I bought my car used.. and the second week I had the car the ignition coils needed to be replaced... I still need to get that done...

 

Pull the codes to find out which exactly coils need to be replaced.

To get coils, try this site - an online Nissan-authorized dealer:

http://www.nissan-auto-parts-dealer.com/

Go to Nissan Parts, then enter your year and model, and once in the catalog, go to ELECTRICAL --> IGNITION SYSTEM --> IGNITION COIL

For example, for Max2K coils go at $46.70

Coil replacement is easy, as you can see from the postings here. Many people have done that on their own.

Good luck!

 

Does anyone know the difference between the two part numbers show in the TSB:

Ignition Coil - RH 22448-2Y000 or 22448-2Y001
Ignition Coil - LH 22448-2Y005 or 22448-2Y006


Nissan-Parts-Dealer.com shows the ones with higher numbers for $50.60 and the first ones for $46.70. Are the higher number the new redesigned ones??

Thanks

 

Yep, can be done in 30- 40 min. Well worth the money saved

 

Will the coils from a 2K1, 2K2 or 2K3 Max work in a 2K Max?
Thanks

 

Hello all,

I just had my ignition coils replaced today by a Nissan dealer (charged me 1.2 + .5 hours labor plus parts = 555.02 before tax, FYI)

I called Nissan North America and they told me that I would have to write in my complaint. So before I write in my letter, I would like to get some signatures going on this ONLINE PETITION!!!

Click here to sign:

http://www.petitiononline.com/NIS_IGN/petition.html

I will post this as a new thread as well.

Let's get this thing recalled!!!

 

You can include me. Here's my story with my 00 GXE 5-speed.

- Bought it new in September of 2000.
- It knocked and pinged on occasion but the dealer said it was normal and to use premium gas.
- On 11/7/01 with 35k miles, the #4 coil conked out and was told not to drive it.
- The part was back ordered and didn't come in for 3 weeks (they gave me a Sentra for a loaner. Not a Maxima which I was making payments on but it was better than nothing).
- Finally got car back on 11/29/01.
- It ran better but still knocked and pinged and was still told it was normal and to use premium.
- I brought it in for service a few times over the years and each time complained about the knocking and pinging. Each time I was told there weren't any codes and that it was normal and to keep using premium gas, replace air filter, etc.
- Last fall the SES light came on.
- I checked the gas cap and let it go a week to allow for another fill up.
- The SES light went off.
- Over the next month the SES light came on and went off a few times.
- I went to the dealer and they diagnosed it to be the Mass Air Flow Sensor and replaced it at 63k miles under the emissions warranty (whew!). I was told that this would stop the knocking and pinging:-) But it didn't!
- The SES light came back on and this time the dealer said I needed to replace all 6 coils for just over $500.
- I told the service manager that this has been a problem since I bought the car and that they should replace the coils for free. He agreed but said that the computer program that they refer to didn't agree and I needed to pay for it.
- I discovered and signed the online petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/NIS_IGN/petition.html (I'm #201).
- I called Nissan Consumer Affairs and spoke to Megan B. who asked me to fax her a letter stating my problem along with my receipts from the dealer mentioning the knocking and pinging.
- The following week the dealer, after speaking with Megan B., agreed to split the "cost" with me for $200 complete.
- I agreed knowing that I wasn't going to get any further with them.
- All 6 coils were replaced on 1/8/04 with 65.6k miles, I now have a vehicle that doesn't ping!
- The first time I filled the tank after getting the 6 new coils I put in the medium grade and it still ran great!
- A few tanks later I decided to put regular in and....it still runs great!
- So, not only should Nissan reimburse me the $200 I spent to replace a faulty part, they should also reimburse me for the extra $$$ that I spent for having to pay for PREMIUM gas (which didn't help)!
- Just yesterday I received the Consumer Affairs Questionnaire. I will be giving them an earful!

 

You are still recommended to use premium gas regardless of anything. It will be for the best in the long run. Maxima is not intended to run on regular gas.

 

I know that premium is recommended but it isn't manditory, it's just for the best performance. The manual states that if premium isn't available then regular (at least 87 octane) can be used. I don't think they would put that in the manual if it wasn't good for the engine.

The fact of the matter is that if I didn't have this coil problem then I would have been able to fill up with regular every once in a while (if I didn't race it). Unfortunately it was still pinging even with premium. I tried the regular as a test and it's running just fine. That tells me that my problem was with faulty coils all along and I shouldn't have had to pay a cent to have them replaced.

 

There is one common factor here noone has brought up... In cold weather, jerky driving at low roms could be caused by aftermarket intakes! The air temp and velocity is going to be waaaaay out of range as opposed to what comes into the stock box... just something for thought...

My performance wasn't what it should be, I replaced the coils on my own accord, [1/2 hour in a snow storm ] and now everthign runs great....

~$34 for the fronts and ~$35 for the backs... Grey dot, so they are the new ones... These are Canadian funds to!!! muchos cheap at 417 Nissan here in Ottawa... $240 something after taxes for all 6 people...

 

Heh guys...

I need to replace my coils too... I think it's one of the ones toward the front, so I just want to replace all three of those first, then replace the three in the back later. When I look at the part numbers for the 2000, it has RH and LH (for Right-Hand, Left-Hand). Which is which? Are the ones at the front of the vehicle the RH, and the ones toward the firewall LH?

Ignition Coil - RH 22448-2Y000 or 22448-2Y001
Ignition Coil - LH 22448-2Y005 or 22448-2Y006

I know the ones in the front are labelled as the 4th, 5th and 6th cylinder... I just want to make sure I have it right before I order these things.

Also, can I use the coils from the 2001 for my 2000? Are there any advantages to doing that?

Can't wait to get my Max running again (it actually runs, I just won't drive it until it's fixed)... I'm tired of bumming rides off of people to get to work!

 

I can sell you the coils for 245 shipped let me know

 

Has anyone here bought them from you? I don't know man... I need some sort of proof that you are legit. Holla back and tell me whasup

 

I was told from my nissan guy here in MD that the difference is the production date. 2Y001 and 2Y006 have a production date June 2000 - June 2001. So, I would assume the 000 and 005 have an earlier production date.

 

From what I've seen, the coil problems seem to be worse for the 99-00's.

Just curious, has anyone with a 95-98 Max had problems with the coils? I have a 97 and think one of mine could be out.

 

Had mine replaced at 25k. Extended warranty covered it, but had a deductible.

 

Count Me in On the Problem...had car for 62000 miles just started to encounter random Knock... SES light came on twice, but has shut off by itself... I know what the problem is...Coils starting to fail... Have not replaced yet but I know its comming... Also my mother has a 2000 Max GLE & she has had the problem also... Hers was fixed by the dealer $490.00... Two Votes for yes

 

Another 2k in Utah with suspected coil problems. Completly stock with 72k miles. Rough idle, kills when tring to idle if engine is warm. No codes or check engine light displayed yet. The problem is two weeks old.

Does anyone know if you can tell which coil is bad by looking at the sparkplugs?

I'm down with everyone attacking Nissan Corporation for a faulty product. Maybe some one could post a phone number and the contacts name they have previously called and discused the problem with, so we all can call and make it clear there are a lot af cars being affected.

 

talk about dredging up an old thread....

 

I have a 2k maxima, i have to replace all 6 of my ignition coils very soon too. Nissan should admit to having a problem when this many consumers are changing it. We have to be organized. We...as CONSUMER's have alot of power. If this goes public, and becomes big news...we might have a case.

let me know what I can do to help this cause.

 

Count me in as another victim of the coils from hell. My SES came on Monday, and I took it to my mechanic. It came back with the coil failure code but not a code for any particular cylinder. They checked for any glaring issues, found nothing, reset the ECU, and told me to come back if it happened again. It came on again today.

I'm glad I found this thread without search because I now feel like I'll be okay waiting a week or two to handle this if I have to. I just need to decide who is going to do the work on the replacement. I'm not very experienced with working on my own car, but I might be able to enlist some help. If I can't, I guess it will be the mechanic.

I would try with Nissan, but getting the transmission solenoid replaced under that TSB while my car was under warranty was like pulling teeth. I'll just make my complaint to the NTSB. I wonder if people who pay for repairs covered by a later recall get any sort of reimbursement...

 

I just wonder that the poll show more than 2/3 5gen has the ignition coil problem why Nissan didn't issue a recall. 5gen user's should united to sue Nissan for the coil failure instead of the HID theft one.

 

I too have had bad coils diagnosed at about 65K. Mine came up as a coil misfiring on #2 cylinder, after the SES light finally came on. I had hesitiation when accelerating, and the car dying upon stopping, usually from speeds 25mph+. I've replaced the coil, but still having problems with the car dying with no SES light on though. Any other ideas on what might be causing this problem as well? Just let me know if you have any ideas... Thanks. I signed the petition, and I suggest everyone else to do the same if they haven't already.

 

what is a sign the coils are bad or going bad? is it hesitation starting?

 

I have replaced 1 coil i think around 50k miles. The car now has 73k miles and i think the other 5 are ready to be replaced.

 

Machplane, if your max is knocking (pronounced) when starting up a hill at around 10-40 MPG, you probably have the same problem as me. I have been all over this site reading about this, and have formulated my own (low budget) strategy. Dealer told me to put higher octane gas in it...that lasted about a day. I have 93K on my max, and I replaced the plugs last weekend (NGK's). That cut down on the noise quite a bit, but there is still a faint noise. The next step before the coils is the Mass Flow Sensor ($120 from dealer). I will hit the dealer this weekend who said that they will run a quick diagnostic to check the coils. If there is no diag problem, I will change the MFS and let you know.

Help out if they get a petition to nissan for hte coils.

 

Machplane, if your max is knocking (pronounced) when starting up a hill at around 10-40 MPG, you probably have the same problem as me. I have been all over this site reading about this, and have formulated my own (low budget) strategy. Dealer told me to put higher octane gas in it...that lasted about a day. I have 93K on my max, and I replaced the plugs last weekend (NGK's). That cut down on the noise quite a bit, but there is still a faint noise. The next step before the coils is the Mass Flow Sensor ($120 from dealer). I will hit the dealer this weekend who said that they will run a quick diagnostic to check the coils. If there is no diag problem, I will change the MFS and let you know.

Help out if they get a petition to nissan for hte coils.

 

Just to let you guys know im sellin these coils for 250 shipped to your door

 

I just replaced all 6 coils at 70k miles. I had my mechanic order the coils and replace them. The total was about $600, for parts and labor, including diagnostics. I wish I had realized I could have puchased the parts a lot cheaper. Anyway, count me as another 2000 Max with the ignition coil problem.

 

Replaced all six of mine also. Code was a "general failier" so they couldn't tell me which one was bad so I hit up the ORG (Thanks Twillin ) and replaced them myself along with spark plugs. Dealer wanted $510 for coils and just over $200 to install them and the plugs.

My Max had 75k on it.

 

OK, I had bad missing at idle, and was pulling codes P0304, among others (all indicating cylinder misfires). I purchased six new coils, with the dot, installed them, and had no improvement. Has anyone else have cylinder misfiring and new coils did not help? What other problem could I have? I have about 120k miles.

 

I would try repleacing the MAF, with that many miles its sure to be shot. Probably gonna feel like a new car after that. The new style top feed injectors seem to not go out as often as the older saturated injectors did till 99 where Nissan started to switch to the new style at Y2k.

 

try ringing out the spark plug wires...maybe you have a bad wire. The other thing that I did was when I was replacing the boot on the plugs, I bent one of the prongs on the electrical connector for the middle back plug. Took me a while to find it, but was night and day when I fixed it.

 

4-th gen and up Maximas have no spark plug wires, or distributors. They have 6 coil packs.

 

Stop jerking the newbie around. Check out his place, and look under maintenance, and scroll to the bottom.

www.kalecoauto.com

 

After replacing all six of my coils (w/ dots), the only difference I've noticed was the car not shaking and sounding like a POS. I can't recall a difference in gas mileage or acceleration. I think I need to clean/replace my MAF sensor. My low end power sucks like a 4 cylinder. I usually try to shift at or below 2000RPM, but with no low end, it seems to take forever to get up and going.

 

After replacing all 6 coils, and installing the "updated" MAF(before the original failed) and a Berk intake on my 2000 I30, performance increased (better low & high end) and MPG improved from 19 to 22 around town.

Also, since my I30 was out of warrantee, I wrote a nice letter to Nissan and explained that I was aware of mulitple coil failures (becasue of reading this site) and requested they refund me the $300.00 I paid to buy new coils, since obviously with so many failures they are defective. Guess what, they sent me a check for the full amount!

 

That's because you have the I30 instead of Maxima on the rear of your car. I wrote the same letter and my car was only 1,300 miles out of warranty, plus the delership misdiagnosed the problem and cost me and extra $325. You know nissans response was? then they had the ball to tell me the car is past the warranty period and they are not responsible for their dealships mistakes!

 

I'm also having problems with my ignition coils. I didn't feel so bad, because I got 23k miles on my '00 SE. I've seen people with less miles having the same problem. So what do we do? I plan on changing mine out when I come back from SEMA. But, if there was some way to get Nissan to pay for it....that would be nice!

 

Iam quite surprised u have just 23K miles -- you are plain lucky, just go to these stealerships bast**ds and tell them to replace all the coils and plugs. They would possibly ask you to reproduce the problem and if you car can be tempramental in displaying the problem -- put some crappy gas in it and then the problem would surface for sure. The same happened to me, I use Chevron 89 and when I had 33K on my car, they told me the problem could not be reproduced. Jerks!!!