I have not read anything about this type problem, and I try to scan every post on this board. Of course this is a totally unacceptable (and potentially dangerous) situation, and hopefully not something any others here will experience. If your dealer can't find the problem, and it continues to happen, it might be best if you get with Nissan, explain the situation, tell them this is a serious safety issue, and you feel they should exchange your car for a new one immediately.

 

I'm having an issue with hard left turns. I hear a loud grating noise that often continues for quite a while after I straighten the wheel.

I'm going to call the dealer tomorrow and have it checked out...starting to regret this purchase. Going to ask about the wildly vibrating passenger seat as well.

 

The above issue must be related to a loose serpentine belt around power steering pump. There was a post I read that an '08 or '09 Altima owner has the belt come off during driving. Belt got tangled in engine causing additional damage. The person was driving car with passengers and the situation was indeed "dangerous"

 

Exchange is a good idea. I e/mailed the problem to my Dealer and he sent in on to their Nisson HQ. He said they would get back to me shortly..

 

The only "exchange" you will be making with Nissan is a phone call.

 

I expect your right...

 

Not necessarily. There are lemon laws, and if the dealer and Nissan are unable to fix this problem, Nissan has a moral obligation to exchange cars, as this problem must be considered to be a definite safety hazzard.

 

So I've been ridin my new maxima now for a week. Im enjoyin the new ride.

there is small problem though...when I start my vehicle and start hitting the gas..I get a rough feeling in the gas pedal something like changing the gear box. doesn anyone has the same feeling. This happens only when I hit the gas. Otherwise the ride is smooth but this is been bothering me.

could it be the new vehicle the CVT needs a little more time to get tuned up!!!???I have driven only 100 miles so far after drving out of the dealer.

 

new here as well...just bought an 09 and do not have this problem. will definately be on the lookout though.

 

Ditto!!!!!!
Still don't see how they missed the seat vibration with the extensive testing they claim they did at the Nürburgring.

BTW, while your seat is vibrating if you hear an annoying noise coming from the passenger side, it's the little plastic stop tab on the seatbelt beating the plastic seat back . It drove me crazy until I found out where are the noise was coming from. I put a little piece of velcro (soft side) on the tab and viola, noise is gone. Can't wait for Nissan to fix vibrating problem.

 

I took my car in for the 1000 mile oil change today, advise them of rocking problem, they re torque all the bolts, seems good now.

 

Hey joeynym did you say it right you went and got your 1000 mile oil change? I have never heard of a 1000 mile oil change except for my motorcycyle which was a 600 mile first service. But most cars are 3 months or 3000 miles whichever comes first, or have I missed something?

 

Joeynym was your problem with the driver or passenger seat? Heard they were replacing rails for driver side rocking, but passenger side vibration is still under investigation.

 

Nissan only specifies an oil change every 3750 miles, but for at least the last fifty years, drivers who are **** about their new vehicles make an extra change early on, in case there may be small metallic particles or other trash left in the engine from when it was manufactured. That was usually a needed thing with those old Detroit engines, but those who have seen the effort Nissan makes at their Decherd TN engine plant to keep things ultra clean realize there will be virtually no trash in these Maxima engines. Still, an early change hurts nothing, and might catch a few specks of trash. This early change also gives **** drivers some peace of mind.

 

when breaking in a motor it is recommended to change the oil after 1st 1000 miles. After that I go every 3000-3200 miles.

 

drivers seat.

 

I've been trying to track down this annoying noise for weeks now and it has driven me to near insanity (dealer couldn't find anything). I'll be sure to look into your suggestion tomorrow.

Is the vibrating passenger seat issue a recognized problem? I haven't gotten around to calling my dealer about it yet.

 

It's a known problem. Back in Sept. I sat in on a factory sponsored survey conducted by Nissan engineers from Tenn. (Nissan paid all participants $200.00). They said at that time that Nissan was working on a fix. I regularly check with a couple of local dealerships and also check "Nissanhelp.com" for service bulletin releases, but nothing yet.

 

Back to the original problem listed in this post- Drivers side seat rocking back and forth

I had my seat serviced at my local Nissan dealer and they replaced the track/frame assembly. After all this work and time waiting for the parts to come in, my drivers side seat still moves alittle when I brake hard or accelerate hard from a stop. I would describe the movement as a rocking motion forward and back, and it feels like it is just the back of the seat that moves. This is very frustrating and apparently my dealer doesn't know the fix if their is one.

Has anyone gotten this fixed by their dealer? You ever get yours fixed Compusmurf??

 

Ahhh, that's NOT what I wanted to hear. My parts are still "on order"....

 

My guess is that they just replaced my seat with identical new parts. I believe there is flaw in the seat design that is causing this problem. If anyone hears anything about this, please update us here on this thread. I am going to a different Nissan dealer to see if they know anything different.

 

almost 3k miles and still no problems (lucky me)...

 

My seats are fine; but my Tire Pressure sensor is bugging me. I keep checking the tires are they are fine; but quite often there is an alert warning coming from the tire sensors. Because it does not tell you which tire is in question, the dealer does not want to replace all 4 sensors.

 

well I thought mine was fixed, but when I gunned the other day sure enufff I felt it rocking again. They had re torqued the bolts in my seat.

 

has anyone noticed that most of the issues with the 7th gen maximas seem to be along the east coast? does nissan distribute the cars according to region from the factory? Ie: zone1 zone2 zone3 per se? i dont know how true this is but maybe the "batch" that went to the east coast may have had some faulty manufacturing glitches... i bought mine in Napa California, and i dont have any problems...
except being a new yorker who drives amongst Californians who cant drive....(wait that is a topic for another thread)

..ouch!

 

No. Maximas are shipped from a huge parking lot behind the assembly line building in Smyrna as ordered by dealers around the country. Every '09 Maxima came down the same assembly line. Of course there are far more Maximas sold in the eastern part of the country because there are far more people here, and a denser network of dealers. There are 23 Nissan dealers within 90 minutes of my home.

If you go to nissanusa.com and check the Maxima inventory of dealers on the east and west coast, you will find that the VIN serials are interleaved, which means east and west coast Maximas came down the assembly line together.

Also, we don't have nearly as many west coast '09 Maxima owners here on the ORG telling us how great their Maximas are as we do east coasters. I would guess the percentage of '09 Maximas with problems would be pretty much the same between the two coasts.

 

oh ok.. because i thought that the nissan distributed the maximas(especially the first ones to the dealers according to region.. like the locations closer to the factory received theirs first and as they were produced they were sent on trucks designated to particular zones..being that the eas coast have a higher number of maxima owners they would have recieved thier " batch slightly earlier than the people on the west coast... i also say this because when i was waiting for this car to be released to the public it seemed like dealers on the east coast were getting theirs before the dealers over here in cali.. some of the dealers didnt even know the maxima was even coming out and the ones who knew said they were expecting their firs shippment in late july even mid august..


just for the record i dont consider myself a west coaster.. im a New Yorker who has been displaced to california due to my profession...

 

The only time I heard the owner of my dealership discuss Nissan giving any dealers preference, he indicated it was by dealer performance/volume, not location. The volume dealers around Atlanta as well as the volume dealers on the west coast had '09s arriving and stored on their back lot before the first day they were allowed to sell them (June 26).

Most smaller dealers did not have the '09 in time for the June 26 first sale date. That was true around North and Middle Georgia, and I'm sure also true out west. Like you, I found two smaller dealers near me that did not have an '09 by mid-July, and were not aware they were officially out.

I would assume Nissan ships pretty much the same as other auto makers, in that vehicles going further than a few hundred miles are shipped by rail, which is always more cost-effective for long distances. That way, they get all the way to the west coast in just two or three days. The reason you see them being unloaded off trucks is because trains unload their auto racks at a central distribution point, and trucks then deliver them to dealers in that area. The Smyrna Assembly plant is on the main line of the CSX System Railroad.

One thing that worries me is that some of the posters here who are having problems bought their '09s in September and October. Unfortunately, paranoid posters seldom post their VIN Serial here, which is a little strange, as everyone knows the '09s begin with VIN Serial 800000, go up sequentially, and no number is skipped. Knowing a person's VIN Serial is not like knowing anything official about them. Many of these same people would use their credit card in a nice restaurant, not even considering that many restaurant employees are paid by professional identity thieves to simply slip the card through a tiny pocket scanner, which stores all the data needed for fraudulent use.

Even posting just the first three digits of the VIN Serial lets us know when the car was built, and would give us a clue as to whether any particular problem was fixed, or is still in cars built very recently. But I guess I expect too much.

 

1900 miles and not the first issue... "Lucky me" as well. Sassie and Sasha are good girls!

 

I have the same problem on my 08 G35x..I have the premium package, after a while the seat rocks back and forth a few millimeters. Since the two cars probably share a lot of parts, I wouldn't be surprised. Take it to the dealer and get it replaced under warranty, it's a known issue on the G

 

i got a base model and no issues with my seats.

 

just a thought as I was reading though this:
it seems to be more of a issue with taller people, I could be some play in the seat rails i.e. a shorter person, the top rail of the track is more centered on the bottom one, you could look at the ends or the rails to see if they show any signs of wear or bending

just a thought

 

Someone help me please. I posted this before but I dont think I explained my problem correctly.

when the vehicle at a low speed I get a vibration feeling in the gas pedal which could be something from the gearbox. I took it to my dealer and they dont think its a problem but they guessed it could be due to the free full tank gas they gave me when I purchased . so I filled my first gas made sure I used 93. but stil I have it.so I'm going back again.

does anyone else has this problem or is it normal ? I doubt its normal.

 

I don't have my '09 yet (won't be long), but have tried to read everything posted on this '09 board from day one. I don't recall anyone else mentioning a vibrating gas pedal. There may not be an immediate urgency involved with this, but I definitely would not let this drop. Tell your dealer that you checked the largest '09 Maxima message board on the net, and no other '09 Maxima owner has reported this problem, so it is not normal, and must be fixed.

 

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Does anyone have issues with the voice recognition system? I almost have to yell for it to recognize my voice. It seems that the system picks up way too much background noise. Once connected to the Bluetooth, the phone system works well though...it is just getting the commands down.

 

My 2009-S seat rocks a little when stopping

 

I'd say I definitely feel "something" in the gas pedal all the time, but it doesn't feel abnormal really. I think it's just the CVT and a normal vibration. I've noticed the pedal almost feels tighter in DS mode (I might be hallucinating due to the whole "Ohhhh, I'm in DS mode", but it does feel different). Anyone notice almost a button feeling (like an old Benz had) when the gas is fully punched?

I'd say have the dealer let you drive another Maxima to see if you feel the same thing.

 

any other problems...pls. create another thread!!

 

Part came in, dealership installed. Problem is NOT fixed.

Ah well.... I guess until Nissan figures out the issue, I'll live with it. Could be worse issues I guess......