Good news about Nissan Warranty

Yep, I guess that is correct too.

Cheers,

Heather G

Hi TerraFirma,

According to the repair printout it was:
A broken vacuum pump sprocket, guide and tensioner guide worn, injector pump sprocket damaged. They replaced the lower chain and guides, tensioner and vacuum pump - and replaced the injector pump sprocket.

We bought the vehicle second hand from a Nissan dealer last year and thought all was in order with the service history. Hoped this didnt affect warranty and obviously it didnt. Since we have owned it we have travelled 20,000kms and had services every 5,000 because we tow a 2 1/2 t van.

All seems to be great now though. We are probably only a couple of weeks behind our very sketchy schedule so happy to be nomadic again. WA is such a huge state and so far from home we didnt want to sit in one place for too long on our first visit.

Cheers
Heather G

well done Heather, dare I say perhaps the female touch was convincing? At the end of the day you remember great service , not the problem. Congrats..enjoy your trip with some assurity..

Thanks Tim.

We are very happy to be back on the road too. Obviously the parts were somewhere in Oz after all or maybe were put on a plane. Who knows.
Hope it is all smooth sailing from here.

Cheers

Heather G

Hi Sigmund,
We had parked the van in the caravan park and paid for three nights because we were having the car serviced and thought we would be gone the next morning. However when the vehicle was then off the road due to the workshop finding a major problem, where we were staying was regarded as the 'point of vehicle breakdown' and accommodation costs became claimable.Initially we had been told we may be there for 3 or 4, maybe 7 weeks while the part was sent from Spain, so we are happy to be back on the road after three.

NRMA Premium care provides up to $700 for accommodation costs in this case, and will also provide a hire car for up to 7 days apparently, and the cost (not sure whether full or partial cost) of repatriation of vehicles home if necessary according to the very helpful person I spoke on the phone to. I think there is a combined limit in any one year for all these - $3000 in our case as we have been members for close to 40 years.

We went to the RAC office in Geraldton and explained our predicament and the NRMA was contacted for us. At that stage we didnt know whether we were entitled to any help either but were pleasantly surprised.

NRMA Staff I have spoken to have been exceptionally kind and helpful.
We dont have any insurances with them, just the Roadside assist package.
Investigated bundling all our insurances with them before we left home, for convenience, and found it quite a lot more expensive.

Not sure what would have happened had we broken down on the roadside interstate and hope we dont find out!

Cheers
Heather G