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Originally Posted by QuickOne
Sorry about that Mike....
Do the replacement rear ends hold up any better than the ones that are supposedly "defective" ?
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Only time will tell, but who really knows if modifications were done. Many of the '04 replacements were happening in early '05 with '05 replacement rear ends including the finned cover. However, '05 Titan owners were still having failures which one could conclude that the newly replaced differential will have a good chance of failure again. This is why I ditched my Titan.
I ditched it because the design is so new, I don't have confidence in Nissan to have the knowledge to get this unreliability engineered out. The brake problem took over an entire year. The brake problems were showing up relatively soon, so that gave Nissan time to engineer a fix. The rear end failures seem to be coming much later with a majority of failures in the year 2005. This 'could' mean that the replacement differentials are no different other than a finned cover and synthetic oil (which I switched to at 6000 miles). I have no confidence that the finned cover will do anything since my differential fluid wasn't overheating with original or synthetic. I think it's a bad design that needs a completely new engineered differential.
I gave up because I could afford it finacially and have no tolerance for unreliable vehicles, ZERO TOLERANCE. I also could NOT afford to have another differential fail while pulling my camper. Plus I had other problems with a brake failure "AFTER" the permanent judder fix. This brake failure happened just days after a 1500 mile round trip pulling my camper. If the brakes would had failed while towing, it could had cost me my life and other's lives around me. That added onto severe rattles and squeaks that made driving very irritating. I have no confidence in any Titan after my experiences and reading other's experiences here. Hopefully in the future Nissan can regain their reputation for reliable vehicles and then I may gamble on another Titan, but doubt it.
This is only my opinion and hopefully, the problems will get ironed out immediately, but I'm not and wasn't willing to take another chance. I hate gambling. I've waited for other design flawed product to be re-engineered so that they could provide performance as advertised, only to find that the company had given up on that model. My recourse was to live with the defects or trade up to a product that would deliver reliable performance as advertised. I've been there and found I was better off dumping a defective designed product than waiting for engineering fixes that may never surface. So that's why I didn't stay with the Titan.
Have a good one.