Attn: Chris

[NISTECH]

Hey Chris I got the lovely task of performing a quest quality assurance list yesterday and let me just say.

@#$%^$@@!@

I do not want to do another one damit!!!!!

WARNING: The goo you squeeze out of the gun they sent us gets F'ing every were and DO NOT get it on your clothes or on the interior of the car, It dries hard as a rock. I dont even think I did it right. You are suppose to fill the body cavity with the entire contents of each fill section on the tube [fill A goes in one hinge area and fill B goes in the other]. I didnt even get halfway through one fill on the passeneger side before it started oozing back out the hole and dripping off onto the fender cover on the floor. so when I was done with both sides most of the second fill is still left in the tube.

Also on the door rattle kit it says there is suppose to be 4 strips of #7 foam and there was only 2 in the kit so I took my best guess at where to place them.

I lost my a$$ time wise on that list. Not to mention she had 5 other warrenty concerns not related to the assure list or the other 2 recalls on the car.

[navysnail]

why do you have to fill the body cavities with foam?

[NISTECH]

I wouldnt call it foam, Its more like red caulking when it comes out of the tube then it dries out like bondo so it is not soft like foam. The reason I think is because the rear hatches must be falling off due to the metal being fatiged[sp?] where the hinge mounts. They are having us inspect the metal behind the hinge on the outside for crackes before we fill it with that crap.

I know exactly where I would like to stick that nozzle and fill a body cavity with that goo, right up the rear of the group of boneheads that designed this van!!! They need to go back and reveiw a little nissan history and learn some lessons from the first van they attempted to produce. There was a reason 3 yrs of production got recalled to be crushed. Cause they hosed it up then too!!

[Nismo_Freak]

You mean Nissan Quest's still run?

[s13sr20chris]

heh, i will be on the lookout for the new quality assurance recalls. we have not had any yet. i have an apprentice that lacks a work ethic, so we will do it together. i dont want to weigh down my flat rate guys. thaks for the update. i will use lots of fender covers.

hey, i like the way you have your guitar in your sig. i have an 80's squire(i know, its a squire) that iv had for like 10 years. it was once a turd but i put seymour duncan pickups in it(no money for EMG actives), new tuning machines on the end, and many sets of super slinkys. i play through an ibanez tube screamer(old circuit), boss metal zone, boss eq, marshall jcm 800 head(new svetlana el34's and some sovtek 12ax7's), and laney 4X12 cab with H&H speakers. low dollar setup that butcher routinely at church and the house. i also kick around a junk bass and bass amp(guitar sounds ok through the bass amp, the marshall stays at church).

edit: did i mention that i love my little squire strat? i will never get rid of it.

[NISTECH]

edit: did i mention that i love my little squire strat? i will never get rid of it.

This is why I still have my harmony. first guit, found it hard to part with when I bought my strat. still pull it out now and then just to rip. The strat sounds much better. I got the EMG's to attain the sound of kirk hammets early stuff with metallica. I can match the exact tone and depth in "seek and destroy" and "jump in the fire". I dont have a marshall yet I use an old roland tube amp for now.

[navysnail]

so the red stuff is suposed to brace the metal and make the hatch more rigid?

why did the original vans get recalled and crushed?

[NISTECH]

the original Nissan van looked alot like toyota mid 80's square van. nissan only made the van for 3 years 87,88 and 90. The van had numourous recalls due to fluid leaks in the engine compartment some of which would start a fire. several attempts were made to fix the problems with the van but ultimatly they could not get it right so a desicion was made to issue a recall to buy the van back from the customers and send them to a wrecking yard to be crushed [ yes all three years of production, The entire line of vans] The customer was givin the opportunity to keep the van and sign a waiver on their warranty, meaning nissan would no longer cover any repairs needed should it break down. If the customer oppted to keep the van [ which most didnt] the van would have one last saftey recall done and that was it nissan no longer assumed any responsibility if something should happen with the vehicle. Nissan offered the customers fair market value for the vehicle when they bought them back not what the customer payed for it.

The recall seriously wounded NMC[ nissan motor corp] in the USA economically. But they were ok to stay in buisness. Then in 95 Nissan ran into another problem with engine fires but this time it was on a much larger scale as it effected every single maxima produced from 84 to 88 and every 300Z built from 84 to 89 also a few 200sx's with the V6 in them were affected. That was the fuel injection campaign and that campaign about put NMC in USA out of buisness, alot of people dont realize how close Nissan was to seeking bankruptcy. They did eventually recover from it mostly dur to renalt stepping in and buying about half of nissan. That was about when nissan broke apart to world wide divisions. Nissan in the usa is no longer NMC but NNA [Nissan north america] almost all of its operations regurding american made nissans are handled within the united states now.

[navysnail]

damn, there was a kid with a 94 300z that was burned, he just left it between 2 trailer classroms and did nothing about it after my teacher told him the best thing to do with the damaged frame, burned to a crisp 300 was to tow it to a junk yard and never look back