more problems in one visit than over 140k miles in my nissan...

[scott42]

To appease all of you guys who hate to hear bitching...I'm not...just stating that I was shocked that my car had so many problems with it...and easily more repairs were made in ONE trip to the dealer than on my old 240 with 140k miles on it had over its whole life...

I just got back from a trip to my motherland (ireland)...I left the car with the dealer when I was gone (9 days) to take care of some issues...this is what I got when I got back...
-new clutch
-new flywheel
-new pressure plate
-fresh redline fluid (as I had that in there from earlier)
The car now feels completely different and much improved

-new front and rear swaybar bushings
-new axle seals in front due to the old ones leaking (they found this while working on it)
-new airbag cover (passenger side; due to splitting seams)
-refinished hubs all around (eliminated nasty looking rust)

Most issues had related TSBs which I gave to the dealer when I dropped it off. Thankfully, my dealer is very good and did a great job with everything. They really have my respect with regards to quality service.

Anyway, its good to be home and eat some real food as well as not be somewhat required to drink Guiness at a constant rate

 

[joshyellomp3]

did the clutch and flywheel have tsb's? Mines acting up as well, what were your symptoms?

 

[scott42]

Yes, there is a TSB (Clutch Chatter during Takeoff) And the remedy for the symptoms is to replace all of these parts...the symptoms for me were : when starting up in the morning, for the first 5-10 minutes, 1st gear would be extremely tempermental. Basically when letting off of the clutch, the whole front of the car would shudder and bang violently(as if trying to catch) feeling as if the tranny was going to just drop out of the car sometimes because it was so bad. Sometimes the same thing would happen in 2nd and rarely, but it did happen in third. Since having this work done, the car feels COMPLETELY different (in a very good way) even better than the first day I had it...I almost think that they put the wrong parts in some of them because the work order referred to "updated parts". Good luck and feel free to email me any other questions as I've got a new job and I'm not on here as much. There is a link to all TSB's out on our car on here somewhere (thats where I got mine and printed them to bring to the dealer (cut off the URL though ) If I can find it now, I'll repost it on this thread for you.

 

[scott42]

here's that link
http://web2.airmail.net/emann/protegefaq/tsb/