Believe it or not my 09 Maxima has about 32 000 kms and already have head gasket to change plus power steering hoses are leaking!!! WTFFF im so pissed I want to sell it ! At least the head gasket is still on warranty but not the hoses I drove cars for decades and never change a power steering hoses ... My 1st and last Nissan for sure piece of **** car !

 

did you buy this new or used? if its new ive definitely never heard of this before. if used, i woulda had a mechanic buddy thoroughly inspect it before purchasing.

sorry to hear about your difficulties bro. definitely never heard of either of these failing before on the 7th gens, so the problem you have isn't a "Nissan problem" but rather seems unique to your car.

 

Did you buy it new or was it in an accident!!

 

Ghozt!! We just posted the exact same time with the same qyestion!!! Weird or what!! LOL

 

thats mad random lol

 

Wow! Something fishy here. This 7th gen has been out since June of 2008, around 200,000 have been built, and this is the first instance of head gasket or power steering hose trouble we have had posted here.

In fact, in 28 years of owning nothing but Maximas, two of which I drove over 200,000 miles, I have never had any problems with head gaskets or power steering hoses.

I sincerely hope this is not a case of a renegade dealer sabotaging a Maxima in order to generate work for his service shop. If not, then I would not be surprised to find this car was bought used, and that opens all kinds of possibilities.

I would get where I am going by golf cart before I would buy a used car. I went through that nightmare many times from around forty to sixty years ago, and faced the same mess with cars for my kids through the 1970s and 1980s. There is always a reason folks let go of their cars. Sometimes that reason is as simple as someone traded in for a newer car. But then sometimes the owner is dumping a problem he created and does not want to pay to fix.

 

Very true on the used car aspect. When I got mine, I was looking at Maximas that recently came out of a lease so at least I knew the reason behind the person getting rid of the car was probably to trade up, but most likely because of a lease expiration as opposed to other reasons. Took a couple tries to find one that looked like it was cared for well, and had the service records to back it up, but I agree buying used does have it's risks.

 

Don't buy into this too much.....this is the guys very first post! Who starts an account on here just to say a car is junk.. lol

 

Well as far as hoses go, 5th, 5.5, 6th and 6.5 gens tend to have the main power steering hoses to go bad quite a bit at a certain mileage, but head gaskets naw.

 

Monte - I would bet that the 'certain mileage' of which we speak is more than the 32K kilometers on the posters car. That is LESS than 20K miles.

I have a feeling this may be a 'USED' car that needs to have an 'AB' placed in front of the 'USED.'

 

When I bought my 09 and my 09 FX I found out the powertrain warranty covers hoses, because hoses are not wear and tear items they are meant to last 60-100k and the extended warranties covers them even further

 

To the OP: Did you notice any sort of smell of coolant before hand of the diagnoseing ?
I'm curious on this..

 

NOTICE.....still hasn't been back.

 

And he joined in 2009 and this is his first Nissan, and first post?

 

fishy post

 

yeah how do you know this is a troll? because he posted once and never came back. also doesnt help he joined in 09 has 1 post. this sounds like fun tho ima go register on some Honda forums and say stuff like "my new honda blew up, motor landed in my neighbors yard" and then never come back