Greetings, Utah Owner broken down in Savannah, GA

Originally Posted by danegrey

sorry to hear about your problems and glad things are working out for you. If you are that close to the North GA mountains, did you happen to take the Z on the tail of the dragon....

to you..

Originally Posted by nr7

I am not sure how well things are going to work out as far as my car troubles, but at least she's moving again.

Originally Posted by THE BULL

As surprising as it sounds, that is all that it takes to overheat the oil, even great oil would have you around the same temperatures. This is a manufacturer defect but one that with the proper research can be mended. You'll notice the difference right away with that cooler.

Originally Posted by THE BULL

If you want to prepare for the gallery gasket, install an oil pressure gauge. You can have it visible or hidden. At that mileage it shouldn't need constant attention and if a worry ever rises you can compare your pressure numbers to the ones here which are pretty constant.

Originally Posted by THE BULL

FYI I saw the repair order of a 2018 that had a full top replacement under warranty. $19,000 for a brand new "Nissan" top.

Originally Posted by THE BULL

Start putting somethings on paper to set aside a budget for the car to take care of these pesky issues and it will last you a lifetime. No kidding.

Originally Posted by nr7

The Fast Intentions cooler kit is a nice setup. Concern about oil temps have been eliminated for me.


Can you summarize the gallery gasket thing?

I take it the gallery gasket is a point of common failure that cause loss of oil pressure and perhaps engine failure and one must pull the entire motor to replace it? Does it fail w/o warning? Are you advising I get and oil pressure gauge engage before I proceed further? Or only if I am keeping the car long term?


$13,000 for the parts and $6000 for installation for another top that will most like fail in very short order.
If corporations actually had consciences, Nissan should be ashamed.


Thanks. I have plenty saved to handle this, and future problems (in fact I could, and in hind sight probably should, have spent a fair bit more for a vehicle for this trip) with the car, but the plan, as it always has been, is to sell the car after the trip. I love having a roadster, but don't have the space to garage it and it's just not practical for me as a daily driver.

That said, it is not my intention to knowingly ignore any maintenance issues in hopes of perfidiously passing them on to some future unsuspecting buyer. The car is now in significantly better shape than when I purchased it and, except for the added miles, I'd like to keep it in excellent condition.

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Originally Posted by nr7

Thanks to all that have provided advice and suggestions.

Double thanks to all that chose to exercise sympathy and understanding during my bitch fest.

Sorry to start my forum tenure with such a rant. I had just went from a nice little top down drive through the sights of Savannah to needing to use my toe to tug up my pedal, to having a mechanic fiddle about resulting in informing me that now she wouldn't move an inch and that they did not have time to work on her. To having a dealer say that they refuse to work on (or sell) 370z's to being informed that I needed to purchase thousands in parts and nearly as much in labor, but those parts were currently unavailable, even if I could find someone to install them. To paying $20 for a cab ride back to my room that was less than a mile away after waiting over an hour.

I walked across the street in the 97 degree humidity, bought a couple of whiskey pints, went back to my room, made a big cocktail, then checked my email only to find my the370z.com forum approval, so I logged on and started typing.

It was an exercise in catharsis really, and in the end, I felt better after doing so, even though I made the good members of this forum absorb the brunt of it.

Nonetheless, I have started a different thread to ask questions about my current mechanical issues and would appreciate any advise that may be proffered.

I could use some advice on Master/Slave cylinder issues...

Again, thanks to all that bore with my rant and offered sympathy and/or advice.


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Originally Posted by nr7

The Fast Intentions cooler kit is a nice setup. Concern about oil temps have been eliminated for me.


Can you summarize the gallery gasket thing?

I take it the gallery gasket is a point of common failure that cause loss of oil pressure and perhaps engine failure and one must pull the entire motor to replace it? Does it fail w/o warning? Are you advising I get and oil pressure gauge engage before I proceed further? Or only if I am keeping the car long term?


$13,000 for the parts and $6000 for installation for another top that will most like fail in very short order.
If corporations actually had consciences, Nissan should be ashamed.


Thanks. I have plenty saved to handle this, and future problems (in fact I could, and in hind sight probably should, have spent a fair bit more for a vehicle for this trip) with the car, but the plan, as it always has been, is to sell the car after the trip. I love having a roadster, but don't have the space to garage it and it's just not practical for me as a daily driver.

That said, it is not my intention to knowingly ignore any maintenance issues in hopes of perfidiously passing them on to some future unsuspecting buyer. The car is now in significantly better shape than when I purchased it and, except for the added miles, I'd like to keep it in excellent condition.

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Originally Posted by nr7

I wish I could say I am a new owner, but I bought a 2010 Sport Touring Roadster 6sp back in February and have been waiting 4 and a half months to get approved to post on the forums.

I could have certainly used some advice from the knowledgeable folks on this forum, while getting the vehicle ready to travel. The best of which would have been not to buy such a flawed, unreliable, poorly designed POS car for such a trip.

$15k for a 2010 Sport/Touring Roadster with 28k miles in excellent condition seemed like such a great deal at the time What a seemingly great car with great performance and Japanese reliability to take on a 4 month post-Covid trip around the perimeter of the US? But little did I know, I would have been better off looking at Yugos. Thousands in upgrades and repairs is hopes of making it into decently reliable transport leaves me stuck and broke down in a hot, expensive, sweat trap where no one is willing to work on the car. Even the dealer here refuses to work on this POS.

Sorry for the down trodden tone, maybe after another few thousand dollars I'll be able to come up with something nice to say.

I hope your car gets you through the day w/o a $1000 repair bill.

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Originally Posted by Pajama

That really sucks, I waited for a very long time to get approved also. Like a month or something. I think I have a CV/Axle issue going on 40k miles on it 2009. Maybe its people beating on cars at first and trading out.