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question about snow tire usage.. do you get them mounted towards the winter, like in november timeframe and drive on them till march? i've never had snow tires so not sure if they're good to be driven long distances..
thanks, kyle
The only exception may be this review of the Australian version (http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_2110/article.html), which says that the VDC/traction control system stops inside, front wheel spin from "getting too ugly" on tight corners. (Is the Australian version bland-looking, or what?)
IMO, the torgue steer isn't noticeable unless your driving with the pedal all the way down.
I'd suggest you take an actual test drive and see if you think it'll affect your decision on purchasing the car.
While the internet is great for information, you really have to careful about reaching any conclusions without testing the vehicles your interested in first hand.
If it does, the Honda Accord is a very nice car too.........
Best of luck
My front passenger side speakers are intermittent. They will cut out except, the A pillar speaker will stay on, very low. If I adjust fade / balance, system sounds okay but I want it corrected. Again, this is an intermittent problem. Audio shop guy says may be the "coil" in the speaker. Wants $270 to replace all 4 front speakers - says that he has to do the whole set but doesn't seem sure that is the problem. I dont think so.
Any thoughts to help me out here?
By the way, this is the standard system, not the Bose.
Thanks in advance.
However, after the initial test drives, I've usually been successful in persuading dealers to get me demos for longer drives. That's when I really get to know the car. Most recently, I tried out a new Volvo V70 wagon that way, a model which I was seriously considering. It had about 5 miles on the odometer, and they gave it to me with the plastic sheeting still all over it. (It was kind of embarrassing to drive it that way, so it encouraged me to keep the miles down.) After 40 miles, I realized that the ride and engine vibration weren't for me. And the left footrest was too close, causing my left leg to get crampy. During the initial test drive, I didn't experience any of that, mostly because we just sat at stop lights in suburban chain-store hell.
Likely, as a result, it probably didn't even have the correct air pressure in the tires, let alone any other tweaking necessary after initial assembly at the factory.
Any dealer who is giving you one of those to drive is really rolling the dice that it was perfectly put together and needs no tweaking.
I've arranged with the same salesman who took me on the ride around the block for a longer drive this Saturday with a Maxima SL. An hour or two, I was told. So I ought to know then whether I still like the car. Why should this dealer trust me? Because they've already extracted thousands of dollars of my money in repairing my aging Camry. (Which I'm keeping, so the gravy train will continue.)
If you were sold a car as new that wasn't, you have a potential case under your state's consumer fraud statute, and perhaps one under a lemon law statute, too. The consumer fraud statute probably entitles you to three times the amount of your actual damages, if you are successful. There are law firms that specialize in this sort of thing that ought to make the process easier. But they will cost you some of your settlement. Before you make the decision on whether to hire a lawyer, do some Internet research first to see if you can (or want to) handle it yourself. I would go to your state's web site, www.state.XX.us (where XX is your state's two-character postal abbreviation), click on the link to the link of state agencies, and navigate to the attorney general. You might get some helpful tips there.
Question: how financially healthy is the dealer? Is it on its last legs (which might explain why it did such a thing)? If it files for bankruptcy, you might be SOL.
It is a big dealer. I dont think they were going into bankruptcy. When I bought the car, It was the last 04 maxima they had. The sales person told me he got the car out of nissan dealer from culver city therefore it had 50 miles in it. The out of hood alignment may be the cause of why it had not been sold. I looked the car by its overall, and I was not paying attention to the detail, plus when I bought the car It was almost dark. But who would have thought the car had been damaged because it is new according to dealer. I was buying a new car because I did not want to be worry anything about the car i was purchasing.
I have contacted the state of california attorney general still waiting for the reply. Thank's for your suggestion.
Just make sure you keep records of everything: who you talked to (especially the person at the dealer who suggested it had been in an accident), when you talked to them, etc.
Good luck!
In the plus column: the driver's seat was very comfortable. It has a lumbar support, but unlike some cars, the bolstering is over a fairly wide area and not at a certain point, so you don't feel like you're being stuck by some engineer who thought it would be good for you. Also, gobs of power. Blowing past the Audi A4 at 100 was especially nice. Torque steer was evident only once, when accelerating quickly from a stop at a toll booth. (Another car was emerging at the same time and I wanted to pull ahead of him.) It was not at all present in the passing runs. The fold-down rear seat is handy, although the release button shown in the owner's manual has been replaced by a pull in the trunk.
In the minus column: the ride is too jittery. The minor flaws in the pavement you see up ahead will be felt by your butt very soon. It wasn't uncomfortable, but the Altima heritage was obvious here. The left footrest is too vertical and not comfortable. And I was surprised by the amount of engine and road noise. The engine could even be heard in fifth gear at cruising speed. The noise is moderate, not loud, but for this price, it should be less prominent.
Fuel consumption was not good. For the most part, I kept the speed to 80, but used a quarter tank in about 70 miles. Some of that was because of my speed runs and because the car was not broken in. My Camry 4 will get about 32 MPG at a constant 80. Even broken in, I doubt the Maxima would even get in the high twenties there.
The controls and displays are confusing. I wanted to adjust the fade and balance on the radio and couldn't figure it out while driving. In time, I would have learned how, but old-fashioned knobs would have been better. Unfortunately, flashy but obtuse display screens seem to be where the industry is headed.
The car had two rattles coming from the top of the dashboard. I don't know if that indicates a general problem with build quality, but according to JD Power, which rates defects in the first 90 days, the '04 Maxima was nothing special.
In spite of the negatives, I did have fun driving the car. I will keep it in mind, but will keep looking, also.
'24 Chevy Blazer EV 2LT
This vehicle can handles any road conditions with fantastic braking power.
Please do not compare Maxima (Worlds best V6) with Camry (one of the V4). Compare Apples to Apples. The Price of $30,000 ok for what you are getting when compared to same class of vehicles.
Thanks for one of the posting in this forum that explained in detail how to balance this vehicle tires using GPS 9700 machine.
TIA!
Use of 93 octane will also improve performance, because the engine computer can advance ignition timing further than with lower octane fuel, before pinging occurs.
'24 Chevy Blazer EV 2LT
Manual tranmsision or automatic?
If automatic, 4 speed or five speed?
I assume you mean RPM in TOP gear at 70 MPH
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance for your responses.
I would not change the oil at 30K miles. Waste of money IMHO. You can do more harm by using wrong oil than by not changing it. I had cars with manual transmissions with more than 100K miles and never changed the gear oil . Never any problems.
The rear wheels have toe and camber adjustments only.
'24 Chevy Blazer EV 2LT