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As much as I love to talk about my Titan, I realized over the past 4 nights that I need to give more credit where it's due - to my wife's '99 Maxima. Like most women, my wife is a terrible driver and doesn't take great care of her car, so I have to. It's now pushing 150K miles and I just realized last night that it doesn't even leak oil on my new garage floor! I regularly change the oil with full synthetic, keep the wheels aligned / balanced, keep the brakes maintained, plugs, ignition coils, air filter, yada, yada, yada. It still runs great! I just put 1,000 miles on it in the past 5 days. The A/C blows colder than my truck's and it sprints onto the interstate with no hesitation. The fact that it still isn't leaking oil speaks well of the car. My parents' 98 Durango was leaking from the tranny / engine seal after only 55K miles...
Additionally, when I sold my '93 Max in '05 to buy my truck, it had 175K miles and it didn't leak oil either! Granted, it started to at 148K, but I replaced (myself) my oil sending unit (not the oil pump) and the problem was solved.
Bottom line is, if you take care of your Nissans by performing normal maintenance when it's needed, it's going to last a good while.
Additionally, when I sold my '93 Max in '05 to buy my truck, it had 175K miles and it didn't leak oil either! Granted, it started to at 148K, but I replaced (myself) my oil sending unit (not the oil pump) and the problem was solved.
Bottom line is, if you take care of your Nissans by performing normal maintenance when it's needed, it's going to last a good while.