Faults:

Have not had any major problems with the car.

Replaced the starter at around 120,000 miles.

Sunroof rattles now (But car is 9 years old and has a lot of miles.)

General Comments:

This has been a great little car.

We have never been really careful with maintenance schedules and have had no significant problems.

The reliability of this little guy has exceeded my expectations and it still starts every morning and runs like a dream. (It runs as well as it did new.)

The inside is a little tight with the addition of a new baby to our family (But it is still comfortable as we are not large people.)

I guess we could have traded in and got a newer car, but why do this when the car is still meeting our needs. Besides it's been paid for a long time.

Faults:

Had to replace CV boots.

Alternator went out at 125000.

Radio just stopped working.

At about 145000 the fan stopped working unless it was turned up to level 4.

General Comments:

Overall very reliable.

Very low maintence car.

It gets me from point A to B and I don't have much too worry about.

The cruise control slips when it goes up a slight hill sometimes and then will reve up to catch up to the speed it should be at.

I've had it in all types of weather from cold and blizzard like to extremely hot. It has not had any weather related problems.

Faults:

At 59,000 miles, the power tran had to be replaced. Fortunately, it was still under warranty.

After owning it for two years, I had to replace the front brakes because a large chunk of the metal was taken out of the rotor on the driver side. At the same time, I replaced the tires because of a bubble on the inside of the tire on the front driver side. And I replaced the front driver side CV Boot, which was torn.

At about 80,000 miles, I had to replace the thermostat.

At about 95,000 miles, I had to replace the front driver side CV Boot again because it was torn.

At about 100,000 miles the timing chain broke. That cost me about $200 to fix.

At 102,000 miles I had to fix the inner front tie rods, replaced the battery and the starter also went out. A rebuilt starter was put in and a month later burned out. Another starter was put in and it burned out two days later. The mechanic is now putting in a actual Nissan starter to see if that will fix the problem. I hope it will.

Also, I know my back brakes are getting bad and I will probably have to fix them in 6 to 12 months. The car will be at about 103,500 miles by then.

Sometime in the past couple of years (20,000 miles) the radio led won't work.

General Comments:

I really fell in love with this car when I bought it. It has been a great little car.

There isn't much leg room and not as much trunk space as I would like. But it gets me around.

It's generally been reliable. It seems like most of the breakdowns have been in the last 20,000 miles.

I've replaced the spark plugs and there was a recall on a clip on the window wipers which the dealer fixed.