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Hey...

I currently own a toyota soarer, and am looking at coming over to the dark side and getting a Skyline V35.

Living in Perth i found owning a Soarer, got expensive due to lack of parts and lack of people that knew what to do when it came to servicing the Soarer. I was just wondering if it would be a simliar case with the Skyline V35, or are the parts similar to the Nissan 350/370 Z ?

Has anyone also experienced any problems with these cars at all?

Any information would be appreciated

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Anthony

aka NAASTEE

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Hey...

I currently own a toyota soarer, and am looking at coming over to the dark side and getting a Skyline V35.

Living in Perth i found owning a Soarer, got expensive due to lack of parts and lack of people that knew what to do when it came to servicing the Soarer. I was just wondering if it would be a simliar case with the Skyline V35, or are the parts similar to the Nissan 350/370 Z ?

Has anyone also experienced any problems with these cars at all?

Any information would be appreciated

Regards

Anthony

aka NAASTEE

I think the lack of posts to this thread might be an indicator...however if you try the V35 section of the forum you may have more luck.

I have a M35 stagea which shares some things in common with the V35 skyline - same auto gearbox for example (The M35 stagea is the last in the stagea wagon line-up and this model is built off the same platform as the V35).

All up they'd be pretty reliable and they do share some parts with the 350z. Servicing should be pretty straightforward - should use the same oil, filters, plugs, etc as a 350z because its roughly the same engine. Nissan use the VQ35 in loads of cars (with varying power output) so you generally shouldn't have an issue finding bits for the engine at least.

In any case, you can get parts from Nissan - if they dont have them in stock they'll order them from japan for you - usually within 10 business days.

Another plus is that these cars were also sold as LHD versions in america so there is a lot of info from american G35 forums etc. You can get the full service manual in english for example (google it and you'll find it pretty easy - it comes as a heap of PDFs).

Good luck with it :ermm:

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