What have you bought for your Zed this week?
- Thread starter bombur
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New front springs
Wishbone & lollipop bush
Diff oil
Oil & filter change
MOT certificate
So that's our ticket to ride for this year.
Required a much larger bundle of cash than usual as top two items on list were unexpected. 
Wishbone & lollipop bush
Diff oil
Oil & filter change
MOT certificate
So that's our ticket to ride for this year.
Required a much larger bundle of cash than usual as top two items on list were unexpected. 
We’re both front springs broken?
Tony.
Tony.
No just the drivers side. The garage was just going to do that one but as we think they are probably the original springs we decided to have both done.
Makes sense to me! If we had been at home you could have done all of that at our place and saved a shed load of money.
Tony.
Tony.
Thanks Tony that would have been great. We would love to get to a Z shed day sometime even if just to say hello. At the moment its just a bit too far away for us. We both have some health issues that can make driving any sort of a distance a bit of a challenge. Frustrating as we both love driving especially in the Z. We hope that this will improve & that we will get to a shed day sometime in the future.
Cheers Ian & Sue.
Would be good if you can make it one time and if we could save you some money into the bargain all the better. Take care.
Tony.
Tony.
I got an USB C dual port adapter, connected to the cigarette lighter, but the adapter has an on off switch:
So, even thou the cig lighter is always hot, I can actually switch off the USB adapter. Not that an adapter hot wired, but not charging anything, would consume that much battery power...
The one I bought is:
So, even thou the cig lighter is always hot, I can actually switch off the USB adapter. Not that an adapter hot wired, but not charging anything, would consume that much battery power...
The one I bought is:
That was the sensible thing to do in changing the springs in pairs as the original "good" passenger side item would have probably sagged a bit and lost some of the spring's properties compared to a new spring. My Coupe failed an MOT a few years ago with a broken front spring (nearside) and I told the garage to get a pair of OEM springs.
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That was exactly our thinking, we also thought there was a strong chance that the other spring would probably not last much longer anyway so may as well get it done now.
Boot badge- cheapo
Noticed boot badged had deteriorated so thought I would try a fake one first. Happy with it, though old one was a bugger to get off...carefully
Old one
new one
Noticed boot badged had deteriorated so thought I would try a fake one first. Happy with it, though old one was a bugger to get off...carefully
Old one
new one
Also just renewed insurance. Had pack through from current insurance company and its gone down from £140 to £112 and includes breakdown cover. I snapped their little handies off
Another one with no undertray, and still running!
Tony.
Tony.
Are they supposed to have under-trays ?
I have exactly this model, I went for the white lettering so it matched [ish] the brushed aluminium console.