trackstar

Regarding feathering: There have been innumerable posts about feathering, yet I have no quantifiable idea how widespread the problem is.

I am curious as to whether a vocal minority has been blowing the problem out of proportion (not likely); or, if not, just how widespread it is.

I think it would be beneficial to the whole forum if this thread or something similar was parked, and maybe we could get some numbers.

Please vote, it only takes a second!

trackstar

Over 100 views and about 30 votes. Decent response, but if you take the time to view the post you might as well vote!

Please reply if you think this is a worthwhile endeavor (or not), so we can keep this near the top for a bit. I know it's not the most scientific poll but at least we can get an idea.

cattalbus

I am in full support of this thread I am looking for new info on this problem. we need more people with 2004, and 2004.5 cars to enlighten us with their experiances. I just wish we could get some sort of statment from nissan.

lemans

I have an 03 and feathering noticed as of 17k. Dealer aligned and swapped front tires on 3 april 2004 for the first time. I cannot vote because none of the responses fit me(yet). I do not know if it is resolved nor if it will be recurring. Jury is still out.

cattalbus

bump

pisces9ca

I've have a 2004 ZR, build date 6/03. I have only 4100 miles, I have been checking the tires for wear all along. So far so good.
No noticable tire 'roaring' either. Did have to replace the top, the new one is a great improvement over the first one which was crappy from the start, mis-sewn seams etc. So I can't vote yet, the jury (mileage) is still too low.

trackstar

ttt

Humpa

Hey all....

I have a 2003 Touring Z I bought in March of '03.

I have both "feathering/scalloping" as the dealer calls it along with excessive road/tire noise. Had it in 3-4 times already. The dealer cross mounted the front tires, and it went away for a awhile, but it's slowly coming back, and worse. Nothing more they can do.......

I found this one site pretty informative if you want to check it out......can't hurt to put your name in, right?

My thinking is that if I ever go to sell it with the tire/road noise issue, who would want it?.....


http://nissantireproblems.com/index.html

Bullet

I have an 03 with the noise, feathering and everything else, keep this thread going. And yes it keeps coming back.

zeroday

i dont have the problem on my 03 but i only have 4700 miles. maybe a separate poll using mileage ranges and a yes/no for feathering might help? or if you vote yes or no, post your answer with mileage in the thread also??

trackstar

Like I said, this is only a rough approximation. There are so many variables I couldn't possibly cover them all.

And mods, thanks for parking this. Hopefully it will give us some good data.

Psyc0

iTrader: (3)

I have an 04 w/ no feathering but i only have 2500 miles on it so i'm still waiting, not enough miles

Humpa

Good news!

I just called Nissan Consumer Affairs 1-800-647-7261 and told them I wanted to file an official complaint about the tire/road rumble noise. They took my info, VIN #, etc, and the rep said they just received another official notice (I guess another TSB) about 5 days ago they are sending out to all dealers that tells them to replace the tires with new ones and realign them again. It sounds like a temporary fix, but hey, if it gets rid of the noise for just a little while until they figure out how to really fix it, I'm all smiles.

I guess the squeaky wheel really does get the grease....

JeffR116

Interesting...It almost seems to good to be true. Anyone who has access to the TSB, can you post it?

cattalbus

http://www.zfilms.org/SportZMag/046TSB%20NTB04-043.pdf

here it is.

Humpa

Great! Thank you!

zturtle

Howdy
I work at a Nissan dealership and have had my front tires replaced by Nissan.
This is only on '03s, and they will not do it if your cr has been realigned under hte new specs.
I would suggest that youonly align at your dealership to be sure that the new spec are entered.

myrock

Just went to the dealership yesterday to get my 3rd set of front tires (w/less than 20k on my car). Swapping the tires and having the toe in adjusted doesn't do anything but make you have to return about 3k miles later to get a new set of tires. All of this is annoying to deal with but when the svc mgr tried to charge me to swap the tires I went straight to the GM of the dealership. He acknowledged that this is a known problem & I could file this problem under the lemon law or he would pay off my car & get me into a '04 at invoice. Keep screaming 'cause this problem won't go away.

zturtle

hmm
If the GM said that then hit him with it. As far as I know, tire problems are tire manufacture's problem - look at the Ford/Firestone problem. Firestone ate it all the way.
Another thing is the tires. If you keep buying the REO Potenzas you will get the same problem. Try the SO-3 Potenzas instead. They are MUCH better.
As a matter of fact, on the stock rims Pilots and Michelens do well.

pearl430

03 and Got feather also


Nissan sucksssssss