Hubby's car = 2003 Enthusiast with 26,000 miles and NO FEATHERING.

My car = 2005 Enthusiast with 3,500 miles and NO FEATHERING.

Being that the Z is a sports car, and taking into consideration the low treadwear rating of the OEM tires, I will be completely happy if my tires give me 10 -12 thousand miles.

 

2004.5 build date 6/04. 20,000 miles no feathering (second set)

 

03 33,000 miles. Fronts look way better than the backs. If you knwo what I mean.

I do have the grease streaks though.

 

Well only 5k here on a 2004.5 with no feathering. I drive it fairly hard.

Z-Stalker

 

I have 6,000 miles on my 2004.5 Roadster. It has some feathering you can feel, but so far noise is pretty minimal. Interestingly noise is at 40 - 50mph range instead of below 30 mph that most complain about.

I'll update when I get closer to 10K and see if it has gotten worse. If I can get 15K out of them I will consider myself considering the number of people who have had to replace tires in the 5 - 10K range.

Definitely glad to hear some people are getting 20 - 30K out of tires.

 

35k miles here on a 2003 Enthusiast. No problems here.

 

Don't think I do!

 

2004.5 ZR 4800 miles. So far so good.

 

2003 Touring still riding on Potenza's No Probs. here! 15k

 

I have an 03 with 12K miles and so far no feathering. I am keeping my fingers crossed. I really don't want ot have to fight with Nissan. I have always had good luck with all Nissan products. Had 2 Sentra's and a 240 sx. Never any problems.

Forgot to mention I am stil onthe original Potenza's and have the OEM 17" rims.

 

I have a 2004 (built June 2004) w/9000 miles so far, and no feathering.

 

i have a 04 with 8000 and no feathering at all on stock wheels and tires
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I have an 05 and its too early to tell with 1,500 miles. I'm hoping they fixed this issue....(crossing my fingers)

 

8,000 miles and no feathering...

 

2004 (bought car Sept 03, so has July or August build date) - no feathering at all. Car had 31,000 before I ever aligned it too

 

Here is an interesting video about it:
http://wcbs.dayport.com/viewer/viewe...Category_ID=48

 

This is really encouraging to get reports from all those that never had an issue.

I wonder why some people have such problems and others don't at all. If it were really a design defect I would think everyone would have the problem!

 

My 2004 started to have it at around 20K km...

 

04 roadster with 17K miles and no problems.

 

I have an '04.5 and I specifically made sure that I got one made at the plant where the G35 is made vs. where all the 03s and early '04s were made. I only have 8k miles but no sign of odd wear yet.

At the very least the '04s seem to last longer before the feathering sets in. Having read a ton about the issue before buying my car, I know that a lot of people w/ '03s had feathering pop up in 3k to 5k miles even.

When I looked at the car I knew this could be a problem but even if I have to replace the tires every 15k miles I think the Z is a great value compared to any other car I could have gotten.