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This car, just hnnnng. ?

Glad to hear it :) let me know if anything changes - Google do tend to adjust their ad positioning without really asking permission as we run "auto ads"!

I presume that happens on a mobile? I think they're called interstitial ads, will see if there's anything I can do there too

Apologies, I've only just seen this. We do indeed use ads to help pay the bills, however this is clearly way over the top and now how it's supposed to appear! Is this still happening? I've logged out and I can't see the ads being as intrusive at my end. I'll also tweak the ads being inserted...

Aaaaaaand that's it, up to date. For now!! PS: Shameless plug for its Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsnotavolvo/

Monday 20th December 2021 More bling. Sorry, not sorry Was sick of the yellow glow of incandescent sidelights, so I upgraded to some nice white LEDs to match the factory HIDs!

Sunday 19th December 2021 Protect my underside ? Rust. Rust is the nemesis of anything Japanese, we all know that. I'd had this one in the diary for a LONG time. I got the car over to my friend to give the car a full underseal including waxoyl in all the cavities. He also found some water...

Friday 10th December 2021 350Z wannabe Whilst at Ace Café we discussed my engine cover and my mate Tom from NPOC reiterated the point that the cover is now asymmetrical due to the removal of the resonator. Cheers Tom ? ? Nevertheless, ebay had a 10% promotion on so I managed to secure a 350Z...

Saturday 4th December 2021 What an Ace Café! Just an excuse for photos here, went to NPOC's annual Xmas meet at Ace Café and met up with a bunch of friends and got some lovely pics of the Stagea there!

Friday 3rd December 2021 Smile, you're on YouTube Kept it quiet and didn't tell any of my friends, but Matt from the YouTube channel Furious Driving came over to film the car for a YouTube video, I'd reached out to him in September and we'd both been waiting for the thing to arrive for him to...

Thursday 25th November 2021 Boring but necessary security Due to the fact that my insurance stipulates my car must have a cat 1 alarm / immobiliser, and most cars in Japan don't even have an immobiliser fitted (yeah, I know right!) I got my car booked in to get a Thatcham category 1 alarm and...

Thursday 11th November 2021 Didn't take long for the bling to show up After finding out that there's a massive resonator that hides the sound of the glorious VQ35 under the hood, I found a direct replacement aluminium pipe that gives the car back its V6 growl, just like the 350Z, so I imported...

Friday 3rd November 2021 ? You're so vain, I bet you think this plate is about you, don't you! ? Yeah, I bought an MSC private plate. I'm not even sorry. For those wondering: J = James 26 = My age when I became chairman MSC = Micra Sports Club ❤️

Saturday 30th October 2021 Throw it straight on a rolling road! I'd already agreed to head over to Surrey Rolling Road with the NPOC as I was interested to see if the Saab I had previously was remapped. Well, it died on me a week before the Stagea showed up so boy was I lucky the Stag arrived...

Thursday 28th October 2021 Finally time to go and pick the damn thing up! So the time finally arrived! I get a call on Wednesday that the car has finally got its number plates from the DVLA and it's ready for collection. Immediately ring my boss and arrange a half day to get my ass up to...

Wednesday 8th September 2021 Finding the ebay listing and putting the deposit down So after thinking "I can do this all myself" I figured I'd just see what was already on ebay on the off chance there was anything already over here. As it would turn out there were a couple, but this one struck...

So after a few years of buying stop-gap cars, including: An Audi A6 1.9 TDI that ate its own electrics out A Peugeot 306 STDT A Mazda 6 2.3 which developed an engine knock after 6 months A Jaguar X-Type which ALSO developed an engine knock after 6 monts And a car that actually did quite well...