Shortest time to return a new Patrol on a Flatbed !
I'm not sure I would have believed this story if I hadn't taken the pictures.
Well the last white dinosour was finally parked in our drive and it was really lovely silky smooth, quiet, powerful and Bluetooth enabled.
4 hrs later its cold and dark outside at 10pm.
Go to take the car for a spin and it wouldn't start.
It spun over nicely but wouldn't fire up.
71km on the clock and I wasn't happy.
Got Nissan roadside assist on the phone and they asked me if it had just been
driven a short distance, I said yes, we had recently re-positioned
where it was parked.
Right he said, its extremely rare but modern cars can get flooded cold.
Then I remembered this happened just once with our Toyota RAV4.
Over the phone we proceeded to go thru the cold start proceedure (crank with foot hard on accelerator).
Nothing worked and after an hour the Nissan service vehicle was dispatched.
Just before it arrived I went outside and tried the car again and damm, it started perfectly.
The Nissan service guy then arrived and checked things out.
He confirmed that it will never happen again and was a rare engine cold flood coincidence and to forget it.
I was quite uneasy with this explaination as it turned over to cleanly and I felt
it was probably some form of electrical lockout.
Anyway - confidence destroyed it was midnight and off to bed.
Next morning - you guessed it - the car wouldn't start - onto Nissan roadside
care again.
They didn't mess around this time and a flat bed tow truck was on its way.
Problem, my car was 50ft from the road on our front lawn and under OHS rules
the tow truck wasn't allowed to get it and it was my responsibility to get
the car to the roadway.
What idiot would buy an auto I thought !
You can't drive the stupid thing on the starter motor anymore.
Only a month ago I had saved my other Patrol using just the starter.
With some help we struggled and got the car to the road.
Now the new car I had owned for just 15 hours was loaded onto the flatbed
and driven away as we and the neighbours watched in disbelief.
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It was saturday morning - the grand final was about to start - I have 5 days
with the car to get ready for a 1200km trip to
Stockton beach and I needed every minute - and the cars gone.
I did not expect to hear anything till at least monday.
30 mins later the phone rang.
Its Nissan service here, umm , you got a spare key with the car didn't you !
We forgot to program it.
Wether or not your car started depended on which key you used !
An unprogrammed key will turn on the ignition and turn over the starter motor,
but won't allow engine to fire up.
All that trouble drama and expense to Nissan.
I know God drives a Toyota and is out to get me but a manual overide lockup convertor project has just gone to the head of our pending projects list and where gunna fight back !