wmr1980

Getting the new bits for my Zed fitted Going to Cyprus to see family and to celebrate Easter. Going to Italy in June to celebrate a friend's wedding and to have a bit of a holiday Road trip around France to see family, and see some friends (1,500 miles in the Zed through many mountain passes CANNOT WAIT!) Trip to Dubai to see some friends and have a bit of a break. Christmas in Ireland with brother in law and family. Plus new Avengers movie and lots of other movies coming out this year. Hopefully also getting close to buying a house by the end of the year and getting our flat rented. 2016 is going to be bloody busy!

My Son works on Crossrail & LTR for Vinci as a trainee Commercial Manager, he really enjoys it. Great! Nice to hear he's enjoying himself - it is an amazing project to be working on.

I work for Crossrail (£15bn infrastructure project in London - i.e. new trainline going across London all the way to Heathrow and Reading).

I saw this the other day and whilst the P1 is just ridiculous, that Corvette driver is pretty nifty as seems to catch up with the P1 on the corners - which leads me to believe the P1 driver not to be THAT skilled.... Cool vid!

I doubt you'd have beaten or been so close to an Astra VXR though..... It's amazing how quick off the mark diesels are - especially large capacity diesels. Also I've heard that the RS4s aren't all equal either.

This would be a package I would be very keen on!

I'd love that, but it's a little bit rich for me I wouldn't mind up to maybe £100 more than my budget, but if that is close to £1000 then that is a little OTT! Thanks though much appreciated!

Thanks for the suggestion - I was expecting those 2 brands to pop up.

Hi all, Rear discs need replacing and whilst the front discs are still okay, I will probably upgrade them too. So can I have suggestions for Front and Rear Discs and pad combo please. Whilst I'm at it, I will fit some braided lines, so please feel free to suggest those too. I have UK spec GT with Brembos. I do a bit of fast road, the occasional track day, but many long road trips (i.e. to the mountains, and in France). So I do give my brakes a good bit of punishment despite living in London. Budget is around £500 but open to explore options. Cheers, Will

I personally feel it's made the car more responsive to the throttle and having that extra bit of torque does sharpen it up a little. You're not going to make a huge amount of power, but it just helps to get the most out of your mods and also just lets the car behave the way it should have been out of the factory.

Gave you a flash and a beep at a roundabout around lakeside.

Cool I'm around Charlton area

No definitely silver and not like your profile pic. Are you another SE Londoner?

Parked up outside buenas Aires restaurant

Parked up near costa. Looking dirty!

Saw you driving past the big Sainsburys at Greenwich peninsula. After market exhaust and LED number plate lights is all I could make out. Hope you're local.

I just specced one up... £35k... so much car for the money!

Off to Perth in the new year before I get back home. Will probably dive into the zed when I get home... Is that sad?

I will try to take some pics when I can! As you say the Map import is pretty big here. Mainly 370s though.

In the past few days in Sydney have seen about a dozen different Zeds! Clearly the Jap car market is good here. Makes me miss mine back home!

I'm currently in Sydney having been off since the 18th Have a great break everyone!

At about 8pm just around the A206 at some lights heading westbound to Greenwich - might have been going onto Blackwall tunnel but I passed you before I could see - I wasn't in my Zed unfortunately.

Another local in a Zed that's not on here

I saw the same Red one coming down Victoria Way (Not far from the A102 blackwall tunnel) this morning.

My Asym 2s have plenty of grip, and if it's snowy I just won't take the car out, although it's not hard to drive on snow (I used to live in the South of France near the Alps) it's just not worth it in this country. Since my Zed is not a daily it doesn't really affect me much. Even when I had a daily driver, with careful clutch control you can drive on snow with decent tread. Winter tyres are great for getting up to temp quicker and getting more grip in cold weather (even if there isn't any ice or snow) but the road noise and wear is quite high, and snow tyres are great for grip in snow, but down in SE UK or in London certainly we never get enough snow and it never gets cold enough to warrant it IMO. However, I would never roll my eyes at people wanting to do the right thing. If I had a storage shed like we did in France, for steelies with winter tyres on, then I'd happily swap them out. Definitely more so if I commuted all the time on treacherous roads. I just wish people were trained on how to drive in icy/wintery conditions in this country. We managed with RWD cars to go up steep hills in France all the time - but then the infrastructure is set up to cope with harsh winters.