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Maybe something like that. My golf is a bit older. Anyway. Cheapest part to change is battery. So can't hurt things. Was more the holy mortifying shame blocking everyone! Lol

Had a bit of a disaster Tuesday night. While trying to navigate a tight car park. The car cut out. And refused to restart. Wouldn't even turn over. The battery gauge dial showed not enough juice. So while blocking the car park I asked one of the people blocked by myself for a jump. However my hopes of a quick fix were dashed when the car still wouldn't turn on. Even on jump leads! ( it was a 2 litre diesel vw van) so surprised me. As I've jumped the 350z before with no issue with my simular engined golf. So at this stage a crowd had gathered. I asked them just yo push me out. To get out of their way. While they were pushing I risked a bump start. 2nd gear. Ignition on, simultaneously let out the clutch fast. And boom! She started! So I parked on a hill after that. My diagnosis is a completely banjaxxed battery. So new battery fitted today. Started fine a few times with it. Time will tell if the issue is solved. ( I love the 350z have a volt gauge) not a wasted dial at all!

A nice little upgrade today to the Red Zed. I fitted the 380rs throttle pedal. I managed to pick one up on ebay. Cheap enough. It wasn't quite as easy as some of the ebay videos for fitting would suggest. My 2004 model looks to have the clip integrated into the throttle stop plastic body, and was tricky to get off. Not like the small clip on some later models I'd assume. Any on now. A nice little upgrade.

Another little upgrade today. The car when I bought it had an aftermarket amazon gearknob black wit red stitching. And although it didn't look too bad. I am always looking for better. I loved the look of the South Bend gear knobs. But they are discontinued. I managed to contact Torqen who managed to find a anodized black one for the 370z still on a dusty shelf in the USA. And I have ordered it. However. While waiting for that one. I found someone on marketplace selling the machined 350z version. I love it as the stem is the right size and works well. So i bought it and its now fitted. Not sure what to do with the black one in the post. Maybe it keep it as a spare?

This is the exact car I had spotted on Facebook that had done the smoothed wheels! ( i had an image of these wheels saved on my phone) I have a similar Plans. Smooth them. Then gloss black. I'm hoping to try and keep the "Rays" and "Forged" embossed text and highlight that writing in like a silver. So it pops compared to the gloss black.

100% they look so strange tucked way in under the arch. I have some plans for the Rays in the new year. I'm hoping to smooth out the Dimples and get them recoated in gloss black.

Another well overdue mod. Was getting some spacers on. Found some 2nd hand 20mm ones from ebay. (Hubcentric) of course. Only got ones for the fronts so far. But make such a difference to the fitment.

Similarly the sun visor bulbs also got led bulbs. And the boot light too.

Continuing the interior lighting upgrades. Some led map light bulbs to replace the old ones. For anyone looking the spec of the bulbs they are 31mm festoon bulbs. (Led)

Been a while. But here is another small interior update. Over the weekend i fitted some of the new opentop.fr footwell lights. I went with orange to match the Interior dial colour. A little bit if figuring out was required as I've the earlier interior model.(much easier on the newer versions) I had to take the centre console off briefly. But results came out great.

Happy days. Congrats on the purchase! The interior looks in real good nick. A good clean outside and she will be looking sweet

Another small tweak. The wheels obviously have been painted black and the crusty Nissan centre caps have been bugging me. Have never been able to find aftermarket ones that work. So I drilled out the plastic rivets that hold on the nissan pieces and stuck on some Rays stickers. Looks cleaner in my opinion.

Just one for the Northern Irish based Zeds and Irish ones on here. Having a meet at the Dundalk Cars and Coffee this weekend the Sunday 2nd July. It starts at 9am and usually runs to 12.30 or so. Venue is DKIT car park beside the crowne plaza hotel. 2 euro donation is usually asked for. A few of from the 350z ireland facebook already planning to be in attendance. But the more the merrier

They are splash guards. More commonly known as mud guards. I just bought some from torqen. Took like 4 months to come from America mind. They come in Matt black as standard. Think I seen versions on amazon too. Here's a pic of what I was supplied.

There's a guy in Tipperary on fb market place who looks to be breaking a few 350z. Looks to have some grey ones too, but as they say....its a long way to Tipperary. I was tempted to do a road trip down from the North to maybe source a leather interior

Thanks very much! Yeah I've definitely learned that matte finishes hide allot of sins. I will def be using wrap again for other things. I figured it would be more durable than paint. Especially since it looks like my interior has been painted before.

Small addition today. The silver lug nuts on the black wheels were a little out of place. So picked up some Rays branded black lug nuts. I like that the Rays nuts are on the Rays wheels. It works.

One thing that I know affects most 350z of a certain age, is the dash cubby door getting scratched up and nasty. My car seems to have had a paint job on the dash before. Unfortunately, it had begun to blister and peel. It's such an eye sore. So anyway took it all apart. Ordered some vynl wrap off amazon. And thought I'd give it a go. Went with a matte. Finish to try and hide my shoddy work. Anyway once I started scraping off the old paint there was no turning back! Wish I had a propper before photo. But anyway it was pretty bad. So figured I couldn't make it much worse. I'm Pretty happy with the end product. In hindsight I'd have sanded it a bit better before wrapping. But yeah happy with the results.

I do plan to upgrade the exhaust at some stage again once I can afford it. Ideally love a miltek exhaust or at least a milktek rear section. The exhaust that came with the car is a HKS replica, a cheap xo2 exhaust. A bit too in your face for my tastes. But tonight, I took it apart changed out the bolts to non rusted ones. Took the tips off and polished them up to take the corrosion off the tips and clean them up a bit. So at least if I'm going to run an exhaust I don't really like. Its going to be clean on the bits you can see.

That looks like it takes allot of patience. Might be a job for someone who isn't me when I can afford it. Lol.

Bit of an update on the battery issues I had when I first bought it. Had an issue where the car would often go flat. After a week or 2 of sitting undriven. Also occasionally the car would refuse to start even when charged. An intermittent immobiliser issue. So a few things I think combined to solve it. 1st. Disconnected an aftermarket looking wire from the battery, i think it went to an amp behind the passenger seat. 2nd thing i found that the positive terminal was loose. Even when I tightened the bolt as tight as possible. I realised the threads were goosed so I retapped the threads. And tightened everything properly. Now everything was securely fixed. 3rd battery was stone flat. So instead of jumping it again with my vw golf. I got a trickle charger with a battery recovery function, and slowly charged the battery over 2 days with small pulses of charge. No battery drain issues. And no immobiliser issues either. Happy days

Only other updates are a few small cheaper bits. Fitted a pipercross air filter. After seeing some reccemondations on the forum. It was actually tough to fit. It's a little larger than oem filter. Also got myself a nismo oil cap. (Suspect it's fake due to price) and also fixed the boot popping issues that were bugging me the "open top" poppers. They are pricy. But work well. Looks like the manufacturer 3d prints the plastic section and the springs are upgraded. So the boot works well now. I also fitted the stubby antenna from the Honda s2000. All pieces fitted and work.

Not sure why those photos coming out sideways/upside down. Can't seem to edit them. Awh well. Forge on. Obviously to try and keep going with the black and red motif. I got the tarmac Sportz mines style front splitter. Definitely gives the front a more aggressive look. A bit of double sided tape and a nut and bolt at each wheel arch and it was on. Was keen to get it sorted as I went to my first ever car show. Was nice to see some people interested in the wagon. I also took it to the dundalk cars and coffee. Thanks for my mate Lee for helping me fit the splitter.

So now the rusty bits are sorted in the sills. I purchased myself some gloss black side skirt extensions to go onto the car. Tarmac Sportz ones. Also got new bolts to fit them on. Just to freshen them up plus new plastic pops too. Had to remove the oem front mud guards. They were a little tatty. So ordered a new set from Torquen. Still not 100% whether to fit them with the side skirt extension now in place. Looks like they will fit.and are a matching black. Anyway skirts now fitted.

Impressed with the headlights. Nice work. Did you just leave the dispersion pieces out of the reassembly yeah?