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Nissan Versa Tire and Wheel Questions
Can someone PLEASE help me?! I just bought a Versa SL. I absolutely LOVE it! (Although... I've only owned it for 1 day now) My question/problem is... The dealership, for some reason, didn't have an owners guide in the car so they have to order me one. (How lame!) There is a yellow light that won't turn off just below the speedometer. It looks like an exclamation mark in the middle of a "horseshoe." Does anyone have any idea what this is since I'm bookless?!
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Most posters believe Nissan will soon realize a problem exist and will have a fix.
Enjoy your Versa. I think you made an excellent choice in the purchase.
2007 Versa Powder White
CVT, Convenience Package
Since you were so informative, do you by any chance know why the light with the "red car with the key in the middle of it" stays on when I lock the car?? (If I had the book, I wouldn't have this problem!!!!)
Maybe just some little something or could be your security system is not working properly and would not give the proper response should someone attempt to open you vehicle, such as sounding the horn and/or blinking the lights.
Someone goofed and didn't check your car over good like it should have been.
Don't let little things like this discourage you. It's still a very good vehicle, just needs to be gone over and the little things checked.
I love my new Versa!!!!!
Good to here a person that is satisfied, or more than! I too like my vehicle very much.
Fill all the tires to 40 PSI, and the light should go out. If it doesn't, then you probably need to go to the dealer.
After the light goes out, bleed the tires back down to 33 PSI.
I recommend going to an auto parts store and asking for the an accurate tire guage. The $1.95 one you get from k-mart won't be accurate.
Ben
Tony :shades:
On the plus side, a Honda Prelude side-swiped me the other day and she got the brunt of the damage.
my TPMS light has started to come on, but our weather here in PHX has dropped to mid 30's at night. But once you start driving the car and the tires heat up the TPMS light does out..
Tony
it cost $85 to program the tpms.Does this sound correct (help).
I'm graduated from college a few years ago and have a low-paying publishing job. Not only is ther Versa hatchback affordable to me, but perfect for moving apartment to apartment.
I guess I should ask a question instead of just saying "hi" to everyone. With the CVT, I've recently noticed that after driving on the highway for more than 10 minutes, when I exit and come to some place I have to make a complete stop (stoplight, stop sign, parking lot), there is a noticeable...well I don't know what to call it...shake as the engine revs down after I stop. Is this normal for a CVT?
Going to "town" is a 100 mile round trip over dangerous winter roads.
The "Tire Rack" lists the available snow tires and prices OK, but can't provide steel rims for the Versa. I find that hard to believe and wonder if anyone else has set up their Versa for winter conditions with dedicated winter tires and rims?
They do have mag rims, but around here we spend 5 months a year driving on roads treated with salt and sand. Hard on mags, disasterous on front windshields and slow death for the rest of the car body.
My local tire dealer is also stumped on the rim issue, but I thought somewhere I have read that the Versa rim is also the same bolt pattern and set-back as several other vehicles....now if I could just find out what they were..I might have some other options.
Any thoughts?
Now I just need to decide on a good set of winter tires. The Versa rims are only 5.5" wide, so I might stick with the skinny OEM 185 size.
I really like the looks of the Bridgestone Blizzack tred pattern...sort of looks like the famous Nokias..but a lot less money.
The advice from places like Tire Rack is a good start, but for DIY swaps, I found the best little site on the internet.
Using this Miata link you can actually see front and side views of any tire and rim combination you can dream up, and compare them to the original Versa 185 65 15 OEM's.
Miata.net Tire Size Calculator
http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html
The Sandman
The OEM 185 65 15's could easily be replaced by 205 60 15's without changing the dynamics much. I am using Hankooks in that size on wider Sentra rims for my winter tires.
Fantastic difference..the car tracks true and straight, seems less reactive to frost heave cracks in the road and the wider tread looks more in proportion to the wheel wells.
I love my CVT set up, no lurching, up-shift bumps or sudden downshifts on hills or passing.
Not sure what your Civic is like in these areas, but if it's still running good.....hold on to it for another model year.
When all the new 2009's start showing up there will be lots more to choose from that get better mpg's than the Versa.
The Sandman
So then, what we have decided is that for these kids, we want a car that has the best reliablity and longest warranty on the planet.
They all love our Versa, but according to the newest info on reliabilty and 5 to 10 year warranty,..it will be a Hyundai.
The Elantra beat the Civic for top spot by 1/2 a point on reliability, but our new 2003 Honda Odyssey 3 year warranty seemed to run out overnight.
USE THE SLIDESHOW FEATURE TO ENLARGE AND SCROLL
http://picasaweb.google.com/longo3002/VersaPics
Now we're also floating around the idea of buying a "retirement" condo in Orlando for them to live in and pay us rent until we retire in a few years. A win/win situation for us all we think. Looks like it's gonna be an expensive 6 months in our house. Ah, the duties of a parent go on and on...lol!
The Sandman
I've got about 8,000 on the Cooper CS4's I put on and they're definitely wearing better and have better traction than the Conti's
I had been using Kelly Navigator Golds on my vehicles for years, but they don't come in the Versa tire size so my good buddies at Tire Town put me onto the Coopers.
And if you're thinking I put a lot of miles on my car you would be right! Having a kid involved with AAU basketball will do that to you... in a hurry! I can't wait until she starts playing in college
Good for you and for her, it sounds like a blast!
2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick
There are several flexible 'fingers' around the inside of your wheel cover that get forced into the little groove on your steel wheel rims. They have the difficult job of hanging on for dear life while all the time, sudden road shocks, hurricane force winds from your forward motion, centrifugal force, and just plain bad luck, are constantly trying to rip your wheel covers off, and send them flying down the road like a big Frisbee.
Take off the rims and mix up some small 'teaspoon' size batches of JB Weld, apply it to the back side of each of the 'fingers' to stiffen them up. Do all of them so you don't throw your wheel out of balance.
The extra strength of the JB Weld material will force the little grabbers' to hold in the groove better, push on each finger to see where it bends the most and lay on the JB Weld at that point.
(I like the JB Weld with the 5 min. set up time best)
The hubcap will be a little harder to get on as the plastic fingers are now much tougher to bend, but once the wheel cover is hammered back on, that's the end of your problem.
The dealer replaced two of them without a hassle. But, wouldn't replace all 4. Only solution, other than doing a epoxy reinforcement job, it to replace them with decent aftermarket replica covers. They can be had for $40 to ~$60, set of 4, at Amazon.com. Covers only on for ~3,000 miles, but the retention is via spring steel tabs - much more vibration resistant.
We've always run all-season tires, and we've done quite well even in the worst of winters with the manual trannies we prefer. But this year, the wife's office moved a little further away and she has to go through some pretty rural areas so we decided to try out some Nokian snow tires for her Versa and I am really impressed with the traction in the snow as well as how quiet they ride on dry roads. And as far as i've been able to tell, there's very little hit on the mileage. Since these should last us at least a couple of seasons and I also drive a Versa, I'm thinking that next year we get a new set of them for her car and I run the set she currently has. I'm thinking we may be able to get by buying a new set every third year.
I didn't know you got some Nokians, Sneakers. We got some WR-G2s on the Outback last winter and liked them so well I put some on the van. The ones on the Outback have seen a lot of use the last week with two late night drives in the snow.
Ya, I'm really impressed with them, especially the quiet ride. And they only cost me about $40 more for the set of 4 than the Cooper all-season we normally run on. So I figure this will extend the life of those as well.
Mine are "all weather" so I'm just leaving them on year round. We don't do near the miles you do so mine will likely age-out by the time yours "tread out". They really helped wet traction on the van in summer rains.