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No response so far.....................Maybe those who tried all died in the explosion!!

Anyone removed one of these before. My daughters seat belt it slow in retracting and has to be assisted to fully retract. I've washed the belt itself but still the same so I'm going to try and tension the retract spring. Can the spring be retensioned and I'm a bit worried about any explosive devices in the system. They say to disconnect the battery negative and wait for 3ins + but it seems a bit scary. Any advice?

Fitted 20mm spacers all round about 10 yrs ago now and nothing but positives to say about them. No damage to any other parts but the road holding has greatly improved. Would without question recommend fitting them

Hate Iffy oil gallery gaskets Iffy boot lid release Iffy clutch slave cylinder Clickey clutch pedal Road noise Poor visibility Like. I have the 350 & my daughter the 370

That puts my mind at rest a bit, thanks. It could be something or nothing but unfortunately I always tend to fear the worst

Thanks for the input. No I don't think so because it's only when going up my drive at slow speed. On the flat there's no problem. I was wondering if it had a single mass flywheel (the noisey one) but the previous owner doesn't seem to know what's fitted so I assume it must be original. I was just wondering if anyone else has experience it. I'll check if any heat shields are loose but after that I'm concerned if it might be possible clutch problems, but then again there's no noises on the flat ??

What ! no one has noticed this. I'm getting worried now

Haven't received any pics as yet but looks like your tearing along. Falcon told me the crank pulley was horsed up really tight and had a lot of trouble getting the timing chain cover off. They had to use heat at one point and blamed excessive liquid gasket material around it. Once that's off though the hard works done. Good luck you'll save a bunch of dosh!

The Nissan dealers around me had a range of hourly rates, £120/hr, £59/hr (but labour quoted at around £1000 + parts), £79/hr. None of them had done the work before.

Apologies for yet another 370 enquiry but as a new owner I've one more concern to resolve to make me happy. My drive slopes up from the street to a single garage at the top so you have to drive very slow and ride the clutch a bit when driving in. When putting the car in, I drive quite slowley towards the door to line it up. When doing this I can her a metallic clanking noise as the clutch is released to move forward. Does anyone else experience this noise at very low speed. It sounds to me like timing chain slap although I'm pretty sure it's not as this has just been inspected in the last couple of days. It could also be clutch related but I'm not sure what type of clutch is in there or how it normally sounds. The cars only done 36k mls and as far as I'm aware the clutch is standard, however I've email the former owner on this but not received a reply as yet. Edit: I should have said the car runs perfectly on the road, no noises at all ( other than tyre roar )

I have been told it's the case of those screws being finger tight in a lot of cases Thanks for that! I'm glad you told me. Falcon guys weren't sure how it's happened nor me. I recently bought the car for my daughter and got the service history with it, nothing in the paperwork at all to indicate any work requiring the time chain cover to be removed. In any case I'd have thought a seller would want to promote something he'd had fixed prior to selling. It would be a selling point to me (saves me having it done!) Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk

Certainly a lot of lateral thinking going on there

Tha gaskets have now been replaced along with some additional oil seals and O rings. Falcon Performance, ran by Steve and brother Dane, appear to have made a Proffessional job, which I am well pleased with. The job cost a little more than quoted but I had given instructions to replace anything that looked iffy, which they did. They kept all the parts removed and replaced the oil, filter, coolant etc. The job took a bit longer than expected due mainly to the timeline chain cover which was well stuck on. However they absorbed the majority of the additional labour. The most satisfying bit was that they fully believe that my decision to have the gaskets replaced was a good call (lucky I suppose) because they found that all of the gasket cover screws were just finger tight ! and would have given seriousness problems not much further down the road. They have taken pics of the whole job and will send them on to me. I will post them as soon as I can figure out photobucket.

Well that's what I had been thinking the cost would be for my 350, so when I got this ballpark figure I was supprised. A lot of his focus was on the flywheel cost. I don't want to mention names because the guy seemed genuine to me and I don't believe he was looking to rip me off. Edit..meant to say the price included labour and vat (all in as he said)

Yeah, I think sound proofing the boot area can't hurt any. Is there any special material or would stuff like carpet underlay do the job?

Thanks Ewen, I was more thinking about how far to go if I did have the gear box dropped and the slave cylinder upgraded. As you know it would make sense to change the clutch and possibly the fly wheel, dependant on condition, while we were on, which I understand is quite expensive. I've been quoted a ballpark figure of £3k ish (clutch and flywheel) I'm just thinking ahead because you may have read I bought my daughter a 370 and to avoid any problems that might catch her out I was thinking replacing the csc. To be honest I'd be frightened to open it up in case the flywheel is duff. The cars only done 36K but I've no idea how hard it's been driven! I need to think a little on this one me thinks

BUGGAR!

Yep, pretty noisey in my opinion. However it does depend on the type of road surface your on. The chippings type seems to be the worst.

I've read about this issue recently and along with the oil gallery issue, both worry me. I'm having the oil gallery issue delt with at the moment. Regarding the CSC issue, do you know if the gearbox has to be removed to replace it it can it be done without this. If the gearbox has to come out, I'm thinking it might sensible to replace the clutch plate at the same time and this could all add up to big bucks. Any thoughts on this?

Good pics but can't see any difference in the finish to what you can get using the standard touch up paint packs you can buy for £5 or £6 from the dealers or paint mixing companies

Same feeling here with the tyre noise and also the hard ride which made me wonder if it had some suspension changes from standard. By the way my daughters car has Vredistien tyres fitted.

The Centurion tank has more STOPPING power though

It's just my take on it having driven it a couple of times now. The road holding is definitely much better than my 350 but the main thing is my daughter absolutely loves it. Her actual words were "Dad I don't just love this car.....I LOOOOVE THIS CAR" ....and that's all that matters

I can see what is going on here. Convince your daughter that your 350 is better so she will swap and you can upgrade to a 370 - tsk!! Ha ha ha, your obviously an astute man problem is at my age my brain can think fast enough to cope with the speed

Am I right in believing that the 370 ride is extremely hard with high levels of tyre noise or is my daughters car just typical. My 350 seems so much nicer to drive and although there is tyre noise it seems a lot less than her 370