cstambaugh
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The dealership just called me to let me know its going to take weeks before the part will arrive.
Definitely not the first such failure. I did find other threads, but:palmermd said:Is there another thread for non '13 S model Heater failures? Sorry if I posted to the wrong place, but this is the only thread I could find. Is mine the first 2011 SL failure?
planet4ever said:Definitely not the first such failure. I did find other threads, but:palmermd said:Is there another thread for non '13 S model Heater failures? Sorry if I posted to the wrong place, but this is the only thread I could find. Is mine the first 2011 SL failure?
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palmermd said:Search failed again. So its a 3 year old problem, but seems to have become worse in the '13s. No wonder they moved away from the PTC heater for the SV and SL models. Probably should have done so for the S as well. They probably have not saved any money by putting it in the S model with all the reported failures.
palmermd said:... Once it was in, they confirmed that it was the PTC element, but in order to troubleshoot they took the car apart and they do not want to reassemble to give it back, so now I have to drive this rental car until they expect the part to arrive next Thursday. Lets see how long it takes to get the car back. ...
palmermd said:Nissan is still having issues with this. My car went in on January 8, and today I got an estimate from the dealership that the part won't ship until Jan 28, and that it should take about 5 days to arrive. That will be almost a month in the shop for a simple part. I'm not sure why this should take so long to get a part, but it matches all the other dead heater repair reports.
palmermd said:palmermd said:Nissan is still having issues with this. My car went in on January 8, and today I got an estimate from the dealership that the part won't ship until Jan 28, and that it should take about 5 days to arrive. That will be almost a month in the shop for a simple part. I'm not sure why this should take so long to get a part, but it matches all the other dead heater repair reports.
ok, so the PTC heating element was not it, then they decided to change the Power Distribution Module (PDM) and that was not it, so then they decided to change out the water temperature sensor and that was it. The car thought the water was always at 190F, so the element stayed off and it thought it was heating the car.
So after a month in the shop it turns out it was just a bad temperature sensor. I'm going to pick up the car tomorrow morning.
johnrhansen said:palmermd said:palmermd said:Nissan is still having issues with this. My car went in on January 8, and today I got an estimate from the dealership that the part won't ship until Jan 28, and that it should take about 5 days to arrive. That will be almost a month in the shop for a simple part. I'm not sure why this should take so long to get a part, but it matches all the other dead heater repair reports.
ok, so the PTC heating element was not it, then they decided to change the Power Distribution Module (PDM) and that was not it, so then they decided to change out the water temperature sensor and that was it. The car thought the water was always at 190F, so the element stayed off and it thought it was heating the car.
So after a month in the shop it turns out it was just a bad temperature sensor. I'm going to pick up the car tomorrow morning.
So many parts changers, so few technicians. Doesn't anyone know how to troubleshoot anymore?
johnrhansen said:So many parts changers, so few technicians. Doesn't anyone know how to troubleshoot anymore?
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