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Okay Dropped car in for alignment check today and a couple of small problems were found in the form of.....well punctures I guess in the inner walls of the NSF and OSR tyres. Guy said that it looked as if the front one had been there for a while but must have worsened with the car being used more (havn't used it in over 14 months). The rear one was quite quite new but was far worse. Alignment had been knocked out of kilter as well, despite it being A1 for the MOT. So, all that taken care of and so far (shhh) things seem okay. Thanks for all your help. By the way, can anyone recommend geting all bushes replaced with the urethane variety? Thanks again

1990 J/spec. Replacement rear dampers. F/OS and R/NS corners replaced from donor cars. 17" rims. 235/45 on front and 265/40 on rear. Why is this car not handling? My Mitsi Shogun Sport handles better than my Zed! :headvswal Have been having handling probs for YEARS. JeffTT spotted damage to F/OS and R/NS steering assembly probably caused by curb hit damage after a spin. He replaced these corners from a donor car and driving it back was a dream. A couple of weeks later and I'm kinda back where I started. Slowly, the handling has worsened. I am now getting 4 wheel drift on right hand bends and on left hand bends the car starts to lean into the corner, then stops leaning and the rear end begins to slide. Yet a fortnight back driving home from Tamworth the car was handling like a dream. I have done nothing to the car save maintain tyre pressures. Now I'm back in the state where I don't want to drive it above 45mph. Not good with 360+ rwbhp. Can anyone suggest something..please? Or is someone localish to me who can give it a spin and come up with ideas? I am almost at breaking point. :headvswal

Zeds been off the road and not started for about 15 months. Started her up today and....STARTED FIRST TIME. After that long sitting under covers in the garage! Amazing. Sounds as sweet as a sweet thingy so I guess I'd better get her MOT'd, taxed and back where she belongs! :hyper: Just wanted to say hi again

Just wondering Amongst a bunch of unashamed fossil burners, how do we feel about nuclear? The government still (kinda) offers 50% subsidy for homes wishing to switch to solar but how will this serve industry? This sector has GIGANTIC needs which simply cannot be met by sustainable resources at present. So how do we feel? My vote is for nuclear with a budget including off planet disposal of high level waste. Am I a dreamer? is it :hyper: or is it :mac1:

Thanks for the advice..... If I can save £1,000 a year...hmm...maybe I'm looking at a fast road auto box to help keep the cravings at bay.

So, anyone here apart from me quit recently? My grandfather died on by birthday (bummer) and I promised him the day before he died that I would quit. So I have. I ain't using patches or things but it has only been a week or so. Can anyone tell me what I have to look forward to ? One of my staff told me that you cough like buggery...then laughed. Guess I'm not too popular. Is it really that bad mid term? Just that I don't feel a huge loss so far :dance: Help?

Might have been..... Spotted another (you?) on the roundabout by the Barley yesterday. Can't wait to get my old thunder back on the road again...... You hail from Sambrook by the way?

Silver Zed overtook my Shogun on the A41 going into Newport about a week ago. Made a bit of a noise in town afterwards......anyone?

Well FVCK me with a tin can :dance: If I ain't been driving around this dump in my grey TT import for three years and I ain't seen none of you guys.....more's to the point, you ain't seen me! There is a silver Zed In Tibberton Just down the road from me mind you...anyone here? We should have a Telford & Wrekin Zed meet Hows about it?

Mine bought my Zed for me. What can I say? She just loves the smell of burning rubber (ahem!)

Getting to be pretty much that way myself. Sure, I've had my probs with this BBS but right now I'm thinking........does it really matter? Nothing can be ALL good, not even a lottery win but one thing is for sure: you do not have a choice whether to pay taxes or not. You do have a choice whether to subscribe to this place or not. If you don't like it then don't subscribe. Paying £20 just to come on here and get stressed sounds like too much hard work, you know? You can't agree with everybody but if you get what you are after from the place then what's the problem? Or am I just mellowing too much now I'm over 30?

Everyone has reason to gripe for one reason or another at one person (or organisation) or another. We come home after a day of not being able to complain about all the things that wind us up, then come to this BBS (or any other) and realise that all the same rules still apply here! Annoying or what? I ain't been round here for a while but reading back over a few notorious recent threads, especially those in the private forums I still get the impresion that some folk are getting a bit too involved in BBS politics and forgetting the real reason we are all members here. Moderation stinks, but then again so does any form of social control. Think about it: Last year I paid a total of @ £23,400 in income tax, not counting NICO or local tax and I can come here and enjoy a far greater amount of freedom than in the "real" world for only 20 quid! Bargain or what? And since I have undoubtedly saved thousands as a result of the advice from this BBS, including the time my local dealer was trying to charge me > £3,000 for a head gasket change I didn't need, its even more of a bargain! Just a brief realisation after a few :duffer: but with all the recent hiatus I've been reading, thought I'd put my few quids worth in. Take care all

Well in Edgmond actually Anyone here?

Its huge It goes hugely fast It is hugely comfortable It has hugely wonderful T Tops It grips hugely well It is hugely unknown It is hugely wonderful sitting in me garage right now :bow: It has a hugely great community behind it :dance:

Spot on. I really hate the idea of being gagged in expressing opinions but in this case I`d easily make an exception. One guy's ego = how many lives? :slap:

Shrimpy, go for Carole Nash! My quote for this year: £352 FC

I`m not normally a meaningless patriot but I`m glad Piers has been "released" from the Mirror. His stance was utterly sensationalist and unproductive. Me, I`m pleased! :tongue: :tongue:

Yet you get the #1 of the head teachers asociation saying its all the parents fault? Some, yeah sure but not all. Its a general society problem that cannot just be pinned onto one select group. Sorry to hijack and very best hopes for a favourable return from the loss ajusters.

On the business park we have one of our offices, there is a limo hire company, the owner of which has a purple poopra. He is a middle aged guy who told me that he would kick my "saggy rear" when he got his new poopra about six months back. Met this joker on the A41 outside Newport yesterday. Despite struggling with rear end traction I pulled past him at around 110mph with (shocking) ease. Today, he had a local auto tuner round to look at his car. Says he had problems with his fuelling.....hmmmm maybe. Or maybe your purple poopra with its ridiculous drainpipe exhaust just aint no match for a Zed in a pissy mood. He wants to meet me at Santa Pod. Says he will pay the track fees. I`m not one to race my old thunder but whaddya reckon? Stage 3 Zed Vs Ridiculous (thrashed) purple poopra. Shoud I ? :dance:

Cannot believe it! Was out in the rental visiting a few clients about 09:45 today and saw a red UK spec in Newport! Maybe I should change my signature. Was it you? :bow:

Ajay, quit it with the explanations will you? There really is no need. I stuck up for the right of forum members to have their say last week but there are some who seem to be out to upset the fragile "happiness" we have at present. Jeff has no hard feelings, the mods have no hard feelings (I assume) and with this in mind why does it all have to come down to this one issue. I agree with a previous reply completely: If anyone has a prob with the moderation on site, they could at least question the moderation in a private matter before starting to lay minefields. I have not always been a fan of the way this forum is run but right now there is a hell of a lot of work going in....we can all see it surely. The people putting in this hard work deserve the right to be quizzed privately before any issue relating to their conduct gets posted publicly IMHO. Just getting me coat and wandering out.....it is my birthday today you know :hyper:

At least you received some..... More luck than me :(

Sounds good but I`m afraid not for me if for no better reason than I could not stand to have a switch on the instrument cluster that didn`t do something when I pushed it. Nah! Nah! :)

Sorry, no chance. Looking at the Cd figures, the zed tips it by a Cd of 1.4 Zed all the way.

Pulled the old thunder out of the garage to get the lawn mower out last weekend. Mowed lawn, put mower back and started the old thunder up to pull it into garage again. Puff of blue smoke from near side exhaust. Became very paranoid and got wife to check exhaust every time I start up when going into and back from work this week. Nothing. No blue smoke. Pulled out of the garage today and came back to start the old thunder up about 15 mins later for a trip into town. Blue smoke from near side exhaust. :nono: Blue smoke comes when the car has been started, turned off and restarted soon after. If the car is started, driven and then restarted, no smoke. Does this sound like turbo seals or PCV's?