Bobsta

I'm really interested in this too. I know Nissan says "you can't" in the manual but as Chris mentioned there seems to be a kit available in the US for this, as well as after-market third party solutions. We normally use our other car (Vectra) for transporting our little one - but for emergency use I really need to be able to disable the passenger airbag in the Zed or I'll be forced to sell my low mileage roadster for a ridiculously low price. Mark - did you find anything? Anyone else? If we could work out how to get these kits from the US, would they work OK on the UK spec car? Thanks, Rob

You would think this is the sort of thing that a Nissan dealer would know. Unfortunately yesterday my roadster was in for a P3 service at West Way Aldershot, and when I picked it up and went to drive off, I nearly shat myself when I touched the brake pedal and it spongily sank to the floor. I took it back and they mumbled some excuse about 8 nipples... sometimes happens when it's been left for an hour... air ... master cylinder ... but all being sorted now. I asked why the car hadn't been road-tested after the work ... some mumbling ensued ... "well they're normally road-tested sir" Anyway, they seem to have fixed it now, but not what you expect for a £300 service. I really love my car but I have to say that Nissan dealerships are the one thing that lets the 350z down. I've had problem after problem with dealerships ever since I first took delivery back in 2005. No wonder Nissan chose to only sell and service the GT-R through specialist performance centres! I need new brake pads all round but based on this experience will be doing it myself(!)

Thanks Smoky. I'm sure a few of the FTO crew have used Colin before, so I'll give him a shout. (Pics now added to my original post)

Thanks Sarnie. Small world eh?! BTW, I'm looking to go on a 350z-specific driving day / car handling course. A track day isn't really what I'm after... I'm looking for something with coned courses and large run-offs, possibly even a skid pan. Just something to practice drifting a little, and understand how to control a tank-slapper, and understand the limits of the car. I've always felt I've not been able to get the best out of the zed due to not having done this. I've had a browse around the site and I can't find anything - any pointers? Thanks!

LOL... thanks guys. I'll get some pics - but as my car's currently a standard GT-Pack Roadster in blue, it won't be anything you've not all seen before. Maybe I could get the missus to sprawl across it or something to make life a bit more interesting? Yeah, early days on the GT-R. At the moment it's only a deposit slip and a copy of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue on the PS3 to play with!... It'll be an agonising wait (although happy to put off paying for the darned thing - that's gonna be H A R D!). Bobsta.

Hello all, I signed up today but have had my Roadster from new since March 2005. It came out of warranty last weekend so I thought it was time to look into performing a few mods - hence signing up here. I've owned a series of japanese cars - FTO GPX for 5 years, Impreza P1 for 18 months, 350z for 3 years. I modded the FTO quite a bit - but I like to think in quite a tasteful manner. The P1 was good enough as it was, and the 350 I bought from new so have been happy not to touch it until now. My 350 has only done 25k miles and the resale values are making me feel quite ill(!) so I've decided to keep the car for another year or so. I have a new GTR on order so I'm hoping my zed will keep me going until that arrives in 18 months+. The car's been great. The only gripe being the CD player which has skipped badly since it was around 6 months old. My dealer seems to be powerless at getting a replacement so I've escalated to Nissan UK - I hope they'll get it sorted as I've read it's quite a common issue. Anyway, enough rambling. Cheers, Bobsta Edit to add some pics of previous cars... My first jap car... 1994 Mitsibuishi FTO GPX Just after I bought it: Then after I'd converted it to manual gearbox, fitted a facelift front bumper, lowered with R-Type springs, added a front strut brace, Momo steering wheel, ITG induction filter, mongoose zorst, 17" alloys, etc, etc, etc. Was very sorry to sell this car - for a pittance. More pics of the FTO at: http://picasaweb.google.com/FTORob/FTOGPXForSale/ The P1 ... well, I'm ashamed to say that I was responsible for the death of a rare beast... I stuffed it (quite gently) into an armco barrier and twisted the chassis. No injuries or third parties involed, thankfully. Totally my fault (although not helped by rain and diesel on the road) and I did consider ditching the whole "fast car thing" after the incident. Fortunately I had a change of heart and pre-ordered my 350z Roadster in November 2004. Unfortunately I lost my pics/videso taken of it due to being sloppy with copying/moving/deleting files recently.