....I knew iy would ! SWM and I were off to the shops in her Note this morning.
I opened the tailgate to put some stuff in and didn't hear the usual small whir of the motor returning the catch to it's close position. Nothing unusual there ? Well, not with this car ! Tomorrow, I will be down at the Nissan agents to buy a new unit....for the third time in 30 months.....add to that the one fitted when we got the car and possibly some with it's previous owner, that's at least 4 that I know of.
Last one was fitted January 2011 and cost me £82. It's just not good enough to only get an average of 10 moths from each lock. It's costing me £8.20 a month just to keep the boot shut ! I'll be hitting them with this statistic !
Part of ' my ' fleet of hire cars consists of 18 Fiestas, all under warranty. We're now working through them, 5 to date, with the same fault. I keep a couple of bungys in our car just for this occasion.
Just think, in the past, about the fact that probably 100% of cars scrapped went to the grave with a simple rod mechanism which was still working ! I just don't see the point of a microswitch and a small electric motor in a part of the car that picks up rain and muck and is heavily slammed. A non-existing problem with a hopeless ' cure '.
I'll see what tomorrow brings but I won't hold my breath !
Grumble over.
Ted
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