Well, 3 days ago I started hearing the clicking noise on my left side rear axel on my 350z 05 (base model) everyone has been talking about, and found out this problem was covered under warentee. I had my car for just about a year now and have been planning to buy rims with tires but never came around to it. Basically my stock tires a ****, and Im wondering if the badly worn out tires would void my warentee? Would they use the tires as an excuse to not fix the clicking noise?

 

No.

 

Worn tires and clicking rear axle have no correlation. The axle will click with new tires.

 

Warranty

 

+1,000,000

 

You can tell if a car has been raced by looking at the tires...

SOME dealerships will give you a hard time, Some will not...

but there have been issues where the tires looked like they picked up alot of rubber on a track or from extensive burn outs / drifting...

Yes we all know that they have to prove that the hard driving caused the problem, but I have heard of a few cases where track worn rubber voided a warranty (mainly with subaru and mitsu...)

 

^+1. Mitsu is the worst offender. They have even been known to frequent tracks and drag strips, take down license plates of all Evos present, trace them to the VINs, and auto-void the warranty in their central database. The owners later go in for minor work and are told that the cars are no longer under warranty. Sports Compact Car did an expose' on this issue some time back.

But for your issue, OP, you will likely be fine. It is a TSB issue. Stay firm in case the dealership tries to hassle you.

 

I had the inspector for my ext warranty on a Toyota Celica tell me that they found flat spots on my tires (among other things) Said it was a sign of racing/abuse and they wouldn't cover my car. The F'ing tires had 1k miles on them.

(<-- will NEVER buy an ext warranty again!)

 

Keep stockers laying around

 

As long as they're street tires, you shouldn't have a problem. I have known people to get denied warranty coverage when they went to the dealer with drag radials on their car though.

 

Nope. Took my '05 Z in with 25k (on stock tires, pretty good huh) and had no issues whatsoever.

 

thanks alot guys

 

i have a 30k mile tread warranty on my tires... I don't expect discount to honor it.

 

Jason, correct me if I'm wrong, but the "clicking axle" problem is NOT covered under warranty, it's covered under a TSB, which means it's been diagnosed as a chronic manufacturing flaw and the whole abuse argument cannot be used as grounds to deny repair....that's the way I understood it anyway.

 

I dont know the specific's of TSB... But I think you are correct about that...

I was reffering to warranty in general...