Alright so I picked the car up today and they did another whole oil change, the receipt says to come back in 600 miles to see if it's burning oil. The car is still making the clanking noise, the only reason why I didn't speak to anyone at the dealer when I left was because none of the guys who were handling my situation were there. The guy did leave a message on my phone with his number when they called me saying that it was ready to pick up and he told me if I had any concerns to call him. What I'm planning on doing is calling him up probably Friday and telling him how the car is still making a clanking noise. The service manager told me that when you're low on oil, it will clank but once you change the oil and fill it up, It does go away. So I already knew this was bs but you know. I was gonna see. Since it is still clanking, just not that loud, I'm planning on telling them. "You know, you said the clanking would go away and it hasn't, my car wasn't clanking before I brought it in so, if it's concluded that my car is burning oil then it's obviously not the dealer's fault that my car didn't have oil but if it isn't burning oil, then the only person who should be liable for this is the dealer because y'all failed to a) either change my oil, or b) put oil in my car. I'm not asking for a new car, I'm asking for y'all to fix the problem y'all have caused". Then depending on what they tell me I will either start talking to people above them or I will sue. Does that sound good?

 

Thinking the only person that will come out of this making money is the attorney you hire to file suit. No attorney will take a case like this without being paid by the hour. The maximum you might be able to get is the cost of a new engine and that would probably not be more than $4K or maybe $5K. I suspect an attorney will cost you more than that. If talking to the owner of the dealership doen't help, you are probably out of luck. Driving the car for 30 minutes with the oil light on was a definite no-no. Best of luck getting your problem resolved but I doubt litigation is going to be a proper course of action.

 

Sorry, but from a lawyer's point of view, you're screwed! You had a situation where you should have stopped everything, as I suggested. But you listened to your father. He mght be a great mechanic, but he's not a lawyer! You should never have touched the car. You have a video tape of draining the oil. How does a jury decide if you might have staged it? You drove the car after the light came on. Really bad choice. And then on top of all this, you drove it away from the stealership while it was making noise! I'll give you 1 more piece of free advice. DON'T TOUCH THE CAR. DON'T START IT. CALL THE BAR TOMORROW! Find a lawyer in your area that deals with type of representation. Best of luck!

 

Damn guys I feel like crawling into a hole and never coming out lol. I feel so screwed with whatever route I take. I feel as if my best bet is to just sell the car as is and just get whatever I can at this point.

 

This isn't a criminal case...

 

....does this guy know he's talking about an internal combustion engine? Did you tell him you ran it for 30 min?

 

Yeah and that's when he gave me that spiel about how oil nowadays is made to live for like 6k miles but everyone recommends changing it half life and blah blah blah. I mean it made sense in a way but I highly doubted that putting oil in there was gonna fix the problem. It really sounds like its knocking now instead on clanking though. It doesn't knock while sitting still but if I rev it sitting still it knocks.

 

If they ever take your car in for service again, don't take it home unless it is fixed. For some reason you are still believing them - you know that you drove the car for 30min with basically no oil. The engine is shot... sorry man. If it survives 600miles I will be surprised.

 

Update?

 

Have you ever been involved in a lawsuit? Who do you think hears the case?

 

Well the use of an appointed jury can be waived, in which only a Judge would hear the case.

 

Just a random search: http://www.mncourts.gov/selfhelp/?page=3996

Most civil cases don't have juries.

 

As an attorney, I advise my clients to request a jury when a plantif is fighting a corporation or a business!

 

Alright guys so I've been driving my car after that new oil change and it turns out, I'm burning oil. Oil light came on today so looks like I'm definitely in need a of a new one. Guess Nissan wasn't to blame...

 

Or is it possible that my engine is now burning oil because of the lack of oil after the first oil change?

 

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I would contact Nissan North America and fight it.

 

You should have done the above. You went wrong when you touched the car.

 

what dealership did u go to so I know to avoid it? Also again dunno what dealership u went to but I know baker-jackson has their own town trucks that pick u up for free if u call them with problems like this....Like others said u should of never drove the car man...good luck