Sticky: (Official) 370Z Clutch Pressure (CSC) Failures

ZForce

Shoud be covered under warranty with only 25k miles.

jstevenson

Yeah, but I'm past 3 years... in service for 3 years and 8 months. Got the car in May 2009.

They called back yesterday, quoting me parts and labor of $2800 to replace the whole assembly (master cylinder, slave, lines, clutch cover). They also had contacted Nissan, who offered to pay up and brought the cost to me down to $820.

I took it, my mechanic figured it'd be 700-800, and I assume he wasn't going to replace the whole thing (plus re-towing etc).

Should hopefully have her back by tomorrow.

fuct

thats BS. those parts are much less wear and tear items than the clutch or centric slave cylinder.

for the master cylinder to go at 25k miles you either beat the sh1t outa it (which will be evident when they take the clutch off), or its defective. im leaning towards the latter...

jstevenson

I didn't beat the **** out of it at all (which they noticed the clutch was fine) --- the worst thing I did to the clutch was probably trying to get it the last 8 blocks home when the hydraulics failed (in terms of trying to restart the car with partial clutch / get into gear).

It was definitely defective, and I guess when the CSC goes it can take the rest... and/or they've been burned so many times replacing just one part that they think it's better to redo the whole thing while they are in there.

Anyways, car is back now and it's running fine. Shitty to blow 800 bucks on it, but better than the alternative, and as noted, I was out of warranty by years.

ZForce

Cant tell these days buying a used car, never know what the original owner did or did not do. Good thing NNA stepped up and cut the price for you. A tip for when you get the car back is to flush the brake fluid and keep an eye (ear) out for the quack sound. g/l and I am sure the dealer will do a good job, it's pretty much straight forward replacement. Might as well swap out ALL the fluids, its about time. Transmission fluid, gear oil, coolant.

jstevenson

I bought it new, I've owned the car the whole time. I baby it too. About the hardest driving is a canyon run here or then, and fully warmed speed-ups onto the freeway. But no launches etc.

ZForce

My bad, thought I read you got the car used. Freak of nature I guess...oh wait I am reallly missing your previous threads, thought you had the same part failed as mine and NOT the CSC....CSC...MSC...all get me confused in this acronym world.

Mine was the simplier fail and fix,yours full blown. Glad you got it back. Time for a blood transfusion on all body parts.