Originally Posted by robbie

i don't know bout the 135i. i hv seen my friends reduces to tears as they battle with unthinkable reliability issues on their current gen beemers. so i won't be so convinced that you would be happier from a reliability perspective. also, the z and the 135 are totally different in styling and practicality.

back to the noise issues - hasn't anyone found the solution. surely given the number of us with the same issue, i would have thought that nissan oz would take the effort to find a solution ... unless no ones raised it with them??