wantonsoup
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After 2 yrs / 23k miles of trouble free driving, I'm preparing to turn in the lease next week, when the Leaf threw all sorts of dash lights at me - BRAKE, ABS, Traction Control, and maybe others. I immediately stop driving and get it into Nissan dealer. Here's what they're telling me.
1) MONDAY MORNING: They checked the code and it said all four ABS sensors are broken. So that means, it's NONE of the sensors and it must be the ABS actuator that's defective. They order the part. Supposedly, the car sits idle in the mechanic's bay inside while waiting for parts. (Um SURE) But they never put it on the rack and lift it up to look at anything. They ran codes and ordered parts. No inspection whatsoever.
2) WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON: Parts arrive, they install and find that now the code is saying that driver's side FRONT and BACK ABS sensors are bad. So they put it on the lift and both sensors are torn. They want to charge me $250 each plus labor to replace because I cut them. Or a tow truck driver cut them (the car has never once been towed). Or animals chewed them.
• The car is garaged 100% of it's life. I work from home, so when it's not at Walmart or the grocery store, it's in my garage. We drive it often (11,500 miles/yr) but it spends 99% of it's life in the garage.
• I've never had a dash light come on before. So - how suspicious is it that the ABS light goes on, and the actuator is defective AND the two sensors are cut? So now we're not talking about a rodent magically chewing two wires (that aren't even near each other), we're not talking about a tow truck driver (since the actuator went out, and the cut lines were front and back, not both front), and they have no other ideas.
I have an idea. They threw it up on the rack MONDAY, and they accidentally cut the lines. Install the actuator WEDNESDAY and find what they did. Honestly, I can't fathom what else it could be.
Any ideas? Anyone encountered a torn / ripped / cut ABS sensor wire on these cars???
1) MONDAY MORNING: They checked the code and it said all four ABS sensors are broken. So that means, it's NONE of the sensors and it must be the ABS actuator that's defective. They order the part. Supposedly, the car sits idle in the mechanic's bay inside while waiting for parts. (Um SURE) But they never put it on the rack and lift it up to look at anything. They ran codes and ordered parts. No inspection whatsoever.
2) WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON: Parts arrive, they install and find that now the code is saying that driver's side FRONT and BACK ABS sensors are bad. So they put it on the lift and both sensors are torn. They want to charge me $250 each plus labor to replace because I cut them. Or a tow truck driver cut them (the car has never once been towed). Or animals chewed them.
• The car is garaged 100% of it's life. I work from home, so when it's not at Walmart or the grocery store, it's in my garage. We drive it often (11,500 miles/yr) but it spends 99% of it's life in the garage.
• I've never had a dash light come on before. So - how suspicious is it that the ABS light goes on, and the actuator is defective AND the two sensors are cut? So now we're not talking about a rodent magically chewing two wires (that aren't even near each other), we're not talking about a tow truck driver (since the actuator went out, and the cut lines were front and back, not both front), and they have no other ideas.
I have an idea. They threw it up on the rack MONDAY, and they accidentally cut the lines. Install the actuator WEDNESDAY and find what they did. Honestly, I can't fathom what else it could be.
Any ideas? Anyone encountered a torn / ripped / cut ABS sensor wire on these cars???
