Service and Maintenance

[AznJohn22]

i bought my rogue in early June. In the maintenance log, the first is 3,750 miles or 3 months. Well... i'm close to my three months. My question is whether i should bring it to Nissan Service Center or to a garage i trust. If i bring it to the garage, what documents do I need to keep? In the book i also see a Maintenance + Plus vehicle service plan. What is that? Thanks for all the help!

[philipa_240sx]

My question is whether i should bring it to Nissan Service Center or to a garage i trust.!

You can bring it anywhere you want. As for warranty issues, so long as you follow the maintenence schedule and have receipts to back it up you are fine.

If i bring it to the garage, what documents do I need to keep?

A receipt indicating the work performed and the vehicle's mileage.

From the Nissan USA Warranty Booklet:Quote »MAINTENANCE AND RECORDSAs a condition of this warranty, you are responsible for properlyusing, maintaining and caring for your vehicle as outlinedin your OWNER’S MANUAL and your NISSAN SERVICE& MAINTENANCE GUIDE, and maintaining copies of allmaintenance records & receipts for review by Nissan. Failureto do so is likely to result in the denial of warranty coverage.Evidence of the performance of the required maintenanceshould be kept and presented as proof of such maintenancein connection with related warranty repairs. To assist you inmaintaining appropriate records, the maintenance log locatedin your NISSAN SERVICE & MAINTENANCE GUIDE can beused along with supporting repair invoices, receipts and othersuch records.[/quote]

In the book i also see a Maintenance + Plus vehicle service plan. What is that?

It's a prepaid service plan which covers things like oil changes, brake pad replacement, etc. It's available in different packages usually at a lower cost than performing each item seperately.

Refer to this PDF on the Nissan USA website:

http://www.nissanusa.com/pdf/o...s.pdf

Pricing is available from your dealer.

[AznJohn22]

Do you bring it to the dealership? I really had a bad experience with the service department when i had my altima. Do you think it is good to buy the Maintenance Plan? cost benefit?

As for the Maintenance booklet, the premium work should be done? What about schedule I or schedule II?

[daytrippr]

Do you bring it to the dealership? I really had a bad experience with the service department when i had my altima. Do you think it is good to buy the Maintenance Plan? cost benefit?

As for the Maintenance booklet, the premium work should be done? What about schedule I or schedule II?

If you bought the pre-maintenance plan package from the dealer when you bought the car, I would look at what services that it covers and take it to the dealership when you need those services done. After all, you paid for it, right? And the maintenance package sold through Nissan (which is one of the things they try to sell you when you bought the car) can be used at ANY Nissan dealership in the country, not just the one who sold it to you.

[AznJohn22]

If you bought the pre-maintenance plan package from the dealer when you bought the car, I would look at what services that it covers and take it to the dealership when you need those services done. After all, you paid for it, right? And the maintenance package sold through Nissan (which is one of the things they try to sell you when you bought the car) can be used at ANY Nissan dealership in the country, not just the one who sold it to you.

i had a dealershiip who sold me nothing but the car. So, i'm SOL. how much is the maintenance package around? Does it cover everything that is required to be done in the maintenance manual?

[shavimusha]

take it to Nissan dealer its actually cheaper to change oil at dealer than in other shops plus my dealer offers special if I change oil there all the time every 5th oil change is free ! I am not sure how much your dealer charges for oil change mine charges only $ 39 for oil change fill up all fluids vacuum the car clean windows rotate tires and so on plus if you heave extended warranty you can risk loosing it if they decide car was not serviced right !

[AznJohn22]

How much did you pay for it?

[shavimusha]

How much did you pay for it?

are you asking me ?

[AznJohn22]

Yea, anyone. I wanna know the price range i would be spending.

[shavimusha]

on what ? oil change ?

[AznJohn22]

on what ? oil change ?

The maintenance plan.

[shavimusha]

i just got exteded waraty for 6 years bumper to bumper coverage but it does not include normal wear like oil changes or tires it was $ 2000

[AznJohn22]

i just got exteded waraty for 6 years bumper to bumper coverage but it does not include normal wear like oil changes or tires it was $ 2000

oh. you got the extended warranty?

[AznJohn22]

No one in this forum purchased the Maintenance service plan?

[Leo2005]

Well. My dealership offers free lifetime oil change for any Nissan vehicle. No matter where did you buy and how old is it unless its a Nissan. I didn't buy any coverage plan because I pretty much trust nissan because i never had any major or expensive problem with these cars. Free oil change is more than enough for me.

[AznJohn22]

did you bring it in for the schedule maintenance yet? How much it cost you?

[arsabo]

I bought a maintenance plan, but it wasn't the Nissan plan. It was a plan offered through Fidelity Warranty Services - something that the dealer offers on their own.

Of course they package it up into all sorts of combinations, and my package included road hazard insurance on the tires and "identity theft repair" (to restore my credit if my identity is stolen), but as best as I can tell, the extended warranty (bumper to bumper, 7 years, 100K miles) was $1572, and the service plan was $750.

The service plan sends you a booklet of coupons for 5 years, 60K miles, with oil changes every 3750 miles, tire rotations every 7500 miles, and "routine inspections", at that specific dealer (I hope I don't move away in the next 5 years). I never had the Nissan service at that dealer, but I have a Hyundai Elantra serviced there, and the oil changes alone are around $36 and the alternate visits (oil change, tire rotation, inspections) cost around $90. It would be nice if it included *all* recommended maintenance to 60K miles - I know 30K mile service on my Elantra is around $350 - but I figured that even if I only broke even with the oil changes and tire rotations, I was at least protecting myself from inflation.

Of course, it was one of those things they throw at you in the finance manager's office, and they break it into "here's your monthly payment with this plan, here's your monthly payment with that plan". I had to ask specifically what the *total* price was - I didn't care that it added only $12 per month or whatever it was - I wanted the bottom line. I still think it was a good buy.

Al

[Leo2005]

I just denied the service for routine the tires because they were asking about $55. Why do i need it on awd? I'll replace the tires anyway. Instead of paying $55 every visit to a dealeship to switch the tires later on I can just buy a new set of tires.