Since it's so cold up there sounds like the perfect indoor project to waste a Saturday on lolol.

G2 sorry to hear, push the city hard to pay for the repair and have it covered by the warranty as well. Win,win and it could have been worse, you could be telling this from a hospital bed or the afterlife...... Hope it all works out well for you!

 

Besides noises, clunks, bangs and visual inspection you can diagnose bushing issues, etc by some of the symptoms. Dog tracking is kinda like a slang. I refer to it as like the car wonders to 1 side or the next with the steering wheel straight. On a perfectly straight road a car should drive straight for a good while without much of any steering correction. Besides my ball joints on the transverse link my car can stay straight without touching the steering wheel a good 10 plus seconds as long as it's not windy. No correction at all. My best explanation of dog tracking.

 

Here's the thread I just started with the report:

https://g35driver.com/forums/g35-sed...ml#post7094819

Thoughts and opinions in that thread welcomed.

 

Don't do that. Start by installing goretex patches on the leaking headlight (drill hole, apply patch).

 

Nah, It's not sitting exactly right and it's triggering my OCD. Obviously I didn't seat the tongue deep enough in the groove.

I'm single. I can burn a Saturday doing this while I listen to NPR and drink beer.

 

Bushings were shot in the LCAs and when they are bad enough the hole they are in becomes oval, so might as well replace the whole assembly at that point.

Went with the Akebono PROACT ceramic pads. Box says it is an OEM level pad. Other than a tremendous reduction in brake dust, can't really tell a difference between them and what was on before. Fine in cold and warm weather and here in Texas this time of year we can have both in the same day.

My car would wander, follow the groves in the road, etc. Got bad enough my steering wheel was canted to the left when driving straight and my VDC and SLIP lights were on. The system gets turned off if the car is going straight with the steering wheel not centered to prevent the system from trying to prevent what it initially interprets as a skid.

 

Get some retro rubber and replace the OEM stuff with good aftermarket.

 

Doing it tonight with butyl. We'll see how that pans out. I tried a couple of supply places for retrorubber and nobody had any. The dealer didn't have any rolls of the OEM stuff, either.

I think the problem last time was that I wasn't heating the butyl enough. Going to bake the housing (with OEM goop and butyl) for 10 minutes this time before pushing the lens into it.

 

Actually, they did make alloy lower covers for the X; I'm pretty sure Tollboothwilly did at least. I think one other fabricator did too. Will just have to see if any are still available; I did have the thought to go alloy if I decide to repair.

 

Thanks. I don't think the extended warranty will cover something like this; it's not like a failed part. It will have to be either the contractor's insurance or mine. It's just whether the payoff will cover the damage or not. My real dilemma is time. Do I go on faith and order aftermarket parts or discount OEM from infinitiparts and have the work done anticipating someone will cover it? Or do I wait to get a determination on the claims, then wait for parts to come in. (...And then find out that more parts are needed once they get into it and wait even longer for those parts to arrive.)

What a pain. This is a daily driver! I haven't been this grounded since I got caught sneaking out of the house when I was 14!

 

I would wait. The last thing you want to do is rush into a decision before knowing all the details about who is paying for what. The last thing you want to do is put $2k into parts for a car that gets written off.

Patience.

Not sure what your insurance covers but my policy includes up to 30 days of rental car in the event my car is inoperable due to accident or theft. Might want to look into what you're covered for.

 

Read all three of you guys resposes - thanks!
When my car pulls to one side or the other, the steering wheel moves too. So it isn't like the whole car wondering with steering pointed straight, it's more like the car getting pulled into the rut and needing steering input to bring it back centered in the lane. So "darty" and or very happy to follow a different path (rough road/rut). Although I'm sorta doubting myself now... so I will take a closer look to see if the steering wheel moves as it's pulled or if the steering is dead straight and the car dog tracks/crabs sideways.

Like I said, I just put it down to the wide front tires but since seeing the excessive wear on only one side wheel I figured it needed a closer look. I've an alignment check scheduled for next Tuesday to make sure it isn't bad alignment making the car darty/excess wear and then I'll examine my front end bushings for cracks and whatnot. There is no noise/clunks/squeaks whatsoever from the bushings which is why I never looked at them sooner. I'll definitely post pics to verify they're bad. The only noise I have is when getting on my driveway with the car diagonal. There's creaks/squeaks which I think are simply the rear Tein springs rubbing the mounts. But then again, maybe it's some bad bushings on their way out (or gone already).

 

I finally got my 350z suspension installed on Friday! But that was Friday, on Saturday my cel flashed for a minute yesterday then it stopped and now its just on. Im thinking oil probably burned off from the spark plug to create spark. Im going to try to pull my plugs and check for oil on them. I have never done this so God help me. Any insight helps. Thanks.
P.s. she's really dirty.

 

Well, plug seals are prone to failure at high mileage and cannot be replaced. If you find oil in the tubes when you pull plugs, you might need to replace the valve covers. An easy job but time-consuming because of all the crap in the way.

On the up-side, instead of dropping $300+ at the dealer for new covers, you can get a set of Maxima ones for $88 on eBay and with a little bit of modification you're good to go:

https://g35driver.com/forums/faq-diy...lug-tubes.html

 

Thank you Yuppy. I'll keep you guys updated