So, You Think You Want to Be a Highly-Underpaid HVAC Specialist....

A forum for the Nissan Armada, Infiniti QX56, and beginning in 2014, the Infiniti QX80
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VStar650CL
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The gen2 Armada SL/Platinum undoubtedly has more electrical connectors on board than anything else Nissan makes. The price of all those cool toys gets paid when something catastrophic happens, like, er... a jammed HVAC Mode Door?

Yep, that's right. Basically, this mess happened from the failure of a $2 piece of plastic. Fortunately it's a good $2, they fail rarely. But when they do... well... if you've never seen your dashboard without its underwear, it ain't pretty.

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That looks like quite a labourous job. Especially taking your time not to break anything on disassembly or reassembly. Was this warranty work?

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FlawleZ wrote:
Wed May 04, 2022 9:40 pm
That looks like quite a labourous job. Especially taking your time not to break anything on disassembly or reassembly. Was this warranty work?
Yep. Final tally was 13-1/2 hours (and I'm not slow with that sort of work)!

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VStar650CL wrote:
Thu May 05, 2022 4:22 am
FlawleZ wrote:
Wed May 04, 2022 9:40 pm
That looks like quite a labourous job. Especially taking your time not to break anything on disassembly or reassembly. Was this warranty work?
Yep. Final tally was 13-1/2 hours (and I'm not slow with that sort of work)!
That's intense for such a simple component failure. Also sent you a PM.

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FlawleZ wrote:
Thu May 05, 2022 6:53 am
Also sent you a PM.
Answered.


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