Bought my 08 G35x used in December 2010 with 30,200 miles on it. 12 months and 13,500 miles later this is my repair history.

- Needed new tires at 30k, managed to wait until this winter to replace @ 41k miles
- Needs new brakes and resurface rotors front and rear (still haven't done yet)
- Trip to dealer to fix/replace door trim as it was coming loose / falling off in multiple places and replace my instrument cluster cover as it was peeling up
- Trip to dealer to fix Left-Front wheel bearing @ 38k miles
- Trip to dealer to fix Right-Front wheel bearing @ 42k miles
- TPMS valve stems corroded. New tires leaking air and now I have to replace all 4 sensors and return to dealership again to reprogram the sensors. Not covered under warranty. Opened garage this morning and discovered a flat tire. Late for work. Not sure how I'm going to travel to my mother's house to visit her for new years which is a 6 hour drive, and I was supposed to leave this thursday...



In a little over 13k miles and 12 months of ownership, I'm ready to throw in the towel. The car is fun to drive and looks great. But I would rather have a reliable vehicle. It's possible these problems could have been a result of the previous owner (lease return) but it was only a 24 month lease return vehicle so it shouldn't have this many issues.

To make matters worse, the nearest stealership is 3 hours away so I have to waste a day of vacation for each of the THREE repair trips just this year. I owned a 2001 Dodge Stratus R/T for over 5 years and didn't spend a dime on repairs. Did the front brakes and new tires right before I sold it. Wishing I didn't.

Mood = very unhappy / disappointed

 

Sounds like you've just had a bad experience.....
The Dodge Stratus is notorious for being one of the least reliable cars EVER MADE, and many of the members here have had worry free, major malfunction free experiences with the G family. There is certainly a small percentage of cars made that just dont perform as the others due....it would seem yours has fallen into this small percentage.

 

Damn!! Sorry to hear your bad review! Completely happy with my G!

 

Who cares??? Go whine elsewhere.

 

The brakes and tire wear sound fairly common; other may have gotten more, while some have gotten less. Certainly nothing wild or unreasonable about them. As for the new tires/rims/TPMS, I can't tell what quality of tires they were, who installed them, what kind of condition the rims were in, or the amount or corrosive exposure they all saw, so there's nothing conclusive to be said there from the info you've given. Yes, the door trim often needs some double-stick tape applied (there was a service bulletin for that and it was covered under warranty), and the instrument clusters did curl at the edges on earlier models (also often replaced under warranty), but all things considered, I can tell you that they're very reliable cars for the most part.

You hopefully understand that maintenance is periodic, so if you happen to buy a car just before it's due for some maintenance/wear items, then you really can't be surprised if you inherit the task. This is extremely common if you think about it though. When you're selling a car, do you bring all of it's upcoming maintenance work current? Of course not; you typically only do what's immediately required and leave it to the next owner to take care of.

WHo knows, maybe you actually did get an abused car or something, I certainly do not know, but I can tell you that based on what you've listed here, it doesn't convince me for a second that you did. I hope things go better for you going forward.

 

c'mon, play nice

 

Damn, sounds like your car was beat to **** before you got it unfortunately.

 

Doesn't sound too horribly out of the ordinary. The wheel hubs are kind of premature for a typical car but every car has there unique problems.

Sorry you feel so negatively

 

This forum is for knowledge. It's nice to hear from the people even with bad experiences so if something happens we may have a clue on if it's common or not

 

I was debating on how many to replace.. I figured I should just replace all 4 at once. I order 4 of these:


Overnighted shipping. Let's hope it makes it here so I can get them put on before I need to travel this weekend! Oh, and I hope they WORK! Lol.

 

I'm at 34k miles, and have just had to get the pads replaced ($$) and the rotors resurfaced (warranty). Besides the trim peeling and the cracking sunroof, both of which were also replaced under warranty, this car has been virtually trouble-free. As for the TPMS, I don't believe they should have gone bad that quick, but, it's the luck of the draw on that one. These are entry-level executive cars, are backed up by Nissan/Infinity quality in manufacturing, but need to be reasonably taken care of to ensure their reliability and longevity. I wouldn't give up on it...

...of course, if you do, I wouldn't mind having a second G

 

Sensors can't be programmed! Awesome!

I guess I'll live with the light on.... ugh. Stupid me for buying and having the wrong ones installed.

 

~40k miles for brakes and tires seems like normal wear and tear so you can't really complain there. The wheel bearings really suck though, it seems like I hear that a lot for these cars, I am worried as I notices a hum from the front end of my car last weekend and it has gotten worse (hoping it tires getting low/uneven wear).

With regards to the stems on the tires rusting out, do you have metal caps on the valves. I have heard that depending on the metal the caps are made of, you can get galvanic corrosion on the stems, and that you should use plastic caps with the TPMS.

 

Sorry to hear, thats why i would NEVER buy lease returned cars.

 

It sounds like once you have this tpms thing worked out, you have a pretty nice car with new brakes and tires.