This years club AGM is being held at The British Motor Museum, Banbury Road, Gaydon, Warwickshire CV35 0BJ. More information can be found here:

https://www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/

We have a function room booked and depending on confirmed numbers, a lunch will be laid on as well. We have the room booked from 10am to 3 pm. The BMM is a great museum with lots to see and do, but as an added bonus there happens to be a Classic Ford meeting being held as well!

As some members will have further to travel, we are making use of a local hotel to stay on the Saturday night. We normally meet at the hotel, have dinner together, several drinks and then get up on Sunday morning and plan a little drive to the museum for a bit of fun. If you would like to book a room, you can either book it yourself or comment in this thread, we will get the rooms booked and you can pay the hotel on the day. Details on the hotel are here:

https://www.marriott.com/en-gb/hotels/bhxwd-delta-hotels-warwick/overview/

Please remember that this is your club and the AGM is for all of you come and meet everyone, make friends and guide the clubs forward path. Without YOU a club would not exist, so we ask you to come to the AGM, make your suggestions, make your critisms and be part of making what you want the club to be. It doesnt matter if your Zed is rusty or not perfect quality, bring it along! We have all owned rusty projects in the past, so dont be ashamed. If your car is in pieces, come along in your daily driver! At the AGM, zeds are important, but the most important bit is you, yourself turning up!

Please add to this thread if you are coming on the day or will be joining us for the overnight stay.

See you all on the 25th June!

Well the last post on the Facebook web page is advertising last year's meet, and there's no mention of it on the Facebook group 

Which Facebook group is it? Can you send me a link. I recently sold my soul and joined Facebook. I'll put a post up.

https://www.facebook.com/300ZXOwnersClub

But I assume you need to be an owner to post

 

Can't work out how to link to the group, but it's easy to find

Edited June 4, 20232 yr by ianl

Use this one : https://www.facebook.com/groups/322337638339907

 

As i said there is a Page and a Group.

 

 

Joined!

I'll be driving across the Sunday morning, only about a 40 minute drive for me. Look forward to meeting everyone.

Not sure how I missed this - but only just seen the AGM dates. We will try and get over on the Sunday morning, it's a 2 hr drive but the local hotels are mostly booked up and the linked Delta Hotel is now coming up at £400+ for one night!?? Anyhow all being well Jen and I will see you on the Sunday morning. Can you confirm exactly where on site at BMM we will meet? Or are we meeting somewhere else prior to driving in? I guess we could come to the Hotel where you are all staying first if that's easier? Thanks Jay

19 hours ago, Pastor jay said:

Not sure how I missed this - but only just seen the AGM dates. We will try and get over on the Sunday morning, it's a 2 hr drive but the local hotels are mostly booked up and the linked Delta Hotel is now coming up at £400+ for one night!?? Anyhow all being well Jen and I will see you on the Sunday morning. Can you confirm exactly where on site at BMM we will meet? Or are we meeting somewhere else prior to driving in? I guess we could come to the Hotel where you are all staying first if that's easier? Thanks Jay

I think most of us are driving up first thing Sunday morning, so we will meet in the main car park somewhere

OK that's fine - what time do you suggest? 

I think we are all aiming for about 9am

Perfect - 9am it is

On 10/06/2023 at 06:16, TheRealNips said:

I think we are all aiming for about 9am

Yup - that's my plan.....

With the Ford Nationals, parking together may not be easy for late comers - but if a few of us get there early, we can commandeer an area just for us.

I'm only 40-odd mins down the M40, so will be heading up Sunday morning. I'm aiming to join the m40 at j5 around 8.15, if anyone wants to meet me there and run up together. It's also a good refuelling spot too as there's a Shell garage a few hundred meters (towards Wycombe - in Stokenchurch) from the exit 😉 

1 hour ago, RichardS said:

Yup - that's my plan.....

With the Ford Nationals, parking together may not be easy for late comers - but if a few of us get there early, we can commandeer an area just for us.

I'm only 40-odd mins down the M40, so will be heading up Sunday morning. I'm aiming to join the m40 at j5 around 8.15, if anyone wants to meet me there and run up together. It's also a good refuelling spot too as there's a Shell garage a few hundred meters (towards Wycombe - in Stokenchurch) from the exit 😉 

As red Zeds are faster, Im sure I will be there before 9am and can bag a spot somewhere 🤣

Hi. I’m looking to attend this event. I will only be able to come down on the Sunday providing I can get childcare sorted out. Is it okay for me to turn up about 8:30 to 9-ish? Cheers Kleon

Hi guys , just seen this, all being well and the car is running ill come on the Sunday to the meet , decent run for me 2h each way but be good to get out in it for first time this year 😊 

7 hours ago, Kleon said:

Hi. I’m looking to attend this event. I will only be able to come down on the Sunday providing I can get childcare sorted out. Is it okay for me to turn up about 8:30 to 9-ish? Cheers Kleon

Ive replied to you comment on the 2nd AGM facebook post

7 hours ago, Hopsxn said:

Hi guys , just seen this, all being well and the car is running ill come on the Sunday to the meet , decent run for me 2h each way but be good to get out in it for first time this year 😊 

That would be great. Im driving 3.5 hours each direction to attend. I normally stay in the hotel, but cant this year!

1 hour ago, TheRealNips said:

Ive replied to you comment on the 2nd AGM facebook post

That would be great. Im driving 3.5 hours each direction to attend. I normally stay in the hotel, but cant this year!

Credit to you man!! That's dedication, this a yearly thing then the main gathering for the 300 lot? My first year with all this I was a 350 owner before, Cheers man

16 minutes ago, Hopsxn said:

Credit to you man!! That's dedication, this a yearly thing then the main gathering for the 300 lot? My first year with all this I was a 350 owner before, Cheers man

3.5hours isn't too bad. I was used to driving uncomfortable buses for 10 hours a day, so a comfortable leather seat, Aircon and music makes 3.5 hours fly by!

The AGM is an annual event. All registered clubs in the UK must hold an AGM. We try to make it as fun as possible by hosting them at cool locations in the middle of the country so as many people as possible can make it. It is a chance for all members to meet each other and ask the committee and sub committee questions about the club, make suggestions to improve the club and generally enjoy a day out in our cars. We rent a conference room, have lunch while talking about the club and then go around the location we have picked and/or go for a drive.

I’d of loved to of come  but we’re slumming it on a two week mediterranean cruise 🙄

Edited June 12, 20232 yr by gray

11 hours ago, TheRealNips said:

3.5hours isn't too bad. I was used to driving uncomfortable buses for 10 hours a day, so a comfortable leather seat, Aircon and music makes 3.5 hours fly by!

The AGM is an annual event. All registered clubs in the UK must hold an AGM. We try to make it as fun as possible by hosting them at cool locations in the middle of the country so as many people as possible can make it. It is a chance for all members to meet each other and ask the committee and sub committee questions about the club, make suggestions to improve the club and generally enjoy a day out in our cars. We rent a conference room, have lunch while talking about the club and then go around the location we have picked and/or go for a drive.

Ah awesome! Really hope to make it and meet some owners for the first time 😃 

We are on Holiday in Norfolk in ZX - unfortunately the steering is playing up, heavy, intermittent, feels like I'm fighting at times with steering. Taking her to Nissan garage today just to check. Hopefully nothing too serious that will stop us attending AGM. 

Bad news on our Fairlady, just been to Nissan here in Mundesley Norfolk and she requires a outer steering shaft. Some how the outer shaft has torn apart, perhaps due to a seized U-joint? (or my driving?) Either way a big job I think? Help Jimmer? Will see how things transpire. Either way she's going home on a truck (last year's Holiday it was a rad!). Maybe we should leave her at home next year!

5 hours ago, Pastor jay said:

Bad news on our Fairlady, just been to Nissan here in Mundesley Norfolk and she requires a outer steering shaft. Some how the outer shaft has torn apart, perhaps due to a seized U-joint? (or my driving?) Either way a big job I think? Help Jimmer? Will see how things transpire. Either way she's going home on a truck (last year's Holiday it was a rad!). Maybe we should leave her at home next year!

Definitely get it to Jimmer for a second opinion.....

Unless the Nissan Mandela actually knows anything about our cars (and very few even know what they are nowadays), then I wouldn't trust their prognosis!

A fair few years ago - still in my red Zed, so well before 2009 - I had an issue on hols where the car kept dropping into safety boost. I pulled into Nissan of Bodmin, whereby the technician tried to convince me that the turbos were sequential "like the Supra and GTR." I argued with him for ages, saying that they spooled up together, because there's one per bank, so something other than one turbo failing, therefore preventing the other spinning, was causing it to go into safety boost. It was only when I mentioned that I helped run the owners club and know a fair bit about the Z32, that he admitted they no longer had the necessary diagnostics to run a proper test LOL

FYI, it turned out that due to the hot weather, and that I had filled with inferior quality petrol at a dodgy remote garage a couple of days earlier, the engine was knocking. A quick refill with quality branded super UL solved the problem 😄 

Shows what little Mandelas knew about the Z32 14 years ago, so I would have absolutely no faith in what they know now - seeing as few of their techies were even born when these cars stopped being sold here 😉 

I'd second the above, you issue sounds suspiciously like one I have been battling on my Z for a while. There are many things which could cause that which Jim will check through.

Thanks Guys - appreciate the encouragement. The Nissan technician was probably in his late 40's early 50's and reminisced a bit on the ZX engine and how his friend upgraded one to 600 bhp. But he was perplexed on what might have caused the outer steering shaft to fail. Our Fairlady should have gone straight to Jimmer today, but the recovery have her in storage until Friday after which she will finally arrive at PowerZed. I'm sure Jimmer will have her fixed in no time. Hopefully in time for me to pick her up next week, and then attend the AGM - and without any further breakdowns! We shall see. Only had her back from Jimmer a few weeks! No reflection on his superior workmanship - she's just old or maybe it's my youthful driving - lots of long straights in Lincolnshire.