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Ok, gonna make myself even more popular here. Let's make an analogy with computers. Imagine you bought a computer, 1 year warranty. It breaks down after 2 weeks (shouldn't happen, but hey, that is why there is warranty!). They take your computer and you cannot use it for 2 weeks because they need to look into what is going on, order parts, fix it etc etc. Then the question is. Is it the end of the world to be without a pc for 2 weeks? For a lot of people, no. For some people it could mean bankruptcy because they need it for work. Then the question is, if the "asset" you are using is mission-critical, shouldn't one take extra insurances to make sure that in case of a break-down you are being helped ASAP (like HP's next-day repair service, which costs extra of course, or some extra insurance on the car giving you a replacement as soon as the car breaks down). I agree it might seem stupid that it takes 2 weeks to get a bloody fan belt (a friend of mines audi broke down and it took them 2 weeks to figure out that due to coil pack failure the car's computer decided to shut down everything to avoid engine damage .... Reset and it was running again), but who's fault is it that it took so long? Maybe at another Nissan garage it would take the same time. Also courtesy cars are not included in warranty (they just warrant to repair what breaks afaik). My guess is that if you had gotten one they would charge you for the time you had it. Try figuring out first if it were the "muppets" in the garage that caused the delay. THIS on the other hand is stuff which you can/shouldcomplain about. I hate it when ppl promise to call and they don't (especially when it is a girl )

I never heard of them. I only buy CASIO

you want to polish that out? pfff it is barely noticable

Or get a Porsche 911 Turbo

£1k if you buy it the "dumb" way. There are ways of getting it cheaper. Look around on the forum

I wouldn't bother complaining honestly. Being 10 days without a car is not the end of the world Just change garage if you are not happy with them, not worth going through all the hassle for this imho

Didn't rover want to put it on their supercar (and we all know what happened to Rover )?

Carbon fiber bonnet is not lighter than OEM one. (I don't know anymore who on this forum had one)

It is ALWAYS a good time to buy a Z

The question also is, what will the torque curve through the revs look like after these mods + ECU. This will give a lot more information on how the car will feel than just knowing you will have 40hp more on top-end.

Or maybe I m trying to be sure that within a couple of years we will not all be obliged by law to drive (even more) like a granny

So what you are saying is that everyone who runs some kind of turbo'd car (golf GTI, a lot of diesels, audi TT ...) and chiptunes his car should get bigger brakes? I honestly never felt the need for better brakes after chiptuning (+100Nm of torque), nor did anyone else i know who chipped his car. Of course track use is a different story, but there even without chipping/other tuning a lot of standard brake systems are not sufficient. And comparing track driving to "spirited" road driving is nonsense imho. Anyone who puts as much stress on his car during a spirited drive on the road as on a track either is a complete wuss on the track or a danger to society. And I am NOT saying that better brakes are nonsense, better brakes are always an improvement and add an extra safety margin.

No you don't. Increasing the bhp will increase the MAX speed of you car. The difference in real life will be that you will be hitting 70mph faster than previously, not that you will all of the sudden drive 140mph all the time, followed by a full stop for traffic lights. Read your post twice seems to me you contradicting your opening line it's not because your car CAN run faster that you WILL run it faster. I guess nobody here who installed a turbo kit installed it to get a higher max speed out of his car.

Nobody can see in your pants , doesnt mean to say you dont have to give your tackle a wash every now and then? or dont you bother with that either Some people do see in my pants, on a regular basis might I add

No you don't. Increasing the bhp will increase the MAX speed of you car. The difference in real life will be that you will be hitting 70mph faster than previously, not that you will all of the sudden drive 140mph all the time, followed by a full stop for traffic lights.

i have the 06 (dvd-based) satnav system and it works very well imho. Ok there is no postcode support, but who cares, I never missed it. It works much better than any tomtom/garmin/... in densly built areas (city centers where there is a lot of gps signal reflection, or tunnels, ...) and the route explanations are very clear. It also has traffic information integration for automatic detours and so on. And it looks much nicer in the car than some stuck-on gps thing on the window (which, as added benefit, reduces the chances of someone smashing a car window because they saw suction marks on the window from the gps module, therefore thinking that the gps itself will be in the car somewhere). Cannot afford GT + gps? Then do GT + parking sensors

No that is not a problem. People tend to do so because "they should". But extra hp doesn't mean the car is heavier, or that you will drive at higher speeds (standard Z can already do 250 km/h, which is more than I would advice on any public road, given the state of some of those roads), or that you suddenly will be doing 0mph - 100mph - 0mph all the time. And standard brakes on the Z arent exactly crap either

Keep the bonnet closed

Upgrading the performance of an N/A engine costs lots of $$$, or solution 2, do it for less $$$ but pay lots of $$$ later on when the stuff goes bang Also count in deprecation. You car will be worth less with all that stuff on it (these are more than cosmetic mods).

of course i did NOT check ebay coz i am a lazy git (but I understand, one has a postcount to keep up .... )

Hi I have this nice cargo net i bought through this site, now I would like the same for my girlfriend's company car (a Volvo S40 from 2007 ). Any idea where I can source them cheaply? I guess that from a Volvo garage they will cost 4 times the price.

ehm

And in what way is it useful to have faster dropping revs?

Sure, without the add-ons maybe