Restoring a 90's Diesel.
Gentlemen, What are your thoughts on doing a soft-resto on an unhacked Nissan SB14 that has been sitting around for 8 years?
1997 car registered in 2000. Manual gears, 2L CD20 diesel. Single owner -Decased. Family who are known to me - dont use it. Unhacked body and almost pristine interior. Clean body lines, no accidents. Complete car and appears untouched by makabasses. Engine shows signs of under-compression, brakes and clutch-plate need replacing, tyres are on the brink of decomposing. Power mirrors do not work. Needs a paint job. No major corrosion but early-stage rust spots on the boot lid.
Nissan might close down operations in 12 -14 months? https://www.carscoops.com/2024/11/nissan-exec-says-we-have-12-or-14-months-to-survive/ Are we going to see more companies shutting down or is this a one off. So much for the new GTR and the new Patrol.
Is there an alternative to the Maruti 800? A friend of mine is looking for an extremely cheap to run and fix car for around 1.5M. While I do advocate old Japanese cars in that budget - if his need is basic A-B motoring at the lowest possible cost - maintenance wise and with fuel - is there any other option that I am forgetting?
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Ekendra Edrisinghe
The previous owner on the my vehicle had fitted HID Xenon lights using the old lamp reflectors.
My previous vehicle had the normal lights and to me they seemed to appear brighter at night with greater night visibilty.
My guess is that the old reflectors do not match up with the HID Xenon lights.
Can anyone suggest a HID Xenon expert that I can go to so as to get this rectified?
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Dunno about the all the HID conversions, but I sure wish that people learn NOT to use the High Beams in city running. I swear to God one of these days if I am in that kinda mood, I will crash in to o
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I can't stress this point enough, and I'm sure I've stated it before: Your car's standard halogen headlight will not properly reflect the light from an HID bulb. This is because of the difference in s
VVTi
I was a bit against changing in to HIDs but after a few days of constant night driving and seeing most of these monkeys in Allions, Elites and all kind of new cars and the absolute uneducated Godaya n
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