[Michael1]

Oh, please! Who wouldn't be pissed off after having their H3 in the dealer for three head jobs in one year? Every one of you would be cussing up one side and down the other on this forum.

After the first head job, GM should have given this person a new engine, a late model one that had been run in at the plant. GM knows they had head problems on the early engines. Didn't they have bunch of soft valve guides?

Skinner, you may want to rethink your Xterra decision. That has got to be one of the worst riding trucks on the planet. It found bumps you couldn't even see. I couldn't wait to get out. Plus it is a bit of a high school kid's car anyway. Also in an offroad test I read, it couldn't make it up the hill climb, while the other 4x4s could. The suspension was so stiff, there was no articulation, and it couldn't get traction.

If I were you, I would negotiate a nice new shiny H3, a 2007, with the 3.7L. Car makers always have a lot of bugs worked out by the second year. Twist their arm to give it to you at no cost.

Michael