Katy

Who said I'm good looking?

Haha! Yeah, I find everyone's a racing driver in the town centre...

I bought my 350 back in June, and whilst it's not the first performance car I've owned it is the most powerful and my first rear wheel drive. Taking that into account, aside from some 'spirited' driving on roads I know like the back of my hand, I've spent the last few weeks learning how she responds, how wide she is (I am female after all!) and how to get the best out of her relatively safely. But the way other road users treat me has changed remarkably since she moved in! Aside from the usual: never being let out out of a junction, or being shoehorned out the way when two lanes filter into one, suddenly it seems everybody wants to either a) race me or b. drive me off the road! The filthy looks I get from (mostly male) drivers has blown my mind! They charge up behind me in rush hour, swerving all over the road trying to intimidate the hell out of me - I can only assume because I'm not travelling at twice the speed limit wherever I go. And god forbid I overtake them... that's like a license to literally run me off the road. Now don't get me wrong, I am just as partial as the next (wo)man to the odd spat of lighthearted road wars and speeding, but just because I COULD annihilate you in your white van, doesn't mean I'm always game... Part of the reason I chose a 350 was because I thought it was less show-offy than its counterparts (TT, Z4 etc.) so why am I getting such a hard time? Is this normal behaviour? Am I going to have to spend the rest of my ownership fighting for my own survival?!

Them the ones

Today's mod was exactly that She looks really mean now... Grrr!

Was it you in Earlswood/Salfords at approx 17:30 this evening crossing the junction from East Surrey Hospital headed towards Reigate? I was waiting at the lights and just saw a flash of something delightful and shiny cross my path

That's the worst excuse I've ever heard for missing a meet She needs to get used to it, you may as well start off as you mean to go on!! (Congrats BTW )

I live in Surrey and the roads haven't been the same since the Olympics...

+1

Reminds me of Friday Night Dinner... 'Oh sh*t on it'

For the love of God Some people don't deserve transport.

Me being one of them, and it's perfect. Flush fit and reception is BETTER than it was with the standard aerial on. Thanks Steve! Looking good without the rear wiper BTW

Ewww! That'd be worse, it would crush before you managed to extricate it. I won't sleep tonight

Why did that not occur to me?? It's reassuring to know that actually my obsessive tendencies are normal... At least in one select group of nutters anyway

That is marginally worse than my Smartie disaster, I'll give you that

Today I got bored of waiting for my tax disc to arrive and just put my new private plate on anyway. Took that god awful front number plate mounting off, launched it over a hedge and then gave her a good wax

Will - I thought of you as soon as I saw where it had landed! Gappy dashboard dials suddenly paled into insignificance.

Buy it... (...for me)

So, today on the way home from nursery (and under considerable duress) I broke an age old rule of mine - no food or drink in the car. With the strong belief that my toddler wants to drop her sweets even less than I want her to drop them, I passed my two year old daughter some Smarties. Said child munches shiny confectionery happily until just under a mile away from home when she sees a horse, gesticulates wildly and launches a solitary pink chocolatey disc into the air which then disappears down the side of the passenger seat. I think nothing of it, I'll retrieve it when we're home... Ha! On arrival at the house, it appears that pink chocolatey disc has jammed itself into the passenger seatbelt casing, wedged itself sideways and is not for moving. Cue big sense of humour failure from Mummy who begins to envision having to rip out passenger seat to obtain evil pink sweetie. It's not like it had the decency to disappear completely, out of sight out of mind and all that, oh no - it's right there, shining out like a pink beacon and serving as a constant reminder of why you should always stick to your guns. Well to cut a long story short, Damien is in bed and I have spent the last 1hr 15 mins teasing, poking and pliering a Smartie out of my passenger seat in the dark. Got the bugger though. Katy: 1 Smartie: 0 My partner thinks I'm mentally ill and can't understand why I wouldn't just leave it there to mould away in the recesses of my car, so my question to you is this: Am I obsessive compulsive? Could you have left it there??

I tried to find out the airbag measurements from Nissan directly but they said they didn't know(?!) as the airbags are supplied by Takata Corporation. I spoke to their Technical Department, Customer Services and everyone in between so if you find out the answer I'd be really interested to know. In my experience Nissan will avoid answering any questions on the safety of a child seat as they do not want to be held liable if something happens. Course it all depends what year 350Z you're looking at buying because I think the 2006/7 + models already have a 'disable airbag' switch installed as standard. Correct me if I'm wrong folks...

I went to a local garage (in Surrey) and had them do this for me a fortnight ago for £43. Just short of one hours labour... Best few quid I've EVER spent.