My son sent this to me a few minutes ago, using his crappy phone camera. Hopefully, he pulled over before snapping it



Onward to 500k?

 

Original motor and tranny?

 

Yes.

 

At a certain point I think Nissan should just give you a brand 2012 for the loyalty.

 

I certainly wouldn't decline the offer!
I'd also accept a bumper-to-bumper "factory-fresh tune-up" (just in case anyone from NissanUSA is reading this )

 

Wow! That's amazing. Has anything been rebuilt on it?

 

 

 

The engine itself has never been opened. Same with the tranny. Obviously, it's gone through a couple of clutches. I suppose the biggest job we've had done on it was to replace the steering rack last year.

Otherwise, it's been all the usual maintenance issues.

 

This post makes me happy. Mine's only got 112,xxx on it and I don't want another car payment for a VERY long time.

 

Better start saving your pennies Mr. VQ35; hehehe

 

crazy....that many miles on a 5th gen is insane!

 

That's awesome. VQ Rocks

 

Our first Maxima was a '91 3rd-gen. It made it to 314k before we sold it.

 

That's awesome! Mine 2k has 236,000 on it now. No engine or tranny problems...just the usual other stuff. Hopefully my steering rack holds up! I have been running synthetic power steering fluid since almost day 1 when I bought the car new off the lot.

 

I will call you... dios

 

that is my new desktop screen saver

 

I raise a toast to the past 400k, and to the 400k to come

 

Nice and here I am worrying at 222k miles. You just gave me hope

 

Very nice!

 

thats awesome! i had an old neighbor who delivered pizzas in a camry with like 385k on it. i forget the offer amount, but the local toyota dealership wanted to buy it from him to put in the showroom. thats a great sales ploy

 

I guess "they" were right...the truth really does hurt.

 

That's impressive.

 

Very nice....:d

 

Congrats! Id find kind it really challenging if an auto made it without a rebuild trans.

 

Im at 180K now but I plan on being that guy lol

 

I normally get scared of a car after 150K unless it's a diesel....

 

Put headers on it and problem solved

 

I'm sure I'll be there one day But next year my car is getting special treatment and will have a low mileage 7th gen motor in it...so I won't have QUITE the bragging rights that you do....but my bragging rights will be more fun

 

Nice!

 

Im at 128K in my 03 Max, with a Auto trans but I'm already kind of scared, It's my first Max as well , First car period I love it though I'm not getting rid of it anytime soon

 

Congrats. I at 211,000 on my 2000 automatic SE but its currently sitting in my driveway with a bad transmission that I'm working on replacing. The engine is still great though, so my plan is to put a used tranny in and keep driving. I'd love to get to 400,000 some day on it.

Congratulations and keep us updated on the mileage b

 

Definitely deserve a congratulations on that. Certainly a well maintained maxima goes a long way like that one.

Crazy because my 4th gen is at 186,xxx & 3rd gen is at 237,xxx and your 5th has almost the same amount as both of them combined. lol

 

congratz!!!!

 

congrats!! Mine has only 140k miles on it, I do think you should give your local Nissan dealer a call and see what they could offer you ! Good luck man!

 

Unless they came-up with a straight-up swap, there's no way we could swing any payments on a new car.

 

Congrats! I'm about to click over 180K myself. So what oil(s) have you used for the engine and transmission?

 

Out of curiosity, are you/son the original owners? Or did you buy it with miles already?

 

It's a 5 speed but I see what you're saying now. Hopefully my auto makes it that long without a rebuild.

 

The engine started life getting full synthetics. If I recall, it was usually either Syntec or Valvoline (whichever was priced better) 5w30, and a Pure1 filter with each change, usually between 6000 and 8000 miles. Somewhere after it hit 100,000 miles or so, I went back and forth between MaxLife full-synth and MaxLife synth-blend. By the 200,000 mark, it was getting the synth-blend regularly, mostly for cost reasons. And always a Pure-1 filter.

I've always done my own oil changes, and I've learned to praise Nissan's designers for making this Maxima so easy to do the oil service. I also own a VW GTi, and I can't tell you what kind of special hell changing the oil on that thing is.

Since it's a manual tranny, I haven't really done anything with it specifically, lube-wise.