SteveJJH

Well, the snow's here but I've not got any takers. Maybe next year!

The cold weather's coming and I've not sold these yet if anyone's interested. I'm looking for about £75 for the pair or £40 for just the rears, but I'll take offers, especially if you're local and we can exchange in person (I'm near Cambridge)

Hi Guys! These have been sitting in my garage for a while now. They’re no good to me any more unfortunately (sniff), so would anyone on here be interested? They have never been used as I had the use of another car last winter, and I only bought them last year. They are suitable for the Rays Alloys rim sizes (I forget exactly what they are), but they will fit any wheel that size (and probably similar sizes, but I offer no guarantees about that) If anyone wanted just the rears, I could keep hold of the fronts in case they fit my MX Is it ok to ask for offers or do I have to come up with a price? Delivery will depend on whatever method the buyer prefers For more info on autosocks here’s the website: http://www.autosock.co.uk/ And here’s the one where you can buy them: http://www.autosockdirect.co.uk/ p.s. I’ve never sold anything on here before so advice and hints on best payment methods would be good from anyone Here’s the picture: http://flic.kr/p/dCDJxF

The labour plus the paint plus just the big bits that need replacing put it waaay out for me, and I really don't want to get into a situation where it spirals into a bigger and bigger bill as more things are discovered All I can do is try to sell it as it is and move on, unfortunately it seems what I can get for it won't even cover the brakes and tyres I've just put on it

well, the decision has been made now. it's not worth repairing

anyone interested in buying it as is?

The garage reckon its fixable. It does look like the suspension turrets haven't moved. It seems a lot of people on here are now advising against fixing it, and I think that would be the easier option, but it would depend on how much I could get for it I don't really want a project that spirals out of control with costs and then at the end of it all I'm left with a car that's hardly worth the repair bill I was looking last night at some nice aftermarket lights, bumpers and bonnets, but it will mark the car out as an obvious frontender

The picture is looking down on the left chassis rail, just as it passes the radiator

It's annoying cos it's a low mileage UK model with FSH and I'm only the second owner, but it seems like repairing it might be a bad idea. Has anyone out there repaired a Z with this damage? I really need to make a decision pretty quick as the garage are continuing work on it today

Tracking it isn't really my plan. This could be game over

Have a look at these and tell me if I've really made a mess here: http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii6 ... ure824.jpg http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii6 ... ure823.jpg http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii6 ... ure821.jpg http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii6 ... ure828.jpg I was under the impression these bits were easy to change, but I'm starting to wonder.

OK, here's an update. I'm pretty sure we can rule out tyre delamination. The tyre with the missing tread isn't the 225 backwards on the right, it's the front right in the correct position on the correct rim. The chunk of missing tread looks like it has been torn off by a bent piece of the front of the car. The melted track thing interests me. I was one of the first cars out after an hour long lunch break on what can probably be described as the only properly hot day this year so far. The fact that they resurfaced is intriguing. Sad fact is I crashed. I can try and blame it on a lot of things. It would be nice to know an exact cause so I can make sure it won't happen again, but as is always with these things, there are a lot of variables and they all start interacting very quickly as it goes wrong. If I ever do a track day again I will certainly be making sure I try and remove as many of them as possible. I've got a preliminary shopping list of parts. I will be contacting ZMANALEX to get his opinion, but any tips on places to get parts are appreciated. Especially lights, bonnet and bumper.

Oh, and with a little bit of hindsight what I should have done is tried to get the car to snap over to the outside of the corner and run off the track there, there's about 200 meters of run off. Bedford, the safest track in the country Anyway, as an update I went to see the car at the garage yesterday and mentioned the tyre issue, without for a moment talking about any liability or things that would cause the crash, they went a bit quiet and kinda disappeared into a back room. I left it as "we'll talk on Wednesday" One of the guys reckoned at least one of the lights is saveable, which I think brings the car firmly into repair territory

I kinda did ask the garage to prep the car for track work actually, they were fully aware that was what I was doing with the car when they fitted the brakes and tyres

I'm gutted I changed the camera angle for this run. Earlier I had the camera mounted to the rear strut brace and you could see my steering input. I did try to steer out of it, I promise, I know it doesn't look like it in the vid. I couldn't understand why it wasnt correcting

I'd like to point out I hate the claim culture, and I won't be running that route unless things turn very nasty. As many have pointed out it doesn't look like I've got much of a case anyway. I might take a tape measure with me this afternoon and see what width tyres are fitted to what width rims though I think a lot of this is me looking at a very expensive bill and clutching at straws

Well I called the garage yesterday before I knew about the tyre mix up and asked them to have a look and confirm which tyre had had a problem, they've not got back to me yet. I might hear over there this afternoon and see what the situation is. I'm not one of those people who starts rubbing their neck after an accident "oh, I think I have whiplash", and the folks at the garage are genuine people. I also realise I should have noticed something was wrong but I do feel a bit like none of this would have happened if the tyres were fitted correctly

OK guys this is getting very messy I have to say I'm pretty upset that a stupid mistake has possibly ended with me having a catastrophic accident, that could have been very very bad (ending up in a pit lane where there are people walking about) I have a couple of questions Are the Wheel rims different widths front and back? Should I seek legal advice? And if so has anyone got any suggestions where?

why's that?

HOLY C**P!!!!! how did i not notice mismatched tyres?? Good spot guys!! i thought there was something weird about the tread patterns, but i couldn't figure it out, it hadn't even occurred to me that i could have fronts and rears mixed. the garage where the car currently resides fitted my tyres, they also fitted my brake upgrade. where do i go from here?

I think I lifted just before I hit the grass, but by then it didn't really matter

that was about 10 minutes into the session. the tyres tend to squeal through all the corners on a track, but looking at a bunch of vids i've done you don't tend to hear it on the video. i'm thinking i should have had a good check over my car during the lunch break and checked the tyre pressures. this happened in the first session after lunch, it was a very hot day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7-dnO2 ... e=youtu.be

just looking through the photos on photobucket and one of the tyres doesn't look right. i was in a bit of a hurry when i took it as the rain was coming and it's the first time i've had a decent look at the pics

well, not sure if this is going to work: http://s1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii608/SteveJJH/