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Datsun have been Nissan since before most of us were born though. It's internet trendy Clarksonism
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Datsun have been Nissan since before most of us were born though. It's internet trendy Clarksonism
Its not very common, bit of a gimmick really.
I can understand the idea but it really makes sod all difference on a normal car. Certainly not expensive though
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Only if the new owners rebranded the cars. All current VX cars would be VX still, but all new ones if produced with new badge would be new company.
What he said
im betting not before fett was though
i dont know why (possibly just the cars he owns) but ive got him down being nearer 40 than he is 20.
Ageist!!!!!!!!!
Showing my age - I was working for a dealership during the changeover period, and remember fitting the Nissan badges to Datsuns! (they wore both badges for a while until the new name became accepted)[TW]Fox;14152841 said:Datsun have been Nissan since before most of us were born though. It's internet trendy Clarksonism
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Not really no, Opel Astra, VX Astra, Shonky Astra, Ford Astra. Whatever the car's new badges are, that's what they will be called. All the older ones, like yours for example, would be VX though, as that's what they were produced as.
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Datsun was the name used by Nissan when it was trying to sell cars to the west. The name comes from a model sold by a company Nissan acquired a long time ago.
/geek
Now, the tyre repair?
/geek
Now, the tyre repair?
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Nissan have been around since the early 30s and adopted the name purely for marketing reasons, they sold cars as Datsun's and trucks as Nissans.
back on topic I would say around £500 for a tyre.
back on topic I would say around £500 for a tyre.
i present
A daewoo matiz
or maybe not, its a chevrolet matiz according to the badge. Yes thats what its called offically
but i still think of it as the car i learnt to drive in - the daewoo matiz.
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Chev Matiz...although I just ignore that car as it's one of the many washing machines on wheels. 
This would have been the correct course of action. With biscuits whilst I wait.
Somebody got it.
Thats a very kind way of putting it
Extra sausage for you...£500 for the tyre, not inc VAT, without fitting and sensor re-calibration.
They absolutely refused to even entertain fixing it. So I sorted it with somebody else and although I had stuck it to The Man, The Man got me back later in the day. I had to have a TPMS re-set, the service manager is away doing GT-R things and for 4 minutes of walking to each tyre with a bluetooth control unit and 2 bar of nitrogen, they thought £50 was a jolly fair price. Without VAT.
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