My brother is pushing 6k on his 05 Touring AT. He has factory 17 wheels and tires. No sign of any feathering at all.
My 05 Touring 6MT has 18 Nismos as well as Bridgestone S0 3أش all good so far, but I only have 1,600 miles (not my daily driver)
MJD

 

Post again at 11k and let us know how it's going.

Chris

 

Glad to hear it.

 

Ths S0-3's probably aren't a fair comparison since their not stock tires and aftermarket tires seem to at least slow-down, if not in some cases eliminate feathering.

However, I am very interested in the stock '05's progress. Glad to hear.

 

I'm at 911 miles, none so far, I'll probably won't hit 11K until 2009,

 

Someone should start up a feathering poll for 05 owners. Not that I'll do it, I'm far too lazy...

 

If I am not mistaken, Tony at Performance Nissan said the 05's have new front spindles, sway arms or something like that.

 

zand02max i so understand u
my clk 500 got 5k miles in 1 year lol

 

Had mine 3 months so far, so maybe 3K a year is what she is going to get!

 

yeah i heard 05 have new front suspension setup. Thats what the dealer told me when i brought my 03 for feathering today. they replace it but i had to do a little bit of aruging but it'll worth the extra 20 min. 05 could have new suspension setup or the dealer could be saying that to attract people to buy an 05.. who knows?

 

I've had mine over a month and I've got 680 miles. I won't be of much use on this topic.

 

I still think if Nissan had an answer they would be doing more for current owners than fighting with them. A new set of spindles is about the cost of 4 tires and actually doing something would go a lot further than the lip service they have given owners in the past.

I have a 2004.5 that is supposed to have the euro spec suspension or something and just after I got home from a 350 mile drive last week where I ticked over 10k miles, I noticed every third block on the inside front tires looks like it's no touching the ground any more. I don't have any noise yet and am going to rotate them this week to see if that helps keep them flat.

Chris

 

I've only got 600 miles so that's useless. Hell, I haven't even bent down to look at the front tires yet.

I asked the service manager how many they've had in for feathering problems and he said its been a while. He mentioned a suspension change also but wasn't very specific so who knows. But he said quite confidently Nissan has fixed the problem, but again, we'll see.

 

I have been told that if you put an 03 and an 05 on lifts side by side = the front end/suspension looks slightly different w/ different parts. Not sure though how that effects the aggressive camber that was initially thought to be the cause of the feathering but this could be Nissans fix to that issue? Understandably, they must be loosing a heck of an amount of money handing out new tires every few thousand miles to everyone = it would just make more sense that they HAVE addressed the problem in hopes to save money and bring more buyers back to the Z!

 

IF they are handing out tires to everyone. Does anyone have any idea of the overall percentage of Z's that have this problem? I'm thinking its a fairly smaill percentage.

 

I finally found the article I was looking for.

"The answer was a multi-link arrangement with upper and lower wishbone links, but one with an interesting twist. Nissan engineers split the lower link into two, creating two links each with its own lower ball joint. This effectively gives the front suspension of the Z two separate lower pivot points, one on the outboard edge of the transverse link and the other on the end of the knuckle arm. In plain English, this endows the 350Z front suspension with a dual personality, one that can optimize wheel alignment depending on whether the car is turning or going straight. Designed with untold hours of computer modeling, Nissan has received 14 patents for this new suspension design."

Found under suspension from this article here, http://nissan350z.8ir.com/Reviews/technology.php

I think the "Dual Personality" is there it wears funny on the inside edge and when Nissan looks at it, it looks fine.

Another example of computer modeling not taking into account real world situations.

Chris

 

HAA! I got two more miles than you in 2 months of less driving!

 

I have a 2004.5 with 7000 miles plus. So far no noticable noise or unusual wear. I was recently reading customer reviews on tirerack.com for bridgestone potenza ultra high performance tires (all models), and one topic was mentioned many times by drivers of a variety of car brands: tires becoming progressivly more noisy as they wear. Lots of guys in cars like M3's etc. said that their bridgestones were driving them crazy. Could this be a tire problem?

 

after reading, what seems like and endless amount of threads on this topic i think the problem is more rooted in the suspension. A lot of people w/ 03's have had feathering problems with any tire they put on. Granted the problems might not be as extreme as the stock tires. If everything holds true atleast its getting better w/ the 05's. I guess we'll need a couple more months to find out for sure. Doesnt seem like too many people have a ton of miles on their 05s yet.

 

can anyone give update on their 05' as far as feathering goes