Stutopia

The Zed is the first car I have personally owned for a few years, so in Feb when I bought her I expected a fair whack. No NCB and no experience of powerful RWDs. They smashed everyone else's price and stuck me on their 10 month accelerator plan (1 year NCB after 10 months, but ties you in as no one else counts this as a full year NCB obvs). Over the year I've kept them up-to-date on mods and they charged me, but not ripped me off. Renewal time just arrived and they gave me a decent, but unspectacular reduction. I rang around a few insurers from here, though extremely helpful, only one could beat my renewal. I called elephant up to discuss and they not only matched my new quote (loyalty discount they call it), but also didn't take a penny for my Berk's or when I explained to them the previous owner had done UpRev, which I'd recently discovered. I'm a bit para about insurance, so always keep on the straight and narrow with them. I know this is how businesses should treat "valued" customers, but this is in stark contrast to some other "big name" insurers from my past who haven't given a monkeys when I've said I'm off to a new provider. Decent customer service on the blower as well, even if words like UpRev and High Flow Cats do cause some confusion

Another Hong Kong special for me, with no duty to pay.

A fine service from Ewen on a few bits since Zman took up golf and moved to Marbella I'll no doubt be back for more in future.

& good luck finding the one.

Classic. The working man's sports car. Love the Capri, it reeks of Mustang.

Have a quick scan of the manual for a video in feed and cam signal too.

I've been doing a few 250 mile runs from the frozen north down to Birmingham and sadly working weekends too, so dirty road filth all over her and no weekend to do usual clean, she was so filthy I started feeling guilty :shame: But I had Saturday off last weekend so gave her a TBW, was very pleased to see that the two monthly mega detail I'd done previously had remained in tact underneath all the filthy build up It was the first time I'd used the Poorboys White Diamond and finished it off with one of the Waxybox waxes I had lying around and the usual Angelwax QED. Really impressed that it had stood up so well underneath, so much so after the TBW I just topped up with more QED. Can't see me changing from these products now, except flirting with Waxybox samples.

Is anyone else more worried about some tit (probably in one of those 4x4s where breaking distance is not impacted by wintertime conditions ) slamming in to them, rather than they're own driving style/winter tyre performance?

Could only make it for a few hours last summer, but looking forward to doing a proper job of attending next year

Wish I did, I keep looking a my cubby and thinking a Nexus job SHOULD be easy enough, but I'm not skilled either. Might still give it a go though. Do a quick search, I'm sure there are a few around on here. http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/77413-ads-tablet-install/ http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/63781-nissan-350z-custom-ipad-install/

Get a cheap Scorpion then use the saved cash for Berks sounds ace to my ears, no drone, but loud when you crank it up to 11.

I've got a 2004 DE, no nav, I just wedge my garmin in there nicely and bob's your uncle. I'm tempted to fit it permanently in that space. If you have the skills, the cubby is the perfect size to rip the cubby lid off and jam a nexus 7 in there. Then you've got sat nav and tunes and anything else you want for a fraction of the price of the OEM with a nice little tablet to boot.

This sounds interesting, it'd be cool to see some pics when you get beavering away, good luck!

I was thinking you'll need more supports, those mounts don't look substantial enough What's going in there? A spitfire engine?

No worries mate, do your checks and see what you need

3rd photo down looks mean as.

My w brace on my 2004 was just a rust sculpture, but having seen underneath a few times I can't recall much with this kind of rust, just some surface stuff on the ARBs.

I did get a free trim clip from Chorley Nissan Blackpool

You could have the black bit on the bumper in white? That'd be well Jackson.

Tyres gone too - cheers for prompt payment.

Aren't the OEM cats something nuts like £800?

Totally normal. It barely even bothers me now when I get a semi running my hand over the wheel bulge on the rear quarters.

Perfect, just my level.

That exhaust will keep your passenger's nuts toasted when you drop 'em off and they fetch their bag out the boot. Love the colour.

Just last night I went out front to meet the Domino's guy and watched him swerve around a total überdick driving the wrong way down our one way street. I think he thought the people waving and flashing were just being super friendly. For me, this is worse than misdemeanor speeding as cars entering the one way, pedestrians crossing it and people joining from side roads are only expecting to look one way for traffic. No entry signs are driving 101, I'd have 'em doing retests straight away, no points, no warnings, straight back to school.