13 Months later, it happened AGAIN!

SoCalZ · 09-02-2012, 01:14 AM

And the dealer asked me how I know its was the cylinder..lol

WTH!!! My Clutch went out!!!

bigsix · 09-02-2012, 01:41 AM

...Should be flawless being a new Nissan...

Cvzg77r · 09-03-2012, 12:50 AM

^ buahahaha yeah im disappointed in my purchase of the nissan Z because i expected so much more, i expected it be a great car with stronger components to show that its worth 40k but oh well i have 5 years till its paid, 9k miles transmission is being replaced later this week... lame 6th crapped out

gsxr750 · 09-05-2012, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Cvzg77r

^ buahahaha yeah im disappointed in my purchase of the nissan Z because i expected so much more, i expected it be a great car with stronger components to show that its worth 40k but oh well i have 5 years till its paid, 9k miles transmission is being replaced later this week... lame 6th crapped out

was it a manual or auto and how did it fail ?

Zdar · 09-05-2012, 02:46 PM

Sorry to hear SoCalZ!
This has happened to me once already. Crossing my fingers that it won't happen again.

Red__Zed · 09-05-2012, 03:10 PM

sorry to hear

HKYStormFront · 09-05-2012, 03:15 PM

that can't be pure bad luck... i wonder if there is something wrong with the clutch? like if the pressure plate was made incorrectly and is too hard to push causing the slave cylinder to wear out prematurely or something?

Joe@ZSpeed · 09-05-2012, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by HKYStormFront

that can't be pure bad luck... i wonder if there is something wrong with the clutch? like if the pressure plate was made incorrectly and is too hard to push causing the slave cylinder to wear out prematurely or something?

Plastic slave with crappy seal design, Been this way since 07, Slave design has never changed. It's just luck of the draw whether one last or not.
Have personally seen 5 OEM Slaves blow in a 5,000 mile span, Granted this was with an aftermarket clutch and it is always seal failure, if the seal happens to last, the release bearing that is held on with a plastic sleeve will eventually break off the end of the slave causing complete failure.

Nissan, or the shop that built the car, blew a brand new (or 2) slaves out during the Enthusiast 370Z build when bleeding the clutch and ended up with our kit so they could get the car to ZDays for the show.

We have more than a few cars with over 20,000 miles now on our HD slave kit even with heavy ACT, OS giken ect clutches and basically ZERO failures.

edub370 · 09-05-2012, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Cvzg77r

^ buahahaha yeah im disappointed in my purchase of the nissan Z because i expected so much more, i expected it be a great car with stronger components to show that its worth 40k but oh well i have 5 years till its paid, 9k miles transmission is being replaced later this week... lame 6th crapped out

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Originally Posted by gsxr750

was it a manual or auto and how did it fail ?

not knowing the guy i, but having the exact same problem i'm going to venture a guess and say it was a manual with a 6th gear synchro failure. pretty common on these trannys. mine went out about a month ago

Red__Zed · 09-05-2012, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by HKYStormFront

that can't be pure bad luck... i wonder if there is something wrong with the clutch? like if the pressure plate was made incorrectly and is too hard to push causing the slave cylinder to wear out prematurely or something?

CSCs are plastic crap

Davey · 09-05-2012, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Red__Zed

CSCs are plastic crap

Yep.

09-02-2012, 01:14 AM	#1 (permalink)
SoCalZ Base Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: SoCal Posts: 53 Drives: Build #3 40th Rep Power: 14	13 Months later, it happened AGAIN! And the dealer asked me how I know its was the cylinder..lol WTH!!! My Clutch went out!!!

09-03-2012, 12:50 AM	#3 (permalink)
Cvzg77r Base Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: Rockwall, TX Posts: 117 Drives: 12 NiSSAN 370Z nismo Rep Power: 13	^ buahahaha yeah im disappointed in my purchase of the nissan Z because i expected so much more, i expected it be a great car with stronger components to show that its worth 40k but oh well i have 5 years till its paid, 9k miles transmission is being replaced later this week... lame 6th crapped out Last edited by Cvzg77r; 09-03-2012 at 10:13 PM.

09-05-2012, 02:46 PM	#5 (permalink)
Zdar Base Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: San Jose - Bay Area Posts: 82 Drives: 11 370Z MB M6 Rep Power: 13	Sorry to hear SoCalZ! This has happened to me once already. Crossing my fingers that it won't happen again. __________________ Begin with the end in mind.

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HKYStormFront A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Greer, SC Posts: 14,954 Drives: 06 Frontier SE 6spd Rep Power: 52	that can't be pure bad luck... i wonder if there is something wrong with the clutch? like if the pressure plate was made incorrectly and is too hard to push causing the slave cylinder to wear out prematurely or something? __________________ Patrick // 06 Frontier 6spd Nismosis // Mods: Uprev Tuned @ Z1 Motorsports: 257whp & 292 ft lbs 09 Pontiac G8 GXP // M6 // Sunroof // Tint... For now

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