Can anyone tell me where this vehicle was made?? (State or country) The picture is blurry, but here’s the VIN number for the car. It’s a 2002 Nissan Xterra. Thanks
5N1ED28T62C589265
It appears to have been manufactured at the Smyrna Plant in Tennessee, USA.
https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/decoder/
https://www.nissanhelp.com/diy/common/nissan_vin.php
@oskool thank you for the resources. Highly appreciated 👍🏾
It’s a 2002 Nissan Xterra
I'd say if you're considering the purchase of a 23-year-old vehicle the least of your concerns should be where the factory is that it was built in.
@chucktobias where it’s built matters because it can determine how well the car is made & holds up overtime. Cars made in Mexico & parts of the U.S. don’t hold up well.
Not necessarily because early build quality problems would have been fixed years ago on a decades-old vehicle if it is still on the road. As I said, its current condition is the most important thing. (There are exceptions when the problem is a design defect rather than an assembly quality issue.)
@chucktobias so you disagree that assembly quality isn’t so much a factor in a car’s condition, rather than just a simple design flaw? Because underpaid workers can always leave a part loose to fall off or break early on a car.
"Early" is the point here. Initial defects due to poor assembly would be corrected before a vehicle becomes decades old if it survives. Look British Leyland for an example. When new the quality of assembly on those cars was incredibly poor, worse than anything from Mexico or even China today or the poor build quality of American-made cars at the time. (Leyland cars would even drip oil in new car showrooms.) However the examples that have survived the decades had those defects corrected years ago. When looking to buy an MG or Triumph today you don't worry about the horrid original build quality, you evaluate its current condition.