The last straw! The Mother Ship is going down the road!, 2nd rear axle failure! Options

[bd1308]

Thanks Rick!

[rick 918-S]

I heard from the dealer today. The diff has broken spyders again. Man, that sux. I mean we bought the big tow, off road, locking diff, etc. I've never had a diff break. Not even in my 500 hp drag car. This is my wifes daily driver. It's a tar baby. Not like she would off road the thing. Sheezz!

BTW: I'm not convinced the dealer wants to warentee this. The service guy first ruled out the missing vent as a possible source of the failure. Then I started talking about how Nissan added the finned diff cover to help dissapate heat, and how an unvented diff could cause foaming of the lube. We both passed on that topic for a minute then he started to tell me he had to call Nissan and get their permission as he was unsure what they were willing to spend. I promptly asked him what the cost has to do with my 60,000 mile drive line warentee? He said "nothing really.. we just need to call if the bill is going to be more than a certain amount... At the end of our discussion I told him I hoped this wasn't going to take 6 weeks again like the first time. He assured me he would see if Nissan would over night the parts. We shall see....

[GWN7]

I wore out the one in my parts hauler...272K on it (98 Chev Z71) $2500 for all new parts (except the axels)...upgraded to a Dana posi

[Ferg]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) Hmmm, My 06 Xterra ate it's diff at 3k miles, was whining real bad, and they replaced it. It's got 12k on it now with no problems, have not towed with it, yet...

Ferg

[Gint]

I heard from the dealer today. The diff has broken spyders again. Man, that sux. I mean we bought the big tow, off road, locking diff, etc.

There's your problem right there Rick. To my knowledge, the issue only exists with the spider gears in the locker of the diff that's offered in the offroad package or the towing package, I can't remember which. Whichever one has the locking diff.



Go check out one of the Nissan Titan forums. That's where I finally found some decent onfo. Can't remember which one now though.



Mine is the 4wd non-locker and towed my 914 to Portland and back with no issues. The truck now has 19k on it.

[Aaron Cox]

my dad has a 2wd non locking diff 4dr titan. love it.

towed lots of stuff already and no issues..../

[maf914]

I read in some car mag that Nissan rushed through the design and developement process with the Titan and Armada and ended up with a bunch of quality control issues as a resuly. But they wanted a full size truck and SUV to meet the demand as soon as possible. If you look in the Consumer Reports Issue with auto ranking and frequency of repair listings you will see quite a few average and below average rankings for these models.

I have a 2005 Nissan Frontier that I like quite a bit, but it too has had several recalls. I know you're not supposed to buy in the first year of a newly designed model, but my 1992 Nissan pick-up, was totaled when an electrical fire occurred in the engine compartment wiring harness. The truck's blue book value was only a few thousand dollars so the insurance company totaled it and paid me. I bought the new Frontier a couple of months later.