NEARLY 2 WEEKS WAITING: Nissan GT-R is finally mine!

[kindai]

I rang today, requested some, said he'd check and call me back, he remembered you. But that was around 11:30am, still waiting for the call back.....

At lunchtime it goes mad there, people try pop in and visit him during their lunch breaks. He'll get back to you soon as the madness ends.

 

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Cool, I ordered the K1 Ferrari rears locally, those should be here next week.

Will get the fronts from your buddy as he was way way cheaper, £204, next cheapest was £255 and most places were £270-£320

Rather happy to have bagged 4x PS4S and kept it under £1000.

Tell me about it, when all 4 of mine came it at a smidge over £800... been out today again and they just seem to be getting better. Absolutely phenomenal tyre.

 

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Awesome car OP, I would love to have one!...closest I got was an R33 few years back, wish I kept it now has they have gone up in value.

Friend of mine was looking at getting one (i was trying to persuade him hehe) but was put off with short service intervals/costs compared to other similar cars in the same price bracket.

How are you finding it?

The car or the servicing? The car is great, the servicing is not bad, I actually kind of like the 6 month schedule, as it breaks up having to have large work done and allows for them to catch things during the more frequent inspections before they become an issue.

 

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They will new tyres tend to be fully bedded in by around 500 miles.

Ive done ~150miles since Monday Any excuse to pop out at the moment and just give it some, the **** weather and the pzeros has meant I've not been able to push the car much, so have some pent-up-driving to let lose

 

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More with the servicing. Good point to mention about better to have smaller intervals...i'll mention that to him! lol

He's missing his M1 atm after selling it. haha

I guess it could be a liability if he isn't near a reputable indy.

Will get the fronts from your buddy as he was way way cheaper, £204, next cheapest was £255 and most places were £270-£320

Yea, the sizes for my car seem to be the cheapest Fortunate for me lol. did he get back to you?

 

[kindai]

I think you might have got lucky, I chased them, said their supplier was having difficulty, he promised to call back a few minutes after but never did.

I will call back tomorrow and give them until lunch time, otherwise I shall just find the cheapest in stock place online and place an order.

bleh I hate it when people you recommend don't deliver.

Sorry bud.

 

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Details page 4

Here they are again:

01527 831829

Ask for Simon, let him know "Jon with the GTR" gave you the details.

 

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Pricing error, best they can do now is £242, I shopped elsewhere and paid slightly more for fitting convenience locally.

Well thats a bummer! Glad I got mine when I did.

 

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So today the roads were great, and it was nice weather, so took the car out for a real blast on the new tyres.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.3...ccd2dUfZ0rUdVWI9Zw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

I'm not going to tell you how fast I came down the straight and around this 270 degree corner then out the other side, but it was quick, very quick, scary quick, and they held on like no tomorrow.

It's one of my favorite bits of road, and if any of you pass through Redditch I suggest giving it a go When you come out the corner you pass under the bridge just as you put the power down so it reverbs right at the best bit of the power band, brings a smile every time.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.2912584,-1.8641673,2323a,20y,346.84h,44.46t/data=!3m1!1e3

 

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Those kind of corners are epic as lots of run off should you push wide or get a bit tail happy.

Yea, theres some nice bits of road if you can get them to yourself around redditch, that one is my all time favorite, you also have the cloverleaf:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.2771346,-1.928913,1639a,20y,346.84h,44.6t/data=!3m1!1e3

Its all dual carriageway, and its well maintained. So you can loop around from one bit to the other for a bit of fun

 

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So today is officially the first anniversary of buying the car! Hard to believe its been a year already.

Anyway on Monday its going in for:

Oil and Filter
New Discs
New Pads
MOT

Time to give it a clean!

 

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So after clearing off the layer of dirt the car has acquired in the last 2 weeks... some ****** has obviously opened their door or caught something on my door!

No problem, the actual damage to the paint is very minimal in depth, so G3 to the rescue. People think im mad about how much I rave about this stuff, but it really is amazing.

Scratch remover first

Then the renovator to finish off

All done! Those "marks" in these last 2 pictures are actual reflections of tv aerials.

 

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Yo!

So car had its service, MOT and new pads and discs fitted and bedded in today.

What can I say apart from christ almighty. The pagid RS29 pads on the alcon discs feel like someone drops an anchor out the back every time I push the brake pedal.

Also Y pipe

Before:

After:

 

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Y Pipes make them sound so much nicer, was the first thing my mate did to his one when he got it a few years back.

I've driven Alcon and RS29 bloody amazing, but too much for road car and dust level is horrendous. But brake power wise absolutely insane, they are generally quiet too as long as you use them once or twice a week to their ability.

I love XP10 and XP8 combo, so much power, no cold bite issue and completely silent, only issue is huge amounts of dust.

Aye, they are vicious, only have to touch the brakes at speed and it plasters you into the front windscreen and scrubs off 50mph.

They are a bit squeaky at low speeds, but after you've warmed them up seem ok. People mention i'm very late and hard on the brakes, so hopefully will get on with them.

I've given up on looking for "dust levels" on brakes, one persons loads is another persons nothing, id rather just know the brakes are good all the time and will clean my wheels once a week as normal

 

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Loving that Y-pipe mod, reminds me of the first time I went to equal length headers on one of my scoobs

Went through the high street tonight, it sounded absolutely orgasmic. I think the people who stopped to stare as I drove past thought so as well

Either that or they were thinking you absolute ****

 

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I've really gone off loud exhausts for a daily. Mine isn't even that loud but it does my head in, temped to get a valve in the exhaust.

When pootling around its actually still very reserved, but when you put your foot down, boy do people know about it

 

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Hey all!

So today I was pootling around and my god, the brake squeal was driving me insane.

Ordered some ceratec and some shims to hopefully remove that, but while the RS29 is phenomenal for stopping power, the low speed noise is almost embarrassing when you pull up to a junction slowly and sound like a 20 year old bus!

Failing that, may go to a more street friendly compound, maybe some cosworth streetmasters.

 

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I used to have them on an old 330ci and this is the exact reason I got rid of them. The stopping power was seriously amazing, the fade resistance was the best I'd ever experienced from just upgrading brake pads but the squeal.... Oh the squeal.

Stopping at traffic lights sounded like you were a train pulling into a station.

I went for a heavy bedding in session today, 15 or so speed up and slow downs in a row, followed by 10 minutes or so of cruising without stopping to cool everything off.

Hoping it will help. On the way back through town they were silent, just gonna leave them a few hours now to cool down and see if that has solved it.

 

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So after the heavy session done earlier I just took them out for a gentle pootle around town, previously may have sounded like a bus with the squeal... but was relatively quiet, a few minor moans here or there but nothing of actual notewortheyness.

Got back and checking the discs, I have a feeling that it may just be that they need a few more heavy sessions to even things out.

 

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RS29 is a very strong track performance pad, its a bit OTT for road use due to noise and dust.
However if you do at least 1-2 big stops from high speed and hard once or twice a week it helps a lot to keep them quiet, otherwise if you just pootle they start to sound like a train, bloody aweful.

Out of all the pads I experienced on track RS29 had the most braking torque, they will fierce in how much torque they seemed to develop under braking, really had to peel your face of the windscreen, but dust and noise for a road car really made them more a track only application, on M3 anyway, I know the GTR is 1/2 tonne heavier so RS29 no doubt offers some good improvement even in road use.

If they become too much im going to swap to DS2500s, have been told they are virtually silent.