If you own a 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 (I'm sure more years apply, but I've only extensively worked with the aforementioned years) Nissan Maxima and it will not crank. You have a problem in one of the 4 areas:

12volts (Battery, fuses, etc)
Grounding
Starter
Signal Wire (To the starter, what's giving the starter the signal to start eg. Ignition Switch, PNP switch, etc.)
(I would say wiring, but I've never had encountered a Maxima that has had bad wiring to the above areas)

A no crank scenario will need to be sourced back from those 4 points and NOTHING ELSE.

If I had a nickel for every time I wrote the above, I could buy another fourth gen.

If I was bored enough, I would make a video of me throwing a battery and a random starter in the red car and it will crank.

(FYI, the red car only has a 6th gen engine harness with no motor, no tranny and no ecu in it at the moment).

If someone were kind enough to throw screen shots of the wiring section of the FSM's that would be awesome, you can see how simple the starter circuit is.

If your car cranks, and doesn't start, well you have other problems then

/rant.

 

but we all know you almost couldn't even be bothered just to post this much :-P

 

I'm actually saving the link to here on my phone, and browser, copying and pasting the link is going to be sooooo much easier now.

 

There was a no start diagnostic guide posted in the 5th gen forum by TunerMaxima3000 back in 2012.

https://maxima.org/forums/5th-genera...rt-thread.html

What do you think of it?

 

Good find, thanks for the post, this will def help some more people out. I made a slight adjustment to my original post.