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    Welcome and congrats. 

     

    Ours used to be the only Nissan van in town, but one of our neighbors purchased one. But we still get a lot of stares and questions when we travel. You get used to it.

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    I got the front mat and passenger mat from Nissan. The front mats are rubber but the rear ones are carpeted. I could not find any that's rubber. For the rear cargo space, I just got some rubber mat and cut it to fit. Items for Nissan van is very difficult to find.

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    Is plastic-dip the best option for this over other spray paints or even some of that spray on bed liner stuff? 

     

    thx

     

     

    Paint doesn't seem to stick to smooth surface very well. You will have to sand them. Plasti-dip doesn't require any prep work beyond just cleaning them. 

     

    Personally, I was thinking of blacking out the van. Then after looking at the vast blackness on the van's sides, I decided to keep the few chrome accents that came with the van. I sort of blacked out by getting black wheels (with accents).

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    I am not sure about the quality, but Walmart sells some tips. You may want to try one and see how it looks. They have pretty generous return policy if you don't like it.

     

    I thought about putting an exhaust tip, but I thought stainless tip would stick out too much from the rest of the pipe on a black van. After about a year, the stock pipe was beginning to look bad, making the van look older. I just got some high temp black paint and applied to the pipe.

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    Has anyone tried BFGoodrich All Terrain T/A KO2?

    I have seen them all around Tahoe and they have the snowflake certification for Canadian highways. Everyone says they are very close to winter tires even though they are all season. And great reviews all around. Got at least another 2 years left in the OEM but also looking to replace the tires on our 2005 Xterra.

     

     

    Apparently they really improved over KOs. Awesome tires, from everything I read about (I almost went with this on my Tundra, but they didn't make one in 295/70/18). 

     

    The only negative thing I've read was some people found it difficult to balance. Some say they have to try several tires until they found one that balanced. But then again, others have zero issues with this tire and they love it.

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    Changed my order on wheels and tires and fingers cross they fit when the come in next week.

     

    I had on order some 20x9 xd’s offset 18 wrapped in 265/60r20’s but the more I thought about it, the more I convinced myself that this smaller sidewall was not the aggressive off-road look I was going for so I went and changed my order today (and saved 500.00 in doing so ).

     

    I am now waiting on some American Racing “Ansen Off Road AR969” 17x9 offset 18 wrapped in Nitto Terra Grappler G2 in a 285/70r17

     

    Fingers crossed they fit with the +18 offset (even if I have to shim the door a bit). Worst case we send the rims back and I powedercoat the stock 17’s in black which should easily fit at a offset of +40.

     

    I’ll let you all know next week!

     

    Here’s a couple pics of the rims

     

     

    Any update? My guess is that you will have some rubbing. But each vehicles are slightly different from another. I am really interested in seeing if this size tires with this size wheels fit.

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