Bought my 5.5 back in April, the cassette player worked great with my cassette adapter up until my alternator gave out and after that entire fiasco my cassette adapter would Check side 1 then 2 then error, so I figured the adapter itself was broken so I bought the most expensive one there and the brand name one thinking it would help.. went to my car opened up the packaging, stuck the adapter in and same thing! Error. Keeps popping the thing out. Anyone help?

 

Common issue with the headunit. I still need to get mine done. Google it. Theres a company that resoldiers the circuit board for $200.

 

Just pass by your local junkyard and find another deck or find someone selling one. It will be much cheaper than repairing youe current deck. Just my 0.02

 

$200 to repair a deck that has a cassette slot? Are you guys seriously considering this option in 2014?

Go aftermarket with an aux hookup. It will make your speakers sound much better than they did with the OEM deck.

 

www.car-parts.com

 

immediately after putting the tape in force it down with your fingers. If it doesn't work, repeat until getting frustrated. Then proceed to yank the tape adapter out and toss it out the window.

 

For that second reason and that alone is why I'm considering for the 2nd time looking at a 7" in dash. It's just the factory setup is the 1st ever OEM that I'm actually ever satisfied with. Had it come with aux I would just fix it.

 

I added aux in on my oem 5th gen unit.... its much easier than people think. Since then I have upgraded to a nav unit with bluetooth so now its even better.

 

Got a bose HU if interested.

 

as Djfrestyl mentioned...but i will add. Its almost 2015 and you'r still dealing with the tape deck in your car.
Still; ill offer a trick that may work as it used to for me a decade ago...
If tape keeps switching sides; try hitting the forward/reverse button a few times. This often fixed the issue for me. Somehow the tape heads got to where they needed to be.

 

The Bose units are not very reliable, imho.
My CD/laser went out more than year ago, and the entire head unit two months ago. I replaced with a new unit. I had it done at a local audio shop, but you can do it yourself. The parts are about $200 ($110-140 for the unit, then about $50-70 for three adapters; this is because you have Bose speakers and wiring, need adapters for power, speakers, and antenna).

 

if you don't like old stuff then you probably won't like the 5gen very much. IMO the 5th was the last of the old school Max.

 

Technically the I35 was produced until 2004 & it shared most parts from the 5th gen...

 

A stereo component of a time period hardly tells a story of the whole car....
thats called dated technology.
5th/5.5 same applies. I love my 02 & the stereo was the first thing to go.

 

Should be $30, max, for all 3 adapters. There are cheaper alternatives.

 

Or you could solder an Aux into yhe HU

AUX in 2002 Nissan Maxima: http://youtu.be/rKGKB0vUqvg