Ok, it was not a good day today.
While on my yearly fishing trip my Frontier decided to not shift in to drive and acted starved for tranny fluid. Now this was odd to me because it's a 2006 with 58000mi. I've never had one hiccup from the truck in 2 years and no shift issues. I took to the local mechanic and they flushed the tranny 3 times to get out the thick black burned fluid. I thought, Ok, I'm good now maybe it was just a glitch.
This morning I was driving home and had the same slippage in 1st gear. I pulled over let it warm up and it went away. Being 200 miles from home I was not feeling a tow so I drove home with care. It was all going well with no trans problems and then all of sudden the dash lit up like a X-mas tree and the ****in truck died. No engine, it just dies and wont start. So I get it towed to a shop where they look at the battery connection and say that the engine died because of low voltage to the powertrain system. Clear the code, clean the battery and presto, fixed. Let's keep driving home.
30 miles from home, hit a bump and hey it's X-mas again. But the truck keeps running. Pull over or drive home.......drive home. Everything is going great untill 10 miles from home I hit 3000 rpms in 1st just to move. Roll down the window and listen to that clutch plate whine kids. Outstanding. But oddly once out of first it runs like a champ with no power loss. Some rolling stops and right only turns and I get home. I just got it to my transmission guy and he is not very impressed with a low mileage truck losing the tranny.
So, isn't it a little early for my trans and electrical systems to both **** the bed? The truck is well cared for with barely any towing and no hard off road use. What the hell is going on here. Is there a weak point I don't know about or a recent recall? I need some help.
While on my yearly fishing trip my Frontier decided to not shift in to drive and acted starved for tranny fluid. Now this was odd to me because it's a 2006 with 58000mi. I've never had one hiccup from the truck in 2 years and no shift issues. I took to the local mechanic and they flushed the tranny 3 times to get out the thick black burned fluid. I thought, Ok, I'm good now maybe it was just a glitch.
This morning I was driving home and had the same slippage in 1st gear. I pulled over let it warm up and it went away. Being 200 miles from home I was not feeling a tow so I drove home with care. It was all going well with no trans problems and then all of sudden the dash lit up like a X-mas tree and the ****in truck died. No engine, it just dies and wont start. So I get it towed to a shop where they look at the battery connection and say that the engine died because of low voltage to the powertrain system. Clear the code, clean the battery and presto, fixed. Let's keep driving home.
30 miles from home, hit a bump and hey it's X-mas again. But the truck keeps running. Pull over or drive home.......drive home. Everything is going great untill 10 miles from home I hit 3000 rpms in 1st just to move. Roll down the window and listen to that clutch plate whine kids. Outstanding. But oddly once out of first it runs like a champ with no power loss. Some rolling stops and right only turns and I get home. I just got it to my transmission guy and he is not very impressed with a low mileage truck losing the tranny.
So, isn't it a little early for my trans and electrical systems to both **** the bed? The truck is well cared for with barely any towing and no hard off road use. What the hell is going on here. Is there a weak point I don't know about or a recent recall? I need some help.
... BE SURE to get that ECU replaced though, FOR SURE. Tell them to check all grounds, ESPECIALLY the ground on top of the engine on the right towards the front of the vehicle, very small ground wires bolted on top there, can go bad really easily. 
