1990 Nissan Maxima GXE from North America - Comments

Maxima was nice, but it really had major issues.

I have a 1990 Maxima, accquired in 2005 from my grandmother with just over 60,000 on the odometer (not a typo!) I have had slight problems with the injectors in the past year and a half, but nothing that made the car actually die. They usually clean themselves out after enough driving, at least that's my experience. This car has never broken down on me, which is less than I can say for some other cars I've owned, and I beat the living crap out of it. I have a 90 plus mile drive 4 days a week to and from school, and right now I have 88,000 on it. Only grope is it's an automatic, but it was free, so it's all good.

I have a 1996 Nissan Maxima with the telescoping antenna. I put in a new radio, made all necessary adaptations to be able to plug into the new radio sockets and then fired it up. What happens is that the antenna "hunts" up and down while the radio tries to boot up repeatedly. I feel I'm getting a positive feedback in the antenna control circuit, but how can I troubleshoot this kind of thing? Reply to sbn63man@aol.com.

For smooth running and power:

Fuel injector contacts go bad when you pressure wash your engine, Getting water in the connectors, clean the contacts (scrub off the green and white stuff) spray silicone on them and you may have to replace the connectors too or you can solder the wires directly to the injector.

Also change the spark plug wires, distributor cap & rotor after 100K miles.

I have a 1990 Maxima. When I got it 5 years ago, there were 70k miles, now there are 97k. I am replacing it with a Honda civic in the next few days because I am sick of bad gas mileage (15 in the city, 20 on the highway). It also has a rough idle, but that's for the next owner to worry about. Good car over all.