This Sunday I'm about to do my first lot of stuff to my new Z. Had it about 2 months now, has done 60700 miles, and am going to do some stuff myself to stave off some cost of the next MAJOR SERVICE. So I'm planning to change the oil, using Castol RS 10-60, new filter, new sparkies, at 13.50 each (bloody hell WTF) and change the manual gearbox oil. Any of u here have any tips to make it all go smoothly? I intend to replace the pluggy wotsits when I change the oil (sorry I just had my work crimbo dinner and am vocaburarly challenged) and the pluggy wotsits when I do the g/b. Any tool sizes would be good to know.

 

And another thing, since owning my zed I've never seen another! I get more recognition when I drive my Rover 820 to work. Where are y'all?

At about 60k miles a cam belt change is also in order - you ready for that too?

 

As for the sparkies they're supposed to last about 60k. Mind your new copper sump plug washer too.

 

PS also driving my 820 to work these days but its got a 200bhp turbo engine that does awful things to the front wheels. Too much muck on the road right now but I do need a z fix. Will wait till the weekend.