Supratad

Garage phoned me this afternoon, its all up and running. They've changed the oil and air filters, dried it all out and it all runs fine. They said they had performed "several road tests" which sounded a bit worrying, knowing how garages can be with the sportier car, but all in all a best outcome for what could have been disastrous. I will spend the weekend drying her out with a small heater. Although a long drive with the AC on would dehumidify it, but by long I mean an 8 hour round trip. I could go visit my mother pre-christmas.

Garage have done compression tests and say all cylinders are fine, despite there being some small amount of water inside. They've popped the plugs out, oiled the bores and stuck a heater under the ramp to dry it all out. They might try to start it tomorrow. I noticed when I dropped it off that the windows weren't stepping back up when the door shuts. Hopeful;ly thats either some sort of reset or will jsut resolve itself with drying out. I best get some crystals from Wilkingsons to help any dampness inside.

I've been making a series of rash decisions lately that have all turned out bad. Time for some introspective life re-evaluation

I'm hoping not. It wouldn't start again though, only half a turn. Maybe the starter is shafted. Given the way I feel, £500s worth of minor repairs would see me grateful compared to a smashed engine

Gawd, I've only had the thing a month. Today my road was blocked by maybe a foot, maybe less of water, I've driven through double that in the Supra with no trouble, but I stopped in this. I think I hesitated and backed off while entering into the water. The engine stopped but not with a massive bang that I might have expected if I'd hydro locked it. It wasn't high enough to get over the door cill but I had to step out and push it backwards out of the water and wait for the RAC, who I had to pay as they don't do stupidity clauses. The air inlet iw way above, but the fan churning must have chucked water up inside. There was a small amount of water in the filter box, but none running back out the intake pipe. The oil on the dipstick seemed ok, but there might have been some spots of water on the dipstick. I'm praying to the god I don't even believe in that I haven't borked it totally. Its in a the local garage getting checked over.

I don't know why people were removing their wheels and arch liners. It must be galling to then realise it could be easily adjusted.

That link must be post facelift then. I adjusted my lights earlier and the toothed wheel is very accessible from the engine bay. Just a normal phillips screwdriver will reach easily. I can see clearly now, I can see all obstacles in my way. Clearly someone at Nissan noticed that home maintenance of this item was easy and thought "Right, put a stop to THAT. Let's make it much,much harder"

It takes me 5 mins to open the garage door

Ooh I hope so. I don't mind a bit of spannering but stripping out the arches just to adjust lights is an awkward job. Blooming car designers. Thanks for the pics, they will be a big help.

Cars not lowered, as far as a i know. It looks normal. It would have to be lowered at front end more than rear though to have such a short beam spread. If the lights can be adjusted thats great, I can do the garage door set-up. I presumed with self levellers there was no such option.

Hi I have the HID type lights and have heard tales of them being self levelling, yet when driving at night on unlit roads, I can safely manage only 40mph on dipped beam. It simply does not light further than 50 yards up the road. Can I manually adjust them and raise them up a bit?

There are proper glass polishes about, like Jewellers Rouge, and some brand names I can't recall but are googleable. I heard recently that if you can feel it with a fingernail, it won't polish out.

Hopefully you will have picked up something on the way home and it went flat while sitting on the drive, so it would just be a £10 puncture fix. Otherwise you drove home on a flat and that will have wrecked the inner casing.

Ah cheers I'll get in touch with him.

Hi. Did the Z come with an owners pack, like a leather A5 size case, for the manual and service book warrenty forms, that sort of thing? If so, are they available either through private sale or badgering a Nissan dealer?

I was a toss-up between the Z and a rather nice supercharged, black XKR up in Newcastle, but I think the XKR would be too wallowy and its auto box is not as good as the XFs. So it was either all super-luxury or still retain my japanese sports car history.

Mine is a SZ, non turbo. I shall be trying to sell it on to "ease" the cost of the 350Z. Z seemed to me to be the next logical step

That was the wife's fault. I had a "SUP" plate for the supra so in return she wanted that plate. I highly recommend the XF, for the older gent. Its like an experienced hooker. comforting yet suitably racy, and quite accommodating in the rear too.

Hello everyone, Rob here Just joined last week prior to the site upgrade. I have been a long term Supra owner and finally moved on to a very lovely 350Z last Friday. I think it was always in the back of my mind having been soundly whipped by one at Elvington in 2006 (no plate that spelt NITRO iirc), so I'm straight in here and will be heading over to the ICE section to upgrade the stock HU. Here's a low grade phone picture, the only one I have so far.