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Hey guys,

Been a while since I been on here. Need some assistance/advice/ya 2 cents/IMHO's etc.

My GTR sees a lot of km's a week as it's my daily driver and work commuter. The suspension is shagged and after going through 3 different mechanics they have all told me 3 differing stories about what is wrong with the car.

I have been told tie rod ends, wheel bearings, steering rack, radius arms, control arms, front passenger shock, all 4 shocks, Upper Control arm bushes, castor rods the list continues but none of the mechanoics ever said the same things (except for the front passenger shock). I decided one day on the way to work that I would stop in at Pedders to get yet another opinion, that and I had a very annoying creak/squeek/grind that I wanted to get looked at.

Well after the 28 point check (which they didn't charge me for by the way *WIN*) I finally got the quote today of what needs to be done and the price it is going to cost me, I need to know if these are low, average, high prices as I'm not too sure about how much it should all cost. I should also add that they were very professional and took me under the car and showed me everything that was in need of replacement, I had an idea from the way it's been driving but was good to actually be shown it all.

Anyway, here is the list of things that they came up with and the cost involved:

PART #-----------------DESCRIPTION ----------------QTY ---------PRICE

EP3478/18 -------------Urethane SwayBar_D Bush------ 1 ----------24.00

3-264 ------------------SWAYBAR LINK (2PKT) ---------1---------- 71.00

KCA336 ----------------Camber adj kit - uppr c/arm -----1 ----------355.70 (already have a superpro Kit for this)

NS ---------------------Balljoint -----------------------2---------- 160.00x2 (This is the crea/squeek

NS ---------------------Tie Rod Assy------------------ 2 ----------150.00x2

EP1154 -----------------Urethane X_member Bush ------1 ----------225.00

4208 -------------------4208 Adj. Stabilizer Link Pin ----2 ----------55.00x2

F -----------------------Fitting -----------------------1------------700.00

4WA --------------------Wheel Alignment - 4 Wheel ---1 ------------110.00

So all up total inc GST is $2,215.70 minus the $355.70 for the adj camber kit that I already have and the total comes to $1860

Is this a good price?

Thanks guys,

Jarrod

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Yeah I've read them all, but also noted that it is dependent on which store you go too, eg. Dandy pedders gets high praise, I went to Sth Melbourne and couldn't really fault them but like I said, I;m not too sure if there prices are excessively high. Centerline were quite expensive for the parts too though. I could source them elsewhere but wouldn't know where to start except online.

At the end of the day if the job is done right and complete I will be happy but obviously the lighter on the wallet it is, the happier the wife will be about me spending the money (well as happy as she can be about it going into the car hehehehe)

Just looked through their site, doesn't look like they have everything I need :P

Might go down to Centreline and Traction tomorrow and see what they come up with. The creaking and squeeking is unbearable!

Thanks for the suggestions

Hi all,

I am new to the scene and also have these same problems at the moment here is Brisbane.

I have an R32 GTR, needing coilovers/suspension upgrade with front and rear bars, new inner/outer CV Boots, Rack Boots and bushes, and probably a bloody good going over by someone who specialises in them.

I would appreciate any reccomendations on offer for a good support base for suspension (supply and setup) and any specialists in the general Brissy, Goldy, Sunny region that can assist with R32 GTR parts, mechanical etc.

Good idea MrKotter, will need to go through that thread again and have a look see. Didn't get to centreline today, called them at 10am and asked when they were open till and they said 11 so didn't have enough time to get there.

I did call Ni$$an to see how much front ball joints were and they said the following to me... "yeah we can supply these to you, they come with that arm attached to them too, you are looking at $440 for the front drivers side and $520 for the front passenger side. The drivers side is in stock in QLD but we will need to source the passenger side from Japan."

That is a lot more than the $150 per side that I got in the original quote from Pedders.

I also had another idea, been thinking about it and the creak/squeek shouldn't be coming from the balljoint and Pedders rekon that 1 D Bush for the swaybar needs replacing so I think this may be the cause of the noise. I am going to jack up the car tomorrow and remove it and put some rubber grease on there to see if the noise goes away, if it does than sweet I won't have to live with my car sounding like it's running over clowns every bump, this will be a temp cover up if it works until I can get it fixed with all the other stuff, hell I might throw on some coil overs while I have all the bits out.

Hi all,

I am new to the scene and also have these same problems at the moment here is Brisbane.

I have an R32 GTR, needing coilovers/suspension upgrade with front and rear bars, new inner/outer CV Boots, Rack Boots and bushes, and probably a bloody good going over by someone who specialises in them.

I would appreciate any reccomendations on offer for a good support base for suspension (supply and setup) and any specialists in the general Brissy, Goldy, Sunny region that can assist with R32 GTR parts, mechanical etc.

Hey dude, happy to recommend Fulcrum suspension at yerongpilly.

Zardos, would you mind if I asked how much it was, as it looks like I am going down the same path. I spent all sunday at a mates house goind over all bushes and doing a bit of diagnostic, took out the stabiliser bar D Bushes and game them a coat of rubber grease, noticed when we took them out that they were fine (I wouldn't really know but my mates a mechanic and he said they were fine, they looked fine to me too though) no tears or degradation and they were still in good shape. I then went for a blocky to see if the noise prevailed, BA-BUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMM still there. Put the front under load by turning left and right with car on the ground and went to town on all the bushings with a bit of WD40, noise disappeared, thought GREAT went for a blocky again and first speed bump, noise returns. AAARRRRRRRRRGHH!!!!!!

Went through a whole can of WD40 and a can of CRC on just about every joint, bush and pivot we could get to, noise still there. I drove the 40kms home to see if it just needed to work itself in a bit but no, still there after 150kms. I got home tonight to see if I could hear where it was coming from and came up with the following bit of info....

Full lock to the left and me bouncing the car from passenger side door sill and the noise isn't there, if I strighten up or turn full lock to the right and then bounce however, the noise is there and loud as ever.

I am stuck as to what it could be. I will be doing the ball joints (passenger side is rooted) on Saturday and also putting in adjustable upper control arm bushes to fix the rediculous amount of wear I get on the insides of my front tyres (get about 10,000km from my fronts at the moment) and then see how we go. If noise still there I'll be off to the specialists to get the rest of it done i.e. bushes and coilovers.

i had this exact same issue and though my car is a R33 gtst, id suggest you get a mate to push up and down on the car ad put your hand in the wheelarch with your finger on the upper control arm bolts. Hard to initially track down for me as the vibration and noise seemed to reciprocate through all the front end suspension. I pulled the bolt out and greased it up and put it back in and it hasnt come back yet (few weeks now).

Yeah thanks for the innnnnput Hamish!!

I called them today because trying to do the ball joint and the upper control arm busshes by myself having never done it before is going to take ages me thinks, then I gotta get in for a wheel alignment and 2 new front tyres and probably won't have time.

I am booked in at centreline on Friday morning. Supply of outer front balljoint, fitting of balljoint, fitting of control arm bushes and a wheel alignment is going to run me $500.

Interesting note, I called Pedder$ to see if they could order me the balljoint (before I called Centreline) and they said it would take about 2 weeks as they are genuine Nissan ordered from Japan, now they said $150 each and when I called nissan I got qouted $440 minimum for one. Centreline are same price as Pedder$ and they have one in stock.

Hopefully all this will fix the issues I am having. I don't think I can wrangle anymore money from the wife to put on the car.

Call back from centreline already, not good news. Looks like I'm going to be running into about $1500.

All 4 front balljoints need replacing, rack ends, rack mounts, upper control arm bushes, HICAS rack ends. Then add 2 new front tyres to the price as well :) also Nissan only have one ball joint in stock, the other 2 are 2 weeks away from Japan, interesting how Centreline can get them for $150 instead of the rediculous amount I got quoted from them.

He said it was very tired in the front end but he will get it back to the way it should be.

Will update as the day goes on.

Waiting on balljoint to be delivered from Nissan and then good to go!! Car is being put back together now. Minor Surgery will do it good I rekon.

Then once the other 2 balljoints come in from Japan, back to centreline for fitting.

Now gotta think of what tyres to get for the front.

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