davidp

I use Richard at R&D Motors in Harrow. I have recommended him to other Z owners who are happy with him and he has looked after my 4 Zs. His number is 020-8427-8890

Contact Mike feeney 01277-374201. I got a new connector for mine from him. It is the same as the one for another Z. He will know which one. I extended the wire slightly by soldering a piece on and using some heat shrink tubing as it was very tight.

Last year at Billing, there was a guy selling brochures for all older cars. I bought a z32tt brochure from him for about £5. It is about 35 pages with a red z on the front.

I'm the one that recommended R & D originally. He has worked on my four Zs and on my wife and kids cars and is a really good guy.

I was looking to buy a set of VTR alloy wheels for my daughters Citroen Saxo. They are about £100 a set on Ebay. Being a good guy, I decided to check with Direct Line to see if it would make any difference to the policy. They quoted an additional premium of 20%, extra £100 excess and as the car would be modified my daughter could not drive it until she is 25. They consider alloys, s/s exhausts, spoilers etc turn the car into a modified one. This is also the case with a Z. Even if you replace the exhaust with a stainless one, this is a mod and you could have a shock if you tell your insurers. So take care.

The Z club of Great Britain are the guys for Z31s

When I had my cat 1 alarm fitted, I was told that they would have to disconnect the turbo timer, or the alarm would comply with the standard. i.e. the immobiliser must automatically set within so many seconds. and it could invalidate my insurance

Try Eurocarparts or German & Swedish. They have lots of branches and I think that they do Renault. They are both on the web.

The Costco price I mentioned was for standard tyres 225 50 16

Toyo proxiess are great and cheap on the net. Also if you are a member of Costco they do Michelin sport for about £100 a corner fitted.

What about the guy in the paper the other week that killed a boy. He had no licence, tax or insurance, was disqualified and also enough points to disqualify him several times over from previous recent convictions and was pictured getting into a car and driving off. Apart from the fact that he should be at Her Majesty's pleasure, it makes a nonsense of people who try to stay legal. Its long past due that the police can read number plates into the computer and see that they are taxed, insured and MOT'd immediately. I know that they are getting there, but not soon enough.

Paypal do not like hotmail type addresses, but if your home address is verified, i.e. when you go into ebay they then put a charge of $1 through to your credit card. When your credit card statement comes through the charge has a reference number by it. Type that number on to ebay and they then have verifed your address. If you do not do this, every time you use it, the seller gets a message saying address unverified and may want to wait until the transaction is cleared before sending the goods. I think that you get the $1 back, when you first use the account. This sounds complicated, but it is not and is only to protect the user.

Mine was done by Ivan Autos £857 Inc VAT collected and delivered back in three days. Includes converter and mods to oil flow, but I did not have any broken parts just needed belts clutches etc. 01707-646542

My advice is to ditch the speakers and amps. The Bose speakers are a different impedance from the normal ones and probably will not match you head unit. I tried a lot of things with mine and they were never right when wired without the amps. Initially the shop thought that it was a fault on the head unit and replaced it. The sound was still not right. They then replaced the speakers and it was great.

I got a handbook for my car from Mike Feeney 01277-374201 If you go the the Z Club of GB site http://www.zclub.net and go to the club shop, there are some books on Zs. The z club is also worth joining. There is one good book if you are interested in the heritage of the Z called Mr K, which is about the man who thought of the Z and fought to make it happen. Good Luck with the Z.