Within a week after purchasing it, I brought it into my local Nissan dealer (not the same one i purchased it from) and did the 90k mile maintenance. I had them replace the radiator as a precaution. Included in that job was also rear diff leak fix, front brake job, tranny flush, electric rad fan. That ended up costing around 1400 dollars.
That was September of 2014. Since the flush, i noticed the tranny delayed shifting from 1st to 2nd gear. Wouldn't shift until 3 or 3.5k rpms. Otherwise it never really gave me any problems. I've checked the tranny fluid every 3 or 4k miles and it's always looks fine.
So recently, maybe 3 months ago, i started noticing the delay with 3rd gear as well, sometimes outright slipping. I drive mainly city and it was really starting to drive me nuts. I decided to return to the dealer as my extended warranty was going out in September. Gave them the warranty info and within 4 hours, was told the tranny was toast (not cross contamination related according the them) and the timing chain was bad. The good news is that an adjustor came out and ok'd a new tranny and the timing chain work.
The dealer then called me back, once they had the parts and were tearing it down and said the secondary chain guides were worn and needed to be replaced, but it's not covered. She sent over an estimate for all non warranty repairs. Does this look right? Specifically the timing chain items.
Here is the estimate for that:
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REPAIR(S) PARTS LABOR
REAR BRAKES $89.90 $200.00
6 SPARK PLUGS $77.88 $50.00
PCV VALVE $19.95
POWER STEERING RETURN HOSE $15.33 $100.00
POWER STEERING FLUID $41.00
DEDUCTIBLE $100.00
WATER PUMP $147.28
LOWER TENSIONER $88.03
PRIMARY CHAIN $120.67
SLACK GUIDE $54.63
UPPER GUIDE $10.08
LEFT HAND GUIDE $7.13
My question (and sorry for rambling) is, does it look i'm getting a Service advisor who sees a payday? They are not charging me for labor on the secondary stuff since they are already in there.
Also, has anyone else seen a RE5R05A tranny fail, without the rad failing? Or could this be a vehicle that had the failure and was potentially flushed/band aid'd and sold? This will be an extra 3800 dollars total added to the cost of the Pathfinder, when it's all said and done. (with the previous maintenance done) The dealer quoted the warranty work in the range of 7k.
Love the vehicle otherwise. Maybe it's time to sell it. Other than the cats going bad, i'm not sure if i should hang on to it. I can't see putting any more money into, after this.
Thanks for reading and for any suggestions!