Repairs/Maintence performed at 99k miles
11-03-2015 | 05:21 PM
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Repairs/Maintence performed at 99k miles
Hey guys, Just want to share with you the work I just had done to my G over the last two months. All these repairs I've been negating for a bit, so I finally said to hell with it and forked over the money. Considering so, my car drives like a dream again....well almost!
Brakes: Centric Premium rotors: Roughly $280, Pads: Centric Posi-quiet metallic: $120. Install was about $225
Power steering and brake fluid flush and obviously refill: $80
Rear Diff and manual transmission oil change; Valvoline 75-90 in both. Did the change myself, in which I do it once a year in the fall: $65 to $70
Starter: Purchased a slightly used, OEM starter with 25k on it off of ebay for $42 shipped. I didnt want to tackle the install myself, so I paid $90 for the install.
Battery: Still 50% under warranty through Infiniti. $90.
Rear Axles greased: Infiniti took care of this as well for $290.
So needles to say, my 08 G coupe almost feels like a new car again! But I still have one more repair to do, which would be the strut mounts....all four of them are shot, in which road noise as increased by a substantial amount, along with myself feeling every bump and divot in the road. Looks to me that the mounts are pretty damn cheap (starting at around $40), but I'm not sure I feel like doing the repairs myself, which obviously involves compressing and decompressing the springs.
Any takes on that?
Thanks!
Brakes: Centric Premium rotors: Roughly $280, Pads: Centric Posi-quiet metallic: $120. Install was about $225
Power steering and brake fluid flush and obviously refill: $80
Rear Diff and manual transmission oil change; Valvoline 75-90 in both. Did the change myself, in which I do it once a year in the fall: $65 to $70
Starter: Purchased a slightly used, OEM starter with 25k on it off of ebay for $42 shipped. I didnt want to tackle the install myself, so I paid $90 for the install.
Battery: Still 50% under warranty through Infiniti. $90.
Rear Axles greased: Infiniti took care of this as well for $290.
So needles to say, my 08 G coupe almost feels like a new car again! But I still have one more repair to do, which would be the strut mounts....all four of them are shot, in which road noise as increased by a substantial amount, along with myself feeling every bump and divot in the road. Looks to me that the mounts are pretty damn cheap (starting at around $40), but I'm not sure I feel like doing the repairs myself, which obviously involves compressing and decompressing the springs.
Any takes on that?
Thanks!
11-03-2015 | 08:41 PM
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Nice to get it freshened up. The rear shock mounts are simple, the fronts you can just remove and take them to a shop and have them do the R&R, should save a bit in the overall labor charge if you don't want to do the spring compression.
11-03-2015 | 09:26 PM
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This is what I was about to scour the forums for!
Hey guys, Just want to share with you the work I just had done to my G over the last two months. All these repairs I've been negating for a bit, so I finally said to hell with it and forked over the money. Considering so, my car drives like a dream again....well almost!
Brakes: Centric Premium rotors: Roughly $280, Pads: Centric Posi-quiet metallic: $120. Install was about $225
Power steering and brake fluid flush and obviously refill: $80
Rear Diff and manual transmission oil change; Valvoline 75-90 in both. Did the change myself, in which I do it once a year in the fall: $65 to $70
Starter: Purchased a slightly used, OEM starter with 25k on it off of ebay for $42 shipped. I didnt want to tackle the install myself, so I paid $90 for the install.
Battery: Still 50% under warranty through Infiniti. $90.
Rear Axles greased: Infiniti took care of this as well for $290.
So needles to say, my 08 G coupe almost feels like a new car again! But I still have one more repair to do, which would be the strut mounts....all four of them are shot, in which road noise as increased by a substantial amount, along with myself feeling every bump and divot in the road. Looks to me that the mounts are pretty damn cheap (starting at around $40), but I'm not sure I feel like doing the repairs myself, which obviously involves compressing and decompressing the springs.
Any takes on that?
Thanks!
Brakes: Centric Premium rotors: Roughly $280, Pads: Centric Posi-quiet metallic: $120. Install was about $225
Power steering and brake fluid flush and obviously refill: $80
Rear Diff and manual transmission oil change; Valvoline 75-90 in both. Did the change myself, in which I do it once a year in the fall: $65 to $70
Starter: Purchased a slightly used, OEM starter with 25k on it off of ebay for $42 shipped. I didnt want to tackle the install myself, so I paid $90 for the install.
Battery: Still 50% under warranty through Infiniti. $90.
Rear Axles greased: Infiniti took care of this as well for $290.
So needles to say, my 08 G coupe almost feels like a new car again! But I still have one more repair to do, which would be the strut mounts....all four of them are shot, in which road noise as increased by a substantial amount, along with myself feeling every bump and divot in the road. Looks to me that the mounts are pretty damn cheap (starting at around $40), but I'm not sure I feel like doing the repairs myself, which obviously involves compressing and decompressing the springs.
Any takes on that?
Thanks!
I'm going to do all that is recommended for my joint (her name is Indya btw) because you know and this is my daily driver. But I love the legendary reliability of the well maintained Nissan 3.7 liter V6 vq37vhr.
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