Leeroy

Good luck on both counts SMD In case you need cheering up....... You are so old, the candles on your birthday cake raised earths temperature by 3 degrees. You are so old, when you were a kid rainbows were black and white. You are so old, you fart dust. You are so old, you sat next to Jesus in school. You are so old, you walked into an antique shop and they sold you. You are so old, your birth-certificate expired. You are so old, if you to acted your age, you'd die.

How many times would you like people to repeat it for you? These cars should be serviced EVERY 9,000 miles or ONE YEAR. That's EVERY 9,000 miles or ONE YEAR. Just in case you didn't read that right it's EVERY 9,000 miles or ONE YEAR The engines are pretty much bombproof given the correct fuel, so the fact that the service interval was longer than it should be shouldn't be a problem, but many (most?) buyers will see it as a negative and either walk away or haggle the price down. To be honest (and you've probably heard this before) you SHOULD NOT worry about cars that have done average mileage, as I said the engine is bombproof and even low mileage cars may need worn parts replacing. Your aren't helping yourself by limiting your options to very low mileage cars - there aren't many about and they will cost you more, which will make your loan even more of a pain in the ass. By the way, I think your keyboard might be broken because when you hit the space-bar it seems to put a gazillion full-stops in instead

No idea about the car bits but I'll give you £2.50 for the DVD

Yep, Any of these! Start with taking them off and putting them back on, it's a long shot though. If this doesn't work get them balanced and there is is still a problem I'd say the wheel is square I reckon Lexx is right to list geo at the end, if the car was OK before the new wheels went on the geo is probably ok.

I think people make the mistake of assuming that it shouldn't come with supercar running costs because it's a Nissan. The reality is that's it's an extremely clever piece of kit which has been developed as well as (or better than) most bonafide supercars. The problem with the GT-R is desirability - most punters buy something Italian when they go supercar shopping. I can see why, I'd have to think pretty hard about the running costs and depreciation before buying a GT-R.

This. The question you must ask yourself is what else they may have tried to hide that you may not find until after you've bought it. That you're tied to buying from a dealer because of the finance aspect is unfortunate but personally I'd avoid this one. You seem to be very exacting in your requirements and this car does not seem to fit the bill

Yeah, who the hell would put a nail through their semi!!!!

LOL. The service interval is wrong, it doesn't mean the engine will go pop but it might make it slightly harder to sell on - it would bother me TBH. LOL. LOL. The photoshopped images are stupididity on behalf of the garage. They could have at least moved the ariel and boot badge. LOL. LOL.

The car is 5 years old. 20,000 miles is low but it's entirely reasonable that it has had 2 owners.

Nice shots! My dad bought a Scimitar off a mate a few years back for about £400 and it then sat gathering dust as he did bits and bobs to it. I secretly hoped that he'd get bored and give me it when I have space to store but he just went and sold it I think the engine was a Ford V6 (3.5?) and combined with the GRP body I should think they're a lot of fun. Even the colour was nice, a dark bluey purple.

What a muntmobile! Money can indeed not buy taste. The designer, Yeo must have ingested some pretty special 'shrooms before sitting at his drawing board and crapping that abomination out It looks like he's modelled it using Renault's fangs at the front and a surfboard on the flanks. Maybe he spent too much time on the rear wheel flapppyhingything and ran out of time for the rest of it. I like it

Im made of much thicker stuff than that That's what I like about this forum/club, the objectivity. Many other forums would have descended into the mother of all slagging matches by now Maybe now's the time to renew the original discussion about how good the full-fat Rangie looks

This is a rather unfortunate turn of thread events but I stand by all of my comments, each to his own and all that Let's be clear, I said that the RRS and Evoque is compromised compared to full fat mud pluggers. I'm fully aware that they're still capable off-road. Re: the head-on concerns, have you considered a Volvo with a few choice 'Mad Max' mods Does this mean I'm banned for a month

I should say that my experience of 4x4's is probably biased due to living in London and being surrounded by ones that are clearly bought for show and are only used on the road. But I do soak up info on them as I do with all cars and my assessment of a half-fat 4x4 is as follows ; A) Less ground clearance due to lower ride height and bumpers designed for style over practicality. Harder, road biased shocks / springs. C) Road biased tyres. D) 2 wheel drive - jeez, buy a normal car numbnuts! What really gets my goat is white 4x4's of any variety, owners of these are the cream of the mongtard crop IMO 'Proper' 4x4's are Rangies (non lowered, proper tyres etc), Defenders etc. I hear various Jap mud pluggers fall into this category also.

You can see I have issues with the way 4x4's are used Clearly the Disco is compromised compared to 'proper' Landrovers too. I'll add it to the list of half fat 4x4's that I won't buy should I ever need a mud plugger In my opinion the RRS and Evoque are designed mostly to appeal as status symbols which will rarely see any mud, but I like the subject car of this thread

The Defender is on my list of cars for my dream garage Stew, my comment about class leaders was a bit ambiguous. I'm sure the 'style led' Landrovers are far more capable than their peers of X6's etc. Kudos to anyone who actually buys one because they need the off-road capability, but clearly most punters buy them as a piece of bling to swan around town in. I haven't driven either the Evoque or RRS (and don't particularly wish to) but I meant that they are compromised off-road compared to a 'proper' Rangie / Disco / Defender etc

I like it too, it looks very coherent. The 'pillarless' sides look cool with the floating roof effect. What's the lump on back in the sand pic though, can't make it out? I should imagine this Landrover will be class leaders off road just as they always have been, bar the Evoque and RRS posemobiles.

They are one of (probably) a few brands that don't fall off whilst in use. The reason, as has already been said, is r&d and quality control - no wheel spacer should fail whether used for trackwork or otherwise. What if you had to do an emergency stop whilst swerving to avoid an old dear on a 'normal' road and the spacer failed? This isn't rocket science Like you I try to avoid following the herd by buying what everyone else is but sometimes it really is the best option. Recently I was very tempted to fit a lot of Whiteline bushes to my car but after extensive research couldn't find enough quality reassurance or recommendation for them and went Superpro, despite them costing a lot more

That's quite cool, nice work.

As coiderrrrrs go Old Rosie tends to hit the spot, properly flat and cloudy. I think it meets rtbiscuit's % alcohol requirement too Dr Pepper is good too - it should be so wrong but tastes ok, actually quite similar to the real thing. It has the real thing in it as it goes - coke, lager (!) and amaretto. I said it sounds wrong! Snorting chartreuse fumes off the bar is a highlight of my drinking career, I'm a classy guy Topcoat did you arrive late to drinking? I think you should try at least 3 a day of the various suggestions on here and post the results!

Mate, you can't go from an AMG Merc to a diesel pretend sports car

On a very rare excursion onto Pistonheads I noticed this article about a poverty spec 370Z press car to enable review shootouts at a similar pricepoint to the GT86. £30K for a 370Z vs £27K for a GT86 would seem a no brainer as a new buy, although as a few have said on here the GT86 will probably get some hefty discounts.http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default ... ryId=26151

Both the 350z and 370z are usually understeering when pushing on through corners. This is what makes them a very easy car to drive pretty enthusiastically. The only way it oversteers is if you boot it far too early through the exit of a corner. True enough, it's just that the engine mass needs to be managed more in the braking zone with the Zed. When I first got mine I had a big understeer 'moment' on the early part of a corner, I didn't do that again You just set it up properly as you go into the corner. Not all oversteer involves opposite lock though I'm guessing the GT86 is lighter generally with narrower tyres so less likely to 'snap' on you, hence the question

It depends how you drive Ian, I would always feel nervous pushing a repaired tyre hard - a blow out at high speed or during 'spirited' cornering is unlikely to end well for you or the car

The GT86 should be a great used buy when most of the depreciation is gone, I doubt it'll take long. I'd guess that in 6 years they'll be well under £10K which would be attractrive for an honest rear driver. It sounds like suspension/power upgrades will be popular too. Do you think the oversteer was more comfortable than the 350/370Z Ekona - I'm guessing it's lighter? Perhaps it's hard to compare given the more accessible power/speed of the Zeds?