Little known facts about the 350Z

[Blue Straggler]

If you put the following into Google, without quote marks etc:

 

350z bad review

 

it doesn't really find any "bad" reviews! At least not in the first page of hits. At worst you get positive reviews which highlight a few now well known and acknowledged niggles.

Edited January 14, 2016 by Blue Straggler

[MJC]

FACT- Driven carefully at motorway speeds (60-70mph) a 2003 coupe can go from Caterham to Leeds and back on less than a tank of fuel. 470 miles and the needle was between the red and 1/4 at the end...

[ragtopzed1]

You need to depress the clutch to start it, i thought the performance was poor especially up hill till I discovered this !

[BulletMagnet]

You need to depress the clutch to start it

This is not a "little known fact", we ALL know that you need to depress the clutch to start a Zed

[GeorgeW]

I only just found out today whilst cleaning the interior that in the drivers footwell they have imprinted the three 'square dots' into the plastic. Nice detail!

[ATTAK Z]

You need to depress the clutch to start it

This is not a "little known fact", we ALL know that you need to depress the clutch to start a Zed

 

I always wondered why mine wouldn't start

[fishfire]

The intermittent front wiper setting is about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike....fact!

[Commander]

The intermittent front wiper setting is about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike....fact!

 

Disagree!!

[fishfire]

The intermittent front wiper setting is about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike....fact!

 

Disagree!!

 

One setting only, which iirc goes off once every 40 seconds or so.

Had a two hour drive back from Milton Keynes in drizzle getting increasingly frustrated with it. Not enough rain to turn the wiper onto constant and intermittent is so far between wipes as to make it as much use as tits on a fish!

[brillomaster]

do you not have the rotating knob to vary the intermittent wipe speed? my old 53 plate had about 6 clicks of adjustment, from once every 30 seconds to once every 2 seconds?

[fishfire]

Yep.....just found it! I'm going to take it all back now and take the incoming mocking I deserve!!

[fishfire]

The intermittent wiper has 6 settings which are really good!

[Cyder]

I heard a good one this week I can't verify the truth though.

 

When the first Fairlady Z came to the UK for testing it sounded crap with the JDM exhaust.

Nissan Europe hired a Ferrari 360 and studied it with a view to making the exhaust sound as close as possible to the 360 (it's a while since I drove a 360 but from memory it's not dissimilar).

 

[-Bradders-]

The intermittent wiper has 6 settings which are really good!

 

!

[Husky]

I heard a good one this week I can't verify the truth though.

 

When the first Fairlady Z came to the UK for testing it sounded crap with the JDM exhaust.

Nissan Europe hired a Ferrari 360 and studied it with a view to making the exhaust sound as close as possible to the 360 (it's a while since I drove a 360 but from memory it's not dissimilar).

 

Could be true, the JDM exhaust is far quieter than the UK.

[BulletMagnet]

Little known fact is that most new posters have TLDR syndrome and run the danger of repeating little known facts

[Husky]

Little known fact is that most new posters have TLDR syndrome and run the danger of repeating little known facts

 

Some studious person could collate all the facts into a table, then get it mod edited into the first post. Good luck with that

[BulletMagnet]

I got some Beats Studio headphones......

[Husky]

I got some Beats Studio headphones......

 

Should probably take a look at price vs quality of headphones before splashing the cash on beats

 

ERM... to keep it on topic. A little known fact is.... Ah! Yes, the boot bulb wiring can be back to front (red for negative black for positive) on some cars, high quality electrical system!

Edited April 5, 2016 by Husky

[BulletMagnet]

Well you said "studious".....

Mind you, I did get the Studios about a year ago and they were the new version where the bass isn't as overbearing as the original Studios.

[Cyder]

Little known fact is that most new posters have TLDR syndrome and run the danger of repeating little known facts

 

Is that relating to my fact?

I saw another post saying Nissan Spent over 2 years tuning the exhaust but no reference to the Ferrari.

Thus I conclude that mine is a new factoid.

Edited April 5, 2016 by Cyder

[BulletMagnet]

No, was not directly directed towards the exhaust tuning, although it was known that the UK GT had amongst other things the suspension setup adjusted to cope with UK roads.

(Which is prolly a repeated factoid)

[davey_83]

You can disable the anti hijack feature from an early 350z

 

[Oggieteepo]

I don't know if this is a standard thing across cars or not but I was cleaning inside my door sills today and noticed that the 'heater vent' from the dashboard into the doors has the Z logo on it...

 

I Thought that was a nice touch considering its usually hidden from view 90% of the time, something which I haven't noticed before after a year of ownership and after cleaning my door sills about two dozen times.

Edited April 23, 2016 by Oggieteepo

[RavenDW]

I don't know if this is a standard thing across cars or not but I was cleaning inside my door sills today and noticed that the 'heater vent' from the dashboard into the doors has the Z logo on it...

 

I Thought that was a nice touch considering its usually hidden from view 90% of the time, something which I haven't noticed before after a year of ownership and after cleaning my door sills about two dozen times.

 

After I noticed this I broke out some silver acrylic paint and painted them. A little bit of it has rubbed off on the rubber vent seals but I like how it looks now.