A 2.8 Zed on E bay with some bizarre mods.......

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A 2.8 Zed on E bay with some bizarre mods.......

Post by Dav »

This is an odd one. Hope it's not from here.
Not nice.
I wouldn't have described them as upgrades!

Take a look at the pics.......
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Post by Robert T »

That's worthy of BarryBoys! £4000 of stick-on tat. And custom made roll-bars - yeah right - they look exactly the same as the factory produced ones! :lol:

And those exhausts - if they need heat shielding like that round them, then they're too close to the bodywork. :roll:

What confuses me is that he's spent lots of presumably hard-earned cash on magpie bits and didn't bother with a nice shiney strut-brace. :?

If it the tat can be taken off without damaging the paintwork, then there might be a nice car underneath, but as it is, it doesn't do anything for me! :lol:

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The rear is just awful !!! My eyes ... my eyes ... :lol:
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The car is gross. The brembo brake covers just sums the whole car up - lets try to make it look (not) something that it isnt. Fitting a ///M badge on a non-M should be punishable with a custodial sentence!
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Deano1712 wrote:. Fitting a ///M badge on a non-M should be punishable with a custodial sentence!

I hereby sentence you to wearing a leopardskin thong for the remainder of your life................. but there again :shock: you might enjoy it! :shock:
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Post by PERRIN Z3M »

Looks like he magnetized his car and then ram radded Halfords.
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Post by nero »

Maybe its just a bad picture, but the "heat shielding" looks like Duck Tape to me :shock:

Does adding "M" badges make a car go faster? - cause there are plenty of them :roflmao:
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Post by Justin Time »

Nero wrote:Does adding "M" badges make a car go faster? - cause there are plenty of them :roflmao:
i've heard if you place th ebadge in the right place it can :lol:
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Justin Time wrote:
Nero wrote:Does adding "M" badges make a car go faster? - cause there are plenty of them :roflmao:
i've heard if you place th ebadge in the right place it can :lol:
Mmmmmmmm or is that the 'G' badge Christian ? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by Justin Time »

whiteminks wrote:
Justin Time wrote:
Nero wrote:Does adding "M" badges make a car go faster? - cause there are plenty of them :roflmao:
i've heard if you place th ebadge in the right place it can :lol:
Mmmmmmmm or is that the 'G' badge Christian ? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

pffft :P

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Post by cleomantra »

Hopefully it will be sold to someone with taste and that has sense ......... common sense to rip all that sh*t off
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Post by jhb1 »

Stick one of the wee statues from the garden on the bonnet and I think you have a winner 8-) .
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Just saw this on Ebay and was going to post the link, until I saw this. The rear just looks very very strange, there are no other words to describe it.
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Post by pingu »

Click on his feedback and see the stuff he's bought and the price he's paid.

Rear spoiler - Since when has $250 been £250.

A 76mm Eisenmann exhaust for a Z3M (quad pipes like he has) costs £891, not £1200, as he stated.

He's a muppet (no disrespect to the real muppet!!).

What sort of idiot quotes prices on their advert than can be easily checked by looking a their feedback, or online.
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Post by Algernon »

Deano1712 wrote:...brembo brake covers just sums the whole car up...
What are these, covers for the brake cylinders?
Purely cosmetic piece of crap?

Hopefully these are from some Chinese (copy) manufacturer and not by Brembo.
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Post by Deano1712 »

Yes you can buy plastic covers to go over standard calipers, to make them look like Brembo. I think thats what the guy has done.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/BREMBO-L ... enameZWDVW
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Post by Robert T »

Deano1712 wrote:Yes you can buy plastic covers to go over standard calipers, to make them look like Brembo. I think thats what the guy has done.
A true Sticker-Barry! :roflmao:

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That is a shocker!
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Post by komis »

What? No LV leather? :D CHECK OUT THOSE DATSUN MIRRORS!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!
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Post by Ian_C »

Unbelievable I know, but if you look now you'll see that someone's placed a bid :shock:
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Post by Lazeodoom »

Whats going on with that 'heat shielding'? It looks very very amateurish. 'Great exhaust note' probably means that it raises the dead. Finally, if he spent £4000 of upgrades on it, why is it going for the price of a normal Zed?

Idiot.
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Post by nero »

Latest update - it is now on Barry Boys :roflmao:
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Post by SledgeHammer »

O.....M....G.... Mind if I place this on the Dutch forum? I'm sure they'll love it just as much. :lol:

New Red Carpets/mats - Cost £200
Are these with golden stitching?

Diamond cut stainless steel custom made Stone guards - Cost £200

LoL LoL LoL
to call this car a headturner would be an understatement!
I'm sure it is. :lol:

The only thing I like about it is the exhaust system, minus the circus around it.
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So who's joylove?
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Post by rustyz4 »

Nero wrote:Latest update - it is now on Barry Boys :roflmao:
It makes interesting reading, what the guys have to say on there about it.

They are of the same opinion as here :lol:

Love this quote from their forum "Holy **** It looks like a Pikey Fairground ride. "
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Post by CowboybebopUK »

The rear looks terrible !!!!!!!! :roll: :roll:
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Post by Dav »

Well it didn't make it's reserve although to my amazement four people bid for it!

Never mind if you did like the ''Italian Leather and stainless steering wheel-cost £200'' you can get one here on ebay for £24.99. (item8)
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STEERING-WHEEL-BM ... dZViewItem
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Post by pingu »

Dav wrote:Well it didn't make it's reserve although to my amazement four people bid for it!

Never mind if you did like the ''Italian Leather and stainless steering wheel-cost £200'' you can get one here on ebay for £24.99. (item8)
:roll:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STEERING-WHEEL-BM ... dZViewItem
They look good on a PlayStation steering wheel. I'm not sure about my car. But I'm a 42 yr old old-fart, not a 17 yr old Corsa driver.
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Post by GHB »

Oh my god does it still go with all that Cr*p on it !!!!!

No taste.

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If that thing hits 88mph, its going back in time.
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Post by lesstatt »

That is Chavtastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He should be shot at dawn, whats the dummy chrome grills on the side of the rear bumper for.................... disgusting piece of cr%p
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Did anyone notice that the 'Safety Equipment' bit claims an 'Electronic Stability Program is fitted, but in the 'Equipment' list it only has the usual Traction Control.

It is also claimed that a Driver's Airbag is fitted - but not with that steering wheel. Perhaps it should say 'fitted for.'

'Never driven in the rain?' - I doubt if it has even ventured out of its garage, as otherwise the spare ski he has cleverly mounted below the tailpipes would have parted company on a 'Safety' hump . . .

All told, it's a sorry lesson in what happens when enthusiasm overcomes good taste - but it would improve a lot without the imitation Brembo calipers, and those bits of metal stuck on the sides.

Still, underneath it's another Z3 waiting to get out!
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pingu wrote:Click on his feedback and see the stuff he's bought and the price he's paid.

Rear spoiler - Since when has $250 been £250.

A 76mm Eisenmann exhaust for a Z3M (quad pipes like he has) costs £891, not £1200, as he stated.

He's a muppet (no disrespect to the real muppet!!).

What sort of idiot quotes prices on their advert than can be easily checked by looking a their feedback, or online.
someone who isn't too intelligent. last time i checked it was illegal to advertise false statistics about the product you intend on selling.

anyway, on a side note, am i the only one here who actually thinks the alloys look nice? imagine the car being normal and not suffering from what appears to be Chavettes syndrome, and they have potential :lol:
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The wheels are nice looking, though I wonder if they are genuine BBS, or made by low-pressure die casting in the back yard of some chinese peasant.

Even the genuine item is pretty useless if you use the car much, as the laquer soon becomes chipped, with corrosion spreading underneath soon afterwards.

Poor quality wheels can crack and break on impact with any debris in the road, causing an accident - it's a pity the UK does not have a decent Type Approval system such as that of the German TuV, or simply require that all such items be approved by the TuV before permitting import.

If something is cheap and pretty, people will buy it, and there are many firms selling replica BMW/Schnitzer/Alpina/BBS wheels to those who are more interested in fashion than function.
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Post by Kiwi »

Not to disrepect the departed but my first thought when I saw the picture was that it was Foxy's car and that a new owner had put more chrome etc on it ...
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Post by Justin Time »

nah cant be, foxy's looked good, that one didnt!
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Post by Austin Powers »

Author of this masterpiece should be either shot on spot or sent to a certain instituion in white mymy jacket imediately...
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Halfords Man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :p
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Post by Justin Time »

he should have gone to specsavers...... :roll:
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phb10186 wrote:If that thing hits 88mph, its going back in time.
Does it have a flux capacitor too? :lol:

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Wasn't one of Riano's last posts to say he was selling up?.?.?.? :lol:
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Post by thecamperman »

that car on eBay looks s**t with all those extras!!
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Its amazing that someone can apparently spend 4K on modifications and wipe the same amount of the value of a car.......
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