Don’t tow with your full size pickup? lol.
Carmaker Nissan on borrowed time?
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I dont know anyone with a Chrysler. All I know is right out of warranty my now wife's 2002 Altima bought new, cost $2000 in repairs maybe 5 or 6 years after she bought it. Blown head gasket. In addition, a factory recall had the ENTIRE REAR suspension including all support structures (under carriage) cut out and new re-welded on.
and ... as far as the chart.
ALL these brands did better. (surprised to see Mini Cooper and Jeep in this list. Consumer reports lists Jeep as some of the most trouble prone vehicles in the marketplace.
Below All these brands just about tied ( I am surprised but not totally that Honda was this low, then again, Honda isnt high my list anymore.
I never owned any of these. (actually I didnt even know Chrysler was a nameplate anymore)
Your wife's 2002 must have had the corrosion recall. Bad steel - pretty much the same as the Tacoma frame recalls of the same time period. Was only a few years, and only applicable to states with lots of salt? Head gasket is odd?
Every brand has +/-. You can look up different years and see that. But on this forum Nissan seems to be the but of all jokes. Toyota made plenty of oil burning, oil leaking models, but that is all explained away of course. Ford seems to be consistently at the bottom of the list for a very long time. I grew up driving Ford's. But don't dare besmirch them lest you end up on the receiving end of many members ire
.At least there looking for funding from the private debt market, rather than lobby Washington.
I agree just so you know. We had a really bad experience that I never had with another vehicle.Your wife's 2002 must have had the corrosion recall. Bad steel - pretty much the same as the Tacoma frame recalls of the same time period. Was only a few years, and only applicable to states with lots of salt? Head gasket is odd?
Every brand has +/-. You can look up different years and see that. But on this forum Nissan seems to be the but of all jokes. Toyota made plenty of oil burning, oil leaking models, but that is all explained away of course. Ford seems to be consistently at the bottom of the list for a very long time. I grew up driving Ford's. But don't dare besmirch them lest you end up on the receiving end of many members ire
At least there looking for funding from the private debt market, rather than lobby Washington.
It took them a while to figure out the head gasket, after we paid an UNGODLY sum of money replacing individual ignition coils. The good news is the problem existed still and to their credit they took the price off the head gasket bill for what we paid previously for the work they did that didnt solve the problem.
Yes, that was the corrosion issue. I mean, the entire rear undercarriage was replaced. I was AMAZED at the extent of what was done. No way could it have been done at the dealership. Did I say the ENTIRE rear uncarriage? !?!?!? *LOL*
I never owned a Toyota or Ford. Decades back my brother in law picked my then wife and I up from the airport when we returned from our honeymoon in his new less than 12k mile Ford van. On the exit ramp to our place, the engine blew, literally antifreeze (if I remember correctly) was coming out the exhaust. All cars have stories. I can tell you about my almost new 77 Honda Accord hatchback (boy I loved that car) front fenders rotting out. Honda replaced but would not repaint the whole car, only the fenders, paint never matched.
Or my 1980+ Honda CRX bought new. little did they warn you about the timing belt back then. Well it broke almost exactly at 60k miles, whole upper end of the engine had to be rebuilt>>
AS much as people pick on GM, I never had a major engine, transmission or exhaust issue. Sure the hardware might fall apart but always had luck with engines, transmissions or exhaust systems that didnt rot out like the one did on our bought new 1988 Subaru
that Subaru was a big disappointment ONLY because I was told how good the cars were - NOT.
I could have said the same of Sears but eventually they did go bankrupt.^This. Nissan has been going bankrupt for the last 20 years.
Na, Ford is like Sears. $176B in revenue, $159B of debt (almost equal).
Nissan has $37B debt on $84B sales - well under half. There more like Toys r us.
the one thing I'd like to point out.. these problems per 100 cars is for today 2024 models. It's interesting to see the past problems per 100, they were not an average of 190!!
Yes, The best rating now is below average for 10 years ago. The decline began in 2014 - just as the newest Cafe standards were really ramping up. Coincidence?
As they are today- yes. Despite what they are saying, to be broken up and sold piecemeal is a likely scenario. And for the Chrysler heirs to want it back is beyond dumb.
Well.. at one point they had Ford motors... so...
Is it ZF or JATCO?
Blame the Chinese EVs.
'Real reason' for Nissan collapse revealed as finance chief steps down
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/new...-steps-down/ar-AA1v4Eq8?ocid=sapphireappshare
'Real reason' for Nissan collapse revealed as finance chief steps down
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/new...-steps-down/ar-AA1v4Eq8?ocid=sapphireappshare
Mercedes design, built by Jatco
I think it all has to do with the majority of their clientele.Surprised nobody has posted this yet:
https://www.ft.com/content/970897c4-6d61-44f8-ae39-327c7c64e2c9
"12 or 14 months?" Oh snap.
Hey, somebody get Stellantis' (new) CEO's phone number. Maybe they can get together and form the automotive equivalent of the Justice League of fading and struggling car brands.
Yeah, they need to get back to basics, making durable cars and trucks not appealing to people who will never change their oil, or constantly putting air in bald tires.
I'd buy a Nissan car back in mid-late '80s, Bluebird or Patrol, not that they were available in North America. After that - hmmm, you got my money NOT. Who wants a piss-on POS junk?
My take is who actually cares what or how Nissan does in US market?
The thing about Nissan is that they really need to distinguish themselves with something that you can't get at other dealers. Trucks and SUV's are widely available, so no reason to go to a Nissan dealership unless the price is attractive. No reason to go to a Nissan dealer if all they have available is a car or SUV that has a CVT famous for failure. A warranty does no good if everyone thinks that Nissan is going to go bankrupt. Nissan needs to put normal automatic transmissions in all their vehicles that currently have a CVT. That alone would probably save the company. That and ramp up car production, because the few automakers that still offer them can't keep them on the lots. They also need a reasonably pioced Z-car. Some hybrid options as well.