VIN check indicates wrong year
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VIN check indicates wrong year
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I am buying, or thought I was, a 2008 350Z GT. The registration says it's a 2008, but when I did the online VIN check it says it's a 2007. It was purchased from a Nissan dealer, used, 4 years ago by the guy I'm buying it from.
Anyone understand how that can happen?
I am not aware of any real differences in the 2 years, but I have read on this site about the clutch slave issues on the 2007. Was this issue resolved in the 2008 model year?
I appreciate any thoughts or advice.
Thanks
I am buying, or thought I was, a 2008 350Z GT. The registration says it's a 2008, but when I did the online VIN check it says it's a 2007. It was purchased from a Nissan dealer, used, 4 years ago by the guy I'm buying it from.
Anyone understand how that can happen?
I am not aware of any real differences in the 2 years, but I have read on this site about the clutch slave issues on the 2007. Was this issue resolved in the 2008 model year?
I appreciate any thoughts or advice.
Thanks
Last edited by blufc3s; 07-20-2015 at 03:39 AM.
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Hi
I am buying, or thought I was, a 2008 350Z GT. The registration says it's a 2008, but when I did the online VIN check it says it's a 2007. It was purchased from a Nissan dealer, used, 4 years ago by the guy I'm buying it from.
Anyone understand how that can happen?
I am not aware of any real differences in the 2 years, but I have read on this site about the clutch slave issues on the 2007. Was this issue resolved in the 2008 model year?
I appreciate any thoughts or advice.
Thanks
I am buying, or thought I was, a 2008 350Z GT. The registration says it's a 2008, but when I did the online VIN check it says it's a 2007. It was purchased from a Nissan dealer, used, 4 years ago by the guy I'm buying it from.
Anyone understand how that can happen?
I am not aware of any real differences in the 2 years, but I have read on this site about the clutch slave issues on the 2007. Was this issue resolved in the 2008 model year?
I appreciate any thoughts or advice.
Thanks
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As for the VIN issue, what was the 10th digit which indicates model year? And as nOsmoke indicates, the CSC issue was common to both the '07 and '08 models, so it won't make a difference there.
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Both the 2007's and 2008's (HR cars) had issues with the concentric slave cylinder. Some people have issues with them with as little as 30k miles on the car, lots of others go to 100k. Just the luck of the draw. Outside of that they're really reliable cars and Zspeed makes an awesome replacement slave cylinder to the OEM one.
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my first one went out at about 33k miles (6weeks after buying the car), i bitched at the dealership i bought it from, they helped me out with about half the cost. of course they replaced it with oem... fast forward a year and it went out again. replaced with the zspeed setup and never looked back
I've only put 2k miles in 5 months though.
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Thanks for all the comments everyone.
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So, what is the build date of the car?
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Hi
I am buying, or thought I was, a 2008 350Z GT. The registration says it's a 2008, but when I did the online VIN check it says it's a 2007. It was purchased from a Nissan dealer, used, 4 years ago by the guy I'm buying it from.
Anyone understand how that can happen?
I am not aware of any real differences in the 2 years, but I have read on this site about the clutch slave issues on the 2007. Was this issue resolved in the 2008 model year?
I appreciate any thoughts or advice.
Thanks
I am buying, or thought I was, a 2008 350Z GT. The registration says it's a 2008, but when I did the online VIN check it says it's a 2007. It was purchased from a Nissan dealer, used, 4 years ago by the guy I'm buying it from.
Anyone understand how that can happen?
I am not aware of any real differences in the 2 years, but I have read on this site about the clutch slave issues on the 2007. Was this issue resolved in the 2008 model year?
I appreciate any thoughts or advice.
Thanks
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