Nissan Service Update

Vince,

You may need to install an additional inline glass bowl fuel filter to prevent any further issues.

Hopefully this experience wont happen again.

Best of luck.

Cheers Kev

Good one Vince.

At least you can smile now and 'relaxxxxxx', seing as it is a minor ailment. I would have thought that the fuel filter would have been replaced after the first 1000km just to make sure there were no impurities in the system.

Cheers

Vince I think I would be doing a lot of jumping up and down if a dirty fuel filter was the diagnoses after only a tank and a half, either the fuel filters are grossly inadequate or the pre delivery was crap and/or Service Station fuel tanks are full of crap. Either way a call to MTA may help to straighten out the situation. With the repair costs of fuel pumps being what the are there is a need to force Dealers, Service Stations and Manufacturers to take responsibility for mechanical breakdowns that are caused by faulty fuel which we as a consumer have no control over. Barnray

Vince,
Glad its nothing serious. Just curious, what did the Dealer charge to change the filter and clean out the fuel??

Cheers
Phil

The apprentice prob left a sensor disconnected after inspecting the air cleaner or somthing so they just charged you an hours labour and a new fuel filter so they could claim it wasn't their fault.

Well, well, well! We must be related. My diesel had done 30,000 k's and I replaced the fuel filter after buying the Navara at auction at 28,000 k's. Wouldn't start and had the vehicle towed to be garaged for security reasons overnight. It started reluctantly the next day and hasn't missed a beat since. However taking it in to the local dealer they asked what I wanted them to check as if it wasn't warranty I would have to pay $100/hr labor costs. Now is it an electrical management problem or is it the fuel pump? I'm asked for a prognosis before they start, can you believe this? I told them I had little faith in the vehicle and little faith in them as they also said they chased the same fault on another Navara all day finding nothing and it has run OK since. Nothing was done to the vehicle and I do all my own servicing, the fuel filter when examined was meticulously clean as expected. I wrote to Nissan Australia after being offered their extended warranty for three years for some $850 and said they must be joking. I was contacted by phone by the local dealer asking what I would like them to do. I was polite and said "nothing thanks". I believe it is an intermittent electrical injector pump timing problem but I'm not sure. Engine is not common rail. Runs OK now, hopefully.

Vince I really have not had the time to read your posts but I can sympathise with what you have to say as I have the d22 and is now excactly 1 year old. Because of warranty problams I have vowed that before I die I will have made at least 1000 people not buy a nissan.
So far I have been able to talk at least 20 people know about Nissans and as a consequense they have not bought a Nissan. I had a warranty issure 2 years ago with my toyota and they supplied me with another vehicle for 3 weeks whilst they repaired the truck. As a consequence Nissan so far in the past year has lost 1 mil in lost sales......... somebody said about going into the yard and shouting loud. There is no law about standing on the footpath and letting people know what nissans are like before they walk in....... I am going to do that this week end I think....... Worst thing for Nissan is I am also a photojournalist and am biding my time to really getting the facts out there and you have given me some good ammunition. Thank you

When the filter was replaced, was the fuel drained and replaced, if not and you have no further problems the fuel can be eliminated as the cause of problem, maybe the problem was the fuel the dealer put in out of the jerry can out back when the vehicle ran out on its pre delivery run with the car washer giving it stick down the main drag. Talking from experience having worked in a car yard. Col