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Just Googled Baysia and cant find anything - what is it? I'm assuming its some kind of nerual net program? Having worked in business intelligence for a few years at very large data producers (telco's, news providers, payment processors) that seems far too easy. If that can handle the millions of claims a year that an insurer sees, then you need to get on and sell it to them. The ROI to them would be massive. Dont underestimate the poor state that their database will be in. You'd need to do a hell of a lot of data cleansing, conformation and aggregation before you can even think of putting it into a neural net or even a plain old data miner. I do agree they should put the effort in though

I hate each and every one of you ... a lot ... and then a bit more So jealous we couldnt come this year, will definately be making it next time, it looks like a great time. Currently peeing it down in Reading

I would bet on the latter too. As you know working in stats, its costs a hell of a lot of money to come up with working logic for this stuff. To build and train a nerual network would cost far more than they would get back from having accurate risk models. And they would need a lot of good clean data to drive it and allow it to learn and adapt. Its not even just the pure number of claims they'd need to run the model, its the breadth of information about each claim too. It makes far more sense to have a crude and rudamentry system that keeps their quote about the same as the competition based on a few basic facts and have a bit of wiggle room that should someone want to be price matched, they can easily do it.

Ians was a fair bit louder than a K1 - but sounded a lot nicer

Popcharger - gives a nice roar but drops some engine power (not convinced of this myself when out on the road, but on dyno it definately heat soaks) and perhaps some throttle response Standard Airbox - no noise but gives better throttle response and gives a bit more engine power than stock

Speak to Ian, he is the single exit master

No idea what the connections are. I just know that ribbon cables like to be seated properly and if they move they can do that kind of thing. If they are glued though they shouldnt have moved

iGo is the software Nurrish used for Nav, but I think a lot of those little devices came with it too. It could be someone did the same as Nurrish and dismantled a unit to fit it like he did - or it could be an actual Nurrish prepped system. Looks to me like the connection to the screen has gone. Does it change if you move the ribbon cable? If it does then it will be the connection. If it doesnt it could still be the connection, you'd need to locate the ribbon cable connectors and try to seat them again. They can be quite delicate as it just claps the ribbon cable in and it might have just pulled out a little. If that doesnt fix it then it might be broken completely.

Take it he didnt work out how to fix it then? Should have taken the bridge like we did last time

Yes I checked with Nissan GB when I got the car and this was their email reply: "I can confirm that when you have your Nissan 370Z serviced at a Nissan dealership within its service schedule (12 months or 9,000 miles which ever comes first) your Nissan 370Z gets 12 months RAC Roadside Assistance. Every time you have your Nissan 370Z serviced at a Nissan dealership your Nissan 370Z will get another 12 months RAC Roadside Assistance cover. The RAC Roadside Assistance cover is registered to the vehicle itself and not the owner. Should you decide to sell the vehicle the RAC Roadside Assistance cover will go with the vehicle." Do you know if that covers EU matey, or is it just UK? Need to dig out my docs. Sure I heard someone say it was EU somewhere around here. Just to confirm - it is for the EU, and you get a little renewal bit of info on the jobsheet/reciept. Found it tonight and gives the number to phone on it if you have trouble

370z has one too - not going to say where it is in case any robbers are reading this, but its quite obvious to owners. That does the tilt sensor which I assume is the one I need for the ferry. The other option as you say is to try key in the door too. 370z is way more sensative than the 350z. My pressure washer on the roof of the 370z sets off the alarm, as does very heavy rain or hail

Nope, we're going with Brittany

Off to France at the end of the week on a ferry and was just wondering if anyone knew how to lock the car without the alarm. I am thinking you can usually use the key, but as the key is more for emergencies in the 370z I'm not sure if it will work that way. Can anyone confirm? If not I'll be out in the garage tonight trying to set the alarm off

They will slap you with a stupidly high postage rate at Courtesy. TBH, I would try Alex and Toby (EH370z) and if they cant do it, just get it bought from your local guy.

Top for roadster, bottom for coupe. Cant remember the difference in the seat spec other than the centre of the roadsters are mesh like rather than leather. They can be swapped too - I think Martinmac had a swap with Jay (ZedRush) old ones.

You can get IR extenders which do the same thing as Sky Eye. Just means that you need extra powered boxes though. You'd have a receiver up with the telly in the bedroom/etc and a transmitter downstairs. Receiver sends the button presses from upstairs to downstairs via RF and then fires off the command to the freeview box. Not sure how much these cost these days. +1 on wiring it if you can. We bought a wireless transmitter to my mum as a quick fix and the quality on it isnt particularly good. Going to go and hardwire in a new TV point when I can to get a better picture.

Yes I checked with Nissan GB when I got the car and this was their email reply: "I can confirm that when you have your Nissan 370Z serviced at a Nissan dealership within its service schedule (12 months or 9,000 miles which ever comes first) your Nissan 370Z gets 12 months RAC Roadside Assistance. Every time you have your Nissan 370Z serviced at a Nissan dealership your Nissan 370Z will get another 12 months RAC Roadside Assistance cover. The RAC Roadside Assistance cover is registered to the vehicle itself and not the owner. Should you decide to sell the vehicle the RAC Roadside Assistance cover will go with the vehicle." Do you know if that covers EU matey, or is it just UK? Need to dig out my docs. Sure I heard someone say it was EU somewhere around here.

If you have the same as me (very likely) then you should be able to find where the bungee is terminated behind one of the anchors on the net. If you pull it out, you can pull some bungee through the ring securing it and then trim off the excess. Leaves the net a little loose, but after you put stuff under it, it works spot on

They definately have more bite to them. You soon get used to it, but certainly is a shock when you first get on the stoppers

Have you kept the ratio of front:rear rolling radius the same on the tyres? As they are not the same on the OEM setup the TCS and VDC will have this built in and if you outside its levels of tollerance on difference, it can cause it to trigger early as it thinks that the wheel is spinning faster or slower than it acutally is. I used to run non-OEM setup rolling radius on my old 350z which made it think the rear wheels were spinning slower than they actually were and it allowed me notably more wheelspin before TCS would kick in. VDC is a PITA on track, it always kicks in too early, but the car isnt a track car, so it *should* be safer on the road for the average Joe driver. Understeer is dialled into every road car that I've ever driven as its safer for most people most of the time.

Its the horizontal tonneau cover. Fairly useless with no fixings or indeed if you have no holes in the rear trim to attach it. If you have a UK car and its missing though, I guess it would be a good buy

TCS and VDC will only be effected by the wrong tyre rolling radius (front:back ratio most importantly) as it uses the speed of each wheel to decide if it is slipping in relation to the others. I doubt it will have any kind of grip level parameters in its algorithms, it will just be a try/catch situation where it tries to put more power to other wheels and waits for feedback. If any tyre has more/less grip than the others it will react to that based on speed sensors as this will allow it to cope with differing road conditions/surfaces too - which is what its designed for in the first place!

They are made by Akebono, same people who make the McLaren F1 brakes http://www.mclaren.com/page/akebono-1 I find my 370z has a bit more stopping power than my 350z had. The brakes seem stronger but not as progressive.

Cos they're bigger and better Dont think they would be a straight swap. Best place to look is the US forums, they will have tried this by now. Not sure they will clear all 18" wheels though as they are monsters! Not really worth the effort IMO, better off spending the money on 2 piece discs and good pads

Dependant on budget - intakes (drop in filters), HFCs and freer flowing exhaust (inc Y-pipe).