2008 V6 question

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2008 V6 question

Postby dawgn86 » Thu Jul 13, 2017 8:08 am

Hey guys.. quick question

my niece has a 2005 Xterra with the V6 / automatic transmission. Last week a quickie lube shop replaced her u-joints and now last night her car wont hardly move.

Cranks up ok, put in in drive and it stumbles and makes a drilling sound; it will move some but barely. I hope its not the rad/tranny fluid mixed..it supposedly had the fix done to prevent it.

Any clues as to what this could possibly be? I know its not the correct forum, but it has the same engine set up as my Pathfinder and Frontier.

Thanks


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Postby HiBRiD109 » Thu Jul 13, 2017 9:03 am

Well if it drove fine before the shop did the service and now a day later it does not, I'd say take a look at the drive shaft with the engine off. Maybe they did the job improperly (ie didnt torque to specs or over tightened, wrong u-joint) or something broke.

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Re: 2008 V6 question

Postby NVSteve » Thu Jul 13, 2017 10:22 am

dawgn86 wrote:Last week a quickie lube shop replaced her u-joints and now last night her car wont hardly move.
?I had no idea they actually did anything aside from fluids and filters. I hit these places once a year for emissions, and even sitting in the waiting room scares the crap out of me, simply for all the BS they spout off to customers & their obvious lack of automotive knowledge in general. Since you are having problems right after this visit, one can only assume that they did something incorrectly. If it were me, I wouldn't even go back to that shop. Take it to a mechanic who actually knows what a u-joint is. Hopefully they didn't really mess up anything.

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Postby dawgn86 » Thu Jul 13, 2017 10:41 am

agree....I learned years ago to stay away from these places.

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Postby dawgn86 » Sat Aug 05, 2017 9:09 am

Hers was the dreaded coolant / tag mix

$3600 and its like New again


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