Might be looking at a 97 Altima for my younger brother as a beater. It has 150k on the clock. They are asking $600 for it. Any big things I should look out for on these..
Might be looking at a 97 Altima for my younger brother as a beater. It has 150k on the clock. They are asking $600 for it. Any big things I should look out for on these..
Wheel bearings, auto transmissions and mass air sensors are what I have seen.
The distributors are also crap. Nothing to really look for, as they spontaneously fail, but just keep $100 in you budget for one.
power steering high pressure hoses fail a lot in 90s Nissans, and are aftermarket unobtanium. Like $400 from the steelership. But Im sure some grassrotsy types have got easy fixes...if only we knew some of those types of folks
The engine is a timing chain not a belt so it does not need to be changed often like a belt.
but there's an o-ring in the timing cover that will fail sometimes and you'll loose a lot of oil. cheap time consuming fix you can ignore as long as you keep oil in it.
can't say I've seen many (any?) transmission failures. I know they're not interchangeable, but the transmission is very similar to the one in the maxima.
seen some dead distributors. seen some bad injectors.
not much else. great car from a reliability standpoint. same mpg as a maxima with less power, but at that price who cares.
My wife's 94 SE lasted 192k on the stock clutch and other hardware. Other than oil changes, brakes, tires and one engine tune-up, the car never had any significant work done on it. A great car but boring.
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