Everyone will have paid for this fix out of pocket by the time Nissan clues into this fiasco. :shakes head:

I feel your pain -- I had the same issue Thursday this week.

http://www.the370z.com/nissan-370z-g...-dead-jim.html

i think im going to buy me a whole collection of steering locks. :icon17: :ugh2:

Not tryin to thread jack but does anyone else notice the two different rims on the track z or is it fine because it can probably catch a Gtr lol

Well at least it happened to you just once...The first time my Z died they had to use a wrecker since I was inside a parking garage. It left a nice indent in each of my front rims.

I agree, it does look sweet being winched up:

http://www.the370z.com/members/black...job-nissan.jpg

Sorry to see. That's rough. Hopefully Nissan addressed this issue soon.

start praying

When this happened to mine (like 2-3 weeks ago) the lady at the dealership told me she had 3 cars already there with the same issue (various models) and that it was only recently that she'd even heard of this problem....she sucked at her job FYI

Everyone with a 2009, anyway.

If I had a 2009 and didn't want to trade it, I'd replace the lock module preemptively.

Or an early production 2010.

:iagree: Mine is a January 2010 build and it failed.

woow this problem just poped out of no where all of a sudden, been on the forum for a couple years now and threads about this problem have been coming out left and right, same thing just happened to me 09 370z, 35k kilometers.

I figure I'm just going to order the dang part now before it happens to me. UGHH!!

Is the culprit: mileage, time, low battery power, or fill in blank?


I will state that this Z is most* aggressive looking 370 to date.

* to avoid fighting; top few at least.

The GTR recall for the same part blames it on "excessive oil within the ESCL" and the failure symptom is electo-mechanical in nature. The cause of failure is likely to be a combination of factors, one of which may be the cold weather and I suspect tension on the lock to be another. My 09 is up to 34,000 miles with a revision B and I have not yet encountered it.

That is the AM-Performance race car at Barber! It looks even better in person.