I have a 2000 Frontier with the 3.3 v6(vg33e) engine. It currently has
51.5K miles on it. I live on an island, so I don't drive that much. I do most of the maintenance myself. Next month I'm planning a trip off island. My first stop is to a dealership, to have some maintenance done. My fear came about after reading an article in Consumer reports. About someone having to replace there engine, because their timing belt broke. I have been using the Haynes repair manual. It says the timing belt has to be replaced after a 100K miles or 60 months whichever comes first. Yikes! my truck is on the verge of having a heart attack. It's past its 120 month birthday. I runs to the phone & make an appointment immediately. Also I thought I read somewhere about the airbags needing to be inspected after ten years. So I mention this to whom I'm making this appointment with. She tells me the timing belt is going to cost the big bucks. & never heard anything about inspecting airbags. I get off the phone, & thinks, I might have read this thing, about the airbags, in the owners manual. Sure enough, there it is. Then I look up the timing belt replacement schedule. It says 105K miles. It doesn't mention a thing about months. Wow!, that's great I can save a lot of money. But what if Haynes is right, my engine could croak. Then I would be out bigger bucks. So I goes to the Tappit brother website, cartalk.com. They say the month schedule is valid, because the rubber breaks down, due to ozone. They also have a link to Gates website maker of these items. They make no reference to months. The Nissan website seems to be useless. So here I is, asking for your knowledge, on this subject. To some extent I can understand this conundrum. What I have a little harder time wrapping my head around is Nissans spark plug schedule, 60K miles or 48 months. Say I bought a brand new Frontier, drove it home. as I walk in the front door, the phone rings. I just been called up , to go to Iraq. I come back 4 years later & the first thing I have to do, is change my spark plugs? Should I have taken them out, before I left, & put them in my mothers freezer?- posted
14 years ago