2000 Nissan Frontier 4x4 - Weird Front-end Vibration

Sep 01, 2003 6 Replies

Hello:



I have a 2000 Nissan Frontier 4x4 and am experiencing a strange vibration in the front end at take-off and at low speeds during acceleration. The noise can be described as a loose rolling sound, sort've like a washer bouncing around on a bolt that's too small or not tight.



I've been underneath this thing several times, and I've grabbed ahold of every component that I could physically grasp to try and determine if it was indeed the problem, but to no avail.



The truck has right at 30,000 miles on it, and it experiences mostly city-type driving. The truck itself seems to be driving fine...but the intermittant noise is driving me to the brink!



Does anyone have any clues as to what could be causing such a infernal noise? At least something to take a look at or to refer the dealer to?



Thanks so much, Bryan


Is the Frontier on the same chassis as the Pathfinder? Is this a noise or vibration or both? I've had vibration felt in the steering on a 1999.5 Pathfinder ever since I've owned it, at certain speeds. The front and rear has been gone over with a fine tooth comb and nothing is loose or worn. So I've just gotten used to it.

The Frontier and the Xterra are related chassis-wise. Pathfinder is a unibody.

Hmmm I looked under an older truck and the chassis looked alot like the older PF.

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The older Pathfinders were based on the truck. The newer ones are not.

What year if you know did Nissan redesign the PF ? Someone withing the past year suggested otherwise.

I want to say '95, but I don't know for sure.

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