Z left me stranded
 

All good but my Z left me stranded. I dont post much, just read and take notes . This is my 3rd Z and the muthaf@#$a left me stranded. 25K mi and no issues until last Saturday, I pressed the clutch and guess what, it didn't come back up. Well it came up half way a couple of times but then it stayed down. I was close to a BMW dealer and I literally coasted in the parking lot. Pulled out the phone and to my surprise I read the slave cylinder or hydraulic throw out bearing is the correct name has issues. Needless to say I left it there for a day and got a towed to Nissan. BAD BAD MOVE. So the service rep calls me and says something is wrong. DUH. The tech got the pedal up but its slipping, blah blah blah..... you know the rest. Oh sir you need to let us look further. OK, they look and guess what the fly wheel and pressure plate and crazy burn marks not to mention the springs are all bent up. No leak by the throw out bearing so they cant fail it. They are claiming that the reason the pedal stayed down is because of the clutch slipping. umm isn't the clutch a hydraulic issue, not mechanical but whatever I went to dealer and saw everything so I had to buy all new stuff. Used the search button, called Joe from
zspeed, purchased stage 2 south bend clutch, flywheel with quiet disk, hd csc, master cylinder, steel lines, some fluid 1500 bucks. Dealer charging 700 to install. Damn. Tech seemed cool and spoke about this a little bit. The service rep was ok but I think I got a conflicting story about the pedal coming back up. Whatever, they installing it now. I will update when its done. OH yeah I called Nissan and guess what, they took 3 days to tell me nothing is covered. Thanks Nissan. Last Nissan I buy. Next sports car will be real sports car but for now Im broke so have to drive my 2012 370z with FI exhaust and all this new stuff...... Anyway thats my story, sorry fellas just venting to the community.

CSC failure for sure. There are also people that bought brand new Nismos with less than 100 miles and they were stranded. Hell, there is a guy here that bought a brand new 2016 Nismo with less than 6 (yes, six) miles and he had CSC failure.

Sorry you had problems, but since when is the Z not a "real sports car"?

And it's not going to be your last. Plan for it.

Reply talk man. This is my 3rd. I had two 350z's but this is it. Read about the clutch and flywheel. It's not meant for us to really get on... It's mean for us to drive all soft and shi&. Read about the corvette. Yeah it's 20k, more bit f it. I'll save for two more years than force the z. It should never be giving this problem and the bad thing is. This is not the last. I got the metal slave cylinder now but u know what. It's gonna happen again. Horrible and Nissan just blows it off. Crap..

No comment..... U right, what store

Never heard of anyone having the zspeed csc fail on them so not sure what that is all about. I have heard of the newer stingray corvettes having overheating issues though the same as us, but overall they are good cars. Plenty of people on here track their Z's, but they address the problem areas first the same as you are doing with your Z and i have yet to hear of any of those guys having any major issues. I know you were venting, and yes nissan could have done a better job with their choice of parts on a few places on the car, but that doesnt make it any less of a sports car. Like they say though, whatever your choice ends up being i hope you are happy with it....for me though my Z makes me happy :)

The Z is not without its problems but if you think a vette is bulletproof you are going to be for a more expensive world of hurt.

This is your 3rd Z so something keeps drawing you back. Take a step back, relax, and fix the issue. Anything with wheels or a vagina will give you a major headache sooner or later.

Hahaha yeah man that's true :icon18:

Well I did some research and seems like you guys doing well with the south bend so I went with that. I called stillen but after I spoke to Joe it was obvious he was more helpful. Don't know if I mentioned it but the new flywheel was from Nissan was $1120, the friction discuss and pressure plate was $750 the csc was $170 a few small parts but it added up to $2800 if I went OEM from Nissan including install. Took the z speed route and changing the master also this added up to $2200 with install. I will definitely post how it feels when I get it back.

GL with the fix!

I track my Z and drive it hard as Fvck. No issues. My neighbor has a c6 Vette... Lol. Yeah, he is impressed the only thing I go through is tires...

The 7AT.... So glad I got it... The reliability is so much better the AT and the transmission is tuned to near perfection with DRM.

Thanks! There are a million clutches packages out there but I think it usually a good idea to use that search button and see what the community has to say. Now just have to hope the Nissan tech is good and he seemed cool.

:iagree: Go 7AT, I've always been a manual guy but decided to go with the paddles & glad I did.

yah, dealers usually have at least a few qualified techs there so im sure they can figure it out. if i had the tools to do the work i'd do it myself borrowing a hand from mr. jar. :icon17:

for mine im thinking about taking her into a shop down the road to get the aftermarket external slave cylinder installed. this way i can fix it from there forward as the piston is on the outside of the tranny housing if it ever fails. my 12yr old G's using the old nissan external slave cylinder and no issue.