I gotta agree with mrcat, in that if there is a serious failure, the dealer should be going to the VW AGENT, who should be taking it up with the manufacturer. First, however, the problem must be correctly diagnosed.
gunhand,
Mar 4, 9:29am
Would this still be the case with a 2nd hand car! If brand new maybe but being 2nd hand who knows how it was treated by its first owner.VW will be well awhere if its a common fault or not. If they admit to it may be a different story.
savanna71,
Mar 4, 9:48am
Read the terms of that warranty and i will bet you it states "Nissan NZ ltd will be liable"
modie61,
Mar 4, 10:10am
How many pages do you think this will run onto !
kazbanz,
Mar 4, 10:31am
Hey guysThis is MY exprerience. There were world wide warranty claimson both Mitzi and Nissan vehicles. Nissan NZ at first refused to pay out but then were told from "on high" that they had to honour ALL claims regardless of where the car came from. The system is that the local franchise does the work and is then reinbursed a set figure by the manufacturer in Japan
savanna71,
Mar 4, 10:32am
Your referring to Recalls KAZ, something totally differant, and even then they arent legally obligated to repair any vehicles exported after the recall announcements. They reluctantly did due to the publicity. Butthey were not obligated to
mrcat1,
Mar 4, 11:50am
Once again you are wrong, it states that Nissan NZ are responsible for warranty repairs as they are the factory repairer in NZ, not that they are liable for repairs.
Last time I looked we were not in the US of A. Different countries different laws.
mrcat1,
Mar 4, 1:20pm
Doesn't matter what country it is, a manufacturers warranty is covered by the manufacturer, not the local dealer as the other poster is trying to say. I import Garrett metal detectors with one of my companys from the states, they come with a 2 years factory/ manufacturers warranty. I don't even repair them here, if a customer brings one back under warranty i simply send it back to the factory in the states for it to be repaired at no cost. The only thing the law states in NZ is a years warranty, it is the manufacturer that gives the 3 or 10 yr warranty in the case of mitzibishi.
tgray,
Mar 4, 1:39pm
The 2010 camaro I imported, had a 6 year/100,000 mile warranty. That was until exported it from the USA. The warranty is now null and void.
savanna71,
Mar 4, 2:42pm
MMNZ vehicles are sourced from MMC without warranty, the warranty is covered solely by MMNZ, i of course know this as i work for Mitsubishi
Thanks for confirming what i said about Nissan NZ being liable not Nissan Japan, thats exactly what i have been saying
you keep posting about metal detectors and diggers which are nothing to do with cars. I know of no distributor offering a world wide warranty you seam to think they do, so verify it for me. Find a distributor that offers a world wide warranty!
savanna71,
Mar 4, 2:44pm
Thanks, exactly what i have been saying the moment a vehicle is deregestered the warranty is void. Mrcat thinks otherwise because his digger or metal detector or what ever other tangent he goes off on says so
saturn51,
Mar 4, 10:02pm
Correct.When I was at a Mitsi. dealership a lot of the cars had "local content". Tyres,wiring looms,batteries,trim etc. I cant imagine MMC wearing a claim for a faulty arm rest made twenty kilometres from Todd Motors in Porirua.MMNZ would sort it out between them and the local manufacturer.
gadgit3,
Mar 5, 5:28am
It's a 2006 Golf. it's way out of warranty. Whats the point of the last few pages!
kelsie21,
Mar 6, 2:42pm
OK whatever trevor. The car is going to be fixed and I wont be paying. if jazz or Kaz want to know more then Ill tell them, they seem to be the most helpful here, not that ive read the last two pages as its seems the thread is way out of what info I was requesting.
phillip.weston,
Mar 6, 3:01pm
The days of local content are long gone - the last Mitsubishi to be assembled in Porirua using local content was in 1997. All Mitsubishis from then have either come in from Japan or Australia and the Japanese assembled models would have been made in the same factory alongside the models destined for Japanese domestic sale and the other export model vehicles.
saturn51,
Mar 6, 3:08pm
I must be showing my age then.
thejazzpianoma,
Mar 6, 3:09pm
Thanks Kelsie, I would be really keen for an update. Really glad it sounds like things are working out for you. Thanks for dropping back, I was wondering how you were getting on.
Sorry about the trolls, they have been a bit of a problem lately.
BTW, I would be especially interested to hear what exactly went wrong with the transmission and what caused it, if they manage to ascertain that.
phillip.weston,
Mar 6, 3:16pm
Yeah this all happened because when the government lifted the tariff on all imported models (be it new or used) the local car assembly market could not compete and it would have been the same price or cheaper to import the cars fully built up rather than have them locally assembled.
I had a '97 NZ assembled Galant VR and the next year's replacement, a '98 Jap assembled Galant V6-24 - on paper they were the same car with the same or similar levels of spec but in reality they differed quite a bit. You could always pick an NZ-assembled Mitsubishi because they had thicker carpets and odd looking interior colour schemes.
phillip.weston,
Mar 6, 3:18pm
The NZ-market Mitsubishi models assembled in Japan are often clones of the vehicles destined for the UK market, apart from changes to km/h instrument cluster etc. In fact the very first of the Jap assembled V6-24 models for NZ still had the UK-spec MPH/kmh gauges.
kazbanz,
Mar 6, 3:42pm
Hey Kelsie thats fantastic news. :-)I'm guessing that the owner of the dealership was a decent bloke then. One FINAL bit of advice for you. Regardless of if its a big or small repair in the end I'd strongly recommend you ask for a copy of thework carried out for your records. Do emphasise you have no interest in the dollars involvedbut do want the Job sheet which covers off what was done and what was replaced etc. You keep that in the warranty book and when you sell the car its a very valuable sales tool
thejazzpianoma,
Mar 6, 3:45pm
Superb advice.
rpvr,
Mar 6, 7:55pm
Seems like a happy ending, and I wouldn't be too concerned that some of these threads go off on a tangent - there is often some interesting information to be had amongst the side tracking. The main thing is the original poster had a problem and now it is solved, so the forum is working as it should!
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