Member No 1 replied:

it works like this:
they Dont Need to care as there is always someone else who will take you place

ben_gv3 replied:

Interesting points there Steve, but remember even with the past experiences re: the ZD30, people still buy them. The same goes with the Landies and their oil leakage issues.

Since they don't really present a safety issue, unlike crap welds etc. then the manufacturers aren't forced into issueing recalls etc. Besides what's the proportion of grenades compared to non-grenade ZD30's?

My 0.2c

Olcoolone replied:

You can blame the car companys all you want here in Australia.

The people you really need to get stuck into are our beloved pollies.

Now bare with me......we had a customers 2003 Honda CRVin our workshop last week, less then 100K on the clock and he was up for a $2300 repair bill due to no fault of his own.

Honda Australia said there was not a problem and would not help with payment, but in Ameriac Honda America are paying for the repairs even on vehicles dating back to 2000.

American people have laws the are enforced to protect the end user even when the warranty has expired......but here in little old Australia........... guess what we have nothing.

On another matter we had two high end $1400.00 8 mth. old LG monitors go wrong on us that they could not repair, it took us 5 mths. to get our money back.....tried consumer and business affairs and they could not do a thing for us due to us being a business so our only option was to look at passing the recovery onto our lawyers.....in the end LG did pay us.

The laws here in Australia are weak and need fixing, especialy vehicle ones.

Regards rIchard

Dave Thomson replied:

People still will buy them ??? what kind of people would they be ??? I know I would NEVER go back to Nissan after the way they treated me, fact, if you buy anything and it bites you, you'd be NUTS to go back there, one sure way to put people off , hit them in the pocket and you WONT be seeing them again, no your absolutley right Batman , it WILL come back to haunt them and good enough for em ' I say, they took a great car and destroyed its reputation and worst still walked away and left us to pick up the pieces,
sorry but it still gets up my left nostrill how badly they treat customers,
regards,
dave