i'd hope so for the price tag.

the G20 has an SR20 engine (and 2002 was the last year iirc) which was sourced from the 90's when almost EVERY car had a dist cap/rotor setup, i'm getting really tired of you trash talking nissan on this forum because that's all you seem to be here to do :shakes head: all you are doing is showing your pure ignorance for all things cars while thinking you know everything

as for your other concerns, as a one-time career mechanic, i can say that the thermostat is a wear item, as are CV boots, especially on a FWD car where they are turning frequently (as opposed to the rear where they only rotate in the same direction). if you wanna complain about CV boots, go find the B5 section on vwvortex and come back and cry some more. those fools are replacing them every 50k miles and it's normal

They are expensive if you listen to the dealership. They steal money from you left and right. I service the car myself these days. Only one I really had to soak was a new fuel pump. ~$400 at the stealership to install. Meh.

Other than that, it's worked like a charm. Warranties and recalls have obviously occurred, but I don't pay, so I don't care.

Z06 isn't that expensive for what you get imho. You can get one of the left-over 2010's loaded out for 72K right now. If you want a more stripped one, they can be had in the low 60's, or could a few months ago. For a new one, start about 10K under MSRP.

It's the motor-mounts that got me. I spent a ton of money on that buying OEM mounts, then my mechanic said "Oh, you got ripped" and bought me a non-oem mount. SUPRISE! The **** broke in 2 months and I had to go buy an OEM to replace it or endure it again. Then you have that installation isn't practical at my appartment complex. Same with the axles. Basically, I didn't want to tear into a foreign car and find out I was missing something, etc. etc. I did that once on my friend's Nissan truck. Replaced his rotors/pads for him, and one of the calipers had frozen up.

Basically, I would rather work for a few hours indoors than on a car that I have no enthusiasm for except as a DD. I have vision, but not enough vision to say "If I save a couple hundred here, I can apply it 6 months later" when saving that couple-hundred involves cut up hands and time out in the cold under the car. I set aside $1500/mo for my other car, and that is enough for me.

what exactly do i need to be "careful" about? :confused:

it's amazing to me the difference between audi and it's VW counterpart cars. audi's (in general) tend to be much more reliable even when built on the same platform and using the same powertrains

You might drop your external hd in the toilet while you're trying to figure out what to watch while you take a dump. Then you lose all your tv shows.

:p

i dont understand. you talk about trying to hopefulyl save enough to have a fun sports car, and then you talk about how the z06 isn't really that expensive. last time i checked, 60k on a car is expensive. yes they do come more expensive, but that still isn't cheap. yea its a good value i guess.

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nah it'd stay behind my desktop chillin' permanently... my friend andy has this setup at his house and it's great to watch tv shows this way. that's what i'm looking for...

$100 in crispy ones

so...wifi to your ipad, so you can watch tv while you dump? :rofl2:

These.

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A second girl in bed for the extra fun...

priceless...

Seems like when you want something, you sometimes get more than you bargained for. I wanted a slight upgrade. I got a melt-down.

SR20 is a great engine. I was just stunned to see the cap/rotor under there considering my first car was a 93' crown vic ex cop-car and it didn't have that setup still.

yes, the CV boots are wear-items. I agree with you. Ticks me off that they both broke 5K miles after I bought the car, though, lol.

I haven't been around very long I guess, but I have never had a car break the radiator or motor-mounts randomly before, though. Also, almost every rubber bushing on the car has had to be replaced. That's new to me also.

On the plus-side, the accessories ALL work, ALL the time.

I meant it's a good value. I live small in areas I don't care about, such as my daily driver, etc. so that I can afford things like a Z06. I did not mean 60K was cheap, but for what you are getting, it's cheap. Will know in a month or so if my living somewhat frugal has allowed me to save up and roll one :)

Office Space: "Me? Two chicks at once... Always wanted to do that." :icon17:

forgot to mention i was a computer tech for a while, too (and am now a computer programmer)... trust me, i got this

so, just to confirm, you are complaining about the reliability a 10 year old daily driver, that you purchased used?

sounds like you have had unusually bad luck with the car but it also sounds like you've unfairly judged all nissans based on that one car which is pretty lame :rolleyes:

also bear in mind the G20, while a decent car, was a nissan sentra (their cheapest car at the time) dressed up and leathered out... it was the entry level infiniti for years. i'm not trying to make excuses for it but there's plenty of civic's, corola's, etc out there that have had the same issues with motor mounts and radiators because the parts put in these cars are from the lowest bidders to keep costs down

:bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl: a little bit of pee just came out :wtf2:

Win! I know virtually nothing about computers and am sure I got fleeced on the one I bought. Maybe you can tell me how badly?

AMD Phenom II 955 3.2Ghz quad-core
Hitachi 1TB 7200rpm
8gig DDR3
GeForce GTX460 (768mb DDR5)
Tigerpro 500W power supply
Gigabyte 8800GM-UD2H
Coolermaster tower and an extra fan, woot!

I have just never owned a car with bad motor mounts. In fact, I have only seen one motormount replaced in my entire life. It was on a 90's dodge. My Dad went through dozens of cars while I was growing up, putting about 250-400K miles on them each. I never saw him replace a motor mount. It just struck me as odd. Same with all the rubber bushings on this car. Even my 88 GT didn't need new bushings to ride quietly, etc.

Fair enough, but no, I am complaining about the poor judgement that I bought the first thing that met my specs (4-cyl, 4-door, not a pile) when everyone I spoke to has had NO trouble out of their Sentra, the Sentra was supposed to be one of the more reliable cars out there, and the Infiniti service dept. hasn't seen a G20 except mine in months they say. To be honest, the dealership traded me dead-even for my 149K mile Trans Am with dead air-conditioner compressor and torn up paint on the hood. I still think I did well. Just whining a bit I suppose.

@importconvert, would you mind sharing how much this terrible vehicle, which has plagued your life actually cost you to buy?

meh could have been worse (see dell.com for reference)

Somewhat comforting. It came with Windows 7 installed, along with the legit disk.

Says my Windows Experience is a:

Processor: 7.3
Memory (RAM): 7.5
Graphics: 7.4
Gaming Graphics: 7.4
Primary HD: 5.9

My 2001 WS6, which was also a bane. I still remember getting stuck in a traffic-jam in that car, having a dead A/C compressor, and arriving to a job interview (luckily still got the job) wearing a sweat-soaked dress-shirt. Looked like crap.

Hence my fun-car will be new, never modded, and a warranty will solve my issues (so I think).

You can have these, but you'll have to pull them out of my garter and thong.

lol!!!

wishihadnav... i've done this, wouldn't recommend it :icon14:

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Stay on Topic.

stay on topic... stay on topic...

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i was in the middle of googling that to post it.:bowrofl:

I want triple's to remind me to stay on topic for Xmas.

HOLY CRAP YOU GOT MY LETTERS!!! tyty

:D

<-- can ninja google chit like nobody's bizness :tiphat:

you are one weird person :wtf2:

<--- can search for another porn video on youjizz.com using his left hand only like nobody's business.

impressive

Looks like this is the one thing I keep seeing over and over. :tiphat:

I hate gift cards. I would rather have cold, hard cash. A gift card is just like cash, except you have to burn it in one particular establishment. Even if it is somewhere that I enjoy spending money, I may risk forgetting it or having it expire when I go to purchase something.

Cash works well almost everywhere.

Something from Walmart like floormats, Dice to hang from the mirror, pine air fresheners, seat covers, car cover, cleaning suppiles, etc. :roflpuke2:

gift card= I'm taking out the fact that i dont have any idea what to get you, on you. I put in enough effort to determine a store you probably wont want to shop at and have purchased a gift card from said store, for you.

Well, cash bears the stigma of "I didn't know what to get you", but a gift card is supposed to be better, because it's saying, "I didn't know what to get you, but I know you shop here or like things that are sold here." I'd rather have a really crappy gift or straight cash, though, than a gift card. A crappy gift means you at least took a shot. Straight cash is ultimately more useful.

indeed

So do gift-cards. You get the credit-card type. Can even buy stuff online with it. It's better than cash.

That said, a thoughtful gift with a reciept included or "I'm not sure if this is exactly what you wanted, but I kept the receipt incase it isn't." is also cool.