Top Rattle & Vibration

mcapuano1101 · 11-12-2011, 09:17 AM

Dsmarks2002...I've been able to minimize the noise by having the dealer insulate cables & place foam between moving parts that contact each other. I've learned to live with what little noise remains. If its any consolation, I took a ride in a buddies G37 hard top vert & it is more noisy than the Z! I don't think nissan has perfected the art of integrating vert tops to their vehicles. B- at best. They should study some proven Porcshe or BMW vert top engineering specs before realising the next model. I think the real failure occured when they attempted to integrate the Magna top into the Z's chassis. Some of the cabling systems & mechanisms are not engineered very well. My latest drama occured two weeks ago when a cable that closes the little flaps that fold down on either side when lowering the top snapped mid operation. This resulted in my top cover half closing at a weird angle which caused the whole mechanism to bind - lock up & freeze. My car was MIA for two weeks while my dealer who I trust completely...waited for nissan to send the correct replacement parts. They got it right on the thiird try. Been a wild ride with this car. I still love it, but seriously thinking about graduating to Porsche or BMW next go round. Something to be said for german engineering...there cars don't rattle unless you've wrecked it or have crazy high miles. Good luck.

dsmarks2002 · 11-14-2011, 08:10 AM

Thanks very much for the reply. I got looking at the issue seems to be as you describe, poor isolation between some of the wiring harness and I can tell the dealer found the issue, and tried to fix it with some tape but it didn't solve the issue. What was disappointing while the dealer found it, they couldn't fix it, and we're not willing to do much more stating that they're not authorized by Nissan to do any more. Almost as if the fix wasn't described in detail by Nissan, they could go no further. I'm with you, when the top is down, I love the car, not so much when the top is up. I guess I'll take a run at getting a Nissan regional service rep out to look at it and see what they can do. Short of that I'll fix a fix myself

11-14-2011, 08:10 AM	#2 (permalink)
dsmarks2002 Base Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Atlanta GA Posts: 23 Drives: 370zr 7AT PlatGryMet Rep Power: 17	Thanks very much for the reply. I got looking at the issue seems to be as you describe, poor isolation between some of the wiring harness and I can tell the dealer found the issue, and tried to fix it with some tape but it didn't solve the issue. What was disappointing while the dealer found it, they couldn't fix it, and we're not willing to do much more stating that they're not authorized by Nissan to do any more. Almost as if the fix wasn't described in detail by Nissan, they could go no further. I'm with you, when the top is down, I love the car, not so much when the top is up. I guess I'll take a run at getting a Nissan regional service rep out to look at it and see what they can do. Short of that I'll fix a fix myself Last edited by dsmarks2002; 11-15-2011 at 11:41 AM.

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11-12-2011, 09:17 AM	#1 (permalink)
mcapuano1101 Base Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Dallas Posts: 13 Drives: 2010 370z Roadster Rep Power: 16	Dsmarks2002...I've been able to minimize the noise by having the dealer insulate cables & place foam between moving parts that contact each other. I've learned to live with what little noise remains. If its any consolation, I took a ride in a buddies G37 hard top vert & it is more noisy than the Z! I don't think nissan has perfected the art of integrating vert tops to their vehicles. B- at best. They should study some proven Porcshe or BMW vert top engineering specs before realising the next model. I think the real failure occured when they attempted to integrate the Magna top into the Z's chassis. Some of the cabling systems & mechanisms are not engineered very well. My latest drama occured two weeks ago when a cable that closes the little flaps that fold down on either side when lowering the top snapped mid operation. This resulted in my top cover half closing at a weird angle which caused the whole mechanism to bind - lock up & freeze. My car was MIA for two weeks while my dealer who I trust completely...waited for nissan to send the correct replacement parts. They got it right on the thiird try. Been a wild ride with this car. I still love it, but seriously thinking about graduating to Porsche or BMW next go round. Something to be said for german engineering...there cars don't rattle unless you've wrecked it or have crazy high miles. Good luck.