Patrol GU 5th Gear failure

Submitted: Wednesday, Jul 27, 2005 at 18:40
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Yep, it's happened to me. Failed on the way back from the Centre a couple of weeks ago.
My Patrol was built in May 1999 and it has done just under 100,000 easy km. No heavy towing or low speeds in 5th.
I got quotes from a couple of transmission repairers who told me it was a fairly common problem with the earlier GUs.
Then I read all about it on this forum. Why can't you find out about inherent problems in the early days when there is a chance to do something about it??

I booked it into my local Nissan dealer where I bought and serviced the vehicle and asked them to send the paperwork into Nissan Australia to ask if they would cover the repair out of waranty. Guess what. The answer was NO. They must have decided on a cut-off date because they said my machine is "too old".
$2,234 later.
My brother has the same model built 6 months later so he has sent his VIN number off to Nissan and is biting his nails waiting for a reply.

Can anyone who has had this gear failure and had it repaired by Nissan please reply with some info like the date of manufacture of their Patrol, date of failure, mileage at time of repair and whether Nissan came to the party with costs?

The RACQ Legal bods suggested that I send a nice letter to Nissan asking them to reconsider. I haven't any reason to approach them from a legal standpoint because the Patrol was out of warranty and Nissan can stop repairing things under "good will" whenever they like.
So now starts the paperwork.
(sigh!) why did it have to happen to me?

P.S. If I had a GU built during or before 2001 then I would be contacting Nissan to see if my vehicle was on the susceptible list.

Nevyn
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