Ben–350Z

23 hours ago, tysst2 said:

Just a heads up there is a cars and coffee meet this Sunday from 9am-1130am at the old ram inn

While I would be up for that, unfortunately my car will have no dashboard this weekend...

9 hours ago, davidv10 said:

Sorry fellas, had an emergency come up that i couldnt get out of. Hope you had a good meet!

Oh no! Hope nothing too bad.

Was good to meet a couple of other owners - definitely up for doing it again.

@Kryptek49: Your car sounded awesome when I was following it!

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Best colour.

And stripes are awesome!

Looks amazing!

Questioning why I bought 18" wheels now...

Yep 11 year old OEM ones. Hopefully not for too much longer...

Hmm, speaking of results being _exactly_ the limit

Take it you've seen this thread? 

Okay, not a black Zed, but at least gives some idea of what the wheels look like in different colours...

I may be being influenced by looking at pics of my old Focus ST, but maybe white?

11 hours ago, Kryptek49 said:

I think it's this thread here: https://my350z.com/forum/exterior-and-interior/429871-interior-led-conversion-3.html 

That's the one! But yea, pics are a bit messed up. Though this post https://my350z.com/forum/exterior-and-interior/429871-interior-led-conversion.html#post7329616 has the pre-facelift board still, and I think they're fairly similar.

What I suggested about something getting in there is just a guess, really...

Annoyingly, I can't find the tread I saw a picture of the dismantled AC controls - think it was on my350z, thread about swapping all the LEDs. But, I do remember that there's sort of two rings of copper contacts on the board inside. The knob presumably shorts across different sets so control the speed.

Maybe you've got a bit of dirt in there stopping it working? Though if it is that, I'm not sure how easy it'll be to clean...

17 hours ago, rabbitstew said:

Guess it could be a good selling point for chopping the sports car in for a Transit van as you could get more in, in a time of emergency.

This Transit?

44 minutes ago, stanski said:

Although some burglaries already taken place! Scum!

FFS.

Who was it suggesting we bring back hanging, along with the Supra...?

Watch this in a mirror, and go for it yourself? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5cpYiVZNRI

Failing that, since they sell them @Adrian@TORQEN might have some ideas...

Last time I took the seats out of mine, it took a few attempts to get it to go away...

And comes back again if you sneeze too loudly or something

18 minutes ago, da.murf said:

nightmare right there!! that's where a traffic camera would save your ass 

Literally what I thought. Just added a dashcam to my shopping list...

I had that a couple of weeks ago - has yours got anything showing under "pending codes"? Mine had an actual cylinder number showing there, but not in the actual fault code list. Really helpful, that...

Anyway, turned out to be a dodgy coil pack - swapped it over to cyl 3, and the next pending code that showed up was for that.

Freshly washed

And does it counf if the pic is really the side of a Volvo?

Fair enough. Shape just looks a bit like the ones my 2004 Mondeo had. Look pretty neat on the Zed, though 

Wait... Are those Mondeo side indicators? °_0

Excellent, glad I could help.

Just double checked my manual (it's 2 years since I installed my stereo) and yes, it looks like there's a separate feed to switch the antenna amplifier on. So that either needs to be connected to the blue wire you've currently got, or your stereo might have another one that only gets power when you use the radio.

Here's as much help as the workshop manual is figuring out where it needs to connect to:

Original stereo connections

And then it's here on the plugs... I think that's actually the biggest one

Sounds like you've probably not connected the signal to turn on the antenna amplifier. Would be the same one that you'd use to switch an external speaker amp on.

Can you get a photo of the wiring you've got?

Cheeky in the rain this morning...

Time to resume the search for a Honda S2000 

That angle does show why it really needs spacers on the rear wheels...

Looks amazing! That fit is spot on.