2000 Nissan Maxima GXE from North America - Comments

I too have had to replace all 6 coils at a cost of $1200 at the dealership. They were not able to determine which one was bad and pressed me to have all of them replaced. The car is paid off and I only have 70,000.00 miles on it, and I did not expect to have to pay for such a costly repair at this interval. I have read over a hundred complaints about this coil problem, and am very disappointed that this is occurring at such frequency. I take very good car of my car and have it serviced often for routine maintenance, but after reading about the hundreds of others who have experienced the same problem, I will not be purchasing another Nissan again. I urge others to complain to Nissan, and sign the petition on line.

The car is enjoyable to drive, but expensive to maintain. I think I have even replaced an O-2 sensor more than once.

I have a 2000 Maxima GLE with 71K miles on it. The same thing happened to us as happened to so many other people on this site!! The engine service light came on, and we brought the car to the Nissan dealer yesterday, and after charging us $125 for diagnosing the car, they told us that we had a bad coil, and that their policy is to change all the coils, even if only one is bad, to the tune of $1,200.00!! They said that they couldn't pinpoint which one was bad.

Needless to say, I refused and called a local mechanic that I used for my old Honda. He checked the car and each coil and found the bad one and replaced THE BAD COIL!!! (Funny how he could find it and they couldn't... hmmm) He said that there was no need to change all the coils. and wasn't sure why we were told it was necessary... but after viewing this site I know why.

Something should be done about this problem, when so many people have experienced the same thing. I had my Honda for over 200K miles and never had anything like this. I'm surprised there hasn't been a class action suit for this problem with Nissan. If anyone does know of one, please post it.