I arrived back home just before we got a nice rainshower here in Long Island, and proceeded to watch a movie while the rain came down hard as hell for at least an hour. Afterwards I ran outside to throw out the garbage and realized that I had left the sunroof on the Max tilted up! Fearing the worst I grabbed a towel and went into the car to find only a couple drops of water on the top of the front seats and on the back of the armrest! I looked everywhere and could not find any more water. Congrats to Nissan for a great sunroof design that really saved my *** hahahah!

By the way does anyone else find it annoying that you have to start the car to close the sunroof or the windows? Am I missing something here?

 

 

I agree on the inconvenience of starting the car to close the sunroof. On my last car which was 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix GT2. All you had to do to operate the windows or sunroof was put the key in Acc. position. Also the radio and other accessories would stay operational, after the car was shut off, and before the doors were opened, for up to 10 minutes. They called this feature Retained Accessory Power (RAP).

 

Guys, you do not have to start the car to operate the windows and sunroof. All you have to do is press the start button twice with your foot off of the brake. The first push puts the car in accessory mode. The second puts the ignition in on mode. From here you can do whatever you want with the windows and sunroof.

 

yea he's right. jus push the start button twice w/ out pressing the brake to close it, then press the start button once more n it'll turn off. N I almost did the same thing! Long Island here as well. Lived in smithtown all my life until i moved to centereach a few years ago. Nice to see a neighbor on here!

 

Yes I was aware of that, but two button pushes, turns on all electrical items on the car, including HVAC fans and headlights and such. It would nice if they just put window, sunshade, and sunroof power/control on the Acc. ignition selection.

 

I understand where you are coming from. I have yet to run across any car (foreign or domestic) that allows you to operate motorized items that draw a fair amount of current from the battery on accessory mode. This is not counting the retained power mode found on some cars.

 

The Max does this

 

Atleast you got to watch a movie! I actually was sitting in the parking lot of the Farmingdale Multiplex Cinemas when the wicked storm hit. I haven't seen a storm that crazy since hurricanes in Florida.
After the crazy rain stopped I ran inside to go watch "Salt" and everyone was mass-exiting the theater because the power went out. I hung around for a little while, the power never went back on so I left for another theater.
All the stop lights were out on 110, so that wasn't fun!

 

Not true at all. Turn the car off and the radio shuts down and the window functions are off before you even open the door.

 

Yea i know you dont have to actually turn the engine over but I wish that the CLOSE window feature still worked. So when i hop out of the car and notice the moon roof is open I can just open the door and push the close button to shut it. I only care really about the close feature. Not a huge deal having to push the button twice, close the window and then pushing the button again but I can still wish and gripe right??

 

Looks like we all had the same thing happen HOKUSMAX, i had mine open too!!! HEHEHEHehe, Also thanks for the info on the window sunroof thing. I thought you always had to start it as well! Its only been a week and i havent read the book even ~

 

do you know you can open and close all four windows without pushing the start button at all with the remote? i don't know if this is new to anyone but this is how its done.

To open:
on the remote, press and hold the open button(left or right bottom side)
To close:
on the remote, press and hold the lock button(left or right bottom side)

 

I knew you could open them, I didn't know you could close them without using the key in the door. I always thought it was a safety thing not to be able to close them. Imagine you are closing them from inside your house and someone has a hand in the way or something.

BTW what do you mean by left or right bottom side?

 

you can do all 4 windows and close them too? I havn't tried closing them yet, but mine only opens the front 2 windows. Any ideas why?

 

I repaired my wifes old 97 Max sunroof and when I dropped the headliner and sunroof assembly, I was pleasantly surprised to find a water gutter surrounding the sunroof opening with drain pipes leading down both A pillars and both C pillars. I can only assume that Nissan has continued to use the same design. They still use the same exact sunroof motor and push/pull mechanism to open and close it.

You can still operate the windows and sunroof after shutting down the engine AND before opening any doors. It's not a full "Retained Accessory Power", however, there's power retained for the windows.

Are you sure this is for a 7th gen? Our key fobs have 4 buttons arranged linearly in a vertical orientation. There is no "left and right".

I have been able to open my front windows with the keyfob by holding down the unlock button. The windoes first go to partially open,then to fully open if the button is held down once the partially open condition happens.

I have not been able to roll them up with the key fob at all.

 

Holding the open button will open all 4 windows but holding lock will not close it. u have to insert the key and turn it left to close all 4 windows

 

hmmm.. but i can close mine with the remote too. did u put the child safety lock on the back door? wen i found out how to do this, i couldnt close mine untill someone told me because i have the safety lock on. i think its on the side of the door when u open it, i will make sure

 

you have to hold the button. the side of the open button

 

kmoney, thanks for the tip. I looked on the fob and noticed that there are two raised "pimples" on either side of the symbol. I'll have to try that later on when I get home.

I have the child locks on in the rear. I've had them on since we test drove the car. My son opened one of the doors on a highway onramp while we were test driving my max. the salesman was not happy

The factory service manual, section RF, page 82 shows the drains for the single panel sunroof assembly.

I tried attaching it but couldn't do it. We can't attach photos directly to a post here?

 

anytime. m not sure how to attach photo directly

 

Okay just to be clear, with the door child safety lock OFF I should be able to do the following:

TO LOWER WINDOWS:
Press and HOLD the Unlock button to lower all windows. It starts with the front ones and then they all roll down. You can also stop it at any point by letting the button go. (This I have done)

TO RAISE WINDOWS:
Press and HOLD the LOCK button. (This I haven't done so please validate).


I don't think it matters what part of the button you press. Can someone validate this. I don't have the car with me today otherwise I would go to the parking lot right now.

BTW, you can't post pictures directly. You have to upload to a hosting site like photobucket as far as I know.

 

kmoney, have you actually tried raising the windows using the I-Key?

Pg 3-14 of my manual (2010 SV) says, in bold print:

The door windows cannot be closed using the Intelligent Key

 

yea i tried it onces and it worked.
i couldn't raise the window up at first but then a guy at a barber shop told me my child safety lock was on n thats y i couldn't do it, so he turn it off and it rolled up. i also tried it out one night at work and i was able to roll it down n back up. if it doesn't roll up for you then i must be doing something different then. i will try it when am free to see if it still rolls up n down

 

This is obviously a CHANGE BETWEEN THE '09 AND THE '10. I have an '09, and no matter whether the child safety locks are on or off, and no matter which button or which side of which button I hold down for however long, my remote will NOT CLOSE any of my windows.

I had tried this in the past, but just went to the gararge and tried every combination of child locks, buttons, and sides of buttons, held the buttons down at least ten seconds with each try, and the windows are still open.

 

What you discovered is something many Maxima owners do not know. The standard sunroof on the Maxima is not designed to be waterproof. Nissan has a gutter system inside the sunroof that catches the water that seeps through and channels it to drain tubes at both front corners near the windshield. These tubes carry the water down and drain it just behind the front tires.

This system encountered a problem with the 6th generation, in that the drain tubes were occasionally being pinched during assembly about two feet down from the sunroof. I parked my new '04 on a steep left slant at a motel overnight, we had a rainy night, and I came out the next morning to find several inches of water standing in the driver side floor.

After I returned home, I had to remove the molding holding the carpet, lift up the carpet and the carpet pad, and work for several days with a hot blow dryer before I could get things under there completely dry.

My left side drain tube had been pinched closed during assembly, and the left slant of the car prevented the water from reaching the open tube on the right side of the car.

One clue you may have a blocked drain tube is the appearance of moisture in the ceiling or above the door near either front corner of the cabin.

I posted a sticky on the 6th gen board telling exactly how to test these drain tubes, how to find out if one was blocked, and how to determine how far down the tube the blockage was located.

 

I get the same results as you Light and I have a '10 SV Sport + Tech Package. Only the front windows will roll down with the intelligent key and there is no way to make them go back up from outside of the car without putting the key in the driver's side door and turning it. My child safety locks are definitely off.

 

same here. I am starting to think that Kmoney just wanted to see how many people he could get to go outside and roll there windows down to try and get them to roll back up.

 

lmao.. mayb i was wrong but m 100% sure i got it to roll back up...

 

Okay folks so all this talk was driving me nuts so I went downstairs and checked it out.
I have a 2010 SV with Premium and Tech (I don't think it matters though).

Press and HOLD the UNLOCK button on the remote and the ALL the windows will roll down. Not just the front ones.

I set the Child Safety Lock in the rear door and did it again and still ALL the windows rolled down.

I pressed and HELD both LOCK and UNLOCK and the windows do NOT roll up by remote. If you want to roll them up (or down for that matter) without getting in you just remove the key from the FOB and insert in the door. TURN and HOLD to the left for roll up and right for roll down.

I think this is how all Gen 7 models are.

 

Everything in your post was correct, EXCEPT the remote only rolls down the FRONT windows on all Maximas except those with the Premium package.

That is because a window must have the 'auto up/down' feature to be rolled down remotely, and only the Premium package has the auto up/down on the rear windows.

 

Yes sir. Took the words right outta my mouth.
Does anybody know how hard it would be to convert the back two windows on the sport to AUTO? can it be done? Is just as simple as changing the switch out?

 

I think there's some inconsistency with the stuff these 7th Gens are made with. This situation kinda reminds me of the 4DSC stickers and how some were placed on the outside, inside, or didn't come with them or are.

 

I was unable to get my front windows to roll up via the I-Key, only down.

Is the auto-up feature via I-key also specific to the Premium package?

The user manual made no mention of anything like "auto-up feature (if so equipped)"...

 

I don't think you read my post. No one with the exception of one user here, has been able to roll up the windows with the I-Key (remote). You have to remove the physical key from the remote and use that to roll up.

Others, thanks for clarifying the Premium package difference. I had no idea the difference but it makes sense. So essentially you are triggering the auto down feature with the remote? Except that I found when you let the button go the windows stop. That wouldn't be auto down. In any case, just thinking out loud.

 

Close. The auto up/down feature has to be on the window for the remote to be able to lower it. But the remote is not triggering the 'full up/down' switch setting of the feature, but instead uses the interim switch setting, which stops the window movement when we release pressure on the switch. And it only uses the 'down' feature of that interim switch setting.

I think Kmoney may have confused this 7th gen Maxima for some other car that allows the windows to be both lowered and raised remotely. There are a few European vehicles that once had that feature, but I don't know if they still do, or if current federal law even allows it.

I would be in favor of adding this feature to the Maxima, with the stipulation that if the child lock switch is on (like it would be if young children were in the family), the windows could not be raised remotely. Users would then have control over the option.

 

You got really lucky. My old G35 got soaked in the rain.

 

Here is a fun fact for ya. I didn't believe it untill I tried it myself but I promise you that it's true. If your driving atleast 60 mph like on the highway or somthing, if it is raining and no matter how hard it pouring down you can fully open your sun roof 100% and it WILL NOT RAIN INSIDE YOUR CAR . It's like even in a down pour your maxima will give you clear skies. 100% truth. In the hardest rains you might get one or two drops every now and then but that's it. My wife didn't even believe me untill I showed her. It's crazy. Then wind pushes the rain away from the sunroof so you have to be traveling atleast 55-60 mph

 

As Bill Cosby used to say "Rrriiiigggghhhttt!" (even if I tried it I wouldn't admit it!!!)

 

Honest truth. I know it sounds like a load of BS but it's not. If I'm not telling the truth may Danny ban me from this website. It's the craziest thing. I didn't believe it at first either. Smurf, you try it and tell us what your experiences are. People believe you. You'll get just 1 or two small drops every now and then in the hardest rains.