gu 5th gear

Asked a skimilar things a while back about a 4.2 GU I was looking at buying. I think from memory the consensus was that it would be too old and Nissan wouldn't come to the party. May be wrong though. BTW I ended up giving the GU a miss because of that.

Contat head office...mate of mine had his 5th gear chew out last year and when he went into Mackay Nissan they qouted him $1800 to fix..he contacted head office and was told it is a known problem with the 2000 model.
Even after they replaced the whole gearbox Mackay Nissan tried to charge him for the labour..problem 5th gear was fixed in the 2001 model.

G'day Diamond,
Mine (May '99 build, reg. June '99) failed Nov. last year ('04)... Approx. 75000k's...

Dealer was very helpful, & even though they hadn't serviced the vehicle since new, submitted a claim to Nissan Aust. which was initially approved...
Got the vehicle back within a week. & was happy...

However, several days later, I receive a 'phone call from dealer to the effect that Nissan had rejected the warranty claim on the basis that the vehicle was "too old", & would I please come in & pay the bill!!...
Got on the 'phone to Nissan customer relations, & was told basically the same thing... Tough Luck!
Thought about telling the dealer to "go jump" since I had the vehicle, & an invoice stating "no charge", but my argument wasn't with them, & they've "done the right thing" by me in the past, so I went down to sort it out...

$922.42 (+ oil $28.80 which I'd already paid for), so I guess I came out of it OK by comparison.... They (so they said) charged the shaft & gearset to me @ "cost" ($280.01), & labour @ "warranty rates" :-))...

The upshot of it (as explained to me by dealer service bloke) is that Nissan is/was covering them up tp 5 yrs/200,000k's... I'd assume that most (if not all) of the affected ones would be more than 5y/o by now, so I guess no more warranty claims on these :-((...

$3000 does seem a bit steep though!!

Regards,
Ed. C.

Hi. My 2000 3.0 spat 5th gear in july this year at 128000km. Drove it another 3500km in 4th (tedious) from Broome to Perth to Kalgoorlie. The dealer contacted Nissan and the repair was approved before i got home. The dealer repaired it at no cost to me. The same dealer sold the car new, serviced it for the original owner, sold it 2nd hand to me and I've had them service it too.
I have been told that Nissan recognised that the problem is a design error and will reapir it regardless of mileage as long as it is original.
Incidently the motor dropped compression just after I bought it and I recieved exactly the same deal (except in this case they gave me a loaner car). Nissan supplied a 'crate' motor and the dealer fitted it at no cost. (apparently a new motor is $15000)
Dommo

Appears as though remote dealers have less issue with it than 'city' dealers..

Contact as said, Nissan head office, but Im starting to think you maybe unlucky..

hi guys
people who tow large vans should look at the co books to see what they should do for there vehicle like Extra cooling, use syntechet oil thes thing could save the gear box