vento1

DL500,

What colour did you get your X-Trail LE with VDC/TCS? Which dealer did you purchase from? I'm still waiting for mine and from what I understand not too many X-Trail LE with the VDC/TCS options yet, so you must be one of the early lucky ones.

We bought our X-Trail from Southside Nissan, great service and fair pricing with some discount as I know the salesman well.

The Bridgestone tires that are on the X-Trails appear to be more like a snow tire or offroading tread, therefore the lower tread wear rating. I have seen other variations of the Bridgeston Dueler H/T, on CRV and RAV4 which the tread looked more performance oriented for good weather conditions similar to the Dunlop's.

In regards to your question about chirping when activating your alarm, I'm pretty sure that feature is available. Check your manual as I had a friend who purchased a 2004 Nissan Sentra (which X-trail is based on) and he was complaining about the chirping sound when arming his alarm(he wanted it quieter as everytime he armed or disarmed the car, the horn would sound and when he got home late at night, he didn't want to bother his family). I checked his manual and I believe if you pushed and held the arm button, it switches it from non-chirp to chirp.

Give that a try, but I'm sure the manual will be able to tell you more information, otherwise check with the dealer.

As for the auto-lock, I'm not sure that is available on the X-Trail, but again the manual should be able to tell you.

 

DL500

Vento1,
Our X-Trail is silver. My wife liked the red too but we just decided to play it safe in case of resale. You're right, I thought most LE models would come with the optional Traction/VDC but I've seen a couple other LE without it now.

Today I swapped the tires over to the Dunlop Grandtrek ST20.
When I drove the car I didn't notice much difference, maybe slightly firmer, but let me drive it a bit more and I might have a better idea. Hopefully since the ST20 is a new model, it will have decent wet and snow performance. On the dry pavement I'm quite sure it should be equal or better than the Bridgestones.

The alarm doesn't seem to chirp. The service dept guy tried something (I think he held down the arm button) but nothing changed. Oh well, not the end of the world.


Manuelga and other X-Trail owners:

Sometimes when I drive the car, usually after it was parked, I hear a sound from underneath that sounds like a burp.
It has happened in 2WD and AUTO mode.
My guess is it's the 4WD system resetting or something like that. Is this normal? It is just like a short burp (half a second) and then I don't hear it again until maybe the next time I park and go.
Last day it seemed to come from the back, this morning it sounded like it was directly under the driver area.

manuelga

DL500 Sorry but my X-Trail is FWD, it's not so necessary AWD here 'cause never snow & off road is not so popular here.

It's supossed that at fall we could get AWD X-Trails but I guess these are not going to be as popular as FWD here at Mexico.


Al this speech to say... sorry I've never heard any noise, burp or anything like that, maybe as you say is the AWD readjusting.