Nissan GTR Launch Control Warranty Issue Resolved

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Nissan GTR Launch Control Warranty Issue Resolved

Sep 20th, 2009 by Ross Edwards
It was widely reported that the giant killer Nissan GTR had some issues with regards to the durability of its transmission and Nissan’s willingness to honor warranty claims when the car’s electronics had been put in a specific configuration. That configuration happened to be the only way an owner could achieve the performance numbers like 0-60 and 1/4 mile times Nissan used to advertise the car.

This was a huge blow to the GTR’s credibility. What good is an $80,000 car that can outrun $200k supercars if it will break when used as advertised and the carmaker won’t stand behind it? Not much good, and Internet message boards erupted in hate for the GTR when the news of its fragility spread.

Nissan fixed the problem for its second model year by updating the computer and transmission, but customers who purchased the first run of GTRs thought these problems should never have come up on an $80,000 car and filed a lawsuit. According to Autoblog, as part of the settlement of that lawsuit, Nissan will upgrade all GTRs to the newer specifications for free. Nissan will also reset the warranty on any GTR to five years/60,000 miles when the upgrade is performed.

Now that Nissan has fixed the GTR’s launch control problems and is upgrading cars for free, will the GTR be recognized as a legitimate budget supercar? Or has its reputation been ruined by the problems with the first cars?

So they'll upgrade your transmission for free and reset your warranty, anyone know what it runs with the VDC on?

[Unit91RS]

It's cool that Nissan is finally manning up and fixing this

[MCA]

Thats better, I still have to say lets wait and see how the new transmission behaves

[HANS]

bout ****ing time. now im sure there will be some sick records set at our next event here. i know when they came out there was a shit ton at the track. but when they started breaking they slowly stopped showing up. ill get some vids next time i go up. last one i saw was somewhere in the high 10's with a nice trap speed.