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The story
Car YouTuber Amaneko revealed in a video that an official dealership refused to service the air conditioning on their Nissan GT-R. They say they’d had the same repair done at that dealership for two years running, and with the full details unclear, 5channel users were split — some said “that’s a fair business decision,” others said “based on the article alone, the dealer looks like the bad guy.”
Luxury Car YouTuber With Multiple Vehicles Turned Away by Official Dealer, Baffled by the Treatment: “Sad That a Company Would Make This Call”
Amaneko, a car YouTuber who owns several luxury vehicles, updated their YouTube channel by the 26th, revealing that an official dealership had refused to accept their Nissan GT-R for air conditioning repairs.
Amaneko had the GT-R’s AC repaired at the same dealership for two years running, and when the same issue came up again this year, they asked for another inspection, fully understanding it would cost money.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Go do this somewhere else lol
What did he even do?
Nobody would even recognize him.
This story doesn't add up.
(replying to myself)
So if the dealer apologized for a compliance violation, they must have actually done something?
I don't get it.
Still, what did he do to end up like this lol
is that even confirmed?
Isn't the AC breaking down way too often to begin with?
What's he doing to it? Or did he just get a lemon of a car?
He could just go to a different official dealer.
Re: #27
Probably that's exactly it.
Since it's an official dealer, it's part of the Nissan network, right?
He's not even complaining for a freebie — he says he'll pay for the repair.
If he still got banned, he must have done something pretty serious.
So they don't even get to choose their own customers?
Not that I'd know.
With that going on, the shop can't get any work done, so it probably ends up as "please never come back."
Might've gone better if he'd just been angry about it without turning it into a video.
Are they all rentals or something?
Reportedly makes over ¥1 million a month from Super Chat donations, plus ¥800,000 a month from videos.
there's also the question of why you manufacturer folks
come around here in the first place.
When pushy salesmen, or people acting like they're owed a favor, or some "friend" or "family member" I'd never even met showed up,
I genuinely thought, wow, there really are unhinged people out there.
This was back in the flush times.
I have absolutely no idea what that means.
I can only guess he's been flagged as some kind of chronic complainer.
Banning him is fine.
He's nothing but trouble.
Basically "please don't come to my shop either."
Background and Key Points
Japan’s “official dealer” system is more fragmented than English-speaking readers might assume. Nissan doesn’t run its dealerships directly — they’re operated by regional dealer corporations (historically split further by old brands like “Nissan Prince” versus “Nissan Motor” sales channels before a 1999-2000s consolidation), each legally independent and free to set its own customer policy. A ban from one storefront doesn’t necessarily mean a ban from “Nissan” as a company, and conversely, a single dealership can refuse a customer without head office involvement — both readings appeared in the thread. The GT-R itself is Nissan’s halo model, technically a “regular” Nissan badge but priced and marketed as a performance flagship, which is why poster #11’s “it’s just a Nissan” jab reads as trolling rather than a real objection from most others.
The thread’s actual fault line wasn’t sympathy versus contempt for Amaneko — it was whether refusing service is a legitimate business right (many posters, e.g. #18, #26, #74, backed the dealer’s prerogative to drop a difficult customer) or whether, going by the video’s account alone, the dealer’s conduct looks unexplained and punitive (#12, #30, #40).
What’s easy to miss: the claim that staff pointed Amaneko’s car out to other customers is unverified — it comes from Amaneko’s own video, and posters themselves (#19, #22) flagged that it isn’t confirmed. Readers should treat the dealership’s side, which isn’t represented anywhere in the source article, as simply absent rather than refuting Amaneko’s account.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Entertainment & Sports News+) thread “Luxury Car YouTuber With Multiple Vehicles Turned Away by Official Dealer, Baffled by the Treatment: “Sad That a Company Would Make This Call”.”
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