I own a 2000 SE Maxima, 5 speed, which I loved to drive until one of the cylinders blew out. This occured at 57k miles and less than one month after my 60k mile powertrain warrenty expired. I asked Maxima for help and they offered none. The Maxima dealer offered the opinion that this occured as a result of a faulty air sensor which ran the engine too lean for too long and to bad cylinder coils. I found out about the air sensor problem at 46k and followed the advice of a Maxima technical notice which offered two solutions: clean or replace the air sensor. I had it cleaned--a bad choice. I now understand that this a fairly typical problem with Maxima engines--something that Maxima does not advertise. I will never consider buying Nissan again.

 

Man, that sucks. But you didn't go through the whole process of registering to this site just so you could post that did you?

 

Of course 'maxima' does not advertise, its not the name of the company. Thanks for sharing, move on.

 

...I have over 90k on mine and MY engine is fine...

 

100K here, NOS up to 100shot, countless beattings to the rev limiter, oil changes and all the maintenance done 3K, 15k, 30K miles. Every fluid, every bolt turned. Always ready for a battle. How could ya drive a car with a bad MAF and coils is beyond me, unless your one of the people I see sometimes that think driving a Japanesse car and not touching it ever will make it run forever. I seen people come in with 30K miles on engine sometime at Acura needing engines cause they never changed the oil. Maintain your car, and it will treat you with trouble free operation for years to come.

 

I think his problem is that he drove his Max like an Accord and the Max revolted.

 

Stupid Honduh drivers!

 

"one of the cylinders blew out"

What does this mean? Lost compression? Have you had the engine torn down? If so, got pics?

 

Bauer you need to zip it.... Honduhs are just fine. My buddy has 250k on his daily driver.... you were saying? This is a case of driver-error, not Nissan quality. If you don't service any engine when something is wrong, they will eventually go bad. His fault, not the VQ.....

Also he asked "maxima" for help, I didn't know they talked . Shows you the quality of the Montana school system... Canada IV maybe

 

Mine talks to me all the time. She says things like
"You need to teach that punk ricer a lesson." and "I love third gear on country roads."

 

I think you have been drinking too much of the KY shine

 

... I only said it for your benifit!

I agree that this had to be a case of neglect. I hope he doesn't plan on having kids! Child services'll knock on his door just to check him out after reading this thread!

As to my dislike of Honda's: they run great. The go for years. Some even look good. But, sadly, they left the soul out of the car! Every one I've even been in has just plain felt dead to me, even the 2002 Accord V6 2-door that a budy of mine owned.

 

You wouldn't understand...