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Getting fed up with this bloody truck now.

3K views 11 replies 9 participants last post by  landmannnn 
#1 ·
Both front wheel bearing have gone so the abs light is on and I've lost the key to take the wheels off so couldn't fit the new ones today.

The gear box 4x4 switches are knackered so the 4x4 lcd is flashing. £150 to replace them all and seals.

The battery light is on when the car is cold and there is a noise is coming from the engine. If I drive i get a loss of power. Seems to go when the engine warms up. Yep thats right the alternator freewheel pulley is shot.

sorry for the rant just seems everything is going wrong atm.

Just wish all the new parts will hurry up and get delivered so i can start to fix all this lot :(
 
#2 ·
Fed up

Both front wheel bearing have gone so the abs light is on and I've lost the key to take the wheels off so couldn't fit the new ones today.

The gear box 4x4 switches are knackered so the 4x4 lcd is flashing. £150 to replace them all and seals.

The battery light is on when the car is cold and there is a noise is coming from the engine. If I drive i get a loss of power. Seems to go when the engine warms up. Yep thats right the alternator freewheel pulley is shot.

sorry for the rant just seems everything is going wrong atm.

Just wish all the new parts will hurry up and get delivered so i can start to fix all this lot :(
Ooh bad luck . Hope things improve Bud !
 
#3 ·
Hey obladeo, you just summed up my last 5 years in one post, but this one is gonna be better. Some of my parts have turned up and I'm putting things back together.
Good luck fella.
 
#5 ·
I had all those problems between 75k and 85k miles. Not only that, two of them resulted in being recovered by AA or Green Flag, much to the amusement of my neighbours. I wasn't greatly in love with the experience of Navara ownership either.
The following 100k miles have been pretty straightforward though.

BTW, Green Flag recovery is shockingly bad. i won't go into the story here, but it ended up with me having to call the police.
 
#6 ·
Local tyre place should get the locking nuts off for about a tenner! Transfer case switches aren't essential your transfer case should still work no issue. I know it's annoying on the dash but if it's something you can't afford to do all in one go they can wait a bit :)
 
#7 · (Edited)
Just replaced the wheel baring's and now the steering rack ends have gone. Also looks like I need to get a full set of bushes for everything else around there.


Had a quick check on the computer as the truck dropped into limp and the suction control valve is on it's way out.


GRRRRRR
 
#9 ·
i feel your pain

i had my transfercase shut down on me, apparently the fork for the 4wd shift is broken and the bearing in the front of the box is stuck.... nissan dont have any in stock, and its 35,000 TTD lol . im down for repairs since august 2016, and no avail .... :( seriously is fustrating ...
 
#10 ·
Since coming back to live in the UK from the US, and prior to my Nav, I had three cars, each of which did 130K miles when
I sold them, none had significant fault. One had a broken electric window part. In the US we had an Impreza and a Beetle Turbo. Both remained fault free. My Nav, on the other hand has had a warranty fault which took two trips to the dealer to fix, with 18k on the clock. OK for a crummy truck maybe, but it doesn't make me feel confident about Navs or Nissan. As soon as my (excellent) 5th wheel moves on, I won't be looking in a Nissan showroom!

I admit this is not statistically relevant in the real world, and that on vehicle-specific websites you do see more 'problem stories' than 'nothing bad happened' stories, but even so....
 
#11 ·
70 to 90 k is always a bad time what ever make.
The reason there are so many faults is because there are so many around but I would admit Nissan have gone down hill from the good old days and there service is poor it's a fact or life this happens to all good manufacturers when they get complacent then sales drop and they then try harder to win sales back
Hyundia cars and Kia are very good at the mo vw will in the not too distant after there troubles if they suffer a bit more. Merc are slipping and so on
Only my opinion so no law suits please but I feel it's true.

Ford were pants back in 08 or should I say mine was.
Toyota seem constant but have struggled lately a bit ( inside info)
You can tell when cars are shared between manufactures. It's usualy to save very expencive r and d or to fill a hole where legislation has beaten them Ie they can't get an engine design to meet new regs so buy from some one else until they can.
I've reaunalt supplying Nissan merc using np 300 along with reanault. My qasqui is a reanault engine and kajar in disguise and many more.

Rant over
 
#12 ·
Agreed, but the unique point with the D40 is that it was a good 4 years ahead of the competition. If you, like me, were shopping for a pickup in 06 nothing else came close in terms of power, handling, ride and interior.

Not just comparing with other pickups, the Range Rover 3 litre diesel produced the same power with much worse mpg and slower 0-60 too.

Likewise, comparing with normal cars, the Navara specs made the (more expensive) Mondeo look pretty pathetic.

Long and short of this ramble is that the D40 was cutting edge at its release and well priced.


Cutting edge technology and keen pricing means things go wrong. If you want reliable buy old tech.
 
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