spazman

you can get more detailed results if you search around here a bit. You are limited to 2 cheap lifts between 1.5" and 2" the only other none custom lift is a subframe drop (SFD) which will give you 4" so you can put bigger tires on. OME and AC are the two brands of lift kits check them out at 4x4parts.com . fluery build skid plates, great quality, good prices. Bull bars and brush guards, you'll find only 00-04 pathfinder ones but they will fit the 96-99.5 but just have a little more space between the bumper/grill and bullbar. And exhaust, you have to build your own custom exhaust, nothing except OEM replacement, I think it's bosal or something like that that makes one. I have about 6 leaks in mine and have just been too lazy to replace it.

Droid X and X2 are great reliable phones, no crashing issues on either. The wife had two different blackberries and they were awful, crash all the time lock up and battery would just die unexpectedly. Personally I'd like to see what the iphone5 or whatever is next to come out, the iphone4 just can't compete with my droid. It'd just be nice if apple came out with more than one kind of phone so you could have more of a variety than 16 or 32gb.

My warns were only $160 shipped through amazon. Great investment! I'm sure the mile markers work just fine too and save a little money!

I believe most cars have the limiter for what the tires are rated at. At least that's why my dodge stratus had a 105 limiter. My impreza was 135 because it came stock with z rated tires. We never found the limiter on my brothers eclipse. All of these top speeds were found on a track not on the highway. Awesome story by the way and I'm glad you caught the kid. Had people throw stuff out like that in front of me before but nothing actually hit so I can understand how pissed you'd be!

Yeah mine has a couple of things for tire changing, but there are 2 long sockets in there too, one longer than the other. I'll try to take a pic tomorrow. They make the job much easier!

Look in the little black bag under the back set with the jack stuff in it. There are 2 special sockets for the spark plugs.

29091 is the part number. I was averaging just over 15mpg hwy and city before I swapped some on mine, now I'm getting between 18city and 20 hwy. I can definitely tell the deference, it coasts much easier, goes up hills better (my cruise doesn't shut off due to losing speed up hills that I use to have that problem on), and turning is easier. Best $160 I've spent on the beast yet.

The newer pathfinders seem to have a lot of gremlins. I looked into them for my wife when we were looking for something with 3rd row seating. They are affordable but don't seem to have the reliability that the older ones had. Just my .02. I'd keep the pathy and get a sports car or look into a wrx or forester xt 2500lb towing, plenty of room for a dog or the occasional groceries and decent gas mileage.

So are you talking about the bottom of this? It looks like you can get the whole front support to replace. - $74 to $150 new Otherwise the bottom part(#5) is the lower tie bar. - $156 new

I'm with you on this one. I could replace my pathfinder 3 times or buy all the equipment to make my own system for that price! You can't tell me it would take that long to develop an exhaust system, that's what they do!

Great cars. Wish I still had my 06 but money got tight and the car had to go. If you go with it and want to raise it back up it takes all but an hour to swap the entire suspension out. Me and a buddy did swapped the springs on ours at the same time and it took 2 hours with lunch to do the complete job. Literally 6 bolts hold each spring/strut together and to the car. Check around NASIOC for parts and if you're looking in colorado www.awdpirates.net is the local subaru forum. As for buying sight unseen, with a warranty I'd do it (depending on what the fine print said on it since it is a modified car), without a warranty it'd have to be a steal.

Kind of figured that. I was almost to that point too! Can't wait to see the hidden antenna, will probably steal your idea when I bend this one!

Yeah what he said, I pushed the rack and all the little black crossbars all the way back, then realized I never use them and took them off and that got rid of even more noise. So take the bars off it cuts down on a lot of wind noise. I have the crossbars on my 06 impreza and the only way to get rid of the whistling was to take them off. The take all but 2 minutes to put back on if you need them.

I helped a buddy change his out yesterday and I think his was doing what it sounds like yours is. What I ended up doing was taking the silver retaining nut off, the black bezel thingy that goes against the fender, then there is a black grommet right above the threaded part, take that off with a little motivation. Then take some pliers as low as you can get on the antenna mast and pull like hell twisting and pulling and it should come right out. Remember the way the teeth come out on the antenna, put the new one in the same direction by sliding the white toothed part down and having someone turn the radio off, it'll suck the mast right down. I thought about it after the fact but should have taken some picture to better illustrate this. The mast that came out didn't have the prongs I spoke of but teh new one did so I don't know what's up with that.

Yeah I felt dumb because I don't drive at night much, just back and forth to work and got done late a coupel days after I did the swap and looked out and had a very confusing moment. My lights are on but something's not right... oh I can't see how fast I'm going?!? WTF! I left the orange ilumination wires untouched and I think they touched some bare metal to pop the fuse. Oh well, it's figured out now, couldn't find anything about it online becuase I was thinking maybe I wired it wrong. I guess you live and learn!

Finally figured it out, if anyone else has this problem you've blown the tail lamp fuse under the hood. Makes sense right? Somehow I missed it the first round of fuse checking.

I changed out my radio a couple of weeks ago with an aftermarket one. Now my backlights for the gauges, a/c don't work but the interior lights work just fine. Checked all the fuses inside and tried to get them to work by bypassing the dimmer switch. Anyone have any ideas? I'm not sure what the hell's going on and it's more of an annoyance to have to turn on the map light if I drive at night to see my speed/fuel levels/etc.

Don't do that chip, they're crap! Most "chips" out there are crap. There is a company out there, I think it's superchip or something, that will reflash your computer based on the mods you've done. As for intakes, most people say stay away just put a drop in K&N filter, others build their own with a MAF adapter, and there is a Jim Wolf pop charger. Best bang for the buck MPG booster are manual hubs either WARN, Rocky Ridge, or Mile Marker. They're cheap ($99 milemarker, $160 rocky ridge, $160- $200 for WARN) and easy to install.

There are a couple of prongs at the base of the antenna that didn't stick on mine but I remember the first time I replaced it I had to reach under the fender up where it goes out and push the prongs down so it'd slide out. I'm probably going to see about getting a none power one next time. I replaced it 8 years ago and went wheeling and forgot to shut the radio off. I hit a tree branch with it and bent it so it would all the way down except the last big section, that's how it sat until I replaced it a couple weeks ago and figured I'd spend the $13 again before I broke it off with it sticking up like that still. Not sure of the lube, I've heard of using a silicon spray type lubricant and also of using wd40 and just wiping the excess off and the film is suppose to be good enough. I'd probably sway to the silicon spray side of things personally if I ever were to do it. (the antenna looks like this where the base widens out at the fender, under the fender there are prongs that stick out) . | <- antenna _|_ <- fender | | | | / \ <-"prong" | |

Ouray's about 1 1/2 hours away. There's some great country out here and we're hoping to get out with the camera's this summer and get some good nature photos so it should be a good excuse to find some trails around here. I look forward to sharing some good adventures, and using your guys knowledge to fix up the beast.

Yet another embarrasing fact, my wife is a photographer and I am the secondary for thing slike weddings and I have not taken a photo of my pathfinder yet. Man what is my deal?!? No Moab, no Photos... I need to get off my ass and do both!

Yes it is white, I took the rusted up sidesteps off and the front mudflaps since the offroading up around my folks house in Buena Vista. I've seen another lifted white pathfinder that looks a lot like mine around town though. Also, I've been wheeling in Moab, just not in my pathfinder. Did most of poison spider in my work's stock quadcab chevy silverado showing that it's not all about lifts and big wheels, sometimes angles, stacking rocks, and a little finess can go a long way! Hopefully I can meet up with some of you guys down there and see what kind of trouble i can get into!

The actual liner inside the wheel well, the fender itself stays untouched. I didn't take mine all the way out, just took enough of the fasteners off so I could pull the plastis liner back and reach in. It's pretty obvious where the antenna motor is once you get the liner pulled back.

Been lurking, then signed up a while ago and never came in here to say hi. I'm over in Grand Junction, Colorado. And yes it's true, I've yet to make the hour drive to Moab with it to see how she does. I guess that's what happens when you have kids. I'm 28 married and have 3 kids. Love the forums here, lots of good information and for the most part people use complete sentences! Hate car forums with high schoolers that talk in text short hand! I was a long time member of awdpirates.net, a colorado forum for mostly subarus but had other awd car owners. Ended up selling my 06 Impreza because I needed the money from getting laidoff and bought the pathfinder from my parents which they bought new. Anyway, I look forward to learning more about these R50s and making this a capable daily driver.

Good point, I saw an ad for it somewhere and thought it might actually be a good car show. No so much, just another teenie bopper pimp my ride kind of show. They literally spent 10 minutes talking about how they painted a skull on the hood, they didn't even say what kind of engine it was in any detail. They only 5 minutes total on the judges driving them and looking them over. So if you like pimp my ride, well you probably still won't like this car building competition. And don't knock NASCAR, it's fun to watch as long as you record it and fast forward to the wrecks!