in this case the supplier is not meeting the manfuacturer requirement. ive never heard of a major car manufacturer that specs their product to only work for 1yr or 12k miles. :D hahaha.

Yeah, but sometimes those blasted engineers are wrong... :D

Did you hear about the problem GM was having with their Impala? They decided to put on some cheaper parts for the rear suspension, when they did this it made the rear tires wear out in something like 8000 km. They issued a recall for the cop cars but not for the general public... big cluster ____ . Oh did I mention that this was a after a couple of years into build? Damn engineers. lol

I must disagree. North American car manufacturers have been making their vehicles to realistically last only about 3 years. They don't want them to last longer because it means customers will have to replace their cars more often. In Europe, this kind of thinking went the way of the record player ...:ugh2:

BTW, rep points for this thread! Great info!

Yeah, the big-picture evidence of mfg shadiness is always that stupid differential between the full car warranty and the powertrain warranty. I don't see how the public has put up with that so long. E.g. when you see a standard warranty offer of 3 years bumper-to-bumper and 5 years powertrain: so the powertrain is warrantied to last 5 years, but the rest of the car, including lots of little stupid OEM-only parts you sell at ridiculous markup, is specced to fall to bits in 3? Why would someone buy into that deal unless they planned to throw out the car in 3 years (in which case, why the 5 year powertrain warranty?).

Guys, my G is 8 yrs old and I am the original owner. Not one problem on the car.

Wat do you say to that? :icon17:

Honestly I would expect that from an import. All my imports have been awesome. Needing nothing more than regular maintenance. Now My 2005 Pontiac G6, has been for the most part ok. There were a couple of warranty items that the dealer was going to repair for me only to change their mind at the last second. The items were finish items. 1. trunk lid alignment, rubbing on the rear bumper (no accidents, like this from day 1) 2. the finish on my rims were/are bubbling (many G6's with the chrome rims have this problem). The rims never saw winter, and my car had 30000 km on it, well under the 60000 km warranty. Anyhow, long story short GM service blows donkeys. I am however very surprised my car has gone this long without needing major repairs. Regardless, my next car purchase, I will be going back to an import. :tup:

Wanna trade your G for my G6? :bowrofl:

It's a pretty simple tradeoff really:

Buy a car early in it's model production if you want to be the cool kid on the block with the newest model car...but you also buy the wrinkles that still need ironing out.

Buy a late model car just before redesign and you buy the 'dated' version but you'll have a solid, time-tested vehicle at the end of its cycle.

You decide where you fall.

All the cool cats buy the first MY. :tup:

i think i should go visit my dead car on the nissan lot eh?

So this past wednesday I told the manager the part might be back ordered...and he was like uh its being "overnighted" and should be here tomorrow and will give a loaner car for the time being. Well that was Wednesday..havent heard anything yesterday or this morning..so we had to call them again and ask whats goin on..He said "the part is on back ordered and will push my car to the top of the list to get worked on cause the district manager got involved. oh well. At least I got a loaner car and dont have to drive mine in this weather!

sorry to hear about the update, jasonle! :( but yah, atleast you got a free loaner. :tup:

Mine just took a **** on me, and I have revision C!!! Waiting for the tow truck to Auto barn Nissan as I type.

:ugh2: sorry to hear. this is the 3rd RevC to fail.... how many miles and build date? (mark your steering lock while you can..put a scratch or something on it).

i went to the lot where my car was today pulled up in my dads red 370 roadster pulled up to mine same spot it was inbefore lol they gave me a odd look then i walked over to my car and opend it (it was unlocked ) sighed they looked at me even more sadly i had to get in through the passanger side so i could not tell what lock i had so i went in and talked to parts their system was still donw but the eta was the 18 of feb.. i asked if i could get a loaner ... nope the only rent out sigh :shakes head:

sucks... twice. :( so they going to pay for the rental if it's a warranty repair? (are you within warranty?) they should, you shouldn't have to pay for this crap.

Im driving a 2011 Nissan Rogue! So far nice gas mileage on this loaner. Actually we got 2 loaner out from Nissan.. my wife armada is being repaired so they gave her a altima. That sucks tho they didn't give you a loaner. Id be very angry.!

Thanks for the tip. I gave it a smiley face. Lol

:bowrofl:

That's what she said.

My experience with Autobarn service has been pretty stellar. Let me know how things go.

nope they only rent out yes its good warrnaty wise till july

That's where I bought my car from. This is my first time dealing with the service department (I do my own maintenance) but they were a nice dealership to deal with.

did a minor update in the first page added #3 and stranded to-try section.

update: i called nissan to find out if their systems were back up i over heard him ask someone about the back ordered part he came back to the phone saying it should be there around the 3rd hopefully he meant feb not march lol my car has been dead from the 24th

sounds good, 370zproject. hope you get your car back soon. :tup:

haven't heard any failures for a couple of days. :)

yea i got to check my dads

Mine's been down since the 27th. Every time my phone rings I hope it's Autobarn Nissan, but so far the only time I've heard anything about my car is when I've called them and asked for an update. :rolleyes:

I have a line on a "D" revised lock cost me $475:tup:

Nice! stick that thing on ebay! Ca-Ching!

very helpful thread

I was talking to the dealer we use at my shop to get the "D" revised lock and now he is telling me Nissan has put that part on a restricted order list now you need name,vin, year make and model of car,he said that when this happens a recall is not to far behind.

I will let you know if I hear any more news.

:tup: thanks! i would be very happy if i can get my RevB replaced with a RevD. i would continue on with my RevC in the car until the day it dies and keep RevD in the trunk.

im not 100% convinced RevD is our total solution. but atleast we would have the latest and greatest. only time will tell how RevC and D does i guess.

im getting the D they "said"

They told me "D" too! ETA Febuary 17th

I got one be here next week more good details later

The dealer called me and told me the car is not locking or unlocking with the fob key anymore. Does anyone know if the car battery is dead will the fob key not work either? When I got there to see what he was talking about..the yellow key light and red flashing light was gone...in my head i was thinking the battery must be dead thats why the fob keys are not responding?:confused:

If the car battery is completely dead you will not be able to lock/unlock at all with remote fob or door buttons (no power to lock motors or ECU) and can only use the key. If the fob battery is dead you will have the same result except that you can lock/unlock using the door switch once inside.

OK Kenchan this for you:hello:

The low down that I got from my Nissan guy is that unofficially Nissan has placed these steering locks on restricted order to hold on to the remaining number they have and are waiting for yours to fail then you take it to the dealer they determine that the steering lock is the cause then they send all the info to Nissan and when Nissan gives the dealer approval then Nissan will release the part to your dealer.

The only way my Nissan guy could get me mine is I had to give him my Vin#,name,year,make,model of car then he called me back an hour later b/c he had to get approval from Nissan before he could sell it to me.

Thanks for the info. :tup:

Just waiting to on the part to get to the dealership. Took them 3 days to figure out it was the steering lock after I told them about it when it went in.

Now a question came up in a conversation between a friend and I. If you replace a part and then there is a recall on that part, do you get reimbursed or do you get screwed out of your money?