jeff4725

After doing a search on google, I've been able to determine that this is a somewhat systemic problem so I appologize if this topic has come up brfore.

I only have 43,000 on my 2000 Maxima and my "service engine soon" light has just come on. This happened before at 22,000 miles and the dealer ended up replacing all 6 colis under warrantee. I became a bit scared when I was told that "these won't be covered under warrantee the next time"; obviously implying that they expected to see me back at some point.

Well the light has come on again and I took it down to Auto-zone for a free diagnostic and sure enough the code was "misfire or ignition problem". I had 2 instances of it so it did not identify which piston was effected.

Any ideas on how to fix this long term? Do the 2001 coils work in the 2000? They have a different part number and cost about 10% more so there must be some difference???? It does not appear that the 2001 has the same problem that the 2000 does.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Jeff

paralyse

Best proper fix is to replace all 6 coils.

Yaco_Max

iTrader: (6)

True or False I had been reading a lot about def coils 99 and 2y , and for some reazon the 2y1 looks a better option someone named steve toll me to upgrade to 2y1 so go a head and replace yours (all 6 ) and good luck...

jeff4725

Yaquito - are you sayong that you have replaced the 2000 coils with the 2001 and that they fit/work properlY?

Thanks in advance - Jeff

Maximaum Driver

Ok for starters, if the car is still under Warranty, they cannot deny you the free repair JUST because they fixed it before.

If there is a problem, that is a usual warranty issue, they have no choice but to honor it. Now, they could also have done the car long before the TSB was released and the new coils made. The coils now are different than the original from what I remember.

I do not know about the 01 Coils. Do you need diff plugs with those?

jeff4725

Unfortunately the car is no longer under warranty. When they repaired it the first time I only had 1 month left on the warranty; that was 18 months ago.

darrelfsu

Mind you: Powertrain is 5yr/60,000 miles. I don't understand how you'd be out of warranty 18 months ago. 18 months ago would still have you under the 3yr/36,000 mile warranty.

paralyse

Powertrain covers absolutely nothing, especially not ignition coils.