Guess what I get to be the first versa owner to do.

Post by **bigdaddychia** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 4:24 am

Change an alternator. woot. 193k miles and its time for a new one.

Post by **Driving Instructor** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 5:16 am

wow, I was thinking I had lots of KM's 167 000 kms! Nothing compared to you! Any other major probs? Do you have a CVT?Are you using up any oil between oil changes?

Post by **bigdaddychia** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 5:39 am

I have regular auto. Change oil about every 10k miles. Not burning it though. ONly big thing i have done is replace the O2 sensors and the cats.

Post by **Andrews Chalmers** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:51 am

Oil change every 10,000 miles?!

Post by **x4sper** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:02 am

Post by **bigdaddychia** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:35 am

Andrews Chalmers wrote:Oil change every 10,000 miles?!

I run synthetic. Not to mention in europe they dont change the oil nearly as often as we do here. Its all part of the oil company conspiracy to change every 3k. The alternator actually took a crap while I was driving so now its in the garage waiting for the new one to arrive. Luckily the rental place had a versa so I can still drive one.

Post by **NODES** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:30 pm

bigdaddychia wrote:Change an alternator. woot. 193k miles and its time for a new one.

Mine may need replacing to a bigger one if better ground points and new battery do not fix my RPM's from dropping to low.

Post by **Codelicious** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:01 pm

NODES wrote:
Mine may need replacing to a bigger one if better ground points and new battery do not fix my RPM's from dropping to low.

Mine does that too! It causes my car to shake! I was thinkin about getting a bigger alternator but I heard that it makes you have worse gas milage.. don't know if thats true or not though...

Couldn't we just make some extra grounds?

Post by **NODES** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:45 pm

Codelicious wrote:
Mine does that too! It causes my car to shake! I was thinkin about getting a bigger alternator but I heard that it makes you have worse gas milage.. don't know if thats true or not though...

Couldn't we just make some extra grounds?

exactly the same happens to me. Upgrading the wires to 0 gauge is the cheapest and easiest to do so I will start there.

Post by **conversation** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:50 am

bigdaddychia,

How many miles when u had to replace the cats? What were the symptoms? Were you the guy posting about the exhaust shops not wanting to work on your car? The search function is horrible on this site, so I have to ask here.

Post by **Sentientbydesign** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:56 am

NODES wrote:
exactly the same happens to me. Upgrading the wires to 0 gauge is the cheapest and easiest to do so I will start there.

Talk about SUPER-Overkill.

4 gauge handles around 150A. 0 gauge does 300. I KNOW your alternator is not putting out that much current. And I'm pretty sure your system isn't drawing that much current either.

Have you guys looked into reseting the idle?

I need to jump back with another tester for the grounding kits to see if there's a need on the Versa. But I know for a fact that 0 gauge is way overkill.

Post by **NODES** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:42 am

Sentientbydesign wrote:
Talk about SUPER-Overkill.

4 gauge handles around 150A. 0 gauge does 300. I KNOW your alternator is not putting out that much current. And I'm pretty sure your system isn't drawing that much current either.

Have you guys looked into reseting the idle?

I need to jump back with another tester for the grounding kits to see if there's a need on the Versa. But I know for a fact that 0 gauge is way overkill.

I have 3 feet of 0 gauge wires laying around so I will use it up.

Post by **bigdaddychia** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:59 pm

conversation wrote:bigdaddychia,

How many miles when u had to replace the cats? What were the symptoms? Were you the guy posting about the exhaust shops not wanting to work on your car? The search function is horrible on this site, so I have to ask here.

Yeah that was me. Symptoms a CEL. Came on at about 160k and changed em at 190K

Post by **AZhitman** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:12 pm

We still need to do an article on this car. I'm pretty sure it's the highest-mileage Versa built.

Post by **scooterbob** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:19 am

bigdaddychia wrote:
Luckily the rental place had a versa so I can still drive one.

Not condoning this, but does the rental have the exact same alternator?

Post by **bigdaddychia** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:53 pm

AZhitman wrote:We still need to do an article on this car. I'm pretty sure it's the highest-mileage Versa built.

After the first of the year. I have less than 3k till 200k

Post by **AZhitman** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:08 pm

bigdaddychia wrote:
After the first of the year. I have less than 3k till 200k

Cool. Start writing now.

Post by **williamk10** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:17 pm

I did 2 out of the big three with 4 gauge wire. Still need to wire the alternator to the battery..but the positive battery terminal on the Versa is full of fuses. It'll be a pain in the a** to switch out.

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