Or at least if you own one and want to use it.
http://www.nagtroc.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=25361
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Bad News if you own a GTR
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HHGT
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I reported on this earlier. 14 launches and your transmission is done and you still have an ugly car :ack - with or without a functional transmission.
Not 4N
Tungsten GT Owner
WOW that hurts.
Lets build a car that can post great numbers and leave the guy who writes the cheque out in left field when he trys to post them for himself - nice :frown
Lets build a car that can post great numbers and leave the guy who writes the cheque out in left field when he trys to post them for himself - nice :frown
ViperJoe
GT Owner
B O N Y
MODERATOR & FGT OWNER
Every single automotive forum is carrying this news....
Can you imagine the noise on the Nissan boards?
Do you recall the panic of a few owners we observed on this board over the axle bolt issue? Not to mention the black box in the GTR's that tells all....
Excuse me while I run out for some sushi... and a Sapporo, the only Japanese products that I intend to buy in the near term...
Can you imagine the noise on the Nissan boards?
Do you recall the panic of a few owners we observed on this board over the axle bolt issue? Not to mention the black box in the GTR's that tells all....
Excuse me while I run out for some sushi... and a Sapporo, the only Japanese products that I intend to buy in the near term...
Not 4N
Tungsten GT Owner
Wow thats brutal but when I read the transmission could only handle a few of those launchs before rebuilding, I knew that couldn't be a good thing. To be standing their naked with a 20k bill, I think I'll pass! Should of offered those cars with manual transmissions and I think that would make them more appealing, even though I prefer f1 style transmissions. I don't understand why the computer would even allow for that mode of operation in the car if its gonna grenade the transmission and create a giant expense for the owner.
I am not much of a fan of Japanese sport cars but I thought the GTR was a pretty cool car but with the horror stories I have been hearing about those transmissions I will have to reserve judgement.
I am not much of a fan of Japanese sport cars but I thought the GTR was a pretty cool car but with the horror stories I have been hearing about those transmissions I will have to reserve judgement.
BlackICE
GT Owner
Japan has some other good product, but Japanese cars are not high on my shopping list. I don't eat Sushi, but occasionally have a Sapporo. Bony do you distribute that too?
And I was thinking Plymouth Sapporo from the eighties. Telling my age and OCD with cars.
skyrex
FORD GT OWNER
Imagine paying over sticker and getting this news. :thumbsdow They are begging for a class action suit.
Don't the European 430's have a launch control? I thought I read somewhere that it works very well but they won't put it on the American ones due to liability concerns.
Don't the European 430's have a launch control? I thought I read somewhere that it works very well but they won't put it on the American ones due to liability concerns.
This is just purely my opinion. I can't stand "paddle shift" automatics. Trying to pass these off as a manual trans is ridiculous imo. I bought a new Vette for my wife in 06. Used to you could buy a base Vette and drive it 10mos for free. I have had countless Corvettes. That was the biggest pos I have owned that was new in quite sometime. That freak'n paddle shift was crap. Maybe full blown racedrivers like it as in Formula One but for Joe average who likes automatics and likes standards trying to combine the two just doesn't work for me.
Empty Pockets
ex-GT Owner
+1
I've used the paddle shifters on my wife's car a couple 2-3 times. 'Don't really care for that mode (all my own cars - except for one - are manuals).
I know there are members of this Forum who believe paddles are the cat's meow...and maybe with enough TIME spent using 'em I'd agree...but, by THEN it would have become an "acquired taste". And IMHO, anything you have to "aquire" a taste for must not be anything worth writing home about in the 1st place.
Empty Pockets
ex-GT Owner
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I've read this a couple times just to see if I was reading what I THOUGHT I was reading, and for the life of me I cannot see the sense in any car co. designing/releasing a part that it KNOWS will self destruct if someone actually USES it they way it's supposedly designed to work. :thumbsdow:thumbsdow:thumbsdow It's OBVIOUS Nissan knows that unit is bogas right from the factory. Yet, they blame their CUSTOMER for the fact it breaks if he actually uses it and sticks HIM with the bill?
And just how in the world can Nissan justify charging $20K for something that's obviously made outta balsa wood? :shrug
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FlorIdaho Chris
Yeah, I've got one.
Neilda
GT Owner
A feature of the car that must never be used?
It would be like marrying a woman knowing that certain features, if used, would void the marriage.
Oh, hold on. :wink
It would be like marrying a woman knowing that certain features, if used, would void the marriage.
Oh, hold on. :wink
they would have never gotten close to the incredible Ring lap times without the paddle shifters and pretty much all the hype around the GTR is because of the Ring time. I also hate paddle shifters.
tpraceman
THEE GT OWNER
American Law ends at the border.....Sucks...but then......the news will never publish anything on it.
