so does anyone actually know what goes there on jap models without joking?

 

Its some kind of traction device....no joke...

 

^^ more traction control options? so do they have blanks where we have vdc button?

 

On my 03' G Sedan....

The VDC button is located on the drivers left side by the light dimming switch....
Apparently the blank on the right hand side of the centre consol is for another type of traction control device.....

 

on my 04 touring z i have a vdc switch on the dash to the left of the driver, there is also a blank to the right of it and a blank to the right of the heated seat buttons in the center console.

 

Same blank as on my center console...... to the right of the shifter....

 

Anyone bother to think that maybe it was for the driver's seat heater button on RHD models? It would make sense to have the button closer to the driver.

 

I think I may be able to help. I have a Japanese brochure from 2003. It shows a picture of the 3 buttons on the center console. Two of course are for the heated seats. The one that is blank on our car has A/T printed on the center of the rocker switch, "POWER" printed on the front end, and "SNOW" on the back end. It does not show the shifter in the picture, but I assume it's a 5AT. I don't think it's T/C because in one of the other pictures it shows the T/C button in the same place as ours. I would think it has something to do with the shift patterns in snowy weather as opposed to dry.

 

So I guess it doesn't have 4 settings, just 2... Lazy and Gay...

 

It's so you can hook up your NOS!

 

rear fog light is on the stalk with the rest of the light controls

 

Mine's right hand drive, the blank is nearest me, i believe it adjusts the Auto 'box modes.

 

STFU. Gay is your need to have a rod in your hands at all times. Flesh or innanmate.

 

Little uptight aren't we?

 

im not uptight. just responding to your needless auto-bashing. Why do you have to trash autos to be happy with your stick?? the auto is great on the Z.

 

sounds like it, loves his auto a little much

 

i just dont like words like lazy, gay, associated with the auto in my Z. I hope you get stuck in a roundabout.

 

Well you don't have to keep your 5AT on the GAY or the LAZY settings... you have two others, right?

 

Are you saying that a Roundabout is difficult to navigate in a stick?

 

It can be, I was looking for 'D' but all I could see was numbers 1 to 6 and 'R' Then I discovered a 3rd pedal in the footwell, what the hell is that, I only have two feet.