Faults:

The headlight lens assembly seem to become stained; they would not come off, so I replaced them with SE-R headlights.

The radio has started to take a little longer than usual to load CDs.

General Comments:

Nothing at all really, since I've had it. The previous owner kept up with maintenance, and had all the records. He gave me a car fax report. I thought it was well taken care of and seems to still hold up. I do all maintenance myself, and the car runs smoothly and great!

Faults:

Changed the oil 300 miles ago, checked the oil today and there is NONE!

Burning oil at an EXTREME rate. I'm dumping $40 in oil every 10 days.

Experience problems with hard start, takes usually 3-5 times.

General Comments:

When I first got her she ran like a champ; now she acts like shes ready for a retirement home : (

Overall the car handles really well.

Brake pads are still good after all this time.

Comfy seats to go along with the sporty interior (red and black).

Faults:

Clear coat wore off mirrors and the area around the trunk at about 30,000 miles.

Lights in gear shifter box went out at 10,000 miles.

Thermostat went bad, warped radiator cap and busted the hose at 70,000 miles.

Windshield washer fluid tank will not hold fluid; no leak in tank though. Explain that one!

Car began to shudder at start up at 85,000 miles. Went to the dealer and for $80 they said they couldn't find a problem with the car, yet it kept shuddering. They did offer to change my sparkplugs for $210. Yeah, right. My oil change place was able to do the same sparkplugs for $11.

Thermostat went bad, again at 86,000 miles and now the car has decided to not actually crank occasionally. Everything comes on, but the car doesn't start. It's more finicky than a cat.

It's been great so far, but all these problems are ridiculous. No more Nissans!!

Faults:

I've had the same problem as others with my Sentra. In fact, my horn just blew around 58,000 miles. It's also not a fuse.

The interior integrity of the car is awful. My visor mirror cover snapped off in year 3, and I rarely use it. The upper console holding the map lights and the sunroof switch hangs down from the roof. When you close my back passenger doors, the inside handles pop out.

Also, if I start my car and move it a little bit, like out of someone's way, and then turn it off, I can't restart the car.

My favorite problem is the brakes--sometimes they work well, sometimes they don't, especially if it's wet outside.

Faults:

My engine unexpectedly exploded and caught on fire on a highway in the middle of nowhere around 15K miles.

My car wouldn't start even at the dealership when they said they finished fixing the car! Had to buy a new battery since the original one melted.

Car stalled out at the dealership before even getting on the highway (luckily).

Car stall's out repeatedly while driving on the highway.

Car stall's out repeatedly at red lights.

Engine consumes quarts of oil (sometimes all the oil) in less than 3000 miles.

Engine gets so hot the CD player melts my CD's.

Blinker's flicker fast, headlight's burn out.

The 2cd engine blows up at 25,000 miles.

The car keeps stalling out everywhere (parking lots, driveways). Car sometimes won't even take a jump and needs to be towed home.

The third engine blows up at 32,000 miles.

A "new perfect engine (2004) " gets put in. I have a mechanic road test it, and at 1000 miles, there is no oil left in the engine. This one gets thrown out, and another junk engine put in.

I have to buy another battery, according to the Nissan manager in Lynn MA on route 1 to fix the stalling out problem. After paying $150, the car stalls out again before I make it home a few miles away. I almost get hit on the highway.

The clutch needs to get replaced.

The factory speakers inside the car stop working (on and off).

The engine keeps consuming excessive oil (and this is the good stuff- mobil) I keep paying for the best oil changes every 3000 miles, sometimes sooner.

Internal lights stop working inside the car.

Speedometer and Tachometer are on and off working.

Service engine light comes on and off throughout whole life of the car. Never a low oil light, not even when the engine runs out of oil and blows up.

The fourth engine eventually won't start or take a jump, Nissan won't touch the car until the engine is completely destroyed, as many times as I bring it to them with problems. Then they just put the same defective engine back in.

The fifth engine stalls and eventually blows out.

A mechanic notices that my exhaust pipe is rusted through, and I have to pay for that myself ($700) since the undercarriage warranty expired at 60K. The car was actually rusting in less than 70K and less than 3 years, even though I paid for the best car washes with undercarriage protectors.

I had a final engine put in around 60K miles. It started stalling out around 67K, and I had to sell it for cheap to a used car salesman. No person would buy the car after seeing the Carfax and no Nissan dealership would even consider buying the car, or accepting it as a trade in. I wonder why...

General Comments:

This car is underpowered, and the stock rims ($760 a piece) crack when you drive over pot holes. I never modified the car. Good thing because that would have voided the warranty and then Nissan would have blamed all the problems on whatever change I made to the car, no matter how unlikely. With all the money I spent trying to fix this car I could have been making payments on any 60K car.