I found an 08 350z for a REALLY good price, but something is up with this car. Look at the pics. It must be a base because there are no buttons on the steering wheel, right? But then how could it have leather seats and a bose stereo? The other thing is that this Z has the stock chrome rims.

I am wondering if maybe the Nissan factory had a bunch of parts and pieces and just started putting together z's with whatever parts they had left over. As in, this was one of the last z's put together at whatever factory this came from.

It only has 140 miles on it and is from a HUGE dealership, so I don't think anything shady is going on. What do you guys think?

 

howmuch is a REALLY good price?

 

Yeah whats the price?

 

It is a base. Those leather seats are aftermarket wrapped. OEM leather doesn't look like that. And there is no traction control button.....Anyone can swap in the stock BOSE radio. People don't even sell them on the forum, they just give them away...And those seats aren't power, and OEM leather seats come with power. Plus your right about the buttons....

I'm 95% sure

 

why dont you ask the dealer? I dont think anyone will know the truth more than them.

 

Is this being sold as brand new or used?

 

sold as "brand new"

price is 24k

140 miles

 

140 isn't brand new....but it is close and no dealer would list a touring Z at 24k so i'm pretty sure it's a base. Offer 22 OTD

 

You got owned.

 

That price is terrible. It's just MSRP 29k - Rebates 5k = 24k.

 

Not certain if the factory or dealer installed the leather seats.

 

dude, those are factory leather seats. The manual adjustment ***** which raises or lower it are on the left.

The power buttons with moves it back and forth and works the back rest tilt, those buttons are on the right.

 

Damn....i'm glad you posted that because without this info I wouldn't know how my OEM seats in my Touring would work.....


And why don't you check out the very right of the seats, there are no power controls.....and the leather is wrinkly on the side and OEM is as smooth as a whistle. What might have happened is the dealer wrapped the cloth seats in leather.

 

something fishy is going on.

 

Those are not OEM seats; not sure why people are debating that.

- OEM leather seats are perforated in the middle, these are not.
- OEM seats are not this shoddily wrapped; look at all the creases.
- These aren't powered.

They wrapped base cloth seats in leather so of course, the manual lumbar adjustment wheels would be on the side. Dealerships do it all the time to increase the appeal of their cars.

 

Definitely a base.

 

Yeah, why would the dealer go to the trouble of putting aftermarket leather on the car? They wouldn't. And the Bose stereo? As far as I'm concerned, the fact that there are no steeringwheel controls means for sure that this is a base.

What about my theory that this Z is made with left-overs from the factory?

 

Haven't bought it yet bud.

 

I never would have thought that dealers would do that.

 

My thought is someone bought a base, got the seats wrapped but then for whatever reason had to return it.

I would consider that reason for a discount, the seats have been modified, possibly violating the warranty.