#1. 200k with no failures is pretty good. Especially with the AFM system know to suck.
#2.
probably not, per your usage in 4wd as you stated. What were the intervals serviced 100k? In your usage, I would do 30k like it used to be, espeically using 4wd a lot.
#3. You overpaid for the tcase, there are many other vendors such as Kodiak Truck, who could do a tcase much cheaper.
Thats what most companies do, really based on the 5 year rule from the IRS, not mileage really.
I'm not familiar with the 5 year rule, but the company I work for (major US auto parts chain with all locations corporate owned and not franchised) has a huge fleet of vehicles. Mostly Nissans, some Fords, and the occasional GM - I don't have the numbers but I'd say 80% Nissan, 15% Ford, 5% GM if I have to guess.
The store I work at now is ALL Nissans. 1 Nissan Kicks, 1 Nissan Versa, and 5 Frontiers - 3 current gen and 2 prior gen. These get lots of around town miles, and are very rarely driven long distances. Average MPG is horrible on all these vehicles, and we go through brakes like crazy. Not sure why they aren't buying more hybrids (although apparently some stores do have Maverick Hybrids, but I've never seen one) or even trying out EVs as fuel and maintenance on brakes on these are CRAZY. Around town driving is where hybrid/EVs make perect sense.
For the hub stores I know some of the Nissan NV200s had multiple CVT replacements but those vehicles get WAY more miles on them and that's mostly highway. Still, a transmission every 100K isn't really that great. The Transits and Transit Connects have seemed to fare way better from what I've heard, but I have never worked at a hub store so I can't tell you first hand.
Anyway, back to the topic on hand, I've worked at four different stores, and these vehicles are all JUNK within a few years. I think our highest mile vehicle at the current store is 130K miles.
Initially you'd think, most of the drivers are older, they're often driven by the same person every day, it's an automotive company so they should be well maintained, right? WRONG. These vehicles have the hardest lives of any vehicle I've ever seen, and that's in a temperate climate where it never gets cold, they're never taken off road, they never tow anything, etc. But I move them across the parking lot every night and holy cow, they're all bad in their own way. I would not trust a single one of them to get me across the country, and I'm not saying they're unsafe - safety stuff is taken seriously. but just from a mechanical condition perspective, NOPE.
Off the top of my head, our Versa had the CVT replaced under warranty, one of our newer Frontiers burns oil and died in the middle of the road on one of our drivers... thankfully right in front of a shop we deliver to and the guys there helped push it into their lot at which point it was sent to the dealer who did several thousand dollars worth of work to it (I don't recall what), one of the older Frontiers has a ticking noise that multiple shops have been unable to diag so it is just left that way... it's out of warranty and runs fine so who cares. I could keep going - oh, don't get me started on how across all four of these stores like 1/4 of the prior gen Frontiers had bad airbag clocksprings that means the horn didn't work. To me, that is a safety issue, and they tried to fix it, but
parts were not available. For a super common vehicle that didn't change for like 20 years! Nissans suck!
But my point is, a well taken care of personally owned vehicle or owned by a small business where the primary driver is the owner of the business, I would expect any vehicle to go 200K+ miles without major issues and just typical maintenance.
But once you have random employees driving them, GOOD LUCK, even 150K feels like a miracle.
