Everyone who visits this site should do us all a favor and take 2 minutes and go register on www.nissantireproblems.com and join the class action law suit.

 

Also check out one of there links called The complaint station and if you search the 50 most complained topics nissan is not one of them. Im shocked because toyota,ford,hyundai and some other car makers are on there but this damn car company is not. Well its are own faults till now. Its time we change this now and all do are part so that hopefully with enough complaints someone will notice like 20/20 ,48 hours ,60 minutes etc. like they said on The complaint station. at least I hope.

 

I registered and bookmarked the page. Thanks for the info.

 

i registered as well

 

You know, I really don't know that this is actually as huge a problem as it seems. I know that 5000mi is short for tire wearout, but not neccessarily for high powered rwd's that are driven hard. I go through rear tires every 6-8 months (5-6000mi) in my M due to the very agressive layout of the rear suspention. Even worse, I know a guy who's M goes through rears every 3-4000. Both these cars are 275-295bhp/ 245-270trq rwds, so in a similar range to the Z. Any rwd car that is optimized for tight cornering (especially on-track) is going to eat rear tires, that's why a lot of suspentions for dual use (track/street) cars are designed with adjustable camber/toe settings...

I guess the M has primed me to have to replace tires pretty often. I need to get a better feel for how the rear camber was set in the Z, and whether it was deliberately set for tighter cornering or not.

Still, I am curious about what nissan intended with the Z, and whether there is an actual flaw, or just an overly agressive bit of engineering at fault. If it is the latter, I'll leave it alone, if it is the first, I'll let Nissan fix it.

 

Its not the rears that are the problem, its the fronts, and if they were in fact just wearing out EVENLY, I would be a lot more comfortable about it.

What is happening is the inside edges are wearing so badly that the tires need replacing @ 5-10K miles with plently of tread on the rest of the tire! Even that wear is not even, but chopped, so both performance and ride comfort are severly reduced.

If were just a matter of replacing worn tires that would be one thing, but its replacing tires that have been damaged by the car.

I have plenty of high powered rwd cars in my past, and have never seen anything like this before.

 

This should be a STICKY!

 

thanks! registered also. this should be a sticky/note

 

Thanks -great find.

Bookmarked for future reference.