New Stegea Owner

[thomasLait]

Hey everyone, I recently bought myself a 2001 Nissan Stegea M35, and I've had a few issues that I had to fix, my car would start intermittently and I had a bad rocker cover leak, after a couple days of looking I finally found a part number that interchanges with the OEM starter as the OEM starters at $1300 and I can't afford that, this starter was only $270 and I replaced the start and still had the same issues, I posted a video asking for help online and it went very well, some guy said it was probably a bad ignition switch so I took my dash apart and turns out my ignition switch was half screwed in and was loose, once it was tightened it fired right up, I found a local place called "Boost factory" and they sold me a part of OEM Nissan rocker covers, they were $600 which was a shocker but I couldn't find them anywhere else, so I installed them and fixed my oil leak as the old rocker cover was cracked and warped, I now need to replace my boost air inlet hoses as they have some cracks.

[Duncan]

Welcome to SAU Thomas, sounds like you'd had a bit of a an unlucky start with the car, hopefully you get some better luck now!

[PranK]

Welcome Thomas!

Sounds like you've made some progress. Are you able to drive it and enjoy it a bit now ? 

[thomasLait]

19 hours ago, PranK said:

Welcome Thomas!

Sounds like you've made some progress. Are you able to drive it and enjoy it a bit now ? 

Ya thankfully I've been able to drive it, it's pretty fun however I noticed yesterday while driving to work that my left side of the car is very wobbly, like any bump I go over it jolts the whole vehicle and pulls the steering wheel, I kicked the wheel a few times once I got home and it's a very distinct metal on metal clunk, so I guess I need to take a look at my suspension, maybe it's a control arm bushing or tie rod 

[luke gtr]

Welcome. 

It's unfortunate,  but a lot of these vehicles just haven't had regular and thorough maintenance for a long while.

Once its back up to scratch, it should provide fun and fairly trouble free motoring. 

Keep us updated with what you're doing with it.

[thomasLait]

4 hours ago, luke gtr said:

Welcome. 

It's unfortunate,  but a lot of these vehicles just haven't had regular and thorough maintenance for a long while.

Once its back up to scratch, it should provide fun and fairly trouble free motoring. 

Keep us updated with what you're doing with it.

Will do!!