Body problems of the 2000 Nissan Maxima

The frame is almost completely rusted out on my 2000 Nissan Maxima with 158,000 miles. My mechanic had it up on his lift last week and pointed out that the left driver side portion had a break in it and was unsafe to drive. One more pot hole and the engine/tranny will be in the street. Will never buy a Nissan vehicle again.

I am the original and current owner of a 2000 Nissan Maxima with about 115,000 miles. My mechanic recently told me that the Maxima needs about $2000 of body work due to rusted floor boards and engine mount. The Maxima was immaculately kept in a garage for most of its life so I don't understand why this rust problem should be happening. I believe this is a safety hazard that Nissan should address and rectify.

I have a 2000 Maxima with 150,000 miles. I carried it for inspection and it failed due to the front end being rusted out. The piece that holds the front engine mount is completely rusted out.

VIN jn1ca31d1yt548051 when I try and do a search with this VIN number, this message appears: "an error occurred with your request. Recall information for your vehicle is not available at this time. Please contact Nissan north America, inc. . Read more...

The contact owns a 2000 Nissan Maxima. While turning the vehicle at various speeds, the vehicle drove abnormally. The vehicle was taken to a private mechanic who discovered that the transmission lower support beam was severely corroded. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 99,000.

The lower radiator support beam is severely corroded in the center where the lower engine mount bracket is bolted. This is also where the hood latch bracket is attached. The remainder of the undercarriage sub-frame components are relatively intact.

Memorial day weekend. Motorcycles everywhere. Traffic. Im in the far lane on the beltway and my exits coming up. Motorcycles everywhere. Heavy traffic too but its moving. I cant cut off the motorcycles. So I wait to pass them. Im merging, looking to the side, looking behind me. I wasn't paying to much attention to what was coming up in front of me. I mean, what else is there but cars in front of me. That's all I need to watch out for right? so I thought. I made it all the way to the right lane, merging into exit lane. "OH no!" theres a curb. A triangle curb right in front of me. I swerve to my left. Rear right tire hits the curb and takes lift off. And so does the car, right into the center of the beltway. I have it, I can feel me gaining control. Then I feel the front tires loose it. And theres the wall. Smack. Face first. Spin around one good time. Roll to a stop perfectly on the small shoulder on the right side of the road. Well im sticking out a little but im out of the way. No one hit me. No other accidents were caused. Only one couple stopped but that's ok. And only after the shaking wore off, and I stopped crying did I realize. "hey, why didn't the air bags go off?" this was a pretty serious accident. Theres frame damage to the front of my car. Totaled! everyone was ok. Neck pains and a bruised knee. But considering the conditions of this accident, it could have gone way worst. And no airbags?.

Radiator support on my 2000 Nissan Maxima is rotted on the bottom center. I found out couple weeks ago, wondering what was the noise that was coming from the front end. While driving on the through way, at 55mph I could see my hood shaking it almost looks like its going fly out which is kinda scary, basically the hood latch that is on the radiator support is loose, because the rod that holds the hood latch is rotted and broke from the lower radiator support, it looks like lower radiator support can brake anytime in half from the center, which would drop the motor down while im on the road. And this I have seen on many Maxima of this generation and many Maxima owners of this generation of Maxima 2000-2003 talk about it.

I have a model year 2000 Nissan Maxima. I also owned a 1990 Nissan Maxima and a 1998 Nissan Maxima all with the same exact problem. The radiator support rusts out completely and its not due to radiator failure or accident damage. The undercarriage of these cars need to be better protected from the weather or better quality parts need to be used. But specifically the radiator support systems in these Maximas are of very poor quality. Failure of these parts would result in the engine and or transmission falling out of the vehicle which is a serious safety issue.

We own a 2000 Nissan Maxima se. We have had multiple issues with it. At around 68,000 miles we had to pay around $1000 to replace all of the ignition coil wires on the car because it would stall and quit running. We took it to wallace Nissan in kingsport tennessee and had it repaired. They told us then that it was a " known issue" with no official recall from Nissan so we would have to cover the full cost out of pocket. Next we have always had these "noises" in the front wheels that they keep telling us is from rusted brake dust shields. Now the car vibrates all over the road, going to a mechanic tomorrow, most likely rack & pinion issue. While under the hood today trying to figure out the steering issue, hubby noticed that the brace that holds the motor & radiator is severely rusted. . . . We've replaced multiple O2 sensors, mass air flow sensors, constant issues with brakes since we've owned this thing. . . Etc etc Nissan has major issues with this car from what I am reading. . . . . What a shame they refuse to fix their mistakes.