stanski

wowsers those wheels look good man!!

Incidentally why oh why oh why do Nissan stick a red coloured fog light rear lense - it upsets the rear balance!! Why not a clear lense and red bulb behind eh?

Hi

sorry to be hear about your bump , at least your ok - the car comes second place always.

From the point of long storage I would hope the dealer had enough brain cells to disconnect the battery if they were assuming your car will be stored up for a fairly long time? Yes you want them to keep the car dry. Better to have it in gear with the handbrake off though? I expect they will charge the battery and check everything over after the work is done?

I still find it odd that parts for Jap cars appear to take so long to source? As far as I know most Jap manufacturers have huge European parts depo's located in places like Belgium/France/Holland etc - due to their central location and good motorway communication links? I know Toyota do for sure.

I appreciate that niche cars like Zeds will have unique parts but from what I have read on this forum and my own Nissan experience they really do like to use the parts bin - I expect the part you want must surely be

shared with the rest of the Nissan range?

I know they are pretty dire (my own experience) but worth phoning Nissan UK or even another Nissan dealer to see if they have this part? Try to find out the part number if possible and do a search online? I know the dealers should be chasing all this for you but remember its your car and you care about it - they dont its just another car to them so you have to do all the running around?

Sorry cant be much more help than that? Good luck?

Stan

Roof down and up the Lakes again I think

Lucky ......so and so....

enjoy - reet time to get away from this puter and outdoors

You lucky rascals - boy do I wish I still had my ragtop!!!

Only rain and snow used to stop me from taking the roof off my old roadster. Hope the heater is good in a Zed Ragtop?

Used to see a bloke in a Morgan every day in Manchester rain or shine in his plus fours - dear stalker pipe with the roof off just a full cover over his seats - what a hero

Don't start me on carbon footprint

Carbon footprint you've set me off now - Its easy to point fingers at sports cars or 4x4's etc the usual targets - there is so much propaganda around this stuff - for goodness sakes just sort the States India and China - they are still supposed to be the worst offenders how can you compare the emmisions from a small exhaust to a belching chimney from a plant?

Linkster if your job requires you to travel around to other countries what are you gonna do - get a sail boat?

What about the rescue services? Rescue 4x4's, Police Hecolopters, the emissions from a fully loaded fire tender I recon are not good and probably only 12 mpg! Well fine your house burns down but its ok you will be saving the planet! Joy! Aha but the emissions from your burning house will not be good will they !

Why so many lorries when we should be using trains to shift frieght?

Why the hell did Al Gore get a Nobel prize - for what? Making a film? Did he invent enviroment awareness?

Until they invent a car that runs on carrot juice I dont want small minded politicians or newspapers telling me how to live my life?

Hybrid cars have shed loads of precious metals with delightful evil chemical extraction processes (batteries etc) which probably offset any benefits of travel?

Dont get me wrong I am concerned about the environment and have been recycling since I was a kid, well before the media made a big thing out of it, I'm old fashioned I fix stuff thats broken instead of replace, I look after my posessions (especially cars) as they are such a big investment look after them and they will lokk after you - (Still got my second ever car VW beetle after 19 years!), I reuse carrier bags as poo bags for the dog etc etc the list goes on.... Nothing new nothing clever just common sense! Aye up lad

Oh dont run your car below 1/4 to fumes as we all know the sh** from the bottom of the tank will clog up yer jets and pipes!

Sorry everyone - bad week at work - just ranting! (Its an enviro friendly rant - I recycled the words I used from elsewhere , they were low fat , vegetarian friendly and low in carbon emissions! No animals were injured in the writing of this rant any views expressed were purely my own, remember the value of your rant can go up or down depending on the market at that time)

crackin wee windy road along by the water there!

Top down weather driving road that - as are a number of roads up there - love it. All I need is my ragtop Zed now - (still saving!)

1971 1200cc VW Beetle Marina Blue (£400 which my dad lent me) - I loved it to bits - until some knob wrote it off in his Sierra!

Incidentally second car was a 1971 1300cc Deluxe VW Beetle Pastel white and 19 years later I still have that car - needs a resto but this is the year!

Mine was 1971 1200cc VW Beetle Marina Blue (£400 which my dad lent me) - I loved it to bits - until some knob wrote it off in his Sierra!

Incidentally second car was a 1971 1300cc Deluxe VW Beetle Pastel white and 19 years later I still have that car - needs a resto but this is the year!

Kilwinning

Cool - just up the road from Helensburgh - like I said Nuclear Subs - keeping thing toasty for you!

Stan

I've used Autoaid now for a couple of years - its a bit different - where you pay the garage etc yourself and claim the money back from Autoaid afterwards - but you contact them first in the event of a breakdown like anybody else of course.

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/insura ... e-recovery

http://www.autoaidbreakdown.co.uk/

£36 fully comp for 12 months. Beat that!

This covers you and your spouse - however if your living in sin then your other half has to pay for their own policy - weird stuff its 2008 for goodness sakes!!!!

Hope this helps?

Stan

Very rarely get snow where I am, west coast, about 2 miles from the sea

Cool where abouts if you dont mind me asking - we go oop North west coast quite a few times in the last couple of years and pop across to Skye.

Anyway no snow on that side because of all the heat from the Radioactiove Subs sailing around there - sure I can see a periscope behind your car ?

Is that Nis-tec? I always take my Z there, absolute bargin and great guys P3 was only £115

Crickey - do they service Pathfinders?? (4x4) If so looks like a nice weekend outing to Swansea may be on the cards!

I have found a Nissan Specialist in Swansea. A P1 there is just £60

Wowsers that cheap ! Specialist you say will the warrany be valid under Nissan??

If its an out of warranty job after a few years I would probably just do it myself as the car will be worth a pack of toffees by then (probably have 200,000 miles on it in 3 years with my type of driving!!)

Stan

Sent you a pm 4 days ago bud

Sorry Martin - did'nt even notice - spend all day looking at 'puters cant see the binary for the hexadecimals!

Replied to pm and thanks for the info btw.

Stan

It's been snowing here since 10am

Dont complain - people have to pay good money to see snow!!

Which part of the country are you in?

just in front of the Mirror and light unit. Not the best fit but you can't change the direction.

thanks Mike probably another Nisaan parts bin special - so probably used across the range? Must be too sensitive then thats all i can think of? My ditchfinder has only let the alarm go off in those horrible strong winds /hail the other week - first time ever ? (06 plate)

Nice butty shop between for a B&E

Good to know - you see you dont get this kind of knowledge from Nissan UK do you ? Thats why this forum is top notch.

Hmmm - should I go there for a quote on a new ragtop Zed (or lease doodar plan) then see what Westway come up with? (Ha Westway have sold that ragtop I meant to be test driving tomorrow - figures - just as well I guess Zeds are not so hot in the snow/sleet? )

Top stuff thanks mate - thats within spitting distance of sunny Bury I shall pop over there for a recon mission.

Lockwood & Greenwood in Manchester

OOer - where are they? Never 'erd of 'em?

Thanks

Stan

Where are the sensors on Zeds? Are they loose fit behind headling/ windcreen framing or built into dash sort of doodar?

They could be pointing too much towards windows and if too sensitive they will go off?? Are your cars all with SATNAV /Bluetooth built in or a mix ???

Only reason I ask is when I had my ditchfinder in for some work last year - I was told that top spec Adventura model the ones with Satnav (the same Birdview one your Zeds have) and bluetooth (Nissan use the parts bin here for all this stuff!) they have had reports of a fault where the battery drains prematurely - the reason is that all these extra electrical stuff does'nt appear to shut down properly in a snooze mode if you will when not in use and is putting a strain on the battery? Maybe worth following up - they should be able to get a mechanic to test this for you? Sorry I did say mechanic then did'nt I? Doh! Silly me

Anyway hope this helps?

Stan

I asked about service pricing inWestway Nissan (oldham) they said something like £220 then £260 then £220 again - those kind of numbers ?

The first service is a Long Stand service - where a kid stands there and looks at it for ages ... then they put some oil in - being very careful to spill it over your engine bay and front wing. Which costs £15 then they do the important job of topping up your windscreen wash even though you filled it the day before £130 - the rest is labour

good to know but lets be honest - when have you ever reached anything above 50mph on the M25 - even in the wee small hours!

eye eye Captain

Told you - no extra hot Madras curry with extra chills in the house!

The laser itself is fine. The smell isn't

My friend had both eyes lasered and he said the same !

I have thought about it also - but as a few of you have said you only have 1 pair of eyes and there are no guarantees - you may need to go back again in a few years time as your eyes get worse again? I dunno I am still considering it - contact lenses for me the last 15 years and NHS specs before then

As far as recognised specialists are concerned I beleive you can go to the eye hospital in Manchester and they will do it for you - as opposed to a high street chain?? Dunno will wait a bit longer and see(no pun intended) as it goes?