The Avenger

I havent posted in a while and we had a lot going on so I thought I would do 2 posts today...

On my last post before today I was a bit stressed..ALOT of this stress had to do with my car. We had a 2003 Nissan Altima..now the back story on this car is that we only bought it 20 months ago..and even though it was already a 5 year old car at the time we bought it cause we LOVED it and heard only good things about Nissan. Well we bought it the day we moved to FL because Nando had to report to work the following day. We did NO research and got TOTALLY ripped off, to the point that even the bank made the car dealership lower the loan. So we are not big fans of NIssan but since we loved it we gave it a shot. The warranty they give is at 80,000 miles..Well Nando drives 100 miles a day literally so we accumulated miles fast..At just over 80,000 miles the check engine light went on. So we brought it to our mechanic friend who said it was the catalyst converter and Nissan had a 400,000 car recall for 2003 Altimas for this happening at exactly right after 80,000 and the car can catch on fire. So we went to Nissan and was told even though all these same exact year and models were recalled for the same problem my vin number was like 30 cars off so they wouldnt honor the recall and I had to pay over a grand to fix it. Now on this problem with the recalls the engines usually blow right after as well so if my engine would of went then we were looking at about 8,000 in work....UMM no...so I called Nissans 1800 number, corporate, bbb, and so on! Well they basically told me I still owed a lot on the car and was stuck with it and I just had to deal w/ it....WELL I told them some very un nice words and told them I would be trading it in , telling every1 I knew about this rip off and never buying Nissan again..They told me I would be back to repair it....Well they must not know me very well because we called our friend who is a car dealer, got the rest of my loan covered by trade in value and rebates so that loan was washed out and got a brand new 2010 Dodge Avenger!!!!!!! WOOHOO!! So I then went back to Nissan to cancel my gap insurance on the car with my new invoice...they were shocked....to say the least
Sorry if this seemed like a rant but I wanted to make every1 aware of Nissan's TERRIBLE customer service even all the way up to corporate....plus Im super excited about our new car =)