CarComplaints.com Notes: Here's a disturbing trend for the 2002 Nissan Altima: the engine starts burning oil like crazy, the catalytic converter goes bad, the head gasket blows and eventually the entire engine needs replacement. Sound familiar? Like a script from a horror film, these Altimas seem doomed to fail around 95k miles.

8.5

pretty bad
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
3,511 miles

About These NHTSA Complaints:

This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.

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2002 Nissan Altima transmission problems

transmission problem

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2002 Nissan Altima Owner Comments

problem #1

Dec 272001

Altima 6-cyl

  • Manual transmission
  • 3,511 miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

Clutch assembly mismatched. Took 3 weeks to get part, only 3,000 miles old. Still hard down shifting 5-4 & 2-1gears.

- Carlsbad, CA, USA

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