Hey everybody. I'm a short time lurker and info leech here. I've been shopping for an 06, 07 Off Road for a while. Today I took an 06 auto for a test drive and it seemed to be handling really well and looked in great shape with 140 thousand kilometers on it.
Then as we are driving along the sales guy tells me, not knowing anything about Xterras 'cause he's a jeep dealer, "it had this weird driveling shake when you got it up to 80. So we sent it off to Nissan to get repaired."
He was very excited about how they solved some unknown problem and were making the truck better for me. All I'm thinking is
SMOD!!
It turns out that they actually sent it to a private shop who replaced the u-joints on the front drive shaft and changed the transfer case fluid. It no longer has the mysterious shimmy-wobble at speed. But I don't see how the front drive shaft would affect anything at highway speeds in 2wd.
The tranny dipstick looked okay. Pinky not milky. Nothing under the rad cap. The rad has not been bypassed.
I'm scared.
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I guess my big fear is that smod has happened to this truck already and I'll never be able to tell. Well, until the tranny starts to go. Maybe they changed the coolant and AT fluid as some point and its all covered up. Maybe they did it last week...
Any advice would be appreciated. I ran the idea of a 1 year/20k powertrain warranty (i'm not paying for it) past them and they seemed responsive. Unfortunately the truck is a pretty decent price and they want to move it.
Thanks for reading, guys.
Then as we are driving along the sales guy tells me, not knowing anything about Xterras 'cause he's a jeep dealer, "it had this weird driveling shake when you got it up to 80. So we sent it off to Nissan to get repaired."
He was very excited about how they solved some unknown problem and were making the truck better for me. All I'm thinking is
SMOD!!
It turns out that they actually sent it to a private shop who replaced the u-joints on the front drive shaft and changed the transfer case fluid. It no longer has the mysterious shimmy-wobble at speed. But I don't see how the front drive shaft would affect anything at highway speeds in 2wd.
The tranny dipstick looked okay. Pinky not milky. Nothing under the rad cap. The rad has not been bypassed.
I'm scared.
I guess my big fear is that smod has happened to this truck already and I'll never be able to tell. Well, until the tranny starts to go. Maybe they changed the coolant and AT fluid as some point and its all covered up. Maybe they did it last week...
Any advice would be appreciated. I ran the idea of a 1 year/20k powertrain warranty (i'm not paying for it) past them and they seemed responsive. Unfortunately the truck is a pretty decent price and they want to move it.
Thanks for reading, guys.