Finally got my own 350z - please read in full, you'll understand
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Finally got my own 350z - please read in full, you'll understand
Hello fellow Z owners,
My name is Dave and I'm from Tampa FL. I have always dreamed of owning a 350z but we all know how life goes and it just never happened. Well the past few years I have gone through some very hard and trying times but I have come out knowing a lot more about myself then I did 4 years ago. I had thought I wanted a family and dated some chicks with kids but now I know that I cared more about the kids having a decent life then I did their mother. There's so many chicks out there who just shouldn't be having kids and it's those kids who are the ones who suffer. I've learned that I was just trying to give them something they had never had, a good stable life. Problem is most of those single moms my age are single for a reason and they only seem to care about what we as men can provide for them, I fell right into their trap because I only wanted to help the kids. Well after years of being used as a support system, cheated on, stolen from, verbally & physically abused by 2, drug use behind my back, and the final straw was the miscarriage of twins at two separate times. I later found out she was using opiates (and other stuff I think) behind my back and this was the main reason for her losing not one but both kids. I wanted nothing more then to be a father and we lost the first one on fathers day, the second a little over a month later after the doctors tried everything they could to save the baby. I lost it and up until about 6 months ago I was in the darkest part of my life.
This happened 2 years ago and I don't care if people think I'm weak or less of a man because it took such a hard toll on me. I had done so much for her and tried to provide the best life for her and her son only to find out she had betrayed me so many times. With me being busy working all the time to provide for them she had time to do a lot of horrible shady crap. Most of this was when I was working 2 jobs because her dream car was a Ford Taurus SHO and I wanted to get it for her BDay. Well I ended up busting my *** to buy her a 2011 Ford Taurus SHO that I paid cash for and she just sold and gave her *** away for money and drugs. I heard when she wasn't able to steal from me she would just **** the dealer. I had suspected something was up for a couple months and it started to take it's toll on our relationship then the miscarriage happened and she finally broke down and told me everything. My suspicions were right and I would of found out within a month or so as she had gone from bad but not insane to full blown junkie within a couple months and that's whne I started to notice stuff wasn't right. After the second loss and I found out about it all I ended it right away and to be an AHole I sold the car a few days later as the title, registration, and insurance was all in my name. I've ran into her a couple times since and the only thing she does s yell at me for stealing her dream car. Not sure how it's stealing if I paid for it but sure...
All this broke me and I was extremely depressed to the point I myself turned to drugs. After about 6 months of hard core Oxy use i woke up one day, looked in the mirror, and hated the person I saw so I made it my mission to get myself back on track. It's been 12 months now since I've used anything, I do smoke some bud here and there if I'm hanging out ans someone has it but I don't buy anything. I let my CCW expire while I was down and out but I've since renewed it so getting intoxicated is the last thing I want to do, plus it makes my think about the past. The other thing I told myself that day in the mirror was that if I made it a year sober I would buy myself my dream car, a Daytona Blue 2007 or newer Nissan 350z hard top with the VQ35HR and a 6 speed manual trans. Once I hit 6 months I really started looking and quickly found out how hard it was to find a extremely clean one with under 100k miles that hadn't had any damage or been driven like a mad man. I decided that I never wanted to get married or have kids so I felt if I was successful it was time to buy myself my dream car.
Well about 2 weeks ago I found her. A 2007 Daytona Blue hard top with 91k miles. They had it listed at $10,995.00 but I paid cash and got it for $9,500.00 plus tax, tag, and dealer fee.One might think I paid to much but the car isn't stock and someone put at least $5,000.00 into the car. She has Z1 test pipes, STILLEN full cat back true dual exhaust w/double walled tips, cold air intakes, JVC touch screen stereo, professionally wired up for a sound system but the previous owner took his amp & subs, and the car was professionally repainted with the OEM paint and it wasn't a touch up it was a complete job, door jams etc have been done. There are zero tool marks on all the body panel bolts and you can tell it has never been wreaked. These upgrades weren't cheap. The car has a clean Carfax and the car was purchased from both previous owners from the same dealership the car was shipped to in 2007 and both took it in for all the recommended maintenance at that same dealership. She has all the service records and was last checked at 90k miles. The only major thing reported was the windshield had to be replaced but the city it's from has interstates as the main roads so kicked up rocks happens all the time, happened twice to me in the past 5 years. Now here's the bad thing but it still worked out in my favor. At 68 miles after buying the car the clutch slave went out and the clutch dropped to the floor, thank god I had just pulled into my complex and only had to push it 60ft or so to a spot. The dealer paid to have it fixed and since the tranny was coming out I wanted to replace the clutch since I could feel it had about 5k -8k miles left so the dealer agreed to pay for the labor on the clutch if I bought the part and put in OEM which is what I wanted anyways since I wasn't doing the Z1 CSC bypass (will do if if goes out again). My oil pressure is reading fine (oil galley gasket is a known issue in the early HR motors) and actually a little higher then a lot I see in pics online, when warm at idle it is around 14-16psi and a lot of pics I seen online show the needle basically at 0 when at idle. I'm still going to replace the oil pressure sending unit as they are a known issue as well just to see what the PSI is then. Overall I feel like I made out well since I have seen some jacked up Zs going for what I feel are crazy prices, a lot are automatics to lmao.
Thanks for reading my story on how I came to own one of my dreams cars and very first Z!!!
Here she is!!! https://imgur.com/a/uoSYeGh
My name is Dave and I'm from Tampa FL. I have always dreamed of owning a 350z but we all know how life goes and it just never happened. Well the past few years I have gone through some very hard and trying times but I have come out knowing a lot more about myself then I did 4 years ago. I had thought I wanted a family and dated some chicks with kids but now I know that I cared more about the kids having a decent life then I did their mother. There's so many chicks out there who just shouldn't be having kids and it's those kids who are the ones who suffer. I've learned that I was just trying to give them something they had never had, a good stable life. Problem is most of those single moms my age are single for a reason and they only seem to care about what we as men can provide for them, I fell right into their trap because I only wanted to help the kids. Well after years of being used as a support system, cheated on, stolen from, verbally & physically abused by 2, drug use behind my back, and the final straw was the miscarriage of twins at two separate times. I later found out she was using opiates (and other stuff I think) behind my back and this was the main reason for her losing not one but both kids. I wanted nothing more then to be a father and we lost the first one on fathers day, the second a little over a month later after the doctors tried everything they could to save the baby. I lost it and up until about 6 months ago I was in the darkest part of my life.
This happened 2 years ago and I don't care if people think I'm weak or less of a man because it took such a hard toll on me. I had done so much for her and tried to provide the best life for her and her son only to find out she had betrayed me so many times. With me being busy working all the time to provide for them she had time to do a lot of horrible shady crap. Most of this was when I was working 2 jobs because her dream car was a Ford Taurus SHO and I wanted to get it for her BDay. Well I ended up busting my *** to buy her a 2011 Ford Taurus SHO that I paid cash for and she just sold and gave her *** away for money and drugs. I heard when she wasn't able to steal from me she would just **** the dealer. I had suspected something was up for a couple months and it started to take it's toll on our relationship then the miscarriage happened and she finally broke down and told me everything. My suspicions were right and I would of found out within a month or so as she had gone from bad but not insane to full blown junkie within a couple months and that's whne I started to notice stuff wasn't right. After the second loss and I found out about it all I ended it right away and to be an AHole I sold the car a few days later as the title, registration, and insurance was all in my name. I've ran into her a couple times since and the only thing she does s yell at me for stealing her dream car. Not sure how it's stealing if I paid for it but sure...
All this broke me and I was extremely depressed to the point I myself turned to drugs. After about 6 months of hard core Oxy use i woke up one day, looked in the mirror, and hated the person I saw so I made it my mission to get myself back on track. It's been 12 months now since I've used anything, I do smoke some bud here and there if I'm hanging out ans someone has it but I don't buy anything. I let my CCW expire while I was down and out but I've since renewed it so getting intoxicated is the last thing I want to do, plus it makes my think about the past. The other thing I told myself that day in the mirror was that if I made it a year sober I would buy myself my dream car, a Daytona Blue 2007 or newer Nissan 350z hard top with the VQ35HR and a 6 speed manual trans. Once I hit 6 months I really started looking and quickly found out how hard it was to find a extremely clean one with under 100k miles that hadn't had any damage or been driven like a mad man. I decided that I never wanted to get married or have kids so I felt if I was successful it was time to buy myself my dream car.
Well about 2 weeks ago I found her. A 2007 Daytona Blue hard top with 91k miles. They had it listed at $10,995.00 but I paid cash and got it for $9,500.00 plus tax, tag, and dealer fee.One might think I paid to much but the car isn't stock and someone put at least $5,000.00 into the car. She has Z1 test pipes, STILLEN full cat back true dual exhaust w/double walled tips, cold air intakes, JVC touch screen stereo, professionally wired up for a sound system but the previous owner took his amp & subs, and the car was professionally repainted with the OEM paint and it wasn't a touch up it was a complete job, door jams etc have been done. There are zero tool marks on all the body panel bolts and you can tell it has never been wreaked. These upgrades weren't cheap. The car has a clean Carfax and the car was purchased from both previous owners from the same dealership the car was shipped to in 2007 and both took it in for all the recommended maintenance at that same dealership. She has all the service records and was last checked at 90k miles. The only major thing reported was the windshield had to be replaced but the city it's from has interstates as the main roads so kicked up rocks happens all the time, happened twice to me in the past 5 years. Now here's the bad thing but it still worked out in my favor. At 68 miles after buying the car the clutch slave went out and the clutch dropped to the floor, thank god I had just pulled into my complex and only had to push it 60ft or so to a spot. The dealer paid to have it fixed and since the tranny was coming out I wanted to replace the clutch since I could feel it had about 5k -8k miles left so the dealer agreed to pay for the labor on the clutch if I bought the part and put in OEM which is what I wanted anyways since I wasn't doing the Z1 CSC bypass (will do if if goes out again). My oil pressure is reading fine (oil galley gasket is a known issue in the early HR motors) and actually a little higher then a lot I see in pics online, when warm at idle it is around 14-16psi and a lot of pics I seen online show the needle basically at 0 when at idle. I'm still going to replace the oil pressure sending unit as they are a known issue as well just to see what the PSI is then. Overall I feel like I made out well since I have seen some jacked up Zs going for what I feel are crazy prices, a lot are automatics to lmao.
Thanks for reading my story on how I came to own one of my dreams cars and very first Z!!!
Here she is!!! https://imgur.com/a/uoSYeGh
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