[Undercover Brother]

Been down this road. The lawyers will get rich and everybody else a $10 voucher for your next Nissan purchase.

 

[Undercover Brother]

Typically when a recall comes out after you had the repair done, they will only compensate repairs if you have a receipt from a dealer or a professional repair shop. If you do it yourself at your house, you're pretty much out of luck!

I have been compensated for parts only on recalls when I fixed them at home prior to a recall being issued. It helped that it was a OEM part purchased from the dealer. The dealer just verified my repair was correct to clear my VIN from the recall.

 

[Undercover Brother]

There's a good chance they reimbursed you for your parts and then charged Nissan for the whole repair under recall. Nissan wouldn't question it if your VIN was showing as open for the recall and Nissan never calls back the parts from recalls. Technically, that would be fraud on the part of the dealer, but it works out well for you!

Dealer did not pay me out for the part, it was Nissan corporate that cut me a check and directed me to the dealership to have it inspected and for the dealer to clear my then Titan's VIN off the recall list. What the dealership claimed for labor is between them and Nissan Corporate. Instruction were on the back end of the Recall instruction on contacting them if I had already paid for the repair. They sent me a form to fill out that that was detailed in delineating if it was parts only or parts plus a dealership shop or independent labor cost. I do not recall if there was anything on claiming compensation for my own labor as I was not sweating that cost nor cared.