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Excellent.. Thanks Chris!

Had my airbag light start flashing a few days ago, and I thought it might have been the connectors for the anti-submarine ram on the passenger seat again.. I fixed that one by soldering the wires into the connectors for it. Anyway, turns out it is a drivers airbag module fault. A bit of research told me it is likely to be the airbag clock spring, so I pulled that out yesterday and confirmed one of the 2 conductors for the airbag goes high resistance at certain angles as I turn the clockspring. I have looked up epc-data for a part number, but it gives several, and I am not sure which one is correct. There is also this post from PN-Mad from last year which shows a part number that matches one of the numbers listed on epc-data. http://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/449192-m35-airbag-fault-clock-spring-tutorial/ However, I can only assume that there is differences depending on the presence of VDC on the car, as the steering angle sensor is included with the unit. Is anyone able to confirm the correct part number for a 2005 V35 sedan with VDC? Or even better. have a near new unit they want to sell? These are the part numbers from epc. 25567-7W025 - A$221 (this one is listed in the link above) B5567-CF40A - A$197 25567-AL525 - A$198 (or A$98 if I am happy to pay for freight from UAE and wait for it to arrive)

To be honest, it doesn't look original to me. I haven't seen any factory Nissan components that use a common DC connector like that. My guess is a previous owner had something mounted in this area that needed power and had this cable wired in.

.. I had a jax tyre fitter try to say my V35 is a 'puss box version' of an R35. Seems he doesn't know the only thing it shares with a R35 is a Nissan badge.. I guess I should be thankful he didn't call it a maxima?? . Although it at least shares an engine with a maxima!

I'm sure most did.. thus the LHD.. it was just a US build they used..

yeah. unless the engine falls out as you are driving the car away from the dealer when you bought it.. you are most likely out of luck. Most 'used car warranties', aren't worth the paper they are written on. I did get a new muffler under used car warranty once, but only because it was the service manager's last day before starting a job with another company, so he didn't care!

Didn't they use the V35 body during testing of the R35 drive train? Because the R35 body was still being built/tweaked?. So this was probably just one of their 'test' builds. It was never going to be a production build.

What is different about it other than the RON?? If it is just a higher octane fuel, it is a complete waste of time. Nissan specify 96RON fuel, using anything higher is of no benefit in a stock engine/tune. If it costs more, it is flushing money down the drain.

I doubt it would make any improvement.. in fact it may make it worse.. you would need more throttle input to accelerate the same, meaning you have more TC slip, which wastes power in heat. These engines don't really benefit much with lower RPM with economy. My V35 returns better highway fuel economy than my wife's J31 maxima, despite the V35 running about 500RPM higher at 100km/h

how would they maintain their reputation if they put on more staff??

I believe there was quite a number of updates. bluetooth and aux input on the stereo, upgrade of navi, better paint (self healing).. not that I really recommend wikipedia for accuracy.. but .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Skyline Scroll down to the 2010- update

Viscous LSDs don't need anything special as the viscous unit is sealed and contains its own viscous fluid which doesn't mix with the gear oil. There are probably a lot of options. I am sure redline make something. I just use castrol AXLE EPX 80W-90 or SYNTRAX UNIVERSAL PLUS 75W-90 in my V35 LSD. According to the castrol webpage, AXLE EPX 80W-90 also suits the 370Z Diff.

According to Nissan Japan, both S1 and S2 sedans and coupes have 80L tanks. S2 - http://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://history.nissan.co.jp/SKYLINE/V35/0411/DATA/main1.html S1 - (sorry, couldn't get google translate to do a very good job of this one.) http://history.nissan.co.jp/SKYLINE/V35/0201/DATA/SPEC/index.html

That is extreme.. I don't do much highway driving, but the best I have done in the past was about 730km with just a smidge under 1/4 tank showing on the gauge. Wasn't economy driving.. sat on 100-110km/h, 4 people in the car with a boot load of luggage. After re-filling the tank, it worked out to 7.6L/100km. theoretically, an 80L tank should be able to do over 1000km with that figure, but no-way would I push it that far! Hybrids don't do that well on the highway anyway. They shine in the city.

I'm fairly sure it was V1.5. I could pair it with my phone or tablet ok, with the ignition turned OFF, it would query the adaptor and return the adaptor version, once I turned the ignition on, and queried again to find the ECU, it wouldn't even return the adaptor version number, let alone the ECU details. Same symptoms on both cars and both from my android tablet and phone (both running Kitkat) I was also using NDSII lite and I also tried Torque.

I bought one of those Bluetooth adaptors about 6 months ago and it wouldn't work on my V35. But then again, it wouldn't work on my wife's J31 either, so it might just be faulty.

If you have time to wait.. buy it from Amayama.. half the price.. shipping for 1 hose would probably be about $7-8 from Japan. http://www.amayama.com/search?q=21501JK200

The stock sizes are 225/45/18 front and 245/45/18 rear. Even the tyre placard on mine shows this. Same with the 19s. stock sizes are 225/40/19 front and 245/40/19 rear. They are a staggered setup.. I think the 350Z might be the same??

Nice.. I did try this with our J31 when it was stumbling a bit at cold start, but it didn't make any difference. So perhaps the cause is different in your case.

There isn't really anything the computer needs to do to 're-calibrate' between short trips and long highway trips, I figured a good highway run would give things a bit of a cleanout, clean some carbon buildup of the intake valves, etc. Might be worth cleaning the throttle-body(s) and MAF. Not sure if injector cleaners are of much use, but probably won't hurt.

Not sure if it is relevant, but my wife's J31 maxima (VQ35DE) was starting to struggle to start a little with a cold start. would always start, but seemed to hesitate for a second or so after firing. It was mainly used around town, and we took it on a 1000km highway trip, and it has been fine since.. with a cold start, it immedeatly shoots up to about 1800rpm, then drops down, just like it used to do.

are you sure you put the 245s on the rear and not the front? I swapped my wheels front/back to check if there were any clearance problems with 245 tyres on the front of my sedan and the VDC went nuts.

Couldn't say. I would look up epc-data and see if they list the same part number

Can you get the existing one rebuilt? that would be my preference, they usually end up better than the original hose and are a much cheaper option. otherwise.. they might be the same as the 350z hose.

Mechanically it is very similar to a 370z. I would try to find a good independent mechanic that knows Nissans. I don't live in that part of the country, so i can't suggest anyone. you might have a good Nissan dealer there, but most turn their noses up at imports.