Clutch Slave Cylinder
 

Alright guys I need some recomendations. I traveled apporx. 120 mile for a business trip and when I arrived my Slave Master Cylinder died on me... pedal to the floor. I had the car towed (took nearly 2 hours to get my car out of a downtown parking garage) to a local dealership and they informed my that my fluid was low and there "may" small leak in the cylinder, however they are not certain as they didnt take the transmission apart. They claim it to be a small leak as they refilled the fluids and drove the car around with no leaking and no issues. There recomendation was to replace the cylider at almost $1,300. Of course the first thing i asked was is the part under warranty... 27 days past my 3 year, 36,000 mile. He said i could all Nissan USA and there is about a 50/50 chance that they would cover based on his experience. Now I have two questions:

1) I want to bring my car back home and pursue talking to Nissan, would you advise for or against driving it back 120 miles if there is only a small leak?
2) Does anyone have experience with requesting something to cover when the warranty has experiered?

I would hate to have to drive my car like that, but if that's what you have to do, then you have to do it.

There are people on the forum who have had their CSC (concentric slave cylinder) replaced under the power train warranty (5 yr/60K mi). There are also people who have gotten raped by a dealer who said it wasn't covered (over $1K every time). I don't understand how its possible to justify that part of the clutch system is NOT covered under the power train warranty. I would find a dealer that will cover it under warranty - do some searching and find some relevant threads here on the forum to show them if you have to.

Take it to the dealer.
Here is the link that talks about it all.
http://www.the370z.com/nissan-370z-g...ml#post2434117

This is from MrAurora that posted this:

Update for those interested or experiancing this same issue:

I called Nissan consumer affairs (the number listed in the warranty booklet) and had them pull up the book and read the powertrain section on the phone with me. We had same book which was a pleasant surprise ! Was expecting an different version with exclusions in it but i digress... The powertrain section says "all internal parts except those listed in the not covered section" under transmission coverage. He read the not covered section aloud and it says NOTHING about excluding the slave and that it's covered. He gave me a case number and contact info. I then called the dealer and the gods were kind to me. The Bob-inator was on vacation and i was transferred to a woman who knew her stuff. To make a long story short, she thinks its in the nissan computer wrong because the slave in our cars is not dedicated, its integrated with the throwout bearing and therefor part of the powertrain and should be covered. So as of right now i am scheduled to have the work done under the powertrain warranty on thursday.

If you’re out of the 36k or 3 year warranty you should be fine. Its covered under the power train warranty which is 5 years or 60k like JARblue said (hopefully your under that).

Guys... at this moment I am sitting in my car (6:00pm local time) in the middle of the traffic in a Friday evening waiting to be tow to the Nissan dealer... I was driving back home and boooom... clutch went down to the floor... My 370Z is only 4 months old... I hope they can fix it permanently so I will not have this issue again...

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There is a sticky on this issue i believe...review it asap. Let me see if i can find it for you!

EDIT:
http://www.the370z.com/engine-drivet...-failures.html

my first one went out at 24k. im at 60k now and cringe every time i press the clutch pedal... :/

im about to order zspeed hd csc and stage 2 clutch during the winter season even tho my car is a 2013 with 4k miles.. all these stories of ppl stranded in random places is not worth it for me lol.. sigh what was nissan thinking...

if you can go for the tilton CSC they offer the HD unit still fails\is a bitch to bleed.

I got mine covered under warranty back in august.

Dealer replaced it no questions asked.

I have no idea why a dealer would not replace it under warranty. Warranty costs always get shuffled to the manufacturer(Nissan). What this means is that the dealer doesn't pay for the part AND gets to bill Nissan time for the labor to install it. It's a win win situation and if a dealer is not honoring a warranty they are doing something very shady and you should let Nissan know. (they are probably billing Nissan for sh1t they never fixed and man hours they never performed).

Home | National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), file a complaint about the failed CSC. There are too few complaints filed!

So the plan is to bump every thread about the CSC regardless of when the last post was? :p

http://www.the370z.com/engine-drivet...ml#post2926852

Going to take it to the experts this time... see if they can put another faulty CSC in so she drives again.. lol
Tow truck is on the way with my baby now! ;-)


For those of you having the same issue... if you have the diagnosis paperwork from anytime you might have had this fixed please contact:

Marash @ customer care ext 457354 and she will create a ticket to hopefully escalate to HQ. LETS GET THIS THING RECALLED!

FYI clutch is covered under drive train if you didn't know.

thanks.

Mine just died for the second time. Funny thing is I'm not low on fluid and it's been acting weird for a little while now but last night it finally lost all pressure had to float the gears to get to my friends house I couldn't even make it to my own home... Terrible. So I have been getting a weird pedal feel for a little while now sometimes I would have free play then other times I wouldn't if I felt it get soft a quick run over 100 would stiffen up the clutch pedal and that to me is very strange. Another thing my clutch pedal has been getting stuck half way on hard shifts and causing it to slip my guess is the csc has been sticking but the whole losing pressure and regaining it has been a strange to say the least. Anyway imma try and bleed it today and take it to Nissan soon. Last time they just bled it with "gtr" fluid. I'm 500 miles still in power train lol

You need this thread...http://www.the370z.com/nissan-370z-g...-failures.html

Get ready to have it replaced yourself. Power train warranty does not cover the CSC. Only the 3yr/36k warranty will. I would advise on getting an upgraded CSC and a new MC and having it installed. Hope funds are not tight. this is going to cost a bit. If you are going to upgrade the clutch/flywheel, now is the time.

I have the upgraded zspeed csc for about two years now and it's doing the same thing??? Is it just going out already? Any help would be appreciated !!!!

If you have replaced the CSC with an improved more robust one if you're having "symptoms" of failure, then it's likely the Master. Slave fails ONLY one way, "Leaking fluid" and it immediately stops working. (I guess throwout bearing could go to tho) Think about that.
You're taking a matched Master/Slave cylinder pair and putting something stronger on the CSC end. I highly doubt the new CSC would fail before the Master.
Check your Master cylinder fluid level and monitor that. If the CSC is leaking then the Master Cylinder fluid level will be empty or low.

Cool thanks I'm thinking its the mc