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Nissan to repair melted or cracked dashboards per class action lawsuit settlement

Jeff Ostroff Author Circle

Past , Consumer Advocate, Editor-In-Main
Published Oct 26, 2022

Repairs for Florida resident owners of 2008-2009 Nissan Altimas.

Nissan melted dash board

Last February we reported that we had been receiving complaints from Nissan Altima owners here in Florida and the other hotter Southeastern states about cracked and melted dashboards in their cars. Nether the out of court settlement of a class action lawsuit, Nissan has agreed to pay for nearly of the cost to replace your dashboard, without albeit whatsoever guilt.

How do I know if my Nissan Altima melted dashboard is covered?

That is the big question that is probably on your mind right at present. Sadly a lot of yous will not exist covered nether this repair offer. Simply read below to come across how to determine if you are a member of the defined course which this repair settlement applies to. If you lot don't object past the objection cutoff date, yous will automatically become a class fellow member, you'll have to take the settlement offer, and lose your right to sue Nissan on your own. Both the Plaintiffs in this case and Nissan agree that accepting this settlement is in all parties best interest.

Current Status of this Nissan class action lawsuit

Back in 2022 two Florida resident plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit here in Miami confronting Nissan alleging the dashboards in 2008 and 2009 Nissan Altima cars began to either crack, or melt. The lawsuit is known as Sanborn, et al. 5. Nissan North America, Inc., No. 0:14-cv-62567. Many of our CarBuyingTips.com visitors who own Nissan vehicles have complained to us well-nigh sticky and shiny dashboards causing distracting and glaring reflections off their windshields. We often get at to the lowest degree 2 or 3 complaints every calendar week from Nissan owners, many of them are afraid to drive their cars due to the windshield glare from the shiny melted dashboards.

We have seen this problem before because when exposed to the prolonged high heat and high humidity hither in Florida, car makers often fall brusk with melted parts. Nosotros had this same issue with our Lexus GX470, and luckily for the states Lexus covered the full $ii,400 repair with a special enhanced warranty on our 11 twelvemonth old SUV that was 7 years exterior the original manufacturer's warranty.

Plaintiffs of the Sanborn course activeness are request for Nissan to pay the expense of replacing these cracked and melted dashboards. But during pre-trial arbitration, Nissan and the plaintiffs came to agreement which will benefit all members of the class activeness.

Nissan will replace melted and croaky dashboards less a $250 deductible

Role of the preliminary court approving of this settlement is that Nissan volition pay for the repair of your dashboard if you are a course fellow member, less a $250 deductible. You lot will pay the Nissan dealer $250, and Nissan will pay the remainder directly to the dealer. The actual court hearing to approve this settlement is on January v, 2022.

Am I role of this class action lawsuit?

Not every Nissan with a melted dashboard will be repaired under this class activeness settlement. The court has decided that just specific people fit into this form activeness and to be a member of this class,

You lot must be a Florida resident
You must have purchased or leased your new or used 2008 or 2009 Nissan Altima on or before Apr 1, 2022

What if I already paid to accept my Nissan dashboard replaced at my own expense?

If your dashboard was replaced at your expense, you lot can file a reimbursement request by submitting it electronically or by mail merely practice information technology now, do not look. The deadline is June, 2022 just yous don't desire to look until the end when they are busy working on everyone else's request. Avoid the anguish that many Lexus owners are currently going through afterward a year on the waiting list.

You can file your claim electronically on the Nissan Altima Settlement Web Site.

I prefer to do things electronically via the link in a higher place but if you are onetime school yous can transport your completed Nissan Dashboard Claim Course with proof of your $250 payment:

Sanborn v. Nissan North America Settlement Administrator
P.O. Box 30244
Higher Station, TX 77842-3244

Nissan's offer to replace dashboards is for Florida residents only

I know a lot of you are going to contact me asking what you should do or why your model isn't covered, or you live in Georgia, Louisiana or South Carolina. Only you are on your own with this 1. My best advice would be to visit local Nissan car dealer and talk personally to the service manager to encounter if your motorcar qualifies in whatever mode for a repair or hugger-mugger warranty.

I am not a grade member based on the court's criteria, how exercise I become my dashboard repaired?

If you don't live in Florida or if you take a Nissan model other than the 2008 or 2009 Altima, in that location's not much else yous can practice other than what I mentioned higher up for other states. Y'all might have to file your own class activeness lawsuit in your country but like the two plaintiffs did here in Florida.

You should seek legal counsel on this or contact the counsel for the Florida lawsuit and see if they tin can refer a lawyer in your state or if they can file it in your country.

There is an expiration date on this class action lawsuit settlement

You lot better listen my warning on this, considering this course activity settlement expires Apr 29, 2022. Then your Nissan Altima dashboard must exist repaired by and then, or you need to employ at the dealership to accept your ruined dashboard documented past Nissan. Either of these must be washed by April. After that, too bad, so sad.

If you fail to exercise it by then y'all are out of luck, and don't come crying to me looking for help considering I warned you lot and there is no other way out. We warned lots of our young man Lexus owners terminal twelvemonth and many waited too long to go on waiting lists, and I am yet hearing this week from many of them who accept been on their waiting list for a twelvemonth and still no terminate in sight.

Don't allow this happen to you, learn from the Lexus owner's mistakes, get in there now to your Nissan dealer and get your car documented and repaired.

Summary of our tips for you to ensure your Nissan dash is repaired:

If Nissan or the settlement ambassador sent y'all a letter file it in rubber identify
Call your Nissan dealer ASAP and ask if they take started a will call listing
Get your name on the list, enquire when dashboards volition exist in
Write down name of service author you spoke to
Have them confirm all your car's VIN# info in their system
Ostend your automobile is eligible under this settlement
Do all of this at present, don't wait a 24-hour interval, you'll terminate up at the bottom of a rapidly growing list
Call dealer ofttimes for condition updates on date they wait dashboards in
Re-confirm they still have your name on the will call list
Don't expect until April 29, that is the concluding mean solar day to get repaired or documented for repair

Be sure to read these articles nosotros posted last year about the Lexus dashboard problem and meet what all us owners went through, and how you tin can avoid painful waiting in line to go yours repaired. Read the comments on our blog posts below from Lexus owners and you'll become a gustatory modality for the frustration that awaits you going forward, and why you really need to put the pedal to the metal at present.

Exist sure to allow us know beneath in the comments how your cause to become your Nissan dash repaired is going.

Author Jeff Ostroff

Well-nigh The Author: Jeff Ostroff

A lifelong consumer advocate with over 20 years of unparalleled expertise, Jeff is the Founder, CEO and Editor-In-Main of CarBuyingTips.com. Every bit chief consumer advocate, he oversees a team of experts who cover all aspects of buying and selling new and used cars including leasing and financing.

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