Dang, sorry to see, chris. :eekdance: GL with the repairs.

waizzz thats the Xpel ultimate. :tup:

What mileage did you do your first oil change at? Is 5,000 the norm or should I do it right after the break-in process and then every 5,000 thereafter?

I did this except I do 4000 mile changes after the first.

To the first of many!

:eek: I'm very sorry to hear man. But glad that it wasn't at higher speeds and that you seem ok (i.e. more worried about the car than yourself :icon17:). Hope you get everything worked out both :tiphat:

For normal driving, the manual recommends 7500 miles. Most people on the forum do it sooner. The thinking behind doing one right after break-in is that the oil will have higher concentrations of metals due to the break-in process, and rather than let those metals circulate with your oil for nearly a full oil change interval, best to empty that stuff out, put in fresh oil, and begin your normal oci. I try to do it every 5K miles, but if I put a few extra miles on it before I find the time to do the oil change it's not a big deal.

I did mine at 1,048 miles and will continue on a 3,000 mile interval going forward.

For normal driving, the manual recommends 7500 miles. Most people on the forum do it sooner. The thinking behind doing one right after break-in is that the oil will have higher concentrations of metals due to the break-in process, and rather than let those metals circulate with your oil for nearly a full oil change interval, best to empty that stuff out, put in fresh oil, and begin your normal oci. I try to do it every 5K miles, but if I put a few extra miles on it before I find the time to do the oil change it's not a big deal.[/QUOTE]

You are incorrect. There are two types of service intervals. Schedule A: if you are doing a lot of in town driving like stop signs and traffic lights or sitting in heavy traffic it is 3750. Schedule B: If your driving consists of streamlined driving where you are not sitting for long periods of time you can opt to service option B at 7000 intervals.

Im surprised no one read this in their owners manual, there is a lot of good info in there.

Yeah still under warranty but doubt Nissan will cover anything but im going to try.

Wow! :I agree:

Ive had the car over two years and did my very first carwash. Honestly I liked doing it. Wifey and I decided to do it together with her altima. $10 for washing both...not bad. :-D

Oh.....and I highly recommend the eagle1 interior cleaner.....that stuff is awesome!

on my way to a of all things corvette cars and coffee meet this morning, I got pinned in my lane and hit a dead animal. the deceased managed to break half of himself off under my car and get pinned between a cross member and my exhaust. He began to cook, and cook he did, the smell? unbearable!!!! anywho i got home pulled out the power washer but it was (leg im guessing) lodged in there. i had to get a metal rake out and pry it out, while taking in the smell....... ooooohhh the horror.

I no longer wish to eat chicken , turkey or anything on a bone. uggg thought just makes me ill

Lol anywho the z got a bath after all that

First I did this:

http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1375566769

And then I did this:
http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1375566769

:icon14: Holy sh!t.

you telling me, it cooked it so much looks like a spare rib LOL

warning, dead animal parts LOL



Peta disclaimer: No animals where injured or killed during these photos, as it was already dead, very dead LOL

Wow.

Damn dude! I'm really sorry to see that! Hope you are back on the road asap!

As for me, I got my windows tinted Friday 35% all around. I tried taking pictures but its a pain to try and capture its true look with an iphone. I was talking to the shop about clear bra options and for $1400 they would do the whole car...Has anyone done this? It would give me an excuse to go nuts with paint correction so it would look flawless under the clearbra. I noticed Kenchan going nuts with the clearbra film recently and thought I might try to do it myself but patience is not one of my strongpoints...

http://www.the370z.com/members/z-rat...3-19-54-03.jpg

it was a beautiful afternoon so I decided to snap this pic

Removed my headlights so that I can send them in to Daedalus Customs in Maryland to have them customized and also received my Nismo Carbon Fiber B-Pillar inserts and put those on too. The inserts look great. Looking forward to having the headlights done. Gonna suck being without my car for 2 to 3 weeks while I wait to get them back.

I really like the look of the black door handles, really adds a nice pop to your car. What % tint is that?

thank you:tiphat:

crap you caught my edit in your quoting me. lol

Its all good lol The tint is 15%

It looks really good! I wish I could get away with that here. I would be pulled over leaving the tint shop lol.

I Appreciate it the tint was one the first things I got when I got the Z

Dang that sucks in okc the cops don't care

Funny snippet...When I moved back to Michigan from Phoenix AZ I got pulled over in OK with the uhaul truck for being within 300' of the rear end of a semi...kicker is the semi passed me and then pulled into the right lane and then I got pulled over lol. I had a family friend and my mom driving my car behind us and her husband is a Michigan state trooper. After he made them pull in front of the uhaul and he got the full story he was the nicest guy ever. I wish I could remember his name to put in a good word on his behalf.

I got caught in the snow...

http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9ab93550.jpg

^looks like a huge bird just dropped a #2 on your car :P

What soap are you using for that kind of foam? I am using Megs NXT ultimate wash. I think I have 3 gallons left lol. If I mix 2 OZ in my foamer it looks like that.

:icon18:

Thats a monster load........of soap haha.

I didn't do anything to my Z per say...... This was actually yesterday. Z got delivered to the body shop to reconstruct my baby :( :thumbsdown:

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...psb59844ea.jpg

Had the tow truck driver lift the car high enough for me to take a pic of the undercarriage. Looks good :tup:

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This is behind the broken spindle arm wheel. Doesn't look like anything other then the balljoint and the spindle arm is damaged/broken.

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps322a8b30.jpg

And this is my **** eyed Z lol :roflpuke2: A Z would look beast pully a wheely....just saying. You can see the 2 different directions the front wheels are facing.

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Swapped out my 7AT diff. with 1slow370 for his 6MT diff. with a Quaife LSD and 3.692 final drive gear. Really cool guy. Had a great time working on the car. Only done two launches so far but it puts power to the ground so much better. The almost 10% increase in every gear is awesome too. Stays right in the power band. Will post up a review after I've had time with it.

p.s Looked like cruise control worked at first, but on the second test it started blinking at me and failed. I don't really care either way though.

Sucks man. Any idea why it failed? Bad install, not torqued properly, bad part from the factory?

Torque and bad install do not mater when this is the part that breaks lol. Not sure why it failed, stress fractures, contaminated during casting, not enough money for me to prove anything or truly find out what happened. All I know is this sucks :shakes head: Insurance was trying to say it was because of the SPC camber arms but that makes no sense. Then the shop told her that it wouldn't effect the actual spindle arm in anyway as far is rigidity or strength goes.

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http://www.the370z.com/members/z_soc...-trs-halos.jpg
installed new dual TRS halos and signal light mod

:ugh2: Not quite sure what you are talking about when you say incorrect... I said "normal driving" - i.e. not Schedule 1 or Schedule A where you stop and start a lot without getting the engine temps up. It has nothing to do with the amount of stop signs or stop lights or traffic; it's exclusively for people who stop and start the car a lot without letting it reach normal operating temperature (like a courier or delivery driver or something). I can sit in traffic for 10 minutes and reach 200F+ :eekdance:

Normal driving is Schedule 2 or Schedule B (depending on the owner's manual). Also, my owner's manual (which I have read) says 7500 oci for that schedule, not 7000 :tiphat:

Installed my color-matched front Z emblem from EVO-R yesterday. I've only had them for about 9 months, so it's about time they get installed :icon17:

That looks pretty sweet

Looks good :tup:

Looks good!

I haven't driven or done anything to The Z in a week.

Really bro...really? It actually does. If you are waiting for 10 other people to drive through a stop sign your car is getting......HEAT SOAK. Same applies with driving in city with lots of stop lights. Accelerating and stopping creates a lot of heat under the hood VICE driving down the freeway at a nonstop or avg speed where there is constant air flow to the engine, oil cooler, etc. So in theory it has everything to do with it because its a "driving style" compared to someone like me where I worked 2nd shift and I could make a 50 mile trip to work in 55 min without getting below 40mph for 95% of the trip.Only 2 miles on city roads means the car stayed cooler and consistent driving temps made for oil longevity vice sitting in bumper to bumper traffic heat soaking the hell out of the car. Hope this explanation helps. Thanks for the correction on the 7000, I truly meant 7500.:tiphat: