Tom (68.114.8.53) - Tue Jul 29 21:12:30 2008

My girlfriend has a 2000 Xterra that the gauges dump and she losses power. We have heard that it's a short in the gauge cluster, bad leads, shorts in the wiring, bad ecm / computer board.

Has anyone heard of these doing this? Any solutions? Nissan tried to diagnose the problem - no luck.

Thanks in advance!

Reply #1 Jessica (67.174.97.181) - Sun Sep 7 10:56:29 2008

Hi,

My 2000 Xterra is going through the same thing. I have replaced the distributor and the purge valve. Now they want me to replace the ECM. I still don't know if that will work.

Have you had any luck since you last posted?

Jessica

Reply #2 Xterra_MB (24.22.152.144) - Sat Sep 27 19:03:30 2008

Same exact problem. See description above link. I talked with a Nissan service dept. guy and he indicated that the gauge problem sounded like a fault with the unified meter assembly. I haven't taken it further but any feedback is good. I do not see how the unified meter assembly would effect the acceleration of the car.

• 2000 Xterra Spedometer and Gauges Failure

Reply #3 Jonathan (98.232.97.161) - Fri May 29 00:38:20 2009

I have the same problem, has anyone completely loss power while driving?

Reply #4 Going Insane (12.104.244.6) - Tue Jul 7 12:04:01 2009

While driving my gauges either stick to where they are, all drop and go completely dead, or all go to the maximum. Sometimes they come back but they usually just stay screwed up. If the car sits for a while everythign comes back to normal then they all crap out again. In addition, my engine seems to disengage while driving. As an interim fix I found I can slide it in to neutral then back to drive and it works for a while until the engine diengages again, reapeating the neutral thing keeps me going. ANY HELP!!!! Oh Yeah, my A/C is also shot but I've read about the Thermo Control AMplifier so I'm goin got try that.

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