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They might not be inclined but i will be taking them to court. I have spoken to trading standards and asked the question. They said yes i am entitled to compensation however didnt say how much.

I really cant, well not yet anyway. All depends on the outcome. So your saying £1500 compensation?

Thought i would keep this seperate and keep it focused. If you have not seen my on going thread or know of the situation take a look here http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=130693 Lets say they give me my £3,000 back with no hassle. How much compensation should I push for on top of that? I don't want to go in too low if i am entitled to more as the impact it has had on me as a person and financially is catostrophic. I don't want to go in too high neither as they wont take me seriously.

haha, well my dad has tried... so many times to go down there and deal with it with that approach. He is a builder and does not take **** from anyone. I have held him off well. They are probably laughing at me behind my back.

I believe that Zedworld was one of the first Jap specialist garages. I think he has been going longer than any other 300zx specialist in the UK.

omg!! that is funny. pimp my truck? Is that westwoods ride? what a chav haha.

sweet :D

Thanks same here. I am collecting on Friday. So wish me luck. Will be good just to get it back even if it sits there at least then i dont have to deal with them and listen to all the lies and promises. Lets say they gave my £3000 deposit back what kind of compensation would you expect? I dont want to agree to something when i am entitled more but there again i cant shout for loads more than i am realisticly entitled to. They have done all the machining that needed doing and fitted my diff and the new gearing into the diff. Thats all they have done though along with stripping the engine supplied cleaning and like i said the machinging. The heads are togther also. Apparently they also done a dummy mock up of the engine however i have no prove this has done except a picture with the plenum, heads and bottom block together which i could train a monkey to do. there is no evidence that anything else was done or added in that mock up. They lie to me all they time, they might of just thrown it together just to take a pic to keep me happy. Like the time i went down there and it was clearly obvious that they had only pulled the car in on the ramps that morning or the day before. Complete lies all the time and false hopes.

I use to love my Zed but i have really gone off it now, lost so much sleep over it and worry about it all the time, that is a long time to worry about something which you are very passionate about. You are exactly correct though, my dad was the one who kept saying to get another car and move on but i said i do love the Zed. Even if you had something like a Lamborghini it is the same as the one next to it. I also said as i live for the jap and car scene with another car apart from Jap i will not be able to put my car on stands with my mates, i will not be able to take my car on track at jap shows and not be able to run at pod at jap shows. All things i do with my mates that i will no longer be able to do. Apart from all that, my snowboarding and the odd bit of Xbox i have no other interests really.

I cant because they have my car and all my parts. Also they have £3000 of my deposit and am going to claim compensation. If I get back reasonable amount of compensation it will be very dis honest and dis respectful of me to kick up a stink about them. It all depends how much compensation they give me and how they go about giving it to me, if they refuse and make it difficult it will just piss me off even more. However if they pay up a reasonable amount i am happy with, i will have to honor it as a mutural end to the whole saga and i cant really go about talking about it and ranting and raving.

It is mate and yes you are right i should done that a long time. However i am a total walk over in a way, they kept lying and giving me fulse hope we are now starting bla bla bla. The only reason why i am now bringing it back as parents were sick of it, they were sick of it 8 months ago and I get defending the garage. It has caused allot of arguments in our house. Dad has lost his temper about it so many times and it just said thats it now its coming home. He was totally right though same as you said we should went and picked it up months ago.

Thanks. Yeah it is a real shame. Well me and dad were talking about this last night. He said it was more like 3 years for me also. As the reason this all started was because my car went wrong, low compression and turbo had gone. So i got it repaired still wanst right, then it was built locally by scholar engine who made a total mess of the whole thing, really messed the car up. had a medium build with expensive bolt ons. The engine failed after 2000 miles as they had built it wrong and made a right mess of it. It was diagnosed as their fault. So in a way I have been without my car for 3 years. As you say it really frustrates me and cant bare the site of it. I have loads of nice pics of it which i dont before putting up as i dont care. I have lost all that money on my first rebuild also, on labour and parts. I have really lost with this car. Dont get me wrong the 300 is a awesome car and fairly reliable when it is running right but i have just been so unlucky.

haha... how random hey. for those who like it she/he could offer double pleasure. eww.... lol.

If anyone knows where my car is please do not say anything.

We are picking my car up this Friday... Before anyone says about bloody time or anything This is the down side... We are are picking the car up as not complete and still in bits!! I am very disapointed in the garage. I was a bit unsure about pulling my car away but after sending them a email on Wednesday saying this was a big consideration of ours and not to get a reply until sending another email sent the Monday saying the choice has been made and that we are picking it up. Very very poor and very dispointed. Poor isnt the word for it but having my car for a year and a half and only get to a point of stripping the engine what else do you expect from a garage like that. This means selling my parts is now becoming more of a reality. I have several options, Get the car finished off and built else where, however with my past experiance with the previous garage i have totally lost interest and can not see me being able to put behind the loss of year and half of my life and the money i have lost. The other option is to sell the lot, cut my losses clear my losses by another car. You can get allot of car now days for little money. There is a new shape ford Mustang out. If i was to get a year old Mustang i could get a shelby or a roush or Salleen Mustang. So that is where i am with the whole saga. I am very disapointed and sad that it has came to this. I am still not a libity to mention the garages name in question. Infact I am in every right to warn people of my experiance with this garage and shout about what has happened as why shy they get away with it??? Before i say anything I have to wait until i get my deposit back and claim compensation if i get my deposit back and a reasonable amount of compensation then i will put this behind me and respect it as a nutural end to the whole saga and put it behind me and never mention or speak about it again, however if they make it hard for me to claim the above back from them well it goes without saying, Everyone will become fully aware and i will name and shame them. I just can not believe this has happened. Thing is, they have had the car a year n a half. when my insurance ran out i renewed it thinking i would get my car back. I pay £1500 a year so i have lost £2250 in insurance. There is Tax, there is the amount of times i have had to go all the way up there and back and they are a very long drive. There is transportation and hire of vans and recovery trucks to and from them dropping the car off and parts. I have spent money on postage sending parts up there and things like brakes are very heavy to post. I have had to buy another car in the meantime while they had mine That was £3500 i think plus insurance and tax. There is the fact, sinse they have had my car totally ruined my life and pulled me apart, i now have medical record for depression and on medication and was reffered to CBT theoropy. My medication isnt cheap either. They have made me hate my car! and if i did sell my parts i would probably loose about £10,000 on them to sell them all on. If you are like me and live for the Jap scene, how do you bounce back from this? I have barely gone out apart from work since they have had my car. Everything i do evolves around the car scene no car then i cant really join in as such. I can keep going on and on but it is totally pointless.

true but same goes with the Z32 and the original Datsun 280Z

random subject lol. Anyway... Someone made a comment about lady gaga having a well how can i say this, a male way of taking a leak lol. Yes she has a weener and a weener it is lol. Ok, i didnt believe them so curiousity lead me do looking on youtube and google images, and there certainly is something going on down there. Surely she cant be a dude? DILF anyone? lol ok or not haha.

Didnt realise you were there Jeff. I went down the sunday and was in a friends car as my car well lets not even go there. Walked through the 300 stand. Had a look around. Guess i should of said hi. Most prob saw me, i stand out like a dude with red bits in his hair, oh yeah maybe thats cos i have haha. still red although on the verge of going pink. not good haha.

Can i make a suggestion? If you want big brakes and good stopping power for a reasonable price the best value for money is Ksport calipers.

How about flipping the nut upside down and check if the thread goes all the way down to the bottom and if there is no recess. If that is the case, perhaps look for a nut with thread right to the end and no lip so you would have more thread of the nut on the strut. Also how about a bit of locktite? you can get two types the one which will completly lock the nut which i believe is red and the other one which make it like the nylone locking nuts which i think stops them from coming undone on their own which is blue. Nylon lock nuts, smaller but check for correct size, see this link for a example. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/M4-A2-Stainless-Nyloc-Nylon-Lock-Nuts-20pk-FREE-P-P_W0QQitemZ390071805714QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_DIY_Material_Nails_Fixing_MJ?hash=item5ad2176712&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 And here is the locktite stuff i meant. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/243-LOCTITE-LOCK-N-SEAL-3mL-TUBE-THREAD-LOCK-4-NUT-BOLT_W0QQitemZ200347721475QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item2ea5a79f03&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

There was a car at Jae today which had a carbon bonnet with bonnet struts fitted. I have been told that you can not fit a bonnet strut to a carbon bonnet as it will damage it. However this guy had not attached the strut to the bonnet but had made a bracket which was fixed to the brackets which hold the bonnet on. Very good idea and a solution to people wanting struts on a carbon bonnet.

Who saw me on the way back????? I went down in my mates Civic. Grey EK9. I was a passenger, we passed a convoy of several Zeds on the way back.

There was a guy on here who sprayed their car matt black. He had it done proberly i believe. Allot of people slated the car however i thought it looked sweet, drifter come track car look.

Spot on!! There you go, think this is your answer. By the looks of your suspension i would take a guess that you have KYB shocks?

and you did that yourself? Nice job.!!!