Post by garriej on Jul 22, 2009 23:25:41 GMT 6
Hi all, I have as the website suggests a knackered navara. 2007 owned from new with mainly motorway miles in Ireland (170,000km). Dealer serviced until this year when found the dealer unresponsive to claims of knocking noises and faults. Independent garage gave it the all clear also. It has been a disaster from day 1 with serious faults such as drive shaft failure nearly causing a major accident, 4wd failure twice, injector issue and now this...........was told its a test dummy for them in Ireland as not many this age have done this sort of mileage also it failed both of its tests here in Ireland. Commercials undergo a doe test here from day one and just one month after a major service at the main dealer it failed on braking. I could go on and on ranting. Main issue is I came home left the car overnight on Monday last. Next day wouldn't start then coughed and spluttered and came to life, just. Thick smoke and no revs, loud banging noise then cuts out. I had it towed to garage and I thought that it could be a faulty injector stuck dumping diesel as compression good for mileage or turbo issue. Injectors were tested though and they are perfect, turbo looks clean as a whistle and has been given a clean bill of health. Strangely it over ran when the ignition was switched off even though wouldn't rev and it was cold, this was the only time it tried to rev in the slightest. In the end had to stall it to stop it. In Ireland the figure that is being put about is 6K euro to be made good - naturally not impressed when it cost 27k + VAT here due to stupid car prices. Warranty expired as over 60,000 miles. A decent guy at footloose 4x4 Peterborough near where I used to live in UK said about the site and that it may be worth approaching Nissan??? What do you think and where do I go? last time with the serious problem that nearly ended with me in a box I had to go direct to Nissan Europe, garages are next to useless also. Any pointers advice etc would be greatly appreciated. Should I bite the bullet and spend 2k on a newer engine from a crashed navara and carry on regardless??