Here's a pic of my new to me car. It's a 2002 Nissan Maxima SE. Has 79xxx miles. This one is a phone pic so it's not that good. Might post better ones when I have a chance.
From what my eyes and ears tell me, it's in pretty decent shape. Love the VQ35 and the HID lights. A good upgrade from the Civic.
I dumped a bottle of Regane in the tank the day of purchase. I had half a bottle of RL-1 left from the Civic so I dumped that in before filling up today. Changed the oil Saturday. The dumb a-s who installed the filter had it on way too tight and it took a lot of effort to remove. I just ordered some Auto-RX to go in it. Trip computer was telling me I was getting 29.9 mpg on the last tank but calculating by hand gave me 25.3, which is with 200 miles highway (65-70 mph) and 159 miles city. So I'm going to have to learn how to drive it for better gas mileage since I'm used to the low-mid 30s with the Civic.
Now the bad: After the purchase I noticed some stuff that indicate it might have been in an unreported fender bender (Carfax & Autocheck came back clean). Three of the seat belt buckles are face backwards, so maybe they were replaced. The trunk was repainted at some point. For what reason I don't know. The hood seems to have some overspray and the radiator fins doesn't have many bent fins (so maybe it's newer
).
Will need to replace the tires in about 5k. 17 inchers are expensive.
The front power outlet doesn't work and one of the license lights don't work, even with a new bulb. Do those have fuses?
Oh and it threw the Service Engine Soon (CEL) light 50 miles into my 100 miles trip back to school today. At first I thought it was an oil change reminder but when I looked it up it turns out it is the CEL and I went uh-oh. Hope it doesn't cost too much to fix.
I guess I'll stop my rambling. If anybody has solutions to the above problems let me know. Thanks
From what my eyes and ears tell me, it's in pretty decent shape. Love the VQ35 and the HID lights. A good upgrade from the Civic.
I dumped a bottle of Regane in the tank the day of purchase. I had half a bottle of RL-1 left from the Civic so I dumped that in before filling up today. Changed the oil Saturday. The dumb a-s who installed the filter had it on way too tight and it took a lot of effort to remove. I just ordered some Auto-RX to go in it. Trip computer was telling me I was getting 29.9 mpg on the last tank but calculating by hand gave me 25.3, which is with 200 miles highway (65-70 mph) and 159 miles city. So I'm going to have to learn how to drive it for better gas mileage since I'm used to the low-mid 30s with the Civic.
Now the bad: After the purchase I noticed some stuff that indicate it might have been in an unreported fender bender (Carfax & Autocheck came back clean). Three of the seat belt buckles are face backwards, so maybe they were replaced. The trunk was repainted at some point. For what reason I don't know. The hood seems to have some overspray and the radiator fins doesn't have many bent fins (so maybe it's newer
Will need to replace the tires in about 5k. 17 inchers are expensive.
The front power outlet doesn't work and one of the license lights don't work, even with a new bulb. Do those have fuses?
Oh and it threw the Service Engine Soon (CEL) light 50 miles into my 100 miles trip back to school today. At first I thought it was an oil change reminder but when I looked it up it turns out it is the CEL and I went uh-oh. Hope it doesn't cost too much to fix.
I guess I'll stop my rambling. If anybody has solutions to the above problems let me know. Thanks
