I have an '05 Nissan Titan with only 58,000 miles on it and was pulling out from work when my back wheels started spinning and the back end began violently jumping up and down. I limped the truck home, luckily only a couple miles away, and did some research only to discover there are several problems with the rear differential for models '04-'06 including weak spider gears, which sounded like it could be my issue. The next day I slowly drove the truck to a local repair shop, told them what happened, and left it for an inspection and they called a day later, agreed with my fears, and told me I would need a whole new rear end to the tune of $3,600!!! After having a kind EMT feed me oxygen after I passed out from that shock I knew I wasn't going to be able to get the money together until the new year when I could access a retirement fund so on Halloween night I returned to the shop, paid them $100 for their "inspection," and once again limped it home and parked my wheels so I could do some more research and figure out a good shop to get a second opinion at.
I told my co-workers what happened and several of them commiserated with me and informed me the shop I went to is well known for gouging customers, which ground the gears in my head something fierce, but, in the meantime cruel karma also hit one of those co-workers and he had to have both his transmission and transfer case rebuilt. He took his truck to Allstate Driveshaft and gave them high marks on customer service and the work they did so I went and talked to the owner, told him what the other shop told me, and he told me he would look at it and give me another opinion.
I dropped my truck off at Allstate Driveshaft on 1/3/13 and after the inspection was told the actual problem was the electronic locker, which entailed replacing just that unit and not the entire rear end! The owner did some research and found only Nissan provides the unit so we ordered it and on 1/10/14 I picked up my truck and now have it working like new at less than half the cost of the first shop's estimate.
This place is awesome and if karma bites me on the bud again (oh I hope not anytime soon) I will be going back and definitely highly recommend them for their honesty, professionalism, and for not being money grubbing a**holes. read more