Nissan America had earlier on denied warranty claims by an owner of a newly bought GTR with the transmission cooked. However its not all a case of consumer rights violation in this case. As all GTR owners would have to sign an agreement stating that they've read and fully understood the warranty terms and conditions.Apparently, this actually caused a dispute, as a new tranny costs $22,000 (for a $72,000 car), and as soon as the owner wanted a repair done under warranty, Nissan took the blackbox (yes, there's one) and found the owner had performed Launch Control with the VDC off multiple times (Showing off yeah?) and resulted in the transmission overheating and ultimately, damaged beyond repair.
Do you think the owner himself was all to be blame? Or Nissan should actually include a preliminary warning system that blinks when the transmission is overheated, then another blinking + alarm when the transmission is really overheated, and then a last resort of blinking + alarm + shaking the driver seats + limiting revs + disabling launch control? Just to keep themselves clean of such ignorant drivers?
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LOL! Shaking seats? Osim?
Performance cars rarely comes with a warranty. If they do I guess they should have really strict T&C since the owner is going to drive it hard.
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