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Nope I sold that one, but maybe buying it back soon. The one I'm Tarting up as my Daily Drive is one I bought for £1500 of Ebay for spare parts for this one that I bent. It turned out to be a real little cracker but a bit tatty. So the bent one is being staightend and then project Chevy V8 Supercharged. And one i will be coming to Tan hill meet in is Spare Parts as it is now known.

No I'm doing it in Alcantara and the seat centers. This is on one Of my little Red SWB's.

Thats the remote control. Thats what went missing from my car at the body shop. Amazingly after spending about a week trying to get one and having no joy. I informed the body shop that I'd be having to buy a complete new E01 and they'd be getting the bill. They found it the very next day. The main control unit is the little square box that every thing is plugged into including the screan, the wires from the ECU, the selonoids and the remote. They are available as said, but finding a retailer that will come beck to you is impossible as they want to sell you a new complete deal.

Was that 2+2's or SWB's

Do you mean the little square box that everything plugs into?

No that is the over boost control switch. It allows you have a second boost map of higher boost. This remote switch then means you can switch to over boost when you want the extra grunt for quick overtaking or just letting the Porsche driver know his £99K Turbo is inferior to your 15 year old Jap lump.

A dodgey copy of one of Lukes copies of an Original Veilside. Will be all shapes and cost more in filler, glass fiber bridge and fill, primer, refill and rub down, fill and then start fannying around to try and make it fit in a fashion. Cheeper to buy the real thing. Genuine Veilside stuff is that good it only need a quick key with 800 and painting. It fits perfect, but still look ugly.

Buy a Greyhound Chris :rofl: :rofl:

I like the way those MR2 lights sit with the lines of the car and you can get them in clear lenses. I recon they'll be cheeper than the Porsche lights I was going to use as well.

I tried to buy a remote and couldn't get one for love nor money. luckely I the body shop found it.

Can someone tell me how much faberic they used to retrim their door cards and lower pannels. I'm thinking 2m should be enough as the fabric I'm getting is 60" wide. I'm also covering the seat bit of my new seats.

That is cheep paint. Mine was £100 per ltr and the original colour i looked at was £650 a ltr.

The number of top coats also depends on wether the paint shop mix their own paints or buy it in and the quality of paint. A body shop that mixes its own paints will generally use an undercoat mixed to the same colour as the top coat thus 2 or 3 coats is more than enough. Also it depends on what kind of colour you having. The Candy colours like my blue Zed rely on the light from the white base coat being reflected through the paint. It means that the top coats have to be very thin and evenly applied to enable consistency of colour. So there are no hard and fast rules as to the number of coats etc. You should check the quality of the work going out of the door, get recomendations and then be guided buy the shop you choose. Even then it doesn't alway work out. Cheep never produces the best result unless you know them and that is the reason for cheap. Quality will mean a busy body shop and usually aroud £2500 to £3000 for a full respray and colour change.

Depends on wether you use Dulux one coat or normal gloss. :slap: :rofl: :rofl: If you are doing a colour change and painting all the door shuts about 2 ltrs and if you painting the engine bay area + rocker and throttle covers then about 2.5 ltrs and an exra ltr for touch ups or repairs in future.

I think the arches are quite nice. Though there is much about this car not to my taste I think I could develop a wheel fettish over the rims. The mileage is utter rubbish. Just look at the state of the interior. I bet the real milage is closer to 267K miles. However those rims mmmmm ;) + If you bought it you would have the added bonus that each time you graced the streets of Britain with its presence Funky Simon will be in apoplexy. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

The first 3 inches in from the outer edge of the back bumper are OK. The reat needs a rethink.

New GTR

I had mine done at auto glass. Both front and rear screans because the heater element packed in. They ok'd it with my insurance company on the Monday and did them both on the Friday. I spoke to them about my SWB and they said that if I needed the bronze tint or blue tint screen it would take 4 to 5 days to get them in. Same time for bronze tint rear screen for SWB. However if the Green tint windsrean (never seen a green tint) or a blue or green tint rear screan or side glass for the SWB it could take up to 5 weeks to get them in.

Some little knob in a ringed Golf GTi had lost it coming down the lane i live on. he was sideways with the O/S front on the 1ft verge and the rear end scrubbing the hedgerow on the oppersite side. I'd just come out of the drive and stopped. Whilst I was deaperately trying to find reverse he hit me and ended up with his N/S wheel 3" from my windscreen. He reversed off my bonnet and fooked off leaving his front bumper and number plate and a very fubar'd car. Turned out to be a ringer because Police went to house where the silver golf with that reg was registered and found it in mint condition parked outside the house. the car was from Swansea and i live in North Wales. He couldn't have got back there in 2 hours never mind fix it. + the bumper and bits left behind where not of a mint car. I pay extra as a result and it in down as a blame worthy accident because they couldn't trace the third party. Really Fooks me right off

I know. Mr Nissan gave my 300ZX (L300TTT) a full free service for buying a Brand New Nissan Patrol SE Touring. They did a really good and thorough Job even changed all the brake fluid. If anyone knows Hartwell Nissan in Chester they know its on the Holt Road and it wasn't until i came to the first serious set of bends that required a great reduction of speed to negotiate. That I discovered they hadn't tighten the bleed valves and first press of the peddle deposited the fluid all over the rear wheels, rear wings and tyres. All I can say is that curbs do deflect you back into the road, but it does destroy your wheels. This is just one of many Nissan dealer stories I have had and if you want to know the rest you'll have to buy my book.

That what they're telling you mate :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

That was my life and I have to say far better than my kids have had and that isn't looking through rose tinted glasses. We had freedom they have never had and we had to make choices and lve by our decisions.

I new that it was and £800 job. Like I said earlier in this thread. However Mr Nissan has told me I can Have the reviesed syncro for my Zed ie from Chasis number for that price and it will fit. Unreal

Taekn noen :rofl: :rofl:

Hey out of interest I've just checked with Mr Nissan and the 4Th Gear syncro is now only £156.44 for the latest revision. Which provided the cluster isn't too badly worn is a reasonable price.