Nissan Titan XD Long Term Update
Nissan Titan XD to far-flung places where it can attempt the truly difficult work and pulling that it was intended for—that is, the point at which it is working appropriately.
The Titan was working appropriately at 26,100 miles when we lifted it up from a normal administration visit, called for through the truck's installed oil-life screen. Comprising of a tire revolution, review, and oil change—in addition to new channels for the motor oil, fuel, and air entering both the motor and the lodge—it set us back $503. From that point forward, nonetheless, a genuine disease has come to pass for our XD, we're still amidst exploring what caused it. The issue begun at around 30,000 miles with a registration light (CEL) and a lessened power warning right on time in a crosscountry trek from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to California and back. A Nissan merchant in Iowa explored, decided nothing genuine was awry, and afterward cleared the blame code and finished off the motor coolant, some of which had inquisitively vanished on our drive, before giving us the alright to go ahead. In any case, this was quite recently the start of a long, grouchy voyage. That same cautioning lit up a couple of more circumstances on the arrival trip with a stacked trailer close behind—one that conveyed this diverse Mitsubishi and measured well under the truck's six-ton towing limit. In any case, given the all-unmistakable from the Iowa merchant and encountering no extra drivability issues with the truck, each time the notice flown up we proceeded in the wake of playing out a similar code-clearing and include coolant schedule.
Sadly, our trek eventually stopped in Nebraska with the Titan limping into another Nissan dealership, tufts of white smoke surging from its tailpipe, the Cummins V-8 diesel down on control, a rattle exuding from in the engine, the CEL again lit up. More than 20 blame codes and notices were signed in the Titan's PC, the greater part of which showed an issue with the motor's fumes gas-distribution (EGR) framework. We finished our central goal in a leased U-Haul truck while the Titan got one new fuel injector and the whole fumes framework, including its going with outflows aftertreatment segments—all under guarantee. The merchant investigated a few conceivable issue ranges, including weight testing the motor cooling framework and expelling and seat testing the EGR warm exchanger for spills. Both frameworks looked at, and the merchant was not able re-make any of our coolant-misfortune issues or give us an underlying driver for the breakdown.
Back in Ann Arbor and circumspectly trusting the issue to be settled, we sent it off to Virginia International Raceway to help our yearly Lightning Lap occasion. Yet, the Titan started running unpleasant once more, tossing comparable cautioning codes as earlier and requiring another merchant visit, this time in Danville, Virginia. There, the administration specialists supplanted the motor PC's wiring tackle and, inquisitively, a similar fuel injector that had recently been supplanted. After we made a different excursion back to Virginia to recover the truck, evidently at the end of the day with a bill of good wellbeing, the registration light lit up in transit home in Ohio. It was another EGR-related blame code, yet this time the merchant reflashed the powertrain control module and settled the issue. That reflash evidently didn't totally delete the PC's memory, however, as a past blame code set off the CEL again at around 34,000 miles, which our neighborhood Nissan merchant researched and cleared from the XD's mind.
Presently with the 40K-check drawing closer and the truck, right now, in legitimate working request, despite everything we're hunting down the reason for our Titan's burdens—and, all the more critically, pondering whether they have really been settled. While an easygoing take a gander at online proprietors' discussions refer to a reiteration of issues with the XD, including some EGR-related issues and the protesting transmission that we've beforehand gotten out, we couldn't locate an announced issue like our most recent experience. Inconsistency in any vehicle is a drag, yet it is particularly disturbing to manage in another workhorse of a vehicle that you rely upon to help complete employments. Gratefully, our long haul Ford F-150 Raptor is around to get a portion of the Nissan's slack while we keep on evaluating its wellbeing. Watch this space for a full once-over of the Titan's inconveniences once we hit 40,000 miles.
Alongside neighborhood driving obligations, our Titan XD chugged to VIR and sunny Santa Barbara, California. What's more, it graced the administration coves of Nissan dealerships in Ann Arbor; Davenport, Iowa; North Platte, Nebraska; Danville, Virginia; and Lima, Ohio.
With 120 cubic feet of inside space and more than six tons of towing limit, our long haul Nissan Titan XD is a proficient buddy that has served us well for stricken-vehicle recoveries, sundry moving occupations, and being an overall workhorse. Amid snowmobile season in Michigan, the XD additionally conveniently bore the heaviness of encased trailers on northward enterprises, and, as already noticed, its remote starter and warmed seats and guiding wheel let us appreciate our morning espresso on the sofa while the Cummins diesel comes up to temperature. The Pro-4X Utility and Audio bundle's thundering Rockford Fosgate sound framework has engaged the audiophiles among us too, regardless of the possibility that it does not have the refined lucidity of contending higher-end stereos.
Single-digit mileage while towing a respectable size trailer, yet that will be normal with any substantial obligation truck. What proceeds to truly granulate our apparatuses is the Nissan's tenaciously graceless Aisin programmed transmission, which unexpectedly thumps into each forward proportion and is effortlessly gotten out by snappy, unpredictable quickening agent contributions—notwithstanding having yet another product refresh performed by the merchant under guarantee. We've already mocked the 5.0-liter Cummins V-8 for its absence of push versus the bigger motors in other huge trucks, yet joined with the awkward gearbox, the blending's dormant reaction is a much more noteworthy inconvenience when attempting to move the Titan's enormous mass through activity. Overhauling this brute likewise hasn't been modest, with the truck's second 10K visit (oil and channel change, fuel-channel change, tire pivot, and examination) costing us barely short of $400. Different grumblings have been logged for the troublesome entrance and departure because of the Pro-4X's absence of evades, the poor determination of the rearview camera, and for how effortlessly the focal touchscreen washes out in coordinate daylight.
While it's not by any means a breakdown, the diesel V-8's outflow control framework keeps on aggravating for how rapidly it devours its diesel fumes liquid (DEF) arrangement. We've included 20 gallons so far—or one about each 1100 miles—at generally $6 per through the 2.5-gallon containers we've regularly bought at vehicle parts stores. And keeping in mind that that expense would be significantly less expensive on the off chance that we topped off at the DEF pump at a truck stop, where the liquid can run nearer to $2 per gallon, the Titan's filler tube is too little to acknowledge the pump spout utilized by semi trucks. The Nissan's remote rear end bolt actuator additionally quit chipping away at us, which the merchant supplanted under guarantee.
The Titan was working appropriately at 26,100 miles when we lifted it up from a normal administration visit, called for through the truck's installed oil-life screen. Comprising of a tire revolution, review, and oil change—in addition to new channels for the motor oil, fuel, and air entering both the motor and the lodge—it set us back $503. From that point forward, nonetheless, a genuine disease has come to pass for our XD, we're still amidst exploring what caused it. The issue begun at around 30,000 miles with a registration light (CEL) and a lessened power warning right on time in a crosscountry trek from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to California and back. A Nissan merchant in Iowa explored, decided nothing genuine was awry, and afterward cleared the blame code and finished off the motor coolant, some of which had inquisitively vanished on our drive, before giving us the alright to go ahead. In any case, this was quite recently the start of a long, grouchy voyage. That same cautioning lit up a couple of more circumstances on the arrival trip with a stacked trailer close behind—one that conveyed this diverse Mitsubishi and measured well under the truck's six-ton towing limit. In any case, given the all-unmistakable from the Iowa merchant and encountering no extra drivability issues with the truck, each time the notice flown up we proceeded in the wake of playing out a similar code-clearing and include coolant schedule.
Sadly, our trek eventually stopped in Nebraska with the Titan limping into another Nissan dealership, tufts of white smoke surging from its tailpipe, the Cummins V-8 diesel down on control, a rattle exuding from in the engine, the CEL again lit up. More than 20 blame codes and notices were signed in the Titan's PC, the greater part of which showed an issue with the motor's fumes gas-distribution (EGR) framework. We finished our central goal in a leased U-Haul truck while the Titan got one new fuel injector and the whole fumes framework, including its going with outflows aftertreatment segments—all under guarantee. The merchant investigated a few conceivable issue ranges, including weight testing the motor cooling framework and expelling and seat testing the EGR warm exchanger for spills. Both frameworks looked at, and the merchant was not able re-make any of our coolant-misfortune issues or give us an underlying driver for the breakdown.
Back in Ann Arbor and circumspectly trusting the issue to be settled, we sent it off to Virginia International Raceway to help our yearly Lightning Lap occasion. Yet, the Titan started running unpleasant once more, tossing comparable cautioning codes as earlier and requiring another merchant visit, this time in Danville, Virginia. There, the administration specialists supplanted the motor PC's wiring tackle and, inquisitively, a similar fuel injector that had recently been supplanted. After we made a different excursion back to Virginia to recover the truck, evidently at the end of the day with a bill of good wellbeing, the registration light lit up in transit home in Ohio. It was another EGR-related blame code, yet this time the merchant reflashed the powertrain control module and settled the issue. That reflash evidently didn't totally delete the PC's memory, however, as a past blame code set off the CEL again at around 34,000 miles, which our neighborhood Nissan merchant researched and cleared from the XD's mind.
Presently with the 40K-check drawing closer and the truck, right now, in legitimate working request, despite everything we're hunting down the reason for our Titan's burdens—and, all the more critically, pondering whether they have really been settled. While an easygoing take a gander at online proprietors' discussions refer to a reiteration of issues with the XD, including some EGR-related issues and the protesting transmission that we've beforehand gotten out, we couldn't locate an announced issue like our most recent experience. Inconsistency in any vehicle is a drag, yet it is particularly disturbing to manage in another workhorse of a vehicle that you rely upon to help complete employments. Gratefully, our long haul Ford F-150 Raptor is around to get a portion of the Nissan's slack while we keep on evaluating its wellbeing. Watch this space for a full once-over of the Titan's inconveniences once we hit 40,000 miles.
Alongside neighborhood driving obligations, our Titan XD chugged to VIR and sunny Santa Barbara, California. What's more, it graced the administration coves of Nissan dealerships in Ann Arbor; Davenport, Iowa; North Platte, Nebraska; Danville, Virginia; and Lima, Ohio.
With 120 cubic feet of inside space and more than six tons of towing limit, our long haul Nissan Titan XD is a proficient buddy that has served us well for stricken-vehicle recoveries, sundry moving occupations, and being an overall workhorse. Amid snowmobile season in Michigan, the XD additionally conveniently bore the heaviness of encased trailers on northward enterprises, and, as already noticed, its remote starter and warmed seats and guiding wheel let us appreciate our morning espresso on the sofa while the Cummins diesel comes up to temperature. The Pro-4X Utility and Audio bundle's thundering Rockford Fosgate sound framework has engaged the audiophiles among us too, regardless of the possibility that it does not have the refined lucidity of contending higher-end stereos.
Single-digit mileage while towing a respectable size trailer, yet that will be normal with any substantial obligation truck. What proceeds to truly granulate our apparatuses is the Nissan's tenaciously graceless Aisin programmed transmission, which unexpectedly thumps into each forward proportion and is effortlessly gotten out by snappy, unpredictable quickening agent contributions—notwithstanding having yet another product refresh performed by the merchant under guarantee. We've already mocked the 5.0-liter Cummins V-8 for its absence of push versus the bigger motors in other huge trucks, yet joined with the awkward gearbox, the blending's dormant reaction is a much more noteworthy inconvenience when attempting to move the Titan's enormous mass through activity. Overhauling this brute likewise hasn't been modest, with the truck's second 10K visit (oil and channel change, fuel-channel change, tire pivot, and examination) costing us barely short of $400. Different grumblings have been logged for the troublesome entrance and departure because of the Pro-4X's absence of evades, the poor determination of the rearview camera, and for how effortlessly the focal touchscreen washes out in coordinate daylight.
While it's not by any means a breakdown, the diesel V-8's outflow control framework keeps on aggravating for how rapidly it devours its diesel fumes liquid (DEF) arrangement. We've included 20 gallons so far—or one about each 1100 miles—at generally $6 per through the 2.5-gallon containers we've regularly bought at vehicle parts stores. And keeping in mind that that expense would be significantly less expensive on the off chance that we topped off at the DEF pump at a truck stop, where the liquid can run nearer to $2 per gallon, the Titan's filler tube is too little to acknowledge the pump spout utilized by semi trucks. The Nissan's remote rear end bolt actuator additionally quit chipping away at us, which the merchant supplanted under guarantee.