2009 Nissan GT-R: Back to the Dealer

I get a CEL on my Cooper once a month. I've gotten used to ignoring it as it will go off in a few days.

^ahh the brilliant import engineering/quality control.

CEL's No biggie, plastic buttons, End of the world cost cutting.

If this was the Saturn Aura blog we would have had 60 comments by now with people stating that the car is such a piece of crap.

This one could just be a bad gas cap. Why didnt they put the check gas cap code on this car?

"If this was the Saturn Aura blog we would have had 60 comments by now with people stating that the car is such a piece of crap."

Well,because Saturn's are recycled crap

Its possible its not the fuel cap, lol.

what do you expect for $73,000? You can't really think it would be more reliable than an American made car that costs $25,000?

Bring back the reliable Ferrari!!

Seriously, the center display can tell you what each tire is thinking and how close you currently are to the moon but it can't display a bit of information about the big orange malfunction light in the tach?

Don't all Nissan models start their design cycle with an ill designed gas cap?
Nissan's just maintaining their tradition.

If it is the gas cap, shame on you guys.

If it's not... shame on Nissan. Please let us know the result.

Here is a recap (pun fully intended):
Incident #1, August 15--warning light came on 179 miles after last fill-up. EVAP leak code P0455 found. Gas seal cap cleaned and cap retightened by us. Code cleared using our own Scan Gauge.

Incident #2, August 20--warning light came on again. Car taken to dealer this time. Dealer not fully aware of incident #1, so they attribute it to loose gas cap (two for two tells me it wasn't.) They find and reset codes P0455 and P0456 and return the car to us.

Incident #3, August 24--warning light came on yet again. Car taken to dealer as described in this post. Now they are fully aware of the previous 2 incidents and are taking a deeper dive.

OK guys, the gas cap was NOT left loose three times by three drivers. It wasn't even loose the first time. Code P0455 refers to a "EVAP" leak, but the gas cap isn't the only potential source of such a code. The cap could be bad (but there is no obvious damage to the seal), or some other component in the Evaporative Emissions system could be faulty.

Whatever it is, the problem isn't affecting our GT-R's ability to haul butt one iota.

Obviously this car is much inferior to the quality built Chevrolet Corvette. That car is built by true Kentuckians, just like Toyota Camrys are.

Thanks for the nice, informative comment, Dan! :thumbs up:

In your previous blog entry, I mentioned P0457 is usually the gas cap-specific CEL (at least it's the only one that comes to my little mind). It's interesting to see that the issue may indeed not be gas cap-related after all.

For the billionth time, my original post was deleted because the website said I was logged in but apparently I wasn't. Grr. Will this ever be fixed?

As Tmanz said, its odd that the computer screens will give you tons of trivial info, but can't tell you what the big warning light really means.

This type of problem clearly doesn't make the car a POS, yet this would be enough to have some people here call a car a POS if it happened on a domestic. Its not the editors who are biased here. I think the bias is mostly found in some of the commentators.

aww cute, how the big guns (Dan Edmunds) come defend the nissian baby.

unlike some other cars that are sent out to pasture.

Dan - thanks for the recap. This may not be affecting your use of the GT-R but I humbly submit that three return to dealer warnings would preclude a significant majority of new owners from doing just that. Moreover, the three related incidents in such short time shouldn't be glossed over as nothing. I know I would not be doing back flips over this.

If the issue doesnt affect the operation of the car its not critcial. At least that's what I said when other cars had issues that didnt affect driveability before I got straightened out by other posters. I was told that ANY issues are to be considered reliability problems and any car that had any issues within the first few months is a piece of under-engineered crap. Does that apply to the GT-R?

Ahhh, these first year cars.
Then again, I'm driving a first year car - maybe the CEL will bite me too.