2002 Nissan Sentra GXE from North America - Comments

I've had my 2001 Sentra for almost a year now and it runs very well. A champ. It burns no oil and has not given any trouble beyond a burnt headlight bulb and a fried battery terminal - both cheap and easy fixes. Good gas mileage and quite responsive considering its small engine. If you take care if, it takes care of you.

I have a 2000 Nissan Sentra GXE 5 speed manual. It just started rough idling yesterday so I popped the hood and saw that oil was spilling out onto the engine. My guess is that the oil is creating build up on the intake air control valve, thus leading to my rpm jumping around between 500-1200 while in neutral or idle. I'm planning on taking this to a mechanic tomorrow. If you have any suggestions, email me at andybusam@gmail.com.

I have a 2001 Nissan Sentra GXE. My wife bought it new in 2001.

It has 110,000 miles on it.

No maintenance was ever done on it, and it even still had the filthy, grime packed, OEM air filter still in it at 67,000 miles!

Since the 67K mark, I've so far only had to do wear items mostly, and its first MAF sensor at 107,000.

I had new rotors and its first set of front pads put on around 87K.

The passenger side window sticks down, and you have to pull up on the glass while button depressed to get it worked back up closed, but I think it's because it never got used in 8 years that it got that way. When it comes to electric windows, not using them enough can be worse than too much.

New tires a few times.

One new set of plugs at 100K.

Regular oil changes, and a new charge of anti-freeze.

New headlight bulb.

New belt.

Radio display light is out and CD player stopped working about 2 years ago.

Engine runs very good still and smooth with new iridium plugs.

Our 2001 GXE has really had only a couple problems that seem reasonable considering the age and mileage of 110,000.

Oh, and it badly needs new struts now, but struts don't last forever either.

Basically, we've spent about $400 on the new MAF, but everything else are normal wear items.

The car should keep going for another 100K.

P.S. The dipstick handle did break off a year ago and a new one was about $13 from Nissan. Luckily, it broke on the oil changing service tech, and he bought us a new one and knew a trick of blowing compressed air into the oil drain plug to blow the dipstick up out of the tube that it fell down into when it broke off.

I think the new replacement has the metal dipstick wire molded more into the handle so it shouldn't happen again.

Overall, thus far I'm satisfied with Nissan as I just bought a new 2009 Pathfinder from them.

They knocked off $5K so I couldn't pass it up.