I saw on a youtube channel at a nissan dealer the water pump was 11 hours @$200 and hour and the water pump was $275.
Nissan Frontier
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The wholesale dealer auctions I go to buy inventory have plenty of them.
You would think that a reasonably priced utilitarian truck would have plenty of demand. But the Frontier always seems to have more low mileage units at the sales than any other compact truck.
So long as it isn't a Pro-4X you generally can get it.
You would think that a reasonably priced utilitarian truck would have plenty of demand. But the Frontier always seems to have more low mileage units at the sales than any other compact truck.
So long as it isn't a Pro-4X you generally can get it.
That’s interesting, they came stock with LT tires? I would think P-metrics would be far more appropriate for the vehicle’s capacity and greatly improving ride and handling, especially wet.
Btw - nice truck, great lines. Of the midsize trucks, the frontier’s looks are the most classic.
I have a 2015 Frontier with 251000 miles. Very few problems but I drove a 2023 and I didn't believe it would make 100000 miles much less than 250000. The quality changed dramatically.
While I agree the previos generation my long term prove better - I own one - in many ways there the same truck. Its the same VQ but now with GDI, and there are a couple minor things I don't love. The 8 speed is a Mercedes design but made by Jatco. There are lots of high mileage examples around already.
I've started shopping for a replacement for my '15 Canyon. Trying to build a Frontier to my liking was a disappointing experience. I want something better equipped than an SV (almost zero upgrade options on this trim level, but I like the optional wheels), but the paint and wheel choices on the Pro trucks were a letdown. Basically the same wheel with three different finishes, and another solid black wheel with the "bead locker" look is what they're offering. Nothing in silver. I would have to go see them in person to judge accurately, but the paint colors they're offering don't look great on the computer. I guess I'm too traditional for Nissan. Midnight blue metallic with some nice silver 18"-19" wheels would be great.
What color are you looking for? They offer more colors than most now days? There was a dark blue a year or two ago. They cycle some of the premium colors.
As for options - they always have been minimalist - and that is what the owners of them tend to appreciate. I do.
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Might have to order or search nationwide - they are not a huge seller in Texas …
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Was hoping they still offered a darker blue like the 2022, or a bright silver. The above is far too bright for my taste. My Canyon is victory red, so no more red. No orange, no lime green, no grays or black. Not a big deal, not in a hurry. I can wait till somebody relents and does another good dark blue.
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Nissan's VQ V6 engines are as reliable as the Sun.
Nissan's VQ V6 engines are as reliable as the Sun.
Realistically, I think the timing chains are going to have issues before the water pump does. DI + Long timing chains is never a good combination.
Will that prevent me from buying one? Probably not. There's a few locally that I will be looking at
The only timing chain issues they have had were QC / badly stamped links. Of course they had a few of those. The design otherwise is good.
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That ~250K mile 2023 is crazy if that's accurate.
I've never even heard of any of these engines having timing chain issues. VQ40 or 38. I was thinking and pointing fingers more at GM's "High feature" engine family
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You're right in that is was not nearly as prevalent as the GM thing. I've also heard of some VQ35's and maybe a few VQ40's needing head gaskets over the years due to external leakage, but that was rare. There were some early catastrophic failures of the new Frontier 3.8 with rod/crank bearing problems, where the owners got brand new replacement engines.
You've probably heard me rant on the 2017+ GDI version of the VQ35 (VQ35DD). I can point you to dozens of owners effected by severe engine sludging in under 50K and/or timing chains worn at the ~100K mile mark on this particular engine, where these issues were basically unheard of on the port injected version of this engine (VQ35DE). I know of one fella who was so fed up with the DD in his 2017 Pathfinder, that he retrofitted it with a port injected DE.
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