Makinen

Are the single wheels still available? I have kerbed mine and I'm interested on one front and one rear...

Hi everyone, I am coming back to this topic with closure and good news (finally) and a bit of name-and-shame for a specific main dealer. I hope this is something that comes up in future searches for anyone that does the same stupid mistake as I did and selects the dreaded option in the hidden menu. Huge thanks to Cartronics in Surrey (https://www.cartronics.co.uk/) who were the only ones that understood instantly what I had done and reprogrammed the radio unit back to exactly what it was from the factory. I have full audio, hands-free and rear camera functionality once again (and ironically, in the meantime, Google released an update that fixed the bluetooth connection as well so now everything works). These guys can do a lot more than just reprogram radios that dealers steer well clear from and I did get a (admittedly expensive) quote for seamless android auto upgrade in the future. For the time being though, I am not touching it again, and I have the latest maps I installed with the offiical Nissan DVDs just before I ruined it with the reset. Having said that, there is a roundabout outside my workplace that was built almost 6 years ago, and the new maps still don't show it... Anyway, I hope this topic helps someone else in the future to avoid the hassle and as I suspected there is an "easy" solution, as long as you have access to the right tools. Now for the name and shame: before I found Cartronics while googling for audio specialist shops, I called at least 10 main Nissan dealers in the South East, and when I described what I wanted them to do on the vehicle, at worst they would instantly refuse and provide no alternative, and at best they would warn me they would just rip the dashboard out, take the unit out and send it off to Clarion for... repairs and diagnosis at the minimum cost of 1000 GBP... When the actual unit coming back from Clarion with no fault found, would still require them to code on the vehicle... Anyway, no matter how I tried to explain, I was met with refusal and/or bemusement. Until I called Marshall Nissan in Tunbridge Wells. A supposedly "Nismo Centre", a huge dealership that accepted my booking although I warned them about everyone else turning me away. They quoted 144 GBP for "diagnosis" and they would take it from there. I accepted of course and took a day off work as it had to be a weekday morning, and drove over an hour from Brighton to be there for my 8 am appointment. After checking in and being offered some welcome tea, they came back and asked what exactly was wrong with the radio. I described the issue to a service representative that would spend the next 10 minutes going back and forth to the technicians only to absolutely refuse to even look at the car or attempt to program the radio. Bear in mind they did book me in, I took a day off work, and drove an hour in the morning to be there so they would send me away without even looking at the car. Absolutely shameful behaviour, fobbing me off as quickly as they could, and just telling me it would be a waste of my money and that they could do nothing if the radio did not already have a config in it (because I had wiped it). Again, this is a main dealer, a "Nismo Centre" with all the latest and greatest diagnostics just refusing to do even the minimal effort and for a paying customer. As a final resort I showed them the page from the workshop manual I have in the first post of this topic, only to be told this is different in the UK ( 😅 🤣😂) and that the same service procedure does not apply to UK cars... At that point it was obvious nothing was going to happen so I got up and left empty handed and extremely angry. So thank you once again to Cartronics for doing within a few minutes what all the main Nissan dealers refused to even attempt. Lesson learnt from my side, but also my suspicion that the dealers are absolutely useless when it comes to cars like the 370 was confirmed in the most spectacular way possible. Thank god for places like Abbey Motorsport for the mechanical side of things, and Cartronics for all the infotainment needs 👍 Have a good week everyone and thank you all for your input.

I would happily look into doing that but unfortunately all android units use the stock audio system. Which is precisely what is not working in mine. The Satnav etc is working fine, but there is no sound or sound options anywhere, they are all greyed out. If anyone knows of an aftermarket solution that completely replaces the stock unit I am definitely interested. At least I would get something better and upgraded out of this whole story... The cleanest one that retains steering wheel controls etc is the Nifty City one and that definitely piggybacks the stock audio unit, so it would still not make any sound on mine as it connects to the AUX port of the stock audio.

Well that is precisely the problem, the second hand unit will also need the exact same process as mine, so I would still need to take it to someone with Consult 3 to pair with the car. Practically what I have done is unpair it with my car and it needs the same config a replacement one would...

Hi everyone, I am fed up with dealers avoiding to even try to program my radio (see my other topic here for reference) and I am looking to buy my own Consult interface to try and fix it myself. Any other clone diagnostic that has the same capabilities to write configs on radio units is absolutely useful as well. I am located in Brighton but willing to pick up from anywhere witthin a 200 mile radius. I am also wiling to pay to hire the system for a few minutes or for your time to attempt to configure the radio. P.S. I need the whole set, with both the OBD interface and the required software to use it.

Update on the wiped radio saga: I visited Marshall Nissan at Tunbridge Wells today, hoping a major dealership and "Nismo Centre" would be able to at least have a look. I made a booking almost month ago as I said in my previous post. Long story short, I took a day off work and drove 60 miles to them from Brighton hoping they would at least offer alternatives. They did not even want to take a look. I felt I was being fobbed off instantly and they kept saying that if I have wiped the unit they cannot re-program it, and that the way they would do a radio replacement is only by saving the existing config in advance and copying it back to the new unit. As I have shown in my original post above, there is a page in the workshop manual describing a manual process where you can put the spec of the car back in and this brings it back to life (as per comments on US forums from owners with the same problem). They flat out declined to even try, saying the US workshop manual is different to the UK one and that in the UK Nissan does not allow them to write any configuration even if they have full Consult access. Can someone that owns a Consult unit confirm that is true or where they just trying to kick me out? How is it possible that Nissan have put the diagnostic menu in the unit but no way of programming that unit afterwards? And is it true that the UK manuals are different to the US ones on that specific system? In any case, I am now officially desperate as there seems that the dealers offer no solution apart from changing the whole unit, which I imagine costs many thousands ££££... Does anyone have a Consult 3 system for sale or rental for me to try and write the config myself? Any other ideas for an aftermarket unit at least?

Hi everyone, Well, I wish I had spoken to you people sooner. I still wouldn't have a working Bluetooth but at least I'd have a working radio (and rear camera)... I spoke to Google support and they insisted it is not a widespread issue 🤣🤣 and that it was my device that is at fault. Apparently from Reddit as well as Android forums it is very widespread and does not just impact the Z radios but a lot more from around the same era. I am wondering if they broke the support for older Bluetooth protocols on purpose because the phone is working absolutely fine with the pixel watch for example. I now have an appointment for the end of the month at a main dealer in Tunbridge Wells, hopefully they will be able to configure it and I will not touch the hidden menu ever again. As for the phone, Google insisted it was my device and sent me a replacement. Which then downloaded the latest update when I set it up and had the exact same issue 🤣🤣 It seems like we have to wait for the next update hoping this will be fixed.

As I am getting desperate, I started looking for Nissan Consult 3 alternatives (as the original is in the thousands & needs a subscription with Nissan). I found this one among a sea of chinese clones that at least according to the description should be able to do exactly what I need: https://www.obdexpress.co.uk/wholesale/svci-ing-professional-diagnostic-tool.html Has anyone had any experience with something similar? Any Nissan ECU programmers you recommend apart from the original Consult?

I am not desperate enough to drive from Brighton to the Highlands for this (not yet anyway, give me another month of looking and you might see me knocking on your door ). Fair enough for the time consuming stuff, but am I not charged labour by the hour anyway? If it took them 2 hours for example would I not be charged 2 hours of labour? It's not like i am asking to get it done for free, I am willing to pay someone to fix my mistake, but no one seems to even be willing to try

Hi everyone, I see 70+ views but no ideas or recommendations from anyone... This is very frustrating because I know it is 3 clicks on the Consult interface but every main dealer I've spoken to do not even want to take a look, they send me away to car audio shops. Which would be fine if the issue was with the actual audio hardware but it is with the Nissan configuration and I need to talk to the vehicle using a Nissan diagnostic interface. Can anyone recommend even a dealer or specialist that has Consult 3 and the open mind to try it? I even have the workshop pages ready for them to try.

Hi fellow Z enthusiasts and happy new year! Hope your year started better than mine... Long story short, my phone (Google pixel 7 pro) got an update that messed the Bluetooth connection with my 2013 Z GT. The problem was I had also just installed the latest Nissan maps with the 5 DVDs so I immediately thought it was related to that and started trying to factory reset the audio unit. One Google search led to another and I found myself in the hidden menu that I wish a never had. After going through what I thought would clean the memory from existing settings to make sure it would start fresh, I went into the dreaded "accessory number initialisation" option which completely wiped out any sort of information related to the car the unit is installed in. So now the menus have a blue theme instead of the normal orange one, and there is no sound whatsoever coming from the unit. The satnav still works, but the Nissan logo is jumping around a bit when it first starts, just like this video here: I went through the workshop manual and it seems like the procedure for manually configuring a new audio unit would also work in my case. So, if you were kind enough to read up until this point, I am looking for someone that knows their way around Consult 3 (and also obviously own a Consult 3 device). I have spoken to at least 4 main dealers and I heard everything from "I have never seen this before, you need to bring it in to diagnose" to "we will just send the unit off to Clarion, we have no idea what to do with it". It is really a 4 option configuration according to the workshop manual: left or right hand drive, audio system type (Bose or Base), directional microphone and rear camera. It really seems very simple if I can get to the manual configuration for the audio module with someone that has the consult diagnostic. Is there someone here that can help ? I am willing to pay / buy lunch whatever. I am in Brighton so ideally someone located in the south east, but at this point I am willing to travel for a whole day if that is my only choice of getting it fixed 😔

Good morning sir. That is an amazing selection of CSC options you have there, plus upgraded clutch lines! I would not have found that unless you replied here, and I have been googling "370Z CSC UK" for a while; your website never popped up at least not in the first page of the results. Thank you for this, you will be receiving an order soon

Does anyone know if I can get an upgraded CSC without a full clutch kit? I only have 21000 miles on my car (2013 370Z GT), the clutch should be in really good shape and I do not want the single mass flywheel replacing the dual mass factory one. I had the pedal stay on the floor while exiting a motorway but after I pulled it up it did not do it again, although it does feel a bit sticky when returning to the top position. It could be other things and not necessarily a CSC, but I am examining worst case now so I can budget accordingly and fix it before it fails. I also have a smell of burning after long drives which could be the clutch line being burnt from an exhaust leak somewhere (car is fully stock). In any case I am looking for the damage on an uprated CSC to get that fixed for ever, and if the clutch is still in good nick I would prefer to keep the OEM dual mass flywheel than a SMF conversion; not to mention the massive difference in parts cost. Apart from randomly googling an updated CSC, can anyone point me to one in the UK? I have only found this but it is in the States and says it is on backorder...

After all of your recommendations, I visited Kaizer Motor two days ago to take a look at some noises on the car plus a smell of burning once you stop after a long drive and also for an alignment. I was really pleased with their professionalism, but I was a bit worried that even Szilvester could not tell if the smell and the fact that the exhaust gets so hot is normal or not because in his words "there are no 370Z's around to compare and tell what is normal or not"! Apparently the car is so rare that even specialists don't know them and I am a bit worried. Also they did a diff oil change trying to alleviate a humming noise when idling in first gear but that did not fix it. I will definitely be going back there for my scheduled service but I am a bit worried something is wrong with the car and nobody can tell me what it is :-( If it was running lean and getting the exhaust that hot, would it not affect the oil and water temperatures as well? They did check for traces of ECUtek remaps from the previous owner but did not find any (and to be honest, the way the car feels and the profile of the owner do not justify messing with ECU tuning)... I will probably open a separate thread on this and keep an eye for fire or melting materials underneath...

I have never seen so many positive comments for a place, and it is less than an hour away from Chelmsford, so this is where I will be next week! Thank you very much for the advice!