so I was driving into work yesterday when U suddenly stalled. I had almost reached my parking spot. Fortunately, I was able to restart the car and park accordingly, however, the check engine light came on among others.

So I took U in and was told that I had a whole laundry list of issues to the tune of $4k in repairs - mostly wear & tear items that I have been putting off for nearly a year now. Given that I'm not mechanically inclined to do the work myself (which would save me thousands), and that my car was worth only $9k, I decided to swap it out for a newer one.

I was heavily leaning towards the 2013 For Fusion Hybrid, but my local Infiniti dealership made me an offer I could not refuse on 2009 G37x.

Just wanted to say thanks to those of you that helped me over these past 5 years - and wish you all well.

happy new year!

 

What was list of the repairs? Did it have to do with a camshaft or crankshaft sensor?

Congrats on the g37x

 

Dont forget us younger guys down here!

Jk man good pickup on the 09. Id love to move up someday, but just got my 04. Gonna keep it a while

 

camshaft, yes. also, the timing belt was cracking, muffler needed to be replaced, etc. and that doesn't include the other electrical items like the seat no longer moved correctly, the cd radio was on the fritz, the NAV kept freezing up....

 

lol. i had the crankshaft sensor go out on me. $50 fix and back on the road.

How you like the g37x VS g35?

 

Also we have timing chains so the belt cracking must have been drive belts. Enjoy your new car man!

 

LOVE it!

ride is smoother, more powerful, and slightly better MPG.

also, finally glad to be gone from the stock navigation's joystick - UGH, what a nightmare that was. the G37 has a touch screen - much better.

so far, the lone drawback (bells & whistles wise) is that cars with nav cannot hold 6 cds (unless you ordered a cd changer separately, which goes in the trunk, I believe). my unit can only hold one CD - so since I have two kids with two different playlists, I cannot easily get to their songs (as well as mine). however, it does have an iPod dock - not a USB port - but does not charge iPhone 4 and later. thus, my plan is to buy a used 30GB iPod nano and use that for my music (had to buy the ipod adapter off ebay for ~$13). it does have a "musicbox", but that can only store songs that are ripped from a regular CD (not an MP3 CD) - imagine trying to sit there and rip all of your CDs to this music box for hours.... and it does have a compact flash drive, but will only display 512 songs - and no playlists. there is an R/W/Y input, but you cannot control the songs from the dash.

so the designer of this system was clearly an all Apple guy and failed miserably on all other options.

 

hard to wish you luck with the new one, when you treated the old one so poorly.

 

may i ask how much you got your 09 for and with how many miles ?

thanks

 

agreed, I'm thinking about trading up to a new infiniti not sure what yet tho.

 

$25k with 40k miles. CPO - they gave me $9k for my car.