GU 4.2 Diesel Gearbox

Hi Shaker
any more info on that ? at the moment the car is booked in for Wednesday non Nissan dealer .
Vic

Ring Nissan in Dandenong, unfortunately they have been treating everybody differently.
My friend ended up getting $1000.00, whereas others have had all the parts supplied, or had the whole job paid for.
I have forgotten the ladies name at Nissan, but I am fairly sure when you say what you are calling about you will get put through to her.
There is lots of info on the Patrol forums, including pictures of why they fail, basically the spline on the shaft is too short.

Good Luck!

PS: My friends vehicle was fixed by a non-Nissan repairer.

Ed
thanks for the photo link ,its very clear why the problem is there,just makes you question why the hell an engineer would design it like that when it clearly does not have full spline contact ?
Vic

Vic,
My take on it is that it's a manufacturing defect (Q C issue?) rather than a design fault..

My understanding is that the short-splined mainshafts were found to have come from just 1 of 3 suppliers that Nissan were using at the time.. This can be confirmed by ringing Customer Service & quote the VIN, and they can tell you if said vehicle was one of those so affected... Presumably they would also have records of those repaired under warranty (?)

As for getting help from Nissan, well, good luck with that... seems to be a bit of 'hit and miss' , and a case of 'not what you know but who you know', it would seem ;-)

When mine ('99 build) went in late '04, the dealer fixed it, and submitted a claim to Nissan which was rejected (Bugga!!)
Dealer subsequently told me that they (Nissan) were covering them up to 5 years (from date of purchase) / 200,000 km ..
If I'd known then what I know now, I might have 'made a bit of noise', but in any case, the dealer must have had some sympathy in my case, and they charged me only what (they said) Nissan would have paid them for the repair ($900), so I guess I got out of it a bit better than some others have done...
(I have seen figures ranging from $1500 - $3000 being quoted for the same job)

Catch ya later... Ed

:)

OUCH. You got stung. Repair kit is/was about $500.00 and around 6 hours labour. Unless of course when it let go it did other damage, but I've never seen that before.

Steve

I thought she'd left ????

Steve

Thanks Phil

I have had several conversations with Nissan and have been told that they are allowing a maximum of 6 years from purchase for good will warranty,I asked why some had been covered past this and was told there must have been a previous claim on the gearbox otherwise it would not be covered.
I think the who you know not what my come into play ?
Vic