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    Minor update.

    Digital trip odometer went from being illuminated but blank to having information displayed again. Went ahead and reset it. Seems to be working fine again.

    Main odometer still lifeless.

    Guessing I'll have to get behind the cluster but it's going to have to wait for some warmer weather.

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    Started it last night and noticed the electronic trip odometer screen has gone blank.

    Nothing appears on screen when you move the little nob to try to reset it.

    My old Pathfinder had the manual trip odometer, so maybe there is a reset step on the electronic one that I'm unfamiliar with.

    But I'm now suspicious that something decided to short out or something. It does illuminate, just no numbers appear.

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    All other instrumentation normal, except of course the trip odometer frozen too.

    Assuming there is a sensor under a wheel well to look at. In the world I'd like to live in I wouldn't have to pull the cluster and futz around behind it.

    Appreciate your experiences, theories, guidance.

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    Xterra,

     

    Depending on how bad it is, you can live with a rear main seal leak for a good while.

    Been there, done that.

    You just have to be more vigilant about oil level and not be picky about oil stains.

    Not ideal, but we all have to make choices with our money and what things come first.

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    So we just finished a week of hard cold.

    Yesterday I fired up the Pathfinder and took my wife to appointment. Probably 15-mile trip. No issues. Stopped at a store afterward. Was in there 30-45 minutes. Came out and started vehicle to find it idling erratically and wanting to die. Nursed it to where it held idle again and drove home. Drove it later to pick up the wife and it did fine except once I had to brake hard because of the guy in front of me and the car died when I did that. Started right up again, tho.

    Very cold last night -11F.

    Started it this morning and fired right up and seemed to idle normally but when I tried to pull away it stumbled and bogged down, pulled over and idle was bouncing between 600-900 rpm. Drove in neighborhood for awhile with that same stumbling going on, delayed reaction from hitting gas pedal. Finally it settled down and drove it to work and seemed OK, tho didn't push it beyond 50. No warning lights came on at any time during all this. Parked it in heated garage near work and when I started it after it had sat there for several hours idle and gas response seemed normal.

    Thoughts? Anyone else seen their vehicle act up that way after being in cold for extended period?

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    Adam,

     

    I got undercoating last fall and just washed it today since it's a rare January day where temp got above freezing for awhile.

    It has a small rust spot above rear-most window on passenger side that was there when I bought it. Need to sand and paint that come spring.

    But it's Minnesota, where they mix the road salt with sulfuric acid, I swear! So can't guarantee I'll avoid getting rust.

    My old Pathy lasted 15 years up here before it rusted out.

    If the black SE lasts until 2029 I won't complain.

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