sooooooooo with me having a 2009 and mine has never given me any problems should i just let it go or yank my fuse asap? lol

Pull the fuse.

Pull it!!!!!

i guess i'll add that to my list of things to do when i work on it soon to get ready for spring

Thank you so much for the detailed response, I truly appreciate it.

Going to look at the Z in a few days

I just liked your post. :tup:

Nissan removed all my posts and blocked me from posting on their site.

Mine is still there and it looks like Kate Hazelwood has joined the campaign.

Yeah Kate is my gf, she's the one who told me my posts had been taken down, even the pics of my car being towed

I don't see anyone's Facebook posts

There is a list of "Recent Posts by Others on Nissan" at the top of the right-hand column. Click "See All" and scroll down. Look for comments by Kate Hazelwood and Nacho Mahma (that's me). Then scroll down a looonnnggg ways and look for Ryan Castillo, Dylan Cimock, and Michael Cacciola. I didn't scroll any further than that.

I'm assuming since comments were posted on the very public site FB, that the commenters do not mind having their FB nicks posted here. If I'm wrong and you want it removed from this post, just let me know and I'll redact it.

Yeah, they kept removing my post's the other day. Nissan basically told me that I have taken my issue to the highest person other than the owner and nothing will be taken care of.

Just signed up to twitter purely to vent about Nissan

Nissan just contacted me on twitter wanting to help, we'll see how it goes this round

Just out of curiosity, why we don't hear much complaint from the g37 crowd? Are't they using the same locking mechanism?

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&t...+steering+lock
Just by looking at the results pages, I couldn't get a good feel for how prevalent it may be or if they use the same SLU, but it appears that at least a few Infiniti ppl are having SLU problems.

That's a good question maybe they are to sophisticated to notice.:p

Yea it seems this problem is most popular with the early model 370zs although there IS few cases with the infiniti. It's strange cuz I thought the G and Z is basicly on the same platform and share lot of common parts.

Haha yea... Maybe they don't even drive their cars.:icon17:

I've got a 2009 G37 Journey Sedan w/approx. 45k miles on it. I searched the MyG37 forum some time back and didn't find any problems w/ the steering lock mentioned. The steering lock on the G37 does not look anything like the 370Z's from what I can see by looking under the dash.
You are correct, both the G37 and the 370z are built at the same assembly line and on the same F platform I think.

Thanks. Good to know the SLU on the g37 is different then the SLU on the 370z.

I just noticed in one of the steering lock sticky thread, alot of people had reported SLU failure even if they did disable the SLU. Does that mean even if you pulled the fuse or cut the brown wire, the SLU still could fail? Doesn't make sense to me tho. Or "Did You Disable SLU" means something else?

I don't remember seeing anyone reporting SLU failure after pulling the fuse, cutting the brownie, or installing an extension wiring harness - but maybe I missed it/them. Links?

The part of the SLU that talks to the BCM needs to be in working order. It will fail eventually, but I haven't seen any reports of it happening yet.

As far as I can tell, the only way to get rid of the SLU completely requires that the BCM be re-programmed to ignore it.

Sorry I forgot the link...

http://www.the370z.com/nissan-370z-g...-sticky-2.html

If you run down the list, a lot of people answered "yes" on "did you disable SLU". That gets me wonder...

Ah. I think that is supposed to be "Did you disable the new SLU after replacement?"


Edit: Maybe "supposed to be" were the wrong words. How about "The way I read it..."?

First mod to my car and I just got her on Monday.

:tup: good job, at least now you won't have to worry:tup:

Just finished oil cooler install and oil change. Gonna pull that fuse tomorrow.

Ah I see! That makes me feel better. Lol. Thanks for the interpret.:tup:

Next mod

nothing planned yet besides a tune tomorrow.

It's a diamond in the rough. Modding this car is a blast and there a a ton to do to make them sooooooo much better than stock.

Does this mean, what I think it means?

If it does and the dealer replaces the lock on my '09 with a newer revision, I think I would still re-install my bypass harness after they were done. I don't know that I would trust the thing not to fail another year or two down the road.

Good point, lol.

Man I sure hope so. :excited:

Hmmmm. Searched the Web for "Nissan ESCL" and found:
Service Campaign -- Electronic Steering Column Lock - Nissan Cube Car Forums - "recall" for Cube
Omer Ulu - Design Release Engineer ... - Los Angeles, CA | Indeed.com - some guy that worked on the SLU.

That's what I'm saying. I mean, they don't have one out that is 100% known NOT to fail, correct? No matter what Rev it is, I'm pretty sure they all have a history of failing. So they're essentially going to replace your lock with another one that can still fail, free of charge at least. This is unless they recently came out with a new Rev that is fail proof. Either way, I'm still glad I cut my wire a couple weeks ago. Won't have to spend the time at a dealer for this campaign and wont have to worry about the new one they put in failing.

Yep. I hope Nissan decides to delete the SLUs (two screws and a BCM reflash), not replace them.