Last2ConvertNV

I replaced my existing running boards with TXRAX's version. The original running boards are available for the incredible price of $free to any contributing member of this forum. I'm not going to ship these, but I am in the Tucson area where we can meetup.

The owner Juan is the real deal. I've recently purchased his running boards, roof rack and ladder. Good quality. Satisfied customer. Not sure if he sells equipment for other platforms, but can you imagine starting a company that makes Nissan NV after-market parts only to have Nissan stop producing the vans in 2021. bummer.

I've been thinking of ways to use the fully closed passenger seat to work as a platform for my large german shepherd in solo trips. He loves to surf up in the "cockpit". I was intrigued by your dog bed replacement of the passenger seat, but disheartened by your comment not to bring him/her along. Is that the common consensus of the van community that it's better to leave your dog at home?

This post is a bit dated, but I'll include some comments that may be of help to others. There is a good youtube video on how to install the DiscountVanTruck swivel seat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKXrZeXF-yE Here is my experience in installing the seat. Thanks also to Bilco's post which contains excellent information, some of which I've repeated below. 1) You will have to free up the air bag wires from the bottom of the seat. They are held on by a metal tie contraption that is not easy to release. I ended up carefully clipping the metal tie with a wire cutter. 2) The bottom of the plastic trim that you removed in the video will have to be trimmed by 1/4" - 1/2" or it will catch on the top bolts when you swivel the chair. I did this with a grinder with a tile saw blade. Ascetically looks good. 3) The swivel arm will catch on one of the factory fixed bolts on the chair base about 1/3 into the turn. You can get by it by depressing the swivel arm again, but that is difficult to do when you are swiveling the chair which takes some effort. I got around this by cutting the bolt off of the base with a mini saws-all. This would be easy to do with a grinder at the very first stage when you remove the chair off of the base. I figure it's fine to have 7 of the original 8 bolts holding down the chair. glides smoothly through the 180 degree turn (again with a bit of effort). The offending bolt is the 2nd bolt from the dashboard on the console side of the chair. Perhaps Bilco's suggestion to add washers eliminates the need to cut one of the factory bolts. I had no problem using the sliding mechanism once the swivel base was installed. 4) Reinserting the bolts to the chair and swivel base is not an easy process as illustrated in the video - especially on the console side. I had to get the wife involved to provide a 2nd set of hands. I wish I would have taken Bilco's advice and removed the entire chair from the van floor and did this operation in the garage on a table where I could move the chair around in various positions to get the nuts in place. The chair when swiveled and fully reclined leaves you wanting to recline a little more. I found by swiveling the chair to a position where you are skewed toward the middle of the van, it will clear the dashboard bump out and will allow the chair to recline further. 5) We have a small fridge (costway?) that we put in between the seats. I'm glad that it stills fits between the seats with the chairs facing forward. It NO LONGER fits when the seat is swiveled. So we'll have to place the fridge elsewhere once we get to the campsite. Overall, I really like this swivel base.

It's called by many names. but it is a plastic guard that attaches to the front of the hood and prevents scratches from flying debris. More importantly, I think it looks cool with a bull bar.

Any one know where I can purchase one of these "mustache" hood protectors? Nissan no longer carries the part. I'd be ok with a used one.

Hi Everyone. I live in Southern Arizona and came across a "unicorn" 2018 NV2500 for sale in Sacramento with only 13K miles. In prestige condition, it had already been converted with some issues. Was on the car dealer lot for over a year, so the Renogy AGM batteries were toast. I'm redoing all of the cabinetry/bed and starting fresh. Some additions so far are 1. TXRAX roof rack, ladder, running boards. 2. Renogy solar panels added to the rack. 300 AMP Lithium battery 3. Pair of pressurized water tanks added to the rack. 4. DiscountVanTruck swivel seat 5. Bull Bar added to the front. 6. Kilmat sound deadening on the floor and doors 7. New (smaller) roof vent. 8. Faux windows added to van sides using black acrylic plastic. Makes it look more like the passenger version than the cargo version. 9. WeldTec 2" lift kit. New larger Toyo 285/70/17 tires. I'm currently building the "garage" bed platform. It's truly an engineering struggle to keep the weight down and still provide a sturdy platform for sleeping and drawer slides below. I love this van. I'm currently averaging 17 MPG. Let's see if this holds true when I'm done with the conversion. I hope there are others that are starting their NV conversion. It's late in the game and it seems that most NV vans that are for sale are cargo vans that have over 100K miles. I've acquired so much information already from the posts in this forum. thanks to all that have taken the time to document their van conversion.