Thread: Thought on Nissan x trail

If anyone is still looking at this for xtrail (old). Ours is 2004, 2.4L auto. Nearly at 300km now (just cursed myself).
Only issues so far, transfer case shit itself and replaced. Most likely my wife ignored my explaining how 4WD works and she's used full lock on the road a few times. She's reached for the button a couple of times when I've been driving up Ruapehu for skiing.

Secondly, sensor failure on the crankshaft. Now this one was scary. Luckily in town, but the computer which is obviously more clever than us immediately cuts the engine (it wasn't a catastrophic failure either, just a sensor warning). Just brilliant when you are halfway through a roundabout and suddenly having the steering nearly pulled out your hands with no power steering and of course brakes now flaccid. No idea if this kind of computer logic is common across other types of car, or just from this era or what. But thankful it didn't happen out on the open road.