Parsnip

Dropped price to £7,000 for a quick sale - don't have room for 3 cars at the moment!

Had plenty of interest for splitting it - still not keen to do so.

Spec is as follows:

GT Pack (Brembo Brakes, Bose Stereo, Heated Leather Seats, Xenons etc.)

Standard Exhaust replaced with a Nismo Catback Exhaust

Standard Catalysts replaced with Berk High Flow Catalysts

JWT Popcharger Intake (will supply standard intake with sale)

Motordyne Plenum spacer

Dastek Unichip Piggyback ECU (Tuned by Wallace Performance in Aberdeen – 289.5 HP at the flywheel)

The car is currently fitted with standard 350Z alloys with Kumho KW27 Winter Tyres (good amount of tread left). The 350Z GT pack Rays alloys (Picture 1) are included in the sale and are fitted with Hankook Ventus V12's which are close to needing replacement.

The paintwork isn't perfect with some gravel rash on the front bumper and a few minor door dings on the passenger side, but is in generally good condition and has been looked after.

Full service history with some receipts - the only ones missing are a few P1s (oil and filter) that I did myself. Last service (P2) done end of July 2013 including a full Waxoyl undercoat + new belts.

My forum profile (Parsnip) has the car listed in the "My Garage" and gives a rough idea of running costs and what has been spent on the car.

MOT until end of Jan 2015

Tax until June 2014

No part-ex - I have already bought a replacement. Weekends/evening viewings in Aberdeen preferred.

Pictures here:

http://www.pistonhea...exhaust/2309034

Cheers.

Wallace Performance are always worth a shout - they know their stuff and managed to get my zed through its MOT despite the exhaust doing its best to kill the environment

I have a ginger one and finish work at 2 on Fridays in Dyce, but it has a big Le Sarthe sticker on the back, not a ring one

I'd have parked across the 2 spaces next to him, nice and close to his passenger door. Or encircled it in trolleys, depending on how much time I had to waste....

Any particular reason why?

The internet hardman in you is strong.

The middle one sounds like me - a 55, Berk HFCs and a Nismo exhaust and a couple of black stickers on the back left over from Le Mans:

The bottom one I definatley recognise - parks opposite one of our buildings - has a nice bodykit on it.

1. Downhuman facelift/carbon

2.

3. sx Dave prefacelift/carbon

4. Hennerz prefacelift/FRP

5.

6. Kyte350 facelift/????

7. Bobbyheinz facelift/ carbon

8. Squanchy pre facelift/ carbon

9. Ceejay29 Pre-facelift / Carbon

10. Payco facelift / carbon

11. s1an1de facelift/carbon

12.

13. dan-bourne facelift/frp

14. StevoD pre-facelft/frp

15. Notfub pre-facelift/carbon - cannot receive any new messages

16. brummiestormer facelift/both

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19.

20. MartynB85 Pre-Facelift / Carbon - Paid

21.

22. LloydV Pre-facelift / frp

23. Tinyflier Facelift/FRP + fitting -Paid

I'm out - bit expensive for my tastes

The best consoles. You could disagree, but you would be wrong.

NES vs Master system

SNES vs Mega Drive

N64 vs Dreamcast vs PS1

Xbox vs PS2

Xbox 360 vs PS3 vs Wii

New Xbox vs PS4 vs Wii U - too early to say.

I think the generations are all roughly right.

I think they will all go the way of the media centre - proper gamers have PCs. Console gamers are on average more casual - marketing a console to pure gamers would be suicide - how many people bought a PS3 because it was a cheap Blu Ray player and treated the games as an extra? A fair few I would imagine.

Noone want to change their console every year to be able to play the latest game on ultra settings - if they did, they should have bought a pc.

Personally, I would prefer a box that only played games, but that isn't what a console is anymore - Sony and Microsoft know this - for pure gaming a console will never, ever match PC gaming - they need the people with the netflix subscription who don't care about comparing framerates to buy their consoles to buy them.

I wish...

Masking tape is a doddle to put on compared to vinyl. The tape was to try to keep the stripes straight, worked surprisingly well.

A month early, but you can't say no to a sunny day

3 1/2 hours work (not counting the prep work cleaning it!) - still needs a bit of work to get rig of some bubbles and a few more bits of viper stripe to be done (the front lip and rear spoiler)

Has done the rounds at work and gets a few double takes when driving

Been listening it today, not blown away yet, but willing to give it a chance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-22523900 - don't know if that means anything, possibly that they plan on doing something about it.

Reading a text or answering your phone in a traffic jam is a bit silly and will get you a slapped wrist, playing a game on an ipad is orders of magnitude worse. The mind boggles.

What an idiot. Surely an easy one for plod?

France in June you say?

Le Mans is lovely that time of year.

Meh, either way, will keep using V-Power, whatever it may be called.

Supermarket fuel is crap - unless you know it is a shell/bp tanker giving them the stuff.

2 tanks down of what has came out of the pump as Nitro, but could easilly be normal V-Power - no noticable difference. I would like them to replace the pump handles with the cool ones on the posters though

It is tough being a student and often calls for desperate measures, being caught out by the odd five to ten minutes here and there IMO does not warrant a £35 fine

What if I abandoned my car somewhere blocking you for 10 minutes - would you think a £35 fine suitable?

£35 is fair for parking like a div IMO - if you don't want to get a ticket, don't park where you aren't supposed to.

Do the crime, do the time (or fine in this case)

Another "depends on price" here

1. Downhuman facelift/carbon

2. Arran prefacelift/carbon

3. sx Dave prefacelift/carbon

4. Hennerz prefacelift/FRP

5. Kyler prefacelift/Carbon

6. Kyte350 facelift/????

7. Bobbyheinz facelift/ carbon

8. Squanchy pre facelift/ carbon

9. Ceejay29 Pre-facelift / Carbon

10. Payco facelift / carbon

11. s1an1de facelift/carbon

12. Mattross1313 pre-facelift/FRP

13. dan-bourne facelift/frp

14. Louisa911 pre-facelift/frp

15 StevoD pre-facelft/frp

16. FxN facelift/carbon

17. Notfub pre-facelift/carbon

18. brummiestormer facelift/both

19. Aidan pre-facelift /frp lip

20. Parsnip pre-facelift/carbon

Did you hear about the dyslexic who walked into a bra?

I have got a Nismo and HFCs on mine, No complaints about it being too quiet

Didn't sail through on emissions at the last MOT, but did pass with some coaxing.

They do rasp a bit - proper growl low down, through to a bit of raspyness getting up the rev range - to me it gives the impression that there is a lot of gas (and unburnt v-power ) going through, rather than poor design.

I have got a (crap) video if you want to compare, but it a phone one, done at night - could probably manage something better if you want a true comparison.

London which is one of the biggest financial capitals in the world and brings in billions. Scotland has nothing like that.

 

You do know this topic is about oil? You have heard of Aberdeen, right?

I'm Scottish and I work in oil. It doesn't matter who it belongs to, the ship for cashing in on it properly has well and truely sailed.

If Scotland had become indepandant 50 years ago and had (crucially) managed it properly, then we would be in a similar state to Norway - huge oil revenue, companies all asking "how high" when told to jump and a massive pot of money there for the people.

As it is, there are plenty of companies who could take or leave north sea oil - granted, the big developments like BP Quad will still go ahead, but companies like Apache are built around running a tight ship and making a profit on tight margins - pump them for money and they will leave. The idea that there is a global shortage of oil is nonsense - there is however going to be a point where oil is much less economical to recover.

I have yet to hear one good argument for Scotland going it alone - "Scotland will be in charge of its own destiny" is what the Salmond lot trot out - destiny isn't going to pay my mortgage.

I am genuinley scared of what will happen next year - evey intelligent, contributing member of society I have spoken to (I'm talking everything from taxi drivers to fairly senior guys in big O&G companies) is dead against it, but there are two many who will be swayed by the "braveheart" approach.

If you need to ask, then don't do it. Questionable taste aside, anything like that is asking for trouble.

 

Would I personally find a pair of boobies (real or cartoon) on a sticker on a car offensive? No. Would I reasonably expect a member of the public to find it offensive? Yes I would, and for that reason I think it's a very bad idea.

This is the point - legal or not, having a pair of boobs on your car is likley to get you more hassle than it is worth.

Is getting pulled and (I would put money on this) getting landed with an S5 worth it for "questionable" (that is me keeping my opinion out of it...) vinyl?

This has S5 written all over it. Saying "Im not fussed if i get pulled over and its legal" is a bit stupid (not to mention hugely naive) - how do your tyres look? what about a complimentary exhaust noise check? Mind if you come down the station with your documentation? All your stuff checks out - here is a section 5 anyway - get rid of the decal.

Im no copper, but having a pair of knockers on your car and then coming out with the "its legal, I don't care" will be a clear fail of the attitude test and a fairly easy slam dunk for them on the S5 front.

Also, why?

The Oatmeal is rather wonderful. Say goodbye to your Friday workday if you haven't seen his stuff before...

This sounds a bit like one of those "if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound" type things.