It's Official.. My Maxima is Dead
 

Well it started back in 1999 july when she rolled out of the lot with me brand spankin new... Fast forward to 2004 when my ENGINE died a sudden horrible death at under 50,000 miles replaced under warranty. and in 2005 the whole throttle body was replaced. and now in 2006 my TRANSMISSION is blown states the dealer and a hefty 3800.00 price tag to fix.. keeping in mind the vehicle has only 58,000 miles as of today has been babied throughout it's life. should these critical components have failed in such a short span with such low mileage? i dont think so.. and this is the question i have posed to NISSAN Corporate. i am still awaiting a response and im creating this thread to chronicle my dealings with NISSAN as well as to try to get some USEFUL input on the situation.....


Thoughts, Comments, have you had the same problems? Put them here...

That's horrible. I hope you get something from corporate.

Good luck getting anything from them.

lemon. but you drive so little it took you 6 years to find out.

:sprint: This problem should have been taken care years ago, but I guess like ErV said, looks like you don't drive much. Good luck with that though.

You either............

A) Drove it shetty and karazy for short spurts over time on a drag strip

B) Got incredible bad luck

I figure its B

PS Good luck gettin anything out of Nissan besides an apology and a 5% dicount on another Max

*sniff sniff* Lawsuit *snif snif*

actually recieved a call back today from corporate. they are investigating with the service manager.. they were involved in the engine replacement as well.. Dlr wanted 4,000.00 plus for the work and tried to BS me stating no warranty coverage.. Got nissan corporate involved and had a NEW engine installed the following week NO charge to me.. as far as driving crazy, maybe once or twice but no drags and not enough street racing to blow 3 major components out the window.. as for bad luck after all the sh!t ive been through in the last month you may be correct...

There's no reason for any of those components to go bad. 130,000 on my 02 and I figure everything should have blown up on it, but no, nothing. Good shape :D

i cannot believe that everything broke if you babied the car... you probably raped it everyday...

My brother had a similar problem with a Ford F150 FX, he went through alot of crap to get anything from Ford, but I belive he got a lawyer that helped him with the lemon law BS.

Do you know what happened to the engine, what failed?

I had a motor fail due to a connecting rod coming loose and cracking the block. It was a 3.0 vulcan in a 96 taurus with 9x,xxx miles on it.

well, with all due respect, Taurus is a piece of ****. All american built cars need to be completely rebuilt with all new seals and moving parts after 50000 miles. where as my family friend owns a 3rd gen with 280000+ miles and he thought it was ok to change oil every 20K miles. it still runs well, i drove it 3 weeks ago. so please, do not compare American and Japanese quality. :chairshot

If you DO manage to get Nissan corporate to spring for a new tranny, trade that POS (at another dealer) the minute you get it back from the shop and never look back.

You're close on mileage, but over a year out on time. It will take an angry series of phone calls to Nissan's customer satisfaction line to get them to goodwill your claim, but i've seen them do more than that for people at my dealership. Be persistent and stress the mileage, and your dissatisfaction with the previous major repairs needed to your vehicle.

That sucks, I have 140K miles on my 2000 and the biggest problem I have had so far was needing to replace coils, which I only did maybe 1K miles ago also only cost me $100 for all 6 coils and 8 minutes of my time to change them out.

Sorry but no, maybe just FORDs because they are pieces of ****. I have 130Kish miles on my Z28 and the only "rebuild" that I have had to do to the motor was not a nessicity, just me doing heads and cam to it and freshining up the motor. Oh yeah and before that point it had about 250LBS of nitrous sprayed through it... a NX Wet 150 shot. For those of you that don't know NX is rated within 2% of RWHP, FWHP if you have FW drive, which means that I sprayed a lot of about 185hp directly in to the intake. I'd like to see you try that with your (a) STOCK Maxima, since my Z28 was STOCK at the time. Maybe you shouldn't try to generalize like that.

Oh yeah and as for the "family friend" thing, I have a friend that has a S10 that he bought brand new and it now has 350000 miles on it. You know what the most significant FIX he had to do to it so far has been? A FUEL PUMP, and only one time. Please tell me how that is "inferior" to your Japanese build quality?

this is not domestic vs import discussion. I am sure every car maker has built a lemon

to the owner of this low mileage 2000 Maxima - it is in your best interest, once you have the car back on the road, to trade that car and run away from it as far as you can.

Tell that to your boy who generalized ALL American cars.

that's probably the only s10 ever to get that far... if you are still stubborn and pro "The American Revolution", i'd like to bring to your attention that almost every japanese car makes if a lot further than an american one. look how many civics have 200000+ miles on them, i do not see as many neons and such.

The only thing american cars are good for is burning gas, raising oil prices and making G. Bush' family wealthier by the second.

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I'm sorry for reply as it's off topic but I can't help myself. Along with my problem free 2001 Maxima, I have a 1998 Chevy S10 Blazer that has been equally problem free. It has 150,000 miles on it and still runs very strong. The only thing that I have had to do in the last 8 years besides regular maintenance is fuel pump replacement and fuel injector cleaning.

I can say from experience that Japanese and domestic cars are real good these days, the Japanese are a little better at fit and finish but the domestics are a little better with engines and transmissions. That is my opinion only.

If this is turning into a debate. I've always owned Ford's and loved them, even with having to **rebuild** under the hood. Till one day my buddy let me drive his Max to go get an alt. for my F150. Since then I've owned a Maxima and probally won't go back.

As for the guy with the dead Maxima. Sounds like you just had a run of bad luck man. I know I dog the hell out of mine, and it's as strong as the day I bought it. Much respect for getting Nissan to pay the cost for repair.

You blew(maybe not you yourself) but your car blew a brand new vq30 with 50,000 miles on it? Maybe i missed a huge thread a year or two ago but how the heck did you manage that?!?

well for comparison sake folks i also own a 1998 ford explorer.. engine was replaced on it as well due to flooding in our area. otherwise its a POS bought in 01 with ~50k on it and its got tranny probs, suspension probs, fuel system probs.. at this point my next car may be german

there was a thread i think on my engine some time ago.. i was driving to PA family in the car so wasnt racing. about 3/4 of the way there there was a loud bang, dash lit up like Xmas and the car shut off. pulled into a rest stop started her and drove to PA my destination to meet the philly crew we hung out got some cheesesteaks and drove all the way back to jersey. went into dlr the next day.. WooChoo can vouch for my arrival and departure in philly cuz i picked up AE's from him that day..
Dlr never told me the cause, dont think i ever asked either...

LMAO, besides the fact that you will have problems with it, you will also pay 3 times more to fix them...

Dude, you can't generalize that ALL american automobiles are pos'es.... Did you ever think that the jap pos'es models don't make it over here and vise versa....

I had a 99 Denali with 180K on it that rode BETTER than new... Better because the shocks where replaced @ 75K....

Also lets compare....

99 Denali had for 50K miles.... Replaced, well ah, a quick disconnect line that became corrodded...part $3.99 and 10 minutes..

00 maxima..Have owned less than 20k and I've replaced 6 coils, and an inner tie-rod....

Also to the person with the 98 explorer... FYI, get ride of it before 100K... 97-98 are the pos years... They had the IIRC 4.6 DOHC... Whatever motor it was @ about 100K miles the timing belt snaps and being an interference motor you're going to mess your valves up pretty good. I.E. rebuilt heads...

Also I have a 89 mustang, have owned an 88 mustang and a 93 mustang..

I bought this 89 for $100 because the guy tore the motor apart since he ran it out of oil due to a rusted oil pan and didn't know how to put it back together...Cylinder taper was less than .002 with 120K on it...that's still like brand new...

Sure the ford 3.0, 3.8 and 95-96 4.6 engines had known head gasket problems...

Maybe the gm 3.4 has a known intake manifold gasket problem....but that doesn't make them poses...
Think about this... Intake manifold gasket...$20.00 plus 5-6 hours= $620.00 spent @ 130,000 miles.....

Coils plus maf + 3 hours = over $1000 before 100,000 miles.

Don't try coming in here with the taurus, metro, neon, cavalier crap either...

Honda's $6000,00 car when new doesn't sell here so you don't know how much "crap" that car is.

Not to get off subject here, but I hate when people generalize that all American cars are pos'es.. It shows your complete lack of knowledge on the subject....

oh yea..look at this

http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/08/auto...ction=money_pf

there is a recent one for long term dependability for 05.....American aoutmakers ranked 3rd, 4th, and 5th in that one as well.

My 95 F-150 has 201k miles..running great..looks like it just rolled outta the showroom..never garaged, sits outside, while Maxi & Vette sleep in the garage. Paint = great, too.

You know what STFU because you had to rebuild your tranny too @ 67k....


So there goes your story.


EDIT: I'm checking your previous posts and it seems obvious 1/2 of your posts or better are garbage reaffirming the fact you don't know sheit.

I changed it because i ****ed it up!!! theres a huge difference. and wtf are you telling me that i dunno **** for? i work for a dealership that carries all GM makes. Everyday i see service work orders of 3 year old cars taking a fat ****. so take that stick out of your *** and look at the real-life durability, not some statistic...

I love all the people trying to back up American cars. My family never had a reliable american car. There would be always something wrong just like with my dads current car. We bought my mom a Acura now my Dad deserves a better car. This time we are making a pernament switch, not going back and forth.

at least one person is in the right mind here...

Before I owned 2 Maximas, I was strictly domestic. The only major problems I had were out of my 2 Chevys. I had an '86 S-10 Blazer 4WD (2.8 L V6)whose head gasket blew at 123,000 miles and an '88 Caprice (305 cid) with a long list of issues which culminated with the engine locking up due to an oil leak at well over 100,000 miles. My parents had a Jeep Cherokee (4.0 L V6) that ran to 176,000 miles without much muss or fuss.

The point is that there are decent domestic cars and sh!tty Japanese ones. I am sure that if you guys actually took the time and perused through the entire forum, you might see examples of issues like this one or worse.

simmah down now... this is not an import vs. domestic thread!!!! back on topic.
havent heard anything since the 24th.

but on any car i would expect after 100k to have to go through some kind of major servicing, especially if driven hard. but definatly not on the level were talking with my vehicles.. hell just this last month on the explorer had a fuel cut problem. took 4 different mechanics and two trips to ford to fix. and when released from ford i had a laundry list of other probs handed to me, including all the suspension parts i had replaced 13 months ago. no 12/12 for me.... and now i cant get the fukr to pass inspection....

Sorry to hear your probs....Are you sure its a maxima.....sounds more like a ford or chevy to me.

i am not saying american cars are crap...
but look the all new 2006 linclin 3.0L they called fule efficient... and it has the power of 221hp.... compare to our VQ30DEK... on year 2000 it already have 222hp.....
not that they are suck and not reliable... but why they keep making big big engine with small small horse power?? (torque is not big either...but eats lots gas) can somebody explain why?

i cannot figure this out either...

just curious.....is there any information about how much an individual car costs for development (initial concept through completion). I would be interested in seeing the breakdown on how much non engineering/design groups (marketing/accounting/finance) have on the input.