I did call Consumer Affairs regarding out-of-warranty assistance.
It was a Hail Mary but guess what!! I scored
Nissan have agreed to refund $1,000 out of the $2,518 repair bill.
The initial call didn't start well, the agent asked me the miles on the odometer and when I said 107,000 he repeated it back to me "107,000" !?! with a incredulous tone. I pointed out my extended warranty had just run out recently and on top of that only 8 months ago had to fork out for a new battery. That seemed to work well enough.
The next sticky point was when I shared that I had paid for the repair already. 'We can't offer out of warranty assistance then' was the answer, 'why did you do that?'. I pointed out due to the nature of the fault I had only 10 miles left when I arrived at the dealer and no way to charge the car. I couldn't wait for a warranty consideration determination.
Once we got over those two stumbling blocks I got my case number and things went very well after that. They got copies of the two bills from the dealer and gave me the good news today.
Thank you Mr Nissan.