After reading a few threads on radiators, I'm just curious to know how many have had to and how many have not had to replace their radiator after say 105k miles or so. Thanks

 

In PA where I live the temp extremes shorten radiator life. My rad was starting to "weep" a bit and did not want to risk get stranded.

 

Replaced the radiator in my 4AT 5.5 gen at around the 130k mark if I remember right. One of the Maximas I looked at to replace mine also had the radiator replaced at around the same mileage.

Metal tank, plastic ends, eventually they leak.

 

Replaced mine around 120k. Hair line crack in plastic tank at a stress riser. The failure is not biased to Maximas or Nissans. Happens to all plastic tanks sooner or later. Cheap and easy part to replace. No complaints here.

 

Haven't had to replace mine yet at 151,000 miles.....

 

Same here! Just hit 160k

 

Mine blew at 100k exactly lol. Is there a d.i.y on it with the koyo replacement?

 

Mine was just starting to weep across the top seem at 208,000km and was recently replaced when I had my front end accident back in late December at 214,000km

 

replaced

 

Leak around 105k. Common leak on the top.. Replaced with koyo with Toyota red. Easy replacement.

 

I've changed mine.

 

Thanks fellas, I was just curious to know as I have not had to replace mine yet at 115k.

 

108,000 on original radiator and it not a leak or split anywhere....so far.

 

Wow . . . I am starting to think something went terribly wrong because I just had to replace my radiator at 77,000

 

We didn't have to replace ours until around 300k.

 

203000 miles, and haven't replaced my radiator.

 

Wow, really? You guys flushing the cooling system and replacing the coolant per the recommended intervals? 186K and still on the original radiator.

 

Nope. Nothing special. I'm sure the coolant was changed at some point or another, but I can't honestly say when.

 

Mine lasted 153,000 miles and then sprung a huge leak.

 

Just did mines, 128,000 and had a hair line crack in front of it to left of cap.

 

Mines still stock (118k) but i had a huge crack right underneath the intake, which i fixed with JB weld.

 

mine went at the beginning of jan this year w/136k on the clock. cracked around the plastic cap on the core. made a mess of the engine bay too.

pretty simple swap out, just time consuming (took me about 2 1/2 hrs and a half case of miller

 

Probably could've been done in half an hour without the Miller.

 

Mine went out at 82k or so..

 

had mine replaced at 106k

 

My radiator lasted around 160,000ish miles. I felt I got my moneys worth out of the stock radiator.

 

More than 130,000 miles and still going strong

 

194K and no leaks.

 

I had to replace mine at 69k

 

129,000mi and still no leaks

 

replaced mine two weeks ago at 184,000, started weeping at the seam. I had zero experience working on cars and did it in about two hours.

 

Started leaking and replaced at around 140k

 

I feel better after reviewing these posts. My 2001 AE's radiator just started leaking at the top with 127,500.

 

yup mine just went sprayed everywhere, around 126K seeping out where nissan puts there stamp on top right

 

My 5th Gen GLE popped it's top @ or around 80k. Changed it and now the car just went over 100k, so let's see how long it lasts from this point.

 

My 2000 with 87K has started to leak. Just received a new Koyo a couple of days ago and hope to be able to put it in within the next week or so. Strangely, almost exactly 2 years ago, I had to replace the radiator on my 97.