traction control, heated side view mirrors, ABS

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02-20-2003, 03:54 PM

Allen

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traction control, heated side view mirrors, ABS

I recently bought a '95 maxima GLE, fully loaded, from a private party. Well, the guy told me it was fully loaded but I found a few days later that it doesn't have heated seats. Now I'm suspicious as to what else it may or may not have. How can I check to see if traction control, heated side view mirrors and ABS came with my car? I'll check in a little bit but I don't think I saw an ABS light come on when starting the car. Thanks for any help.

02-20-2003, 04:14 PM

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no max has traction control. some canadian 5spd models and infinity I30s have a limited slip differential tho. i think that the heated seats are part of the cold weather package. so if you dont have that, then you dont have heated mirrors. and, if you open the hood and look for a thing by the steering collumn that kinda looks like a distributor that says "nippon abs" then you have abs. also, if you have an abs light when you start your car.

02-20-2003, 04:17 PM

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no max has traction control.

wanna bet me money that you are wrong?? please,please bet me....

02-20-2003, 04:27 PM

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wanna bet me money that you are wrong?? please,please bet me....

really? i could be wrong, because i only know manual trannies... as it should be. but one way or another, it sounds like this guy was lied to.

02-20-2003, 04:34 PM

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really? i could be wrong, because i only know manual trannies... as it should be.

good one...

jerk....

j/k

compliment with an insult added.... makes me equal

02-20-2003, 04:42 PM

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good one...

jerk.... j/k

compliment with an insult added.... makes me equal

lol, had to recover somehow...

02-20-2003, 04:45 PM

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get a room.

02-20-2003, 04:47 PM

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thanks guys, anyone know how i can tell if i have the cold weather package? any buttons or controls i can look for?

02-20-2003, 04:49 PM

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thanks guys, anyone know how i can tell if i have the cold weather package? any buttons or controls i can look for?

yeah, the seat heater buttons.

02-20-2003, 04:55 PM

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my maxima is a SE-L but i do not have leather (i bought 2 tone after market) traction control, abs,side air bags, seat heaters, and climate control..

all maximas are a little different

02-20-2003, 04:56 PM

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I aint even know maxima had heated rear view mirrors. How do u know if u have it or if it works becuz I got heated seat and all dat ****.

02-20-2003, 04:59 PM

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my maxima is a SE-L but i do not have leather (i bought 2 tone after market) traction control, abs,side air bags, seat heaters, and climate control..

WOW, that's weird, I though that leather was a requirement for heated seats. Obviously not.

02-20-2003, 04:59 PM

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I aint even know maxima had heated rear view mirrors. How do u know if u have it or if it works becuz I got heated seat and all dat ****.

if your mirrors are frozen over and you turn the defroster on, and they start to melt from the center of the mirror, then you have mirror heaters.

02-20-2003, 04:59 PM

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my maxima is a SE-L but i do not have leather (i bought 2 tone after market) traction control, abs,side air bags, seat heaters, heated mirrors, and climate control..

all maximas are a little different

02-20-2003, 05:00 PM

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remember this guy has a 95, so i am talkin 95 packages.

my car turns 8 years old on 3/18 btw!!!

02-20-2003, 05:20 PM

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no max has traction control.

I have traction control on my 99 SE-L.

It came with the Limited Leather Package I got.

I think 99 was the first year Nissan had TCS available for the Maxima.

02-20-2003, 06:10 PM

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WOW, that's weird, I though that leather was a requirement for heated seats. Obviously not.

Who said I aint have leather. I do. I have a manual fully loaded 97 SE black on black.

02-20-2003, 06:54 PM

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not to get off topic here, but i did have a question. do i have traction control? i have 98 gle with every single last option there is, right down to the back side airbags. as i was pulling up my driveway in the snow, and my brother was watching my tires and he said that it looked like i had posi, or traction control because when one wheel didn't work the other would spin, and so forth. i know that no max's have posi, so could it be tcs? thanks.

02-20-2003, 06:55 PM

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I have traction control on my 99 SE-L.

It came with the Limited Leather Package I got.

I think 99 was the first year Nissan had TCS available for the Maxima.

intresting i never knew that.

02-20-2003, 11:09 PM

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Yes... njmaxseltd is right. Here is the direct quote from www.nissannews.com

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The Nissan Maxima, the flagship of the six-vehicle 1999 Nissan lineup, receives a number of refinements for the new model year, including the availability of Nissan's Traction Control System (TCS) for GLE and SE models equipped with automatic transmission

02-21-2003, 10:31 AM

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Who said I aint have leather. I do. I have a manual fully loaded 97 SE black on black.

Ok, so when you said you didn't have leather (and that you bought two tones after market), does that mean that you put the heated seats after you bouthg the leather, or that it had the heated seat before (when you didn't have leather). I'm just curious.

02-21-2003, 10:36 AM

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Ok, so when you said you didn't have leather (and that you bought two tones after market),

i said that... i had cloth and i installed the leather. no heaters.

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does that mean that you put the heated seats after you bouthg the leather, or that it had the heated seat before (when you didn't have leather). I'm just curious.

02-21-2003, 01:47 PM

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I have the Cold Weather Package (which, comes in handy in Canada

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heated mirrors --> these turn on when you turn on your rear defroster.
heated rear view mirror --> doesn't exist...and, frankly, why would it?
TCS --> came in 99. You don't have TCS.
Limited Slip Differential --> Canadian Maxima's and I30s have this...
I know I do

ABS --> look for the ABS light when you start your car.

That answers those questions, don't it?

take care!
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02-21-2003, 02:13 PM

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WOW, that's weird, I though that leather was a requirement for heated seats. Obviously not.

Nope

But I do think heated cloth seats are rare in a Max.

02-21-2003, 03:15 PM

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Nope But I do think heated cloth seats are rare in a Max.

Excellent. That picture cleared things up nice it. First one I've seen.

02-21-2003, 11:40 PM

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Excellent. That picture cleared things up nice it. First one I've seen.

damn wish i had that on my max... not that id use it but nice to say i have heated cloth seats

wonder how hard it would for a swappy swap..?

02-22-2003, 05:45 AM

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I aint even know maxima had heated rear view mirrors. How do u know if u have it or if it works becuz I got heated seat and all dat ****.

Throw snow on your side view mirrors. Turn on the rear defrost. If the snow starts to melt, BINGO.

02-22-2003, 01:08 PM

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damn wish i had that on my max... not that id use it but nice to say i have heated cloth seats

wonder how hard it would for a swappy swap..?

If you can get the heated seats and switches the seats bolt right in. The console hase marked areas underneath where the holes for the switches should go. I ended up tapping into the cigarette lighter for power. One of my favorite mods. I am glad I found them since I prefer cloth to leather.

02-22-2003, 09:01 PM

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I am glad I found them since I prefer cloth to leather.

why doy ou like cloth better??

02-23-2003, 06:14 AM

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why doy ou like cloth better??

Leather = Hot in summmer, Cold in Winter, Sticks to your legs when you wear shorts, Slippery all the time. I'm just weird.

02-23-2003, 09:11 AM

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yeah u r. Heated leather seats 4 me is OK.

02-23-2003, 11:17 AM

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WHoa!

My Maxima has Traction Controll, There is a button to turn it off and turn it o, also It has LSD (the better one, i thinks its called VLSD) if you dont belive me ill post up some picutes as soon as I get my Maxima back from the repair shop, Usually heated seats is part of the Gold Package with the old Maximas, a lot of people wernt into spending a grand more for all of these things back then, so just live with what you got, At least you know you can smoke an SI, HAHAHAHAH