Wtf Is The Deal With Suspension Specalists ?

[BASHO]

Unfortunately Nissan Australia is a bit of a joke when it comes to the Skyline. Because most of the Skylines in Australia are grey imports direct from Japan - Nissan Australia developed official policy to actively block local support & parts for them.

This has changed a bit over time with regards to parts (still extremely expensive), but generally the service centres provide poor customer service, charge an arm and a leg - and the mechanics have very little knowledge of the platforms. Plus side of this is we have a number of excellent performance workshops that specialise in the cars.

I guess Nissan US have that customer service culture that is so good over in the states?

Just to add to this, and to my amazement, yesterday I phoned Castrol Oil 'customer service' (and you can take that phrase with a bucket of salt) and subsiquently Castrol Technical to see what oil Castrol would actualy recomend for an R34GTT only to find out that Nissan had failed/refused to provide Castrol with any/sufficient information regarding the R34GTT and as far as I could ascertain not much about other Skylines either and they could not provide me with a recomendation.

I got the line , believe it or not , that Nissan grey imports were not supported as policy by one customer service clown .

The same line as I got from my local Nissan dealership who I will add has been sterling when it comes to getting parts for me although they wouldn't service or repair if thier nuts were on fire and I had the only extinguisher.

So Sol it would seem oils aint oils after all .

[GamblerZ]

It seems that I was under the misguided impression that Australia and the UK both sold Nissan Skylines in their respective markets.

[BASHO]

It seems that I was under the misguided impression that Australia and the UK both sold Nissan Skylines in their respective markets.

They have sold a precious (accent on 'precious') few 'select' models here I think it was a stock item pre 1990 ? Others will know better than I exactly which, however dealers can sniff out an import downwind at 50 miles and upwind 2 continents away.

And will give you as soon as you are within co-ee .

Silly realy my missus who is a PT driver was seriously looking at getting a Nissan Micra---was being the opperative word.

[nisskid]

It seems that I was under the misguided impression that Australia and the UK both sold Nissan Skylines in their respective markets.

only decent skyline they brought in was the R32 GTR, and that was in a limited 100 vehicles. besides that an australian spec R31/R30 were sold in our domestic markets, but these were very low spec. pretty much all the turbo skylines u see in Aus are grey, imported personally into australia, not by nissan.

as a side note, the R35 GTR is brought in both by nissan australia, and personally (on a very small scale).

[Sydneykid]

Just to add to this, and to my amazement, yesterday I phoned Castrol Oil 'customer service' (and you can take that phrase with a bucket of salt) and subsiquently Castrol Technical to see what oil Castrol would actualy recomend for an R34GTT only to find out that Nissan had failed/refused to provide Castrol with any/sufficient information regarding the R34GTT and as far as I could ascertain not much about other Skylines either and they could not provide me with a recomendation.

I got the line , believe it or not , that Nissan grey imports were not supported as policy by one customer service clown .

The same line as I got from my local Nissan dealership who I will add has been sterling when it comes to getting parts for me although they wouldn't service or repair if thier nuts were on fire and I had the only extinguisher.

So Sol it would seem oils aint oils after all .

In every organisation there is at least one dick head. They are all listed on the Castrol web site;

http://www.datateck.com.au/lube/castr_au/default.asp

Type in "Nissan"

Go down the drop down list and you will find;

Cars, Wagons, Utilities & Car-type 4-Wheel Drives

NISSAN (Includes DATSUN)

GT-T Series (R34) , 2.5 Litre Turbo Eng., RWD (1998-2003)

Crankcase

CASTROL EDGE SPORT 5W-30

Castrol Edge Sport 5W-30 is a full synthetic SAE 5W-30, API SM/CF. ACEA A3/B3/B4 engine oil formulated for highly tuned fast fours and latest technology engines. It provides superb strength and ultimate protection even when running hard, fast or hot. CASTROL EDGE SPORT 0W-40

Service Refill Capacity: 4.6* Litres (See Note 510)

Manual Transmission

CASTROL VMX 80

Mild extreme pressure gear oil with special viscosity stabilisers to overcome shift problems. Recommended for use in transaxles of most front wheel drive vehicles with a transverse engine and manual transmissions experiencing low temperature shift problems. SAE 75W/80, API GL4. CASTROL VMX-M 75W/85

Mineral transmission and transaxle fluid especially formulated as a factory fill fluid for Mitsubishi vehicles and used in passenger cars, 4WD's and light commercial vehicles. SAE 75W/85, API GL4.

Automatic Transmission

CASTROL TQ DIII

Castrol TQ DIII is an automatic transmission fluid formulated to satisfy the GM H-36163 specification, and suitable for automatic transmissions requiring a GM fluid. Not suitable for use where Dexron® VI fluids are required.

Differential

CASTROL EPX 80W/90

Multipurpose gearbox, steering gear and differential oil for passenger cars, light trucks, farm tractors and earthmoving equipment. SAE 80W/90, API GL5.

(See Note 1174)

Power Steering

CASTROL PS FLUID

A mineral based fluid suitable for most power steering systems where the following specifications are nominated: Dexron®, Dexron® II & Dexron® III, SAE 10W or 10W-20 engine oil, ISO 32 or 46 hydraulic oil, Ford M2C-33 F/G, Ford M2C-138 CJ, Ford M2C-166H, Ford Mercon, Ford SQM-2C-9010A and Mitsubishi Power Steering Fluid.

(See Note 516)

Notes

* Includes Oil Filter

510 May also use CASTROL MAGNATEC.

516 May also use CASTROL TRANSMAX M, CASTROL TQF or CASTROL TQ DIII.

1174 If operating consistently above 30 deg. C, use CASTROL EPX 85W/140.

For competition cars I use Edge 10W60, Syntrans 75W85 and SAF-XA.

Cheers

Gary

[BASHO]

Thanks for that mate, bit of alligators and swamps, came to drain one up to the ass in the other, I actualy phoned Castrol to see if I could get Syntrans 75/85 in 4lt bottles as the only ones on the shelf were 1ltr @ $34ea and innocently asked for thier recomendations, you know the rest.

I'm using 10/40 Nulon full syn fastflow in the engine, I don't flog it, and I'll be using the SAF-XA for the Diff.

I may have to just bite the bullet and buy the damn Syntrans 75/85 stuff in the 1ltrs.

I have used Penrite synthetic 10/10 gear oil, I think 75/90 ? with a nice result in a 00 WRX , I think this has been rebranded though so I'm not sure what it's called now.---I wonder ?

[R30forasong]

only decent skyline they brought in was the R32 GTR, and that was in a limited 100 vehicles. besides that an australian spec R31/R30 were sold in our domestic markets, but these were very low spec. pretty much all the turbo skylines u see in Aus are grey, imported personally into australia, not by nissan.

as a side note, the R35 GTR is brought in both by nissan australia, and personally (on a very small scale).

weren't the ti's aus spec? although probably not stock turbo... dunno. lol