Toon Chris

I love my Inifiniti FX30 but now my wife has a 4x4 I can legitimately get a sports car again – i.e. a 370Z – so it’s with a little sadness I’m selling my more practical sports SUV. FOR SALE: Inifiniti FX30d s in rare, beautiful Umbrian Twilight (has gold/green metallic finish) with dark brown leather all through and smooth maplewood interior trim V6 3.0 24v Turbo-Diesel AWD 7-speed sequential automatic with sport mode and manual override (gearstick and paddles) 235 bhp @3750 rpm, massive 405 lb.ft torque @ 1750-2500 rpm, 0-60 8.3 The car has done 73.5K faultless miles and pulls, drives as good as new. There is a full service history. A full service including factory DPF filter clean for longevity has just been performed. Also a new windscreen has been fitted due to a chip which was legal but spoilt the look. All done at Glasgow Infiniti. These cars are a fair size but amazingly quick and agile. They are designed to be a sporty SUV and are based on the 370Z chassis. That is handy as most wear and tear items such as brake pads are Nissan or Renault fitments. The AWD is an earlier Skyline wet-clutch system. In my personal opinion, if you want a AWD SUV that is powerful, capable and still makes you smile when you drive round the lanes, but can’t afford a Porsche, you need one of these. List price is at £13,500 according to the Infiniti dealership who appraised it last week, but I will take £12,500 as a forum price only. This car will be on pistonheads at the full price by the end of the week. There are a few small mods: DBA slotted front disks with green-stuff pads. Custom straight pipes at the rear which look like originals but have a low growl. The original back-box is available if you wish to go back to absolute silence. Car Magazine says: “Dynamically it’s on the money. The diesel is smooth and quiet (not a match for the new Cayenne Diesel for refinement but better than a Range Rover Sport) and pushes the FX along with enthusiasm. The chassis is mostly terrific. The four-wheel steering system gives it uncanny agility, the rear-biased four wheel drive system (in steady state driving the FX is 100-percent rear drive, progressively sending power forwards when necessary) gives the car a nice balance and the seven-speed automatic ’box is not quite eerily smooth, but rarely makes itself known. The FX features adjustable dampers with Normal and Sport settings, the latter is a bit stiff for most UK roads but Normal strikes a good compromise between comfort and body control even if it is always on the firm side.” It is the S model which is a fully-loaded car. It is hard to think of much else you could want as standard so I’ve listed some of the more unusual extra. If you can think of something you want it to have, just ask me as it probably does have it: Rear Privacy Glass Factory Fitted Sunroof, tinted Massive 5-spoke 21-inch alloys with lower profile tyres. Dual-mode suspension damping, Normal or Sport Rain/light sensors, with turn-in lights (as you turn corners the lights lead the way) Intelligent cruise control, (brakes and accelerates as necessary) Lane departure prevention warning with optional correction system (gently brakes the to pull you back onto your intended line) radar-assisted collision warning braking keyless entry with start button Bose audio system (loud!) with Bluetooth, USB and 10 GB storage Sat-Nav with built-in real-time traffic warnings Tyre pressure sensors with warning Integral parking sensors and 360 degree cameras Auto-dip reversing mirrors Auto anti-glare rear-view mirror 8 way electrically adjustable and air-conditioned front seats (yes, warm or cool) described as ‘you can’t get more comfortable unless it’s a Bentley’ by Top Gear, yet they grip you well at the same time. A couple of not as perfect bits: Three alloys have some kerbing from the previous owner. Two relatively minor graunches 3-4cm , one extends around a third of the wheel, probably caused by a kerbstone. The lacquer has flaked a little on this wheel so a refurb would be nice. Totally honestly the wheels are so massive you don’t really see this. There are some minor stone chips from motorway miles but minor is the word Currently fitted with Pirelli Scorpion winter tyres which are down to about 3mm. I have a full set of Nokian zLine 265/45 (Eff: C Wet Grip: A Noise: 70dB) not yet fitted which we could come to some arrangement on if you want them. Sorry the pics are a bit rubbish but my phone isn’t great and it’s all I’ve got. Also finding a sunny day on the Lakes is pretty tough. The car polishes up really well and the colour is outstanding and unique; I wish I could show it better for you. I’m based in north Cumbria but travel to Leeds midweek which might help with any viewing arrangements.

You'll have to enlighten me about these modern cars, why can't the chassis be repaired?

Fx is back on the drive. Now to sell ... fingers crossed you don't sell this first

If the battery pack is undamaged, and the drive-train, its hard to think it would cost as much as a new one to fix it. It's just shaped metal after all. 50K to fix is a massive amount but still cheaper that 100K to replace. But who would touch such a job if Tesla won't?

I just fainted

It will be next week, it has just finished having a nice new windscreen fitted which looks great, and it's getting a service to make it as appealing as possible. I can't collect until tomorrow so will be crafting the for sale ad over the weekend. Trouble is I live in the sticks so sales can take a while unfortunately.

I really want this car! Just need to find a way to sell my top spec Fx30 first.

Cheers guys. Doesn't seem too bad, I think that is worth a test drive

BungBungBung It's NI's turn to get some much needed infrastructure refurb and good for them. Perhaps we should move to NI and revel in the new roads and tidy cities, then skip across the soft border when it all gets a bit fractious with the Good Friday agreement. "Cash support for farmers will remain at current levels until the next election", Gosh, that's going to be for a whole year then

I appreciate that thsi is a subjective question best answered by a test drive, but can anyone tell me what the gear-change speed is like on an auto box? I'm wary of an auto-box as i love a manual. I've a flappy-paddle box on my current car and just can't get on with them the same as I can a manual; a manual seems to give me so much more control (in my head I suppose). The thing is, my current car is fast but not a sports car and the gear changes are not supposed to be super-quick, which means it's a killjoy on a spirited drive. I'm interested in a 370Z purchase but there are not that many around and so many autos I think I need to widen my search to include them, but I don't want a slow gear change.

That's interesting. I have been against, then tried to embrace it, and then flip-flopped all over. The two main points that keep me coming back to 'remain' are the stone in my shoe of the way the campaigns were run (Gove, I honestly believe should be tried for treason if this goes pear-shaped), and the relations with other Europeans. Yes that last one is personal but then isn't this all quite personal. I have a lot of friends and acquaintances who are non-UK and this web spreads out into work to. No matter I didn't vote for brexit, they all see the entire UK as having something against them and telling them to F-off. That's a real shame.

I don't believe in religion as it requires blind faith, so why should I think Brexit will benefit us as a country. I haven't been party to this whole thread but it seems to me that its a stupid, self-imposed mess that ignores the progress of the world and removes our ability to be part of that. It is enormously damaging culturally. Its not the arguments about where we will end up that are the problem I think its a bad thing and others think its good - who knows really, one way or the other. Its the enormous cost and upset that simply are not justified on a whim and a prayer of a hazy promised land which we seems to consist solely of no-one telling us what to do, or at least not someone who speaks another language. Retired politicians in 20 years time may well look back at their hubris in thinking Britain was somehow better than other countries and could be a major world player on our own, with no other justification that we think we ought to be important. But I expect to be sitting in my care home (one carer to 60 residents) watching documentaries about how David Cameron set the seeds of destruction for the UK in just one year and he is quite sorry really in retrospect, but it will be filmed in a mansion in Spain and he will be launching his own label wine. In times of uncertainty the rich pull up the drawbridge and the poor get poorer. That s the only part of Brexit-style activity that can be certain. Give it a year fior the true S*** to hit the fan in plain public view and it will be a 65/35 split in a referendum and we can wave good by to a colossal waste of time and money and hope we can repair at least some of the damage. Oh, and we can tell the Brexiteers to 'just get over it'. Rant over - sorry!

Cats might be restrictive for power but they stop us killing [as many] sparrows, so get sports cats.

Cleared cookies / cache / kitchen sink. Still no joy <sigh>. I'm on v 53.0.03 which is the latest version.

Not sure if it is connected with the malicious attack but for reference I go from here: http://www.350z-uk.com/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=viewNewContent&search_app=forums ... and try to get to this topic by clicking on link and get the error.

For some time now my various browsers (!) have been reporting the site as insecure, in that it does not use encrypted connections. Data exchanges such as passwords can be easily intercepted. As an insecure site I can't peruse it whilst at work which removes one of the few treats form my otherwise dull days. Do you have any plans to 'go secure'?

When using Firefox, 80% of links through to topics fail with a 'Connection Reset' failure. Also linking to forums form the main home page. Its been doing this for a week or two. I've had to use the hated Microsoft Edge to post this - please don't make me use Edge to browse my most-loved forum

No experience of this myself but you have two choices: screw or drift. If there is no thread on the tube then it is drift. As it is held in with lock seal you will have to break that seal. If there is no retaining ring or other such contraption (which there doesn't seem to be on the diagram) then drift out from underneath . If you can't drift from underneath then does any of the tube protrude? In which case grab and twist. I know that isn't brilliantly helpful but to me its one of those work-it-out-by-default jobs, although I'm sure Alex has done it many times and will be along to say 'tap here and they all fall out' in a moment )

Dimpled discs go really well with Rays

Funny about the old woman previous owner: my mum had a gold one of these way back in the day (my mum had lots of cool cars). It was the only car my Dad got a speeding ticket in, and since then she never let him drive it again. I remember driving it once and it was very quiet and smooth and they rev so freely. I always wondered if she had it modded as if you hit the red-line it used to bing a little bell at you. Very civilised.

I see you have a plenum spacer fitted. Make sure all the bolts are nipped up and there are no loose ones. Then spray a can of carb cleaner all over the throttle butterfly. Other than that is sounds ok apart from the obvious struggle as the revs drop low.

It could be a simple gasket weep from the silver bolt/screw, but also that might only be where the oil is gathering and dripping. Replacing the gasket washer should be very simple if you need to. What is more worrying is that you can easily move the sandwich plate. In my experience the plate will bolt on to the usual threaded shaft that the oil filter screws on to, and should be held in place tightly with no movement. The oil filter then screws on. It sounds like it has worked loose and could be leaking from the join between the plate and the car.

Azure, dear boy, Azure.

That sounds a lot more expensive than cleaning the throttle butterfly first. You will be surprised what a difference it can make and even if it isn't a full cure it can only offer an improvement. If you aren't confident in removing it then simply remove the inlet pipe and slray around the butterfly, leave for 5 mins then do it again. Gentle agitation with an old toothbrush can help remove some of the gum too. People caution moving the butterfly by hand to get at any muck behind it but I have found that as long as you are gentle and push slowly there isn't a problem. Its a common maintenance task for any car with a EGR system that has done a few miles and my cars always get a clean up every 12 months.

Or spray a crap-load of carb cleaner over the throttle butterfly That works too.