hey guys so i bought a maxima 2003 6 speed 2 months ago it has a few things with it that im trying to work out the quirks but i dont know if i should give attention to some of the issues i learned whats wrong with the car at the dealer they checked it out i had the service manager, mechanic, and transmission expert drive my car they all said it drives fine and its great for its age. the clutch doesnt go all the way up all the time and sometimes it doesnt go into gear when the car is on but once the clutch is pumped a gazillion times or if you turn the car on in gear it drives great. (there might be air in my slave)
my car has some mods on it such as short ram intake with spectre air filter, custom max exhaust, jim wolf headers, and it has samco hoses i believe the past owner said the radiator is a upgraded one the car is also on tien coilovers that a pretty much new and it has 80k miles
okay well the dealer showed wrote down all the issues and said the car is fine and i dont really need to fix it and they said to just learn the car first but once i understand the car do you think i should fix some of these issues

1. exhaust noise aftermarket (idk what he meant by that)
2. outer tie rod ends leaking
3.Pls lower control arm bushing torn
4. power steering rack leaking
5. pls inner cv boot leaking
6. pls axle seal starting to leak
7.pls motor mount flat

ok so those are all the issues , the car does make a whining sound but i believe its the sounds of all the aftermarket parts on it im just suprised it doesnt have a deeper tone cause my old 2000 max with a exhaust was roaring meaner than my 03 max with a bigger engine and more engine mods, and my brother spec-v has i/e/h and its really mean sounding anyways the the leaks arent major the power steering i was suprised cause in the two months of the car sitting around it didnt leave a oil stain or anything and i wouldnt feel like fixing that issue cause in the past i use to just refil my power steering levels every week or so but the other things im not so sure of. thanks in advance guys

 

Give it some time. Drive it, take a look at it. You will make your own list of what you need to upgrade / replace. Don't always go by what the dealership tells you to do cause most of the time, they just want your money.

I'd go for the suspension parts replacement first if I were you

 

be happy?

 

thanks toxic i think ima just leave the suspension alone im used to driving with a ****ty suspension the car doesnt bounce hard at all so i was suprised something was wrong its nothing major tho and my other car is really low so im use to hard bumps right now im just trying to pass inspection it may be hard tho sadly i have a bunch of codes popping out of no where and ggenius i am happy that my car is in pretty healthy shape im just trying to find out what i should do

 

What inspection? You mean like smog? We don't have regular annual inspections on our cars here besides smog checks every 2 years.

 

they do a emmisions test so i guesss a smog and they check for codes they stop checking things like tires and lights in nj a while back and im worried it wont pass cause it smells like smoke sometimes i just had the P0420 pop up so i doubt if i change the 02 sensors or the catyltic it would be fixed cause like i said the dealer was under the car and didnt see any visual issues plus i wanted to sea foam but im not going to for a while since the car just got a oil change and i would be doing the seafoam around the 2900 mile range

 

a lot of time the dealer will try to sell you services you don't need, so my advice would be to inspect all of the problems the dealer said you're car has and decide for yourself if the suspected part is bad enough to need replacing.