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I'm sure if you had to walk/hire/taxi/fly to work/customer meetings out of your own pocket for 10 days you would understand why I'm angry. I'd be a lot more understanding of the timescale if it was something less mundane than a fan belt.

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.

Was promised on Friday a call Monday to sort out courtesy car. Never received call. I had to chase the dealer on Monday regarding the courtesy car. Was given some story about a hire car being organised but not till Tuesday (great!!). Promissed a call back - never got one.

 

Tuesday comes no call back (suprise). So I ring up again chasing. Told they haven't bothered getting a hire car as the fan belt had come in early. They had fitted it and it was fine but my battery was flat and would require on overnight charge. Was told aswell that they basically struggle to provide any form of courtesy car at all (WTF??).

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

How many manufacturers use NOS?

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

If not going down turbo route I would not bother with new mapable ECU, not £1500 plus cost. I would rather spend money on lightening the car e.g approx (£400) on carbon fibre rear hatch; bonet; wings maybe.

 

In fact it may be a bad idea & look again at supercharging instead, would only need to retard ignition, if that. Or maybe a 50 bhp (or max 75 bhp) shot of NOS.

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.

Clearly you drive like a granny then!

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.

Increase bhp you increase speed therefore the faster you go the quicker you need to stop!!!

 

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 under the bonnet so why bother?

 

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

Increase bhp you increase speed therefore the faster you go the quicker you need to stop!!!

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

That's always the problem with people doing modifications... Yeah lets whack a load of extra bhp but then they totally forget about they've still got to stop the dam thing with std breaks

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

What recommendations can anyone give me on what to do and what not to do as far as cleaning the engine goes such as use a hose or not etc.

Keep the bonnet closed

Bloody ell, so a power enterprise kit installed looking at about £5800, then on top a further £3000, thats £8800 just to have a turbo conversion

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

please note this auction is for a Nissan wheel nut.

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

Sure,

without the add-ons maybe