370Z replacement...suggestions?

ImportConvert

I just know that my car is dicked up and keeps getting dicked up and I'm barely driving it, so to speak. Glad you got "a good one". I prefer **** that works out of the box and doesn't need dinky little upgrade kits to not take a dump on me. That's what I THOUGHT I was getting, at least for street use. Total disappointment in this car from a mechanical standpoint, but I do enjoy the look of it and it is a blast to drive when it works.

ImportConvert

Pretty much, I should have just spent the money to upgrade the interior. It was a mechanically sound car and wouldn't have kept breaking like this thing does. However, I would now be in jail instead of bitching about my cheap import on some forum, because had some stupid welfare thug lost control of their SUV and hit my Z06, I think I might have beat their ***, woman or not, we would have had a "busdriver" moment.

ImportConvert

Not for a while, sadly. This reminds me of my time on LS1tech.com when I bought a WS.6 because everyone said they were so great, and everything (except the brakes!) kept breaking, and I bitched about that POS until the day I traded it for a Sentra and felt like I got a good deal (and still do!). I'm going to just keep this car until the monthly repairs exceed the note on a new car made in 'Murica.

That said...GM handled their customer service far better than Nissan, although Nissan is turning my rotors, the left front for the 3rd time. How many times CAN you turn rotors on a Z car?

All that said, I am sure I will get it back and love the sexy lines (they did hit a home run, there) and the new PSS tires and all that, and sing its praises again for a month or two until the next thing on it breaks. Then we will do this song and dance again. Meh.

cossie1600

Well used, but no shaking. Oh wait, maybe I just don't know what shaking is.



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ImportConvert

Or maybe your car isn't a piece of ****. Look, I can't help that I bought a piece of ****. I did not know Nissan had this many issues with their Z car and shoddy quality and components. My bad. Now I do, a day and $40K too late. I know my Sentra used cheap metal, cheap glass, and cheap components, but I thought that maybe something had changed in a decade. Apparently Jap cars still use the softest metals, thinnest most brittle glass, etc. They are beautiful, but they just can't compare to Detroit Iron when it comes to handling daily use, I have found. Even the paint is weak. Bah.

cossie1600

My car isn't great either, but I know 14" rotor don't warp that easily.

ImportConvert

Well why then did they need to turn them down so bad, and why are they telling me it's "normal" to warp the rotors if you hit a puddle or some such ********?

I don't know what's going on, I just know that they turned my rotors last time and that fixed the issue for 7K miles, and when they turned them, they took twice as much off of the left-front because they said even after turning it once, they still hadn't gotten a clean surface on it and needed to turn it again.

If that's not the definition of warped, then what is?

I don't know the definition of what's going on other than: Pathetic product.

ImportConvert

Sorry all, but if you spent $40K on a new car and every 10K miles needed to turn the rotors "because it's normal for them to warp", had broken 1 windshield 3 days after buying it because even the slightest pebble destroys the cheap glass Nissan uses, and had a power-steering pump that growled like this (this is only about 1/2 as loud as it can get sometimes, it is worse after taking corners. This is just sitting in a parking lot. It gets me weird looks sometimes. Yes, Nissan looked at it, went over everything, told me their tech-line says "it's the nature of the car". Really? I doubt that very much...):
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and was told all this **** was normal...maybe you would be pissed to, or maybe you are just used to crap out of Japan and don't know what it's like to own a car that isn't made of ******* tissue paper. I have, and I do, and this car sucks in the "holds up" department. Everywhere else, I love it, but seriously? It's fail.

Red__Zed

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ImportConvert

Oh, look, somehow I'm not the only one. Who would have ever ******* imagined?

Red__Zed

Most of the issues are well documented. You just have to be willing to listen, though you never know which ones you'll get.

cossie1600

Because resurfacing a rotor is cheaper than replacing pads and rotors! Also do you trust every BS the dealership feed you? They once told me my trailer hitch was the reason why my TPMS lit up and why I have fuel starvation. As someone else noted, the quiet pads Nissan put on the car makes it easy to leave deposits behind.

Maybe it's me, I see more steering lock failures than rotor replacement/resurface threads.

Sorry we are not responsible for your bad luck.

Also judging by the resale value of Japanese vehicles and American vehicles, I would say most don't agree with you that American cars hold up better.

ImportConvert

Probably has something to do with the fact that America can produce tens of thousands of mustangs a year and Japan can only crap out 5,000 370's or so. You will also note that the current mustang gt's are more reliable cars than the current 370Z according to every survey you can find. I'm finding that to be the case, myself. None of my friends with 5.0 GT's have had issues, and some of them are quite spirited with the cars.

No, you're not responsible, but I'm not going to jerk the car off like the rest of you just because I drive one. I'll call it for what it is--shoddy engineering with a pretty wrapper.

cossie1600

I am not sure what the 5.0 or Circle jerkers have anything to do with your brakes? If you just want to argue and complain, just say so.

Z_ealot

lol, wow this turned ugly real quick...you wanna talk american reliability....1st nice car my parents had an early 90's lincoln continental they bought brand new off the lot fully loaded with all the bells and whistles, 2nd week they had it they had electrical issues with it took it into the shop and it literally caught on fire while in the shop...second vehicle my parents bought a 95 or 96 dodge RAM when they first redesigned it, went in multiple times because the brakes kept failing on it and had to be bought back by dodge under lemon law, third car my parents bought was a plymouth and i forget the model cause not even a month after they had it they pulled over to the side of the road because it was overheating and it also caught on fire, fifth car a brand new 98 mercury mystique with the v6, lasted quite a while until the transmission decided it didnt want to work anymore and one little knick in the paint on the roof turned into a huge rust spot, 6th car my parents owned a 2004 dodge stratus transmission started leaking all on its own...so tell me where is the reliability of american made cars in all this? face it dude all cars have problems whether they be domestic or imported, you just happened to have gotten a bad one out of the batch and yet you insist on bagging on all imports.