Originally posted by rams78110
Oh fuck dude how'd that get resolved? That's not a minor issue, someone could've gotten in the car. I can't wait for my better stretch. Perhaps when I'm a doctor I can afford a car that isn't a crapmobile.Thankfully we have a garage (one space, but it was enough) so we could keep it out of the weather until we got it taken care of.
tl;dr story:
Wife leaves work and sees the windows are down one evening. Freaks her out, I drive out there to check the car, no one messed with anything. Bring the car home, put it in the garage. Next morning, windows are down. I do a web search on the make and find that some people have problems with the key fobs triggering the windows (there is a feature on Nissan's that if you hold down the unlock button for a few seconds, the windows roll down). I put the windows up, and took the batteries out of both fobs. Next morning, the windows were down. Since my wife's father just had heart surgery and couldn't drive for a while, she borrowed his car so we had another one to drive.
I had to drive down south to visit family after the holidays and help my mother move to Chicago from New Orleans. I rented a car for the trip, as I would be driving a 26' diesel truck back up here. She had her father's car when she dropped me off to pick up the rental and a rock shattered the back window. I got on the road two hours late because I had to tape up the window in -5 degree cold before I could leave.
While I'm gone, wife's car in the garage, she's driving mine, and her father's car has a garbage bag taped on the window. She has an appointment with Safelite, but the the battery dies that morning and our neighbor tried to help jump it, but it wouldn't go. While I'm driving through Kentucky on my way to Nashville (my first stop), my cell phone craps out. The rental place gave me a dirty car with a little moisture in the door pocket which shorted out my phone. Stopped to buy a burn phone at a dollar store and continued on my way. Wife had to get her dad's car towed (he wanted us to replace the tires, battery, and brakes, while we were at it).
After me and one other friend moved my mother 950 miles, it was time to get our car fixed. Made an appointment with the dealer and the guy was adamant that it was a reprogramming issue. Brought it in at the appointed time, and the manager working that day said they don't take anything but oil changes on Saturday. Meanwhile, the constant self-induced activity in the car killed the battery. We had just bought it used from that dealer in October (2011 Murano). Had to have it towed there for the second trip where they replaced the battery and a door lock actuator, which seems to have fixed the problem. It wasn't covered under warranty, but they only charged me the $50 deductible for everything. Probably the only reason I didn't take a handgrenade with me when I went to pick up the car.
That's why I'm rooting for you to win against the dealer!
For us it was a real pain in the ass, but didn't take too much out of our pockets in the end. Tow was free because of AAA, we paid for the window, but her dad covered the other work on his car, and the $50 to Nissan.
