I brought it to the dealer today, they had to replace the crankshaft sensor, well at least they said they did. Light is not on now. The car has 16500 miles on it.

Also when I brought my car in for 1st service, I had complained about rocking drivers seat, they advised re torqued it but I don't think so, anyways there are 2 screw on lower rear end of the center console, I think those were removed and not put back in or maybe it came from factory like that, but anyways the replace them, no more loose center console.

Still no fix for the rocking chair, but service lady did mention that since my seat is all the way back, the brackets are half way off the track and they may have a lil play.

 

this seat thing and the unwillingness for nissan to fix it (coupled with the check engine light) makes me unsure about jumping on a new maxima.

 

It might be interesting to know if most of those with rocking driver seats drive with their seats well back on the track.

 

There actually haven't been that many Check Engine Lights so far with the '09, and most of them were cleared by simply tightening the gas tank cap tighter. As to the rocking seats, you could check that out very carefully in the '09 Maxima you may be considering buying before even making an offer. Most '09 Maximas do not have this problem. My '09 has had zero defects so far; absolutely wonderful car.

 

There is a fix for the rocking drivers seat because I got mine fixed. Here is the part number: 87351-9N12B. It is a frame assembly. The seat is rock solid!

 

Check engine light at 5129 miles. Charcoal canister evp vent valve replaced; light is out. Very thorough fault analysis. Half day only. Great dealer service experience. Outstanding car!

 

Nice to have someone with a good dealer experience post about it. Like you, I have had good experiences with my Nissan dealer. And welcome to the ORG; very good first post.

 

We need to get this info propogated around the ORG, as several here have suffered from this rocking driver seat problem from day one. I am glad Nissan is trying to address these pestilent problems.

 

That's what they replaced on mine and made it worse.


Also, about the other comment, nope, I'm a short guy, it's not all the way back for me.

 

Rats! So the rocking is not tied to the position of the seat, and either the rocking can be caused by more than one problem, or your dealer did not install the new part correctly, or Nissan has changed the new part after finding the first replacement version was not working. Bucket of worms.

 

Just got the Check Engine light on mine. 4600 miles. Can't believe it.

 

hopefully its nothing....

 

Took the car in today to see what was up with the light. I had tried what the manual said, tighten the gas cap and drive it for a while, but light didn't go away. Apparently, in my case the code that came back was an emissions warning. some sort of leak, could have been cause by gas cap. The codes for this issue breaks it down by severity, mine was very low leak. In any case, the report told them that the light was for something that happened 12 trips ago, which made sense, but that it wasn't a current issue. Later a Nissan tech came out and told us that the message would clear at about 40 trips and these trips need to be made with about a half tank of gas for this one to go away.....didn't make a whole lot of sense..., he explained it, but I will spare you the details. Nissan cleared it the memory for now and hopefully it won't come back again.

 

I'm glad I got my Bullydog because one of its' cool features is that if I get a CEL that I can reset it and the BD unit can diagnose what kind of problem it is for me without having to take it to the dealership and be there for hours just to find out what the problem is and still have to wait on them to fix it.

 

if you guys getting check engine lights on and you think nothing is wrong with your car make sure your gas cap is tightened properly

 

I think he tried that already, that was something I mentioned to this forum a little while back and a few have done this with success but it is great that you mentioned it here again.

I hope he gets his problem fixed.

 

Remember/FYI, that in the 3.5 if the oil level gets low the check engine light will come on. Most Nissan techs are trained to look for that....some don't although. Check your oil level.

 

Great point!! When you give a car too much oil then this causes aeration in the cylinders and actually starves the car robbing it of power.

Maybe this should be suggested in the other thread as well.

 

Excellent point.

This aeration situation is seldom mentioned here, and might be new to some of our newest drivers. It is very very important that the engine not be overfilled with oil. I can remember actually having new car dealerships putting in too much oil in my car while doing an oil change. My current dealer does not even fill the crankcase to the 'FULL' mark, but stops about 3/4 of the way from 'LOW' to 'FULL', and said overfilling can be every bit as bad as underfilling.

A tad over the 'FULL' mark is OK, but don't ever run the engine very long with the oil well above the 'FULL' mark. The situation could possibly go from just power being robbed to crankshaft and pistons not getting oil. The jets spraying oil on these critical parts cannot spray bubbles, which is what aeration does to oil.

 

When I brought a '03 sentra into service because of the check engine light and they told me it was because of the gas cap, I thought they were so full of ****. Turns out they were right.

 

True true, but like I originally said the low oil in the 3.5 is a big contributor to the check engine light coming on. If it gets really low it will trigger and will not reset once you add the appropriate oil, you will have to the the reset procedure or use that hand held thingy to reset it.

 

Agreed. Although too little or too much oil are both problems, I would think, as you suggest, the situation of too little oil would be more likely to trigger the check engine light.

 

You gotta be kidding me??...thought there would be some sort of indicator for low oil. Never even considered checking the oil level. Service engine light came on a week after Nissan changed oil. They cleared it and said it was an emissions leak. It very well could have been. But now I know to check oil myself on regular basis. GREAT TIP!!! Thanks.

 

About the seat rocking, I only experience it with the car on...I've tried to rock it while off and there's no play. I'm 5'9'' and don't think I sit too far back or forward. Good to know there's a potential fix though--will look into it. Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread.

 

Flashing service engine light on 2012 Maxima with 250 miles only - took it to the dealer
the DPC codes were 0300 and 0302 the dealer said the cyinder was misfiring. the car was running only on 5 cylinders instead of 6 and the coil was not properly connected.