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I can not believe a so called mechanic/ technician (is what hey call themselves nowadays)? would even contemplate opening a rad cap after a car has been running , as for hard hoses, they will feel hard as they should be, im not sure about the Z but most will be holding around 10-14 lbs, to increase the boiling point of water. As for head gasket there are a couple of things that can be done other than the visual things you have been told about, when i used to work in motor industry, there were some dye tests that were carried out on a sample of water taken from your cooling system, looking for high hydrocarbons in the water which can only get there from engine gasses, Another thing i used to see, was a sniffer test from a exhaust gas anayliser, they used to hold it above the rad cap , run the engine upto temp untill thermo opened, and the probe could pick up hydrocarbons as the water circulated. confirmed a good few that way in my old times. it may be completly different now tho and may not work , oh how i miss old school mechanics/ engineering i

I have just renewed my insurance through admiral on thier multicar discount added my mods, exhaust, induction kit and audio upgrades and came back with £240, only conditions are that if the car needed repair they would only cover for replacing original parts back and not cover anything higher than the original value, which i could live with, then added my missus as a driver and listed i myself as driver on hers and its come down to £188, not complaining about that.

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Perfect i will have a set, as i lost one of mine last week after tyre change pm details and i will send payment thanks

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Probably me, going to KFC , missus couldnt be bothered to cook , had a nice red 370 behind me a couple of mins before i turned off at junction 9

No dont know who that was but there is one regularly parked up on the a27 i see very regularly in the area

The ginger was me had to take shmbo to sainsbury`s , she has a perfectly good car herself but decided it would be better to use my petrol

Welcome Ben, i remember you from RX8 web site, from when you first started to rebuild your first rotary, and then started to buy others that had failed, fantastic reading at the time and still is, seems quite a lot of ex rx8 owners move to a Z in recent times. doesnt seem like four years ago tho

Yep im going thurs / fri / sat, hopefully get a ride in the R8 on thursday plus blag some drives up the hill in some other car marqius, no intention of buying any of them tho just good fun

My son has one of these 135I flappy paddle gearbox ( he is in the army and has tooo much money), and it is very quick, he has the convertable version, he cant leave my 350z standing but it is def quicker in the straight line,not much diff in weight but being a convertable body flex makes it move a lot in corners and i dont feel as confident in corners as i do in the 350z, but the flappy paddle shift is very quick and seamless

Find that a bit odd as my daughter just passed her test , has 2005 jazz 1.4 and only pays £1800,

Welcome , i bought mine from them in January too (i reside in fareham), they have some really nice sports cars in the showroom, Chappel sports cars i think it is trades from there, too, Im sure they have a place a few miles down the road in siddlesham too where they sell exotic stuff from

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