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05-02-2013 | 05:08 PM
#9272
I just picked up a set of 19" g37 oem coupe wheels just wondering if anyone would be interested in just the wheels? I'm planning on keeping the tires possibly for another set so it would just be the RIMS only for sale. Hit me up if anyone is interested, I'm in Blaine.
05-02-2013 | 10:12 PM
#9275
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Joined: Jul 2012
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Can someone add me on FB? Search for me bazooka.joe@hotmail.com
05-03-2013 | 01:54 AM
#9279
Hey all, haven't been active on this forum and not on g35driver in a while but I'm hoping you might have some advice for me.
Thanks to the wonderful winter we had I broke my 108k mile 2007 G35x. The street I live on is rarely plowed and it built up some pretty deep ruts in the snow/ice pack. I couldn't drive in the ruts without bottoming out so I tried to drive off-center. The inevitable happened and I dropped hard into the rut as I slowed for an intersection, kind of knocked the wind out of me.
Immediately after a horrible grinding noise began which based on the rust/dust that has built up is from the rear driver side wheel. It's worse at low speeds and changes sound when I lightly apply the brakes so I had assumed it was a cracked caliper or similar. I've been living with it as I've only been driving once a week for the last two months. Yesterday I tried backing out of a parking spot and I had to hit the gas pretty hard to get out. The car will no longer go in reverse at all but still drives forward with the grinding.
Doing some reading on the forum it sounds like it might in fact be a bad wheel bearing? It seems weird to me that a bad wheel bearing would cause the rust unless it's really torn up. Does anyone have a better idea? I read that the wheel bearing for the X is not the same as for the RWD and I can't seem to find any writeups for the X. Now that it's nice I plan to pull the caliper off tomorrow but if there's nothing blindingly obvious I'm not sure I can diagnose it.
For a few months before this happened I'd also been getting some abysmal gas mileage (14-16mpg) and I'm hoping they are somehow related.
If anyone has some experience and is willing to take a look with me or recommend a respectable shop in the area I'd welcome it!
Thanks!
Thanks to the wonderful winter we had I broke my 108k mile 2007 G35x. The street I live on is rarely plowed and it built up some pretty deep ruts in the snow/ice pack. I couldn't drive in the ruts without bottoming out so I tried to drive off-center. The inevitable happened and I dropped hard into the rut as I slowed for an intersection, kind of knocked the wind out of me.
Immediately after a horrible grinding noise began which based on the rust/dust that has built up is from the rear driver side wheel. It's worse at low speeds and changes sound when I lightly apply the brakes so I had assumed it was a cracked caliper or similar. I've been living with it as I've only been driving once a week for the last two months. Yesterday I tried backing out of a parking spot and I had to hit the gas pretty hard to get out. The car will no longer go in reverse at all but still drives forward with the grinding.
Doing some reading on the forum it sounds like it might in fact be a bad wheel bearing? It seems weird to me that a bad wheel bearing would cause the rust unless it's really torn up. Does anyone have a better idea? I read that the wheel bearing for the X is not the same as for the RWD and I can't seem to find any writeups for the X. Now that it's nice I plan to pull the caliper off tomorrow but if there's nothing blindingly obvious I'm not sure I can diagnose it.
For a few months before this happened I'd also been getting some abysmal gas mileage (14-16mpg) and I'm hoping they are somehow related.
If anyone has some experience and is willing to take a look with me or recommend a respectable shop in the area I'd welcome it!
Thanks!
05-09-2013 | 05:36 PM
#9285
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Joined: Jul 2012
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