stanski

you have 1 meg ram and 1.8 ghz processor speed, which is fine for Vista.

Only go to PC(rip off world (which is Dixons as you know also)) when they have deals on - but generally best place is to buy online - dabs or even ebuyer (but they are box shifters though) just shop about - sometimes the manufacturers have good deals on their own onlineshops. Sorry if I am teaching you to suck eggs mate. Dell usually have good deals on this time of year just watch those extras - they add up the price and the next thing you know its a soddin fortune.

Costco even have great deals but they are only good in spring when they get the latest bling and then the price stays the same for the rest of the year by which time everyone catches up. (My secoind home Costco!)

Wish they sold 350Z's - would be about £10K for a ragtop! With a 5 year warranty included and no hassle to take back if you did'nt like it after 10 months!

Stan

buy a free lander......

No need to mate got a Pathfinder - same difference but a lot cheaper!

is this any good

Aye that should be fine dont worry - just dont use Norton I cant say it enough - I still cant get rid of the damn thing off mine (this one I am using now)

Enjoy your 'puter - I would also recommend a USB hard drive - Costco do a Western Digital 500GB hard drive for about £70 - bargain - keep all your important stuff there as a backup - free's up your laptop to store rubbish instead!

Stan

Lease against buy - I was also considering that but when you work it out - if your gonna keep the car for at least 4 - 5 years then may as well buy it and not worry about the depreciation just enjoy it at least its yours to keep?

If your gonna change your car a lot and do high miles then maybe lease is better but ... I keep thing thinking also its dead money really?

Stan

oh blimey - started something here hav'nt I!

Low slung sports cars+speed bumps or multistories = expense!

Hey wonder if we can use this Americanised culture to sue the councils for damage to our beloved cars ? (Apparently there is a European standard for these bumps so if you feel that bump at the bottom of your road is a little too steep and your £27 grand Zed has just lost an exhaust - have a surf about the web and measure the height of the bump - you never know your council may be liable ! Worth a shot?

Incidentally did you know that if you are in a smash and you damage any street furniture (lamp posts etc) your delightful council will be on site quicker than the ambulance as they will sue you to claim back the money for any damage caused!! Great is'nt it.

top stuff thanks - ok thats another tick in th provebial box.

dont know why they bother with them- they are useless - far better with width-restrictors - now they make you think and definitely slow you down!

Funny watching Fiat Panda's or Nissan Micras' crossing over the tarmac lumps though!

Hi

So speed bumps - the tarmac lump ones - what are Zed's like - are they tall enough to cope or is it a skim round the edge job?

I ask cause my local council have infested the roads wiv em round here?

Thanks

Stan

Sorry forgot to mention - you will most likely get Norton 360 with your shiny Vista pc - be afriad!

Do not install it if its not already installed - its the biggest pile of poo !

Very clunky and effectively uses up any spare horsepower you may have left, oh and slows your disk drive down also - just get another antivirus software not Norton - far too clunky !

Stan

I recently purchased a new laptop and it comes with Vista Home premium.

From the point of XP, Vista seems to be a tiny step as opposed to a great leap forward - they have just moved the soddin' stuff about and given it a fancy pants display , but under the covers its still very much XP, so my point is if you go to the printer manufacturers website - you can usually find a Vista driver. (More so now than a few months ago anyway)

I had to do that for my ageing Epson printer and digi camera (which is only 4 years old but pre-vista)no problem at all.

Just make sure your laptop has ideally 2meg memory and a Core 2 duo at least 1.8Ghz processor speed, anything less and performance suffers.

Great innit -they build faster and better pc's now than ever, shame the software does'nt match the hardware?

Good luck with it - its not the slickest software around but you get used to the rearranged furnishing soon enough .

Hope this helps

Stan

The Ring? In Brum?

Went to France in the ditchfinder last year and used Speedferries - cheap as chips - doddle to use about 40 mins sailing - Dover to Boulogne.

http://www.speedferries.co.uk/

Unfortunately the return trip was cancelled so we ended up the road to Calais and got on a normal ferry (Whoa Rip off city!) anyway Speedferries refunded the whole amount - so worked out ok in the end.

Never mind the cops just watch out for the French drivers, they dont appear to know what those yellow flashing things on the edge of your car are for?

!

Good luck and enjoy.....

Stan

I guess you mean this......

http://www.worldcarfans.com/6070618.001 ... 350z-spied

Stan

I don't care either way, i just love the Z

Aye your right mate so do i and hopefully will have one next year

Stan

Plenty around when you havent got one

Your right mate but there are even more around the day you do buy one!!

Oh well enjoy yourselves and all the best for 2008 lets hope fuel prices will drop to 50p per gallon ha ha ha ha!!

MR2 has been around I know for a while, but the Roadster was only 7 years - which I suppose is a long time for Jap cars or any mark these days? It has a 1.8 vvti engine which I used to regularly get 48mpg out of even when thrashed. Cheap servicing and very well made (better than the MX5 I might add).

Limited luggage space was a very big minus mark and of course taking on the MX5 has been around since 1872 and held the title for that time so its hard breaking into that market - althought toyota did a very good job.

I always thought the old shape MX5 was a bit too toytown for me - the new one looks great inside and from every angle except the front which looks like a bath tub (sorry to any MX5 owners out there).

Anyway back to Zed's no I dont think there will be a parts problem but by the time I manage to get enough cash together to buy a roadster I am hoping it wont be discontinued in favour of the next latest toy, which may of course tempt me to buy instead!!

I have noticed that Nissan accountants obvisouly encouraged the parts bin to be used extensively - the steering wheel , radio and aircon controls look remarkably the same as my Pathfinder - gonna stick 3 yogurt pots with bluetack on the top ofthe dash so I can pretend they are the dials from the Zed -

Stan

There ain't an accountant in Nissan that would want the 350Z stopped - global sales have been great for them.

Well maybe your right but Toyota for example had a great car in the MR2 roadster (biased I had 2) and decided to ditch it this year as it does'nt fit in with their (supposed green) tree hugging image they want to convey to the world? even though they were still making money on them and orders still comming in?

So they would rather build boring but allegedly green friendly cars!

Who knows maybe they are turning into the British Leyland of Japan! God help us all!

Blimey!

Gunmetal coupe - Cheadle near John Lewis - Saturday afternoon

Azure blue rag top - Rochdale today

Black coupe - M60 today

Also today Azure Blue Coupe for sale Westway Nissan - Rochdale - think a dogs been eating the seats unless the previous driver had a lot of bling on their hands!

Salesmen trying to explain difference between this one and the new one - oh they have a bulge in the bonnet really thats it!

Keep looking bud

I am sure you are right - trouble with jap cars is when they get a really good one they faff about with lights and little bits for about 3-4 years then they just pull the plug !

Oh well I still want one either way, just thinking about future parts etc etc you know the sort of thing.

Its really down to money now at the end of the day just gotta keep saving and working that overtime...

Hi

Just flicking through the jap car fans website

http://www.worldcarfans.com/9071127.009 ... 0-comeback

If Nissan are pushing forward with the GTR and skyline and even bring back 240sx maybe - then where does the 350Z fit?

Are they likely to ditch it - some accountant somewhere will probably decide they have too many sports models? What does everybody think?

I only ask cause I still want to get the roadster but sods law will decide that the week I finally afford one they will soddin replace it

Stan

Take it you didnt get a wave then

Na afraid not I am still driving my Nissan Pathfinder (even rarer than a Zed in this country!) so would look a bit foolish?

Would like a Roadster unfortunately funds and other stuff getting in the way for now - however watch this space in the new year!! Santa may not have got my letter yet - probably lost in the post with all those parcels!

Hot on the heels of my Chester spotting behold a Blue coupe on slip road out of Village hotel Bury as I was just turning off the cobbled bit of the M66 about 6pmish tonight!

Reg PJ56 #### Bit durty needs a wash lad!

Crickey thats 2 in 2 days I may have to take back what I said earlier!

Naaa

This is worrying I am on the look out for Zeds now - oh dear time to get a proper job with less stress - losin' moi marbles

Stan

I don't want to see any other Zeds, I want people to be looking at mine

Well maybe your's is the only one in the whole of Cheshire to see anyway ? - maybe if you park it by the side of the M56 tonight I can see it on my way home - I will wave Then I can say I have seen 3 of them!

Yet when you look on Nissans Website - they have loads for sale and even more on Autotrader so where are all these cars hiding?

You sound like Zedrush

Sorry I am more like Zebadee!!

Can you tell I am bored at work - well better log off and do a bit more I suppose all the best for the New year folks

Agent Stanski is offski

Shouldnt that be M61

Yeah your right although its more M56 and M60 (Sub departments - way above Top secret!) Need to know only ..... Comrad

Na mate - they were probably on a job as stated before.

(MI6) could'nt acknowledge you for ahem - security reasons

Have you seen that documentary on BBC1 called Spooks

- although you only see them drive a Lexus. The 350Z is sooo stealth we cant even let it be filmed on camera for a BBC documentary - dont worry when (if ) I ever get one I will be waving and flashing(lights) to all 3 Zed's that I will see in 12 months!

Agent Stanski MI6 Lancashire Branch (doh! slipped that out)

I'm just having a hard time adjusting to these prices after moving out here from the UK

Yikes what have you done - which bank was it and did you get away cleanly?

Stan