Should have bought the extended warranty

keith
Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:49:33 +0000
Maintenance/Repairs

2020 Nissan Frontier, less than 48k miles. Started hearing a faint ticking while driving home today. The truck made a squealing sound and shuddered twice, about a fraction of a second in duration and about a second apart a couple of miles from home, about a half hour after the ticking sound started.

Got home, left the engine idling and opened the door and the soft ticking became a loud knock. It sounded more like a collapsed lifter but this engine does not have hydraulic lifters. I opened the hood, the knocking sound seemed to come from the heads if you stood on the side of the truck and from the intake manifold if you stood in front. Really could not pinpoint the origin of the sound.

Got online in a Nissan Frontier forum and there have been quite a few members of the forum that have reported spun rod bearings in these engines with build dates of 08-20 and 09-20. Mine is 08-20.

I wonder if Nissan will work with me on this? I declined the extended factory warranty, never needed one and don’t know anyone who ever needed one, except for one guy who did get the extended warranty but the dealer did not honor it because he had modified the exhaust. The turbo blew on his vehicle.

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