AJRFulton

The other thing is the seat belt is black, my interior is black, I was wearing a black shirt (had been at a funeral and travelling back from Scotland to work) and my windows have a tint.... Even if they seen me from the front without me noticing them, how can they credibly say I wasn't wearing a belt? From the back, I think the image below proves you can't see from the rear.

To me it is wrong. How can you be fined with no credible evidence? No picture or anything. Hardly anyone will be able to prove they were wearing a belt as few have dash cams, or will be able to source CCTV. If a policeman is mistaken, and/or feeling vindictive.... it's easily open for abuse.

Eastbound, not too far away from the little chef. Kinda hard to state exactly where as it was a rural lay by. They were behind me a while, including an overtaking lane (or two). My thinking is... is it worth it for £100. I suspect it's futile resisting it.

The A69 is pretty rural going between Carlisle and Newcastle, so no CCTV. They shadowed me for 5-6mls maybe, then pulled me over at around 9ish, so still daylight. One came to the window and asked me the usual, where are you from/going/etc, who are you, blah, blah as the other had a prowl around the car. Then after confirming my details took me to their car and hit me with the seatbelt fine. I don't recall them giving a specific reason for pulling me, until issuing the seatbelt fine. The cop was pretty rude and condescending. Nothing said out of order, more the tone. Pretty needless as I wasn't being irate with him until the seatbelt thing, then admittedly I did get a bit flustered, but then who wouldn't if they were getting fined for something they didn't do. My licence is clean, had 3pts 7-8yrs back for a bad tyre (gash on inner wall).

I got pulled over tonight by traffic cops on the A69. I was fined for not wearing a seat belt. The cops had a good look around my car, found nothing wrong with it... then fined me for not wearing a belt. A point argued until I was blue in the face, as I definitely, 100%, without doubt, was wearing a seatbelt for the duration of my 170ml journey (who could tolerate the beep, beep, beep for 2.5hrs?) The cop was pretty rude to me, but that's a side issue... the point is I was wearing a belt. Upon being stopped I leaned over to the passengers seat to grab my wallet (containing my photo licence). I didn't accept anything, but had no choice but to take the FPN slip they gave me on advice from them I could appeal it. The police said they seen me put my belt on after they pulled me... again argued until blue in the face. Having looked at the Z from behind, I find it impossible that a following police car could see through the Z's rear window and see the seatbelt mounts. Indeed standing at head height, with my friend in the car from 10m behind I couldn't tell of he had a belt on or off, as you can only really seen the left shoulder and head. I always wear my belt and in the tiny chance I forgot, the car beeps constantly.... It's not as if I was travelling 500m down the road and chose to ignore it for the 20 secs the journey took - I was having a 170 mile drive, and was pulled about 2.5hrs into it! Has anyone appealed this before? what success did you have? This was traffic cops that issued the fine, does that have any effect.

370z is a car that always looks better in the flesh than in photos. I've never seen a NISMO in the flesh, so will reserve judgement until I do. From photos it does seem OTT. The 350z looks pretty dated beside it IMO.

Just curious, if you leave your can unlocked/keys in it... whilst storing it in a secure garage (ie they have to break and enter)...... would that invalidate your insurance?

TBH Nissan have a pretty awful image. In the UK, the last 20yrs, we've had Primera's, Micra's, and Almeira's.... All pretty reliable, well engineered, but harder to think of many things duller. Thinking about it though, you don't see a lot of new high performance jap cars on the road any more. Back when the 350Z was in its sales pomp, it was pretty common to see new Scoobies and Evo's on the roads, now a rarer and rarer thing.

Not sure I agree with that statement. Its introduction in 2009 was preceeded by massive press release and all soughts of rumours about what it would look like and feature. Then Nissan offered the chance to drive them at Silverstone on track and on the surrounding roads but I had to pull a lot of strings to get a place in September with that test confirming the the car looked the business (I also had doubts on that front from the pics - like many others) and they handled/drove as well as the 350. Trying to buy one from the first batch that arrived in 2009 was near on impossible I recall, until I struck very lucky to spot a web advert from a dealer for their 68 mile demonstrator in late November 2009 just as the ad popped up on the web. Rang and secured the sale with a £500 deposit but had to wait until the end of December to take it off the dealer (Nissan stipulation). The salesman said that he could have sold my 370 10 times over, but the fact he also got a damn fine 350 in p/x helped secure the deal In winter no less. But with the rescession biting even harder in 2010-2011 and the electric/green lobby having their way was really the death-knell of sales ever reaching 350 levels. But what pleasantly surprises me is thst despite the often negative comparison comments with Z4's/Caymans etc it does seem that the relatively low numbers is the reason s/h prices are holding up so well - in fact I would say that after nearly 4.5 years the residual value of mine now is about the same as the 3 year old 350 that I traded in for the 370 so no doubt the rareity value is a bonus for us owners You've came from the 350Z community though bud. As an outsider, I knew little about it. I'm fairly into cars, although not a magazine or forum geek. Until I actually looked into the 370Z when looking for a car, I just thought it was a 350Z facelift. I say that as somebody whom researched and nearly bought a 350Z a few years back, so (unlike most) I wasn't totally blind to the Z badge. Most people I talk to, they think my car is a 350Z. I work in power generation, so I'm on sites with hundreds of blokes, all with money to spend, and plenty into their cars - M/AMG/RS badged cars are fairly common in the car parks... but...... So few folk have correctly identified it as a 370, much to my frustration and delight (as I'm anal and like correcting them). The car does get a fair bit of attention though, as folk often ask what it is. Also another point is the 370 looks a lot better in the flesh than in anything other than professional magazine style photos. It's a hard car to get the angle right to take a good photo of, but in the flesh.... it looks pretty good from most angles.

Yeah the Nissan badge is a downfall. However..... it is priced accordingly. £26K gets you something that to get the equivalent with a Porsche badge, you are paying pretty much double. TBH, I like the cars rarity. It appeals to me, and easily gets more attention in the car park at work than superior cars C63/GT3/M3/etc... as people that don't know much just assume they are another C Class/911/3 Series. They see the 370's side profile and realise it isn't a Porsche and wonder what it is.

One of the problems with the car is people don't actually know it exists. People think mine is a 350Z, they don't know about the 370Z and the fact it is almost a completely new car to the 350Z. I don't ever remember seeing a 370Z advert, and unless I actually went looking for one, given the cars rarity, I wouldn't know about it either. Nissan did a terrible job marketing it. 20mpg is a stick that beats the 370Z a lot. Economy isn't that bad, (I average 30ish driving normal on a run, and 20 driving spirited on an A or B road, only absolutely ragging it sees economy under 20mpg) and on a par with cars of similar performance.... which oddly don't get beaten with the economy stick. I dunno, it's a great car - Looks different, handles good, performance is good, fuel economy Vs performance is decent, is still raw enough to be fun - but refined enough to use daily.... I chose it over many things, most reviews love it bar the badge snob columnists that hate everything not German.

Is the GT Edition paint different from Storm White. My friend has a storm white juke... and it looks a different colour to mine.

Z logo on mine. Have to say I am pretty disappointed with how crap the Z's keys are. Yeah only a minor thing but nissan could surely of spent a few more ££'s and made something that doesn't look like the cheapest of the cheap.

I find the Invidia a fantastic system. I'm a long motorway driver and I wanted a system that sounded to my mind most like how the car should of sounded out the factory. The invidia does this. It's a nice sound, but not overwhelming. It's loud enough without being too loud.

Yip, I couldn't argue if I got done for going 77mph on the motorway. However I'd consider myself unlucky if that ever did happen. However it's a calculated risk, that shortens my journey by about an hour in flowing traffic, and to this point I've never been pulled over for doing 77mph on a motorway.

That's above both what my speedo and GPS read. The needle just above the 80mph, and 77mph on the GPS is pretty much spot on 3k revs. Of course the rev meter may be ever so slightly out, as I doubt that is scrutinised for serious accuracy. I trust my GPS for greatest accuracy over long distance.

They've not ticketed me, so no need to take it that far. The officer assured me everything was in date and daily checks/calibration checks had been carried out. I'm thinking from researching the types of speed gun, this wasn't a radar, but a handheld laser speed gun.

I was on the outside lane, the police were about 10m in from the motorway side on one of those little runways they have. They got a speed lock at 100m exactly (nice and easy to remember for me). They were at a fair angle to me. Assuming around 20-25m in from my car, and with a 100m diagonal to my car.

I got caught speeding today in the Z, during a long distance drive, doing 89mph somewhere just south of Lockerbie. I was, surprisingly let off with a wrap on the knuckles after arguing my case until I was blue in the face. I drive 30,000mls a year. I'm reasonably savvy to motorway driving and it's kept me with a clean licence for the 10yrs I've been a high milage driver. This journey was no different, I did the same thing I always do - set the cruise control to 77mph using the GPS, and leave it on. The cruise control was active as I drove past the radar, and the GPS read 77mph, naturally as you drive past a radar trap, you always do check your speed. I've every faith that my GPS is very accurate when calculating speed over a distance, and I would of been doing that speed constantly for at least the previous 25mls. Now 77mph roughly translates to 82mph on the cruise setting/clock, and the engine is almost exactly on 3000rpm in 6th (some boffin can work out if that checks out). Now whilst I've got away with it today, it got me questioning how many other poor sods haven't? How accurate are are these radars? Does the Z's aluminium panels and angles make it unreliable? I don't know. The one that caught me, I forget the model, had sort of binocular type lenses, and another lens on the side (I'd assume this was for looking through). There was a LCD display on one side displaying the time/date/speed. Whilst the radar looked fairly new, I would say it was designed in the 90's. If they went ahead and fined me, could I even do anything about it? Have I been lucky to argue my case? Edit the gun used looked the same as the one in this BBC article.

Off an back on isn't working. It's still doing. As said it's as if the screen hangs, rather than the switch doesn't work.

Has anyone else had a problem heater system dials. Not sure exactly how they work, but I'm guessing since both dials are displaying the same fault, it's a software problem. I turn the dials, and the display goes as if it is hanging. The temperature/speed then drops 1 unit, and seems to hang... then goes back to where it was. You can turn the dial 100 times and it might only drop/climb 1 fan speed, or 0.5*c. All the switches appear to work correctly, apart from Auto. Which doesn't seem to work at all. Getting a bit tired of issues with my 370Z. For a new car it's been into the garage far too many times for my liking. Brilliant car, let down by disappointing build quality

Had this issue, exactly as described and after 17k miles. The gearbox crunched going into 6th gear if the engine speed was high or the engine was under load. There was a slight vibration through the gearstick before, that the new gearbox doesn't have. The diagnosis - synchro had failed on the gearbox. Replacement gearbox and associated parts under warranty.

I bought a new GT Edition after I had test drove a GT. The differences are minimal and a driver of my average ability noticed minimal difference except the GT Edition is a few dB quiter in the cabin.

G37 is one of the more common import coupe type cars over in the States. Wouldn't say common site, but you do see a fair few.

I've been on holiday in the US for 2 days now, and already seen 5x 370's. Seem much more common in the states than home. As said, I've seen 2x in 12mths.