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I'm thinking that's probably what I need to do, buy a cheap car that gets good mileage. I just thought that X sounded cheap compared to what I usually see them go for, and I forgot most VQs aren't gas friendly. At least none of the ones I've owned are. Right now I'm just trying minimize the trips by rearranging my schedule, 4 trips a week total. 2 days in the Pathfinder, 2 days in the Z. I'd like to put 6000 miles a year on the Pathfinder and 6000 miles a year on the Z. That's my perfect world but making this commute I've got to get a third vehicle to take the rest of the miles.

That timer link has fixed a lot of Nissan and Infiniti door lock problems including mine. Mine was located exactly where it was supposed to be in the cargo area. I would have spent countless hours and dollars on the door lock switches and actuators in the doors if I hadn't found this link in NPORA. Just one more reason why this is my favorite forum.

Dang that's the kind of passenger lock I needed when I was 16 and dating. Seriously though the link or pic below might help with what's supposed to happen. Alarm PDF

I had a foxbody Mustang convertible that had a steering column ignition switch short out and melt down around 1989. Turned out to be a common problem on Mustangs back then and Ford issued a safety recall on a lot of them. Just throwing it out there since you mentioned the steering wheel positioning seems to have an effect.

Yep that's it, the perfect Xterra to make a 60 mile round trip commute on the interstate at 75 80 mph. Plus I've probably got way too many teeth to be living in Tennessee, we have one of the lowest ratio of teeth per capita, this would be a chance to rattle a few loose.

I like that idea and always have but I just don't have the cash to start spending like that. I need something that's new enough to have a loan value with no huge down payment. The motor's great in my truck now and I'm not afraid to keep the pedal down to keep up with 75 80 mph traffic. What bothers me the most is the 12 or 14 times during the trip that the tranny does that downshift to keep up the cruise set speed. If you drive an auto you know, first the lockup comes off, ugghhh, then out of overdrive, uggghhhh, then the tach's bouncing off 4000. Then the interstate levels back out and it's all upshifts. It's annoying. Then new rubber seals for the wind noise, the list goes on and on to make it comfortable at those speeds and the dollar signs add up quick.

So here's my problem. My biggest cash cow consulting job has been expanded and I'm driving 60 miles roundtrip, mostly interstate, almost every day, from the burbs to downtown Nashville. When the weather's been good I've been taking the Z but it's racking up miles in the process and like my other Zs I'm gonna keep this one for at least 4 or 5 years and I'm just not gonna mile it up like that using it for a daily commuter. When it's raining, and just to try to spread the miles out, I've been driving the Path but at 200k miles I hate to rack a bunch more miles on it. I never intended to use it as a commuter in the first place. It was always supposed to be just my nice old WD21 that I kept to drive a few miles one or two days a week and when I needed to haul stuff or extra people. If I keep driving it at this rate I'm afraid I'll drive it into the ground. Lately I've been looking on craigslist at some R50s and QX4s for around 9 grand thinking maybe I'd buy one for a daily commuter and the payments would be pretty cheap. Now I'll get to the guts of this post. In 2005 I helped a girl that was a co-worker spec out and buy a new 05 Xterra. On my advice she bought an 05 2nd generation SE with 4X4, auto, Rockford Fosgate and power everything. Now she wants to sell it and get a new Mustang convertible and said If I want it I could have it for what they want to give her for trade in, about 9500. This sounds cheap to me. She's put 74,000 miles on it. Never been smoked in and it's in perfect shape with a recent brake job and tires. So what to do? Buy her X I've known since new even though I'm not really an X guy, Keep looking for an R50 or a Q? Either way it's got to have a VQ for the kind of interstate driving I'll be doing. Or the third option just go ahead and kill my old Pathfinder by subjecting it to high speed, high mile commuter duty that it's really to old to handle without spending hundreds and maybe thousands in maintenance costs.

My 93's a California Path and I've got all the original paperwork and bill of sale from Concord Nissan in Concord CA. It does not have the pre cat and never did. I'm thinking it's more of a cold weather thing like has been mentioned. My stock 200k half worn out muffler combined with a new magnaflow free-flow cat gives me a sound I'm happy with on the cheap. If I had a blindfold on standing outside the truck idling, or just pulling away from a stop, it sounds more like my Dad's 350 Yukon than a v-6.

I've got a couple that are a little noisy and the thinner 5w-30w synthetic works best for me. Thinner oil circulates faster through my lifters which obviously are a little clogged at 200k+. Plus synthetics hold closer to their true 5w viscosity when cold versus dinosaur oils. Since my truck, like a lot of high mileage VG's, doesn't really burn or leak any oil between changes so I can get away with thin oil and it probably helps my gas mileage as a bonus. Just what's working good for me these days.

I agree I think it's there to smooth out an intake resonance, put there by the Noise, Vibration and Harshness engineers. Which brings up my 2 cents on the whole cone filter and Pathfinder thing. It's not for me, although I do have an oem replacement K&N filter in my Path. My truck like most stock WD21's is underpowered but fortunately a good, tuned VG30 isn't afraid to rev so it's unobtrusive to keep it in the power band. I don't need any loud intake sucking noises reminding how deep I've got my foot in it to keep up with fast moving traffic, especially if the AC is on. An occasional glance at the tach is all the reminder I want or need. I'm probably the only person in this forum who feels this way. Did I really borrow my grandmother's old 396 Caprice when I was 16 and take the air cleaner off so I could hear the quadrajet moan when I floored it. Yeah, and all it got me was a broken motor mount. The Z, a whole different story, intake noise, can't get enough.

And they're learning at the same rate your 1989 x386 computer running dos 5.0 and maybe Windows 3.1 or OS2 could learn. Which means it might take a while.....

And you don't have to worry about the frame it's already self lightening. Northern Pathfinders weigh less than sunbelt Pathfinders.

It's amazing, of the Pathys I've looked at including my own the lsd sticker is more durable than some of the frames!

I test drove a Pathfinder once that had some howling and it seemed like it was coming from the fan clutch. I have to stop and remind myself sometimes that something could still have a clutch fan in the 90's. The really bad idler pulleys I've heard tend to rattle not howl. I'm still learning about Pathys everyday so it's just my .2

I've seen some aftermarket replacement door seals on e-bay about 8 months ago. Not up for auction but in an e-bay store. Followed a link to their website and they mostly manufactured and sold reproduction door, window and trunk seals for 60's - 70's Camaros, Firebirds, Chevelles and other muscle car restorations. In the middle of their catalog, and the only import, were door seals for Pathfinders and D21 trucks. It gets weirder because they were located in middle TN somewhere. Maybe they had the door seals supplier contract for Smyrna back in the day and now they are just cashing in on a few extra bucks with the old injection molds leftover from back then. I'll dig around e-bay and see if I can find it again.

That's the link that fixed my 93 power locks and made my key fob remote work too. On the Pathfinder the actuator is located behind the drivers side lower trim panel in the cargo area.

I thought the price was okay too. My Pep Boys is subcontracting tows to their shop for a $40 flat rate. But believe me if I didn't have a friend that worked there I would have been charged more than that for the repair.

Stranded Sunday with a dead starter. Had my Pathfinder towed to the Pep Boys my buddy works at and one day and $300 bucks later including wrecker bill I'm on the road again. 201,000 miles on the original starter, amazing. Nissan really held their suppliers to a high standard back in the day. Still on the original alternator and ac compressor but I figure they're next.

You haven't said anything around the Pathfinder that you might put it on the NY craigslist for sale have you?

I cant believe you found some washer pumps. I been trying to find a pull-a-part pathfinder that had one that looked like it was good enough to work, if it was even there at all, for almost a year.

Yes, like an American version of Top Gear. You left Wind Tunnel with Dave whatever his name is off your Nascar list.

Mud and Snow is what I've always thought but I've heard people say it was Multiple Season.

Some old vintage non-nascar racing would be good too.

I like the idea myself and would try to keep my eyes open for a set of wheels and tires together that somebody, maybe even in this forum, wants to get rid of. Just remember that all truck and suv tires are going to be either all season or m/s, about the same thing. It's not like a Z where there could be a summer performance street tire or an all-season street tire. I have to drive my Pathfinder on the interstate a lot like yesterday, about 75 miles with the cruise set on 80 and the ac blowing full blast. Back end loaded down with some antique chest my girlfriend found in the country and decided we couldn't live without. Could I have done it on some noisy half-ass balanced AT's, of course. Would I have felt like I'd been beat up when I got back home, of course.