radiator mounts and battery terminal

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Hello,

I was told that upper radiator mounts are going bad and moving excessively, and the battery positive terminal is damaged and loose.
I can wiggle the radiator and the terminal, but do not see a damage.
In any case, is there a guide and replacement part numbers?
I would attach pictures, but it is always a problem on this genius platform :crazy:

Thanks.


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The terminal is probably compressed if it's tightened all the way and still moves. That's dangerous to your electronics, hot terminals can throw a massive EMF spike if they spark while cranking. On some other models like Frontier trucks, that usually destroys the ECM. It's rarer on Rogues, but for a terminal that's about $15 list and $10 on eBay, I don't recommend screwing around. The right p/n should be 24340-7F000.

When radiators wiggle it usually means either the rubber donuts are shot or the brackets are bent. The brackets are sheet metal, if that's the problem then bend them back. P/n for the upper donuts is 21506-AX300.

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Thank you. I ordered https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQSXNSBY and https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08964ZL1N from Amazon.
When I checked last time the left bracket and bushing, when facing the car, were accessible, but the right one was somewhere under the air intake assembly. I hope it will not be too hard to reach that one.

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It was fairly easy to replace the positive battery terminal and the bushing for upper radiator mounts.
To access the right radiator mount I had to remove the three plastic clips holding the air duct and remove the air duct.
Doing this myself saved me about $300. Not a large amount but still.

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I fixed my rad bushing slop with a free used rubber tube to fill in the gap between the rad post and rubber insulator.


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