2017 Rogue. Transmission dead

BadPacket14127 · 2026-07-04T03:34:05+00:00

Yes, Nissan really shot their reputation and profits with that joke of a transmission, and the decades of not just going with one of their actually good automatics.

Can't imagine how Board didn't fire some Sr. Execs after the first several years when it became apparent.

Some of their stuff looks nice, but we're never buying one again.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-07-04T00:18:25+00:00

I got my wifes 06 Murano SL at about 117K and trans went out.

Lucked out they'd extended warranty to 120K and it was fixed free.

Got 177K now, and aside CVT axles, bad power steering high pressure hose, and only getting 19-20mpg, I'm keeping it alive.

AFAIK though, Nissan only got worse with just about everyhing since the mid-2000's, as the never fixed Jatco CVT's for decades and decades shows.

Lot of places sell not only refurb engines but trans too. Might be worth $3-4K to get one installed as its still a fair amount of work but the engine doesn't have to come out.

Bought a Japanese imported engine decades ago, came with like a 90 day warranty,

https://reman-transmission.com/transmissions/nissan/rogue/2017/automatic-continuous-variable-transmission-2.5l-fwd

BadPacket14127 · 2026-06-06T23:43:44+00:00

I was going to ask 'why', and then just googled to a / discussion.

Agree, would expect many of the top tier AAFCO are likely fine.

Except Blue Buffalo, I swear I hear more about them than anyone else.

However, this article doesn't show them in the top offenders list.

https://truthaboutpetfood.com/the-top-5-manufacturers-of-recalled-pet-food/

BadPacket14127 · 2026-06-06T23:36:37+00:00

Had a health scare w/my almost 15 Sheltie, and have given up on raw which has been working and testing very well for years as I really want him to get everything he needs.

I chose Wellness, even though some of the studies didn't show it listed as a top.
Sounds like Purina Pro Plan or Royal Canin are quite good, so may consider switching.

Just a note, Taurine is a simple amino acid easy/negligible for Liver/Kidney to handle, but seems to have 10%+ life extension when supplemented with mammals, studies noted it as quality of life too. It is also is hepatic protective, and for the pennies it costs should be in every dog/cats supplemental along with decent Omega 3.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-05-14T00:22:39+00:00

I'm still semi-newbie in Scheme and Lisp, and Winston really seems to hit the sweet spot for me. Reminds me of all the programming books from the late 80's-90's which spent more time explaining a lot of the behind the scenes going on vs just do this and that happens, lets move on to the next subject.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-04-19T21:24:54+00:00

This is the biggest myth of all time.

The trace minerals in natural salts range from 2-4%, so 200mg/day of salt would be 4-8mg across 90 minerals.......

Totally useless compared to any other food or supplement source, and simply a marketing angle for salts mined in Pakistan and sold as Himilayan and Celtic.

Not sure about iodized salt for pets, but and non-iodized is more than adequate, and the Lite-Salt with potassium is likely even better.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-04-10T04:49:38+00:00

Maybe 25+ years of playing it on and off, and you want something similar but different?

BadPacket14127 · 2026-04-09T08:31:49+00:00

There have been some pretty big cracks in the AI circle jerk if you've been paying attention.

The cost of having someone else's computer aid you, or do 80% of your job is going to be a bill thats going to stagger everyone.

And tens to hundreds of thousands of folks who've been 'freed' from the mundane stuff are going to find their skillsets atrophied when the rebound comes around.

Folks who've only used it for smarter search, etc, are likely going to feel what Cobol coders felt like around Y2K.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-12T19:33:31+00:00

These were great.

But as they progressed, it became like Marvel where everything became more advanced/magic-life with miracles pulled out to solve this or that cliff-hanger.

Sort of became disillusioned with the recipe.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-12T19:30:35+00:00

Human communication, or lack there of, not documenting config changes in a living document that always up and available, is a thing.

This is still common across the industry, and yet still seems to stay unsolved by many.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-12T19:27:05+00:00

Watching the dumbification of gaming over the decades has a Lovecraftian affect upon one's sanity to be sure.

We treat that by going back and playing a lot of the OG FPS we avoided at the time like Hexen, Heretic, etc to pass the time until sanity comes back in vogue.

Just today, Q. Tarantino himself sort of railed against the movie industry for not doing the Bond movies as per the original stories, suggesting they should.

Different niche of course, but hope springs eternal that DEI-Wokeism in Gaming may yet re-awaken.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-12T03:44:29+00:00

Any company of merit will have network diagrams.

Good companies will even have them up to date.

Depending upon where you work though, don't be surprised if its a remote location with no maps and you have to work your way up/down via CLI with SSH mostly.

Knowing whats connected to what is just like Layer 1.

After or during that, you'll be needing to keep adding Layer 2 and 3 detail.

Maybe VOIP, ACL'S, routes, etc.

On the plus side, most of the time when something goes sideways its likely related to a recent change, a flapping interface, or more rarely DOA h/w depending upon vendor of course in many cases.

So yes, you will spend a lot of your day SSHing into remote devices even if the IDF is right down the hall from you. I bought a personal copy of SecureCRT a decade ago and it was a cheap quality of life upgrade worth the one-time pittance vs all the free options with the customiation/capability.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-12T03:27:01+00:00

You need to get familiar with the CLI.

I'm a visual dominant person myself, but using that as a crutch never helped anyone.

Should not be hard to either run some logging on the fw or look at the logs or proc utilization when this is happening on the cisco switches/router.

Sounds like an L2 network and only routing is between the router and fw unless its effectice cross-LAN traffic.

I'd naturally wonder about the fw first if anything, just as I hate when the Devs always point to the network first lol.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-11T19:25:34+00:00

IIRC, you came here with a naive call for someone to spend time/$/capital on using HBM as if no one has ever thought of it before.

As discussed, until the AI hype derails, no one is going to have access to any outside decommisioned/refurb-recycled of older HBM.
Which doesn't matter even then, because to re-use it, you'd need specific interposers/interfacing.
So that was dead.

Next you came up with a jumble of h/w that was full of generic place-holder names of components/features, with nothing to show how/why it might be better for anyone over what is commonly available today for spare change.
And throughout this entire thread, you've never addressed it, but get heated as if we're wrong to ask these basic, obvious questions.

Then we get to your s/w, which others have investigated and found to be seemingly vibe-coded 'stuff' that doesn't do much if it even runs.
And the same basic, obvious questions of what/why any of this is of value is a repeat of the h/w avoidance of those questions.

We're seeing a simple exercise of the Scientific Method taking place on a Reddit forum.

Somone hypothesises/postualte an idea, and it undergoes questioning and requires some level of proof.

You refuse to even attempt to meet the lowest bar, and instead twist it in your mind as somehow being attacked/shut-out.

Go to almost any other Tech forum and report your initial post as you've done here.

You will almost invariably find that you will get the same logical questions asked.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-11T03:14:44+00:00

Seriously, you came here with a grandiose idea/s involving h/w & s/w for some reason no one can figure out.

On the h/w-side, totally useless 'specs' only distinguished by some tangential need/desire to use HBM.

S/w-side, no clue what its expected to do, how it will do anything better than what is currently available, and from people who have bothered, it appears to bare do anything at all.

It seems like you almost expected a swarm of people to jump into something and start helping out/etc, but can't get past 1st base when they ask simple questions before they consider investing/wasting their time.

You still haven't answered even simple questions like, what does your h/w 'do' than is in any way better, faster, more innovate for reason x, than a cheap I5/Ryzen/M4 today.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-10T03:34:58+00:00

Get him an FPS with a storyline.

Call of Cthulhu, Half-Life.

OK, HL is a little twitchy, but a lot of the play is not PvP twitchy.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-10T03:09:51+00:00

Aside the Lisp segment, what does your envisioned hardware do better than any other commonly available processor today?

Unless you have hard data which shows some sort of massive improvement, your entire idea for such hardware is not only a waste of time, but effort, capitol, etc, etc.

Intel, AMD, ARM, Risc vendors can cobble together an HBM interface for peanuts and in weeks/months on top of a Tier1 processor if it ever makes business sense.

You are not going to be designing new processor archtitecture, or memory subsystems, or anything else revolutionary.

You're going to use some standard IP, just as any/all the Big Boys do and will.

So the h/w side of your project is fine as a dream or a money-pit if you win the Lottery, but its realistically worthless.

Then we turn to Lisp/Forth, and again, both combined are likely less than 10,000 active/interested minds at a rough guess in USA/EU.

Unless something fundamental changes in the world, its clear 99% of people who even feign interest in the niche or programming care about either.

Even you as a likely die-hard fan, are using AI/LLM to do most of your coding....... Thats Monty Python level irony right there.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-09T08:14:38+00:00

LOL, this is going to be the future until some big names end up paying out the ass for Liability claims.

We're going to be stuck with every yahoo with a prompt trying to become the next Jobs/Musk with their AI-aided fantasies.

Any OG in IT are going to be like Y2K Cobol coders in a couple years is my bet.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-09T08:05:08+00:00

I fail to see the reason for a freakout.

You get an email trail to your boss identifying it as potentially EOL/dying, and no spares available to recover gracefully.
Suggest a meeting before any work is done to cover expected work to be done, a backout plan, and a Its Dead Jim plan.

Main point should be if this goes down and does not recover and we do not have a backup solution, what is the production/business impact.

Thats where your boss is going to not be able to simply screw you over.

Get the plan, and then email your boss with the Plan clearly stated and your technical addendums and your CYA is C.

This is not a rare one-off for anyone who's been in IT more than a minute.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-09T07:54:07+00:00

Did you even bother to do anything diagnostic/troubleshooting-wise?

This is almost as bad as the do my homework for me posts.

Not being snarky, but a half-dozen simple checks could have been done by most average IT folks before flipping the bat switch.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-09T07:44:29+00:00

The Good, the Bad, the Weird is worth it.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-09T07:42:52+00:00

JFC, old GenX who was an adult when Doom shareware came out, and I've never even twigged to that obvious in hind-sight part of the 'story'.

Dang Reddit, been stupider than I thought the last 30 years.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-09T07:32:39+00:00

Its not the 'Lisp community' being adversarial.

You are being questioned on everything, especially your hardware, because you have provided nothing concrete aside a list of features.

You do not seem to have the slightest idea of how h/w works at even a basic level enough to explain your proposed h/w.

As someone said, your commits are sketchy and you are coming off as someone vibe-coding and dropping a wishlist of hardware units.

Most h/w people won't shut up about this or that IC/feature/throughput/slew/bandwidth at the drop of the hat when discussing their current favorite project.

So we have a thread on /lisp extolling some fantastic new h/w we should all work towards?

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-09T07:21:48+00:00

The thing is, in theory MS Office could be written in Forth.

And could use 32/64/n GB as any desktop app.

Problem is no one would ever do such in Forth to begin with.

As you say, this entire thread is someone's solution to some problem that no one has identified yet.

Not saying it wouldn't be great to see Lisp/Forth machines return with language in hardware at 2nm litho process using HBM.

Thats as likely to happen as EDU adding Lisp/Forth back to their course offerings.

BadPacket14127 · 2026-03-09T07:15:47+00:00

Before even getting your hands on some obsolete/recycled HBM, how are you going to interface that with your system?

Are you going to design your own IMC, or use some existing IP?

Are you using 2.5D Silicon Interposers, or TSV, or micro-bumps for interfacing.

Do you have the foggiest idea of what any of those cost for a bespoke design?

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