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I've been running Honda Premix in my Pathy for about 3 years now. It is colored blue. Its silicate and borate free, and based on my reading, has been used by many Nissan enthusiasts for years.smj999smj wrote:Another option is the type of anti-freeze! You can go with genuine Nissan "green" coolant as was originally installed. Nissan now has a longer-life, "blue" coolant that can be mixed safely with the "green" that you may not be able to drain out fully. Then there are a number of aftermarket "one-color-fits-all" antifreezes like Prestone or Peak (which also makes Walmart's Syntech coolant).
Just bought a used '08 Pathfinder SE 4x4 with nearly 43,000 miles on it from a local dealer (it was a trade-in). Vehicle is pretty clean, has six month old Michelin Cross Terrains with less than 5K on them, and feels/sounds solid. (Subjective, I know, but we've been looking for a clean used "utility" wagon/van/SUV for nearly a year now, and I've seen a lot of vehicles that felt/sounded pretty darn rickety -- or had been obviously neglected/abused -- even with low miles. The '06 Highlander V6 with 50K miles that had its headgasket replaced for "severe leaking" comes to mind; or the '09 Pilot with all sorts of weird noises coming from under the hood, despite having only 31K miles on the odometer.)smj999smj wrote:There are a couple of people who have reported that they have the 21460-EA265 part number on their radiator, although that number doesn't show up in the Nissan catalog when you look it up. It's the original radiator to your vehicle. At some point, Nissan updated the radiators but still kept them under the 21460-EA215 part numbers. Only the radiators with the "-9CA25" part numbers can we be sure of are the updated part.
Great, thanks for the information! I was a little surprised by how little information there was on the net about Alexon other than its own website (though Performance Radiator's Honolulu shop gets good Yelp reviews). I'll keep an eye on it, but in the meantime, I'm looking forward to the new truckster.smj999smj wrote:Alexon is a sister to Radicon. Both make a number of different cooling system products and are based in Thailand. Alexon has been around since 1994 and has, at times, supplied radiators to a number of Asian manufacturers, including Honda, UD (Nissan Diesel), Mitsubishi, and a number of motorcycle manufacturers. They also make heater cores, intercoolers and oil coolers. I would feel safer with the Alexon radiator than I would with the original Nissan part.