This past weekend I got a chance to change the oil on the Xterra for the first time. Of all of the vehicles I've changed the oil on, this had to be one of the easiest. The only problem I ran into was trying to remove the old crush washer on the drain plug...not sure how long that had been on there. I was also a little puzzled by the fact that the drain plugs on the sump and the diffs weren't at the lowest point, but that's really a minor point.
BTW, I used a Nissan filter and Schaeffers 5w30 synthetic blend oil. I'm gonna try to go about 5k on this oil and then run an used oil analysis to see how the engine's doing.
Bogatyr