Thoughts on Nissan Z31 300 ZX?

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Was there any 80s mass produced car with anything even approaching a decent interior? It was the era of crap materials as they started with more and more untried plastic bits.

I thought the MR2 interior was pretty good. The seats were as good as the ones in the 86, and everything was laid out really well. With the exception of the leather on the shifter, pretty much the interior held up against over 150,000 miles with me.

[HaXx]

you had my curiosity, but now you have my full attention

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I thought the MR2 interior was pretty good. The seats were as good as the ones in the 86, and everything was laid out really well. With the exception of the leather on the shifter, pretty much the interior held up against over 150,000 miles with me.

There were exceptions.
They were rare.

[Atropine]

Originally Posted by e30cabrio

I have had all Z cars up to the 33. My '84 31 was great until the MAF and transmission started dying. There were no not remanufactured MAFs available in '94 when I got rid of it (for a 32) and every reman MAF I bought went bad within 2000 miles.

I can't imagine it's any better today.

Quick search found this:

I love the style but eventually hated the digital dash.

Good luck.

Thank you for this video...it makes me sad

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

There were exceptions. They were rare.

Very true. Frankly, it's the only one I can think of. I liked my '83 Z28 but the interior, not so much.

[LancePower]

Haha, yeah my MAF went bad too.

Luckily a friend of the family owned a garage and still had his own crash wrecked Z31 there and let me swap his MAF over to my car.

[pallen]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I thought the MR2 interior was pretty good. The seats were as good as the ones in the 86, and everything was laid out really well. With the exception of the leather on the shifter, pretty much the interior held up against over 150,000 miles with me.

That was my experience as well. This was mine at 250K miles. The leather finally gave out, but the plastic really held up well. (The driver's seat was recovered in vinyl). This is the one car I regret selling. At 250k miles it didn't burn or leak a drop of oil. The only thing wrong with it was the syncro or something was bad on 5th gear and you had to hold it in gear.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by pallen

That was my experience as well.

Mine was an '85 and had the red and black cloth seats. They stlll looked new at 150,000 miles, except for some minor fading in the red, just like the paint.

[Atropine]

Talking about AW-11 makes me really sad.

I had a perfect 88 Supercharged one.

The previous owner was the co-inventor of the "Grunt box".

I foolishly sold because I saw a horrific accident at my job involving a small car (I do CT Scan for a living).

I have had 3 AW-11 and they were just made to last forever IMHO, other than the knob on the stickshift.

Oh and the read trunk latch cable often failed.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Atropine

Talking about AW-11 makes me really sad..

Well, for those in CA how about this one. Mine looked EXACTLY like this, well without the dent in the front airdam. I loved the black whaletail on mine.

If this was closer, or the person didn't want $30,000 for it, I'd consider it with less than 18,000 on it.

[Bluefire98]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I thought the MR2 interior was pretty good. The seats were as good as the ones in the 86, and everything was laid out really well. With the exception of the leather on the shifter, pretty much the interior held up against over 150,000 miles with me.

I have one as my project car, and yeah, for a car from the 80s with 220,000mi, they do hold up well. But sorry, the seats in the twins are on another level of support and comfort while still offering good bolstering. The aw11 seats are still good tho, and offer a crazy amount of MANUAL adjustment. Other cars I've been in that have adjustable bolsters only have electronically adjustable seats. Not appealing to me, too slow and adds weight.