Brake Antilock Wheel Speed Sensor problems of the 2004 Nissan Maxima

Tl the contact owned a 2004 Nissan Maxima. While the vehicle was parked in the garage at the contact's home, the hood blew up and the front end burst into flames. The contact opened the garage door and extinguished the fire. There were no injuries or property damage. The maintenance indicator illuminated. The vehicle was driven to five star Nissan of florence (311 n cashua dr, florence, SC 29501, 843-628-0032) where it was diagnosed that the speed sensor failed. The contact stated that the insurance company totaled the vehicle. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 96,149.

I have a 2004 Nissan Maxima with 50,008 miles on it and recently had the abs coming on while I was driving and no dash warning lights on, brought it to the dealer to find out that the right rear abs speed sensor went bad but why didn't any warning lights come on they pulled the abs fuse and now the warning lights are on but you absolutely can not stop the vehicle when this happen this imagine hitting the brakes at 55 mph with your two year old in car and its not stopping because when you abs sensor goes bad it turns on the abs which does not allow your normal brakes to operate and do not throw any of your dash lights on, if I had the money for a lawyer I would be going after Nissan right now it should work so if you have a problem with your abs it should turn at least your warning lights and then disconnect the abs so you can use your normal brakes to actually stop the car. . . . . Also none of the front end and rear end body lines match up to none of the gaps between hood and fenders are the same can get finger in one side and not the other same with the trunk, and the car has only been in one accident that I know of that I reported had gotten side swiped at 45 mph on drivers side by big truck also notice that front and rear windshields do not have Nissan stamp on windows the car fax was clean well the on the dealership I bought car from was clean I think this car was wrecked front and rear and fixed and wasn't reported then sold to me with 26,800 miles when I bought it no sits at 50,000 cause have nothing but problems with I would like a state inspector to look at car my opinion is car is unsafe but only one I have and still owe more than 10,000 dollars on it please help.

I bought the 2004 Nissan Maxima sl for my wife in 2008. It was a one owner with about 90,000 highway miles, I loved the car and had no problems until Feb 2010. The abs system started acting up. Sounds like the abs is trying to engage every time you hit the brakes. Nissan dealership wanted $100 just to hook it to computer to see what the problem was, no thank you. I had a mechanic friend hook his service computer up while I drove and like many other consumers, my Maxima has a right (passenger) rear speed sensor that is bad, this causes the brakes to not function properly, all the while there are no service lights on the dash, you can pull the abs fuse and but then that knocks out 1/2 of the cluster, including speedometer, gas gauge, parts of the obc, this is a huge problem suffered by many consumers and needs to be addressed immediately.

Defective abs sensor ($482. 71) apparently a common issue with the 2004 Nissan Maxima as there is a service bulletin alerting the dealers of the same. I tried to get Nissan to at least cover the cost of the part ($202. 99) and was finally contacted by the "regional rep" after over a week of e-mails and phone calls. I was told I was basically "sol". Seems to me that a brake issue involving defective parts is very serious one. And at least the consumer should be alerted to it, even if it is not at the recall stage yet!!!! no longer happy with the folks at Nissan.