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No actions required on your part.claytormatt wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:52 pmBuying a 2010 one owner with 76K on the odometer Radiator and Transmission was replaced at 52K , will that have solved the problem or should I do the bypass ?
That depends enormously on how you drive and the conditions you drive in. The heat exchanger and radiating cooler don't work the same way. The cooler will have a relatively steady temperature from idle to near-maximum engine output, and heat transfer in fluid is roughly 27 times better than air. On the other hand, the radiating cooler is very efficient on the highway with forced-air being fed to it, just not so much at low speeds and low engine RPM's. So if you do a lot of stop-and-go or trailering, especially in a hot climate, you probably want to consider a bigger radiating cooler than the stock one.
If you bought it from Nissan, they pretty much junked old stock on those radiators as soon as improvements came out. So anything OE past early '11 is pretty much guaranteed to be the good design. Aftermarket can be a different story, but the majority of brand-name aftermarket replacements never had SMOD issues in the first place.claytormatt wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 7:13 amThe new radiator and transmission were installed by the dealer in 2017, so hopefully all the old stock had been depleted!