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Wow amazing, she's a real beauty!!!

Must have took some patience to manage this, great job

Love the top one, looks real nice.

I like that, great colour for standing out whilst equally looking at home.

I haven't noticed that with mine, same car and same exhaust system. I've always thought the sound was very well behaved but what might sound reasonable to me, could be excessive to you.

I love cleaning the tips last on mine, gives that sense of finishing touches that make all the difference. Yours looks gorgeous!

Just wanted to update this thread and say ZMANALEX was totally right. As soon as the temperature got beyond the lower single digits, the roof functions again without any hesitation or issue. Huzzah!

Sounds like a niche way to make some money (if not an irritating way).

I've always fancied a burgundy roof and I'd be super tempted if it replaced all the gubbins, which is doesn't of course.

OK thank you. I'll wait until the temp hits double degrees again and try it then.

If anyone does happen to service roofs and sees this, I'd still be interested. Wouldn't do any harm to have someone go through all the components and just make sure it's healthy for the next year

One more question, does that temp relate to the temp displayed by the car?

As in, this isn't an approx thing, if the in car temp gauge is lower than 5, the roof doesn't work intentionally?

Ah ok, so it really could be a case of wait until it warms up a bit. Damn, Nissan are winter roof down haters!

My darling Z roadster has a little issue with the roof that needs some attention. I am wondering if anyone on here (NW area preferable) does some sort of roadster roof health care checks and can diagnose/fix?

It started where the roof would go to this position and stop, this is when opening. This isn't my car, just pointing to another picture of the same problem:

https://my350z.com/forum/attachments/350z-roadster/415230d1501884683-convertible-top-problem-photo.jpg

I could put the roof back up a little and then it would go past this point after 1 or 2 tries. I tried the roof again today and it won't go beyond this point at all. I've done some research and it goes anywhere from because it's cold to the 5th bow motor is ballsed. This part seems to be the reason for most of the roof issues. I've read about two elastic doodahs that go somewhere too that can be a cause. No idea where these items are on the car.

I must be honest, I'm not one for messing about playing with electronics but I'm also not one for just putting something like this into the dealer and giving them carte blanche on it. Somewhere in between would be lovely.

Would love to get this fixed as I don't like letting a bit of cold stop my roof down action.

Whatever version you get, you will enjoy it immensely. Follow your heart, stay sensible and you'll find a great Z  

Lovely car, amazing colour!

I went for the car I ended up wanting most, the 2006 rev up. I had the same thoughts over wanting the lower tax car but glad I listened to the advice and disregarded it completely. I never give the tax a second thought and I love my car.

Welcome! I've had my roadster a few months now and it's the best car I've ever owned, just love it.

Have you changed your exhaust system yet? Can't recommend that enough!!

Massive thank you to Adrian.

Sorted me out via PM to buy 20/25mm spacers. Very quick and easy to deal with.

Just yesterday morning I placed the order and now I have the items in my hand, all correct exactly as ordered.

Incredible turnaround and service, will definitely be back for the inevitable next mods!!

Received my order today, mega fast turnaround, thank you! I went for the same scheme as Doom and it looks awesome.

When you consider the price of off the shelf products and this being totally custom, this is incredible value for money.

Brilliant post, enjoyed reading that.

Referring to it as a fat, old girl made me laugh out loud

Wow love that one that Doom has. Think I need one of those, exactly like that one.

Got home from work last night and decided to do a little wash on the car. Turned into a little bit more, had fun though.

The products were working well from last time so I just did wash, dry, trim dressing, interior dressed, boot trim dressed, engine bay dressed, glass cleaned and tyres dressed.

Washed with Autoglym shampoo, all dressing with Auto Finesse Dressle, glass done with Gyeon Q2M Glass and tyres with Turtle Wax.

Star of the show was the luxury drying towel from Polished Bliss. Having a decent drying towel is an absolute revelation to me. It was sucking up water in one pass, very impressed.

Since the last update, I've bought a Miele C3 Powerline vacuum for the car and it's great, very good for the car.

This is not bad for what was just a straight forward 2BW with no new products added:

Was only a quick job really so impressed how well the engine bay came up for that. Will be spending more time under there trying to make it look great.

And of course, the inevitable bird lime down the side this morning, just reminding me of exactly whom is in charge around here:

Wow that's some serious saving, hope the car does your patience justice. Welcome

That's a great tip thanks Paul. I did half wonder that when I was doing it. I think when I clayed the 350z, I'm pretty sure I washed it, clayed it and then washed it again so it must have been in my mind somewhere that this was a sensible plan.

EDIT: thinking about it. When I clay the car, I was using the mitt in the other hand and cleaning the area first with a good wash and using that constantly as the lubricant for the clay. Hopefully this step would have helped to remove any naff from the body before the clay touched. I will deffo do a full wash in future before the clay though

Loved reading this thread. Started off with a few mods and then escalated to respray and super charger!! Really great to read and I'm glad I got to read right through to that sweet dyno result.

Love the car and great thread.

I haven't joined detailingworld as I'm still too new to it all really. I would feel too intimidated posting anything on there in fear of elitists coming along and tearing me apart. Maybe you will correct me and tell me it's a super friendly place that is all about love and help. That would be great

Just to show the new products I bought so far, I thought I'd share the pics of the job I did on this Fiat 500. I have new products coming in the post tomorrow from Polishing Bliss so any future jobs would contain more steps. Anyway, forgive the fact it isn't done on my Zed and here we go:

I had been promising my friend I'd do his car for a while. So we booked it in and it was suitably dirty for the occasion which was brilliant:

So the first thing I did using the Nilfisk was to hit it with Bilt Hamber Snow Foam onto the dry car.

I tried to work this to about a 4% rate but it was my first shot so it could have been anything really. I did run out part way through. I used about 250ml the first time and then about 200ml the second time.

At this point, I rinsed the car off but left it wet ready for the clay. I used a Gyeon woolie mitt and G3 clay mitt:

After this it was ready to be washed:

This was two bucket method with Autoglym shampoo:

Door shuts done, petrol flap, inside boot etc:

Here it is washed and ready for the wheels:

I used Auto Finesse Imperial for this and a detailing brush:

Came up pretty nice:

After this I rinsed the full car down again and then dried it ready for the next product:

I used Tripple with a new microfibre applicator and a new luxury buffing towel:

As above, I also did metal polish on the exhaust tip and backbox for that stage.

Next product was a coat of Bilt Hamber double speed wax applied with the pad and towel that are supplied with it:

Was getting some really cool flake pop at this point:

Added some tyre finish just using the Turtle Wax product that I already had:

And this is how she ended:

Took me about five hours to transform it:

Summary:

Absolutely loved the Auto Finesse products. I was working in sunlight and the way Tripple went on and came off was just so great. I had been using Meguiars polish in the past which is probably going in the bin now or kept as an emergency product! Enjoyed using the snow foam and I think it helped, the car looked pretty clean even after I rinsed that off. The Imperial was great on the wheels. I have limited wheel products so I gave them a light clay to remove some of the tar. Love the Bilt Hamber wax. I've ordered a bunch more pads and towels and some Gyeon glass cleaner and an Auto Finesse trim cleaner. Looking forward to more involved cleaning in the future.

This was an external clean only so I'm looking forward to branching into some interior products too.

I could get into the world of trying products and comparing but I have to say, loving Auto Finesse.

Big thanks to ilogikal1. I dropped him a few questions the night before, the usual panic stuff. Arrgh, how much snow foam do I use, how long do I leave the Tripple on for etc etc and he was really helpful in answering everything. Appreciated