Finally after 5+ attempts at various dealers I'm getting a new tranny. The service rep told me that they found lots of metal debris in the transmission pan and couldn't believe I've been driving it around in that condition. I'm also geting my sunroof motor replaced. I also need the fuel filler protector, and other work done, but I'll be satisfied with a new trans for now. I wonder if I'll but pushing my luck asking for the fuel filler shield. hmmmm.

 

What did you notice with your transmission that made you think there was something wrong with it?

 

My dealership and Nissan have turned my tranny problem into a science project, so I'll be retired before they decide to just replace the whole damn tranny. Every time I go, it's "we're gonna try something new" or "we just have one more thing we wanna try first". Today is #5, and I'm sure I'll be back. Anyone know anything substantial about lemon laws??

 

First of all my transmission was slipping when accelerating more than half throttle. The rpms would hang for 3 sec or so before kicking into gear. More recently while crusing on level ground at freeway speeds, the transmission would slip to third and then back to fourth and so on like it's confused or something. Once while braking in traffic the transmission downshifted and slammed into the lower gear hard. The whole car shuttered, I thought I would find my tranny on the ground in my rear view mirror. I even found metal on my trans fluid dip stick.

 

I am not a lemon law expert or anything, but first you have to check your local laws. Each state unfortunately is a little different.

My parent and I have won two lemon law suits. One against GM (bad blue paint) and one against Chrysler (transmission vibration). Key to winning is documentation of attempts. Never leave the facility without documentation as to what they did to your car. Even if they find nothing wrong with my car, I always get and invoice that states that.

In Ohio, if a car has been out of service, meaning not in your possesion,laid up, not drivable 30 days in the first year of ownership, in for a specific repair more than 3 times and some other fine print, it qualifies as a lemon.

You have to go through arbitration of the company, this case Nissan, so they can say we will fix or not. GM had an outside arbitrator and a factory rep defending GM. That one was smooth and easy.

The Crysler one had a Factory arbitrator and a factory reb. It was a joke. They could not see the problem. Duh....That one went to 2 hours before our court date before they settled out of court.

Lemon law chasing does cost money. Its frustrating and time consuming (Close to a year for both cases). But if you have a good case its worth it. Get a good layer, ours was based out of middle town ohio and he does strictly lemon law stuff. Expensive, but we won and got rid of that POS! For the GM, since we won the arbitration, we did not need the layer. I have a sneaky suspicion that Nissan arbitration would be less than desireable. But do it in order and get your ducks in a row.

Good luck should you try....!

 

wow....your tranny was really *****ed up. Good thing you got a new one. As for the lemon laws, it depends on the state. Here in MD, it says that if you take in a car three times for the same problem and they fail to fix it, it may qualify to be bought back by the dealer.

 

Thanks for the inputs on the lemon law, but when I went to pick it up today the first thing he told me was that my new tranny was on it's way. Why the **** they didn't do this one of the first 5 times I don't know, but at least it'll be fixed by Thurs. Only one more time I have to drive the rental Corolla...

 

just wondering, lets say your car does qualify for the lemmon law, what happens? what price does the dealer buy it at?

 

they probably have to buy it at fair market value....