What did you do with your Z today II

Fire

Morning guys. Man you guys have been busy. Happy I'm an RN in a hospital on a med/surg floor. I'm a volunteer asst fire chief/EMT RIT/FAST team safety officer. Full plate LOL. Been having some drama with my ZL1 order. Slowly working thru it with Chevy Customer service being involved. In a nutshell I have put down a $2000 deposit and have received approval for financing using my Z as a trade in. The ZL1 is of course limited production and I'm trying to ensure that on Feb 1st the dealer ordered me one. Not all dealers have one to sell. I still do not know when my car will go into production or when it will come in. I'm unable to get an order # to follow it's build. So I'm wait and see right now.

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christian370z

That's pretty ridiculous, I saw your post the other day too. It's bad business practice to take a deposit on something the dealer can't even guarantee will follow through on, but hopefully you get some closure soon! The ZL1 looks wicked, nice choice.

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Fire

Hey guys. Got a little sleep. Looking forward to the Phoenix race today. To say how serious Chevy is with the ZL1 they are extending their warranty to track days. Who does that?

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alcheng

So are you ensure an order for you now??

onzedge

Good morning everyone.

I do not have any plans for the Z's today. My wife's Echo took a major dump yesterday (tranny blew) and I have her sold on buying a Juke. A gun metallic SL, 6MT awaits us at our Nissan dealer, but Nissan has put a sales hold on the Jukes while they investigate an issue with fuel pumps.

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happytheman

Wow! Sorry to hear about the Echo!
Hopefully the situation with the Juke gets cleared up soon! In for pics on purchase!

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onzedge

Thanks. The Echo has been making a noise under load for about a year. We have 136,000 miles on her so we definitely got our money's worth. Anyway, I knew the noise was coming from the tranny input shaft bearing and we decided to just drive it until it failed. Kate picked me up at the airport Friday and driving back it was loud as heck. Yesterday I limped it over to Colin's shop to get it on a lift to check it out and get an opinion on a rebuild cost. It failed driving home and is now sitting on the street, dead, with a jammed transmission.

The upside is a new Juke. Another upside is that the owner of Colin's shop wants to buy the Echo as is for his daughter. The thinkg is in great shape (minus the current undriveability). It has brand new Yokohama Avids, nice rims, K&N intake, Koni Sport-D, Dynaflow exhaust and a new a/c system. It also gets 40 mpg.

The Juke SL is stitting, waiting for us. It is beckoning with its quirky siren song "come buy me".

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waaaasabi

for modding the Echo, Mr. onzedge! Also, good luck with the Juke. That car has been slowly growing on me - it's definitely got different mastered. I especially like that the designers incorporated the rear door handles into the body, thereby making the car appear to only have one set of door handles à la coupes; I've only seen that done on one other vehicle, the Acura ZDX.

Here's my update of the day - started out by scouring the local neighborhood for open shops, so that I could use their impact gun. Found one owned by a shady old Italian guy, and then waited around till their shop boy was available to loosen up the troublesome lug nuts for me. And then the sh*t went down - the old guy wanted $20 for the effort. Things did not go so well afterwards, so long story short, never going back there and advising everyone I know to stay away.

Anyways, I drove home, took off the wheel and was able to finally put on the last Nismo wheel and voila!

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onzedge

Thanks, man. Your Z is mighty sharp.

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alcheng

Just curious, the Juke does not have the kind of steering lock like the Z, right??

kenchan

turned the tires on my Z and plugged in the new micro USB drive. also checked for any bite marks... lol. no issue. damn she is pretty.

that's it for today.

Fire

Alchang your guess is as good as mine. There are weekly production sched. that the dealer gets. I will not know anything until I receive my order # when it is accepted for production.

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Fire

Welcome Kenman Happy Sunday.

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kenchan

happy sunday, fire!