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missfakeplastic
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May 21, 2008, 1:05 PM
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2004 Nissan Sentra SER SpecV
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At the end of December when my car wouldn't go into gear, I paid to replace my Nismo performance clutch with a Nissan stock clutch. In March, the same issue occurred. The teeth were missing from the clutch disc, and the dealership maintained that their labor and parts were correct, and the only thing left was driver abuse which voided the parts and labor warranty. I fought this for a long time, but paid to have a new clutch disc installed. On May 5th, it HAPPENED AGAIN. This time the clutch and the flywheel were both mangled. Again, they wouldn't honor their parts and labor warranty, but they also replaced my transmission. My question is: shouldn’t they have replaced the transmission earlier? I feel that they should reimburse me some of these costs…Or could something else cause it to happen again?
(This post was edited by missfakeplastic on May 21, 2008, 1:11 PM)
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Tom Greenleaf
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May 21, 2008, 3:11 PM
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I'm confused?? Is this to say you replaced the orig clutch with a performance non OE part that failed - returned to original parts the somehow failed again? Why did you seek out a "performance" clutch to begin with? Teeth would be on the flywheel and splines would be on a clutch disc - if those were mangled which I've never seen then something is all wrong.
Hey - I'm not there but this suggests you are on and needing all this work in just four years or so - that's does suggest abuse or perhaps neglecting a warning sign, noise or some malfunction till things broke??
T
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missfakeplastic
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May 21, 2008, 3:35 PM
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I bought the car used in 2006, so the performance clutch was in it when I bought it. That was the clutch that failed. I wasn't interested in performance parts, just being able to drive. I didn't have nay warning signs other than suddenly not being able to go into gear each time. If it were abuse on my part, what could I possibly be doing to cause such damage in such a short amount of time?
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Tom Greenleaf
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May 21, 2008, 4:40 PM
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Ok, it was already there in a used car to you so you really don't know the treatment it had before you. It's possible that someone who would seek out a performance part wanted to shift hard and fast, burn rubber = who knows? This could have stressed something that didn't show up righ away - I simply don't know.
Back when you had a sfhifting problem it probably was the clutch disc itself distorted somehow and not fully releasing the connection between engine and trans which might feel like trying to shift without pushing the clutch. Seems that you had fixed and it is curious that if any other problem existed it didn't show up right away. If parts of the standard trans were damaged I'm surprised it behaved for you when the clutch was then back to OE.
I also don't understand why the whole trans was deemed bad and needing to be replaced. What did they say was so wrong that just a part or something couldn't be fixed with it?
I'm lost with this. Feel bad for you as this has no doubt cost a lot of money. Speaking for myself, if I replaced a clutch for you and test drove the car after that job and all performed well I wouldn't suspect further problems at that time.
Perhaps one of the others here has a suggestion for you that I'm missing. Otherwise try to get some understanding with the shop and techs where the work was done and how this could come to be. Good luck,
T
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