend, so it could actually be quite some time before my car gets the parts. I'd expect that the first fitted pics will be from the members who's parts I'm currently skinning (ouch) if and when they choose to post pics as that will be up to them. I'm almost ready to offer the exchange service bar a few bits that are proving hard to find, in fact depending on what parts people want doing I could well be able to cater for it now as I have most bits. You won't get any visible edges at all with this method, as the carbon is bonded straight to the part, so there is only one edge as it were. Feel free to PM me if you have further questions DB

I'm not photoshopping that dave... Anyway why do you ask, having trouble in the rigidity department? DB

Doh I've done some housekeeping on my inbox now, so hopefully PMs should get through, sorry for any incovenience. DB

It's called the rear strut brace cover, and it's really easy to remove. you have to take off some surrounding trim but there are no screws or anything, just the usual plastic clips. Try doing a search on google rather than on here, as it tends to work better, and you'll get results from other places too; some of the best gudes around are on blogs rather than owner's clubs. For the part or R35LEE, one of them will have it. DB

I got a bit carried away... I realise it'll probably make no difference at all, but if we don't try then we'll have no one but ourselves to blame when it gets even worse. DB

The actual guidelines on TV adverts for cars are hilarious, what follows are slightly simplified versions, but are not exaggerated. Basically you can't say a car is good because it's fast, you can't imply that driving fast is fun, you can't imply that driving slowly is boring,and you can't portray driving as a competitive sport (which is odd, because it is). Note that all references are purely to the word 'fast' and make no mention of actual laws and speed limits (although there are other regs about driving recklessly etc.) It's pretty insulting that someone somewhere thinks that because I see something on a TV advert I will immediately go and replicate it on a street. I might have done, when I was five, but then I wouldn't have been able to drive back then would I, so does it matter? Obviously Ferrari and McLaren don't actually need TV advertising, but it's a good job because they'd be pretty stuck on things to say if they ever wanted to. "This is a 458 italia, it is extremely expensive, kinda pretty, hugely impractical and everyone will hate you if you own one. erm, buy it please?" DB

Sounds like a hell of a project... Any details on what you have planned? DB

Is there actually a guide for this on here? I know there are a few others floating around the internet but if there isn't one on the forum then I might try to make one when I do mine. DB

+1, surely Keyser's is longer than 30 pages? Although admittedly there are a lot of 'great job etc' posts which don't really add much. DB

A few people (SMD for example, who's just posted as I'm writing) have done a full LED conversion with Blackcats gauge faces, and I've got all the stuff ready to go in over the winter myself. I'm DIYing it, as there's nothing too intimidating if you're handy with a soldering iron. My plan B for if i get in over my head is to have a general electronic repair service do all the soldering, but still do the taking apart and putting back together myself. DB

+1 Whilst personally I would try my best to get an acceptable result before posting anything like this, I certainly don't think that a trader has any right to expect someone to do so. If they've done a bad job, even if it is later rectified, I'd still rather know about it because to my mind doing a good job in the first place and rectifying a **** up are not the same thing. I also think that Dragon has a point in that there is a certain amount of blind 'worship' on this forum relating to some long-time traders. Surely the point of a community like this is to pool experience? If anyone offering new experience that someone doesn't like is shouted down then the experience pool is worthless and we may as well not have a club. That said Dragon, a slightly less confrontational tone might have helped you get your point across here mate. DB

All Zed gearboxes are pretty industrial, even the later ones. If it's just a bit clunky and noisey then I wouldn't worry about it; it's a 'they all do that sir' sort of thing, If you're getting a proper grinding crunch when selecting gears, particularly second, then you could be having synchro issues although I'd have expected that to be picked up by the gearbox rebuild as knackered synchros are pretty damn obvious. DB

The technology is definitely available to buy now, mainly from LG and Sony it seems. Dual inputs (two seperate devices or two unrelated displays, as opposed to two displays from the same device that are direclty related, such as dual screen gaming) is an interesting one though. The restriction I would imagine is going to come partly from the input devices; with the current version of the Sky+HD box you can only ever watch one channel on the same box, so you'd need to buy a multiroom box and hook it up to a different input on the same TV. The tv/Xbox combo is a better bet, although tbh I haven't actually seen any TVs that openly claim to be able to handle displaying two inputs simultaneously. I can't see it being that hard to have two sound channels either, maybe one for speakers and one for headphones, that shouldn't be a problem. Seems to me that this technology is still in its infancy, and that now probably isn't the best time to buy in. DB

On the whole 'touch screen' thing, I replaced my Bose because of the skipping and cut-out issues and went for a pioneer touch screen double-din. The sound is great, and it looks nice, but the touch screen is a proper nightmare; you can't see it in sunlight, and you have to be full on looking at it to know what you're pressing becuase you can't do it by touch which means traffic lights only really. Steering control compatability will help a bit, but only with volume and track, if you want to swap playlists or fiddle with the EQ you need to be stationary, which is a PITA. Kinda wish I'd got one with buttons now, but then they don't look as good, so it's swings and roundabouts I guess. DB

My vote for other: Ferrari 355 spider with a manual 'box. Purely a coincidence that it's a Ferrari, I just think they're epic. DB

If it's a pre-facelift: you have to take the inside of the cubby door off, which realistically means taking it off the dash, which means taking the dash off the car, which means taking the gear surround trim off first. Fair amount of faff, but if it's something that's annoying you it's probably worth it. DB