Hi all, listen I was hoping someone can give me some information and opinions about what I should do! I have a 10 Maxima SV which is about 6 months old right now! When I first got the car, I noticed that the back part (the whole upright section of the seat where your back rests against and the head rest) of the passenger front seat vibrated and shaked violently at times while driving and nobody was sitting in it! Usually it gets really bad on secondary road, especially ones with any kind of bumps, rough patches etc but is still has a constant mild vibration/shake while cruising on the highway/interstate! if someone is sitting in the passenger seat there is no vibration/shaking whatsoever but once no one is sitting in it, it gets ridiculous!

last October, right after I got it, I brought it into the dealership and service advisor told me their was a TSB for the passenger seat just like for the driver seat in both the 09 and 10 Max and that they had to order new parts and detach the seat and reattach it with the new parts to tighten and fix it so that it didn't shake anymore!

had the work done last October and it seemed to help a little bit, though I still noticed the shaking and vibrating still to a mild extent even after getting it back; now, after a few months, the seat is really beginning to shake and vibrate severely again, to the point that today when I was out for a Sunday drive, when ever I went over moderate to severe bumps on 2ndary road the seat has started to make a rattle/noise when it shakes!

I don't know what to do? I'm at a lost because its been in already and its beginning to be quite annoying and distraction because the seat aligns right up with my peripheral vision when I'm looking forward and trying to drive and this seat shaking is becoming a distraction when I drive! What do you all suggest that I do? any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!! I've never ever had this with a car before, and I have a FX35 which has a tremendously rougher/harsher ride then the Maxima and those seats don't vibrate at all! I don't know what my local Nissan dealership is going to do since they already performed the TSB on the seat so I was hoping someone could suggest something so that I don't go in their within the next two weeks looking like a complete idiot! look forward to hearing your suggestions!!

 

I remember others here who had this problem, and also were not entirely pleased after the TSB work had been done. But your situation sounds worse than theirs did. I would have the service tech ride in the back seat while you drove on a moderately bumpy road, so he can see the problem is real and is beyond acceptable. Some folks had to have their driver seat repair done twice before it 'took.' Maybe this passenger seat TSB will be like that.

 

thanks for the help; yeah I don't know what I'm going to do but I'll have to have the tech come out with me; personally, my local Nissan dealer's techs act really stupid when I've taken them out before and like the play the "oh, I don't hear what you hear game" I still have one rattle/clicking issue in the top corner of the driver front door somewhere that still hasn't been addressed and the last time I took the tech out he claimed not to hear it though I could as clear as a bell; looks like I'll have to go to bat with the dealership again!!