Hello all
im a new member, been loving S15's since i was 16 when my old man had one.
I saved up a bit of money, and walked myself down to the dealer to start test driving around. No intention of buying, just didn;t want to waste private seller's time with test drives to get an idea of S15, skyline, supra, rx7 etc.
went down to EDWARD LEE's JAPANESE AUTO CENTRE. and test drove a blue S15, it drove alrite, had TIEN coilovers, buddyclub rims, and an exhaust. Dealers, as they generally are, were friendly, but pushy, trying to get me to buy that very same day.
I got out of that, and all through the next day, at least on the half hour, i was called by the dealer to be asked when i was next coming down to buy the car.
finally, partly because I didn;t want to wait for the sale of my current car and mainly cos i wanted a S15, I walked down there again, and negotiated the car to having a CWEST body kit fitted by JETSPEED, 12 months rego, and 12 months warantee for $28,500 and on this I bought the car.
It took the dealers 2 weeks to send the car to jetspeed, and another week for jetspeed to send it back, 2 days after it arrived back, i was called to come and pick it up. when I picked it up the standard gearknob was no longer in the car, but the body kit, and my new head unit, and a rattle from an exhaust silencer had all been taken care of, so I handed over my money, and drove away.
2 days later, as instructed, I remover the tape from the sicaflex that was holding on the drivers side skirt. This took with it a portion of paint. about the size of 2 20c pieces. upon closer inspection, I realised that under the paint had not been primed. later that day (bad day) i hit a speedbump at uni not realising i had a very low car now, and did damage to the front bar. It was not primed underneath either.
1 month into driving the car, a horrible noise from the gearbox emerged. I returned to the dealer to claim on warantee. It took edward lee's 5 days to send the car to the gearbox specialists, and the gearbox specialists took half a day to fix the problem, which was a quick bearing change seeing as nissan genuine is just down the road from them.
3 days later, the noise is coming back, i return straight to the gearbox place, and am informed that they plumb forgot to put a seal on, and so my gearbox had leaked almost dry (which i had noticed happening, so i took it back). a week after that, the gasket on the lower side of the exhaust manifold got blown away. I rang edward lees, and made an appointment, being assured it was a max of a day. 4 days later, i have my car back.
now, i find, while putting on a new intercooler, that somethin in the turbo is completely blown, and so it is like a swimming pool of oil inside, which would explain what i thought wasa bad boost solenoid. now, because of the intercooler, I have voided my warantee (even thought it didn;t do the damage, and am up for a new turbo)
the moral?
EDITED BY ZEi - Thanks for posting your experience. But I had to edit this section. Please note the rules or PM a moderator if you think it was unnecessary.
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when u are alone in the house in a stormy day.