Just wanted to give you all a pop quiz. Tell me what's wrong with the pictures of this 11k mile 02 Maxima SE ? Enjoy

Dave
02 Maxima SE w/48k mi

 

missing fog lights?

 

I almost forgot, I see at least 3 to 4 things wrong with this car.

Dave
02 Maxima SE w/48k mi[/QUOTE]

 

imissing fog lights, plus the the 02 & 03 have a different grille that is that silver colored

 

that's 1

Dave
02 Maxima SE

 

whats the deal with the dual colored stering wheel

 

no idea.. please inform.

 

wow I missed that one!

 

I guess the last thing is the 2 tone steering wheel.

 

i noticed the 1)dual colored steering wheel, 2) missing fog lights, 3) different bumber, 4) different grille

 

Can you say front impact repair! The ad doesn't state anywhere that it's a salvaged or repaired car

Dave
02 Maxima SE

 

what do you see dave?

 

I noticed right off the bat 1) steering wheel airbag cover 2) missing fog lights 3)miles for a 02 (suggests it was wrecked and sitting at a salvage yard for a long period of time) & 4) the price for a 11k mile car. I totally missed the grille and bumper. I feel sorry for the person who doesn't know Maxima's Thanks for the fun guys.

Dave
02 Maxima SE

 

hey dave, tell me what you think of my 03
My car
it only has 12k miles

 

Well looks like a 5 Gen/5.5 Gen hybrid to me, between the grille, the shifter, headlights, taillights, lack of foglights, rims, two tone bs inside. Id say thats one f'ed up maxima. My Guess front end collesion, so new headlights, grille ( thats why its and old one ) and a different steering wheel bc of air bag

 

Looks like a sweet ride. Your shifter boot looks brand new. Most of the one's I've seen kind of sag.

Dave
02 Maxima SE

 

its a 2k2 with a 2k-2k1 front bumper

why?
-2k2 shifter console
-2k2 gauges
-Look closely at the door handles (its a 2k2-2k3 door handle)
-steering wheel functions are also 2k2-2k3
-rear view mirrior (i could be wrong, but i thought auto dimming mirrors only started in 2k1 a.e. and then on to 2k2-2k3)

 

i ran a quick VIN check... the title is actually clean.. it was a rental/fleet car though..
also

it has had 11k miles since 05/06/03
and it was sold at an auction twice.. meaning some dealer bought it and probably couldnt sell it, so he pushed it at the auction again..

definitely had a nice front end collision, causing the air bags to go and the bumper to be replaced...

sad thing is, someone will come along, buy this thing and get raped on the price.. not suspecting anything


i was at a dealer car auction when i was buying my 4th gen and i was looking at the cars being sold... even dealers buying them didn't suspect a thing.

I saw GLEs with SE and GXE parts, SEs with GXE gauge clusters, GLE badges etc.. lol..

 

thats how i returned my lease car

gxe gauges
16" gle rims
and............

 

Thanks for the info NYCe MaXiMa.

Dave
02 Maxima SE

 

haha


yeah.. ofcourse occasionally, there are people that mod them and swap parts because they want to.. but in an overwhelming percentage of cases, these cars have been:

damaged by floods
stolen, abused and stripped
had nice accidents
had fires
whatever...


then the body shop geniuses either think that a 2000-2003 maxima is all the same ****, GLE or SE or GXE.. or they know they are different but don't know how.. so as long as parts fit together, who cares, they don't think anyone would know anyways (and most of the time, they are right)


but

my 98 GXE is a model hybrid too
SE grille
blacked out window trim and door handles (only on SEs)
2000 SE wheels
but it's a GXE inside

 

What's up with the missing fog lights and ghetto a$$ two tone steering wheel???

 

another problem is that it's Automatic!!!

 

um, didn't u read the other 21 posts before you?

accident = replaced front end with 2k-2k1 gxe front end
accident = airbags deployed and replaced with another steering wheel cover

 

It has TE pieces inside, but not TE rims.

 

Yeah sory please excuse me rioght now...kinda drunk!!

 

I'm kind of curious to see what Carfax would say. Does anyone have the link to a free report or can someone run it on this car?

 

 

you guys are smart cookies

 

scroll up ^
sad thing is carfax says its clean....

 

[QUOTE=aussie983]scroll up ^
sad thing is carfax says its clean....

I am not sure how long it takes before carfax shows the dirt on the car but I'll tell you that I had a car stolen (86 Turbo Regal) and recovered some 2 months later totalled. I bought it back from my insurance for my current project(El Camino w/Turbo Buick drivetrain) and for sheets and giggles I ran a carfax on the recovered car and everything showed as being fine and dandy. I would be curious to see what carfax says about it now since it's been 2 or 3 yrs. If anyone wants to see what carfax has to say about a previous stolen,recovered and salvaged car the Vin. is 1G4GK4772GP219199

Dave
02 Maxima SE