Re: Which To Buy?

"High Tech Misfit" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>E Meyer wrote:
>
>> The only non-routine problems I've treated on Nissans have been the
>> occasional engine compartment electrical connector that needed
>> cleaning/reseating (plagues the '02 Pathfinder) and periodic throttle 
>> body
>> cleaning ('91 240sx and '96 I30).
>
> It's the newer Nissans that are crap.  Older Nissans were much more
solid.
> A friend of mine put over 200,000 miles on a '90 NX with little trouble.

One of the most troublesome cars I've ever had was an '85 300ZX. There
were 
problems related to poor maintenance, especially the use of straight water

in the cooling system (I violated my rules for used car standards because
I 
lusted after the car). But the real killer was in the electrical system.
At 
17 years and 150K miles it was developing new intermittents faster than I 
could track them down. A few years before, an intermittent connector on
the 
ignition coil caused it to die half a dozen times a day for two months.
The 
first month it didn't even stay dead a minute at a time... very
frustrating.

Mike