I’m going 80/20 with the 80 being in the neglect category. Her track history with cars isn’t exactly stellar. Keeping the car in the married in family will allow for me to watch its demise. Which will be sad.
Sold my 2021 Altima "accidentally"
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And 50/50 when it fails from neglect she or someone else will blame you.
My oldest son has a 2018 that has had no issues and he does OK maintenance. He is blowing me off about the CVT fluid change, which I have offered to do many times. It's grey.
My Sister in Law has a 2016-2018 model that gets minimal maintenance and also has no issues. It's grey.
My son that bought my mint black 2019: His in laws bought a 2020 and only kept it a year. It was a POS. Probably a Friday car. I even looked at it for them once. It needed front struts with only 19,000 miles on it (replaced under warranty). They are older and don't drive cars hard at all, and are very particular about dealer maintenance. They replaced it with a RAV4, but their old one was sold here in town and I see it daily. It's blue, btw.
Generally they are really good cars, but bad ones to happen.
My niece through marriage has a 16 Altima and has been beat to absolute death. I changed her cvt fluid for the 1st time ever @150k and I thought I had drained the oil it was so black. She still drives that car 100 miles a day to work, never sets still and it still moves. Some people get lucky, while others can do everything right and get robbed.
My 2016 had 106,000 miles when I bought it. I gave it its first CVT fluid change, which wasn’t bad since it had been a pharmaceutical rep car and had the miles put on in 2 years. The 100 miles a day is what is saving her.
The 2016 went 150k miles until t-boned by a meth head while it was parked. Original transmission. I only changed the water pump on that car. Nothing more than fluids, break pads and the water pump in 150k miles.
After Nissan got the pre cats worked out on the early 2.5s, that engine has proved to be bulletproof. Why they went the turbo charged sewing machine route is beyond me. My now gone 21 and the wife’s 24 routinely get 37mpg, so it wasn’t about fuel efficiency. I’m sure some nerd in accounting bottom lined a 3/4 of a percent savings in production at the expense of longevity. Now those engines are tanking the company due to replacements. I swear Nissan can’t get out of their own way. They finally got all the cvt issues of years gone by worked out, so why not make an engine that doesn’t make it to the second oil change.
I’ve loved all of the Altima’s that I have had as much as any vehicles we’ve owned.
Too bad that they have such a bad/deserved reputation for a car that does so many things very well.
Too bad that they have such a bad/deserved reputation for a car that does so many things very well.
Like any other make you only hear the bad. There’s plenty of high mileage Nissans that were absolutely abused and keep on chugging. I have 2 in my family.
My SIL currently has a '17 Murano that she bought it new in '17. This particular dealer was discounting them a boat load of money at that time and she has driven it without issue for 9 years thus far and never even thought about the CVT.
I've driven her Murano lately myself and even took it on a couple of trips from NY-PA & back with her & hubby. VERY NICE!
She & I both had 1st gen Lexus RX300's(we both has 2001's) and I sold ours to her other sister who drove it til the tranny died. This Murano(2015-'24) is a nicer SUV. More reliable than both of our RX's. AND, both of our RX's had many of the same issues(not terrible but fussy) and finally both RX's trannies died. I maintained ours and she didn't and it didn't seem to matter.
IMO, our RX was the most disappointing vehicle I've ever owned for the money! It wasn't a disaster of a vehicle(until the end) but it wasn't a good LEXUS either. Or even a good Toyota, in the that way we know Toyota/Lexus vehicles to be.
OTOH, our NISSAN's have been just the opposite of their reputation. It's something, isn't it?
I won't be buying another NISSAN anytime soon as they are very hard to get rid of on the used car market. No one seems to want them in my area due to their reputation. However, I am in another Toyota and my stay here just due to their reputation even though, I haven't driven a Toyota/Lexus(in my price range...$40Kish) that I can honestly say that I like driving. They're just, Mhhhh!
And just Mhhhh is OK if the car doesn't give me any grief and just goes about it's business without fuss!
Can you sense some RANT here?
I've driven her Murano lately myself and even took it on a couple of trips from NY-PA & back with her & hubby. VERY NICE!
She & I both had 1st gen Lexus RX300's(we both has 2001's) and I sold ours to her other sister who drove it til the tranny died. This Murano(2015-'24) is a nicer SUV. More reliable than both of our RX's. AND, both of our RX's had many of the same issues(not terrible but fussy) and finally both RX's trannies died. I maintained ours and she didn't and it didn't seem to matter.
IMO, our RX was the most disappointing vehicle I've ever owned for the money! It wasn't a disaster of a vehicle(until the end) but it wasn't a good LEXUS either. Or even a good Toyota, in the that way we know Toyota/Lexus vehicles to be.
OTOH, our NISSAN's have been just the opposite of their reputation. It's something, isn't it?
I won't be buying another NISSAN anytime soon as they are very hard to get rid of on the used car market. No one seems to want them in my area due to their reputation. However, I am in another Toyota and my stay here just due to their reputation even though, I haven't driven a Toyota/Lexus(in my price range...$40Kish) that I can honestly say that I like driving. They're just, Mhhhh!
And just Mhhhh is OK if the car doesn't give me any grief and just goes about it's business without fuss!
Can you sense some RANT here?
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Accidentally is when you are finalizing your divorce and the soon to be ex wife slaps a title down in front of you and says sign over the new car like you said you would. After signing it she laughed at me and said "say goodbye to your hotrod truck you love so much ". Yep I signed the title of my Ford F150 with and 800HP Cleveland engine in it I had been working on. She sold it for $5 and mailed me a picture of the proud new owner with his deal of a lifetime truck.
