rtbiscuit

the xkr are starting to show signs of a trend reverssl, they have bottomed out and at nearly 18 years old (1995 first relesse year)is getting close to the 20/25 year age. still got snother 25 years to see if it will be a vintage classic

petrol is different you cant drive to work with out petrol, but you can go buy a different car. and with apple and DSLR's not everyone has one because either its of no interest or refuse to pay the perceived premium. Glasses and parkers have been way off recently, but I think they are more designed for the commercial buyer not the private buyer. but people use them as they are a good guide to prices. not the bible, but a guide. perceived market value is market value that's the point, something is only worth what someone is willing to pay, not what the owner thinks its worth. only time you can dictate price is if its a sellers market, and its not with the zed. as supply out stripes demand. and will do for many years to come. and people will walk away if you over price something. as I mentioned above. there were lots of cars for sale on thr R32 club which hd been up for over 18 months as no one was willing to pay the over inflated prices for a golf. same reason people won't pay over the odds for a Nissan (no matter how good the car is) The zeds popularity is its undoing it sold loads. people think its rare but its surprisingly common you only have to look at the sales figures and that's not including the imports brought over as well. as for the zed being a future classic, i'm not so sure. defo a future cult car, but will it be a classic, its too early to tell and the car to young. its only 9 years old. you've got another 20 odd years before you'll start to see if it becomes a real classic. as for depreciation, most of the members on here wouldn't know what depreciation is. as they bought thecars recently and pretty cheaply. go speak to the guys who paid the original £30k price tag, or those who went through the 2k a year price drop at the start of the economic crisis. as for sports car ownership I've had a few and would expect to loose roughly about 1k a year in ownership depreciation. its what sports cars do. especially if they are common. you think that's bad. I bought a 10 year old xkr where the previous 3 owners had lost the best part of 70k in 5 years. now that's depreciation.

grinding could be a banana bar issue. as for the bose its crap. its just a rebranded clarion. if it doesn't have satnav its an easy rip out and replace job. and I'd avoid the ones with satnav as that's a load of crap as well. buyers market at the moment so shop around.

mine was showing SQL failures

yep

I miss read the title, I thought it was bad txt speak and that one had run your friend over.

fsulty red light on the front

Blimey, that's rich!! it wasn't me; honest guv'nor

its to late you'll already have it. only way to avoid it now is burn the house down.

+1 +2 its not rocket science. go on AT set parameters for as close to own car as possible. look at what comes up snd prices your own somewhere in the middle. .... what actually happens is people do the first stage, see how much cash the car has dropped through depreciation, sh1t themselves, and then come on here for reassurance from the club that it isn't true. then get upset when someone tells them that yes your car is now worth feck all. and they go off in a strop because the car hadn't increased in value like they thought it would.

prepare to puke, no one is imune

DC are meant to be good, tomei and stillen also great makes. its just a case of picking what you prefer as the performance difference between them will be negligible. although all will have a positive impact on the cars performance.

want noise, buya pop charger or something in that style. want to play the numbers game down the pub, go standard airbox flyboy velocity stack mod and a performance panel filter. then get it remapped. with NA tuning on the zed your fighting for the difference of about 5 bhp. you'd never notice the difference. noise in some ways is a better direction, if it sounds faster your brain thinks it is and the butt dyno registers higher.

Disagree personally look at the 200sx. About 7-8 years ago 1-2k would buy you a minter. Now minimum is about 3k for a rough one. But they are in demand. Same with e36 325i's and 328i as more and more people realise they are cheap the price will go up as there is only a limited supply, Nissan or not. i'd disagree with you on that as well. the 200sx was an import only so numbers are always going to be limited. the 240 was sold over here originally, hence a more accurate example. and sold in similar numbers.

pop charger or k and n all make nominal difference to performance. sbout thr same as going for a poo before going for a driver.

sad news indeed

good luck

whats she angry bout?

r32 club try tp do this to an extent, lots of sales threads will people looking at buying and saying, that's well over priced; and the club reply alwys seems o be that's what they're worth. and what tends to happen is most people tell the owners to jog on. I know because I did. as its just a bloody golf lol.

Its a Nissan, there are lots of them, and people pay what's its worth, not what a forum dictates. You can price it for 30k if you like, but there are so many not on the club, that people will just buy else where. TVR are a rarer brand, carry more prestige, no longer exisit, are more exotic and collectable. the down side of jap cars is they built them in vast numbers, and at a cheaper price than competitors. great when they are new, but you have to wait a hell of a lot longer for them to become collectable and go up in price. look at the 240Z as possibly your best example of what islikely to happen to the 350, and that will give you a good time line.

glad you got it all sorted

That's a whole new mirror needed.

pm the mods; if your upgrading to a 370 im sure they may be willing to discuss letting you advertise amsales post if your sticking around

lens are self levelling, the noise you here is mechanism setting its self to the correct position. as for knowing if they are focussed right; the only way is in an MOT centre, with a lens beam level checker. you can point It at a wall and get a rough idea, but ot wont show if its fully accurate or not. MOT centre will possibly do it for free if you ask nicely.