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Title: Sod's law strikes again!
Post by: HolyCount on 14 April 2010, 14:28:25
Just got my trike buying budget up to a reasonable amount ... Nissan needs a new clutch. All well and good .......

Got the covers off the underside and discovered the front cross member is nearly gone --- eaten by the rust bug  :o  Looking down from the top looks like a coating of surface rust ... looking up from underneath there is no cross member -- just that coating of surface rust!!!!!

So .... trike budget has to be diverted ( yet again!!!) to a new set of 4 wheels  :( :(
Title: Re: Sod's law strikes again!
Post by: Del Boy on 14 April 2010, 17:26:11
Don't a lot of Nissans suffer with the cross member problem? Tunnie I think said his Almera had it?
Title: Re: Sod's law strikes again!
Post by: HolyCount on 14 April 2010, 17:45:11
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Don't a lot of Nissans suffer with the cross member problem? Tunnie I think said his Almera had it?

That would figure -- rest of the car is solid
Title: Re: Sod's law strikes again!
Post by: tunnie on 14 April 2010, 17:55:44
no sign of it of the Nissan we have, think it was cruisetopoland? Who has personal experience of it. Found Nissan's rarely go wrong, but when they do its expensive, £300 for an ABS sensor  :o
Title: Re: Sod's law strikes again!
Post by: HolyCount on 14 April 2010, 19:24:05
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no sign of it of the Nissan we have, think it was cruisetopoland? Who has personal experience of it. Found Nissan's rarely go wrong, but when they do its expensive, £300 for an ABS sensor  :o

Ah well -- had this one 4 years ( longest I have ever kept a car!) and it's only really cost me an alternator, a couple of tyres ( and a light bulb) over routine stuff.
Title: Re: Sod's law strikes again!
Post by: Welung666 on 14 April 2010, 19:39:16
HC you can pick up replacement X-members for around £35 and it's a days work to replace them. Done about 11 of them now ;D
Title: Re: Sod's law strikes again!
Post by: HolyCount on 14 April 2010, 20:24:53
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HC you can pick up replacement X-members for around £35 and it's a days work to replace them. Done about 11 of them now ;D

Hmmm .... tell me more  :)