Fellow Z owners, Have you come across this one.? Recentlym, (this hasn't been happening for long) I have had a strange intermittent fault occure after driving for a while .The fault starts and then goes away...and then comes back in again..weird! Innitially it feels like the kind of vibration you get when your wheels are out of balance and then it gets really bad and you can not just feel it but you can see the whole car shaking.When I get this symptom happening I've slowed right down and even at 10mph you can feel the shake in the steering.Each time this has happened I have found a place to stop and checked the tyres for any thing obvious (ie bulge in tyre wall ,side play in bearing ,loose wheel lock nuts ...Nothing found! This is puzzling me because ,as I say it goes away and the drive is great;nice and smooth again ..then comes back in ,say 20 mins later with a vengance.When this is happening braking is wild with big shudder/side to side. ANY IDEAS ?? Something that may relate is intermittent speedo not working from time to time? Important to bear in mind ;normally the cars drive is smooth and braking smooth and even this symptom happens randomly .Appreciate any help or information as need to get this sorted;my Z is currently my daily drive .Cheers all Rich

hey mate wheel bearings maybe mine did similar but was also accompanied by a squeeling

Brake calipers sticking?

Warped disks ?

Worn front tension rod bushes/leaking ?

Dave said all this on the phone to you, and his main suspiscion was a wheel bearing if handling being badly effected. Go check it all out..... lol

Hey, thanks all..I am thinking wheel bearing too as now can hear squealing sound as well ..I'm going to get it checked out right now.. Let you know the result Cheers Rich

are you sure your driving the zed in real life and not on the ps3 with a force feedback steering wheel?

are you sure your driving the zed in real life and not on the ps3 with a force feedback steering wheel?

 

...you mean there are REAL 300ZX's?!? :shock:

apparently so... but i heard they are all up there own asses and prefer to be chauffeured on trailers!

check your top suspension arms and tension rods !

apparently so... but i heard they are all up there own asses and prefer to be chauffeured on trailers!

 

:rofl:

The torque setting you wanted Rich is 88 - 108 Nm 0r 65 - 80 Lb/ft

 

Ill update this for you Rich....

 

Turned out to be the subframe bolts were lose ! :shock:

Edited August 5, 200817 yr by wow300

As WOW300 said ...Took it along to wheel and tyre fitters ,put it up on ramp and found it was the sub frame rattling around !!! Deadly..Glad we found that one out ..Cheers all for your suggestions and thanks Dave for the torque settings ..Now fixed

Good God that's dangerous!

 

Does that mean the engine has been out at some point?

Good God that's dangerous!

 

Does that mean the engine has been out at some point?

 

Yes he changed turbos