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Agreed. The SEAT Cupra boys pointed me at that stuff and it looks the dogs danglies. I got the full kit from Ebay, about £40 gets you the wax, shampoo, wheel cleaner and polish. Bargin.

Thats a perfectly fine router, I have the first version (they are now on v3 iirc), and its worked for me for a good couple of years with no real problems. Only hitch I had was the signal wasnt strong enough so I bought a more powerful antenna. If you need any help post away

Ahh but one day you'll give in to the lense lust! I certainly wish I had the money for a few, but they certainly dont make the photographer, I've seen enough bad shots with L lenses. Look forward to seeing more of your work with Zeds

Ditto, what camera and lenses. My Canon 350D will be getting a dust off when I get my Zed thats for sure, I definately need the practice! EDIT: Doh too quick for me! Teach me for posting while at work! I like the 350 as its compact and light, good to see what can be done with it in proper hands

Ahh above the offie, what a place to live, lol! I live in just up the road from the Arms in Cuffaude Village, small world indeed. The Arms wasnt so good last time I was in there, but that was a while ago. We tend to drive out to the Fur and Feathers on the Alton road, nowt to do with the pub, but the road there is great fun Sorry, think I got my point over wrong in my last post, I just wanted a passenger ride, as I too wont be letting any one else drive my Zed! What I meant was that I CBA to go miles to just get a passenger ride, but if its on my doorstep, why not! Not needed now though, I just called Dan Perkins and they have a Zed for me to test drive right now, sooo tempting as they are 5mins walk round the corner, I can nearly see them from my desk. Damn being at work! Booked a drive for tomorrow at 1pm.

No probs, like to help where I can. I'll get my own back when I get my Zed and have a million and one qustions

Hey Tim, Good to know there is someone in Basingstoke. I'm actually in Chineham rather than the town centre, where abouts are you? I have a friend who swears by the Nissan dealer here for the cheapes MOTs for all his cars Might have to try and badger you for a ride if this test drive with Dan Perkins falls through. My GF tried to book another at a place in Bognor and they said it was a no go for under 25s (I'm 24), which was a shame. Dan Perkins havent said anything though, so come Wed/Thurs I should be able to get out with them.

Thats certainly tempting, and sounds very reassuring. I will keep an eye on autotrader and see what turns up. Just need to convince work to give me a pay rise Although quite strangely, it looks like a Zed may be cheaper to run than my Leon, damn it for having Audi parts!

This is where you move into a largely grey area. Nissan arent stupid, if they were to create just one set of maps for say the UK, another for Europe, and another for the US, then thats only 3 discs they can sell. Now, should they change the software just enough for it to be legally different (forgetting the maps for now), then for their higher range cars, they can charge more. Legally, this is fully allowed, its different software, and it doesnt matter if the maps just so happen to be the same format. This would mean they have 3x as many discs as cars, much more profitable. I beleive from my economics days this is called market segmentation. Typically you dont get one customer entering the other market so they are never caught out. I cant guarentee that all Nissan map discs will work with Nissan cars, they may have different formats from year to year. But from their point of view, what is the point in creating one format for say a Zed and another for a micra. Its just illogical, they'd have to keep converting the map data for each car. In a sense the Nissan guys are correct also, and dont know any better. Remember they know nothing about software engineering, so to them, they recieve different discs for each car, so they assume that each will only work for that car. IF Nissan were really clever, they could even make it that way by signing each disc for a specific car and the car could check that, and inserting the wrong map disc would cause it to give an error. But this is far too much effort

Hey all. Thanks for the excellent welcome, I think thats the best I've got from any forum, including a mates forum where I know everyone! Looks like I'm getting a test drive @ Dan Perkins, Slough on Wed, mainly as I work 100yrds from them! From there, who knows, other than I'll be wanting a Zed quicker, lol. Whats the best way to get the best deal? Are Nissan Approved cars worth the extra money or is private quite safe? I'm usually told to go with a dealer to get a warrenty, but that would mean an older car with more mileage. I quite like the idea of an approved car as if anything is to go awry I have a fall back. Heres to a new car soon

Looking for upto around £19k, but that would be pushing it. Realistically I reckon about £17-18k. Mainly because my Leon is a lovely car, but as a 55 reg with nearly 30k on the clock, its worth sod all trade in

Hi all, New to the forum, been lurking for a few days, seem a friendly bunch! I'm currently looking to get a Zed, should funds permit, in the next month or so. At the moment I drive a Leon FR Looking to move on up tho. I live between Basingstoke and Reading, so should be able to get out and meet a few of ya when the day comes for me to get a Zed. Chris

Errr.... Hi ...... WELCOME Thanks, just new to the forum. Looking to get a Zed in the next month or so. Thought I'd share something I know about, computers

This is really quite simple and logical. Nissan do not want to spend a shed load of money creating new nav software and maps for each and every car. So they make a code base which is the basic program and maps which they can share between all the cars. Next they take the code base and expand on it, adding new features, functions and looks for specific cars. Probably sprousing it up for something like the Zed and making it more basic for say a Primera. This is why your program doesnt work, as its not desinged for your car, but the maps do as they are in a common format. You should be good to use any updated map pack as long as its for a compatible car, which it looks like you have. All the map disc has on it are a bunch of files corresponding to the data for each country. As long as you have a compatible disc, you will get the new roads. If however they change the format, then I guess it will no longer work, without the software update specific to your car. HTH