dhardison Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverton Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 No way of really knowing, but I'll assume I still had my original starter at 192,000. It would kick over if someone was holding the key to start and someone else tapped the solenoid with the jack handle. My A/C still blows ice cold and no signs of voltage loss... **crosses fingers** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Precise1 Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Agreed, some of the stock components have an amazing life span. My favorite story was the headlight on my old D720 that had a hole in it when I bought it. During winter it would fill up about 40% of the way with water, to the point that you could see the light beam changing from the water sloshing around in it. I drove that way for 10 years and it still worked when I sold it. B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamzan Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 My a/c compressor is original too. Don't see to many compressor failures on these rigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunya Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 $300 with the tow and parts? Not to shabby if so. Couldn't tell you what all is original on mine... I did change the starter but put a known good pre-own in it so it has a chance of being soemones original and besides having to turn my a/c on by a toggle switch (some wiring issue I can't trace down, and it's NOT the button) it looks like it's been in there for a good 20 odd years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhardison Posted May 21, 2010 Author Share Posted May 21, 2010 $300 with the tow and parts? Not to shabby if so. Couldn't tell you what all is original on mine... I did change the starter but put a known good pre-own in it so it has a chance of being soemones original and besides having to turn my a/c on by a toggle switch (some wiring issue I can't trace down, and it's NOT the button) it looks like it's been in there for a good 20 odd years. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunya Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 $40 tow? I wouldn't bother walking to the truck for that (unles ti was a friend I was helpin out/different story) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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