370Z 2009.5 Changes?

streetrod · 02-15-2009, 11:40 PM

Is the left guage (that everyone seems to hate) an individual guage with pinned connector?

Crash · 02-16-2009, 02:28 AM

Likely. That'd be why they went with an LED setup. I can imagine they'd hard wire LEDs to a gauge cluster board unless they REALLY wanted to screw people for repair $.

streetrod · 02-16-2009, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Crash

Likely. That'd be why they went with an LED setup. I can imagine they'd hard wire LEDs to a gauge cluster board unless they REALLY wanted to screw people for repair $.

Then I'm guessing that a Nissan change to this guage in a near future model might be a plug-n-play replacement. Might also be an opportunity for aftermarket if the screaming gets loud enough................

Nikon FM · 02-16-2009, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by brisk

is it just me or do i think the new 370z is a polished well built car.
i have no complaints from seeing it couple of times and driving it.

everything that's there is already there....

maybe im guessing they might add a backup camera option in the 2010 model?

Coming from a different car and the 370 being my first Z, I truly don't have any complaints and am not sorry about getting one of the "early" models...........love the car

k.alexander · 02-16-2009, 11:27 AM

^ I second, Nikon FM's statement above. Driving last night and this morn, I was thinking about the fuel gauge, and it really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. The silver kind of matches the silver that is around the 3 "pods", it's a little different, but not all that weird.

Biggest complaints this far, is visibility out of this car. I find that the windshield is kind of on a short side, the left outside mirror, tends to block some of my view when I look left, in maneuvering around parking lots and such, and the blinds spots are pretty crazy too (although I'm getting around them with a lanechanger mirror and a proper adjustment of the outside mirrors).

nogoodname · 02-16-2009, 11:29 AM

^^ that's what we get for liking coupes...lol
all coupe have bad blind spots

chubbs · 02-16-2009, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by brisk

"Just remember the transformation of the rear end when the 350z taillights changed from bulb to LED's."

Aren't the 370z's tails LED's???

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. I was trying to say that the change from bulbs to LED's on the 350z's taillights was a major improvement, and I think a similar step forward would be made if the 370z headlights had an LED strip, not just a single sidelight. I know it's been said before, but I'm working on the theory that the more often it's repeated, the more likely Nissan will hear about it and do something. When Nissan make changes to their Z cars they are usually well thought-out and well designed.

...I know the 370z's taillights are LED's - and they look lovely!

k.alexander · 02-16-2009, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by nogoodname007

^^ that's what we get for liking coupes...lol
all coupe have bad blind spots

I guess, but my last car was a Honda Prelude and it didn't have any blind spots.

nogoodname · 02-16-2009, 11:47 AM

but the G's and Z's have such a long rear windsheild, it may look big from the outside but it's like what 8 inches tall...lol....it's just the way it's angled

Crash · 02-16-2009, 03:03 PM

The front windshield will be a BIG upgrade from the tiny windshield on the Solstice. I'm 5'7" and my eyes are at the TOP of the windshield with the visor bar right at my eye level. Visibility is lame if anything. The back window is less than 8 inches of visibility and the blind spots are just as bad if not worse than the 370. My eyes were dead center in the Trans Am and visibility was good (aside from the giant sail panel blind spots). I'm sure I'll be fine with the Z.

Nikon FM · 02-18-2009, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Crash

The front windshield will be a BIG upgrade from the tiny windshield on the Solstice. I'm 5'7" and my eyes are at the TOP of the windshield with the visor bar right at my eye level. Visibility is lame if anything. The back window is less than 8 inches of visibility and the blind spots are just as bad if not worse than the 370. My eyes were dead center in the Trans Am and visibility was good (aside from the giant sail panel blind spots). I'm sure I'll be fine with the Z.

Vast visibility improvements going from the SKY to the 370Z. The window posts were so big with the SKY I had to keep moving my head around while moving through twisties...didn't like that. Go test drive a 370Z (if you haven't already) and you'll be amazed at how much better the view is.

axio · 02-19-2009, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by k.alexander

I guess, but my last car was a Honda Prelude and it didn't have any blind spots.

Good to hear from a prelude owner. I'm one too and yeah, there's barely any blind spots on the 5th gen. I still can't wait for my 370z to come in though...

Crash · 02-19-2009, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Nikon FM

Vast visibility improvements going from the SKY to the 370Z. The window posts were so big with the SKY I had to keep moving my head around while moving through twisties...didn't like that. Go test drive a 370Z (if you haven't already) and you'll be amazed at how much better the view is.

Yeah. Same problem. When I was driving through the canyons, I had huge blind spots from those window posts and also had to duck and sway to see things... VERY annoying.

SiXK · 02-19-2009, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by k.alexander

^ I second, Nikon FM's statement above. Driving last night and this morn, I was thinking about the fuel gauge, and it really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. The silver kind of matches the silver that is around the 3 "pods", it's a little different, but not all that weird.

Biggest complaints this far, is visibility out of this car. I find that the windshield is kind of on a short side, the left outside mirror, tends to block some of my view when I look left, in maneuvering around parking lots and such, and the blinds spots are pretty crazy too (although I'm getting around them with a lanechanger mirror and a proper adjustment of the outside mirrors).

I agree about the gas gauge thing, its not that bad. I have seen some complaints about it being hard to read when the light hits it directly. Since I got my windows tinted I haven't had that problem at all. The only complaint I have about it is they did not put the TPMS individual readouts on it. That would have been a great use of that little screen.

I also wish they would have put some kind of gauge where the clock is, seems like a wasted spot for a clock when the other two gauges look so good.

02-16-2009, 02:28 AM	#32 (permalink)
Crash A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 1,853 Drives: 02 Corvette Z06 Rep Power: 589	Likely. That'd be why they went with an LED setup. I can imagine they'd hard wire LEDs to a gauge cluster board unless they REALLY wanted to screw people for repair $. __________________ 2002 Corvette Z06 - Totaled 2003 Corvette Z06 50th Anniversary

02-16-2009, 11:27 AM	#35 (permalink)
k.alexander Base Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Philadelphia, PA Age: 45 Posts: 240 Drives: 09 Nissan 370Z PG M6 Rep Power: 714	^ I second, Nikon FM's statement above. Driving last night and this morn, I was thinking about the fuel gauge, and it really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. The silver kind of matches the silver that is around the 3 "pods", it's a little different, but not all that weird. Biggest complaints this far, is visibility out of this car. I find that the windshield is kind of on a short side, the left outside mirror, tends to block some of my view when I look left, in maneuvering around parking lots and such, and the blinds spots are pretty crazy too (although I'm getting around them with a lanechanger mirror and a proper adjustment of the outside mirrors). __________________ -Are you coming to bed? -I can't. This is important. -What? -Someone is WRONG on the internet.

02-16-2009, 03:03 PM	#40 (permalink)
Crash A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 1,853 Drives: 02 Corvette Z06 Rep Power: 589	The front windshield will be a BIG upgrade from the tiny windshield on the Solstice. I'm 5'7" and my eyes are at the TOP of the windshield with the visor bar right at my eye level. Visibility is lame if anything. The back window is less than 8 inches of visibility and the blind spots are just as bad if not worse than the 370. My eyes were dead center in the Trans Am and visibility was good (aside from the giant sail panel blind spots). I'm sure I'll be fine with the Z. __________________ 2002 Corvette Z06 - Totaled 2003 Corvette Z06 50th Anniversary

02-15-2009, 11:40 PM	#31 (permalink)
streetrod Base Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: above ground Posts: 17 Drives: checker cab Rep Power: 16	Is the left guage (that everyone seems to hate) an individual guage with pinned connector?

02-16-2009, 11:29 AM	#36 (permalink)
nogoodname Lifetime Premium Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Montreal Posts: 22,357 Drives: E46 M3 Rep Power: 1764	^^ that's what we get for liking coupes...lol all coupe have bad blind spots

02-16-2009, 11:47 AM	#39 (permalink)
nogoodname Lifetime Premium Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Montreal Posts: 22,357 Drives: E46 M3 Rep Power: 1764	but the G's and Z's have such a long rear windsheild, it may look big from the outside but it's like what 8 inches tall...lol....it's just the way it's angled