How hard would it be to find a 98 or 99 maxima se with leather, nonbose, auto climate control, and a 5 spd?? and how much?? I have a 97 se with all of that except it's an auto with 93,000 on it, how much do you think I would get for it?

 

it was a pain in the *** for me to find my 95SE AUTOTRAGIC, I found a VERY nice Pearl White SE 95 with a pitch black interior leather, auto climate, and 5-spd for about $5000 but I didn't get it because it had 173,000 MILES I really wish I got it and swaped the engine, but it still had to many miles in general... they raped that poor car...

 

also you could always do a 5-spd conversion.. thats on my list :P oh and did you see the thread about the tan interior to black leather conversion? It came out really nice, so no matter what you decide you could always do them 2 and get what you really wanted...

 

yeah, but finding a car is more economical than doing a 5 spd swap,plus the paint on my car isnt in all that great of condition

 

my dad has a friend who frequents the auctions im hopin he will come across something

 

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good luck, its my understanding that the vast majority of our cars are automatics because they are family/old people cars. i came across only one 5spd and it was beat to hell. i had enough trouble finding a nice auto.

but they are out there

 

it's real easy: go and buy a stripped 99 SE, and a week later go car shopping, and notice that every lot you had been to before now suddenly has the car you want. At least that's what happened to me.....

 

 

that is the honest to god truth of it

 

well I just found one on ebay, and my dad claims that his friend who goes to the auction comes across them all of the time. I live in MA and the one on ebay is from NJ so there is a possibility, but it has the pinstripes is there anyway to take those off?

 

Like the time I spent countless weeks looking for a good maxima, looked at many 95-96 GLE's, GXEs, nothing that I really liked, and even a beige 97SE, but I really didnt like the color. . . eventually I came across a Rosewood 97SE auto stripped, so I jumped on it. Next week I saw a black with black leather SE 5 speed in a used car lot near my house, and in the classifieds, a 2000 SE 5 speed for $10,500.

 

2000 that cheap??? Well I have to have the leather and auto climate control and it has to be an SE

 

There should be a lot of Maximas in the northeast, and you should be able to find a 5 speed. It was supposedly the best selling 4 door sedan in the NE for a while.

 

tell me about it....A week later, the place i bought my car had a fully loaded black on black 5-speed with only 20k mi on it. then 2 days after that, colonial nissan in philly was selling off it's 02 stock, and prices were starting at $12k. That's 2Gs less than what my 99 cost used.


And yes, you can remove the pinstriping.....

 

i have had luck with using cars.com and autotrader.com

with autotrader.com you can click on certain fields and only search for a "1998-1999 maxima" and "manual transmission"

this should help you modify your search.

good luck!

 

and im looking for 97-99 SE, either black or neptune blue and the black leather seats r a must have for me. manual or auto dont really matter, but i prefer auto more. and it also has to be less than 75k miles used. how hard is it to find that car ? :\

 

thanks, autotrader is good

 

LOL, you would find me on the following sites 24/7/365

www.autotrader.com
www.cars.com
www.autobytel.com
www.ebay.com (cars section)
www.carsdirect.com

not to mention recycler magazine & autobuys!!

please dont at me. I'll do ANYTHING to find a black/blue on black 97-99 SE. and Im NOT buying anything else

 

Yes.

Before:


After:


5 minutes with this badboy and some goo-gone, then a good wash and wax.


Just stick your fingernail under it when you look at it and make sure it's a sticker, and not painted on. (90% of the time it's a sticker)

 

Iansw is right, run your finger over the pinstriping. If it's in sort of a groove, it's painted on. But if the pinstriping is raised, it's just a sticker.

If you don't have access to a sander, you can use a blowdryer or heat gun. Or, just do wat buddy did to his sentra: Let the car sit in the sun all day on a hot, humid day, and just peel it right off.