Hi i am still searching for a new car.
I a bit confused and would like to ask if you would recommend this car?
Thanks in advance
I a bit confused and would like to ask if you would recommend this car?
Thanks in advance
Would u recommend the pathfinder?
Yaya10
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The extra HP is completely not worth it. No “butt horsepower” gain from using premium. As for the passenger seat, get the seat risers off Amazon. You’ll need 2 sets but you can raise up the seat about 1.5” - which helps a lot.
I thought the low, non-adjustable passenger seat was fixed with the ‘23 model 🤷🏽♂️
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Thanks for the response. Yeah, I see no need anyways for the extra power even if it was a thing. Maybe if towing, but I don't like to mix gas. Pick one and stay with it. Yes I have seen the risers and plan to consider them. The drivers seat can elevate which is what is truly important.
It's funny, I have an ST-L 4WD in Australia Cloth trim, but every thing else is full tech. I have a height adjustment (mechanical) on the
passengers side. electric height on the drivers side. The top of the line model which is equivalent to your platinum, no height adjustment on passengers side only on the drivers side. Go figure.
passengers side. electric height on the drivers side. The top of the line model which is equivalent to your platinum, no height adjustment on passengers side only on the drivers side. Go figure.
Just platinums and SLs actually.
I purchased a 2023 Platinum back in early August. Things were still a little dry out there for most vehicles but Nissan dealers seemed to be looking better than most. We ended up trading in a 2023 Porsche Cayenne that we only owned for about 3 months and put only 6000 miles on it. I was disappointed in the Cayenne as far as value for the money goes, my wife misses the vehicle, I really don't. It was a buying mistake to me. Water under the bridge... Back to the Pathfinder. I didn't actually go to the dealer to look at Pathfinders, I went with our son to look at the Rogue of which he purchased at the same time. While I was at the dealership, I decided to test drive a sexy looking red Platinum and fell in love with it for the money. My wife has a 2021 Toyota Highlander Platinum and I really liked what I had seen with this Pathfinder and great bang for the buck it appeared to offer in comparison to it as well. After we took the Pathfinder home, it seemed great until the next day when I drove in down the interstate at a much higher speed and noticed a vibration. This vibration became a real problem to me, and after days and two trips to the dealer and they couldn't seem to feel the problem I was enduring, so I became rather perturbed by all this and was ready to go trade the vehicle on something else and lose even more money like I had on the Cayenne. Man, this really sucked. So one morning I was heading off to try and trade the Pathfinder, being perturbed I drove it about 20+ mph or so down my 1/4 mile of rough road and then got on my back highway heading towards the interstate. The crazy thing is, the vibration appeared to be gone... I thought dang, this vehicle is a whole lot better now. It had about 2000 miles on it at the time and it now has about 5000 miles on it and drives like it should. I actually really like this Pathfinder now. It is way more agile than my wife's Highlander and a much more pleasure to drive. I really feel like after driving dozens of comparable's, this is the best bang for the buck SUV type of vehicle. Yes, it does not have a real frame as another owner mentioned above, but most SUV this size are also built on a uni-frame, except for maybe the Toyota 4-Runner, which is also rough riding like a Jeep Wrangler. The only solid frame SUV's that ride decent are the full-size in my opinion.
So, with that be shared, I highly recommend the new Pathfinder...
So, with that be shared, I highly recommend the new Pathfinder...
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Flag to hear you got it worked out. Seems like a tire balance issue but I would hope the service would have caught that if the case. Sucks to drive a vehicle you don't like
We recently traded in our 2023 Bronco. It was nice for the summer to have a convertible but we really need a 7 seater. Luckily the deal on the bronco was pretty good and and since the Bronco was still a highly desired truck we got a fair trade in and deal on the Pathfinder.
We recently traded in our 2023 Bronco. It was nice for the summer to have a convertible but we really need a 7 seater. Luckily the deal on the bronco was pretty good and and since the Bronco was still a highly desired truck we got a fair trade in and deal on the Pathfinder.
Jason, the dealer couldn't find anything wrong and thought the vibration was normal of which it was not. They even did a road force tire balancing and it changed nothing. I was imagining that it had, but to no avail... Now our salesperson had mentioned that they had heard there may be some issues from transporting vehicles on the auto-transporting trucks. After thinking about that and my driving it down the rough road, which obviously realigned something. I have to believe that something maybe with the transmission or a differential moved back to where it belonged and maybe only so slightly. There is a very good chance that this is kind of a problem, especially after reading about other owner experiences on this forum. I had made a first post here addressing my whole ordeal. Hopefully I hadn't scared anyone off from buying one of these awesome vehicles. I really like the vehicle. I was about to trade it on a Jeep Grand Cherokee L Summit Reserve and didn't really need to go into even more losses or debt. It sucks on how much money and effort you can spend trying to find something right. I've done my share, and this is even after doing plenty of research on the internet.
Regarding your Bronco, My oldest son had considered one of those along with the wrangler and ended up with a Rogue due to the higher cost of ownership of those other two. The Rogue is now in the hands of my youngest son of which the oldest son owned for only a couple of months and now has a new Jeep Compass Trailhawk. Everyone seems to be content with their new vehicles. Not sure if I'll keep my wife's Highlander or not, since we don't really need two SUV's being empty nesters. I'm looking at something to trade it on, not sure what it will be with the crazy inflated prices out there. Though other makes are starting to deal again.
Regarding your Bronco, My oldest son had considered one of those along with the wrangler and ended up with a Rogue due to the higher cost of ownership of those other two. The Rogue is now in the hands of my youngest son of which the oldest son owned for only a couple of months and now has a new Jeep Compass Trailhawk. Everyone seems to be content with their new vehicles. Not sure if I'll keep my wife's Highlander or not, since we don't really need two SUV's being empty nesters. I'm looking at something to trade it on, not sure what it will be with the crazy inflated prices out there. Though other makes are starting to deal again.
Good to hear that the issue seems to have been rectified. In hindsight I wish I had given the 14' Highlander at the car lot a better looksee than going with the 13' Pathy Plat I ended up leaving with 2.5 yrs ago due the potential time bomb I am riding on. If and when the CVT trans goes then there will be some things that I will have to ponder over.
CVT is definitely hit or miss. My sister is over 210k miles on her 13’ Pathy with ZERO issues.
Yeah I will probably wait and see if the CVT does eventually fail and I only have 136,000 on the Plat currently. A few months ago when I had the transmission fluid replaced while in the shop for a "check engine light" the code P17f1 was registering but on the Nissan Pathfinder Reddit thread, I was told that code wouldn't trigger the light to come on. There was another code and that was for an O2 sensor which I got replaced.
I have heard and read that around the 17's and newer that there were less issues and that they stopped using the CVT starting with the 22' model. Our 21yr old just got a 15' Sentra back in November with only 100,000 miles on it and a rebuilt CVT installed.
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Hi All, own a 2022 pathfinder sl, as a long time car guy, I'm sorry i just cant recommend it, so many little things that are a turnoff,
such as, no passenger seat height adjustment, but they added it to 24's, rear pads go fast, mine at 28000, replaced for 60.00 & 2.5 hrs labor. but still a PIA, front brakes at 38000 rotors suck, so i swapped rotors and pads, now, no moans and feels so much better, old pads still had 50%, crap Chinese parts. changing oil and filter- have to remove two bottom covers another PIA, even the dealer lost one on my push pins- hate the dealer! parking sensors have a bug, still cant get them to do anything. auto start stop-- car jerks' forward and is clunky, not smooth like my traverse. like the transmission, but it to needs a software update. rides quiet, but feels like a small SUV, nit the actual size it is. door handles unlock touch pads suck, and the remote start only works no more than 15 feet, yes i swapped coin battery in the fob. radio and sound system leave a lot to be desired even in a SL model. sorry, will keep it and drive it into the ground, but either will buy another traverse, or Lexus gx after a couple of years. good luck out there.
such as, no passenger seat height adjustment, but they added it to 24's, rear pads go fast, mine at 28000, replaced for 60.00 & 2.5 hrs labor. but still a PIA, front brakes at 38000 rotors suck, so i swapped rotors and pads, now, no moans and feels so much better, old pads still had 50%, crap Chinese parts. changing oil and filter- have to remove two bottom covers another PIA, even the dealer lost one on my push pins- hate the dealer! parking sensors have a bug, still cant get them to do anything. auto start stop-- car jerks' forward and is clunky, not smooth like my traverse. like the transmission, but it to needs a software update. rides quiet, but feels like a small SUV, nit the actual size it is. door handles unlock touch pads suck, and the remote start only works no more than 15 feet, yes i swapped coin battery in the fob. radio and sound system leave a lot to be desired even in a SL model. sorry, will keep it and drive it into the ground, but either will buy another traverse, or Lexus gx after a couple of years. good luck out there.
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If you Google which year Pathfinders to avoid, certain years were more problematic than others.
I have owned a 2002, 2003 and 2004 Nissan Pathfinders which I bought used.
The 2004 saved my life in a head on car collision driving on black ice during a Maine winter, not my fault.
Totaled the car but I lived through the accident to make it to the other side.
As an itinerant teacher I drive on a lot of beat up back roads in Maine.
These are very heavy safe cars usually referred to as trucks.
I was hit by a Toyota driver who ran a red light crossing 4 lanes of traffic. He had car parts all over the road. Although my Pathfinder was beat up pretty badly no car parts fell off the car.
I feel very safe and happy in my Pathfinder.over the past decade.
They have also towed 6x12 UHaul trailers filled with school books etc.
Kudos to 30 years of Pathfinders!
I have owned a 2002, 2003 and 2004 Nissan Pathfinders which I bought used.
The 2004 saved my life in a head on car collision driving on black ice during a Maine winter, not my fault.
Totaled the car but I lived through the accident to make it to the other side.
As an itinerant teacher I drive on a lot of beat up back roads in Maine.
These are very heavy safe cars usually referred to as trucks.
I was hit by a Toyota driver who ran a red light crossing 4 lanes of traffic. He had car parts all over the road. Although my Pathfinder was beat up pretty badly no car parts fell off the car.
I feel very safe and happy in my Pathfinder.over the past decade.
They have also towed 6x12 UHaul trailers filled with school books etc.
Kudos to 30 years of Pathfinders!
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