Hi all, I'm Lee and I'm looking at stepping up to a 350Z having owned an FTO for the past 7 years. I'm desperately trying to find a black GT with black leather interior and failing miserably, being located in the most south east part of the UK possible!
I went and test drove a black GT with orange leather today, fabulous car but this one had some niggles and I was hoping to get some advice. I checked all the usual bits (clunking from the rear, fogged up Xenons, rust on the sills/exhaust etc), but the following bits concerned me.
- There was a nasty grinding noise at full lock both ways, I worry that it's wheel bearings being shot?
- The Bose head unit seems to have something stuck in it as there was no way a CD was going in. Now unless I'm being utterly stupid and this wasn't actually a CD insert, that appears to be screwed.
- The sub behind the driver's seat did not appear to be working.
As I understand it, these Bose systems are a pig to replace/upgrade (or downgrade, depending how you look at it!).
Otherwise the car is clean, it's a '04 with I guess expected mileage of 89k. It's been serviced fairly regularly, but has been SORN for a while now. 6 previous owners, here it is in case there's any knowledge in the club:
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201214461495623/sort/default/usedcars/colour/black/model/350_z/make/nissan/onesearchad/used/onesearchad/nearlynew/onesearchad/new/page/1/postcode/ct94df/radius/1500?logcode=p
The bloke that owns the garage is a complete tool which has put me on edge, he's offered to fix everything (albeit begrudgingly) and offered a 3 month warranty, and seeing as my FTO is pretty much dead I need a car sooner rather than later, but I don't want to buy a dog of a car.
Thanks and hope to own one of these brilliant cars very soon!