New UK s12 Owners Please Introduce Yourselves

[Initial-d12 silvia]

( just learning english so please bare ) Hi every one my name is edd and im the praud owner of RAD MOTORS & LEATHER STYLING here in Ireland, what we do you see is we sale bmw,merc's,audis you get the idea but the cool thing about us is we customize standard cloth seats in to what ever material you want, ups got a bit caried away anyway i got my first 1986 nissan silvia from good all ebay for just under £500 it is the cleanest 21 year old car iv seen, its standard but thats the way i wanted it to be , will try to make it down to the show whit my s12 which is geting sprayed today at 12 like that TOYota ae86 from Initial-d white and black. BELIVE IT OR NOT JUST GOT MY PROJECTOR HEADLIGHTS FORM EBAY DELIVERD RIGHT NOW COOL!!! Got to check this out so till latter....
(will get pic's from the transformation)

[troggs232]

hello everyone, im steve from durham, i have just bought my second s12, my first was around 6 years ago, the misus wanted me to be sensible and buy something with four doors, of course i said no, but she did point out that the spare room was cold and lonely on a night, so i decided to keep my nissan and restore it, and buy something she liked, perfect solution, get to keep the nissan whoohoo, but sadly not, the nissan was kept in a friends barn which was burned to the ground and the nissan was gutted, and so was i, so after searching hard i found another, its an 89 all standard never messed with and only has 89,000 miles on it, full service history and original bill of sale, it had been stood 2 years under trees and the white paint work had changed to tree green, i gave it a good clean up and got the g3 paste on it and i was surprised at just how solid she is, the only rust is on the o/s front wing, very soild underneath, gave her some fresh engine oil and filter and turned her over, fired up but ran very poorly, new plugs cured that, but the manifold gaskets were shot, changed those and now sounds sweet, ok, think ive said enough lol, oh, and the sensible car the wife got me to buy was a mondeo si, i got shot of that last week, and bought her a saab 93, she's happy, and im happy and still get to go to bed with her hahahah, oh, anyone got a good o/s wing for sale? thanks for reading my dribble lol, all the best guys, steve.

[PukkaSilvia]

New s12 owners flooding in. Where do they keep coming from! Welcome to the club and forums. Hopefully you will become a regular

[s12nelly16v]

Hi my name is Neil , from Newark , Nott's . I've had my Silvia about 17 years ! shame to say most of them in the garage ! like most i went down the wife n kids route so the car went to one side ! ( love the wife n kids to bits !) but its time to get the car back out . My car is rare as i beleive, 2.0 16v , most i've seen have been 1.8 turbo , any feed back on this would be interesting , hope to meet up with some of you soon ! Should be able to come to the shows so spk soon ! Neil

[Noodle_Soup]

Hey guys, My name is Ben, i live in Cornwall and have just bought an s12.
Wow how much did that sound like an intro to an AA meeting?lol

dunno if you guys can help, i am in need of a pair of front wings for my 12. as she has been parked in a hedge for the last 18 or so months, she is a little worse for wear and needs a little TLC!

any feed back on this would be gratefully received. check you later.

[PukkaSilvia]

hi welcome to s12oc.Keep an eye on the classifieds for s12s being broken and put a wanted ad up in classifieds.

[kenneth]

hi everybody my nane is kenneth i have had my two silvias for five years first one is 1985 fj model and the other is a standard 1989 turbo as doner car for the 1985 as i am doing full rebuild of fj .

[aladins78]

Hi all, i'm gavin another new addition to the s12 way of life, actually i also just aquired a nice sunny b12 1.8zx too (for free), had vectra gsi for last 7 years, getting married in a few weeks, and decided to sell and buy something fun and rear wheel drive again, and have some money left over.... well that was the plan, had it 3 weeks.... after 3 days had head off due to exhaust manifold blowing and 1 bolt totally buggered, and found needed a rebuild. still now i know its all ok internally... but after just 200 miles, its in bits again... due to a blown turbo, and faulty crank oil seal... still keeps me poor, so my better half can spend it all.. sorry for long post.
Keep all the good info flowing guys, newbies like me would be lost without places like this.
Cheers Gav

[old-and-rusty]

Hi Gav,
Sounds like fairly common problems. You have the car running for a few days, then off the road for a week .
The joys of s12 motoring .
Regards,
Ian.

[PukkaSilvia]

welcome to s12oc