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Pathy06UK

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  • Your Pathfinder Info
    2006 Pathfinder Aventura, UK Spec, Diesel, Black
  • Mechanical Skill Level
    Screwdriver Mechanic
  • Your Age
    36-40
  • What do you consider yourself?
    Weekend Warrior
  • Model
    Other/Unknown
  • Year
    2005

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  1. Thanks for the replies, much appreciated info! Loving the forum! Nige.
  2. Hi everyone....1st posting! I own a 2006 UK spec Pathfinder Diesel Auto 4WD Aventura (UK's top of the range model). For the first time in 20 years the UK has enjoyed some good snow! Woo Hoo! I had a strange 4WD problem in the Pathfinder this morning after a snow covered decent I had to make. Setting the scene... This morning I had to drive down a gravel track that was covered in several inchs of snow with ice underneath from the night before. To add to the fun the track has various steep declines and the pathy's tyres (standard UK Goodyear Wrangler All weather M/S 265/65/17) only have around 4/5mm at best. http://www.flickr.com/photos/31866966@N07/3256069162/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/31866966@N07/3255237515/ Question 1 - Did I select the right gearing etc for the decent? I changed from auto into manual gear 1, 4LO and turned off ESP. In truth ESP was off from a slight climb to get to the track where ESP seemed to hold the cars traction back. Question 2 - Driving down the hill, did I tackle it correctly? To my knowledge, the model of Pathfinder I have has no hill decent of any sort, no button to enable it etc....so with the lightest of foot on the brake pedal I walked the car down the hill next to the wall, one side of the car in snow covered grass, the other in the ice covered tracks. It seemed to cope well and didn't slide off like I'd feared. At one particular steep section it did start to slide and run away a little so it was feet off all pedals and steer waiting for the engine to slow me down as the track leveled out. No major incidents I'm glad to report. Question 3 - 4WD problem afterwards... In recent days I've spent every trip in the car switching between 2WD and Auto for the roads and then 4H and 4LO for snow covered roads and tracks. After my decent this morning I found when I got back to the road that the 4LO wouldn't switch off. I can usually do this whilst driving, but even when I pulled over switching to Auto or 2WD did nothing, it stayed in 4LO and wined as I slowly drove the couple of miles home. Once parked up again I switched off the engine and tried to "reboot" the cars electronics in the hope that it would reset things. Nope, no such luck. At this point I left the car to do a little searching online and speak to the Nissan dealer. After finding nothing online and getting no sense out of the dealer apart from "bring it in so we can put the diagnostics on and charge you for it" I decided to try myself again. The car showed the graphic for 4LO and the orange ESP off was lit. If I turned the 4WD dial to anything else it just stayed in 4LO. Pressing the ESP button didn't re-enable ESP either. After a few minutes of trying different things it finally switched itself out of 4LO and started behaving as normal. Can anyone explain what "mode" the car had put itself into? It all seems to have stemmed from the decent described above and I have no idea how I managed to get it out of this mode and back to normal.... Any advice is welcome, even if its, "get some new tyres you fool!" Nige.
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