marzman

Electric vehicles can fly!

I would imagine this will make any halfway interesting ICE cars from the late 20's appreciate very nicely - as long as there isnt a heavy penalty for ownership such as ludicrous road tax etc.

Yeah dead common. Just double-declutch on gear change to avoid it. Annoying at first but becomes muscle memory before too long. Molyslip may help but didn't on mine back in the day.

Cheers Andy... it's getting there.

Couple of new mods to report on my Mustang... First up, i removed the stripes some time back... I think it looks better without them. Secondly, i picked up a set of SVE R350 19" alloys with MPSS rears and MPS4s fronts. They dont seem to make MPS4Ss in 305/35/19 yet... had to add some blue wheel nuts to complement the look. Finally I added the front splitter today... it was a bumper off job and more of a ballache than i was expecting, but all sorted now and i'm really pleased with the look. Next on the to-do list is a black front badge...

Just me...? I actually tried this for the first time today, and it was pretty disappointing. I pulled the green abrasive sponge off following this picture, but it doesnt let much through. I might be able to modify it for next time though... in theory the concept's a winner.

Please stay on this forum and replace this thread with your Skyline build! Your pictures are the best.

Did you ever try it with the matching fronts and dodgy rears in order to determine if it was a manufacturing fault on the rears, or did you go straight to matching fronts and new rears?

How many miles on her now, Dave?

Top one is the auto dip feature when in reverse on your wing mirrors. Bottom one immobiliser.

Id be buggered.

Sorry it wasnt the battery. Have you confirmed with a multimeter that the ballasts are getting power?

Yep, we do.

Yeah i definitely enjoyed modding it.... the good old days! Yep still got the Stang. Barely driving it though - i've only done about 1500 miles this year. My wife's WFH so i've been driving her car, which is my old 2005 BMW 320d. I actually enjoy driving it more than the Mustang strangely. Plus the Mustang looks amazing on the driveway when i get home from work.

Yep, well remembered Andy. My favourite pic of any of my cars.

Thats a really nice tribute. Car looks good in that colour.

Ah the memories. My first poverty spec silver zed was in most of those pics.

I had 2 Zeds covering over 5 years of ownership, and briefly owned a RX8 as a track toy (only did 1 day in it before moving it on). I much preferred the power delivery of the 350z. as Ekona said, there is far more torque which makes it much easier to live with. I didnt enjoy having to drive the arse of the rex to get anything out of it. The 350z is much more of a GT cruiser.

Could possibly be the battery on its way out, as you said it was stood for a week. I know you said voltage looks normal but maybe pop a battery charger on and see how much charge you've got. When my battery was in its final throws, the headlights were coming on with the lights switched off, and i couldnt get them to switch off at all until i disconnected the battery! I dont know what causes that, i'm guessing some sort of odd voltage issue makes it spaz out.

I dont believe the status of the 370 replacement will have an impact on used Nismo residuals. I think you can safely forecast your cars value based on the price of 2016 or 17 cars now - i.e. its still going to be worth circa £20k via private sale by the time you come to change your car early next year when your term ends (iirc!)

Looking good, welcome.

There were boat loads of imported 350z's though so there definitely has been precedent for it... but i dont know if its still the done thing. Looking at the exchange rates, back in 2002 it was 180Y to £1, now its about 140Y to £1, so 22% worse now which would be a factor i guess.

I meant year not month... but you're relying on you writing a car off to break even - statistically it's unlikely, so you're backing the wrong horse. Google says 'one in every 83 drivers will have written off their car every year'. I wouldn't place a £250 bet at 83/1...

Ive only skim read this thread, but I wouldn't dream of paying an extra £250 on the off chance you might write the car off. There's no 'break even point' as you might never write another car off at which point you've thrown away £250 a month for the next 40 years of your life (£120k!) If you wrote the car off and were a few K out of pocket, just slum it in a cheap car for a few months until you've saved up enough to cover the difference... thats better than overpaying for insurance upfront for something that odds say will never actually happen. (statistically if you've written one off, does it make you more or less likely to write off another... i'm not sure )

How come you sold your Zed? I thought you were in for the long haul on that project?