CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2005 Nissan Altima has two fairly significant problems with the floor pan rusting through & motor mounts breaking.
Altima owners report that up to a basketball-size hole develops under the floor mats where the floor pan metal rusts through. Average repair cost is over $1,000.
The broken motor mounts are less of a problem - they break at ~75,000 miles average & it's $400 to fix. Still, motor mounts should not break!
When you hit a hump in the road it feels like the rear-end bottoms out. Come to find out the swaybar hits the lower torsion bar. It has now wore a hole on each side. I just changed the sway bar links and each torsion bar. It still bottoms-out. I guess my next step is changing the rear cargo springs and checking/changing the rear shocks. If someone has the same problem please advise. The dealer is no help.
A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
When you hit a hump in the road it feels like the rear-end bottoms out. Come to find out the swaybar hits the lower torsion bar. It has now wore a hole on each side. I just changed the sway bar links and each torsion bar. It still bottoms-out. I guess my next step is changing the rear cargo springs and checking/changing the rear shocks. If someone has the same problem please advise. The dealer is no help.
- Robert A., North Haven, CT, US