GU service items

Basically the same as a 20000km service IMO. Air cleaner should be replaced on a need basis in my opinion, and by the sounds of it yours needed it (your gut instinct is generally right if you think it needed changing). No sense wasting money just cause the books say it needs a new air filter.

I still follow a basic 5K oil change, 10K oil + filters, 20K= 10K service + other filters as needed and valve clearance, 40K oil +filters + bearings + other fluids + usual 20K service. Even after 275000km.

Hope this helps.

I would say without doubt..

but if your unsure, call the dealer as a propective customer waiting to book in your car, ask them what you get for 140k klms service.. or call another dealer and do same

I should think so, years ago I put a car in for a service at a holden dealer here in syd, I put marks on things that should have been replaced....low and behold oil and fuel filter not done...invoice had oil and fuel filter on it, I was 18 at the time so I think they thought they could pull one on me, I went ballistic and mentioned to service manager that the authorites would love to know about this fraud...next 2 services free and all items replaced at those services. Watch em like a hawk!!

Cheers
Stefan

In my view the aircleaner on a 4wd should be inspected at every service and if necessary replaced or at least cleaned. Complain.

To a degree it depends on what is on the Nissan schedule for the 140,000 kms service. If you've got the Nissan service schedule book it will tell you. If it's there, scheduled, then it should have been changed or at least checked.

Using the same yardstick, i.e the Nissan service book, have a look back at previous services that have been done and see when the air cleaner SHOULD have been checked or cleaned. Than have a look at who did THAT service and then think back about what sort of driving and terrain you've been driving over since that last service that would make an air filter get so dirty.

As an ex-truck diesel fitter, I make it habit to check any cleaner on any service. AIR is vital to a diesel. They consume up to 6 times more air than a petrol engine.

Any mechanic worth calling a mechanic would check an air cleaner. In future, I'd go elsewhere to have the servicing done. Go back to the people that serviced it, tell 'em what you've found & tell 'em you'll be going elsewhere in future.

Remember, servicing is where main dealers make thier money. If they lose business like this then the whole dealership loses money.

I've taken 'em on several times and won every time. Why? Because they're slack, lazy and seem to think that they know more than most car owners.

Bilbo

ismatch=mismatch

Banshee,
I had the same trouble with a Nissan dealer in the Perth northern suburbs. Air cleaner was supposed to be changed or at least checked at the 20,000 interval. I had hit an emu a few weeks before the service, and some weeks after the service I found the air cleaner chock-full of emu feathers.
So much for their service quality. I notified Nissan Melb and changed dealers after that and have never been back to that dealer.
Gerry

The dealer will only change the air filter at each major 40,000k service.
I use to ask the dealer to do it at each service and I was happy to pay, but they still wouldn't change it, needless to say, they don't do my regular servicing anymore.
I change mine every 10k, particularly after driving in dusty conditions.
It's cheap insurance.
Chaz

on ya guys for the help, I think I'll ring them tommorrow to grill them about the "oversight"
Maybe I'll get a free ellement...... ha ha ha ha ha

I use a K&N air cleaner element. That is cleaned and rechaged at every service.

The K&N air cleaner element is not recommended for off-road use. I carry a spare air-cleaner element and use that when off the black top.

An after market air cleaner element can be purchased for under $20-00 for the 4.2TD. I don't know the cost for the 3.0 ltr. I do this because of advice received from a Diesel Mechanic in regards to the importance of having a clean element to ensure air flow.

I have had the same problem when my vehicle was serviced by a Nissan Dealership (plus more). I checked the air cleaner element and it was caked in red dirt.

For $395 you would expect that they would have replaced the air cleaner element. I would be letting the Nissan Dealer and Nissan Customer Service that you are not satisfied.

hi banshee1
sounds like they should of changed it we are in perth on your next service shop around the nissan dealers there can be a big differance in the price i have found midland to be good on service and price
cheers steve