Stephen

I’m guessing it’s a new school scirocco? If so, if you can, keep it. Have the Z as a toy. As a daily they are a pain, your talking about a complex Japanese car that’s over quarter of a century old, whilst they can be reliable (can), when they do fail it can be costly and long winded. You won’t find many parts for it locally and will find often ordering parts with lead times or importing them. It braking down Friday and you rushing about trying to fix it by Monday for work is stressful. Your not talking about an old VW or Ford that you fix with a shoelace, a 13mm spanner and a screwdriver and parts are available at motor factors. I’m not saying this to put you off, I’m saying it to be open and honest,

A stock Z32 is a smart looking car but in bone stock form they are very 90s, obviously. The 90s was an ear of technological leaps but the style was a bit bland. Maybe the errors of the 80s put things in reverse, the 60/70s productions were beautiful machines. The Z32 was a real stand out car when I was a kid, many on here won’t agree but they don’t really stand out these days, sure you can tell it’s not a Eurobox but they aren’t aggressive looking, they have no where near the drama of modern cars. Go take a look at your local Audi dealer as the RS models, covered in spats, splitters etc and that motorsport look that the OEM designers know sells new cars is what “the kids” are emulating (to varying degrees of success) in the modified cars. Compare a base model Golf to the R line, you’ll want the R line. Some of them are actually engaging in grassroots motorsport like drifting, autosolo etc. The old days of having fun on the roads and car parks in a car like what happened in days gone by are gone as are those horrible mobile boom boxes rolled in glitter from the early 2000s. Unfortunately the Z32 has remained a bit of a bling magnet, it’s just the owners have got older. It’s often viewed as a bit of fat old boat owned by medallion wearing duffers who care more about chrome that the tyres on the damn thing.

It must be raining in retirement land today, first he is moaning about learner drivers in a country he no longer lives in, second he’s moaning about current owners modifications to a car he no longer owns. What’s next Jeff, the state of refuse collection in Tamworth? :lol:

Tbh I always thought it nonsensical that you get no experience on a motorway as a learner. Realistically though what’s the difference between a two lane motorway like the M27 and an A road dual carriageway. I know one of the papers were concerned that the L boxes might fall off at motorway speeds? What like the 70mph they can do on a dual carriageway:lol: if they encorperate it into the test it will require an hour and a half round trip out the county for the kids round here. To be totally honest the procedure is no longer fit for purpose and needs major reconstruction. They shouldn’t be allowed on a public road until they have shown control in a controlled environment including skid pans etc and passed the theory test, then the practical should a corse where you pass milestones like planning and carrying out a journey. Then people should be party retested for health etc. Maybe then we’d habe less people crash in thier first year and less pathetic speed restrictions.

Z32s have coilovers as standard... yes I know I’m being a knob but it’s not an untruth. As Joel says it depends on what you buy and how you configure that purchase. Most aftermarket height adjustable coilovers have overly stiff spring rates, I think my Tiens were like 13k at the front, ridiculous. Exchanging the springs to a lower rate changed the car completely.

I have Camal snot on my window from today, god knows what that says about me.

I really wouldn’t get to pent up about it. Think logically, it can sit in some alcove in the nose cone or directly behind a gurt big fan. How many Z32s are driving around after 25+ years with series 1 PTUs in the stock location.

Pretty much yeah. There are people in this world that seem to be permanently the victim, they never seem to question if they are masters of thier own destiny. I’m sure we’ve all met the person that complains they are always bullied, when what they really mean is; I’m a bit of **** and sooner or later people loose thier patience and tell me so. Personally I’m fully aware I’m a flawed human being and I’m ok with it. :lol:

It’s not really one for a public forum but let’s just say they had a loose grip on how roads work and the ability of 90hp van.

Can’t inagine there are many wrong hand drive Z32s in the UK.

I can understand what your saying, driving is a massive part of my living to and there’s lots of idiots out there. Only thing is I tend to notice a lot of these idiots have dash cams, it’s kinda like these things keep happening to them which they think is everyone else’s fault, so they’ve invested in a dash cam to vindicate their beliefs. I’ll tell you a story if/when I see you about a bellend, his dash cam and me and my company imposed tracker.

Sadly this is quite common in some countries, there’s lots of footage of people jumping out in front of cars to get run over for the pay out. I’m not a big fan of dash cams but I can see why they can have their merits.

Oh I do like a good Ferrari.

Rubber doesn’t last forever Lee, it absorbs water, rots, softens etc. It simply doesn’t last forever, age.

Night and day bud. I knew the passenger rear was bad you could see it was wrong, this I know is because I’d been dicking about back there. The front toe though was also dreadful and I’ve no idea how changing the front springs caused such an unequal reaction, makes you wonder but never mind. Regardless of the alignment, the car is really moving forward. The skipping front end and miles of ABS are gone, the big holes in road aren’t hatch back smooth but they are much better and the small ones are fine. It feels firm but complient, as apposed to harsh. The Brakes, I’m still bedding them in but I can pull up pretty hard from 40 and not get ABS interfering, the bias is far better.

So I went with essentially stock settings, adding an additional roughly minutes over stock maximum. This was based around an average of many different people’s alignment settings. In respect to the front camber, I think your right Pete, just need freeing up. Once I’ve done that I can go back and get things perfect. Before; After;

Il upload them in a bit. Significant improvement. Sadly they couldn’t complete the front end as they couldnt get at the front camber arms, I have the powertrixs arms, I think they are just a bit stiff.

Cheers for those Pete, give me a base line and I also found an old thread by JimmyTT about his set up. Anyone know what I should aim for with the rear Caster? It’s not listed in the manual. Or will we just have to work from the wheel position?

This question may only be answer by yourself. Which ones are the REAL ghostbusters?

Where does the spoke interfere? The caliper face?

Once he puts the disc on he won’t. The spacer is sitting directly on the hub which leaves extra protrusion of the stud.

It’s junk but in fairness it does actually tell you this if you read the advert. The thought it’s worth £175 though is laughable.

Well that certainly would of been helping. You need to sort the coolant sensor fault, I think the error is sensor circuit rather than sensor alone, a dodgy connection is likely as Gary says. Check the throttle position sensor is functioning correctly. And ensure the yellow plug on IACC is clean and secure. You really ha e to ensure the components that contribute to the sale speed are correct first. Once that’s sorted you can then adjust the idle screw. If you just go at the adjustment first you will not fix anything.