This was first noticed today. I'm wondering if it's a known problem with the '99 Maxima. Mine is just approaching 60K miles.
When starting from a complete stop just as you start moving, there's a clicking noise that seems to be coming from the driver's door though it could be the back door...my hearing isn't all that good. It sounds to me like the noise you hear from the door locks but not as loud.
It doesn't appear to be there if the driver's door is held open when you start and doesn't seem to be there if you back up from a stop.
It doesn't do anything to the locks that I can tell.
In addition if the doors are already locked and you press the switch to try to lock the doors again there's hardly any noise but is a very slight click, again in the same area when you release the button used to lock the doors. It seems to me that in the past if you tried locking the doors and they were already locked, you'd hear all the doors make an attempt to lock but not nearly as loud as when they are unlocked and you lock them.
By chance is this a known failure and does anybody have experience trying to fix it???? I'd rather head off a problem that may give difficulties with the door locks before it becomes more serious.
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