Bought the car off Facebook Marketplace for $4,000. The seller seemed happy to finally find a buyer and I thought I've found a fair deal since the demand for manual cars in this country is quite small compared to others. No problems for about 200 miles... That is, until the steering wheel nearly locked up on me as I was returning from a late-night Walmart run, becoming very stiff and requiring a good deal of muscle for even the slightest turns.
Once I got home I noticed the PSF reservoir was empty. I filled it up, drove around the block a couple times with no incident and found it slightly leaking, but the next morning I still had more than enough to get me to work - psych! Power steering would cut off and then inexplicably return to normal sporadically, and made steering more akin to wrestling a wild animal rather than a normal, everyday experience. The problem is possibly a faulty PSF pump coupled with a cracked line or (God forbid) damage to the rack itself, and the Almighty Google has estimated these replacements to cost anywhere from $1,200 to upwards of $2,000.
Of course the seller mentioned none of the aforementioned defects, and this find was shocking since I thought Nissan, being a Japanese company, to be a reputable auto manufacturer. Apparently not all is well in the Land of the Rising Sun since these defects and the ubiquity of complaints surrounding them indicate a trend of shoddy workmanship and a proclivity to cutting corners instead of delivering quality automobiles. It is not normal for a Japanese car to last a mere 70k miles or to be constantly suffering from various mechanical failures at circa 120k miles when other manufacturers like Honda have cars that routinely make it to 300k with little to no issues.
And there's more. The dreadful melting dashboard and its glare is another unacceptable flaw that should not exist in this day and age, or the CVT and manual transmission problems that I keep on seeing on this website, but that is for another time and another complaint. I refuse to throw 50% of the money I spent buying this steaming turd on 4 wheels towards repairs that will most likely need further attention (and money) within the next 500 miles, and I refuse to ever drive, sit in or even speak of a Nissan for the rest of my life. Completely garbage company with completely unreliable and unsafe products, STEER CLEAR!
A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
Bought the car off Facebook Marketplace for $4,000. The seller seemed happy to finally find a buyer and I thought I've found a fair deal since the demand for manual cars in this country is quite small compared to others. No problems for about 200 miles... That is, until the steering wheel nearly locked up on me as I was returning from a late-night Walmart run, becoming very stiff and requiring a good deal of muscle for even the slightest turns.
Once I got home I noticed the PSF reservoir was empty. I filled it up, drove around the block a couple times with no incident and found it slightly leaking, but the next morning I still had more than enough to get me to work - psych! Power steering would cut off and then inexplicably return to normal sporadically, and made steering more akin to wrestling a wild animal rather than a normal, everyday experience. The problem is possibly a faulty PSF pump coupled with a cracked line or (God forbid) damage to the rack itself, and the Almighty Google has estimated these replacements to cost anywhere from $1,200 to upwards of $2,000.
Of course the seller mentioned none of the aforementioned defects, and this find was shocking since I thought Nissan, being a Japanese company, to be a reputable auto manufacturer. Apparently not all is well in the Land of the Rising Sun since these defects and the ubiquity of complaints surrounding them indicate a trend of shoddy workmanship and a proclivity to cutting corners instead of delivering quality automobiles. It is not normal for a Japanese car to last a mere 70k miles or to be constantly suffering from various mechanical failures at circa 120k miles when other manufacturers like Honda have cars that routinely make it to 300k with little to no issues.
And there's more. The dreadful melting dashboard and its glare is another unacceptable flaw that should not exist in this day and age, or the CVT and manual transmission problems that I keep on seeing on this website, but that is for another time and another complaint. I refuse to throw 50% of the money I spent buying this steaming turd on 4 wheels towards repairs that will most likely need further attention (and money) within the next 500 miles, and I refuse to ever drive, sit in or even speak of a Nissan for the rest of my life. Completely garbage company with completely unreliable and unsafe products, STEER CLEAR!
- Nicholas B., Virginia Beach, VA, US