I bought this car off a friend in 2011 with a long Mot and tax, he had it from 2005 and kept it in good condition. We ran it until the Tax expired and became surplus to requirement and I just did not get the time to fix a few little faults and sell it so became another member of my transport museum. Other than being offered to me cheap I would not have bought one as I have never thought of the Terrano and Maverick as being a particularly nice looking vehicle and I have no real need for a 4x4.
I was impressed with how easily it towed a large car trailer with a VW Polo on when my friend still owned it and after driving it around for a while I started to understand why he raved about it and the car started to grow on me. That was back in 2011 and moving forward to 2018, in an effort to reduce the transport museum, I decided to replace the POS Fiesta I was using for work with the Terrano and maybe have a bit of fun with it off road.
A battery, a set of wipers and some fresh fuel were basically all that was needed for the Mot, even the rusty discs have proved up to Mot standards! Not bad for a 140k car stood for 7 years. There is some rot that will need dealing with before next years Mot but that can wait until the better weather arrives. The initial plan was to fix any outstanding faults at my leisure whilst using the car daily.
The aerial has been inside the car for 7 years from moving the car through my garage from time to time, like a muppet I managed to snap it off backing out of the garage going for the Mot! :doh I also stupidly pressure washed the muck inside the washer bottle that has now settled in the bottle regularly blocking the washer jets. :doh:doh Another job added to the list. Within a week of being on the road the starter motor packed up and needed replacing. An internal inspection revealed it was the brush pack worn out and a commutator segment had broken up so would have likely gone had we kept on using it back in 2011.
The original Nissan Blaupunkt radio cassette was still working but the LCD display had gone so I looked into replacing it with a spare Kenwood but ended up with the Panasonic radio CD out of the Fiesta. £4 for an adaptor cable delivered and new holes drilled in the original radio mounts has seen that fitted neatly without the tin cage. A new bulb in the cigarette lighter while the panels were out and that's two jobs ticked off the list.
The clock having no illumination finally annoyed me enough to pull the dash apart expecting to find an irreparable or stupidly expensive rare part needing replacement. I was pleasantly surprised to find a bulb blown as it is constantly lit and had simply burnt out. Another little feature I was impressed with was the speedo cable, neatly captive in the dashboard and and the clock panel simply a push fit so no fighting blindly to remove the cable.:thumbs
Something was rattling on the exhaust and the rear mount was broken from old age, the only thing supporting the back box was the mudflap!:augie A quick fix with two M8 male rubber bobbins and an M8 connector turned up on the lathe sorted the rear mount and the rattle was the heat shield on the Cat being close to falling off from corrosion. Those two jobs made for a quieter and smoother ride.
I had planned to get 600 to 1000 miles worth of fresh fuel through the car before giving it a full service, change the thermostat and eventually replace the viscous fan with an electric setup. That looks to be over the Christmas holidays now and I have a thermostat sitting waiting as one of the housing bolts feels likely to snap so I want a bit more time to do the job.
I have no information on the 2.4 engine, does anyone know where the coolant drains are for the block etc?
I was impressed with how easily it towed a large car trailer with a VW Polo on when my friend still owned it and after driving it around for a while I started to understand why he raved about it and the car started to grow on me. That was back in 2011 and moving forward to 2018, in an effort to reduce the transport museum, I decided to replace the POS Fiesta I was using for work with the Terrano and maybe have a bit of fun with it off road.
A battery, a set of wipers and some fresh fuel were basically all that was needed for the Mot, even the rusty discs have proved up to Mot standards! Not bad for a 140k car stood for 7 years. There is some rot that will need dealing with before next years Mot but that can wait until the better weather arrives. The initial plan was to fix any outstanding faults at my leisure whilst using the car daily.
The aerial has been inside the car for 7 years from moving the car through my garage from time to time, like a muppet I managed to snap it off backing out of the garage going for the Mot! :doh I also stupidly pressure washed the muck inside the washer bottle that has now settled in the bottle regularly blocking the washer jets. :doh:doh Another job added to the list. Within a week of being on the road the starter motor packed up and needed replacing. An internal inspection revealed it was the brush pack worn out and a commutator segment had broken up so would have likely gone had we kept on using it back in 2011.
The original Nissan Blaupunkt radio cassette was still working but the LCD display had gone so I looked into replacing it with a spare Kenwood but ended up with the Panasonic radio CD out of the Fiesta. £4 for an adaptor cable delivered and new holes drilled in the original radio mounts has seen that fitted neatly without the tin cage. A new bulb in the cigarette lighter while the panels were out and that's two jobs ticked off the list.
The clock having no illumination finally annoyed me enough to pull the dash apart expecting to find an irreparable or stupidly expensive rare part needing replacement. I was pleasantly surprised to find a bulb blown as it is constantly lit and had simply burnt out. Another little feature I was impressed with was the speedo cable, neatly captive in the dashboard and and the clock panel simply a push fit so no fighting blindly to remove the cable.:thumbs
Something was rattling on the exhaust and the rear mount was broken from old age, the only thing supporting the back box was the mudflap!:augie A quick fix with two M8 male rubber bobbins and an M8 connector turned up on the lathe sorted the rear mount and the rattle was the heat shield on the Cat being close to falling off from corrosion. Those two jobs made for a quieter and smoother ride.
I had planned to get 600 to 1000 miles worth of fresh fuel through the car before giving it a full service, change the thermostat and eventually replace the viscous fan with an electric setup. That looks to be over the Christmas holidays now and I have a thermostat sitting waiting as one of the housing bolts feels likely to snap so I want a bit more time to do the job.
I have no information on the 2.4 engine, does anyone know where the coolant drains are for the block etc?
