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Cheers. For the write up. Did my clock spring today, horn now works and I managed to clear the abs light after I stupidly unplugged couple things at an earlier foray with battery connected. Thumbs up to Cockram Nissan in Christchurch, 5 mins on phone at 3pm and it was on my doorstep in Napier at 9am in morning. $340 Must be a common thing as they had three already in stock. Might add couple pics on weekend

Hi all, haven't posted in awhile, wagon been good, have horn/clockspring issue to fix tho... just saying hi. See lot of Stageas around Hawkes Bay now.... was doing the long distance relationship thing for awhile so car had good workout over Taupo rd.... some night shots... Cheers

Thanks for that my fellow GSXR owner Hey Hertz seems to be heaps of Stageas in the bay now, common as! I'm losing count.

Well after all that the car already had a Ryco 436 on it from the previous owner... How much oil do people put in their VQ35DE engines??? Googling says 4.6L which approximates what drained out. Seems odd when the smaller 2.5L V6 was very hungry for a full 5 on oil and filter changes. Asking as its so damn hard to clearly on dipstick with clean oil. Have a slight belt squeal on cold start up recently, hope its just from parking in dusty yard...???

Fueled up after a full tank of my normal driving with putting the foot down a couple of times to ahem... Blow the cobwebs out. 50/50 open road and city driving. 350RX 616.5km 67.3L which by my maths is 9.16km/L and pretty much about same as what I was getting from the 250RS.

Stopped for impromptu photoshoot in my travels today...

My PM35 talked to me in Japanese today as I pulled into drive way after some local run about trips. No Fault codes showing and the Carrozia stereo system was turned off. Any ideas???

Jealous of you, seems much more Stageas to choose from down there, seem more popular down south for some reason. I'm in Hawke's Bay.

Cheers, yeah pretty clean for its age, owner garaged it. I should take some nicer pics before it gets the inevetible car park scars and cat scratches on the bonnet. We have three who seem to think a warm bonnet is a cat hotel in the winter

They must fail pretty often too, annoyed all the wreckers for ages and they seemed as rare as rocking horse shit. Saw lots of them still attached to "rear cut" assemblies, guess they don't want to be left with rear cut that has brake light missing...

Found the pics of the old one, should have taken some with lens off... give you an idea of where to start anyway with your plan.

Mine had the same thing. I used to do electronic assembly for a job so tried to fix it. After much internet searching it seems it is a sealed unit. As it was buggered I thought nothing to lose if try to pull apart. The red lens is glued PERMANENTLY into the black part and I knew that. VERY carefully tried to prise it out, got about 80% before cracking the red lens which is a WOF fail here anyway. Once I got inside the leds had a dry break somewhere but so tiny could not pin point it. At this point I realised if I'd just cut my losses and cut in from the back through the black plastic I could have put a new led of some kind inside there like you plan to do. In the end I bought a new one via Cockram Nissan in Christchurch for about $NZ 350ish as warrant was due soon. Its pretty easy to pop of that interior panel, then there are about 5x10mm nuts to undo, one elec plug and the washer hose bit to pull off.

On my old 2001 M35 the boot would try to push me in the back with my bike on cold mornings, rest of the time they worked nicely. Pity they are not like the Toyota Hiace ones that you can rotate a section once open to lock them open.

Thanks guys. Well got the Wagon (PM35 350RX) and had proper drive on way home. Very impressed and the 5 speed auto is way better behaved on the big hills. It came with one of those aftermarket English owners manuals, supposedly only 100kg heavier than the 250RS but carries it better. Prob the 17 inch wheels make a difference, other wagon had 16's. This one has 3 brands of mismatched and 2 worn tyres and still drives beautiful and straight, will sort new tyres soon. Has Pioneer Carrozia HDD radio, pretty much sussed out how it all works, find the reversing camera bit gimmicky and no substitute for knowing the size and feel of your car with the wing mirrors instead. Quick photo on the way home

Neck muscles were tad sore next day, think would have fared worse if not as fit from my mountain bike nd motorbike riding. Not too familiar with car damage, I suppose what you are saying explains that rip/failure in panel by window. Not aware of any previous damage, first NZ owner, bought from dealer and was mint condition around. The other car had heavy frontal damage, fully folded bonnet and dumped all his engine oil on road.

More a case of what someone else did to my Stagea. Couple weeks ago an elderly driver decided to conduct a rear impact test, unfortunately while I was still inside it! Was in 100km/h zone stopped at big que of roundabout traffic. Was a big hit, I reckon close to 100, no brake marks, but firefighter mate reckons damage more consistant with 70k impact. Bit of mild whiplash for me, car bent vertically and to the left, photos don't show how bad it is. Drivers door opened ok, passenger little tight, didn't bother trying the others. Airbags didn't deploy as stopped but did get pushed into towbar of car in front. Had only just left home, less than 2km away, other drivers all local too! Been written off, lucky full insurance as he had none. Bit annoyed as really happy with the car, bought few years ago with 70,000km and looked after, good oil etc, planned lot more years out of it as I tend to keep my cars/bikes for long periods. Had my mountain bike laying down in the back, it hit the roof so hard it twisted the bar mount on the stem about 25 degrees. He hit me fairly square then slid underneath slightly. Blew 350NZD about six months ago for new centre brake light LED too...

Hi everyone, been away for awhile and never introduced properly originally. Just into my standard stageas and maintainance hence my user name. Living in NZ. Had a 2001 250RS which just got trashed and hopefully a 2005 PM35 to be added next week. btw is there a way to upload images direct or do I need to host them somewhere and link? Think I've just noticed the appropriate bit below, why didn't I see it earlier !

Hi all been away from the forum for awhile. All things going well I should have a 2005 PM35 with 3.5L v6 next week. Took it for test drive yesterday, feels like it drives better than my ill fated 2001 M35 250RS, maybe just because newer and the extra engine weight? Anyway despite best googling and searching here hard to find specific model info. The windscreen has two small sensors to the side with two sort lines and longer lines near top visor area. Are these GPS sensor,aeriels or part of auto headlights or wipers etc??? Are the oil and filters same as the vq25dd engine? Just bought two lots other month as was on special before I lost the m35. Thanks.

Drivers electric window has failed. Mechanic has sourced new motor but trouble getting other parts. One of the plastic sliders that holds window about to break. Anyone know any NZ wreckers that are good with m35 parts or aussie ones that would post to nz???? Thanks

Finally some better weather, tried out the soft roof rack setup i had on my old car. Damn that long flat roof is a pain but we got the kayak on there ok, lucky i dont live to far from the beach. May switch to trailer setup in future, ends up being a lot easier....

CASTROL EDGE SPORT 5W-30 HALF PRICE AT SUPERCHEAPAUTO NZ STORES! ONLY $29.97 FOR 5LITRE PACK, JUST CLEANED OUT MY LOCAL STORE, NOW HAVE SEVERAL YEARS SUPPLY STOCKPILED tALKING TO staff member there, reckons they make quite a few mistakes like this, the other viscosities are discounted too but not this much!

According to window sticker this is what dealer had put in there when they "serviced" it. elf Super Sporti XP 15W-40 "high performance" mineral oil, excuse my tyoe earlier i mistakenly wrote 10-40

Yeah you would get a filter wrench on easy if you had too. The Z436 fitted the same tool as my Suzuki GSXR750 oil filter tool with the multi face nut bit around the top, cant think of proper name for that. Incidently the Nismo veruspeed filter body was slightly smaller outside dimension so i just did it up by hand 3/4 turn after o-ring contact. Someone else in an infiniti forum in USA mentioned this and it is about tight as you need and can manage by hand. Hardest part is taking of the dozen or so bolts that secure the skid gaurd undertray, well not hard just tiresome. Yes filter and sump drain both on driver side of car (RHS)

Oil change done. Posting this for newbies like me as its damn near impossible to easily spot the location of filter without removing the under tray first. Replaced dealers 10-40 Elf junk oil with Castrol Edge 5-30 Synthetic and Nismo Filter, liked the claimed increase flow rates and longer filter life specs etc and i'm planning on longer oil change intervals as my motor wont be getting thrashed much if at all. Covered the line near filter with tinfoil and oil change went very cleanly. Had car jacked up on RHS and axle stands for safety and able to do filter by hand lying on back from under front bumper without too much drama or difficulty. Replaced sump washer with nissan standard aluminium 12mm sump washer $2. And you guys are right about it taking 5 Litres! VQ25DD vq25dd vq25 oil filter location oil change M35 Nissan vq engine oil Stagea 250RS

Couple of years to late for the group buy, but anyone got the part number for a M35 so i can get one from fumoto myself, thanks.