ATTENTION!! 2009-2010 owners with steering lock/wont start issues

DragonSlave02

My 2011 370z which came with newer rev d model failed over the weekend could not do a thing to get it working to apply the fix. In my case the lock was not stuck engaged but one of the electrical switches in it was broke and with it stuck in a Walmart parcking lot and freezing rain coming down I took it to Nissan and paid and boy did I pay to get it fixed $1100. I asked about faulty units and they said nope it's not a defect but they just happen to have a few in the shop for a 6 year old car and an uncommon part which "is not defective" and which they removed from the car 4 years ago. And now I know you might say well it's 6 years old u got lucky it lasting that long well I bought the car with only 8000 miles on it last April and only put 4000 miles on it. So in short the stupid lock which has no defects in should only last 12000 or 6 years which ever comes first like in a bad worrenty. I think my next step is the attorney general and see what they have to say I know it might be useless because this issue is so rear, not like there are dedicated threads about it or diy fixes people have.

Wish I read up on all the issues a little more and saw this effected all models with the locking mechanism.

PS. I,m done ranting and I pulled the fuse.

TreeSemdyZee

Yep. The Rev D replacement is the one that failed on mine. Piss-poor engineering pure and simple.

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dbw

Ive got a year and a half Left oh the extended warranty so mine was covered including a rental car for 4 days. I am concerned that D version is unreliable.
Dave

dbw

Ive got a year and a half Left oh the extended warranty so mine was covered including a rental car for 4 days. I am concerned that D version is unreliable.

Where is this fuse? By pulling it what happens?

Thanks,

Dave

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DragonSlave02

So just an update on this. I figured I would call Nissan and see if they would make this right before calling the attorney general or bbb. They escalated the issue to a senior rep and today they just got back with me. I was told that the part is not covered under warranty but since there is so low miles (13000) they will reimburse me for the cost of the part, so I'm getting back about $700 so not the worst outcome and not the best but I'm okay with it.