TrailBeast
AKA Mopars4us on Youtube
Years ago I bought a Nissan King Cab pickup with a 5 speed with 130k on the clock for 1,700.00
I drove the crap out of that truck for a couple of decades and wanted something different for a change.
The Wife told me when the truck finally died I could get something else, so I started neglecting it maintenance wise.
A year or two later the AC died and wouldn't hold a charge, but that wasn't enough to warrant a different driver for my service calls.
250,000 miles and the most expensive thing it ever needed was tires.
I went through 4 starters (as it got driven stop and go a lot) it started making a bearing noise in the trans when in first gear, but that wasn't a good enough reason to get rid of it.
A few years later it was making trans bearing noises in first, second and third but kept on going.
One day my daughter asked when I changed the oil and filter last I told her I didn't know for sure, but it was when my youngest Son was 11 because he left the key on after filling his bike tire with air and it filled the block with gas to the point of hydro lock. (my Son was 17 the day she asked me that) so it had been 6 years and 150,000 miles since the oil and filter were changed.
It used a half a quart every 6 months so all I ever did was add a half quart when I could hear the engine making a rattle noise that it made when it was a half quart low.
At some point the heater quit blowing because the switch died, so I used the old AC switch to turn the blower on and off.
I cussed it every day, "JUST FRIGGIN DIE, WOULD YA" but no such luck.
Going down the hiway with your foot on the floor resulted it about 60mph with any headwind at all, and I was at the mercy of everything else on the road, YES even Prius's had their way with me.
Finally after freeze plugs leaking and putting water in it every day it froze real good during the night and I went out to find three freeze plugs laying on the ground under it.
FINALLY I could say this enough, and get something else, so I stuffed plastic shopping bags in the freeze plug holes, filled it with water and took that damn Nissan with 497,000 miles on it to the local scrap yard where they gave me 350 bucks for it.
I love my 350hp, 5 speed automatic Dart.
Moral of the story, you ask?
Don't buy a Nissan unless you want to drive that damn thing the rest of your life.
I drove the crap out of that truck for a couple of decades and wanted something different for a change.
The Wife told me when the truck finally died I could get something else, so I started neglecting it maintenance wise.
A year or two later the AC died and wouldn't hold a charge, but that wasn't enough to warrant a different driver for my service calls.
250,000 miles and the most expensive thing it ever needed was tires.
I went through 4 starters (as it got driven stop and go a lot) it started making a bearing noise in the trans when in first gear, but that wasn't a good enough reason to get rid of it.
A few years later it was making trans bearing noises in first, second and third but kept on going.
One day my daughter asked when I changed the oil and filter last I told her I didn't know for sure, but it was when my youngest Son was 11 because he left the key on after filling his bike tire with air and it filled the block with gas to the point of hydro lock. (my Son was 17 the day she asked me that) so it had been 6 years and 150,000 miles since the oil and filter were changed.
It used a half a quart every 6 months so all I ever did was add a half quart when I could hear the engine making a rattle noise that it made when it was a half quart low.
At some point the heater quit blowing because the switch died, so I used the old AC switch to turn the blower on and off.
I cussed it every day, "JUST FRIGGIN DIE, WOULD YA" but no such luck.
Going down the hiway with your foot on the floor resulted it about 60mph with any headwind at all, and I was at the mercy of everything else on the road, YES even Prius's had their way with me.
Finally after freeze plugs leaking and putting water in it every day it froze real good during the night and I went out to find three freeze plugs laying on the ground under it.
FINALLY I could say this enough, and get something else, so I stuffed plastic shopping bags in the freeze plug holes, filled it with water and took that damn Nissan with 497,000 miles on it to the local scrap yard where they gave me 350 bucks for it.
I love my 350hp, 5 speed automatic Dart.
Moral of the story, you ask?
Don't buy a Nissan unless you want to drive that damn thing the rest of your life.
