I'm the second owner this particular vehicle, and although I did not notice the problem sooner, the 3rd light on my 2004 g35 does not work (my car does not have the spoiler). What I did was purchase a used 3rd light from a salvage yard....and it did work (briefly), now it's not working.....so I'm back to square one. I thought that it was unusual, so I googled the issue and much to surprise came up with many hits of owners of this vehicle with the same issue.......since reading the issue others have experienced with the 3rd light not functioning I have noticed this particular vehicles 3rd light issue on other g35 on the road, more than likely the owners have not noticed the light not operating.........the whole purpose of the 3rd light is to be seen by others driving behind you.......it's an accident waiting to happen, I hope the federal safety agency and infiniti takes steps to correct this problem.
2004 Infiniti G35 brakes complaints
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I noticed my 3rd brake light was no longer working. I have noticed other infiniti g35 coupes with non- functioning 3rd brake lights. I've been told this is a common problem that I believe should be addressed by a re-call. It is an expensive part and labor charge to repair. Please induce infiniti to replace these lights at no charge to the customer. Thank you.
This car has a bad case of automatic acceleration. Since it has been doing this for the past 9 years, I've gotten familiar with the symptons. There are a number of ways the car will simply accelerate on its own and all of them occur when braking: 1) while sitting at a complete stop with the transmission in drive and foot on the brake, the engine will suddenly just rev up to 4 or 5 thousand RPM. 2) same as above but acceleration can be caused by pressing hard on the brake pedal. 3) exiting freeway and braking, the engine will remain at the same RPM and/or speed up. 4) (this is by far the most dangerous) when braking extra hard, the transmission will shift down and the engine goes to full throttle. This one has nearly gotten me a couple of times. The dealer has replaced the throttle, throttle body, etc. Nothing has resolved the problem. It is intermittent and incidents may be months apart. Until recently, the dealer has denied that any other owners have experienced this problem in the USA. Owners have complaining about it since 2003 on various internet sites while the manufacturer denies there is a problem and has allowed it to persist for 10 years. Only recently has the dealer admitted other problems and stated they were afraid of what happened to toyota. Briefly looking at entries on the federal safety agency site, there have been about half a dozen complaints a year. None reported a fatality but then the dead are unlikely to file a complaint. If a tenth of a percent of the owners experiencing this problem filed complaints, that would be 6,000 vehicles per year are being produced with this fatal flaw. In summary, what do you do with a potentially lethal vehicle? Sell it to some unsuspecting person and endanger their life or keep it and wonder when it will kill me? If the latter happens, we'll all know why.
Tl* the contact owns a 2004 infiniti g35. The contact stated that he replaced the front discs brakes and rotors at 9,000 miles, 14,000 miles and again at 26,000 miles. The dealer and manufacturer were notified of the frequent need to replace the parts but offered no explanation or assistance. Updated 01/09/13*lj the consumer stated the front padas and rotors neede to be replaved in a very short time. Updated 01/10/13
The third LED brake light is not working properly. Got pulled over on august 28th because the officer said my third brake light wasn't working. I got the light tested and the car shop said they would test the light to see if it was the light itself or there is a short due to wiring. The car shop said the light worked so there must be a wiring malfunction some where in the car that makes the light work properly.
Brake calipers have frozen up have been replaced along with rotors and brake pads on four occasions. These same incidents were repaired on 6/16/2008; 4/25/2009; 9/12/2011 and will be again on monday 10/22/2012. *tr this is clearly a vehicle defect that is seriously dangerous for any infiniti driver, the passengers and certainly any other drivers on the road. I strongly suggest that the federal safety agency look into the matter. Thank you.
The third brake light in spoiler-less g35 sedans is a well known issue to fault after just a few years. Over 50 owners of the vehicle have reported the same problem. It will either stop working entirely or only work at times with no known cause.
2004 infiniti g35x. Consumer states problem with vehicle brakes *tgw the consumer also stated the hood hinge was corroded, there were evop issues, and a fuel valve leak which caused difficulty in not being able to re-fuel the vehicle to its capacity.
On march 11 my 2004 infinity g35x experienced a complete alarming system failure. The power steering failed, the brakes failed, in fact every component not running on the battery failed. The dash warning lights looked like christmas lights. I was driving at the time. Fortunately I was on a side street, and not a highway. The dealer diagnosed a p-0340 code and replaced bank 1, cam sensor. This vehicle has just over 41,000 miles and is out of the warranty period. I noticed on-line that this part was part of a voluntary recall in model years 2003 and 2005, but not my year, but also that the failures reported were at approximately the same mileage as my vehicle. This could have resulted in a catastrophic accident had I been on a street with more traffic as I had only brute force control over the brakes and steering. My impression at the dealer was that they were very familiar with the display of warnings on my dash panel. The diagnosis took very little time, the repair was costly, the experience was extremely memorable.
2004 infiniti g35 coupe 3rd brake light not working. Stopped working at approx. 60k miles.
The brakes on this vehicle are horrible. I continue to have to have them checked but to no avail. The vehicle only has 48,000 miles.
Tl*the contact owns a 2004 infiniti g35 sedan. The contact felt abnormal pulsation when the brake pedal was depressed. He took the vehicle in for routine inspection on five different occasions and had the rear and front brake calipers, rotors, and pads replaced. All of the remedies have been insufficient in correcting the failure. The dealer stated that this was a normal characteristic of this vehicle. The manufacturer did not assist. The failure mileage was 12,802 and current mileage was 32,042. Updated 2/18/09 *cn the steering wheel knuckle was replaced. Updated 05/20/09.
2004 infiniti g35 brake service brakes-hydraulic.
The foot brake depresses lower than the accelerator thus causing the motor to accelerate when applying the break. When breaking in an emergency, the side of my shoe caught the accelerator causing the motor to rev up and pushed our car into the vehicle infront of us. Fortunately, we were going slow enough by this time and only the front bumper was damaged. No injuries incurred.
We have had on going brake problems with this vehicle. It started immediately. Grinding noise in rear brakes. We had to replace after just one month. Since then we have replaced the front brakes and rotors twice and rear brakes one other time. This is ridiculous when you consider this car is only barely three years old and has just 29,000 miles on it.
I was traveling at 35 MPH and I was hit by another car in the driver side door and I slipped straight about 100 feet and hit a light pole none of my airbags deployed and my foot was on the brake the whole time and it seemed the bakes did not perform as expected.
Front brakes and rotors needed replacement at 24,744 miles and again at 44,875. When I called the dealer the first time replacement was needed, they quoted me almost $600 to do the job. They did not inform me that in late 2003 nissan acknowledged a brake defect and extended the warranty to cover replacement of brakes and rotors under 36,00 miles. I found out recently that I should not have had to pay for the first replacement. The dealer refuses to reimburse my expenses since I had the work done at my local garege for a lower price than they quoted me.
I leased a 2004 infiniti g-35 coupe and after approximately 36,000 miles, the car started smelling hot and would violently vibrate when driving. The closest infiniti dealer is approximately 40 miles away so I took the car to goodyear and they installed new brake pads on the front tires. Less than 30 days later, the problems still persisted and I took the car back to goodyear and they installed new rotors and brake pads on the rear wheels. This did not fix the problems and 30 days later, I took the car back to goodyear and both the front and rear brake pads were totally worn down. They said I had a problem with the brake system, possibly the calipers, and suggested I take the car to the infiniti dealer. I took the car to crest infiniti in plano, texas and they said the brake fluid had been contaminated. They sent a sample to a testing lab but no test was done because the alleged contaminant was so small it could not be measured. Crest infinity refused to repair the brakes under warranty. I immediately too the car to grubbs infiniti in euless, texas and they also decided to test the brake fluid. After three weeks the test revealed no contaminate in the brake fluid but grubbs said that since the brakes had been worked on by goodyear, the warranty was voided. I have checked the internet and found hundreds of complaints about brakes on the infiniti g-35. Class action lawsuit's have been filed in both california and florida. I found many postings with the exact same problems that I am experiencing. Infiniti refuses to admit that a problem exists and refuses to repair vehicles, including mine, under warranty. The problem has nothing to do with brake pads. There is a problem in the braking system that causes the brakes to be applied when driving the car resulting in excessive heat and excessive wear. This is a serious problem and infiniti is ducking the issue and refusing to issue a recall to repair this serious defect under warranty.
My 2004 g35x sedan has 28k miles on it and I'm on my 3rd set of brakes. (90% of my driving is highway with little braking). The dealer advised me infinity knows about the problem and extended the warranty to 36k miles and that's all they would do. After just 100 miles of driving with new pads the wheels are blackened with brake dust. My last set of front pads lasted only 10k miles.
2004 infiniti g35 front and rear brake rotors were warped with less than 11,500 miles. *ts
Ongoing repair issues with infinity qx56 regarding numerous issues, primarily brakes. Unsafe vehicle, want to get rid of it. Over 30 days of visits to infinity to try to reconcile all issues, some of which are still pending. After repairs to brakes, we were told that when manufacturer sent letter regarding need for brakes to be repaired, they knew that this would not in fact repair the problem.
While driving our 2004 infinity g35 on the fwy going about 40 MPH (the ground was wet) we felt the track control started to shift side to side, a truck cut in fron us us, which made my husband put on brakes, as he putted on brakes, the driver side front brake locked, which caused for the card to turn sideways and hit the center divider full speed. The brakes after they locked, never stopped the car, the only thing that stopped us was the center divider. The airbags never pop, as we hit the wall going 40 miles per hours. I have taken the car to the dealer recently and had the brakes changed (2 times in 11 months) and the last tme I tood the car I informed the dealer that the brakes felt hard, and they were hard to stop they stated that the brakes will get better with use, and that's how it usually felt after the brakes were changed. The car did not drive the same, the traction was not working, the brakes locked and to top it all the bags did not deployed after impact.
While driving at approximately 75 MPH driver was changing lanes and the ABS system locked up, causing the vehicle to spin and hit the center divider and flip over several times. The two passengers and the driver were killed .
I own a 2004 infiniti g35 coupe 6mt with a problem with a front wheel rotor. One of the eight rotor surfaces is not with-in spec as with the other seven surfaces, and needs to be replaced as per infiniti techs.I have the model that utilizes brembo brakes and the tech and infiniti USA said that there was a recall for the non-brembo brakes and that the repair was my responsibility since it was a wear and tear situation.as I mentioned before. All but one rotor surface, and all brake pads were up to spec. My question is this. Is there any addendum to include the brembo brake system to the recall and if not is there anything you could suggest that I could do? Thank you for your time. *ak sincerely, dr. Leslie klein
I stopped my my 2004 infiniti g35 sedan at the end of my driveway, set the parking brake, and got out of the car to retrieve an item left on the ground next to my mailbox. When I walked away from the car, it began rolling. The car rolled off the side of my driveway and into the woods, where it hit a tree, causing considerable damage. Infiniti denies any responsibility for the damage, claiming that the brake is functioning within factory specifications. The following links offer evidence that the parking brake on this vehicle is woefully inadequate as delivered: http://forums.freshalloy.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?cat=&board=ubb25&number=67788103&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1 http://forums.freshalloy.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?cat=&board=ubb25&number=67563340&forum=ubb25&words=parking%20brake&match=entire%20phrase&searchpage=1&limit=50&old=1year&main=67563171&search=true http://g35driver.com/forums/showflat.php?cat=&board=1&number=293656&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&part= nothing has been done yet to correct this issue. The car is in a body shop to repair the fron end damage incurred in the collision with the tree.
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