Ok guys had a pretty bad experience with owning my first Nissan so far (might have to stick to toyota).
Was driving my S1 RS4 the other day and it stalled out. On inspection my top tank of my radiator basically exploded. water everywhere but didn't seem to overheat (or so the gauge said). So after 4 hours of waiting I got it home on a car trailer.
Got a new radiator to suit today from my local shop, got one for an auto 33 that suited perfectly. Gave the cooling system a flush and connected everything and tried to start the car to bleed the head of air. However she didn't start. It just kept turning it over until i pumped the accelerator a bunch and happen to start and it was not right from the get go, idle was rough and there was what sounded like lifter tick. Drove it down the road, had a pretty big loss of power and was not quite right, then stalled out again and overheated despite the temp gauge at half, so I'm assuming my temp sensor for the dash is stuffed.
Thought it might be head gasket due to the overheating but no smoke and no oil in coolant. Still doesn't want to start and when it does it runs like hell. Have I killed something electric by getting it wet? Have I caused some other major damage internally that isn't throwing the check engine light on?
Tomorrow I'm hoping to chuck it on the trailer and take it to someone to have a look but I thought I would still chuck it up here as well.