We belief automakers to make high quality autos that aren’t solely dependable, however most significantly protected to drive for years to return. That isn’t at all times the case although. One Nissan Frontier proprietor skilled this primary hand after discovering his truck was lacking body welds.
As reported by The Drive, Mathew Bossinger lately retired from the Military and as a present to himself, bought a 2023 Nissan Frontier 4×4 crew cab from Woodhouse Place Nissan in Omaha, Nebraska. The licensed pre-owned truck had 14,000 miles on it and he says he traded in two of his household’s vehicles for it.
For some unusual purpose, the Frontier being stocked at Woodhouse Place Nissan meant that the truck’s CPO guarantee was forfeited. As The Drive reported, Bossinger made his discovery simply over a month later after listening to unusual sounds coming from beneath the truck.
The very first thing I seen was a squeak or rattle in the fitting entrance,” Bossinger instructed me. “I believed it was only a bushing or one thing like that so I didn’t make an appointment instantly. About two weeks after the fitting entrance noise, the steering wheel began making a popping sound. Each sounds constantly bought worse, so I scheduled an appointment pondering it was in all probability the U-joint connection within the steering column and one thing smaller in the fitting entrance.
Bossinger took the Frontier to a different close by Nissan vendor who confirmed that the Frontier had a faulty body, an enormous and harmful miss by Woodhouse, although to be truthful in all probability not one thing you’d assume to verify. The body was lacking “a number of essential welds in its ladder chassis, putting extra pressure on different components of the body.” Even worse, in some locations, the body was bending whereas others had stress fractures. Suffice to say, Bossinger wanted to have his body changed.
The Drive says Nissan company promised him a brand new body, however each Nissan and the vendor stored giving him the runaround: Nissan would give him a date of service just for the vendor to say they couldn’t take him on the date offered. The vendor additionally stored ignoring him, with Bossinger telling The Drive that all the pieces from “calling a number of instances, leaving voicemails, and posting opinions to Fb and Google” didn’t get their consideration. The Drive says a supply instructed them that the vendor knew what was occurring which might clarify why they ignored him.
In the end, it took the intervention of The Drive to get the ball rolling. The vendor claimed to The Drive that they hadn’t been conscious of what was occurring whereas Nissan lastly confirmed that they’d had a body delivered to the vendor and had been trying into the scenario. Bossinger was lastly capable of get a service appointment for his truck on September ninth. He isn’t solely involved about his truck both, saying he doesn’t assume his Frontier is the one one with this defect. “My childhood greatest pal who units up welding robots for corporations mentioned there isn’t any means the robotic solely missed my body,” he instructed The Drive.