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We've ordered two. Shipping to our border storage place and when we make a parts run down at the start of may we'll pick it up.

One thing with commercial vehicles is there's lots of little upfits and specialty products out there. Every time I chat with my counterparts at other Nissan dealers I wind up learning something new.

That's fantastic. Thanks for sharing. I've got my parts department on it.

If I recall correctly the quigley folks told me that going into 4lo causes an error with a sensor in the drive shaft (tail sensor?) and causes limp mode. I'm curious. Keep us updated.

There evidently away around low range limp mode as the guy who does conversions in Utah offers a low mode with his conversion. His conversion was less professional looking than the quigley one though(underneath anyways). I've got no clue about the diff lockers, no-one has ever asked here.

GM has closed the order bank for the year already on their vans. Word is Uhaul placed a massive order (with the demise of the E-Series vans) and ate up alot of the production. GM ever the volume addict shoved everyone else aside to fill this order. Leasing/Rental company I deal with put in an order for 25 (down from about a hundred) and they have zero idea if the order will actually get filled, nor when to expect to get the order if it is filled. no question it's a battle right now and only going to get tougher in the commercial van market with more entries.

Buying 3500 trucks with spacekap's. http://www.spacekap.com/index.php?page=diablo About 10k cdn for the spacekap. Van's would be better for functionality and math works out well for them if they came in 4x4. Sprinter 4x4 will sell no doubt but the Dodge dealers up here (who have about a 35% market share in Edmonton) pretty much ruined the sprinter business for Mercedes. uphill battle to win the business back. Lots of negativity towards the sprinters up here. Cold and their diesel doesn't work well . My dad's friend has 4 of them and complains about having electrical problems all the time which if often echo'd by people stopping in to take a peek at the NV.

Keep posting pictures as you do things. Wish someone would just make fitted rubber mats for the back of it.

Looks good! Studded tires too. you've been busy

It would only save about 800 bucks. Typical bullshit from politicians. Some protectionist reason I'd bet which makes business more difficult for everyone.

My cost is through Canton. I ship from factory to Toronto to Pennsylvania. Quirk in the NAFTA rules means the vehicle has to go to canada first (to be a canadian production vehicle) before going back to the US for the upfit work. If I had to ship from my lot to PA it'd add another 5 k to the price. We are double checking on that NAFTA rule but as we understand it now it has to come to Canada first. Nissan doesn't do ship-through.

It's price and it's shift on the go 4x4. It costs 11k for quigley, 5k for shipping a high roof from Pennsylvania, some fees at the border and then convert to Canadian dollars. It's 20k plus up here to add the conversion and we are the ones that want it the most. Vast bulk of what we sell up here is AWD or 4x4 in the Nissan lineup. I literally have had conversations end with prospects(repeatedly end) when I say its RWD only. (before I could bring Quigley into the country, now they run away at sticker shock for the upfit). If Nissan added 4x4 for something silly like 8k per unit it's all I would order for inventory and my sales would explode. Lots of trucks bought up here for the 4x4 and space kaps added instead of buying a van. I got stuck in the drive through at Tim Hortons(coffee shop) a while back with a empty factory 2wd version. Yeah, winter tires are tremendously helpful, yes weight in the back is a must. Despite all this there is still no beating 4x4 for our weather here.

I've been twice to that plant for meetings/rewards trips, it's quite amazing. The attitude is awesome to see there. Overwhelming to see the constant activity. Knew you'd like it. :)

When I toured the factory I was with a line supervisor, he told me when the line was originally setup it was setup to do 4x4 as an option.He said some of the build stations still have 4x4 as a selecting option on the buttons (although obviously inactive). I do hope they'd add it. I got stuck a couple of weeks ago at the coffee shop drive through window thanks to 2wd, OEM tires and no weight in the back.

Talk about market coverage....A guy called yesterday asking about a cutaway/cab&chassis NV with "that new diesel".

"I can't tell you why it operates the way it does or why Nissan did or didn't do something" Well said and exactly true. We the sellers on the ground are not consulted, nor given explanation of decisions made by corporate/design/production, nor ever had our opinions solicited about product, nor given the opportunity to influence new products. For instance....to date Nissan corporate has provided next to zero info to dealers on the new titan XD. My info all comes from car sites that were at the detroit auto show.

I did that math too (although I used 10% tongue weight). We shall see. I'm guessing I'll be adding super springs to these things from time to time too.

What Nissan think's it sees is a market between half ton and 3/4 ton. At the launch CEO Ghosn was talking about 75,000 people annually swap from 3/4 to half ton and another 75,000 swap from 1/2 ton to 3/4 ton. So the thinking is there's a bit of a niche there that is looking for something inbetween. Whitespace they referred to it as. I'd speculate that thinking is driven by the acknowledgement that they won't knockdown any of GM, Ford or Ram so they have to carve out 100,000 sales (or whatever number they are targeting) some other way. Zig when everyone else Zags sort of thing. I'd rather go full 3/4 ton and be done with it, from a selfish standpoint it opens far more possibilities from a fleet sales perspective for me. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited and this truck will still do quite well for us/me but just getting a bit more payload would open a few more doors.

Comments from others often mention Ford, also getting some tundra and some RAM from it. Frankly with how old the truck is presently anything new is most welcome from a sales perspective. I remember selling it back in 05 and it was fun to sell at the time and I'm looking forward to the process yet again!

Oddly we won't get any different information than what the public gets at this point in the game. Logging into Nissan's portal this am still has the new murano in the feature spot and nary a word on the new titan. Here's a snippet of simple email I've sent out to my bigger clients this am: http://www.autoblog.com/2015/01/12/2016-nissan-titan-xd-detroit-official/#image-1 Going to be 2 Titans, a Titan XD (diesel & v8) and a regular Titan (v6 or v8). XD will have the big Cummins diesel in it, towing of 12,000+ and payload of 2000+. Sort of a heavy half version. ----- I already got a PO sent back for a new Titan too. hahaha.

Don't know if this is of much interest to this forum...... but here's the latest Titan truck video. Unveil date is the 12th in Detroit. We sell a pile of trucks up here in Alberta, and being an oil heavy province fleet is strong here..... so it's an exciting product for us/me. In relevance to this forum.....it's unclear/undecided/unknown if the new 5.0L Diesel engine will make it's way to NV or not. I badly need factory 4x4 NV's and diesel is a strong second on my upgrade list. Interesting to see that (and yes I'm bragging a bit) they show shots of La Jolla, Detroit, Mississippi and Arizona facilities and I've managed to tour all of them as parts of sales contests I've won and it brought back some good memories.

I'd just call and ask since you are in the US. My pricing was based on bringing a pallet worth into canada and converting to CDN$.....it wasn't going to be a pleasant price I'm afraid.

I don't think this board is owned by Nissan or monitored by them....at least openly. Doing a whois on the domain name shows it owned by some company.... warnerrobert.com, that website shows nothing of importance on it. My guess is it's a web advertising company that owns several such forums and domains and sells ads on them. Seems quite possible to me to blow a bonus on a bad review in my mind......If it pushes your average score below your target for the month/quarter/year, if you needed 20 perfect scores but only got 19....and so on in that mindset. That's dealership life I'm afraid to say. It can be quite maddening to be judged on performance but having some of those events affecting performance well outside of your control.

In Canada, we get the survey's in full detail and who from and what they said. Feedback available to all. I don't see any issue with us getting the info, we need to know how/who we screwed up on. Goes without saying though that the service writer phoning up and blasting someone should never happen.