1987Bama
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Ok,have another name insted of switch contact?my search doesn't show aything other than these 2 posts that says switch contact.
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Switch contacts, search, common issue.
so you saying it could be a contact? I havn't had any issues with it at all.Turned them off one night.next night,nothing.
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Got in my Pathfinder tonight to go to work,flicked my lites and no Bright lights.They worked fine yesterday when I parked it.
My dims are fine,just no Bright ligts.I am at work and it will be tomorrow before I can check,just wanting to see if anyone might know where to look.
Maybe the brights and dims on 2 seperate fuses?
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Color ir not correct but I finally found one of these in a 2wd 95 and wanted to see if it would fit my 87 4x4.
Perfect!!
Now I have a place to rest my arm.wahoo.
Excuse the mess in the passenger seat,most of it was in the console.lol
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Mine has the 3 speed tranny and with the 31's I can get 16 highwy at 60mph.
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I have a friend thinking about wheeling one of those also. His main rig is a Sammy. My concern is that we see alot of low trees that you and I wont get under them without a chainsaw. Those roofs just look tall. I also wouldn't put a body lift on it. Top heavy. I am getting ready to pull mine out unless i just use this beast for Truck pulls and get another one for my trail / rock rig.
not top heavy.the frame and suspension is heavier than the height and add wider tires on your body lift.You can get 33's on it with no body lift.
As far as tall,if tree limbs are 6 ft off the ground,not many things will go unde rit anyway.
This is my 6th one and these little suckers will just about drive thru anything...slowly.lol
and u have one huge a$$ signature...lol
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Your Pathfinder looks funny
I bet if you tried really really hard,you will figure out what it is.
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I have owned a few of these and this one is in the best shape of the bunch.Going to use it for a daily driver and let the pathy have some time off from all of the miles it gets.
1988 4 cyl 5 speed.Repainted Black from red.Grey interior in decent shape.Drivers seat the worse but not extremely bad.
Add some 31's on a set of chrome 15's I have here and throw on roof rack and brush guard.
and radio.lol
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1987s use the Jatco L3N71B 3-speed, locking torque converter transmission.
so,whoever told me they came in 4 speed auto's were wrong?
guess i will have to look for a 88 auto tranny to swap in.
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Not a lot,because they where built before the whole suv mom craze took off,back when a truck was a truck and sheep where scared to move.They had true fuel injection,not tbi,ford got it in 86 and the chev in 88.They could both be had with power seat if you wanted them.Both had od trannys before the pathfinder was even an idea and one big factor,No timing belt and there frames dont rot out.
Ok,lets see.87 was first year of the pathfinder and i assum it came with 2 different automatic trannies from what people told me on here.a 3 speed and 4 speed.so,the tranny differences don't wash.
fuel injection,whether it was tbi or not is still fuel injected.
Power seats,u got me on that one.maybe cheby and ford did,but thats not like some big whoop.
My frame isn't rotten.But ive seen plent of rotten bronco II and Blazers.
and having owned all 3,I assure you,the bronco II ranks 3rd and the pathfinder first.
upon further investigation,the bronco II and blazer ran TBI units in th 80's.
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Looking for another fog light like the one in the picture that has NISSAN on it.Anyone sell these?
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You might want to look more into that the shelby version was the mid package with a turbo on it, The pacifica was the max loaded with the turbo package.
You were right.Thought we ha done our car lot eyars ago that was justa base 4 banger.
But,with the volkswagon inspired engine in those earlier 4 banger models,then the later mitsubishi 6 cyl,just shows you how much imports products were in the 80's making abig splash.
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What about the 300z dash, they lasted maybe 30,000 miles and burnd out,then cost 2g's in 1980s money to fix.
The distial dash in my uncles 90 chevy 1500 is still going,well past 500k on it too.Look at it all,hell,my dads fiat has a ohc 4 in it and runs a t-belt and is faster then any of the so called muscle cars of the 80s,and its not even a sporty on.
And also,since most 80s cars are garbage to begin with why would you want a japanes 80's car.There just ripe off's of american cars that have been updated with more computer chips so theres a delay when you give them gas.
I don't think you can compare a chevy 1500 to the pathfinder in this thread for the sake of causing people to completely fall off the deep end.lol
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Yup, fuel injection was used as a point, I was just making a point that it's been around well before the 80s... And did it without editing every one of my previous posts in an Alexrex20 fashon. My "bug" comment, part of an old addage some days your the windshiled, some days your the bug. If you want to think stuff that's been around for years before your examlpes are 'new', enjoy. Lookin forward to the next edit of the previous posts
(ok I'm really done this time)
I edited for a spelling.
And I am pretty positive I know what was around years before what.I have sat my tail in more seats than you have even looked at.
but I would like to stay on point now that we have it figured out this threa dis about 80's jap technology as applied to the pathfinder vs domestic.
Now,would you care to tell me how far advance a chevy s10 blazer and ford bronco II was compared to our pathfinders?
Don't get me wrong,nothing like good ole american but in the 80's,wasn't much of anything by domestics above and beyond japanese imports.
so,for the sake of taking our rides down a notch or 2,lay it on me.tell me why 80's pathfinders are dogs.
No editing was done in typing the above statements.
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Since the original post was about the 'technology' in an 89 Pathfinder, I'm gonna have to say yea, we ain't talking about sports cars. Sorry dude, your the bug
you do realize your 1st post was comparing a 57 bel air???
I think i am done with this one.When you start having to call names like you do and can't debate the topic,you just lost all respect.
I mean,that kind of talk is like saying "your momma" cause you have nothing else to offer.
but if you want to stay on the topic of 89 pathfinder only,what would you compre it to?
chevy s10 blazer?
ford bronco II?
What features of these 2 domestic brands were so far advanced as comapred to the pathfinder?
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*sigh*
Does anyone not remember the S10 digital dash? How about the digital dashes that came in most GM cars?
no,have pics? Seen a few in the 90's models.
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Olds tornado, Buick Rivera, I think the z24 cavalier could be had with a digital setup...
I'll quit now before you pop a fuse...
so,we are using all cars of the 80's and not sports cars?
you guys seem to be all over the place to make arguements to fit your thinking..lol
because any of the 3 you listed above does not fall into "sports car".lmao
and no worries,I will not pop a fuse.still not sure what the thread is about since it started as japanese technology.lol
My first post on this thread was to say i thought japanese cars were more advanced than domestics in the 80's.The rebuttal of that was to offer up all the features domestic cars had that proved my statment was wrong and domestic cars were in deed far more superior.
I am still waiting for a car from the 80's to have all of these on it from the poster
and i quote"A lot of the 70s and 80s American cars could be had with single or dual power/memory/heated seats, electric sunroofs, automatic ride leveling suspension systems, completely digital dashes with an onboard computer diagnostics and information system, etc"
Having lived as a young adult in the 80's and watching the domestic cars come from the factory aspiles of crap,I will stick by my statement that the japanese cars of the 80's with their creature comforts and reliabilty killed the domestic car production.Only thing that saved the domestic is the glut americans had for trucks and suv's.If not for the bulging sales of these vehicles,domestic car makers would have been in serious trouble a very long time ago.
I am all for muscle cars and i do love the cars from the 80's but you just cant compare the options on japanese sports cars to domestics in the 80/s.sorry.They were just bland,made to go fast ina straight line while the japanese cars were refined for a little more easier driving.
I have yet to sit ina trans am/camaro or mustang of the 80's that talked to me like my 300zx did and my starion.
that was so cool to hear when you got it.
*wonder if i could put one from the 300zx in my pathy*
hmmmmmmm
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I wasn't talking about LSD, (I know the difference) and the whole point of this thread was that this stuff was "high tech" and unheard of in the 80s.
Really? I thought the topic was japanese technology.My bad.
so,any domestic cars with one of these in them? from the 80s?
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"mitsubishi starion was the only car offered with IRS other than vette" ain't "the only domestic with irs is a vette" Irs was around a fiew years before the 80s, perfect example can be taken from one of the memoriable parts of My Cousin Vinny at the end with the argument about the tire tracks goein over the curb and the argument was based on the irs in a 1963 Pontiac Tempest (a Domestic car)
You missed my point.We were talking 80's.
And don't confuse IRS with LSD.
Iroc z's of the 80's had LSD.Not IRS.
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I know its probably no ones favorite car but the 88 dodge daytona with the rare pacifica package, had power everything, I have never to this date seen a more electronically adjustable seat, it had a onboard trip computer, a electric display dash, a tap deck-equilizer-with cd player (yes both tap and CD) They did not have power sunroofs as they were t-tops. One of these was my first car not my first vehical but my first car.
The shelby Daytona was more optioned.
and thanks to mitsubishi,dodge did a good job on these fwd cars.
My shelby charger was blast to drive.sunroof to.and 32mpg.
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You could get that same technology in many American cruisers, including the full graphic equalizers. Chryslers, GMs, and Fords alike. Where's the electric sliding sunroofs, the auto adjusting and leveling ride suspension systems, the memory power and heated seats...?
Never seen any of that in a Japanese vehicle of the day. A/C has also been used in American cars since the early 60s...
It also wasn't the "sophistication" of the Jap cars that hurt the Domestic auto makers, it was that at the time they built the better cars on the road while America was slacking off and producing shoddy quality. American cars had just as much, or more, electronic goodies than the Japanese cars...but the cars themselves didn't last too long. Their sports cars were much better, yes, because they put the same goodies found in American cruisers in to a powerful, sporty, and reliable package.
I have owned every muscle car you can imagine and esp muscle cars of the 80's,and ive yet to see all you mentioned inside one.Ive never owned a treans am,camaro or mustang that had heated seats.hell,i dont even think they had power seats.
comparing the nicities of my starion to the same years mustang /trans am/camaro etc is like comparing a kia to a lexus.
And your statement about quality is what hurt bdomestic cars,you are right.but that goes hand in hand with the creature comforts of imports being elevated past domestics.I think you debated yourself to prove this point.lol
i think you are talking sedan domestic cars to imports cars and not sports cars nwhen comparing heated seats etc.
Name me one domestic sports car other than the vette of the 80's that has heated and memory,powered seats,eletric sunroof,adjustable ride.
damn,that sopund slike my 85 bmw 635 or my 88 starion.
damn sure aint my 87 firebird formula or 91 lx 5.0
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somebody never saw the end of My Cousin Vinny
as the 72 vette that was iu nthe shop today had 4 wheel disc a/c and IRS, yea its a vette but its still got 10 years on the 80s imports were using to compare with...
explain to me what you are trying to say?
thought i said irs was on vettes in the 80's but not any other domestic car.
and i didnt know irs was on 82-85supra's.that one is new to me.ive only owned 87+ model years.
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Japanese vehicles were quite a bit behind Americans and the rest of the world in technology. A lot of the 70s and 80s American cars could be had with single or dual power/memory/heated seats, electric sunroofs, automatic ride leveling suspension systems, completely digital dashes with an onboard computer diagnostics and information system, etc. One that that's always bothered me is that Nissan didn't offer electric seats in the WD21s when every other SUV out there did. I know it's more things to go wrong, but still. Chevrolet started putting fuel injection in the Corvette in 1965 and power windows have been around since the late 30s.
At the time most vehicles were fuel injected, Japanese makers were still using carburated motors. Also, in case anyone was wondering, Alfa Romeo started using variable valve timing (think V-Tec) in the 60s.
Japanese companies have been stealing American technology for decades now. LCD screens, CDs, calculators, assorted TV technology, etc.
You must not have ever been in mid to late 80's nissan,toyota or mitsubishi sports cars.All you listed above were inside them all.
matter of fact,a mitsubishi starion was the only car offered with IRS other than vette.
The sophistication in the japanese cars were what lead to the downfall of the american muscle car sales.
If you are talking about trucks/suv's.....yes.....America has always been above the import market.
I hate chevys but their ride quality on their trucks is beyong anything out there.Just sold a 96 k1500 suburban 4x4 and it rode better than my sisters 2008 land rover.
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My 80's conquest/starions have 4 wheel disc,LSD with IRS.Leather with digital climate control and some models even had digital dashes.
Compared to the "muscle cars of the 80's,the "jap" cars were way ahead in technology.
Where did my Bright Lites go?
in 86.5-89 WD21 Pathfinders
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spot on!! bulbs it was..I even lost a low beam last night on way home and was running one light only.
Always check the simple things first i guess.
thanks guys