Toon Chris

Quite.

My DE box was never coddled and was like a knife through butter with the gears up to 190K. Then I sold the car, but its still going strong as I see it out there on the roads from time to time. The only time I had a problem was when I put some 'quality' oil into it at about 80/90K. It screeched when cold and got notchy. After advice from Alex I put genuine Nissan oil in and it was back to normal. Anecdotal evidence means nothing though. Your gearbox failed, mine was great. They are mechanical items and subject to so many variable of build quality, tolerances and environment (which includes poor driver habits) that you will never get a straight answer unless you define 'failure' and survey a very large number of cars. The OP has been unlucky but I can't see it as anything more than that. There is no smoking gun here. A sensible option when buying any powerful and older car is to budget a fair amount for an expensive problem and that is about all you can really say with any certainty of truth.

Always put in genuine Nissan oil rather than after-market - it really does make a difference.

Thanks :thumbs: Has no-one else in their years of car ownership used Fox exhaust?

Has to be a bearing IMO. Did it change at all when you changed the hub? Also noises can be deceptive when driving - sure its not coming from the back?

2011 If you are going to tell me some of the petrol exhausts fit ok and you can supply them then you may become a hero.

I've a choice to make between two exhaust system for my Infiniti FX30. One is made by AHG, a full-on Infiniti styling shop which does a lovely sounding number at a mere 2,000 euros Check out the video to hear what it sounds like. http://www.ahg-shop....30d-qx70-diesel The other is pretty much half the price but from a company I've never heard of, Fox. http://translate.goo...initi-fx30d_424 I know the AHG will be top quality but the price makes me cringe a little. I have thought of the AHG back box with the Fox centre section to keep costs down by about 500 euros. The question is, has anyone ever had a FOX system and if so what is the quality like?

They worked out the passenger thought he wa in danger by lip reading. They should try and lip read what my wife says when I drive at anything over 25mph . That's not a meaningful reason to prosecute. She is the proverbial 'Toast!' women from the Catherine Tate Show. Pretty major penalties for this guy though, he should have kept it in his pants and saved it for a track day. Or at least done a better video by pointing the camera forwards than of his own daft mug.

OMG! I'm never going near that, I would be at retirement age before I logged off again!

If its that easy to fix, fix it then sell if for more. There will be a limited market for a non-runner as you have to take the sellers word for what is wrong with it. Didn't the poor guy have some ECU problems too?

That is one fluffy-ass cat!

Worst comes to the worst plant some very fast growing plants that will grab on to that framework and grow like crazy to cover it.Plant lots and don't trim them. If you can't have them growing over her framework put up a 2M fence and then a topper of one with holes like hers, and grow them in that. Bindweed is seen as a weed but the flowers are pretty and it grows like there is no tomorrow. Get some of that in there and it will be impenetrable within months. Also plant a more slow moving plant that will give you cover in the winter, such as bamboo or some more mature hedging (i.e. already quite high). There is always a plan B mate, don't give up

Pretty sure it's 3.5 V6 No, 3.6, I've got a special return pipe valve booster from ebay for £1.99 which says it gives me another 100cc

Not sure you are allowed to say this any more

Option 1: Knowing from experience that cheap tyres have been unreliable in he past you put them on a RWD 3.6l V6 car. Erm ... Option 2: Your wheel judders and you think its the brake likely to be the cause? Not the lump that has fallen out of your tyre?

Not my vid, but I'm out for a seaside walk and passing Boulmer and heard this odd rumbling noise. Look what flew past and executed the classic Vulcan half barrel-roll I understand this was the last ever flight (presumably unless the Falklands goes t*ts up again) so feel very lucky to have seen it.

It strikes me that if its so difficult to get right you could buy a complete unit from Alex and save yourself a lot of grief?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYHqRnPkoQU spin on to minute 17:05

Hahah, nice.

IMO Japspeeds blow out really quickly and are definitely at the lower end of the quality scale. Like many things there is a reason they are cheaper. If you pay more for a better product its going to last you longer

Yep when I got a garage I was told by one company that my insurance would go up because I was more likely to damage the car going in and out, yet another wouldn't insure me unless I had a garage as it was too much of a risk parked on the road Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I was told having the car garaged would put the price up, 'because the car is hidden from public sight which means a thief has longer to attempt to steal it or from it'. Its pretty much any excuse someone can come up with as an argument. Nationalise the industry and make the rules transparent, that's what I say.

Start with the easy stuff and assume its a heat shield. They all fall off eventually

If the fault he is describing wasn't there until after he picked it up then it's logical to assume it was caused by the shop. I agree it would be impossible to prove it and the best thing to have done would have been to check before he left the shop, but if we assume he's not making this up (which seems very unlikely to me) it's not unreasonable of him to try and get some restitution from them. Yeah, I'm 100% certain in my head that they have caused the problem and actually its worse now than it was before. I wouldn't be so annoyed and determined to get a result from this if the guy was reasonable and offered a compromise to fix it or something but he is completely ignorant and full of lies. Anyway, I've now spoken to the other local repair place in Cardiff who have firstly agreed with me that his reaons for the damge sound like BS as they said but have also said for £10 they will take it apart, diagnose and give mea quote on headed paper and they're professional opinion if it is indeed the case that they believe the damage was caused during the repair. If I do get something like that from them then according to what trading standards have said to me I am entitled to 'damages' from them to cover any further repair or replacement costs. From what I told them over the phone the second repair shop say it sounds like a damaged connector that was quick fixed with maybe some tape to make it look okay when leaving the shop or even the motherboard may be damaged, in which case the whole thing is ruined. So will see where we can go once I have it diagnosed I think that's the best option all round. If you have found more problems and think its a bodge job then another specialist can tell you. If they say yes - which is starting to sound likely now the list of faults is growing - you have a case, if they say no then at least it gets fixed properly. I don't doubt your honesty, but as a trader myself I often get people assuming that any problem immediately means I'm trying to rip them off and am some sort of high-street bandit. In this case though you have approached your guy politley and they aren't even interested in helping, which smells off to me.

You asked them to replace the glass screen and they did just that. The LCD under the screen and the rest of the gubbins in the iPad were not on the menu i.e. did you ask them to check it over and see if anything else was wrong or did you only ask them to replace the glass? Unless they were very cack-handed I'd say what you are seeing is a result of the original drop, or certainly it can be argued either way. Its not fair to the shop to say you have been ripped off. They have done what you asked, neither of you saw any fault when they returned the iPad to you. Coming back into the shop weeks later is of no help as they have no idea what you have done in the intervening time and no technical reason to expect its anything to do with the work they did. Yes they could try to be customer friendly but in doing so may have to stand costs of hundreds of pounds, and your trade simply won't be worth that too them. You may feel aggrieved but the lesson is a) don't drop it and use specialists for a specialist job. There is one 'however' here. The home button being loose is as a result of their work so they should have been up front about that and offer to sort that bit out.