Went to Buy a Used Truck
This is a 2016 Nissan Frontier 4WD. 88,000 miles, truck really looks good. I looked it up on Carfax and the title etc. all looked clean. No wrecks.
Now it gets weird. The owner of the car is on an 18 month trip to Germany and he has gotten his wife to sell the truck. I went over for a test drive this morning, first thing I did was check the dipstick. The oil just barely touched the bottom of the dipstick. There is a FULL mark, and a LOW mark, and this was way below that, maybe oil on the bottom 1/8 inch of the dipstick. Also, the oil was filthy, very dark.
I had learned from Carfax that this guy bought this truck 2 1/2 years ago at 70,000 miles. I looked in the glove box, there were no maintenance records. Then I looked in the upper corner of the windshield, there was a sticker from the last oil change, it said CHANGE AGAIN AT 75,000 MILES.
They go on a 5,000 mile interval for oil changes. This truck had the last oil change at the used car lot at 70,000 miles. This guy drove this truck for 2 1/2 years and 18,000 miles and never did any maintenance. That's why there were no maintenance records. I told the lady "See you later, no need for a test drive."
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Possibly read your owner's manual?
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I'm pretty certain,what you describe is normal.
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montanajoe, you are right it is normal.
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Good, glad it is.
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l'm old and tired. Before this current GM 1500, My last new truck was a 98 Frontier. Being old/tired l can't afford a used truck. June 2023 l bought a new full size GM 1500 4wd 4 door truck. Some folks thought l was wrong buying a GM after driving Nissans since 1987. Unfortunately, l just laid eyes on the NEWLY redesigned Nissan Frontier. W O W😍
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