i am thinking about selling my 4th max. i have owned three forth gens, and one 3rd gen, and everyone one i have had has givien me a lot of MAJOR problems... and i do not beat on my cars. on this max, i just installed a new tranny, which is $1800 it is deffinetly a plus to anyone who is intrested.

***i am not selling my car... just gauging intrest on it, and what a good price would be.***

here are the specs:

1999 SE-L crimson blaze (red) maxima 90,000 miles
black leather interior
5 Speed
No performace mods (except an crappy intake)
blue led's in ACC, window switches
bose
moon roof
all the good stuff we have normally...
BUT it does not have ABS, or heated seats.


so anyone know what it is worth, or is intrested? i looked at KBB, but it is inacurarte...


-Chris

 

I'll take your car

 

i would say between 8700-9500 is about right consider it's high mileage...

 

ok... well i guess nobody cares that i am selling my car and leaving the fourms... just wanted a little feedback...

-Chris

 

why you leaving?

 

See, I am thinking about buying a 4th Gen Maxima real soon, and it would be real hard for someone to convince me not to buy one, and I have heard that the transmission poops out at 60k miles. What other problems have you encountered with your Maxima's, and how much did the repairs cost?

 

your car looks good man. you should keep it.

 

Besides tranny problems, what are the "major" problems you'be had on your other 4th gens?

 

Well... after owning 4 maxima's, i need to jump into something else. i have had too many problems with the maxima's, and i need to get out of this money pit. i drive nice and easy for the most part... but sometimes do burnouts or drive it hard to pass people. but it does not merit to blow trannys left and right.

i want to hop into a acura 3.2 TL Type s... or maybe a audi A4.. AWD!!! i am not really sure what i want... but it needs to be under $25,000. if anyone wants to give sugestions, feel free. IT NEEDS TO BE A 5spd

so now that i have the new tranny in the red max, everything is running great. but i feel the need to get a new car. but i will not be getting the new car untill end of Febuary.

-Chris

 

dude didn't you just buy the red max a few months ago?
Anyway sorry to hear you've had many problems with you max. Maybe if you install some performance mods your max will be happy again

 

I think somebody needs a hug.

 

well, 3 out of the 4 max's i have owned needed a new tranny/rebuild. that is alot of money to spend. i consider that to be enough to be a major problem. but don't get me wrong either, i loved my cars to death... otherwise i would have not have bought four of them. my 95 maxima had the most problems... and then the 99 maxima... the 98 had problems, but i caused them, and surprizingly my 93 max had the least amout of problems.

 

lol, yeah i did. i go through alot of cars... i am only 20 and this is my 6th car going on 7. i will for sure miss this fourm when i leave though... i wish my car would just freakin run like it did when it was new... i really love it. but she is also getting up there on the miles too... another reason why i want to sell.

-Chris

 

Umm I think you do have ABS, All 97's and up came with abs from factory, o and 4w disk brakes too

 

Chris, you just need to find the right maxima and take care of her. I know you haven't had the best luck, but you haven't bought them in the best of shape either. I don't know much about the 95, but I know you had a bunch of problems with the Dealer of the GLE and the SE-L needed a tranny just before you bought it. If you found a newer, low mileage maxima that hasn't been beat to **** I think you would be happy with it. Also, drop resistor mods = Good luck with the car search if you do sell the SE-L.

 

ABS was optional not standard on ALL 4th gen maximas

 

What no after 96 it was standard, Why would a 4wheel disk brake car come with out ABS, It makes no sense.

 

Did you guy the car back from the guy that you ripped off last week?

 

4 wheel disc brakes is standard on all 4th gens, but ABS is not. I have the exact same car, sounds like, and I don't have ABS or heated seats.

Sorry to hear that you have had so many problems with your max, man. I have loved mine for the past 10.5 months. I have put a lot of miles on it and it is still running great! I don't know about the tranny thing. I have not really heard that a lot about the SE-Ls.

If you are going to sell it, I guess sell it. But you have one of the rarest colors on the maxima. They only made it 1.5 years. 93, and 99.5 are the only years that the max was bright red. They are not common at all....that is why it is cool to have one.

Also, good luck finding a good A4 being under $25,000. They just don't happen. They were not all they were cracked up to be in past years, and the recent ones, that are pretty sweet, are just really pricey.

$9,800-$10,500 should be what you can get reasonably. That is somewhere between full retail and wholesale. Selling to a private party is just that, somewhere in between. It looks really clean. The only thing that would possibly throw a kink in the equation is the tranny replacement. You need to tell that it has new tranny, but that will not necessarily give the car more value. Rather, it will probably have the opposite effect, because it takes away a little of the buyer's peace of mind.

Hope some of this helped.

 

The first gen TL doesn't come in a manual and if you think the Maximas have tranny problems, don't even consider the 5-speed auto in the TL/CL. The auto was so bad that Honda did a "courtesy" recall of the 5-speed auto because people were blowing them on a regular basis. As for the Audi, good luck with that one. If you think Maximas are money pits, just wait till you buy a used German car.

My car has been bulletproof and out of all of the 25 Maximas in the Kansas City group, only one has had tranny work (5 speed with bad differential bearings). We all drive hard with me probably being the hardest driver of them all since I race at the track a lot. Little things have broken on my car over the past 5 years, but they were wear and tear items and were below $100 repairs. I'm extremely happy with my Maxima and really can't justify dumping my money into a new car that I would have to keep mostly stock because I couldn't afford to mod it while paying a hefty car payment. That's just me though.


Dave

 

If I had $25k budget I would definitely consider buying a G35 with 6 speed. I'm sorry to hear that it has cost you a lot to make you think not to continue to be loyal maxima owner....

 

***i am not selling my car... just gauging intrest on it, and what a good price would be.***


lol what then he flips out like NO ONE CARES IM LEAVING, bi-polar today ?


btw i was victim to the costly diff bearings situation, but im getting my car back fridays after it breaking november 15, but i would never leave my maxima, what car doesnt have a few problems..... oh well ill be a wyotech student soon, so i can fix anything.....

 

i am fully aware of the 1st gen tranny problems... i am a member of their fourms. acura actually just extended the warrenty on the tranny's to 100,000 miles instead of fixing the problem. oh well, but i was not going to but a 1st gen anyway... i was going to get a 02, or a 03. i belive that the 02-03 came out with the 5speed. i will have to do more research. i think acura is a great car... i used to own a legend and it had over 200k miles before it died from an accident. but i am really torn... i would consider getting a cheap 02 maxima, but my buddy Ethan (emax02) has one, and he just blew his engine with out any FI. sure he beats on it alot, but it blew... and he did not keep it in the red. i may just wait to sell my maxima, and save up some money and just get a g35 or a 350z... i am really not sure what to do guys. if i do buy a car i wish i could get it brand new with zero miles, but i do not think i can afford that much. i am still in debt from not being in work for 4 months.

-Chris

 

lol, what i meant was that i am not selling my car NOW, as in this doesn't belong in the clas. section of the org. i didn't want the mods to move it on me.

 

no... but i didn't really rip him off. that car is worth a lot more then what he got it for.

it sucks i deleted the thread... i had 22 replys, and one of the first ones was to delete it, so i did... i wanted to know what everyone else said..

-chris

 

it makes plenty of sense. on the 2000+ abs was standard. all others it was an option. trust us.

-chris

 

i dont have abs.......beer belly!

 

yeah, like none of us have heard that one before.

 

my 97 doesnt have it, my friends 96 has 4wheel disk brakes and doesnt have it, alot of people dont like abs, i dont. n e ways, u prob wouldnt get too much for your car, i'd keep it.

 

yeah, i am thinking about it. very confussed. not sure want to do... i am just really surprized that my car is not worth very much since it is so rare.

-Chris

 

Blkmax95c dont leave man! Hey your ride is running great now, stay with it. My Max have over 100k and no major problems other than a cracked radiator. Stay with it man, the espirit de corps is great here.

 

work on that whole misfiring thing now

 

what fun is a car if it doesn't break and need work now and then?

heh, kidding aside, I feel for you. I used to drive an '86 560SEC benz that would need more money in repairs on a monthly basis than I would ever dream of selling the thing for (because it needed so much work).

ironically enough, I ended up totalling the thing (r.i.p., as much money as that car cost me, it was the ultimate pimp machine, and a classic).

I got $11,000 from state farm for it... and I yoinked the 3 foot wide chrome grill with the huge mercedes emblem before they took it.

anyway, good luck with your car if you keep it. I think you should. selling is for quitters.

 

sorry u had so many issues. My car has 146k and is showing signs of a bad tranny (little wet on the surface of tranny) but at 90k a tranny rebuild sucks. 4th gens have all had that issue. Your car would be very popular for new buyers cause of the new tranny but i dont think u should expect a lot from it cause its something thats supposed to come with the car. 99 w/ 90k miles and a new tranny, almost fully loaded...hmm, i would say 8-9k? dam maxima's have gotten so much cheaper now...back in the day it was hard just to find a 97 at that price, even with high mileage.

 

how y likin the mevi mecca?

 

yeah, maximas retail value drops very quickly.

I say keep the car and then later get something else. $25,000 is a hard categorie to find a good car.

 

Hey how about WRX (not an STI), nice car. I heard they got some weak trannies there though so I don't know if you will like it. But it's damn ****en quick. Launching in 4500 rpm with sqeeling tires like crazy!!!

 

That's funny, I think the opposite way... If I'm going to sell the car, I do it before I dump thousands of dollars into it... and if I get stuck with an unexpected huge repair, I keep the car.

Why keep selling the cars that you replace/rebuild the trannies in? You should be keeping the car if you just replaced/rebuilt the tranny. You obviously know that now you have the best chance of owning a Max with a good tranny.

I guess if it's a grudge thing, then I understand. But fiscally it makes no sense to dump thousands of dollars into a car and sell it. At least, not to me. I might be small minded.

I have replaced my tranny. 6 months after I bought the damn thing. But after dumping 1200 bucks into it, I felt I was committed to it for a long time.

Also, I beat the ever lovin' CRAP out of my poor old 131K mile Max every day. I have ran about 100 lbs of nitrous through it, hit 6000+ RPM at least 5 times a day, and keep it wrapped up to about 4K on the highway for hours at a time (on a privately owned highway of course ).

I have owned it for 2.5 years now, it's paid off and the SC is IN THE MAIL! hehe...

Good luck with whatever you choose. I have to admit, you have EXCELLENT taste in cars.

D

 

yea if my 98 gxe came with ABS i should get it fixed cause it's not working at all. it was an option. of course my car has no options. grrr.

 

I totally concur with Sleepermaxima! Owners can usually sense things from their cars since they probably spend the most time in it, day in and day out, commuting to and from work and play. So even a slight change in feel would be noticeable, like a tranny slipping. Visually inspecting things around the engine, tranny, and drivetrain areas can clue you into things that might take you by surprise if you are not checking your car on a regular basis. I remember what my dad told me when I got my first car; "the older she gets, the more frequent you need to check her". So, with all these subtle hints (some not so subtle) that your car makes, you should be able to gauge whether you are about to get bombarded by major and expensive repair work or not. You can either quickly sell it and don't drive it around til it totally breaks down on you, since this will make it really hard for you to sell your car at or closest to your price. Or fix it and stick with it for a little while. Even after you've invested on a major repair work such as transmission, it really doesn't add more value to the price of your car. Instead, it can depreciate from it as Brudaddy had explained in his post. So the best thing is to stick with it and reap the benefits of the cash you have dropped to get it repaired.

I just invested about $600 on new valve cover gaskets (both front and rear banks) and labor, new cv boots and labor, and 2 new coil packs. To me $600 is a lot of money so now that I fixed it, I felt committed to sticking with my car for a little while. Since I bought my car used from a private owner with 105k miles, I didn't know the exact condition of my transmission eventhough it felt pretty normal while I test drove it numerous times. However, as soon as I got it, I took it to a tranny shop, had them drain the fluid, had them inspect for metal shavings and such, and had them replenish the fluid using the Redline synthetic product. I don't think 5-speeds require a pan/filter service. So now, I have a little bit of peace of mind and I continuously keep an eye on things with her.