2011 Pro-4X. Best car I’ve ever owned. Bought it with 210K, for $6400 in cash. Taken me so many places. Here’s to another 100k 🍻

Finally got the chance to do something that wasn’t replacement of worn out parts or maintenance or anything like that.

Decided to start tackling the faded old grey plastics on the X. Looks so much cleaner, almost too black lol. Sure I’ll get used to it. Bumper will be done soon, have a new to me bumper that’s needs some ding and small crack fixes and then I’ll tackle painting.

She’s SLOWLY coming together!

I moved to a new city a few years ago with my wife for my wifes promotion.

I gave my 2001 Xterra away to a family member. He had a 16 year old son interested in working on cars, specifically 4X4s. I was super sad to see it go, but figured it was going to someone who would truly enjoy it. At that point it needed tires desperately, an oil change, possibly a fuel pump (It would occasionally die stopping downhill.) And the thermostat would run away showing overheat when it really wasnt hot, and the A/C would stop working when the thermostat ran off, and had an engine misfire check engine light. I just didnt have the money or time to deal with it.

Fast forward 3 years. Both of us wind up getting promotions in the town we used to live in, and luckily we held onto our house so we moved back. That same family member came into my place of work couple months after we got back and mentioned his son never touched it, and asked if I wanted it back. I said "HELL YEAH, I GOT TIME AND MONEY NOW!"

It sat for 3 years. We swapped the battery and it started right up, and drove me home.

I changed the oil, cleaned the rats nest out of the air filter and changed that, changed the fuel filter, threw new wiper blades, headlights and brake lights on, and new tires and topped off all the fluids. I put a fuel system cleaner in the gas tank.

Suddenly... the A/C worked out of nowhere and the thermostat wasnt running away. After 3 years of sitting.

We had a deer hunt coming up (My wifes first buck tag). It was a 3 hour drive over mountain passes and the trails on this hunt are GNARLY. 75% of people on these trails are on side by sides.

I told my wife "Fuck it. Lets take it. Id rather leave that on the mountainside than my truck"

This little Nissan, after 3 years of sitting freaking rocked the drive, there AND back (14mpg), killed it on the trails, got us to 11,000ft elevation on muddy rocky trails. It got us back home going over a snowy pass that was closed while we were on it. (Received 18inches of snow the evening we drove over it). AND the check engine light went off. No more "this little light of mine, im gonna let it shine" for me.

I have never loved a car more than this Nissan Xterra. Another memory made in this 1st Gen.

Any information would be amazing! Already all over YouTube so I thought Id pick your brains here. Thanks!

Ignore the bad photo qualities, not great at taking photos and got a shit phone lol

I've been wanting to get an xterra for a little bit now and found one an 09 at a really good price but clearly describes the SMOD issue. Based on the info given in the listing is ot to late for this xterra? Or is it early enough that it can be saved?

As the title states, notice my shocks (Bilstein 5100s) aren’t tightened down and have the same number of threads exposed as my old shocks (Bilstein 4600). Ignore my ignorance but can I tighten them down using the weight of the vehicle to compress the springs?

I have a 02 Xterra 3.3 auto non EGR non supercharged. Bought cheap blowing white smoke thinking it was a head gasket. Found out while running it smelled like straight gas, no exhaust gas in the coolant, good compression, no coolant lose or over heating and no fluid mixing. Did find the gas smell and the oil was full of gas. So decided to replace the injectors which has cause it to stop smoking while at idle or driving but it still dose some if you rev it. But it’s also idling rough which is the current issue and driving rough. Have not found any vacume leaks. Replaced all plugs wires and 02 sensor. Keep getting a cyl 3 missfire code so swapped the plug wire and confirmed the injectors workings fine. Oddly enough when you unplug cylinder 3 injector nothing changes where as any other cylinder it idles down. Which makes no sense becuase everything’s confirmed working. And also spark is all good distributer cap looks brand new. Also on the idling and driving rough the fuel trims are all over the place like bank 1 while idling will climp to -25% over a 30 second period the idle will get rough then it’ll reset to 0% and work its way back to -25%. Keep getting the cyl 3 miss code sometimes a multi cyl miss code, knock sensor code. Which I did try to relocate the knock sensor but still getting the code altho with how it’s running that could make sense. Just not seeing what’s wrong and looking for help there’s other things I’ve done and tested just can’t remeber it all. The distributer dose sound maybe a little grindy or loud with the stethoscope but not sure tbh just adding that on there

My car got broken into this morning by way of smashed front passenger window. I am looking to replace but the only auto-glass place in small town is quoting $300 (installation included). Is this a fair price and are there more affordable options to explore.

Is this a symptom of a faulty crank position sensor or something. It's happend twice in 5 months when stopped but in gear. As stated no new engine codes (p0441 since I bought it been working on it) so unshure if it was something to be concerned about yet.