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re: Car guys: best, most dependable engine Nissan has made this century?

Posted on 4/19/26 at 10:27 am to
Posted by 1loyalbamafan
alabama
Member since Mar 2015
4053 posts
Posted on 4/19/26 at 10:27 am to
My 78 Lil Hustler with 2.0L L20B - 5 spd manual is simple and dependable, but it's a Datsun....


Has a timing chain, not a belt!



also...the VQ Series V6 is great.
This post was edited on 4/19/26 at 10:33 am
Posted by tadman
Member since Jun 2020
5439 posts
Posted on 4/19/26 at 11:59 am to
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XTerra? More like XTerrible. Knew one person that owned one and it was trash. Frontiers are pretty reliable.




Wikiepdiea:
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The Nissan Xterra is a truck-based compact SUV that was first manufactured and marketed by Nissan from 1999 to 2015 across two generations; the first (1999–2004) sharing a platform and many of its major exterior parts from the front doors forward with the Nissan (D22) Frontier pickup[1] – and the second (2005–2015) sharing the Nissan F-Alpha platform with the Frontier
This post was edited on 4/19/26 at 12:01 pm
Posted by Gus007
TN
Member since Jul 2018
14694 posts
Posted on 4/19/26 at 12:43 pm to
I've got a 07 Frontier, 97 K miles. Only change oil. No problems so far.
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
29820 posts
Posted on 4/19/26 at 6:06 pm to
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Yea and he probably smoked the clutches in that auto trans


Guess you missed the part where I got rid of it at 360k miles out of boredom.

And the rear door was inconvenient for a car seat and baby.
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