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Richie 07-15-2009 10:30 AM

chubbs i just made them a do a number plate/vin check on that car and its a titanium grey, it was driving me mad because i was nearly 100% sure that it was titanium, now all i need to do is find a car that is twilight grey

chubbs 07-15-2009 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Richie (Post 114731)
chubbs i just made them a do a number plate/vin check on that car and its a titanium grey, it was driving me mad because i was nearly 100% sure that it was titanium, now all i need to do is find a car that is twilight grey

Oh my god!!! Yet another reason not to use Glyn Hopkin St Albans - they insisted it was not Titanium when I took the pics!! They even wanted to show me the titanium grey on the Nissan website to prove it wasn't that colour, because I was very doubtful myself. Eventually they convinced me it was the other grey. What a bunch of no-hopers.

Sorry to have misled you - If it's actually Tit Grey, I really like it! - and it IS very similar to the old gunmetal grey I used to have, but with a brownish tint. My dealer friend must have been very wrong too when he said that Titanium grey is very brown - because that car was NOT very brown.

Richie 07-15-2009 11:10 AM

useless arnt they! i like that colour in your pic but i dont want any brown or green or any shade but grey lol, so im going to stick with my order, let me know how it goes with your mate in nissan.. how long it will take to get it ect..:driving:

355890 07-15-2009 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by chubbs (Post 114723)
Imagine this - you've just spent hours and hours on Sunday washing and waxing your beautiful black car. You took so long that it's starting to get dark. You decide to jump in the lovely shiny thing and go for a little spin. You turn on the headlights, pull out of the drive and you notice a little speck or smear on the windscreen, so you squirt the windscreen washer and........


....damn, those bl**dy headlamp washers spray crappy screenwash fluid all over your lovely ex-shiny bonnet.

Do you...

a. Say, "Thank the Lord for those very useful European gadgets that no American car is fortunate enough to have." or...

b. Say, "Damn the European legislation that forces our headlights to have those useless stupid things."

? Answers on a postcard, to Fredrik Reinfeldt, President of the European Union, Europe, The World.

A.

370Z Purist 07-15-2009 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by chubbs (Post 114723)
Imagine this - you've just spent hours and hours on Sunday washing and waxing your beautiful black car. You took so long that it's starting to get dark. You decide to jump in the lovely shiny thing and go for a little spin. You turn on the headlights, pull out of the drive and you notice a little speck or smear on the windscreen, so you squirt the windscreen washer and........


....damn, those bl**dy headlamp washers spray crappy screenwash fluid all over your lovely ex-shiny bonnet.

Do you...

a. Say, "Thank the Lord for those very useful European gadgets that no American car is fortunate enough to have." or...

b. Say, "Damn the European legislation that forces our headlights to have those useless stupid things."

? Answers on a postcard, to Fredrik Reinfeldt, President of the European Union, Europe, The World.

What? They don't have their own separate control like a rear window wiper would be like?
Then that's the balls... that sucks.

chubbs 07-16-2009 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by 370Z Purist (Post 115462)
What? They don't have their own separate control like a rear window wiper would be like?
Then that's the balls... that sucks.

No - they're a legal requirement over here if you have xenon/bi-xenon headlights, because dirt is supposed to seriously impair their performance (more so than a standard headlamp bulb) - anytime you've got your headlights on they squirt the first time you use the screenwash, then the 10th time, then the 20th, 30th, 40th etc - unless you turn the ignition off, then they squirt the first time again, and so on!!! The only way to prevent them from working is to have the main beam switched off - or disconnect them, which some people do, but you fail the yearly M O T test (Ministry of Transport) if they don't work.

As far as I'm concerned, they're actually quite dangerous because if I'm driving along a dark road I will switch my main beams off if I need to use the screenwash, just so I don't get crap all over the bonnet - even if it means driving in total darkness for a few seconds lol. Yes, it suks!

GTRFAN 07-16-2009 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by fly yellow (Post 112050)
I like to watch that show, "Wheelers Dealers", and whenever they buy a car they keep the same plates on it when they buy it and sell it.

Hey I used to watch Wheeler Dealers while I was living in old blighty...thats a classic show. :)


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