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The floor mats can always be added later, I did get them after the purchase for my van on ebay from a nissan dealer in AZ. They do protect the floor, stay in place and fit well. Since there is no carpet, the wear surface is the rubber-like cover over the steel floor and that is it, so once that wears you are looking at insulation and steel floor. I find the backup sensors to be very useful. I have the SV with the tech package, so it has the sensors as well as the camera. The van has back windows, but I have a partition in place and limited view out the back. The sensors save me every morning from running over the plants along our curb when I turn the van around to leave my house. The are sensitive enough to see two rose bushes along the curb and beep when I get too close. -Earl

Thanks Redshirt. Yes, take all the modern conveniences of your typical home, shrink them down slightly and cram them into any available open space in a boat and that is what I get to deal with. Back on topic now... my new high roof allows me to have a mobile shop where I can fabricate plastic or wood dash panels on-site and have all my tools and spares with me when I travel from marina to marina. My milage for the V6 High roof, fairly loaded has been 13MPG around town and 18 on the highway (65-70MPH). I posted a photo of the wrap that was done in the photos section. I used a company called Sign Works in San Leandro CA. -Earl _______________________ Mathiesen Marine Services 3300 Powell Street, Suite 107 Emeryville, CA 94608 510-350-6622 www.MathiesenMarine.com

Hi Ariel, Yes, I too have noticed this. Also a sort of rubbing noise in the steering column when slow speed maneuvering (parking lot speeds). Almost sounds like the truck has electric steering it that makes any sense. Also it does seem a bit heavy, but it does move freely (if you are experiencing this that makes sense to you). I have a 2500 high roof V6 with around 1200 miles on it. I was planning on bringing it up at my first oil change/service. I know I can replicate the noise, the "heavy feeling" they may just say is normal. I think these trucks have "speed sensitive" power steering, so maybe that is what we are feeling, some sort of flaw in that system. Highway speeds I don't notice any issue, but the truck is a lot louder then and I am not swinging the steering wheel around at 65MPH. If you happen to take yours in for service, let us know what they say and I will do the same, but probably not for a few months when I have around 5K miles or so on it. -Earl

I have a high roof, so I know it won't go through an automated car wash without a severe hit to my liability insurance. I would think the low roof would be just fine in a car wash. The only thing you may want to do it unscrew the radio antenna first so it does not get bent or ripped off the fender. Since the sides and top are so flat a car wash should do a pretty good job. I am stuck using a ladder or going to a self serve place with the high power nozzle and lots of quarters. Good luck! -Earl

Highly recommend downloading the above PDF. It is full of useful info about the electrical system and wiring harnesses, and all of the bolt down points in the back of the van. If you are having any sign work done on your van all the dimensions are in there as well for them to give you an accurate estimate. Thank you for posting the link! -Earl _______________________ Mathiesen Marine Services 3300 Powell Street, Suite 107 Emeryville, CA 94608 510-350-6622 www.MathiesenMarine.com

A 65watt load at 120Volts is roughly a little over half an amp of current draw when running on household 120V AC (watts=volts X amps). Now since the inverter it running on 12Volts DC and stepping that up to 120Volts, you can multiply that little over half an amp by 10 and you get 5.5 Amps current draw actually being pulled from the 12 volt source. You can round that up to 6 Amps since the inverter is not 100% efficient in its conversion from DC to AC. So, with the engine off, you are pulling around 6 amps per hour to run your TV. The NV has a group 27 battery, these are typically rated for around 80 amp/hours. So, you could run your TV for 13 hours and you would run your battery totally flat (80Ah divided by 6 amps). Now in the real world you would not want to run any battery totally flat since you would eventually kill the battery and find yourself buying a new one every year. So a good rule of thumb for standard flooded type batteries is don't run then below 50% of their rated capacity, in this case you would then have 40Ah to play with or about 6.5 hours of tv time. Of course you still want to be able to start your truck when you are done watching tv, so for that reason, to leave enough juice in the battery, try not to use more then 25% of its rated capacity, now you have 20Ah and roughly 3 hours of TV time. Most inverters have a low voltage auto shut off to prevent damaging the battery, I am not sure if Nissan is relying on that or if they have another system in place to prevent the battery from getting to low to start the truck. Since you are running a 65watt load, the 150 watt setting on the inverter would be fine for your use. You will not damage the inverter using it for an extended period, it will shut down on its own before it damages itself if it gets too hot. By the way it is located in the rear left corner of the truck behind the masonite panel right near the rear 120V outlet. Hope that all makes sense. -Earl _______________________ Mathiesen Marine Services 3300 Powell Street, Suite 107 Emeryville, CA 94608 510-350-6622 www.MathiesenMarine.com