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Actually, if you're in security and are a bit bored sign yourself up to go and work for some company or another in Iraq for 6 months, should see both your bank balance and your adrenaline rise quite steeply!

I think unless you're absolutely suicidal in your current job, or you're so highly qualified you're being head-hunted by top City firms, then I wouldn't be quitting any job right now.

If you've only ever taken your car to Nissan for your 3/6/9 year services, then I would damn as hell kick up a stink if that didn't perform the B&P checks. I think you'd have a pretty good case should you need to go to court over it in that circumstance as well.

I'd walk away and find something slightly more used. At just 6K miles there might be a host of gremlins waiting to strike.

Generally I don't buy stuff from traders who don't put prices up. It's nothing personal, it's me being a lazy-ass who can't be bothered to phone/PM for prices. The exception is if I'm after something specific or from abroad, and then I will make the time because it helps me out. I've abstained from voting because there isn't an option that fits my opinion, which is that every trader has the right to do what they feel is appropriate for their business and shouldn't be made to do one thing or the other.

I bought £26K worth of Vauxhall built by Lotus without even sitting in one, much less seeing the actual car!

Oh yay, another Porker vs Nissan argument... As far as the difference between the three revisions of 350Z, it's really not going to make any difference that you'd really notice. The 309 will be a little quicker if you pull to the top end, and that difference will be noticed most on track, but on the road there's not going to be much in it.

You left out Secret Of Mana, you heathen!

What did you do with the existing indicators?

What code is it?

But he has had to do courses that cost money to be able to put him into a position where he can sign something off, hence the monetary cost of the training/knowledge has to be considered. There's other paperwork involved as well, such as invoicing, filing, receipting etc. What I'm trying to say is that they have to charge to cover themselves from a financial POV, and their minimum charge is £45 which means they don't lose on other jobs that take 62mins to complete all-in. Look at it from a business view, not just a alwight-geezer-back-hander-in-yer-pocket-yeah-diamond-mate one.

I think that's why I like them, as the Zed is a very simple shape that doesn't need fussy wheels on it. It's why the Rays work so well.

Varrstoen by a country mile

I think the last cassette I ever bought myself was "Moseley Shoals" by OCS. Only got it on tape so I could play it on my Walkman as I didn't have a portable CD player at the time!

Funny, it's now halved in time: It was two minutes earlier... It's not going to be a minute though, is it? You've got the time of the phonecall, the time spent doing the paperwork (both for you and for them), time spent doing the actual task, not to mention paying for the knowledge of someone else. Bear in mind this is also a main dealer and not a back street garage and it seems fair enough to me. They have to work to the guidelines they've been given, you can't blame them for that. If I go out and do a job for someone that takes 30 min, I have to charge for two hours labour as that's our minimum call out time/fee. They are a business, after all.

Like most companies, Nissan will have a minimum charge time regardless of how small the job is, it's how you make up the time when bigger jobs overrun. £45 sounds like one hours labour to me (actually sounds a bit cheap for an hour, but that might be because you're up north) and sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

Awful news, I wish you all the best in the coming months Get rid of the car. No point having it if you can't drive it, and the money you save could go towards either a better car or an amazing holiday. As much as I love cars, I'd bin mine in a heartbeat if I could something better with the money.

I'm not sure I see the problem? £16K for an '07 with full dealer warranty seems quite a good buy to me... Did you buy the car from a Nissan place? Either way, they're not charging an outrageous amount for it so why the hatred for them? They need to make a profit as much as the next company.

Not really, I'm still waiting for the Peugeot man's contact details so I can speak to him regarding putting mixed tyres on a 206CC

Great post Rich, thanks for sharing I'm going to edit the title too, hope you don't mind.

Tell your mate to grow a pair and see it through. What kind of example does he want to set for his kids, that you can do whatever you want as long as you're prepared to be violent? Yeah, great example. He'll be looking over his shoulder regardless of what happens now, so he might as well do the right thing.

Either get a plate that spells something properly (AA04 ZED), something that clearly doesn't but means something to you (David Robert Winkleman could get T6 DRW for example), or don't bother. All badly altered plates with spacing and screws or misrepresented numbers/letters look awful IMHO. *dons asbestos jacket*

Better in terms of grip? No. Better balanced? Yes. Happy now? So at least half of of the population are idiots then, and deserve to write their cars off. Great attitude. Not sure if you deliberately ignored the word "knowingly" in my post, but hey, whatever floats your boat. I've given so much advice on this recently, and if people still want to believe in magic tyre fairies then that's their own stupidity: Let Darwin deal with them.

Don't forget that a car is designed to perform at it's best when it has four tyres of a specific type on, and all four of equal tread depth. Actually, I'm almost boring myself with all this sh*t now. So many people out there appear to think that the laws of physics don't apply to them, and I doubt that even the most rational response will change their minds. It's like arguing Darwin with a Jehovah's Witness: Even if you've got all the facts to back you up, the other person is still going to believe in magical fairies. I'll just say that anyone who knowingly puts mismatched tyres on their car of any kind is a complete idiot and deserves to end up in a hedge backwards.

Both to blame IMHO. Yes, the 370Z clearly outbraked himself, but the Corsa should have been aware of where he was and not looking blindly into the distance. Had he done so and lifted slightly, the Zed would've carried on into the grass and the Corsa would've had a straight bit of road to play with. Easier said than done when looking back rather than in the middle of a red-mist battle mid-race though.