marzman

Mate, you sound just like me 10 days ago... i posted on here with 4 hours to go! You know what i did the night i picked i up? i slept like a baby! i had a week of sleepless nights just thinking about it constantly, but as soon as i got it, i could finally relax and switch my brain off! And yeh... i spent £160 on fuel in the first 4 days.

Yeh, im being soooo gentle with it... i dont at any point hear the roar from the engine... its just all silent!

Yeh mines the same as yours nixy, speed in in mph, but the rest of the pod is in km's. Do JDM's have a petrol light for when you're running out? As i've gone halfway between the last line and empty, and no lights come on... My bmw always lit up when i had '64' miles left....!

Hey folks... I bought my first 350z last wednesday and managed to spend £140 on petrol by Monday, so this week im trying to see what the maximum distance i can get out of my tank is! I do just over 60 miles a day to work and back, on a good mix of roads (30% town, 20% motorway, 50% country lanes). I put £59 in it on Monday night, and the dte read 600kms. Now, i've been driving everywhere at about 2k revs... only going above 2 or 3 times.... (i've got a tiptronic so its quite easy). Im sticking to 60-65 on the motorway, and so far, i've driven 94 miles, and my petrol guage has gone down by just over 1/6th!! The dte now reads 613kms... HA! Now, obviously this is painful for me to do.... its like im teasing myself, as im normally a complete rally driver, but it'll make me feel better when i can tell people what mpg i can get!! Anyway, i'll keep you posted on what i can get, and i hope you all feel sorry for me driving so slow!

I'd love to come to the meet on sunday - but im working both days this weekend to get me some money back! Im skint now! And i cant even enjoy the drive to work cos im working from home!! I'll be there at the next one though for sure... On another note... im aching all over... is the zed notoriously uncomfortable of what, cos im in pain!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Im back! I got home at 1am last night... i went and showed everyone i've ever met! Then spent about an hour playing with the stereo - its a Pioneer Avic-N2 or something... its got everything! It has a mode on screen where it tells you the 'G' you've acheived through accelleration and braking, and then steering too. + about 100 other things it does that i've not played with yet! ....only spent £35 on fuel so far....

I finish work in 5 minutes, then its a 90 minute drive to the garage..... is this bringing back memories for anyone??

Hey All... Finally picking my first z tonight at about 7pm.... this is the slowest day ever. Im sat at work just watching the clock... and all my mates keep coming up to me saying things like 'not long now...!' or 'its almost time...!' this is both the best and the worst part of getting a new car!

Thanks for the welcomes everyone...! i'd love to come to wales on Sunday, but unfortunately im working both days this weekend (to try and get my bank balance a little healthier)! The car was imported in 2003, and im the 3rd UK owner i think.... and i tested the sat nav out, it found my house no problem! Thats interesting what bronzee said, i thought it was on the inside but i'll double check when i pick it up... Have fun on Sunday guys! Chris.

cheers buddy, what did i do wrong?

hey guys, I've been after a 350z for the last few months, and i finally bought one this weekend! i pick it up on Wednesday night, and i cant wait. I've only ever driven BMW's in the past, and i've just traded in my E46 328ci coupe. Its a beautiful car, but very boring to drive! its fast, but there's no driver involvement. Although my buddies on bimmerforums.com would strongly disagree - i've not told them im leaving yet :-) So anyway... its taken me 5 months to find somewhere that'll insure me at a half decent price (£2400 for the year - i've only been driving 3.5 years, and have 2 years NCB). Its frustrating cos i turned 24 this month, but my buddy at work is a year older than me, and he can get insured on the same car for less than a grand!! its gonna be my daily driver, and im doing around 20k miles a year, so because of that i've gone down the import route - spend less, lose less! I went to see 2 z's at the same garage... a red version t, and my silver version s. I have to say that i didnt like the interior of the t, due to the oem sat nav, with jap writing everywhere! And ithe nav wont work anyway, so why pay more for just the leather seats? So, i went for the version s, which is a tiptronic auto (prefer that with the traffic jams i sit in!)... but then to my suprise, when i started it up for a testdrive, a motorized touchscreen popped out, and its a full aftermarket sat nav system!!!! I couldnt beleive it - arent they like 1200quid?? I had a 20 minute test drive and it drives great... and just as we got back to the garage the salesman went "ah crap, you're in Snow Mode"... so he switched it into sport and it made all the difference! I was enjoying myself anyway, but then it was like YES! I've attached the pic of my car... and you can see the only thing thats wrong with it - the drivers side headlight is fogged up. I know it'll really annoy me, but i'll never fork out the £200 or whatever for a new unit! Any tips (and yes i've searched!). So hello all! Chris. code tweaked to display image correctly by mod