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Is there an edit button?...anyway that's 36000 km not 3600

Near on my first anniversary in my Stag, 3600 kms have rolled beneath us, love it more than I did before and burning 10.6L/100km. The kids like it's 'Ferrari' noise if I give her some boot.

My car behaved in a similar manner for awhile (S1). I'd feel a slight hesitation at constant 100kph every so often, wtf is that motor or drivetrain? I'd think to myself. One day not long after the gremlin made it's appearance. I was slowing down for an intersection and felt the car engine brake more for a moment then off again. The 4wd light came on and about a km later limp mode kicked in. Oh dear I gots me a piece of shit I thought ( I didn't know about this feature). To cut a long story short it was just low on atessa fluid, the greatest discovery being that like an auto trans you gotta check level with motor running. I get the feeling the car applies a bit of front drive on deceleration, a little free braking as it were. Hence the problem setting off the alarm bells when front drive would apply then change it's mind about it. Lack of clutch pack pressure I guess. Please disregard all of the above if you have covered this base, just don't like to see ya suffer. I have a low tolerance for the bastards misbehaving.

I was up for a new set of tyres last month so thought I'd give the Bridgestone Ecopia a try. They claim less rolling resistance & better fuel milage, figured that over the lifecycle of the tyre they may cover their own cost. The following data reinforces how resistant the mighty Stagea is to anything like this. Or do these Ecopia really do as claimed?, I have noticed the tyres seem to have less temperature build up. Tyre pressure is 38psi. These readings are based on refueling on the last quarter of tank, filling her up + one more click of the nozzle to make sure, record kms & litres, reset trip meter. 21/06/11 - 11.2L/100km 27/06/11 - 11.1L/100km 30/06/11 - 11.3L/100km 05/07/11 - 11.4L/100km 08/07/11 - 11.1/100km 14/07/11 - 11.4/100km 19/07/11 - 11.0/100km Tyres fitted 20/07/11 25/07/11 - 11.2L/100km 28/07/11 - 11.3/100km 02/08/11 - 11.3L/100km 10/08/11 - 10.8L/100km ... long trip that day 13/08/11 - 11.6L/100km 15/08/11 - 10.5L/100km....freak ? 19/08/11 - 11.5L/100km 24/08/11 - 11.6L100km Car is S1 RS4v.

While this subject is up, mine's a V model S1 RS4, it has a button next to syncro with wavy lines pattern on it - What is the function?

Seems I left the best till last, done the final drive oil changes except the transfer case a while back, fairly straight forward getting bungs undone. Last weekend put the stag on stands & tried loosening the transfer case filler plug, I've now got a small pile of broken tools & a sore arm and the plug is still in there. Good news is the square hole of the plug is still ok, shame it's only a 10mm square. I broke an SK 1/2" to 3/8" adaptor socket then I welded an old 3/8" rachet solid - broke the square drive off & bent the handle. Next up cut & filed a high tensile bolt to a 10mm square as a key, quite good because it capped the plug & I could give plenty of taps with a hammer to help loosen it, all strength maxxed out pulling on a ring spanner - still wouldn't budge. My son climbed under the car from the other side pushed real hard with his boot on the spanner - spanner bent, plug still stuck. Not that keen on waving oxy/fuel torch under there. Round 2 coming up another time when I have it up on stands.

One for the you beaut what a ute files - hauled a fence strainer post, fitted in with ease, no damage was done. My baby earning her thirsty keep.

I had attesa 4wd light\limp home issues with my Stagea, I found that checking the level after start up got the real picture of where it's at. Seems to bleed fluid back to bottle when parked up - maybe why so much headroom above level marks. I changed the fluid by loosening off bleed valve at back of trans & draining about 100mls at a time then top up the tank, with the ign turned on pump did not start but found that starting up motor then after several seconds the attesa pump would cycle up to pressure and draw the fresh fluid in. Rinse & repeat until the fluid turned red where I was draining it. Probably better ways of doing it but it worked & all is at peace with the 4wd light. With hindsight I didn't have to change fluid, just learnt to check level after startup. Dunno 'bout the tequila sunrise effect in the pic but the level looks about where mine is when parked up for several hours. Caveat: I'm new to this stuff & learning my way around my car.

Oh well guess I'll chime in and report an average of 11L per 100km, been right thru this thing making sure everthing is set & clean as it should be, new oxy sensor this week and seen a very subtle reduction. Just how one of these things roll, all bog stock, except for removal of cat and I've bypassed secondary boost to keep it down to 4-5psi - I'm running less than 98ron, no pings nor knocks, happy Nissan motor. When I got my wagon I thought surely it can't use as much gas as my old Isuzu 2.6L carburated petrol pickup. Yep it does despite pushing less air, fuel injection etc... but yeah put your foot into it & there's the reason, ya have to pay to have that kind of potential lurking under the hood. Then there's the awd, auto & weight thing. I'm just going to accept what Nissan has created and trust in the hundreds of dyno hours it took to develop, no piggyback control etc... gonna pour in that gas and enjoy the 700km ride I do every week till the end... I have a very stable kind of driving style - it's my age, pinned at 100km/h, short burst passed a truck & trailer, back in line again, hate speeding tickets, dudes passing me in company 4wd utes & hiace vans burning up that company fuel like no tomorow. Don't care really just love the feel of this car cruising along and that sweet music that erupts from up front on those occasions when ya plant it.

Ha, I'm down to one 22mm spanner now and not so sure I want to start a tool shop here, thanks for asking though. There in lies my failed businessman approach to life & working for the man. It is my hope that I never use a 'shifter' on this magnificent final evolution of twentieth century automobile.

I've got an NTK sensor coming in the mail so thought I'd do a trial run removing the old one. Searched thru my shed and comfirmed I didn't have a long 22mm tube socket to butcher. I chopped the ring end off a spanner with the notion to ground a slot for the wire, got worried the thing might flare if it was really tight so beefed up the around the ring with a build up of 309 stainless rod (cut the slot after this), next welded a socket to the short handle left on the spanner - more good ol' 309 rod. Meanwhile the sensor area had a soak in WD40, fitted up the spanner - this thing is good because it gets you back away from the firewall & abs pipes, medium length extension & a 1/2" drive rachet. The thing hardly put up a fight - like a tightish spark plug really. I'm assuming the old one is factory & surprised it's a Bosch, partNo A24-A21139 72131 Here's the tool:

Ah I was wondering what lurked beneath the wing mirrors & how to get there. Mine needs sorting out, I've halted what I can see with fish oil to buy some time but suspect the oil hasn't reached in far enough. No end to time spent in the shed on this baby.

Hi, old fart reunited with an inline six wagon like the days of my youth and what a wagon!, I was looking for something bigger to replace my relic Sentra, something that could carry band gear & fit in a marshall stack easily. Only became aware of the Stagea late last year, I was sensibly looking for a basic one, rwd, n/a etc... One came up local but all the stuff I didn't want it had like sunroofs & awd drive but it had the honeycomb grill & 16" alloys which I do like. What really hooked me in the end was the leather seats - yes my purchase was based on this. Ducked out of work for an hour, checked it over in a rush, car was filthy, didn't even test drive just handed over a deposit & came back a week later. Drove it on home...fark! all 230bhp of it!, the first thing I saw was the fuel gauge rapidly sinking after scarcely 10kms then realized when I got home it had exhaust manifold leakage...so that was the first job. Jump ahead 3 months, 6000 kms - I was suduced by this thing right from the start & it seemed it could do no wrong and yeah things happened but minor really, just maintenance stuff, I still adore this wagon. Been a huge learning curve being my first ecu/injected, abs, atessa car, seemed like a space shuttle & so much ground to cover. Thats where this forum has been a real help in getting to know the inner workings of this beast, thankyou all. I had a 66 Holden HR premier over twenty five years ago, I turbo-ed it with a Rayjay unit, decompressed to 6:1 comp & ran 15psi boost, it could run 15 second quarters and rarked up the 351 Ford, 350 Chev guys. A blast from the past driving this Stagea.