1990 Nissan Maxima SE from North America - Comments

Engine is completely gone!!! transmission problems, AC doesn't work, breaks do not work, car bearly goes on the road, batter leaked, and at times does not start.

A car that can promise well, but doesn't. This car is pretty plain on the outside, and not much on the interior. Not cheap on gas. Now the car just sits in the garage.

280,000km's?! What do you expect man. There are a million Dodge & Chevy owners out there who would float away to heaven if someone told them they'd get 280,000km's out of their engine & tranny. A lot of cars never see mileage that high. Reliability 0/10? Yeah right...

Wait just a minute... Did you buy this car new? Do you have any idea how it was serviced up until you bought it? I just purchased a 1990 Maxima with 113K on it (miles not kilos) and it performed flawlessly driving it 994 miles in 13 hours. It also got over 26 mpg, not bad for a 14 year old car. Think about what you have and what condition it is in, I have a two owner car that looks new and I gave less than 10% of new price...

Own a 1990 Nissan Maxima with 218,000 miles! Still a very good automobile and am thinking about driving it another 100,000. Never any transmission trouble and engine has never been touched except for starter replacement. Never uses a drop of oil between changes ; 3,000 to 4,000 miles. Replaced timing belt when it was 50,000 miles over due and it still ran great before I changed it out. Excellent gas mileage too. Only real problem I have is a rattle in the front end that sounds like a loose shock would, but may be the struts. Only one window will roll down now. Have trouble in the control buttons I believe.

You bought this car w/20,000 kilometers on it and have added another 250,000 plus. If it has been a problem child then maybe you should look in the mirror to find the reason why. My '90 SE has about 250,000 MILES on it and it could still be driven across country (the U.S.) without drama. Without music too, but that's another story. (Bose made themselves a bad rep w/these Nissan stereos.) It's a given that Nissan cars aren't quite as well made as Honda or Toyota, but they are far better than you would have people believe.

I had to respond to this one, I have had nothing but problems with my Maxima, with only 84,000 miles on it and being only the second owner from someone who had it dealer serviced and garage kept since day one.

I have had to replace the front suspension (ball joints, sway bar links, struts & tower supports), this car was owned by a little old lady.

Then, timing belt, water pump, starter, alternator, exhaust head pipe (flex pipe), air conditioning compressor, two power window motors, climate control switch, and now after all of that, the transmission is acting up (it won't shift into top gear for a few miles).

I have spent upwards of $5000 on this car and it is just one thing after another... I've had it.