I love my truck.





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Pretty good, what is it?

Great. What kind of truck

2002 Pathfinder.


(Pic from Edmunds.)

Those of us here in our Golden years ,can recall non detergent oil, leaded gas, grinding valves, rebuilding engines and repairing bias ply, TUBED tires. Braking and handling were crap. If you got 100,000 miles from an engine without a rebuild it was a miracle. 300,000 miles! Congrats.

Todays cars are simply amazing compared to 50 and 60 years back.

That’s great! My ‘03 4Runner just turned 270k the other day.

more than the distance to the moon.

Thats not a truck, I would call that a suv. I got 280 k out of my 2007 ford f 150 really wanted 300 but it was making some funny noises.

All my vehicles for the past 30 years or so have finished service between 250,000 and 300,000 miles.

There are those who trade out their vehicles ever few years, lease, and never drive anything that's not nearly new. Then there are many of us who run them until they won't run any more.

A little preventative maintenance and some care, and a vehicle can go a long, long time.

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Originally posted by radioman:
more than the distance to the moon.

From the thread title, my best guess actually was that this thread might have something to do with the moon.

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Originally posted by FN in MT:
Those of us here in our Golden years ,can recall non detergent oil, leaded gas, grinding valves, rebuilding engines and repairing bias ply, TUBED tires. Braking and handling were crap. If you got 100,000 miles from an engine without a rebuild it was a miracle. 300,000 miles! Congrats.

Todays cars are simply amazing compared to 50 and 60 years back.

One of my old neighbors in his 90's told me that. One time he was saying he remembers when the automatic transmission became popular, it was after the war. I asked "Vietnam?" and he says " World War II!!! "

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Originally posted by radioman:
more than the distance to the moon.

Thank you for that reference point.
I hadn't thought of it like that.

congrats! I'm on my third pathfinder. I had a 97, 01, and now still an 08. I tend to sell them around 150k, but for the increased towing capacity... 01 had the 3.5, 08 has the 4.0; The next gen is a minivan, so I've nowhere to go but to the competition (4runner or gx460 are the two I'm considering)

Congrats!
That's a major milestone!
I tend to keep mine a long time too.

Subject lines should be clear and unambiguous. "300,000 miles" doesn't qualify as being clear and unambiguous.

My Frontier hit 300K and it’s time for a new one.

It’s losing the valves on one cylinder.

It’s that VQ engine. Damn thing is bulletproof.

Had one in my ‘07 Altima and it didn’t decide to quit until 335K miles!

-Rob

That's great! Curious, what is your maintenance routine? How often and what type oil/filter do you use?

What took you so long?

I had a 2007 that I got 331k on. Its still running, just would have had to sink about 2k in new front suspension and catalytic converters to get it through PA state inspection. It sat at my daughter's house for a year after I bought my current ride, a 2016 Toyota 4Runner, until a friend of hers wanted to buy the Nissan. Her dad is a mechanic, so I gave them a solid rundown of all the issues it had, even the little stuff and they wanted to buy it, so I got a small price for the truck. That 4.0 V6 still runs like a sewing machine. I bought it in 2010 with 48k miles on it, switched over to full synthetic oil and just maintained it before any little thing could turn into a bigger thing.

As much as I loved the Pathfinder, I will never buy a Nissan again. Their refusal to own widespread issues that should be subject to recalls on at least two or three expensive issues really soured me on them. I was extremely lucky (and vigilant with my mechanic) to have avoided the radiator/transmission cooling lines leakage in the radiator but got stung with the bad fuel gauge sensor problem. During a regular oil change, my mechanic thought he caught a whiff of coolant, and even though he couldn't find any leaks, was worried that a problem was going to crop up. He swapped out the radiator, thermostat and cap with a new one which saved me from destroying my transmission. (a 7k dealer replacement....and oh, btw, you can't find a used tranny since most all of them get DESTROYED by this problem) Nissan had a bad OEM or factory radiator with auto trans cooling lines that would crack inside the radiator and mix coolant with the tranny fluid. Hot, used coolant is no way to lubricate your transmission.

The fuel gauge sensor forced me to drop the tank and ended up with a pump and sensor replacement, because, well, who wants to drain and drop a fuel tank twice??? Again, bad parts, widespread problem, but Nissan refused to cover it. Out of pocket around 1k with parts and labor. It had to be fixed since the fuel sensor was throwing an emissions code and PA would not pass it with a failure emissions code.

I bought the 4Runner with 38k on it and just turned 115k this weekend. I'm a PI, so I am always traveling to where the cases are.

My last two (current & prior) vehicles are the lowest mileage I've ever had.

My first 2 cars (80s Mercedes diesels) were both well clear of 300k, both with stopped odometers in the mid 300k range.

Had a Saturn, Accord & Acura TL with over 200k on them.

Our Ford Flex is closing on 103k & my Mercedes C300 is closing on 50k.