More problems with my 95 maxima gle. this car was poorly maintined by a previous owner......now the probs
1. fog lights do not work
2. brake light on spoiler doesnt work
3. trunk doesnt close..(i'm thinking or just getting latches from wrecked maximas at the junk yard)
4. bose head unit is starting to screw up....cds have hard time playin...skips a whollllleeeeee lot...it might just be dust...but it might lso be something else
5. heated seats are busted.... havent found anyone who knows how to fix the thing...i'll probably just get some seats and a heated seats panel from the junk yard as well
6. rear defroster takes a very long time to defrost
7. low voltage on the drivers window
8. cigarette lighter doesnt work
cant think of anymore at the time..but the previous owner of the car treated it like sheeyat....

 

why the HELL did you buy it then?

 

When i bought it none of this stuff was there....everything worked....when i saw the car ..it was dirty as hell inside...the leather was pretty worn..and he didnt do his 120k service (it had 125k..ther was a couple dings in it..nothing major....still rode smoothly though....i bought it for 4000...pretty good deal considering the other maxima around me like this one were 7000+......the trunk thing, i'm thinking was because someone lightly hit me , but it may have been enough to bend the latches in the trunk...... but i could tell the person didnt take too much care of his just cause of the way he acted, but.,,,i wanted a maxima just didnt have a bunch of $$, so i bought this thinking it was an easy fixer uper...

 

Mine is the same way, it takes forever to do anything, really annoying when your window is really foggy.

I'm starting to feel the pain of buying a maybe not so greatly maintained Max as well, mine is a 96 SE with the S&C package. It was extremely clean and ran really smooth, even with 157,00 miles (it was previously a comercial use buisness car- then a young college girl's) when I got it a couple of months ago... then the problems show up, I thought I was just gonna have to fix one O2 sensor and it's one thing after another. I also bought mine for the price -$4500 (when ones at the dealer in far worse condition were going for $8000).

1. Second day I had it the power antenna went out.
2. Third day the keyless remote went out.
3. Start noticing knocking on turns, wasn't there on test drives- bad strut
4. Realise that what we thought was sap on the windshield is actually a crack
5. Find out that it also has a bad knock sensor.
6. Replace the wrong O2 sensor (or maybe they were both bad)
7. replace the other front O2 sensor and still get the code for it, probably leading to...
8. Possible ECM computer malfunction.

All of the above leading to me feeling pretty damn stupid- especially after the girl I bought it from stopped answering or returning my calls.

Thats what happened to me, and I JUST got the damn thing. How long have you had yours before things started breaking?

 

well 5 months.....but its technically 2 months.....i got a reckless speeding ticket and got my liscense suspended for 90 days..good ol virginia state troopers..so it wasnt driven much during that time i've had the car for 9 months now. I dont even know how to go about fixing this stuff though.