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Mine's a base model JDM, and the switch next to the VDC is for a heated windscreen. The mirrors don't fold in automatically on mine either - I think it was only the higher-spec models in Japan that had that function. If you do a search on here you will find a thread with details of how to adapt them to fold automatically.

OK OK - I've been away working for the last few weeks and just catching up with some of these posts! Here is the earliest posting I can remember of the trunk monkey - viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1162&view=next

That really gets me annoyed too. We nearly ran into someone doing exactly the same thing yesterday. The snowy conditions don't really bother me too much - the problem is the number of a**holes on the roads who can't handle a car in the dry, never mind these conditions!

+ 1 We've been using the Qashqai, and I have to admit it has been pretty good in the snow.

Why don't you make your own? Just needs a bit of MDF and material to cover it.

+1 what a great advert for the forum.

Aye, right! Isn't the 9 times table wonderful?

... heading towards Dunfermline this afternoon at 4.45pm. Anyone on here?

I use one of these - http://www.cleanyourcar.co.uk/washing-a ... d_362.html Just need to lay it on the panels and they are dry.

Great photos and the car looks fabulous. (Must not be tempted to buy nismo wheels, must not be tempted.....)

+1 couldn't put it better myself. Ian's input to the forum will be greatly missed.

Mine certainly did - we used to spend ages looking for old pram wheels to build our carts on. Your grandparents must have been very generous to buy you something so flash.

Do you mean the Infinity Kappa component system, which includes the tweeters etc. as well, like this ..... http://www.icebuyer.co.uk/ref6520cs-653 ... 19367.html or just two 6.5" speakers? Like these ...... http://caraudiosecurity.com/shop/produc ... /8837.html

I thought mine didn't work either until I adjusted the balance and fade options (it's a JDM but with an after-market stereo). To be fair, the speakers still don't put out a lot of volume.

Is that the sensor at the forward end of the air intake pipe?

And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993!!! CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's ! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank Sherry while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos... They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer. Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos. Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a Sunday, somehow we didn't starve to death! We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers and Bubble Gum. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter, milk from the cow, and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because...... WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY, no video/dvd films, or colour TV, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. Only girls had pierced ears! (Doesn't all this brings tears to your eyes!) We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time... We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays, We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! Mum didn't have to go to work to help Dad make ends meet because we didn't need to keep up with the Jones's! Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/netball team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and throw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren't concentrating ... We can string sentences together and spell and have proper conversations because of a good, solid three R's education. Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla' We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL ! And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were. PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good anymore at your age.

Should look a bit like mine when it's done.

+1 Like this, for example..... http://i632.photobucket.com/albums/uu47 ... 50z010.jpg http://i632.photobucket.com/albums/uu47 ... 50z016.jpg

I think it was £799 for a set of four including tyres, according to the website.

+1, preferably silver. Call me old-fashioned, but I just don't understand the current fad for black wheels. To me, they make the wheels disappear into the wheel arches, and make it look as if you are trying to hide them. If you spend upwards of two grand on a set of wheels, you should be showing them off! Maybe it's because I was brought up with steel wheels, usually in black or another strong colour, covered with a chrome hub-cap. They were heavy and ugly and did nothing for the appearance of the car. When silver alloys came along, it was an instant transformation of our cars that no amount of tarting up of the old wheels could match. For me, painting nice alloy wheels black is a backward step. I know, I know, everyone to their own.

Since starting to use Snowfoam, I've rarely used the two buckets. I do use a grit guard, though, and I rinse the mitt if I think it is picking up any dirt. Having said that, I wash the car so often that it hardly ever has any significant dirt on it! My neighbours worry about my sanity.