This price is 42.6 percent higher than the fair price.
Low price: $2162
Fair price: $2806
High price: $3449
MPG: 17 mpg city / 24 mpg hwy
Interior Color: Black
Color: Super Black Clearcoat
Dealer: Kings Chrysler Jeep Dodge
Mileage: 122,473
Year: 2001
Ownership Cost for 2001 Nissan Maxima GXE
Estimated: $34786 over the next 5 years
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Total
Depreciation
$1023
$491
$430
$389
$348
$2681
Insurance
$1451
$1502
$1554
$1609
$1665
$7781
Fuel
$1660
$1709
$1769
$1840
$1923
$8901
Maintenance
$2763
$1953
$934
$530
$2291
$8471
Repairs
$977
$1138
$1298
$1417
$1627
$6457
Taxes & Fees
$335
$335
$335
$335
$335
$496
Total Ownership Costs
$8208
$6832
$6033
$5815
$7897
$34786
Air Bag Loc Front: 1st Row (Driver & Passenger)
Body Class: Sedan/Saloon
Displacement CC: 3000
Displacement CI: 183.0712322841
Displacement L: 3
Doors: 4
Engine Configuration: V-Shaped
Engine Cylinders: 6
Engine Model: VQ30
Fuel Type Primary: Gasoline
Make: NISSAN
Manufacturer: NISSAN MOTOR COMPANY, LTD
Manufacturer Id: 996
Model: Maxima
Model Year: 2001
Other Restraint System Info: 3-Point manual belts
Plant City: Yokosuka City
Plant Company Name: Oppama Plant
Plant Country: Japan
Plant State: Kanagawa
Seat Belts All: Manual
Vehicle Type: PASSENGER CAR
Model year
COMPONENT
Complaint
2005
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
I CURRENTLY OWN A 2005 NISSAN MAXIMA SL AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION I BOUGHT IT USED AT ABOUT 80,000KM AND ITS NOW AT 103,000KM. SINCE I BOUGHT IT I HAVE BEEN MORE THEN DISAPPOINTED AND NOW FURIOUS WITH NISSAN. FROM PURCHASE DATE WHICH WAS AUGUST 2008 UNTIL NOW APRIL 2009 I HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING THE CAR JERKING FROM GEAR 1 TO 2 AND 2 DOWN TO 1. IT WENT FROM A SLIGHT JERK AND SLIP OF THE GEARS TO A JERK SO HARD THAT IT BROKE THE ENGINE MOUNTS. I BROUGHT IT IN AND GOT THE ENGINE MOUNTS FIXED AND ALSO HAD THEM DO A DIAGNOSTICS. I WENT TO 4 DIFFERENT DEALERSHIPS AND 2 MECHANICS AND NO ONE KNEW WHAT WAS WRONG. NISSAN KEPT TELLING ME TO GET A TRANSMISSION FLUSH WHICH I DID TWICE AND STILL DID NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM. I ALSO GOT THE TIMING BELT REPLACED AS WELL AS GOT THE VEHICLE CHECKED OUT BY A NISSAN TRANSMISSION SPECIALIST. NOT TO MENTION EVERY DIAGNOSTIC TEST IS $100. THIS CAR IS NOT SAFE FOR ME AND MY FAMILY. THE INTENSE JERKING DURING ACCELERATION AND BREAKING IS NOT ONLY UNSAFE FOR US, BUT FOR OTHERS ON THE ROAD. THE MOST RECENT INCIDENT HAPPENED COMING OFF THE HIGHWAY LATE ONE NIGHT WHEN I WAS SLOWING DOWN ON THE OFF RAMP AND THE JERK WAS SO SEVERE THAT IT HAD GIVEN MYSELF AND MY PASSENGER WHIP LASH AND CAUSED US TO SPIN OUT. AFTER ALL THE MAINTENANCE, PARTS REPLACED AND I?M STILL EXPERIENCING THE SAME PROBLEM MEANS THAT NISSAN IS NOT DOING THEIR JOB TO GET THIS RECTIFIED. IT?S COSTING ME TOO MUCH TIME AND MONEY. I HAVE TO TAKE TIME OFF WORK EVERY TIME TO GET THESE THINGS DONE AND THE SAME PROBLEMS ARE RECURRING AND NOW I DON?T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO. I RECENTLY READ SOME REVIEWS AND I NOTICED THAT THIS IS A POPULAR PROBLEM WITHIN 2004-2005 NISSAN MAXIMA?S BUT YET THERE HAS BEEN NO RECALLS AND NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE TO COMPENSATE THE CONSUMER. I NEED SOMETHING DONE ASAP BECAUSE AS OF RIGHT NOW I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO DRIVE THIS FAULTY VEHICLE, UNSURE IF I WILL MAKE IT TO WORK OR HOME AT NIGHT. *TR
2001
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
WE OWN A 2001 NISSAN MAXIMA, WHICH WE PURCHASED NEW FROM A NISSAN DEALER. IT HAS, ON 3 OCCASIONS, EXPERIENCED A PROBLEM WITH "SURGING"/HIGH REVVING.*DT THE CAUSE IN EVERY CASE HAS BEEN A PART KNOWN AS AN "IDLE AIR CONTROL VALVE" (IACV), WHICH FAILS AND IN DOING SO, CAUSES THE "ECM" (THE "ENGINE COMPUTER") TO FAIL. WE HAVE DISCOVERED THAT HITACHI IS THE SOLE SOURCE FOR THE IACV, WHETHER THE PART IS OBTAINED FROM A NISSAN DEALER OR ANY OTHER SOURCE UNDER ANY OTHER BRAND. THIS ISSUE IS APPARENTLY A PARTICULARLY WELL-KNOWN ISSUE WITH THIS MODEL SERIES OF VEHICLE, BOTH NISSAN AND INFINITI. THE FIRST TIME THE VEHICLE HAD THIS ISSUE, IT WAS UNDER WARRANTY AND WAS SUPPOSEDLY REPAIRED BY NISSAN. HOWEVER, THE SAME ISSUE HAS RECURRED ON 2 SUBSEQUENT OCCASIONS, AND BOTH TIMES NISSAN HAS WHOLLY FAILED TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE. WE HAVE REPEATEDLY ATTEMPTED TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE WITH NISSAN, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NISSAN CONSUMER RELATIONS, NISSAN'S VP OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, THE "EXECUTIVE OFFICES" ESCALATION DEPARTMENT, ETC., ALL WITH NO SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE FROM NISSAN BEYOND THEIR STATING THAT SINCE THE VEHICLE IS NO LONGER UNDER WARRANTY, IT ISN'T NISSAN'S PROBLEM. HOWEVER, IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT IN THIS LATEST OCCURRENCE, NISSAN INITIALLY STATED THAT THEIR REFUSAL TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE WAS DUE TO OUR ALLEGEDLY HAVING INSTALLED "AN AFTERMARKET ECM" (WE HAD NOT). HOWEVER, WHEN THE NISSAN DEALER CONFIRMED TO NISSAN THAT THE ECM WAS IN FACT A FACTORY NISSAN PART, AND WE DISCOVERED THAT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "AN AFTERMARKET ECM," NISSAN THEN REFUSED TO CORRECT THIS SITUATION. FROM OUR LAYPERSON'S INVESTIGATION OF THIS ISSUE, IT APPEARS TO BE A DESIGN FLAW IN THE CIRCUITRY, AND IS GENERALLY WIDELY KNOWN IN THE REPAIR INDUSTRY, BY ENTHUSIASTS, MAJOR AUTO REVIEWING COMPANIES, ETC. THEREFORE, IT SEEMS THAT NISSAN'S CLAIM TO NOT KNOW OF THIS ISSUE IS DISINGENUOUS AT BEST. *TR *DT
