Vee37

You are the exact opposite to me. I had to fly down to Melbourne and drive it back to Sydney. And there aren't too many 370Z out there either. I just checked carsales, and there are none for sale, but a few 370GT Coupe's and even more GTR's.

The 350GT coupe was an auto. I don't own it anymore. As it got older, my economy dropped, but as I said, in my specific case, the aging/failing coils may have been at least partially responsible. And the good numbers were for driving about 20km city and about 50km freeway. The 370GT coupe is also an Auto. As I think the numbers show, i have to be very ginger with the throttle to even approach the same numbers as the 350GT. In the real world, its hard to keep off that throttle all the time, and not bring yourself up to the speed limit, faster than what would really be necessary. One of the cars I inspected before buying my one, the owners mother drove it regularly and complained about how much fuel it drank. She complained how me and the inspector were sitting in the car idling to keep the AC running; it was a hot day and we were in the direct sun. PS: With the additive, I added/eye-balled about 1/3 of the bottle, to about half a tank.

On my previous car (2003 350GT), I found that the car had noticeable better fuel economy if i kept around 80KM/h. If I cruised above that, the economy went down. At best, I think I was able to get it down to the mid to high 8l/100km (12.5km/l which included some 60kim/h to get to the highway). Another thing I noticed, was that my fuel economy dropped at one point for some unknown reason. But, a few weeks later, one of my ignition coil started to fail (when cold). After I replaced two of them (another was heading out), my fuel economy got better again. Now with my 370GT, I have to be very careful, and the best I have seen thus far (once, for a very short length of time at the end of a freeway run, with some city driving) is around 12.4km/l (ie 8.0l/100km, driving at 100 km/h) but usually its closer to 7km/l (14l/100km) around the city (currently siting on 6.7km/100km ie 15l/100kim all city traffic driving). Not absolutely sure if it truly made the difference, but the best amount was when I accidentally filled up using 95octane, and then added an octane booster when I realised my mistake. Its actually an injector cleaner, but the reviews talked about octane boost. And maybe I got some placebo effect and/or drove more carefully/gingerly after reading the reviews or because I was on 95. https://www.supercheapauto.com.au/p/rislone-high-performance-injector-cleaner---177ml/290781.html

I have seen V35's a lot more, but less of recent. And I think there used to be two often parked on the side of the road, on my standard route I take to the shops. Although, I haven't noticed them as often as I used to, but with lock-downs etc i haven't been driving out shopping on a whim. I would be really interested to know how many are registered? I have found the Bureau of statistics for general age of cars, but not by make & model. Other than maybe calling service NSW, the only other indicators I can think of is if NRMA &/OR GIO etc keep and are willing to share the stat. Or an even rougher hint would be the number of cars for sale.

Recently i got a 2008 Skyline 370GT Coupe, and in the first week I think I saw 1 other on the road (NSW around Sydney and driven out south west). However, since then, in the past few months, I haven't noticed any others on the road. Where are they all hiding? Or are they really that rare? When I have been to the mechanics, I think they had not worked on one previously either. I was previously thinking of getting an Audi S5 around the same age (2008), and that car I have seen on the road. although, its pretty hard to distinguish year models around that same time. and while driving it may be easy to confuse a newer recent model with an older model S5. When I was getting it registered, there was an S5 in the parking lot at the time. Is there somehow of getting a count of the numbers of currently registered 370GT Coupes? I have searched the NSW Registry web site, and I cant find anything at that level of detail, beyond checking explicit cars by License plate (ie 3rd Party insurance)

Cant help on your specific questions, however, I have seen where some error codes in the ECU stick until they have been cleared, even though they are no currently an issue.Try clearing the error code, and see if it comes back.

Just an FYI, in case anyone wondered "what the spoiler would look like in Carbon Fiber". The weekend before last, I put some of the wrap on the rear spoiler. I actually did a really shockingly bad job on it, but now know how to avoid all the mistakes I made, and I have plenty of wrap left for another attempt or possibly 3. Anyway, I have left it on, just to see what I think of it, as at first I wasn't that much impressed. Unless you get up close, it really just looks black. Ive attached some photos to give you an idea of what I mean. However, its actually starting to grow on me. And when I was looking for these photos (some taken a few days ago), I came across a "before" one where it was the original factory chrome, and it really looks bad to me now. I have purchased 4 case of Anthracite plastidip for the wheels, and my next idea is to peel off the black carbon fiber vinyl wrap on the spoiler, plastidip it with Anthracite, and also do the "S K Y L I N E" in Anthracite. That way the spoiler and the text would colour match. On a side, I have already done my front grill in Gloss Black plastidip.

I had a 2003 350GT Coupe and a cheapie Bluetooth ODBII scanner from ebay, connected to my phone. I used to use it to read and clear error codes (as well as live engine data). At one time, I had a failing ignition coil when the car was cold. So it had a constant misfire until the car warmed up. The VCD was automatically turned off. When the car was warm, it stopped misfiring, and if I cleared the code via ODBII, turned the car off, and restarted it, it all seemed to work normally. And then i replaced the dodgy coil when I got the part. If you can read the error codes from the ECU, it may tell you what is wrong.

remember I said how forgiving the wrap was? Watch how many times this professional wrap guy places and removes and places and removes over and over, when doing a bonnet.He does make it look like a DIY with minimal tools or experience.Almost makes me wish I did not have a black car. Almost He does make me a little more impressed with the fact my eBay wrap is just so dark. He also makes it clear my external wrap of the spoiler, will be susceptible to water getting into/under the wrap layers. But I probably have enough wrap to redo the spoiler 3 times at least. And I can always fall back to my original idea of using Anthracite PlastiDip instead. I have 4 cans of Anthracite in prep of doing my stock 19" wheels. It has become clear the Anthracite would really look good with the a glossifier (and maybe even a metaliser), but that would double/triple the cost and effort. PS: its 52min long, so I watched at x2 speed and jumped some of the "filler"

I use to use it on my Auto 350GT without LSD pretty often on this one single spot near my home, where there was a traffic light at the top of a very VERY steep hill, so when it just started to rain and the greasy roads were extra slippery, it made it a lot easier than try to control the throttle.

The following search will give you more headlight posts on G35Driver than you can handle. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3AG35driver.com+headlights+%2B"series+3" Although most post for the G35 are by year. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3AG35driver.com+headlights+2006 And you can also look at the images

To be clear, I did not take out the battery, however, I recently bought this car, and it does have a battery that is only 2 months old.

On my 350GT, I used NDSII, running on Android, connected to the ECU via a Bluetooth OBDII reader.

Does this issue show up in an ODBII error code scan? if so, have you tried clearing the error codes? On my 350GT I had an error that I could clear (temporarily until it occurred again or I had it fixed). When the error was flagged, it turned my VCD off, but clearing the code and restarting the car, temporarily cleared the issue

Just an FYI, and to bump this for others. I had 2 problems with my passenger side electric window on my 2008 370HT 1. When I closed the door with the window up, it would actually leave the window open about 2 centimetres. I had to manually go over to the drivers side, and wind the window up/closed. 2. When I held the up for the passenger window (drivers side or passenger side control), the auto wind up did not function. I found another thread on another site, and it suggested the same as above, but 10 seconds hold when down, winding up and holding while its at the highest for 10 seconds. I did these steps, and now both problems are resolved.

I did not go for sat nav, as my Android device has sat nav that will always supersede in car nav in MANY ways; traffic, live construction, breakdowns, speed cams inc mobile etc etc etc. I got the center computer (middle of dash) converted to English, less sat nav and the toll stuff, and it was less than $300. Mines a 2008 370GT, V36 I think the following link will help you get some info to go down the other path. https://www.youtube.com/c/AloisXanavi/search?query=370gt

My internal door handles were a little scuffed, So I thought I would try out wrapping them in Carbon Fiber effect Vinyl. I checked ebay, and they all seemed a little dark, but outside of ebay they were considerably more expensive, and this was my first attempt; so I went with something easy and cheap. An example of how they looked before. And after the wrap. I also did the drivers side. I wasn't sure if the wrap would look better with the direction going up-down or sideways. I meant both to go up, but I wasnt paying attention, and now the drivers door wrap goes sideways. Looking on the positive side, it gives me a chance to choose which way looks best. Its a toss up for me, so others opinions are welcome. ANd it will be easy to remove the one I dont like, and do it again. I think the marks are scuff marks when I carried them from the apartment to the garage. I am guessing a wipe down will get them back to 100%. As i said, this was my first go at Vinyl wrapping, and I have to say, it was dead easy, the Vinyl was very forgiving, heating the vinyl made it almost like glad-wrap stretchy; I used a heat gun, but it was actually almost too strong and a hair dryer might even be better. I would of gone for a lighter wrap, but this dark one (and it is almost all black) was simple to order on eBay. Its "7D" which I think relates to how glossy it is; but I dont think its all that. After seeing how black it is, and how easy it was, I am thinking to do the rear boot-lip spoiler in this carbon Fiber effect wrap; on my black car.

I haven't checked if the NSW plates would fit (if cut down within reason), But I notice that the NSW custom COLOUR plates are 372 mm wide But, the guys that sell the protectors/holders, have a "Japanese Plate" option, that is only 331mm wide.

But as you implied, I would be getting the standard (ie current) digits. So I would guess for me, it would be a standard size. ie too big in the back

I haven't explicitly checked, but I assumed they were simply standard sizing, just different colours. Since my car is black, I was already planning on gong a black with silver writing. The thing that surprises me, is that in the eastern suburbs where I live, about 1 in 5 cars have their plates in holders/protectors that have a black frame / edge. A lot of these frames actually appear to almost touch the digits. ie they look like they would require people to cut down their number plate to fit inside the protector/holder. Might take a closer look in a parking lot. I am guessing people are using the front number plate holders, on the rear plate (which is bigger). You can get the "European" ones that appear to have 2 of the front size. https://www.supercheapauto.com.au/search?q=number+plate+protector&lang=en_AU The above was what I was thinking. If I keep all characters visible and un-distorted, and also the "NSW" text (ie state of registration) 100% legible from a distance, It would be ignored; unless I was speeding.... I was thinking of cutting it down and putting it in a smaller black edged frame. What made me question it, is that I went through the gallery thread, and where the back of a 370GT was shown, the plate appeared to naturally fit; although many were vanity plates.

I recently purchased a 2008 Nissan 370GT Coupe from VIC and have registered in now in NSW. Part of the process, includes new plates. For the front they give you one with a slightly smaller height, and for the rear its full size. This larger plate does not fit within the width of the rear License Plate recess, in the rear bar of my car. To make it fit (ie so I can tighten the screws) I had too bend/curve each of the outside ends up a bit (as in away from the plate, in a kind of U shape if you laid the plate flat on the ground). Is there something others are doing to avoid this? The previous VIC plates were also bent in the same way.

Yep. Nissan Datascan III works. I tried both my Bluetooth Do0ngl;es, and was a little suprised they reported the exact same version number. My old cheapie dongle is about 7 years old now, and the JayCar one is brand new.

And now to go back up that mountain.

THANK-YOU! i would of never of thought to have looked for the next version of NDS! Eventually I probably would of emailed them directly, but who knows when I would come around to that obvious step. I wont get a chance to test till later today, but I can hardly wait. My only "problem" is that I now have 2 ODBII - Bluetooth adapters now(cheap eBay one and a JayCar one). It will be a little interesting to see which version they each report for ELM and if one is more responsive than the other. My original cheap eBay one was a litty laggy; I assumed it was using a very old Bluetooth standard. EDIT: Least of which will be to check my ECM against the speedo

Thats another issue I am having. I cant seem to connect ,my Bluetooth ODBII scanned to my phone.I have a cheap ebay one I have been using previously on my 350GT for years without any issue, but now, it doesnt connect to my 370GT, having an "init failure". I have also purchased the one from JayCar, and that has the same issue. I used to use Nissan DataScan as at the time I started, tourque couldnt connect to the Japanese protocol. Is there a trick to it? It just worked on the 350GT. As for accuracy internally, it will still be out if you change the rolling diameter (ie wheel diameter, profile / width) as the ECU does not know of the change to the wheels. Checking my GPS to my speedo is EXACTLY how I know my speedo is out. Normally its around 10% out, but I have got lower profile tires (vs width) that has lowered my rolling circumference, so now my speed is even more out of step with the GPS speed. On my previous 350GT I went from 18's to 19's, and the speed displayed closer to real speeds.