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red17 Experienced

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Not sure about how hard the R33 one is to get to, but mate had a 300ZX which had to have the entire dashboard removed to get to it. Job ended up being about 100 dollars in parts and 700 in labour.

Just hope its easy to get to. If you can, take it out yourself and get it repaired/replaced, that way you save a heap of cash. You can still drive the car around without it for a while if you plug up the water lines on the firewall.

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yeah mines been dead for over a year :( just got a new core on order from japan through UAS! still waiting for that to come in, will post a walkthrough and some pics if you still wanna do it yourself!! heard it is easier that the Zeds to do!!

had the dash off for the respray, only hard part is getting it over the steering wheel, but you just take that off too!!!

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wrxetr, take the heater tank out and take it to a radiator repairer , if its coroded he maybe able to get a new core to match then he uses ur tank and puts the new core and its as good as new as for r+r heater tank i dont know how hard it is on the sky , u may have to have the dash out though to get to it , most cars u do .

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Originally posted by red17

Not sure about how hard the R33 one is to get to, but mate had a 300ZX which had to have the entire dashboard removed to get to it. Job ended up being about 100 dollars in parts and 700 in labour.  

Just hope its easy to get to. If you can, take it out yourself and get it repaired/replaced, that way you save a heap of cash. You can still drive the car around without it for a while if you plug up the water lines on the firewall.  

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Just wanna agree, a friend's 300 has this problem, he tried to remove the dash and apparently it is basically if not definetly impossible to remove it without breaking bits. And it will drive Are you positively annoyed friend? trying to take everything off. Hope the r33 dash isnt so bad. Ive installed a head unit in mine, it was simple so thats a good sign...

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