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I now have an Audi A4 2.0 Premium+, quattro sports package. The Symphony sound system is fabulous and I never heard Audi's top of the line Bang & Olfsoon system. The steering and handling is like a go-cart and the ride allot better than the M. The mileage is 30% better.
Bose is overbranded and over advertised. Any high end audio dealer will laugh if you mention their name.
Thanks BMW
We'd pretty much decided on the A6, but our dealer couldn't locate an acceptable car on dealer trade. So we're now driving an Infiniti M35x, which my wife and I both love.
-Karl
I just thought I would check before trying it and blowing my car up.
Call the dealer and ask the Service rep. what the cig. lighter circuit is rated for. Ten amps, 15 amps or 20 amps? Whatever that amount is, make sure the components you plug into the lighter socket are less then that amount. You should be just fine with a radar detector. The M35/45’s are great to be driven and the detector is helpful to have.
You won't blow the car up - you'll blow a fuse if you plug a component in that draws to much current for that circuit.
Wishing you good luck.
While I am sympathetic that infiniti has a manufacturing or likely a supplier problem, I should not have to drive a $45,000 car under warranty that is coming apart. At a minimum, Infiniti could tell the dealers how to glue the plastic back on temporariy basis (finding the right glue might not be easy). Even Infiniti corporate customer service agreed that having a part on backorder with no estimate of when it would come in was unacceptable (for what it's worth).
I will post the results here
I did get a call back last night from customer service and they are calling my dealer to find out why the dealer can't get parts (could it be because infiniti isn't shipping the parts...)..and they will get back to me on Wed telling me how they can help.
This is not helpful customer service and does nothing more than the dealer could do. I guess the theory is that if someone in HQ says they're doing something, then you'll feel loved. I guess this doesn't work with me....I don't want love, I want my car to look like a $45K car.
INFINITISVC...I'm looking for the rosewood driver door panel on a standard '08 M35. Is that one of the parts that you can get overnight?
So I guess I sit with everyone else and wait....but I will find out how to contact Nissan in Japan and let them know of how this is effecting their reputation in the US....via internet postings like mine. Perhaps they will figure out a way to air ship some replacements in quickly.
Think about it. If there is a quality control issue with these parts, then they must be continuing to build cars with wood panels that they know may peel. I'm pretty sure that the 2009 and 2008 use the exact same panels.
If they have fixed the problem, then why aren't there any parts here. We are less than 24 hours away from the manufacturer (by air).
I have been told that there are "hundreds" on backorder....but I don't know if that's true. I do know that my dealer was very familiar with the problem when I initially went in and they told me that they have a number of them on backorder.
The Florida "parts expediter" in customer service has not called back although I have left at least two messages. I presume that there is nothing she can do which may well be true if Infiniti Corp just doesn't have parts. It is near impossible to find anyone else in Nissan who you can speak to.
Frustrating....
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I don't know this for certain, but it looks like the wood panels had a problem in mfg. Hopefully it has been corrected now.
Good luck.