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Lovely looking car, what was that spoiler, anyone know?

All i can say is oh dear god, good luck. I considder myself pretty good at wrapping interior items, have done door handles, guage pods, various other plastic bits, even an iphone and sky remote, but when i tried to do my roof last weekend (with quality Hexis vinyl i might add) all i ended up with was a massive wrinkled mess. The Zeds roof is an absolute nightmare IMO as if you start in the corner, as i beleive yoyu shoud, the vinyl has to stretch in 3 different directions and planes. Im dont have any figures as for the length of the wrap, the roof iirc is about 1.5-2m alone, so id guess somewhere between 15-20M but i could be way off. Best wait for RT to pop in

I have to do this soon too. I suspect mine (as many peoples are) will be the bannana arm, but considering droplinks are in the region of £35 il try those first

Mine dont work anyway. Fancy swapping cars Will so i have ones that work and you have ones that dont! ...

The sides and the front (especially the front splitter) are lovely. But...did they let someone who works in Halfords Ripspeed design department design the rear? Shame

i beleive the general consesus is no. Something to do with premature engine wear iirc

I've got 10k and dont have any police or MOT problems. Odd, it all really falls under MOT laws. Its not illegal per-se, but its likely to fail and youre likely to get stopped by the police, but then if the car looks like its supposed to have HID's, like ours do, they may think its not worth the effort and leave alone. I personally stick with 6000k, and even these are bad in heavy rain/snow, i cant imagine what 10,000k would be like!

haha seems legit to me!

Interior domes (at least for mine, pre facelift) are 31mm. Measured them myself and got them fitted currently

So far just.. 1x Pair 2003 rear lights 1x Standard aerial for the radio but ive only had the car for 4-5 weeks

Looks good mate

If it helps anyone at all, Sidelights, numberplate lights and side indicators are all W5W bulbs, these dont need to be the CANBUS special ones but at the same time it doesnt hurt iof they are. The interior dome lights are 31mm festoon bulbs and the lights behind the sun visors are 29mm festoons (these are hard to find in LED variaty, had to order mine from the USA). All of the above on my Zed are LED. The visors is a little OTT, its difficut to actually use the mirrir as the LED is so bright!

Odd, mine are some of the best lights i've ever had. I admit ive made then slightly less good by sticking 6000k HID's in, so i have lost a little light. The full (high) beam always surprises me how bright that is, but i swear my indicators are nuclear powered. I can see them reflecting on road signs 100 metres ahead even when theres other cars around...

Il go against the grain here. I like it

Haha same I'd buy it if it said 99

This is correct I removed my old wrap at the weekend with a hot air gun. Obviously they all differ in power but i had mine on about 50% heat, just enough the get the vinyl warm. It still took me about 45 mins to get it all off as the vinyl has to be warm, but once its warn is stretches so you have to be carefull not to tear it! lol Aslong as you arent holding the gun in 1 place you wont hurt the paint, but it wouldnt take a lot of heat to cause damage, just keep it moving.

Phew, sounds very lucky, a short in the engine bay fuse box could be very nasty indeed!

Yup, i hate the noise that cars make when the oil is cold, you can tell its not happy, bvut as all have said above, oil pressure is fine, aslong as it settles down when its warm

Id agree, megs is a good start as the clay is rather firm. Im now using dodo clay with born slippy lube (a departure for mne since my entire cleaning ritual is meguires based). The dodo clay is very tacky to the point where it sticks to your fingers, you need to be carefull not to do it opn a hot day otherwise the clay melts and gets stuck to your paint. Happened to me once and took me 4 full washes before i got rid of it all

I've had the same thing. Didn't know it was a police car. I tried slowing down, still stuck right up my rear end,I then tried to pull away and in came the lights. Once pulled over I got the usual "do you know why I stopped you?" To which I answered yes, I then explained that I felt threatened when at 2am I had a car sat right up my arse no matter if I sped up or slowed down and was trying to get away. I got a caution. I'm sure most Road traffic police are fine but some of them seem to almost verge on entrapment with the way they operate, sadly, if you're in a powerful sports car they sea to think its a sure fire result that you will speed.

Yep, even without the transponder it should turn, just wont start. Obviously another one thats been cut wrong

In my experience, this makes it easier. I dont mean to sexist but ive only ever had 3 incidents and all 3 involved woman hitting the rear of my cars. The last one was fairly severe, and we were both insured by admiral. I got a whole new rear bumper fitted and sprayed, courtesy car and some injury pay-out too (and no, i wasnt claiming just because like some people, i still get neck pains and headaches from that accident). I dont find admiral terribly bad, were fine for the time i was with them. I fail to see how they're any worse than any other mainstream insurer anyway, although clearly in this situation they are wrong, whos to say any other insurer wouldnt come up with the same result.

Im thinking i need to get one of these ordered... and some Z burgers too

Who did you ask? Just a mechanic who operates a garage from his home around where i live. He's all above board and a registered MOT tester but was rather rude to me about the Zed, which was odd as he loves doing work on the Mrs's Hyundai Getz. Il try the place you suggested in Colchester as i work there and it really has to fit in around my work. Kinda makes it hard when your out the door at 7:30AM and not back in until 6:30PM.

Correct. And anything above 8000k will get you pulled over and is an MOT fail