i bought my daughter a 2008 G35x sedan back in March for her 16th birthday from a major local dealer. Car is one owner in great overall condition with 69k miles. Part of their reconditioning before selling it was putting in a new rack. The car sit garaged from March until June. Once my daughter got her license late June and started driving we found out the new rack was leaking. Thankfully that was under warranty. Dealer put in another new rack. Brought it home and leaked out. Dealer then put in another more expensive new rack purchased from a different vendor. My daughter has driven it two weeks and about 300 miles and that one is now leaking. So the dealer has now put in three new racks and all failed. Any thoughts? Could the service department at a major long established dealership be that incompetent? Is this a really tricky repair? Hard pressed to comprehend how three attempts with racks from different vendors and still haven’t been able to get it fixed.

Thanks Cleric. That is great info. But definitely calls into question the dealership’s compentance as they certainly should have been looking for a leak elsewhere before putting on the second and definitely the third rack.