What did you do with your Z today II

onzedge · 03-04-2012, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by happytheman

Wow! Sorry to hear about the Echo!

Hopefully the situation with the Juke gets cleared up soon! In for pics on purchase!

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".

waaaasabi · 03-04-2012, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by 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".

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!

onzedge · 03-04-2012, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by 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!

Thanks, man. Your Z is mighty sharp.

alcheng · 03-04-2012, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

Hello Mr.kenchan

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Originally Posted by 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.

You paid them the down like 2 weeks ago and they still not be able to put in the order for you???

Well. at least they gave you all their phone numbers...

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Originally Posted by waaaasabi

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!

waaaasabi..... your Z is

And good to know you put the last NISMO wheel on

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