**Subframe Insulators, toe out dramatically**

[bronzee]

1) How many of you have had trouble with your 350's Subframe Insulators??

2) Have you had the Rear Subframe and/or Insulators replaced??

3) Were the Insulators leaking??

4) Was there more than normal compliance/movement betwen subframe and chassis??

5) Was the toe out excessively quickly after an alignment every time??

6) Has the thrust angle changed dramatically every alignment??

 

If so please list:

A) year

manual or tiptronic

C) kms/miles

D) weather modded or not

E) any other pertinent information.

 

There are plenty of posts on other 350z forums which might suggest there might be others who've had similar problems with their 350z's.

 

Background to my delightfully mechanically challenged 2004, tiptronic, 350z.

After much battling, much expense on private assessments etc, finally had":

**driveshaft (excessively notcy, causing harmonic vibration)

**rear shocks (seized),

**fuel pump (was on way out due to vibration)

**CD head unit (vibration once again, causing CD player not to work)

**Left bank solenoid

replaced under warranty 27 October 2006, but you guessed it, it only took 2 weeks for the replaced driveshaft to get back to where the last one was when replaced, about a month for the CD head unit, and the fuel pump to start malfunctioning + more.

 

I love my Zed and very heavily involved with the Zed scene in NZ and globally, and I have absolutely no intention of selling it.

 

More light has come onto the situation, so I'm wondering if any of you have had the aforementioned problems with their 350z's??

[Sarnie]

 

Whats a subframe insulator??

[bronzee]

 

Whats a subframe insulator??

A sort of bush as such. A cushion between the subframe and the chassis.