re: Nissan Frontier pickup driven over 1 million miles traded for new truck

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Out of all the cars I would not expect a Nissan to make it to 1 million.

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Why not? It's a 4 banger engine that was routinely run on a daily schedule and well maintained.

Nissans get a bad rap for their CVTs but I too have had several very high mileage Altimas with 200,000+ miles.

Quality is decreasing but that can be said about almost every vehicle.

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What’s the most you have gotten out of a car?

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I have a 2005 Dodge 3500 dually flatbed with the 24 valve 5.9 Cummins engine and the manual 6 speed and a heavy duty South Bend clutch that has 500,000+ miles on it. The engine will outlast the chassis and chassis components, and for many components, the engine has already outlived them more than once (e.g., starter, fuel lines, etc.). But in their defense, the truck has had a much, much harder life than a 1/2 ton commuter truck.

I just bought a new 2019 3500 cab and chassis with a 6.7 Cummins and the *sigh* automatic transmission (it has the HD Aisin tranny), and although the new C&C will stop 13 tons much easier than the 2005 dually due to it being much bigger and heavier and having the exhaust brake, it doesn't hold a candle to the standard tranny 5.9 and how easily and effortlessly it will snatch twenty-six thousand + pounds around. I compare the new C&C to a heavy lumbering beast compared the old 2005 dually, but being that my personal truck is the backbone of all operations for both business and personal, it must be reliable day in and day out with whatever I throw at it, assuming I have any business doing so. It must take care of me if I take care of it, and so because it's new, it is a reliable, heavy lumbering beast compared to the half-a-million-miles-old flatbed.

Even though to this day the old dually with half a mill on it will pull the world if you hooked it behind it, it's main job is as a fueling truck (a 200 gall. diesel tank is mounted behind the headache rack), as well having a dump trailer hooked behind it probably 50% of the time. Since the truck serves very important, lighter duty purposes in addition to those already listed, I'm hoping it'll make it another 250k+ miles before giving me any major headaches.

I can afford to keep it running because relatively speaking, it's cheap to work on, plus there's no reason not to: It's long-since been paid for and this particular engine and tranny is becoming even more sought after by a core following of people, assuming the truck is even moderately operational. I prefer to let it do the lighter duty stuff and live as long of a life as is possible, plus it's fun zipping around and running errands with the torquey 6 speed manual while getting 21 mpg fuel mileage (empty) as compared to the 11'ish mpg (empty) with the new C&C. As an aside, it's no wonder why they put a 52 gallon fuel tank on the 2019 cab & chassis: You'd have to pitch a fricking tent and live at the damn fuel pump if the C&C had a standard 31 gallon tank like the regular dually does.

So yeah, half a million hard, heavy miles with very few "big, out of the ordinary" issues is something I'll take every day of the week. Profit margins are hard enough to come by as it is, let alone increasing them.

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What’s the most you have gotten out of a car?

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Dodge trucks with the cumming routinely end up in the million mile class, their bodies and interiors are shite, but the engine and drive train are the bomb.

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Oh give me a break. You're just mad because your raggedy arse Chevy Suburban doesn't have the standard feature that Dodge offers its pickup truck customers in the form of the luxurious, trademarked serial failure of the foam corner of the driver's seat becoming exposed in a matter of what seems to be weeks after purchasing.

I think they fixed that problem by changing the design of the seat frame, but it's so prevalent in the year models before that, that if you're checking the book value on a dodge pickup that has the exposed foam on the driver's seat, assuming that's the only defect with the rest of the seat upholstery being in top shape, you ought to check the "excellent" box when it asks you to grade the quality of the seats because it's nothing against that particular truck, it's a standard feature of damned near every single one of them.

If you were to ask me what kind of truck I drive and use, I'm just as likely to say, "a Cummins" as I am to say, "a Dodge."

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four-cylinder engine

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If so, that bitch hasn’t changed at all in 14 years.

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VW says 14 years ain't scheisse. Beetle 1938-2003 (65 years)

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I had a 2008 Frontier pickup. It was a great truck. Circumstances basically forced me to trade it in a few years ago, and I hated to do it.

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I currently drive a 2004 Nissan Frontier. It has around 175k, and I plan to ride her till she dies. I’m well beyond needing a vehicle as a personal statement.

I had two Nissan Hardbodys one in the late 80’s 5 speed 4cylinder and 4x4 crew cab early 90’s.

Used the 4x4 Crew Cab in the desert off roading.

Hardbody’s rode rough.
They did their job for what it was for the price.

Sold 80’s hardbody for $1,700 with 357,000 miles.

Son has my 1990’s 4x4 hardbody Crew Cab he uses at his hunting club. Ac finally broke 2 years ago. Has original transmission and engine knock on wood.

Back in the 80’s and early 90’s a lot of people owned smaller trucks.

I had friends go first thing Monday morning after the Sunday ad for $99 down $99 Isuzu, Toyota, GM, Ford, or Mazda truck. Dealers would lure you in with the basic truck and then up sell you one with a few more options. $99 down and $99 months trucks were always sold out or they had just one.

I bought Nissan due to it was a 5-speed with Ac, rear bumper, and radio standard for $99 down and $109 a month for 60 months plus tax, title, license.

Toyota, GM, Ford, Mitsubishi / Dodge model, and Isuzu Ac, rear bumper, and radio were at the time expensive options.

Small 4 cylinder Nissan trucks are very reliable. Not much to them, but they’ll run forever

I don't get all the Nissan hate. I've had 3, still have 2 and never had any probs. Of course I guess I'm the one guy in America that has problem free Dodges too. Quite the statistical oddity, I suppose.