This should be fun. I didn't include "paint" or "tires" because we all know that would skew the results.

Cast your votes . . .

 

.....that damn MAF failure scare is keeping me from getting the INJEN CAI. I figure I can wait for the NISMO version and not worry about the failure B.S.

It's also dang expensive to replace.

G.R.

 

Front brake rotors

 

Thanks, ru4real. I forgot about the POS brake rotors, huh? Well I'll count them in the final tally when the poll is over.

 

blower motors...

 

Suspension...yes every single part of it.

 

As someone said earlier...Rotors!

 

id have to go with the rotors as well. nissan has not given me any lip about replacing them but still its a pain when the last nissan i had went 100k without ever replacing the rotors.

 

Paint?

 

can I do multiple selection?

 

i vote for ignition coils (since we get winter's up here in chicago)....its been fixed now

also rotors

 

I put my vote in for Rotors
and
an Honorable Mention for the 2K shift boot, which I think was actually made by Glad.

 

The infamous cracking sun roof wind deflector.

 

Can "turning radius" be considered a part? If so, please scratch my vote for suspension and we'll go with that.

 

BRAKES...everything about them

 

POS brakes!

(and paint!)

 

Nope. Otherwise everybody would vote for paint.

 

oh sooo true

"Let me just do a quick U-turn....ohh wait!!...crap...here comes a semi...F***ing turn radius!!"

 

pos rotors/brakes

aftermarket part -->rsb that won't stop clunking

 

...can I change my vote to SUSPENSION TOO??!!

I hate EVERY damn bit of it as well!!

had to piggy-back on asu174. Still hate the MAF

G.R.

 

Sunroof switch, 2k2 owners know what I'm talking about.

Not a Nissan but the damn BOSE has been giving me nothing but problems.

 

I vote for rotors and these annoying sqeeking windows..

 

clickety click BLOWER MOTOR is my vote.

To make the results more meaningful, you may want to seperate the 2k and 2k1 results from the 2k2 and later.

 

ROTORS. Even as a conservative older driver, it is ridiculous to have them warp at 25k miles. I'm sure replacements are not that far away, but not stock.

 

Brakes, and the solid build quality inside with no rattles. I like the windows that squeak and pop too. ^_^

 

THE WHOLE DAMN CAR!

 

For all of those complaining about your max, I have an instant cure. Go rent a car from Hertz. You will probably get stuck with a Mercury Sable, if you're lucky. I have been out of town for only a couple of days now, but I really miss my car.

BTW I stick my vote in for the trunk hinge design. Can't believe they still stick into the trunk so bad.

 

I'm gonna have to go with the ingenious multi-link rear beam. It's good to know we have top-of-the-line cutting edge technology at work in our suspension.

 

ROTOR

 

It hasnt failed yet, but we all know MAF's are a POS ! They fail on stock and non stock intakes !

 

I would have to say my Auto tranny, which after 2 years of problems and 1.5 weeks in the shop (THIS TIME). I get to wait another week for it just to get here from Jacksonville FL (the only nissan distributer that has the LSD auto in the US) before I get my car back.

I would have to say the "Swiss Cheese" paint job as my 2nd choice though.

 

suspension/chassis! (BEAM axle)

 

Couldn't seem to make my vote take (something about "invalid session"). Put me down for 'other'.

1. Can I say the 17 x 7 wheels? Styling is fine, size is terrible.

2. Side glass weatherstripping that doesn't squeegee the water off, puts streaks back on already dry windows when you lower & raise them again instead.


My '87 Max used to disassemble its transmission input shaft bearing on roughly a 50,000 mile schedule. 3 times in all. That means in about 30k I get to find out if Nissan has managed to fix that problem (or at least has on a statistical basis).

Norm
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Do you remember where you were and what you were doing one year ago today?

 

Almost forgot the easily-scratched windshield. That is, until I drove more or less toward the setting sun late yesterday afternoon . . .

Norm

 

OOOH, i vote that d*** turn radius! i seriously think a school bus driver was laughing at me the other day as i did a 3-point U turn!

i have to agree with Maxima Dan, tho. we're pretty spoiled overall. drive a Ford or something for a day, and revel in the flimsy plastics, ill-fitted body panels and just general substandard build quality, and you'll love your Maxima even more. driving a rental car really restores the 'big picture' for ya. it's not that other cars *completely* suck, but little things (like the material the dash is made out of, or how the window and lock buttons feel) really make our Max's great machines, despite some (well-noted) exceptions.

 

Rotors!

 

Rotors

 

I luv my Nissan, so far so good, exept my ****ty autotrannie that feels like it's slipping from 2nd to 3rd at WOT.

 

The plastic trunk tensioner bar clip that I have gone thru 6 of them in 3 years , granted it is only a $3 piece but it makes such a rattle when it is missing/broken and the dealers don't always have the POS in stock...I wish someone would mill a steel block in the same shape...

 

Oh good one; I keep breaking those cheepie plastic screws also.