+1........

 

I bought a G35 coupe yesterday. I will pick it up in a few days (they threw in a spoiler and had to order it). I saw the recall online. How do I determine if my new car needs the fix? Thanks.

 

how hard is it to remove the bumper. do i need to remove the wheels to do this?

 

if you want but when i took off my bumper there was no need to take the wheel off. just turn them to the opposite direction to get an easy look to work on.

 

Here's a link on how to remove the lights and bumper:

https://g35driver.com/forums/lighting/81002-g35-coupe-headlight-removal-guide-3-simple-steps.html

 

It's determined by VIN number. Just call your dealership and ask if your VIN falls within the recall.

 

thanks for the link. very helpful.. i just took a closer look at my bumper and guess what, the alignment is also off on the driverside. so i will find some time to do all this myself. i've have to do the same thing to my integra to pop out a dent.

what a freaking biotch.

 

Sewell infiniti always treats me great AND they have fresh baked cookies and a nice waiting room.

https://g35driver.com/forums/g35-coupe-v35-2003-07/160050-dealer-screwed-up-my-car-but-were-great-about.html

 

Dude I go to Sewell Infiniti in Dallas TX as well and they are pretty lazy up there if you ask me. I was asking to get my lights align for the 3rd time and the service manager sighed like "man i got to deal with you again for the 3rd time" type of sigh. Once i heard that I asked when they align it do they align the horizontal an verticalness of the light and he said only the verticalness. Then I ask if they have some type of calculation on how to aim it. He said no, they free eye it when its on a lift pointing not to far away from the wall.

Whatever though, I didnt bring it in on that day cause I was like screw it, Im going to do it myself. Did the DIY from redlude and it really came out AWESOME! Better than those free eyeing people.

Notice your pother thread about some air bag light on your sedan. Well my sister has a sedan and her airbag light was going on since the 3rd month of owning the car due from a 18 wheelers tire on the road that she hit damaging the front bumper. There was no internal damage, just a front bumper damage that got replaced with a new bumper after. The airbag light was lit and i brought it in NUMEROUS times and they kept telling me it was a harness problem over and over and giving me ridiculous quotes on repairing that. IT WAS ONLY A DAMAGE BUMPER! My sister then gets into another car accident a year after damaging the whole front end to the radiator. We get it repaired at the Sewell Collision center and the air bag light was something that needed to be fixed. Everything is covered by insurance. The collision center then also repairs that "harness" problem but guess what? LIGHT WAS STILL UP AND NEVER TUNRED OFF. We bring it back for about 3 months and finally Sewell dealership figured what it was. Not the harness but a computer module problem. Im just so pissed how they said that and this but it was one thing all this time. I would have had drop about 1,500 just for that harness even though it was never that. So yeah GREAT dealership.

 

Sewell is a fine dealership. I said they do wonderful work on big issues but tend to slack on the things they deem minor.

They treat you like gold, they do have wonderful cookies and tea, fountain soft drinks as well, Playstation and XBox in the waiting room.

 

I called the main Infiniti customer service # and they couldn't tell me if my car needed the recall or not. They said since I just bought it Saturday it's not "registered" in their main system. Seems like this is done by VIN.

 

The best advice I can give is to walk around your car with the service guy and point out that there is no damage on the vehicle. No scratches on the paint, no curbage on wheels, etc. And insist that it be documented with the estimate they give you and have you sign. Also remember to tell them NO WASH every time. Cuz if you don't, they will wash it. Finally, get to know one of the service people. There is one person that I talk to all of the time at the dealership I go to. So now he is used to my routine and knows that I don't **** around when it comes to my G. He is a cool guy though and takes care of me. He was actually really helpful in the end when my engine was getting replaced. He also had them replace the headlights and fix the hood latch they had broken on my previous visit there. Good luck fellas.

 

karma's a b!tch

 

Yep, I agree here. I know my service guy by first name but he keeps calling me John (No, that isn't even close to my name) Anywho, he knows I take car of my car so when I say "Wanna check to see if there are any marks on my car?" he knows he doesn't need to because there aren't any and knows to return it the same way. Although, he keeps forgetting to put the "NO CAR WASH" on the car seat and window so I have to remind him of that though. Otherwise, Infiniti of South Bay is pretty decent to me.

 

wtf u talking about? ur blaming dealerhip incompetence on karma? get over it.. ur the dumbazz who reversed into ur own garage and ruined ur door costing urself over 3 grand of damage...

talk about karma.. who did you **** off?