merchant
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I have a 2008 D40 TD and have recently had problems from the front end. Nissan couldn't find the problem and continued to tell me to 'monitor' it over 1.5yrs and countless services. Sooooooo, warrant runs out and i take it to my mate down the road for a 70K service. He starts it up, turns if off and gets out. He tells me he refuses to touch it cos it has a major problem at the front end (took all of 10sec).
Anyway, he gets his stethoscope out and probes around until he localises the problem - TIMING CHAIN and or gears he says.
I take it back to Nissan and have an almighty whinge about reporting the problem for 1.5 yrs and no body did anything about it and a local garage mechanic finds the issue in 10secs. I was well pissed.
Nissan keeps it for a few days and then rings to inform me that a tooth had broken off the timing gear which had damaged the timing chain, tensioners, guides and internal and external timing covers and the bill will be in the vicinity of $10K. Naturally I spat it and called Nissan every name under the sun. I go over the story again about how it's been doing it for 1.5 yrs and no-one could find the problem (reported at every service). I hang up on the service agent who, to his credit, rings back an hour later and tells me Nissan will now be covering it under warranty. Bless em.
2 weeks (motor came out) and $5000 worth of parts (4 pages) later I get the car back sounding sweet. No clicking on start up. No rubbing from the front end.
Thanks Nissan.
All your service agents are crap though. This should have been fixed 1.5yrs ago.
Anyway, he gets his stethoscope out and probes around until he localises the problem - TIMING CHAIN and or gears he says.
I take it back to Nissan and have an almighty whinge about reporting the problem for 1.5 yrs and no body did anything about it and a local garage mechanic finds the issue in 10secs. I was well pissed.
Nissan keeps it for a few days and then rings to inform me that a tooth had broken off the timing gear which had damaged the timing chain, tensioners, guides and internal and external timing covers and the bill will be in the vicinity of $10K. Naturally I spat it and called Nissan every name under the sun. I go over the story again about how it's been doing it for 1.5 yrs and no-one could find the problem (reported at every service). I hang up on the service agent who, to his credit, rings back an hour later and tells me Nissan will now be covering it under warranty. Bless em.
2 weeks (motor came out) and $5000 worth of parts (4 pages) later I get the car back sounding sweet. No clicking on start up. No rubbing from the front end.
Thanks Nissan.
All your service agents are crap though. This should have been fixed 1.5yrs ago.
