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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
It always seemed that Nissan manual transmissions always die an early death.
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That makes me laugh. My 240SX has 200,000 miles on the original clutch, pressure plate and release bearing. The Infiniti G20 has 253,000 miles on those parts. I think it had the original gear oil in it when I bought it at 217,000 miles. I had never seen that color of gear oil come out of a transmission when I replaced itīs gear oil. Itīs release bearing sounds horrible though. The 4 speed in the 1975 280Z I had still worked fine when I sold it at 225,000 miles. The 1997 Sentra I had, had over 200,000 miles on it and I bet itīs transmission had never been repaired. My 1994 Sentra SE-R has 182,000 miles but it did have the notorious 5th gear ĻpopoutĻ problem repaired before I bought it.
I would be wary of anything from Nissan newer than year 2000. They started having a lot of quality control problems in the 1990s. I might be willing to take a chance on a newer Nissan if it came out of the Oppama plant in Japan. I think they still build good stuff there.