Will let you guys know what happens.

Well, so far it appears Nissan doesn't want to reimburse me for the expense of the repairs.
Total repairs were about $367. Not too bad. But Nissan so far has declined any offers to help with the expense.

Pull the fuse before it happens again.

:iagree::iagree::iagree:

Did you at least try beating on the steering column before you let the dealer bend you over like that? Like SouthArk says, GO PULL THE FUSE before it happens again :shakes head:

So, it finally happened. My original SLU failed last Thursday (last week). I had it towed to the stealership where my car goes for services. Next day I get a call from my service advisor advising me that the SLU had failed and needed to be replaced. Fine, I'll pay to play. The part comes in the following Monday. I get a call from my service advisor saying the car is ready. I drive home no problem. I drive it on Tuesday no problem. I drive on Wednesday no problem. I drive to the grocery store on Thursday (today), went in to grab a few things, come out, start up the car, the intelligent key system warning light comes on and the car won't start. The service department supposedly replaced the orignal SLU with the latest and greatest (sic) SLU model #48700-9N00B. That's gotta be a record. Failure a few days later after replacement. Methinks they didn't replace the SLU or they received a lemon SLU from Nissan's warehouse. Now, let's see if the stealership will reimburse me for the second towing charge. Waiting for them to "fix" the problem so I can sell the car. Did anyone else beat me for having a second failure within four days since replacement??

I believe the most current SLU replacement is no steering lock at all. I think they even have a Nissan part that fits in the same place as the original steering lock, but contains no locking mechanism whatsoever. Sounds like you got the wrong part if they installed another locking mechanism prone to failure. They are all prone to failure by the way. I could be wrong, but I believe I've read this information in the forum quite awhile back :twocents:

Would you happen to know the part number?

Not off the top of my head. Follow link in my sig.

IF ANY OF YALL ARE STUCK ON "LOCK" AND CANT EVEN GET TO ACCESSORY/IGNITION

here's my way of solving it:

The way I fixed it and got my car back running was just simply hotwiring the damn thing and doing a ghetto steering lock delete by pulling the steering lock fuse located in the fuse box.

Keep in mind you can't just pull the fuse and call it a day and start the car. There's a step by step technique for this and if you don't follow it exactly, pulling the fuse won't work.

Here's the video if any of you can't get to accessory/ignition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPTNm0xxy4

Basically you gotta hotwire the car by grounding one of the pink wires in the module to get it out of lock.

While leaving the pink wire grounded to metal, cycle through lock, accessory and ignition one time just to verify that the hotwire/grounding technique works. Then on the second time LEAVE IT AT ACCESSORY, after that THEN you an pull the fuse.

After pulling the fuse, go back to the steering lock module, ground the pink wire again and put it on ignition and give it a few seconds. Keep it grounded!

While still leaving it grounded, cycle through lock, accessory, and ignition like 4 times.

After that your car should be able to start.

The reason why I went with this is because I didn't want to take my car to the stealership. Whether I could get it fixed for free or have to pay the $1200 to get it fixed, I read somewhere that this issue is still bound to happen later on the line even after you fixed it.

So to save the headaches, I just deleted my steering lock by pulling the fuse. Problem solved.

Feel free to email me at santosjoel1208@gmail.com if any of yall need like a step by step walk through for this.

just had this happen to me again :mad:

almost 5 years to the day that the first SLU failed

the first one lasted 3 years, so i guess 5 is an improvement :ugh2:

Question about Steering Lock issue - locking on or off?
 

I have my 2010 Z in my garage for winter. Keeping a trickle charger on it, and crank it up every few days, same as I do every winter.

Today, ignition was stuck in LOCK. Both key fobs work fine to lock/unlock the car, battery seems fine. Cannot get ignition out of LOCK.

Found this thread, and thought it might be my issue. Tried smacking the Steering Wheel Lock box, didn't do anything.

I noticed that I can move the steering wheel with the car off, the steering wheel is not locked at all.

From what I have been reading, the "Steering Wheel Lock" issue is the opposite, the steering wheel is stuck in lock. I'm thinking mine is stuck in unlock???

Does that make sense? Any ideas?

Thanks everyone.

Look underneath again at the module then find the pink wire, stick a pink in there then use a wrench to ground it to the metal. While you have it grounded, have someone press on the push start to see if it gets out of lock. If it does then it is a steering lock problem.

can you just keep the pink wire always grounded to keep it unlock at all time?

you can but you’re really just better off pulling the fuse since it’ll get rid of all complications lol.

Just thought I'd chime and say what other have said in that Rev D used as standard SLU unit in 20111 models and used as the 'fix' in 09/10 models also fail, like mind did this week. So, pull that bloody fuse while you can!

I posted this elsewhere

woo hoo,smacked the Steering unit, pushed start button once, it went into ACC mode, pulled the fuse and drove the hell of the Nissan workshop-should have their faces-gold! Especially after their comments "that wont work", "you will need to buy a new unit "etc Too funny.

I'll just add that this is the beauty of having special cars, none more so than the mighty Zed, in that there are many excellent people willing to share knowledge and experiences and pass that on. This job could have ended very badly for me without help from fellow Z forum users so thank you all very much once again

Long live the Zed:icon18:

Happend to my 2011
 

I deleted it. Up at the gas station where it locked out on me.

I have 2009 370. Steering wheel lock happened. I paid for it at spoke warmly to NISSAN and I got a my money back. Others complained and NISSAN issued a recall. I have the recall at my dealer and today I get to use it. Steering wheel lock for the 2nd time. Evidently the new mechanism is far better than the units ending in C or D. The upsetting part is that my loaner is a Leaf. A far cry from a twin turboed 370Z

The steering wheel lock on my 2009 370Z went out on 12 Dec 2020. My original steering was replaced via the “recall”on 14 Dec 2013, at 46,311 miles. The “recall”steering wheel lock lasted 7 years, my current car mileage is 275,000.

Never Too Late Or Too Many Miles To PULL THE FUSE - :ugh2:

Couldn't get mine to kick into "ACC" mode so I can pull the fuse, so I had to replace it. Dealership was nice enough to do the fix at a discounted price ($540 US) and the car was only out for a day. I will be pulling the fuse next available opportunity once it's back in it's spot in my garage... I may appeal my case with NISSAN Consumer Services see if I can tweak their mercy and get a refund, total or otherwise...

MORAL OF THE STORY: if you have an '08 - 011 370Z, PULL THE FUSE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! :wtf2:

Pulled the fuse this morning finally, now I can rest at ease knowing that this problem is not going to bite me in the future...

Attachment 146424 Fuse Box out and open

Attachment 146423 Fuse Location (4th from Bottom)

Attachment 146422 10A Fuse (yeah, NISSAN installed it upside down, reads "01" (Chuckle)), remove this one after placing the Start button in "ACC"

So uhm. I've got a 2011 and i had pulled the fuse... then 6-7 months later it happened again... i couldn't understand why.. So i put the fuse back and voila it worked, and then i proceeded to pull the fuse out again. I still can't explain what happened or why. Maybe cutting the wire is a better method or mine was a one off situation.. not sure

Well, that's interesting...:confused:


I have kept the fuse in the car, just could not discard it. But then, I am unusually cautious... some say paranoid...

I just heard back from Nissan Consumer Affairs, and they have declined to reimburse me for any of the cost. Very Disappointed and totally ticked off. This is known defect that Nissan knew about, sent out a recall about as well as a Technical Service Bulletin, but they expect us to deal with their design flaw on our nickel. Shameful.:shakes head:

I stuck camera under dash today to see what version my JDM 40th has..
its build is feb 2010,,

car is a rather fresh import was a dally driver so the story goes .

Well it has no sticker Its shinney only has one marking a bigish "M"
has wires going in at one end

its that shinney you can see the floor mat badge in it at one part of video.

anyone know about this type , should I leave it or pull the fuse ?.

Question why does car have a port dofer under the dash and another one in the centre console?.

The steering wheel lock is behind the box with the M on it. Have no clue about the M box. It maybe goes to that thing on your dash.

The 2 ports are for 12 volt power.

that box with M or is it W ? on it seams to also plug into the steering colum
it also has the side imput wires as per the ing lock .. .

the obd2 port , ?. white one under dash and black on in centre console . why have 2 ?.

O and the button next to under dash white obd2 port . .whats that ??
My owners manuals and all the other books , like Bose etc are all in Japanese

I had a better look at the video I took of under the dash ,
does not apair to be anything else that looks like it plugs into the colum ..

aftermmarket JDM one ?

steering lock works, in fact too well, when starting the car as when you hit the button the steering wheel can move around quite fast . Learnt fast to keep hands away from it at start up

\Hi is no box further up.. I will go get it checked at my local Nissan dealership within the next few days .

but the power lead plug looks to be the same .. .

My car is 2010 Feb. build. was a daily driver in Japan until like 6 months ago when 1st owner sold it at auction in Japan and buyer imported here and I brought it . .

Its mint as fk to drive ..

Maybe its got a proper fix ..
But saying that . some times the steering wheel is quite angry at startup as the steering wheel can just turn very fast at times on start up. seams quite ramdom