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Old Dec 16, 2002 | 08:34 AM
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6 Speed Owners Survey

Please fill in the following information regarding your 6spd transmission, nothing else.

Year:
Mileage:
Fluid Change:
Experience:
Grinding:
Broken:
Replaced:

Example....

Year:2002
Mileage:24000KM (no you don't have to convert to KM)
Fluid Change: No
Experience:15 years
Grinding: No
Broken: No
Replaced: No

Please only respond with the above and if you have a 6speed. I want too keep this thread clean so I can tabulate the responses.
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 08:45 AM
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Re: 6 Speed Owners Survey

Year: 2k2
Mileage: 10075
Fluid Change: No
Experience: 1 week
Grinding: No
Broken: No
Replaced: No
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 08:55 AM
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Year:2003
Mileage:2000 Miles
Fluid Change: No
Experience:12 years
Grinding: No
Broken: No
Replaced: No
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 09:09 AM
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Re: 6 Speed Owners Survey

Year: 02
Mileage: 2,600
Fluid Change:no
Experience: 12 years driving stick everyday
Grinding:no
Broken:no
Replaced:no
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 09:37 AM
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Year: 02
Mileage: 4650
Fluid Change: No
Experience: 16+ years
Grinding: No
Broken: No
Replaced: No
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 09:42 AM
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Year: 02
Mileage: 10800
Fluid Change: Guess so, with the new tranny
Experience: 4 months, 1 week, 5 days driving stick
Grinding: Yes, in 3rd
Broken: Yup, currently on 2nd tranny, about to get #3
Replaced: Once so far...
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 09:45 AM
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Year:2002
Mileage:37,900 miles
Fluid Change: Transmission (Redline MT-90 @ 10k)
Mobile 1 (2nd oil change)
Experience: 2 years (im only 18 )
Grinding: No
Broken: Clutch squeal @ 10k miles
Replaced: Clutch @ 10k miles
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 09:49 AM
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Year:
03
mileage:
1,100
Fluid Change:
No
Experience:
13 years driving manual trannies'
Grinding:
Yes
Broken:
No
Replaced:
N/A
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 10:02 AM
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Posts: 58
Year:2002
Mileage: 9,600 miles
Fluid Change: Redline MT-90 @ 2k
Experience: 5 years
Grinding: When it's cold
Broken: Not right now
Replaced: Replaced when car was brand new. Dealer delivered car to me with broken transmission...then I had to wait 3 weeks to get a new one in.
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 10:04 AM
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Re: 6 Speed Owners Survey

Year: 2003
Mileage: 600 (just got it 2.5 weeks ago)
Fluid Change: No
Experience: 2.5 weeks
Grinding: No
Broken: No
Replaced: No
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 10:07 AM
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Year - 2k2
Miles - 13,000
Fluid Change - No
Experience - 10 Years
Grinding - No
Broken - No
Replaced - No
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 10:53 AM
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Posts: 1,280
Year - 2k2
Miles - 11,000
Fluid Change - Redline MT-90 @ ~5k (not recommended)
Experience - 358 Days
Grinding - No
Broken - No
Replaced - No
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 11:04 AM
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Year: 2002
Mileage: 6564 miles
Fluid Change: NO
Experience: 11 years
Grinding: NO
Broken: NO
Replaced: NO
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 11:16 AM
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Re: 6 Speed Owners Survey

Year: 2002
Mileage: ~11000
Fluid Change: No
Experience: 13 years
Grinding: Couple times early on when forcing.
Broken: No
Replaced: No
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 12:04 PM
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Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 112
Year: 2002
Mileage: 8300
Fluid Change: No
Experience: 2 years
Grinding: Grind gears only when I screw up like let clutch up before in gear. :P
Broken: No
Replaced: No
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 12:06 PM
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Year: 2002
Mileage: 12500
Fluid Change: No
Experience: 7 years
Grinding: No
Broken: No
Replaced: No
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 03:50 PM
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Posts: 84
Year: 2002
Mileage: ~4100
Fluid Change: No
Experience: 6 months
Grinding: No
Broken: No
Replaced: No
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 04:06 PM
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Year: 2003
Milage: 8000
Fluid: dealer fill at replacement
Exp: since before alot of you were born...25 years
Grinding: slight crunch into 3rd sometimes, fine downshifting.
Broken: OK now
Replaced....yes at 6000 miles from a bearing whine that would be noticable at a 55-60 cruise. As I said and The tranny prob was not nissans fault. Thats all i will say and moderators please leave this statement in this time.
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 07:06 PM
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Re: 6 Speed Owners Survey

Year:02
Mileage:6500
Fluid Change:yes
Experience:15yrs.
Grinding:no (and I'll 1,2,4,6 it)
Broken:no
Replaced:no
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 07:32 PM
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Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 1,875
Year:02
Mileage:26,700 KMS
Fluid Change:yes (Amsoil 2000 @ 5000kms)
Experience: 8 years
Grinding:2nd and 3rd, notchy shifting, problems getting into 1st and reverse
Broken:no, but i hope soon, i want a replacement
Replaced:GOod luck with NISSAN CANADA
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 07:34 PM
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From: Portland, OR
Year:02
Mileage:26K
Fluid Change: yes
Experience: 18yrs.
Grinding: no
Broken: no
Replaced: coil packs, rear window seals, sunroof wind deflector (waiting still), multiple rattles in dash, and the damn thing still pings!!!!!!!!!!!!
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 07:42 PM
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Year:02
Mileage:21K
Fluid Change: yes
Experience: 4yrs.
Grinding: YES
Broken: YES
Replaced: Being





I decided to make this a sticky for a few weeks, I edited some posts to keep this thread clean and to the point (as asked by the author). Please keep the responses direct and to the point. Any post not to the point is subject to my editing
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 08:13 PM
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Re: 6 Speed Owners Survey

Year: 2003
Mileage: 1500
Fluid Change: No
Experience: 16 with manual
Grinding: No
Broken: None
Replaced: Mats(damage to passenger mat by Nissan while preparing the vehicle for delivery.)
Old Dec 17, 2002 | 09:35 AM
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Year: 2002
Mileage: 22,000 miles
Fluid Change: No
Experience: 16+ years driving manual
Grinding: No
Broken: No
Replaced: BOSE HU, wind deflector, (still waiting), left rear taillight
Old Dec 17, 2002 | 10:39 AM
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Posts: 28
Year: 2002
Mileage: 9300 miles
Fluid Change: No
Experience: 18 years
Grinding: No
Broken: No
Replaced: N/A
Old Dec 17, 2002 | 12:34 PM
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Re: 6 Speed Owners Survey

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MaxRPM
[B]Please filling the following information,

Year: 2002
Mileage: 10,000
Fluid Change: no
Experience: 8 years
Grinding: no
Broken: no
Replaced: nothing
Old Dec 17, 2002 | 01:32 PM
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Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 257
Year: 2003
Mileage: 17300km
Fluid Change: no
Experience: >1yr
Grinding: notchy
Broken: no
Replaced: no
Old Dec 17, 2002 | 02:28 PM
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Re: 6 Speed Owners Survey

Year: 2003
Mileage: 18000 miles
Fluid Change: No
Experience: 15 Years
Grinding: None
Broken: No
Replaced: No
Old Dec 17, 2002 | 03:11 PM
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Joined: Dec 2000
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year: 2002
mileage: 32000Miles
fluid change: at 1k and every 10k thereafter
experience: 2 weeks
Grinding: YES HORRIBLY, mostly in 3rd sometimes other gears
Broken: Yes
Replaced: NO grrr
Old Dec 17, 2002 | 03:20 PM
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Year: 2k2
Mileage: 9400
Fluid Change: Redline MT-90 @ 9200 miles
Experience: 10 months
Grinding: sometimes when downshifting into 3rd; sometimes in reverse.
Broken: No
Replaced: No
Old Dec 17, 2002 | 05:47 PM
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Year:2002
Mileage:47,000kms
Fluid Change: Redline at 10,000kms
Experience:19 years
Grinding: going into 2nd or 3rd, but only if 'hammering' it. Driven like a 'sport sedan' and it's fine. Like a Porsche and it protests
Broken: No
Replaced: No

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Old Dec 17, 2002 | 07:56 PM
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Posts: 18
Year: 2002
Mileage: 5500
Fluid Change: No
Experience: 20 years
Grinding: Yes
Broken: No
Replaced: No
Old Dec 18, 2002 | 12:07 AM
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Re: 6 Speed Owners Survey

Year:2002
Mileage:18438
Fluid Change:nope
Experience:12 years
Grinding:sometimes in 3rd, especially when cold
Broken:nope
Replaced:nope


Hope this helps...
Old Dec 18, 2002 | 03:09 AM
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From: NY
Year: 2003
Mileage: 6000
Fluid Change: No
Experience: 3 years
Grinding: when shifting too fast in the cold (3rd)
Broken: No
Replaced: No
Old Dec 18, 2002 | 06:33 AM
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Year: 2002
Mileage: 40,000
Fluid Change: no
Experience: 12 yrs
Grinding: yes..3rd gear
Broken: no
Replaced: no
Old Dec 18, 2002 | 06:54 PM
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Re: 6 Speed Owners Survey

Originally posted by MaxRPM
Please fill in the following information regarding your 6spd transmission, nothing else.
Year: 2002
Mileage: 5300
Fluid Change: no
Experience: 21 years
Grinding: no
Broken: no
Replaced: nothing
Old Dec 18, 2002 | 08:02 PM
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Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 6
Year: 2002
Mileage: 13,500
Fluid Change: no
Experience: 1 year
Grinding: 3rd gear
Broken: i think something is wrong w/ my 3rd gear
Replaced: no
Old Dec 18, 2002 | 08:37 PM
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2002 BLACK

Year: 2002
Mileage: 7600 mil
Fluid Change: NO
Experience: 11 YEARS +,-
Grinding: NOTCHY SHIFTING(3rd) some times problems getting into 1st(maybe 11 times)
Broken: NO
Replaced: NO
Old Dec 18, 2002 | 10:15 PM
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Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 234
Year:2002
Mileage:15000km
Fluid Change: No
Experience:3 years
Grinding: 3rd gear if shifting slowy
Broken: Probably, but the delearship said its ok
Replaced: No
Old Dec 19, 2002 | 11:10 AM
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more notchy than I'm used to

Year: 2003
Mileage: 6050 miles
Fluid Change: no
Experience: 7 years
Grinding: yes...cause it's so damn notchy, I think I'm in gear, but I'm not...and 5th isn't smooth at all.
Broken: no
Replaced: no



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