Start a case with Nissan
Lemon 2023 Nissan Frontier
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It's the same place that builds the Harbor Freight folding trailers, no??
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Exactly, and escalate it to Japan or send a letter to Nissan's CEO. Apparently customer service in Japan takes these issues more seriously than the customer service games you will get in the US.
Ideally, you get to sell your vehicle back to Nissan for a fair value.
Otherwise, you will have to keep going back to the dealer 20x times for other issues (might be a few if the tech assigned has never done this before) until they declare this thing a lemon. Check the lemon laws in your state.
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I've sold dealers vehicles that were added to their website and marked certified before I even made it home from the deal.
Don't forget the scores of electrical grounding lugs/ points all over the frame. Miss or break one and it would be gremlin party time.
Time to find out what was not welded or rivited on the frame. Is it just a link tab or bracket? I would just get it welded at a collision/ frame shop. I snapped the left front LCA U-tab anchor bracket off a brand new Cherokee back in the 90's when the thing started wheel hopping gooing up my ski-slope driveway. I could not believe how insubstantial that bracket was - or that a Subaru could get up that hill and not a 4WD Jeep.
I do understand Nissan's only path forward is frame replacement. Even a frame shop would balk on repairing an under warranty vehicle that was not hit with an INS claim.
Nostalgia Warning - I had a big C-body '65 Buick where the frame rusted through and broke at the rear kick-up. In Massachusetts you could only get the whole rail replaced - no patch repairs allowed. I brought it to a combo Used Car lot and garage in N.H. and they agreed to fix it. The guy welded a large L shaped flame cut of boiler plate - the car drove great after. 69 buck fix back in the early Seventies.
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Here are the photos I was able to get of the broken frame.
Strange. looks like a stress crack. Get NISSAN on the phone..
Yikes.
Well, at least we know the dealer wasn’t lying about the frame, so perhaps there is hope they will do a quality replacement.
It is. The first photo it's supposed to be welded and the weld completely missed.
I see that. Interesting miss by a robotic welder, yours may not be the only one. Could be spotty though. Maybe funky fixture.
THANK YOU FOR THE PICS!!
Any good news in this, looks like a bump stop weldment.
Looks like to me it cracked. Id have to see a new one to compare. You dont have to accept this. CALL nissan. Open a case.
Yes it cracked because the opposing side did not get welded, inner or outer.
I will say the weld on the left must be strong!
Usually placing individual components in a fixture is a manual process performed by human, so I think this is probably a human error.
But this should’ve been caught as I’m sure they must have some sort of final inspection, be it camera system or other measurement methods, because that piece is off its place by quite a lot.
All of which is solved with basic trim removal tools that a jr mechanic should have in their box.
Its clear that some posters here have mental blocks on what the job entails or are armchair mechanics.
All speculation on speculation. I would say back in the day, if that's the case, why wasn't the operator able to load the tool properly?
I think it's a body mount? In the one shot I think they've undone it or it broke?
Thanks for the pics OP!
If it were my truck I'd 100% grind that out, weld it up, fishplate it and weld it up again.
