Originally Posted by Minicobra1 (Post 28142)

The road noise can be a little bothersome, but nothing that cant be fixed. The thing I hate is the wheelwells have some sort of plastic lining, so when little rocks or pebbles get picked up from the tires, you can really hear it.
The best solution is to treat the inside of the wheelwells. This will help with that and the tire/road noise. I plan on doing this soon, I'll post up more later.
Here is where you can get the stuff: Sound Deadening Materials for Noise Reduction from Second Skin

Originally Posted by TheManTheMyth (Post 27928)

thanks for the help guys....Semtex are those Michellins you had all season or summer? I am thinkin about gettin a set of all season because of this crap weather we have...if i get after market wheels I cant be driving around on them in the winter with all this salt on the road so all seasons are really a necessity

Originally Posted by Minicobra1 (Post 28142)

The road noise can be a little bothersome, but nothing that cant be fixed. The thing I hate is the wheelwells have some sort of plastic lining, so when little rocks or pebbles get picked up from the tires, you can really hear it.
The best solution is to treat the inside of the wheelwells. This will help with that and the tire/road noise. I plan on doing this soon, I'll post up more later.
Here is where you can get the stuff: Sound Deadening Materials for Noise Reduction from Second Skin

Originally Posted by Pushing_Tin (Post 24208)

Here are my complaints:

When you have your high beams on the little blue light in the dash is very bright and distracting. And it does not dim with the rest of the panel. Why?

Originally Posted by Skaterbasist (Post 24586)

This "hold-out until next year's car" is just endless. I have learned to buy what you want as soon as possible and deal with the minor issues it might have. Every year, there will be something better.

Nissan has a habit of adding little features and/or fixing issues with their cars every year.

There are only a very few exceptions when "holding out" might be logical (ie. Major mechanical or electrical problems). But that doesn't seem to be the case for the 370Z as of now.

Originally Posted by dad (Post 28322)

I have yet to drive any car where the high beam indicator dimmed!

Originally Posted by Pushing_Tin (Post 28400)

This is the only car I have ever owned (that's a lot) that has a high beam indicator that is actually distracting at night. I have even contemplated putting a small piece of electrical tape on there to block it. I live out in the country and when there are no lights whatsoever that thing is way too bright.

Originally Posted by dad (Post 28322)

Some times it's better to wait. A lot of 2003 Z owners ended up filing a class action law suit. They rushed out and bought the 03, the 03 is now one car to avoid buying used.

Originally Posted by Pushing_Tin (Post 24208)

Here are my complaints:

No heated mirrors, WTF is that about? Where I live it's foggy most of the winter and this is a huge safety issue.

No interior fuel release, not a big deal to most but here in Orygun we're too stupid to pump our own gas, so we hire people even dumber to do it for us. Now I have to get out of the car every time to open the fuel door.

No interior trunk release. Why?

Blind spots are terrible and dangerous.

No back up camera. Hello this is a $40k car in the year 2009.

The fuel gauge area/info center is dumb and looks out of place.

When you have your high beams on the little blue light in the dash is very bright and distracting. And it does not dim with the rest of the panel. Why?

No fog lights.

It seems like there should be a bit more sound insulation in the rear near the tires as you get a lot of road noise and other noises from debris in the wheel wells.


These are mostly minor gripes. The car is fantastic to look at and drive. The navi is great as well. The Bose system is just fine for me. I buy new cars every 2 years or so, so I've had many, and I've never had one that was perfect, there were always a few things that drove me crazy, and this car is no exception.

Originally Posted by nogoodname007 (Post 28437)

^^ it's always like that for a new model car...it's not really a refreshment car....lol
it's a new model


the G37 came with a few problems.....but there are fixed now
I bought the absolute 1st one from the dealership and i got funky noises and stuff going on
like the engine makes loud banging noises sometimes. the exhaust rattle was fixed.
the throttle was acting up. as in if i accelerated to 3000 rpm, it would just stay there and if i braked to 2000, it would just stay there.........strange