Had my new 04 for one month and have 8,500 miles (I'm transferred and driving back & forth). A few issues:

1. Speedomoter is about 4 MPH overstated (says 63-64 when doing 60).
2. Gas gage shows empty at 16 gals.
3. There's a gap in front of the Nav disc slot and when I put my Bluetooth ear piece in the little door thing it fell down it before I knew there was a hole there.

Questions:

1 & 2 Can the dealer adjust these two items?
3. How do I get to the darned thing? I want my Bluetoothe back.

Love the car and the mileage is great...averaging fom 26 to 28.5 on these trips. But with the speedomoter it may be a lot less (or more). Oh well!

Any advice is appreciated.

Jim Bob

 

NCgo4 - I have tried to at least glance thru most of the threads here in the past sixteen months, and do not recall seeing a single post about speedometer error. I will definitely be checking mine on my next freeway trip. Do you have an SE or SL? OEM wheels/tires?

The gas 'thingie' has been discussed here every few months, as newbys arrive who missed previous discussions. Nissan has always given a generous cushion with their fuel readings. Most '04 Maximas (as well as all Maximas I have ever owned) seem to read 'empty' with around 3 to 6 gallons left in the tank. The most common situation I see here is an empty reading with 4 or 5 gallons left.

Here are a few of the reasons for this:

1. - The system used for fuel measurement in automobiles is not exact. Different '04 Maximas reading the same amount of fuel left will actually have different amounts left. Nissan 'covers' this by 'erring' on the safe side.

2. - You don't want to be told you have two gallons of gas left at midnight in central Nevada 100 miles from the nearest gas station. Much much better to be alerted and gas up before you are very low.

3. - Running the tank very low reduces the cooling effect of the gas on the fuel pump (which is in the fuel tank), and can cause overheating/early failure of the pump. I assure you you don't want to do this.

4. - Running out of fuel can well do damage to the catalytic converter. You will find this out when your car fails its emmision test. If you thought the fuel pump replacement was expensive, wait till you see the bill for the catalytic converter. And this is not a 'warranty' repair.

5. - All my life I have tried to avoid using the last gallon or two of gas in my cars, as any impurities floating on top of the gas will then be sucked into the fuel injectors.

6. - It is never a good idea to be low on fuel. You could be on a long trip, find you are low on gas, stop to refuel, only to find a power overload or tornado or whatever has power out in the region. Gas pumps will not operate without electricity. Time to search for a motel (which will have neither heat nor AC nor hot water, due to the power outage).

I will leave the 'NAV/bluetooth' thing to those youngsters who (unlike me) have moved beyond the Victrola era.

 

Great post Light'. In addition we have "Stickies" at the top of each forum. Look for the "...How to..." one and you will find how to rip apart your console to reach your bluetooth.

How do you know you are going 60 instead of 65? Maybe your buddies speedo is off, or the unit displaying your speed is inaccurate. If you changed wheels or tires out of oem specs, then it would be off. Guess dyno is the only true way to find for sure.