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hey frontier owners...
I just bought my 04 XE CC 4x4 Auto new off the lot in mid-december. When I bought the truck it felt like the auto was shifting a little firm, especially between 1-2. Well I didn't think much of it since the truck only had 50 miles on it and figured it would take a few hundred miles for the truck to brake in. Well now I have 3900 miles on it (just pulled a small uhaul trailer from texas to Reno) and it seems as if it is getting worse. The truck will for the most part will shift smooth but about 30-40% of the time it shifts with a good jolt to the truck which is really noticeable between 1-2 and 3-4! If I'm climbing a hill and it spends a good minute in 3rd it will "slam" into 4th. So last week I took it in for it's first oil change and had them check this problem out. I drop it off and an hour later and they said they couldn't find anything. They said they checked the fluid level and no codes so everything must be okay. After I picked it up I realized it only had 1 mile on it so they must not have even driven it.
Now that I've paid more attention to it, it's "clunkiness" isn't just between gears. It actually will jolt the truck about half of the time when I shift from Reverse-Drive or vise-versa. Also I've noticed some shuttering while coming to a quick stop (like something is pushing me from behind a little bit or bad rotors but I know it isn't that because the brake pedal doesn't pulse). Could this be a "Binding up" Problem??? Like a Bad U-Joint or something. I think the Tranny is fine because it shifts on time and it's not rough all the time. It almost feels as if there is too much movement in the drivetrain or something and it gets worse the longer i'm driving... The most noticeable is when a tire looses traction for a second then regains composure the whole truck will buck around. Surely the frame isn't this loosey goosey becauses it's strecthed a foot. My 03 King Cab Auto would shift as smooth as ice and felt as solid as a rock. Anybody else experience this problem... Apparently I'm going to have to point the Reno Nissan people in another direction, since they can't problem solve themselves! Sorry for the long post...
Later,
I just bought my 04 XE CC 4x4 Auto new off the lot in mid-december. When I bought the truck it felt like the auto was shifting a little firm, especially between 1-2. Well I didn't think much of it since the truck only had 50 miles on it and figured it would take a few hundred miles for the truck to brake in. Well now I have 3900 miles on it (just pulled a small uhaul trailer from texas to Reno) and it seems as if it is getting worse. The truck will for the most part will shift smooth but about 30-40% of the time it shifts with a good jolt to the truck which is really noticeable between 1-2 and 3-4! If I'm climbing a hill and it spends a good minute in 3rd it will "slam" into 4th. So last week I took it in for it's first oil change and had them check this problem out. I drop it off and an hour later and they said they couldn't find anything. They said they checked the fluid level and no codes so everything must be okay. After I picked it up I realized it only had 1 mile on it so they must not have even driven it.
Now that I've paid more attention to it, it's "clunkiness" isn't just between gears. It actually will jolt the truck about half of the time when I shift from Reverse-Drive or vise-versa. Also I've noticed some shuttering while coming to a quick stop (like something is pushing me from behind a little bit or bad rotors but I know it isn't that because the brake pedal doesn't pulse). Could this be a "Binding up" Problem??? Like a Bad U-Joint or something. I think the Tranny is fine because it shifts on time and it's not rough all the time. It almost feels as if there is too much movement in the drivetrain or something and it gets worse the longer i'm driving... The most noticeable is when a tire looses traction for a second then regains composure the whole truck will buck around. Surely the frame isn't this loosey goosey becauses it's strecthed a foot. My 03 King Cab Auto would shift as smooth as ice and felt as solid as a rock. Anybody else experience this problem... Apparently I'm going to have to point the Reno Nissan people in another direction, since they can't problem solve themselves! Sorry for the long post...
Later,