Sold my maxima, farewell

She has good taste in cars...

That's definitely NOT the case, if Consumer Reports frequency of repair records is to be believed. The Maxima, along with many other fine cars, is on their recommended buy list. There also aren't many recalls or safety issues with the current generation of Nissans.

All the bitching on this string is purely subjective as the statistics do not bear the complainers out.

The current Maxima doesn't require premium fuel; only a minimum of 87 octane.

The current Maxima doesn't require premium fuel; only a minimum of 87

well one of the big reaons I sold ym maxima was because of it's ned for premium. you CAN use 87, but you lose a lot of performance (I've seen dyno results on maxima.org to prove it) also, regardless if the new maxima is made to run on 87 (although I was pretty sure it still RECOMMENDS 91 or better for maximum performance) I don't like the new maximas at all... 2003 was their last good year in my opinion.

I still say the 98/99 Nissans were the last of the quality Maximas.

Well, that's sort of the tack that I (unwittingly) took with this Maxima. My problem was that I *was* buying cheaper cars, such as an Olds Intrigue, VW Jetta, etc., so I'd tire of them sooner (and they wouldn't hold up either).

My problem with spending more than $30k on a car comes from not wanting to be on the hook for such a huge depreciating asset if something awful happened (grave injury, loss of job, etc.). As it is, the 3 yr. warranty on my Max is up this March, and my payments go until Feb. '07. While it's doubtful anything catastrophic will happen to the car in that 11 month period (it only has around 25k miles on it), it makes me nervous. I've thought about an extended warranty, but they're horrifically expensive. If the car had given me me trouble up to this point, I might seriously consider it, but for the money I'd rather put a nice set of Michelin Pilots on it come next year. :)

There's nothing about the 6G Renau..., er, Maxima I mean, that a car crusher can't fix.

There are very, very few shared parts/people between Renault and Nissan. They are co-designing a new "super fuel efficient" 4 banger, but that's been the first huge alignment in their car businesses.

Perhaps, but from an aesthetic standpoint the 6G DOES remind me of something strangely Gallic--i.e., awkward in a pretend-to-be-trendy-gawky-sort-of-way--as opposed to the usual (or even unusual) Nippon styling, although that Nissan buck tooth of a grille is just plain fugly no matter what continent it's sourced from.

You sold a perfectly working car to get better gas mileage,,,,????

Did you run the numbers,,,??? You could have bought alot of premium $3 a gall>hi, I posted on here a few times I was selling my maxima. I just sold it

That'll be easy enough to fix if you find a wrecked TL somewhere.

Dave

Very interesting thought. I do have a 7 year/100,000 mile Honda warranty though, so I guess that mod would cause a problem if an associated part failed...

yes its seems like a silly reason doesn't it, but I hear that reasoning all the time, for some reason when people think "premium gas" they imagine its a huge cost penalty, when in fact, it's only adds an extra $200 a year, on average, to your fuel bill, compare that with the tax alone you pay for a $30,000 car and you can quickly see the extra cost its insignificant part of car ownership.... oh well, people are not rational creatures