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Originally Posted by redpoint5
It makes me suspicious of the driver
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Originally Posted by JSH
Transmission failure makes me suspicious of driving AND maintenance or lack of maintenance.
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But the thing is they just bought this a few months ago and I don't think they've even taken it out of town. I know them very well and they're very cautious drivers, afraid to do anything that might hurt the vehicle. They've basically only driven it to work and to the store in a town with a 25mph town-wide speed limit and 35mph on the main drag through town.
Now did the previous owner drive it like a maniac and didn't change the ATF when he/she was supposed to?
It reminds me of my Prius. The Prius has galled cylinders at about 210,000 miles. I've driven it less than 50 miles so don't blame me. Everything that I've researched indicates it was from not doing the oil changes on time in accordance with the owner's manual. There've been people who have gotten 400,000 miles or more out of this same engine by properly maintaining it.
How do you know if the car has been properly maintained and driven? You can have the vehicle inspected by a mechanic, but are they really going to do a bore scope, an oil consumption test or tear apart the whole transmission to see if something is about to fail?
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Originally Posted by Nissandriver
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.
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In my life, i've seen three manual tranmission Nissan trucks from the 1980's (I drove two of them) and all three had a gear you had to hold the shifter into place because it would pop back out. Strangely it was a different gear in all three, or at least between the two I had driven. None of them had more than 200,000 miles from what I remember.