WORST SERVICE EVER!
My daughter and I were traveling to Vegas on vacation when the transmission decided to not accelerate anymore and "Service Engine Soon" light came on. Since my 2010 Altima transmission was just replaced by Nissan UNDER WARRANTY I pulled off at Barstow to take my car to Mojave Nissan. Since it was Sunday, the service department was closed and most of the rental places were closed too. Assured that I would get a call from the service department, we spent the night in Barstow. The woman at the dealership there was extremely helpful and arranged a shuttle to the hotel.
The next morning I waited until 9 a.m.(since they open at 7 a.m.) and I decided to call them myself. I get a hold of Jeff D. in servicing when I was then told that he didn't have a diagnostician to look at my vehicle. Since the car can't get diagnosed, they wouldn't cover the rental car. Fine, I took care of it. Met Jeff at Nissan that Monday with a promise from Jeff that he would call Tuesday with an update since I was coming back into Barstow on Wednesday. Tuesday came and went. I called 5 minutes after their service department closed to see if I could catch someone, nope!
Wednesday morning around 9 a.m., I call back to service and Jeff informs me that the tech is test driving it at that moment so he doesn't have an answer yet. I can deal with that. Again at 11 a.m. as I am leaving Vegas, I call them to get an update. Jeff informs me that the tech could not recreate the problem and that no codes were pulled. I think it's weird that a service light can come on and not throw a code, but what do I know?
I get back to Barstow around 4 and Jeff is gone. Now, I get to talk to Steven Wright. I tell Steve my concern that it's weird that this happens. Steve tells me that since my car is 8 years old, traveling approx. 80 miles per hour, in 110 degree heat for a couple of hours will definetly make this happen and that I need a new vehicle. I express that I am less than happy with the service at Mojave with the unkept promise of updates and Steve apologizes on behalf of Mojave and Jeff. Apology accepted and I go on my way.
Since I don't want this issue to keep happening in the future, I figure that I would be better if I can recreate the problem so that they can document and help me diagnose the problem so that I won't happen again. So this time I take the trip to Barstow with a couple of friends and without my daughter since I know this could be dangerous. Low and behold, I recreated the issue! I take my car back to Mojave since this is the area that my car seems to have issue in. Steven is the only service advisor available and I ask him to look at my car. Steven informs me that he has no tech available. I ask if he can at least look at it and document the issue. He follows me out to my car and tells me again that my car is too old, going too fast, running the AC, etc. I do not agree with that statement and ask him to at least test drive it himself so that he can document his findings. Do all vehicles over 8 years old have their cars go into a "fail-safe" mode and unexpectedly lose power and speed on the highway? It doesn't matter since he doesn't want to take my car.
At this point, I am mad. Voices are raised, both his and I. He admits its a transmission issue. He had verified previously that a new transmission is in place and it is still under warranty, of course I am going start getting a bit indignant. I don't know what he's feeling in that instant, but he walks away. Ten minutes later he approaches my vehicle and is so CALM and FRIENDLY. "Should we try this again?" he asks. Sure, I reply and we get into the same conversation except now I am even more angry. We are both saying the same things again. This time as he walks away, he turns off his phone recorder! He was recording this conversation without my knowledge! While I know that this isn't illegal, it is DOUCHE-BAGGERY at it's finest. After I found out he was recording, I went back in recording too. I told him he should've informed me that he was recording and that he told me that he did it to "protect" himself and that he was going to call the police. I waited, police never came.
Meanwhile, my friend's boyfriend(she told him the situation we were facing) who works for Sears Auto was able to find a service bulletin from Nissan detailing the exact issue and the workaround for it! If anyone in that service department took the time to look into my situation, and not just dismiss something the customer is saying, this could have been an easy fix.
tl;dr: DO NOT DO BUSINESS HERE! If you are forced to do business here, make sure you record your conversations for YOUR protection. They obviously care more about THEIR protection than yours. read more