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Well im just about at my wits end now, im almost ready to sell my zed and buy a skylark GTR. After spending over a grand on the old girl in a month and needing another £460 spending on rear tyres and a couple of hundred for my front....... oh whatever they are!!!!

Driving along today, bit late on the way to see a dog about a man so giving her a good runting. All of a sudden as if by magic something very strange happened, my brakes went really soft-i had to push really hard to stop and the gearbox would not peform 'kickdown' properly, it just stayed in 3rd!!!! (ok in overdrive though). A bit further along the journey and after the engine had been off and on again, it was completely normal, as if nothing had happened!!!!!

After sorting out my days business i got back in me zed and tootled off down the road..........CUE-lots of swearing and sweat! It was running in safety boost!!!!!! FFS!!!!! by now i was about ready to cry my little eyes out! frown.gif frown.gif frown.gif

Suddenly-hmmmmmm its all ok again, kickdown as normal boosting ok but wait whats this??? after lifting off the throttle the rev needle was bouncing round like a twat between 1500 and 2000 revs!! DARN IT! (JOHN DOREY-TIMMY TURBO, ANDY DUFF!! wink.gif) not only that but my lovely HKS blow off valves had gone all quiet!!!

After all this ull never guess what....... yup u guessed it it all went back to normal! When i got home it was tickin over awfully high. Took it out again tonight and she was sweet as....erm...a really sweet....thingy! - well apart from a wierd smell but she tends to do that sometimes!

Now question is, are all these problems realated or........... by some mechanical freak have they all happened at once, or.......... has one of these triggred them all??? Well ive completely confused myself just thinking about it and the engines only done about 20k since a full re-build new turbos, gearbox, blah blah blah!!!!

 

OOOHHH now its time for the biggy!!! (question that is!) Should i sell or should i keep???

 

Please note timmy turbo, macca, rob b, jamie (JRTT), chris zx, phillyctt, and andy duff are all banned from replying if they take the piss for having a yellow zed!!!

 

Well, buggred if i know!!!!

I really do have the worst luck in the world!!!- well with cars anyway, im actually not that bad looking and i have a ....... oh never mind

 

LATERS DUDES AND DUDETTES!!

ZEDSTER (LUKE THE DUKE)

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Have you had anything done to the ECU? Could it be something to do with that?

 

Stuart

Aww man - I hope that shit doesn't happen to me after having the car off the raod for 8 months - while *everything* is rebuilt / fixed etc....

 

I've had the brakes go numb on me before too, but only the once. You havent got a loose battery terminal or anything??

 

Yellow Zed's - are the daddy imo btw!

 

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OK Luke Duke no piss takes out your Puke Sick car colour,Cant you see bud that car is ill,look at the colour of her FFS wink.gif.

No first the tyres who quoted you £460 for rears???What size are you running???.

 

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have you fed the little mice in the auto box have heard they get hungry and can course major probs tongue.gif

 

 

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Macca.............. Kiss my big yellow juicy banana!!! ROFLMFAO!!!! biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif

 

ZEDSTER

Lukester I agree mate, piles of shite Z's!!! I should've saved all this money I burned and bought a GT-R or a Soup instead! LMFAO biggrin.gif

 

Fucking wank cars to be honest! biggrin.gif wink.gif

 

No wonder they were so cheap brand new, should be a warning sign the fact they were TreVoR cheap as opposed to Lambo/Ferrari prices!!! wink.gif

 

Getting shot of mine soon as and getting a Skylark instead! Which I may add is fuck all to do with Nelson as the Prince division is still classed as a seperate entity although Renault/Nissan owned!

 

No wonder the Skylark is such a bang on motor and the Z such a mechanical and electrical fuck up!!! LMFAO

 

P.S. stand back and don't re-approach a firework that has failed to ignite correctly! ROFLMFAO

 

[Edited by Moderator: Timmy Titbo you do talk bollox mate, go away and don't come back you loser! LOL Stick to Donkey sex which is what you are best at! wink.gif]

 

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[This message has been edited by Timmy_Turbo (edited 20-03-2002).]

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Originally posted by phillycTT:

have you fed the little mice in the auto box have heard they get hungry and can course major probs tongue.gif

 

 

 

FUCK ME!!!!!!!!!

Thats what ive done wrong, cheers phil mate!

 

 

ZEDSTER

BTW phill, i do still have my turbo timer but u cant have it cos u have a silly haircut and smell of nuns wee!

 

 

 

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you guy will by the auto's though , you dont hear of the peep's will the manual haveing all these probs ,

 

 

must be the jap's haveing a laugh when they sent out the auto's to over here (they thrown in a few proper zed's ((manuals that is))lol).

 

 

never mind biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif

 

 

only in jest luke m8ty

 

philly

 

 

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Originally posted by Timmy_Turbo:

Lukester I agree mate, piles of shite Z's!!! I should've saved all this money I burned and bought a GT-R or a Soup instead! LMFAO biggrin.gif

 

Fucking wank cars to be honest! biggrin.gif wink.gif

 

No wonder they were so cheap brand new, should be a warning sign the fact they were TreVoR cheap as opposed to Lambo/Ferrari prices!!! wink.gif

 

Getting shot of mine soon as and getting a Skylark instead! Which I may add is fuck all to do with Nelson as the Prince division is still classed as a seperate entity although Renault/Nissan owned!

 

No wonder the Skylark is such a bang on motor and the Z such a mechanical and electrical fuck up!!! LMFAO biggrin.gif

 

P.S. stand back and don't re-approach a firework that has failed to ignite correctly! ROFLMFAO biggrin.gif

 

 

Timmy, we have had this conversation many times on the phone........... dont start me timotei, just dont

 

ZEDSTER

 

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Originally posted by phillycTT:

you guy will by the auto's though , you dont hear of the peep's will the manual haveing all these probs ,

 

 

must be the jap's haveing a laugh when they sent out the auto's to over here (they thrown in a few proper zed's ((manuals that is))lol).

 

 

never mind biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif

 

 

only in jest luke m8ty

 

philly

 

 

 

im ignoring u totally phil wink.gif

 

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PHILLY mate, unfortunately for you, ur number of posts is almost exactly the same as you're power output!!!! ROFL!!! biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif

 

DUKESTER

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I would say the manuals are much weaker than the Autos from what I've seen over the past few months! ROFL biggrin.gif

 

How many people have posted about "Hey I fitted a magic tree air freshner and me clutch went bang!" posts???

 

Z driver: "Hey guys I put Optimax in me Z tonight and my clutch has started slipping and I can't get 2nd gear without it crunching!"

 

ROFLMFFFFAAAAAOOOOOO biggrin.gif

 

Luke let's get Skylarks again mate! Fuck these shite shopping trolleys off! LOL biggrin.gif

 

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[Edited by Moderator: Timmy can you please only post factual information, Autos are the best as proven with the recent wipeout of the Green Pepper by the MAC1 car being an Auto!]

 

 

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Originally posted by zedster:

PHILLY mate, unfortunately for you, ur number of posts is almost exactly the same as you're power output!!!! ROFL!!! biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif

 

DUKESTER

 

yip your right m8ty ,but thats only counting one bank biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif

 

 

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Philly finding it hard to remember how many banks he has- 16-19 account, live cash account. when i said power i didnt mean money which proves money cant buy everthing and isnt power. Quite what im talking about i dont know, someone please sedate me!

 

ZEDSTER

 

Philly, u ever gonna buy a turbo zed mate?? urs looks real nice but why did u go for a poxy n/a?

Hi Zedster,

SSRAE beat me to it, methinks your ECU is going a bit haywire, run a diagnostic on it and see what comes up.

But I definately think you should sell you car, and sell your wheels to me wink.gif

And sell me the 750 cc injectors wink.gif

 

And do you honestly think that buying a skyline for kak money again will be anymore reliable?

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Warren mate, i bought the zed cos it was an auto sportscar. I could afford an R33 v spec (UK CAR) and would have bought another one if driving a manual car didnt ache so much. Ah well, since mauals seem ok now........... im quite tempted to go for it, i love the zed to bits but with the amount of miles i do, i need a realiable car! Thing is id feel so guilty selling it! I really dont know what to do!

 

ZEDSTER

 

PS. no brian u cant have my wheels!! wink.gif

whats the spec on your car? Cuase you had everything done to this one right?

 

I think yellow zeds are the Daddy, if u won't give ur wheels to Brian, I'll have them. Sounds like your ECU is screwy, a guy on TT.net had the same probs, was down to his ECU.

What makes you think I would take the piss out of the colour of your car mate?? As if I have EVER done that wink.gif I think I know what the problem is. Your car has found out that you are gay, and is now pissed off with you for lying to it for so long biggrin.gif

Seriously mate, you know you don't want to sell it really!!

 

Rob.

Not sure if you were after thoughts on the problem but my money is on a leak somewhere in your intake system - my guess would be before the turbos.

 

This could affect power, idle speed, blow off valves, brake servo, kickdown.

 

The intermittent nature is odd - can't think of where the leak might be but definitely worth a check IMHO.

 

Dave

Don't worry me little chum, some of us don't care what colour your banana is!............

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Originally posted by Rob B:

What makes you think I would take the piss out of the colour of your car mate?? As if I have EVER done that wink.gif I think I know what the problem is. Your car has found out that you are gay, and is now pissed off with you for lying to it for so long biggrin.gif

Seriously mate, you know you don't want to sell it really!!

 

Rob.

 

ROFL!! biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif ROB you tosser!!! I'll get you for that you big fat gaylord biggrin.gif My car may be yellow but at least its all one colour unlike yours mate- black, rust brown, bronze, white specs, crusty alloys............need i say more???

And by the way rob, after the last time we saw eachother you have become very obsessed with my apparent homosexuality. I really dont understand this rob since i have a girlfriend (which i may add is better looking than yours!) and an extrememly HORNY AS F**K car- is it because you are actually unsure of your true feelings and just wish that i was gay because you fancy me??? Ah well never mind hey rob, such is life!!

 

Cheers to hairsy for the advice, muchos appricated matey! smile.gif

Oh and mrs turbo........hmmmm dunno if i should say this.......... SANDWICH SPREAD!

 

CHEERS ZEDSTER

(LUKE)

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Originally posted by Rob B:

What makes you think I would take the piss out of the colour of your car mate?? As if I have EVER done that wink.gif I think I know what the problem is. Your car has found out that you are gay, and is now pissed off with you for lying to it for so long biggrin.gif

Seriously mate, you know you don't want to sell it really!!

 

Rob.

 

ROFL!! biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif ROB you tosser!!! I'll get you for that you big fat gaylord biggrin.gif My car may be yellow but at least its all one colour unlike yours mate- black, rust brown, bronze, white specs, crusty alloys............need i say more???

And by the way rob, after the last time we saw eachother you have become very obsessed with my apparent homosexuality. I really dont understand this rob since i have a girlfriend (which i may add is better looking than yours!) and an extrememly HORNY AS F**K car- is it because you are actually unsure of your true feelings and just wish that i was gay because you fancy me??? Ah well never mind hey rob, such is life!!

 

Cheers to hairsy for the advice, muchos appricated matey! smile.gif

Oh and mrs turbo........hmmmm dunno if i should say this.......... SANDWICH SPREAD!

 

CHEERS ZEDSTER

(LUKE)

Hey Luke mate, Robster may be a bit shy when you first meet him but trust me when I say that he's been recruited by the Swingers North West posse!!! LMFAO biggrin.gif

 

Only "Sandwiches" being had are mainly around the Preston area I would suspect??? ROFLMFAO biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif

 

 

 

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