G'darn I love you guys!!!!

[Peterofdevon]

Thanks Everyone!

That's to everyone who posts; the experts (Wes, Dennis, Scott, to name just a few) and everyone with a voice---reading the BG44K thread today got me to give it a try. ..

The Blue Q is fixed!

I just don't know how to thank everyone enough, especially the moderators and those who maintain the site. So I guess the best way is to just say...

Thank you,

I really appreciate the effort, work and time that goes into this board.

Sincerely,

Peter

[jamesmost]

love that

[elwesso]

what was wrong again??

AND ALSO, does that mean your not gonna sell it?

[96Qowner]

I feel exactly the same way, Peter!

Thanks to everyone who makes NICO the best Q45 forum on the web. I've said it myself and heard others say it - I couldn't own my Q45 without NICO.

[Peterofdevon]

I should write a book on the saga of the Qs. Here's the short version:

Last year Q#2 [Beige] was smoking white a little and the valve cover gaskets were toast. It had an exhust leak and sounded awful. The paint was shot on the hood. I held my head low as I drove on the afluent Phila mainline. It needed struts and brakes. 220K was enough...

Drove four other Qs looking for the "right" candidate. Found the blue one in Oct 95. Minty interior, test drove it over bumpy inner citty roads---did not hear or feel the upcomming suspension problems, drivetrain vibration...etc. Grrrrr.

I was blinded by lust over its beautiful blue looks. I'm so shallow. I bought it.

Put lots of $$$ into it getting it sorted when low and behold a minty Green T 94 comes for sale with 45K on the ODO at the end of May. I HAD to have it. Got it home and crashed my bike (I race bicycles) that weekend--breaking 4 bones---flat on my back for two weeks. Finally was able to get into the new girl and drove her three miles when to my horror the transmission clunked violently from 1st to second. I turned around drove home and though ****---I can barely walk--what I am going to do. I thought I should get it flushed first but the guy who does this for me is 20 miles away and I can't really sit and wait for it all day in a plastic chair---**** I can't even walk!!!

So I did the unthinkable---I took it to Cottman around the corner from me. They totally f-u-c-k-e-d it. I'm taking legal action against them so I better not go into too many details. At the end of the day I had to put a factory rebuild in it---all it really needed was the valve body to be rebuilt. The car was at Cotttman back and forth for FOUR MONTHS...then anorther MONTH at Infiniti!!!! I got so pissed off I got the 540i six speed sport. Best car I ever drove.

The VERY day I got the GreenQ back after FIVE months (last Friday)--the blue Q started to violently miss. BAD injector was the shop's diagnosis. I forgot to mention the shop put an injector in the car two months prior for $$$. They said it was a different injector---I was mortified...I left the shop... drove home on 7 cyclinders and put it on Ebay.

Fast forward to today...and the BG44K. So I don't know if I should pull the auction or not.

All I know is---I love this board. I try to read most every post. I've learned more here in one year than I ever did driving the G50s over 350,00 miles.

Thanks guys,

Peter

[Q_SHIP]

KEEP IT!!!! You have to now that you have nico.

[elwesso]

KEEP IT! unless of course you sell it here on NICO where it will be loved for what it is, not for how much it costs!

[Peterofdevon]

KEEP IT! unless of course you sell it here on NICO where it will be loved for what it is, not for how much it costs!

Yup, that was the plan. Keep it through the winter. Put the garage queen Green T at my moms retirement apartment complex in the basement garage (I have a one car garage). Keep the 540 in my garage and shovel around the blueQ.

I don't know now...with winter on the way. After the blue Q's injector crapped out I was going to put the 540 at Mom's, and have the GreenQ in my garage and or course, sell the blue one. It sounded good.

D-a-m-n, now WHAT.

Peter

[elwesso]

man my interior looked that mint at one point in time....

I need to buy some of that leatherique stuff....

[EQwhipD]

Wes,I tried Leatherique and it doesn't work that much better than regular conditioners you can get at walmart. I think that the clear coat sprayed on the leather really prevents it from settling into the hide. Long story short, please dont waste $100 on leatherique.-Evan (NC)

[Peterofdevon]

Wes,I tried Leatherique and it doesn't work that much better than regular conditioners you can get at walmart. I think that the clear coat sprayed on the leather really prevents it from settling into the hide. Long story short, please dont waste $100 on leatherique.-Evan (NC)

I agree as well. I tried many products on the BlueQ's seats. I thought I could contition them since they were so minty and it would then hopefully last longer. Nothing penetrated the clearcoat. I suspect the best alternative is to apply a coating of clear coat urtathane polyemer before they get real crappy looking. I did this to my steering wheel on the GreenQ and the arm rest.

The clearcoat prevents the leather from breathing. I bet it was designed to look good for about 75K then It would dry out and start cracking.

Peter

[maxnix]

I am still a regular application of Lexol fan.

[AZhitman]

Cottman? Uuuuugh. I went round-and-round with them as well.

Glad to hear we've been of some help.

Thanks to ALL the Q experts who share their knowledge and experience here for others to benefit from!!!

[elwesso]

Wes,I tried Leatherique and it doesn't work that much better than regular conditioners you can get at walmart. I think that the clear coat sprayed on the leather really prevents it from settling into the hide. Long story short, please dont waste $100 on leatherique.-Evan (NC)

i agree for regular conditioning, but i was going to try it for the crack filler so i dont have to reupholster the drivers side seat. All the rest of my interior is mint.