rtbiscuit

good body shops are worth their weight in gold. and generally i find they don't tend to advertise that well either. most go on word of mouth. is it worth us building a thread page of bodyshops around the country that do a good job with contact details and a pic of their work. make it a sticky or something so that 9i nthe future we have a directory of good places to go. could always make a matching one with places to avoid as well with pics of the devastation.

i have some in the garage. was wondering if i could just seal it in a bag when i fit it or something?

.........News Flash Update............... drivers side has gone out again, but i've found the problem, ............. water when they last stopped working it had rain then as well. looks like i'll have to replace both. does anyone know if its possible to but some kind of water barrier or seal around the ballast to stop water getting at it?

i've got the invidia g200 which is being fitted on wednesday, from what i've been told it gives a nice deep growl. will let you know how i get on with it. its a true dual system as well.

should be repaired easily, they'll rebuild up the lip and spray it in to match.

just been on the phone to the dealership i bought from, they have been really good, but only sell cars with what ever warranty is left by the original manufacturer. looks like i'm left to fix this myself. will have to save up and go visit ZmanAlex for the right part. and then go see my friend with the pit to see if he'll help me fit it all.

just had my final answer from nissan GB they are flatly refusing to do the work or even meet half way with this and that i have to take the issue up with the dealership i bought from. i'm not a loyal customer therefore i don't get any good will work. i told them i'm due my first service since owning the car and whats the incentive to become a loyal nissan customer, and they didn't seem to give a toss. i am going to write to there monitoring body as i believe its an issue from factory manufacture, not from wear and tear. other cars have had recalls for less. yet nissan are happy to let people pay for it themselves.

were you on mr2roc.org by any chance?

fell out of warranty in april. hence the arse ache i'm going through with nissan GB to sort the clicking rear axle. as for fitting the typhoon system, all wiring was intact.

i've moved the points they mount on to at the front of the engine bay. there were 2 points that that i used which already had earthing cables from other areas connected to. i've moved off them and it seems to be better. i'm going to leave it a week and see if the porblem re appears. either way i'll still need one ballast and igniter as the passenger side is still dead.

the chillis can help you out but they about £60 or have a search in the group buys as i have some one making up a likwid art version but there is a time delay. should be between £25-£35

interesting twist tonight, went out for a drive and the drivers side dipped is working again. maybe the moving of grounding kit points and time to mull it over has corrected the problem, which should mean i need just one ballast and igniter now. i'll still order 2 i think but i know stew wanted the other so we'll go halfs. have contacted a breakers database online and asked for quotes on the parts so will hopefully get them in the UK. there are loads on ebay but they're all in the USA. so it makes it expensive once you add on postage.

i'm generally quite good at not getting het up about things, and am used to dealing with negative thoughts, have been told many a time i'll never pass, or you'll never get on that course, and each time its been my sole aim to prove them wrong. it kind of motivates me to stick 2 fingers up at people who tell me i can't. must admit i hadn't seen my last post as bigotted, but then thats my perseption i suppose. i have lots of friends, who are from all over the place, i've nearly been married to a carribean girl, and have never seen myself as racist or bigotted. lived in coventry for a while and had some good jobs, some of them where i was the minority, but i always had a laugh and had respect for my colleagues. i don't care who i work with as long as their here legally. and paying their way like me. we need a real shake up at parlimentary level one of our biggest problems is that governments in the UK are only motivated by short term goals. they only put forweard policys which win elections, or last for 4-5 years. no one has the guts to put some long term things in place and say, "hey this is going to be rough for a while but in 15 years time we're going to have the best imiggration/trnasport network/health care system/ education system in europe. what we have at the moment is a load of areas which get meddled and tweaked in by each new party who come to power. as an example there was a report done (can't remember the name off hand) on the education system and the current GCSE's it said the system was in decay and put forward a radical scheme to basically restart the education system. it had the backing of the majority of head teachers and unions, but tony blair chickened out as it was to close to an election and didn't want to rock the boat. so instead brought in this half arsed approach which is the new 14-19 curriculum. and its a bloody joke. i won't even bother going into the details of why its so crap (unless people want me to) but basically its creating a load of work, which in porbably 10 years time it will get scrapped and all the stupid hours i am putting in now as are alot of other teachers will be for nothing. education needs to be run by the teachers, decisions should only be made by people who still work in the classroom so you can only do a 2 year stint in whitehall before you go back to the classroom to keep current. we need to remove the large quantites of quangos/think tanks and beauracracy. apparantly in hospitals there is a 3:1 ratio thats 3 managers/consultants to every 1 doctor/nurse. is it me or should it not be the other way round. in every facet of the UK there seems to be too many chiefs and not enough indians.

looks really good mate. if you want any other Tommy K stuff from the likwid art stuff let me know.

just checked all the grounding kit earthing points, and have moved any which shared an original earthing point and it has made no difference. looks like i'm going to have to source some new ballasts and ignitors.

Thanks Ming. Sorry if my reply was a little angry last night but I was a tad miffed. I couldn't work out what spelling and gramma had to do with the validity of my post. It made me feel second class; that because I struggle to write things makes my point less valid. I know that's not what prescience was trying to do and everyone is entitled to a view. Prescience sorry I went off the deep end. Hope I have 't put you off posting again. Special as your a fairly new member.

i wouldn't go back there then if i was you unless you bring your own consumables

what about " MEEP MEEP" like the road runner

If you put it that way, we are all "biggots" in one way or the other. All shapes and sizes my friend... I'm just shocked and not only by the illiteracy of a university lecturer. Still, if it's just me... firstly i'm not a university lecturer, i'm a secondary school teacher, my subject background is technology specifically resistant materials, i teach kids carpentry, metal work, electronics, graphics, CAD and CAM. i have 10 years experience in industry and can rebuild you anything from a house to a car, i used to make furniture and fit aicon systems. i have 10 gcse's 4 B's 3 C's and 3 D's i got 3 a levels and a 2:1 BSc in engineering Design and Technology if it helps at my previous school my GCSE pass rate was 95%, i've just changed schools and in my first year i look to change the current pass rate from 55% to 70% and predictions for next year are 87%. you may ask why i'm telling you this well i'm dsylexic, reading and writing are a real struggle for me, yes my writing spelling and grammer are poor i know that, even my students know that. if i was an english teacher i'd be crap but i'm not and even with my difficulties i still get higher a-c grades than most compulsory subjects. and its not because i get all the good kids, on the contrary i tend to get all the weak students as people think its an easy subject and they just have to bang nails into wood, but few people know i have to get them to complete a 30 page A3 document to supplement their practical. and i've done all this through hard work, deternmination and sheer stubbornness (with out that i would have fallen by the wayside years ago) i may have written a slightly biggoted view, but its what i've seen, i have no problem with people who have legitimate reasons to be here, or who have the paper work to come here, you can be black, white, pink yellow, purple or have ornage spots i dno't give a monkeys. but i expect them to; like me; to pull their weight, and pay their taxes, then like me they are free to claim benefits if they need to, have medical care, vote and even complain about the government. but if your only reason to come here is to spounge off me well bog off home i don't want you here. but you have sterotyped me, judged me and condemned me just on what you thought (wrongly or rightly) a university lecturer should and could do. does that not make you a prejudice. I'm not bothered what you think of me, i've taught prbably 10,000 kids now some of whom possibly owe me the only C grade they ever got at school who probably have a better opinion of me than you do (and to be honest they're the ones i'm bothered about) if it helps i'll alter my signiture for you to give people a warning. VVVVV

just came back from a day trip to france with the school. as we were coming into calais the cutoms guys were working big time, anything bigger than a moped was being searched, and not for dodgy stuff, but dodgy people. i could have brought back 3 tons of weed, and i doubt immigration would have worried. (the school might have). apparently coaches were a new target for immigrants as they had found that they could crawl under the rear wheels and there was a small space to stand on the rear axle. every coach was getting the full treatment. apparently our coach drivers had found 1 earlier in the day on another coach. what annoys me is that they are claiming for asylum, but they don't stop in the first country they get to a claim it. some travel through 4 or 5 countries to get here. and each one of those countries does nothing to stop them. the french are the worst. they don't bother arresting them while they are there and sending them back. we watched loads of them crossing the motor way heading towards the terminal after being to the soup kitchen. if our welfare sate was less attractive we wouldn't be a target. as the title explains our welfare state is "well fair" i may not be the biggest earner on this site which means i haven't paid as much tax as them and don't envy them being shafted with the 40% stick. but i see about £700 of my money goes to Gordon, yet i don't see a valid return on my investment. (thats what we do we invest in our country and support it) we have a road network which is in poor repair and over loaded, we have a public transport network which is in bad repair, doesn't run on time and costs more than owning a car in some circumstances (price up a ticket on the train from london to edinburgh) we have a health care service which is crippled. ... my £700 is possibly paying for 7 people to stay at home that month while i work my 50 60 hour week. my brother has not payed tax properly yet, he's still a student... and when i griped about it before he tells me we should be grateful that we have the system we have. places like third world countries don't have any of it. but as far as i concerned they're not paying for not having it either. is that a bad view to have. ming for PM - get the scrotes back to work, earn their £100 a week and remember imigration is not a bad thing, its our countries life blood always has been, half the stuff we have is down to immigration, a large majority of our population is made up of immigrants. i'm one (mother is australian) the irish who built a large porttion of our road network, the Caribbean's who came over in the 50's but it has to be by the book. people who are legitimatly working here who contribute to society, pay their taxes are great. if they don't then send them home.

Cheers R35LEE, i think it all started after the grounding kit went in, so my first test is going to be to take off a couple of the leads near the headlights and the retest to see if they come on and stay on. as for the arch liners, they are in perfect nick. the back of the HIDS when i cahnged the buls had a bit of dirt on them but i don't think they are leaking. me and BM checked out the wiring a while back and couldn't find any damage. i might need to source a good auto electrician, but i don't know any in the suffolk area R35LEE whats your location. and thanks fo rthe offer, i might take you up on it if i strike a dead end.

The saga continues. 3 months ago: my horn would go off when i turned my lights on to dipped beam. as soo as it was turned off it was fine. 2 months ago: drivers side stopped working completely 1 week ago: replaced all bulbs, passenger side still not working, think it mught be the ballast and ignitor. today: got back tonight from a french trip. turned on head lights passenger light comes on for about 1.5 sec - 2 sec and then turns its self off. if you turn the lights fully back off and then on it repeats the process. so ihad to drive home with no headlights. am stumped as to whats causing it. think that all isusues are all linked. don't want to go and spend £100 for new ballast qnd ignitors if its omething else.

for the money your better off getting a custom exhaust built to your own standard, tip design, sound, volume, noise, tone etc. and still have money left over to by 4 new tyres. they are great exhausts, but with current exchange rate and prices i'm not 100% sure they are worth the price tag, especially as i've read on here of several flexi joints going on them. not what i'd expect of a £1300 exhaust.

for around £515 you could have Vredestein ultrac Ssanta. meant to be a far better tyre is a proper UHP tyre where as the 452's are just a midrange tyre.

if you push where the hole is it should pop the black disk out and on the back of there should be your locating pins for the zed. i am hypothosising as i've never done it.