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Nice idea, have to check the calendar, but I'm up for checking it out. It's a long way up, don't think I've been past Inverness, should be a decent mission!

I keep seeing cool roads in Scotland on TV, in the movies. Skyfall has a great shot of what I believe to be the A82 near Glencoe. I haven't had the opportunity to take the Zed for a proper stretch of her legs and I quite fancy heading north for a couple of days to soak it up. Any suggestions for roads or, even better, a route to take in some of the scenery and obviously enjoy the drive around? Ill go as far up as need be, before speaking Icelandic, to find some great stretches.

(I always wanted to do one of those)

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I think I've got one from when mine was upgraded. Ill go have a look and let you know.

Wasp T12 Speechtool, it's got twin MP3 mixing decks and a massive 5, cos that's the most common number. It's well weapon. http://www.trashbat.co.ck/t12/index.html (Requires flash) I already got mine from Japan, where's yours?

Quite a lot of people side load from photo bucket.

A JC WC?

What's that thing sticking out the bumper?

I think I went to school with that chick in the background on the left with a drink. Skirts? Oh you mean the belts they wear just under the muffin top Not recovered from my last night out there yet

Not used them yet, but they seem legit (as much as any website!). I wasn't sure about tyre choice, but if I can order 4x Michelin PSS for £700 then it seems like the only choice to me. Althought the price on the Falkens is decent too. I think with the amount of different threads on here I've read, they're both good tyres and neither will cause problems. Although I am a noob!

Great car but I think I love the photo even more!

Gutted for you mate. They should just be killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution. I fear this every single night with the wastoids and dickheads round here. If you can't have something beautiful, damage something beautiful of someone else's. Mindless. Is key proof paint the future? http://www.alsacorp.com/products/softtouch/softtouch.htm

Doesn't the immobiliser kick in if the car is left unlocked for a while as a little safety feature? I've seen other cars do that. Not sure the non-start is necessarily linked to the other issue with the alarm.

Welcome. She's a beauty, everyone is getting a blue except me!

Try here mate http://lovetyres.com/ I was scared off the michelins by price, but looking at a few different tyres now and they seem good prices for all kinds of brands.

Michelin Pilot Super Sports £335 for a pair of rears and £353 for a pair of fronts, all in delivered for £700. Whoop whoop! Anyone else confused by smaller fronts being more expensive than big rears?

I'm reading minimum weight ratings of 91 front and 96 rear. Please shout if I'm wrong.

Salt-n-Pepa rule. I've got an original Vanilla Ice - To The Extreme, some might consider it embarrassing. I know he's awesome. Word to your mother.

I thought I was ripped off at £15 a can!

Duly noted. Thanks.

Thanks for the info fellas, very useful. If the 91/95 is the load rating, is there a minimum load rating Zed tyres should have? Also where do insurers stand on monkeying around with the tyres, is this the sort of thing they can hide behind at claim time?

I've read many threads in this section, the reviews of different tyres and the seemingly endless debate on mixing rubber . Pre-Zed I was the bloke who bought the cheapest "brand" tyre for my car, I have now learnt this may not have been the correct approach. Sadly, with the huge amount of info I have read, I now know a lot more, but I have a bit of information overload and can't decide which tyres are appropriate to my specific needs. The rears are worn on my Zed, couple of mm to go. I am hoping that by asking a couple of questions and then laying out a couple of my driving requirements, you knowledgable and experienced tyre buyers will shove me in the right direction, and I won't provoke too much controversial debate! I have Ray's on my Zed, she came with BS Potenza RE040s on the front and RE050s on the back and I intend to go same rubber all round. (1) I believe the Nissan approved tyre should be (front) 225/45/18 Y and (rear) 245/45/18 Y - please can you advise if I am wrong? I don't want to deviate from the NIssan suggested sizes. (2) When I browse tyres I note the dimensions and speed rating, but some also have figures like 91 or 95 before the speed letter, what is this? Also some even have letters after the speed, such as XL (extra large, like my value meal?) which bit is extra large? What difference does asymmetrical make? Why are some tyres re-inforced and others not? (3) Up until a few days ago I never even considered winter/summer tyres. I appreciate that a compound with the ability to shift water and operate at a cold temperatures is important in winter, but is possible to get an "all weather" tyre that I can comfortably use all year round? Or does everyone simply change them? She doesn't go out if a flake of snow has fallen. My tyre requirements are a tyre that copes well with the cold northern temperatures the cold northern incessant rain relatively hard wearing is good for short drives to work (so doesn't need much warm up time) no track use grippy but with a predictable drop off (so not something that hardly slides, then simply falls off the cliff edge and spins me round!) I've been considering the following options but I'm very open to suggestion (however, I can't bring myself to go over £200 per tyre, preferably much less!) Falken FK453, Ultrac Sessanta, Continental Sport Contact 3, BS Potenza RE050, Pirelli P Zero for summer, and if I go winter, the Nokian WR A3. As usual, any pointers would be greatly appreciated

Gave her a fast wash today, the gash weather and my schedule mean I've got a shed full of new detailing products to use and no opportunity to use them, so frustrated. Grrrrr. So I thought I'd give the freebie Quick External Detailer a go as I had 20 minutes before sundown. Really impressed with it, particularly given the fact it went straight on after a quick pressure wash at the garage and microfibre towel off, great reflective sheen to it and beautifully smooth finish (particularly on my freshly sprayed roof and passenger door). Fully impressed by the QED. However, the more I've cleaned her recently, the more I've noticed marks on the paint work. I knew about the stone chips on the front but I keep spotting little marks here and there on panels. Driving me nuts! It must have had an inch of product on it when I bought her last month as I'm sure I checked all these places before spending the money. Wish I could afford a full respray!

Total p!sser, I spent a fortune in these fees over many years renting. £200 sometimes, maybe they do a job check and credit search if it's your first go. We did credit searches and job checks when I was in finance, took 20 minutes max and £2 in costs, the other £198 is pure profiteering for filthy middle man agents. Get your own back by insisting they come and fix every single tiny little thing you notice in the house. It's fees like that which encourage some tenants to treat a place like sh!t, cos they feel they've been ripped off and just know they're going to lose a chunk of their bond for "professional cleaning".