well my 06 titan hit the can. it started to smoke so i sent it to a nissan dealership. They said the cats where bad and going to replace the cats and engine. my compression test was horrible highest was 130 I was pretty happy about all this. Well when they ordered the engine they had to reuse my heads and after pulling valve covers they found sludge. i only had this truck for 5 months. So apparently the previous owner never did proper oil changes. i bought it from a local car shop so lesson learned. Went to nissan dealership and since the warranty was voided bc of the sludge i was stuck with a truck with no engine. We today i went and looked a other titans. all 08 were going for 24k. my note woulda ended up 450-500 a month....ouch. i had a note of 370. the nissan dealership wanted me to do a trade in to get me out of this hell hole. The people at nissan were very nice while working on the titan so i was more then happy to do business with them on a trade in. I learned my lesson on buying a car from a low life used car dealership....... I was never gave a look to the frontier. Small truck v6 engine..how much fun could it be? But i found one that cought my eye. It just happen to be a silver 07 NISMO off road frontier. Talk about this thing hauls ***. stroked vq....its a very sick motor. the 4.0 is a very strong motor and im pretty happy on the truck. was hoping it have a 6sp but the auto in it is pretty nice. iv only had it for a couple hrs but i did some fun driving in her. ill have to get some pics up of her. So the plus side is my gas will better and insurance will a little lower. just thought i would rant.

 

 

Congrats on the purchase.


That sucks about the Titan....its amazing that someone would buy a nice, new truck like that, and not change the oil....

 

yea it made me sick when they showed me the heads....the truck only had 65k miles on her. o well.

 

I forgot about the Nismo titans, haven't seen one in a long time... well if anything happens to the truck.. VQ40 swap maybe? lol

 

And I will bet, that when they did change the oil. They probably used Penzoil. Which is the worst motor oil for sludge. I have heard so many horror stories about it. My dad worked on many engines, that had Penzoil in them. Gummed up syrupy sludge. So in saying...Penzoil is the worst motor oil period.

Anyway sorry to hear man. Glad to hear you got another truck though. Good luck with that one.

 

yea, i was thinking about that when they told me about the head....it was possible that the oil was changed just could of been cheap *** oil. when i first got the truck i changed the oil and it was clean used oil coming out.

 

I like the Frontier you have there. Its still a huge truck in my book. I can't believe driving a massive beast of a Titan would be fun. More like piloting a barge. Small trucks (and cars) are where its at.

 

lol, to be honest i didnt think the titan is a very huge truck...im use to driving my step dads 07 tundra when we have to haul crap. i loved the throttle response of the titan very clean. but I DO love this frontier. very fun truck. hella better gas mileage. already been thinking of what i want on her. nerf bars,maybe a 3-4 inch level lift with a little more beefy tires on the stock rims,exhaust,bull guard and get my sound system back in.

 

How about a 2010 370Z Nismo to haul in the bed. It'll match!

 

lol that would be a nice dream