Other engine problem on the 2000 Nissan Maxima
1 fire 1 of the 41 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other engine problem gets reported
Owners of the 2000 Nissan Maxima report other engine problem at a median of 60,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 105,000 miles, from 22 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 3rd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 30,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 140,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 108,100 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
14% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29,800 miles | 45,000 miles | 60,000 miles | 105,823 miles | 137,900 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a fire is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $300–$4,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 20 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 1997, at a median of 20,000 miles, and latest on the 2002 at 110,000 miles.
By volume the 2003 carries the most reports, with 67; the 2000 has 41. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Safety defect with the malfunction indicator lamp or service engine soon light as it relates to the rear oxygen sensors in the 2000 nissan maxima. Failure to replace oxygen sensors could ultimately result in further vehicle failure and possible injury. This is a safety defect in the manufacture of the vehicle and not due to the negligence of the owner for the upkeep of the car. Safety defect is a common problem to 2000-2002 nissan maximas based on several technical service bulletins issued by nissan, and based on my own literature search over the internet, however, nissan has not yet issued a recall. The total cost to replace the rear oxygen sensors and reprogram the emission control system was $363.21. *la
We had been smelling gasoline inside the car for about a day. When we started the car in the morning there was a little difficulty starting the car. We backed out and noticed some liquid in our parking space. Upon checking the liquid smelled like gasoline. When I checked under the hood, there was a gasoline leak when we started the car (spraying all over the engine). The injector fuel line where it goes into the fuel rail was leaking at the crimp clamp. The part was not available anywhere in the united states. (we were at the end of a weeks vacation in arizona). We thought we found a used part but it was the wrong one. Finally, after we had to rent a car to come home, nissan said it would be shipping the part to our mechanic's distributor and would be available in 5 - 10 days. I had to take a bus back to arizona to pick up the car. It could have been a catastrophe if the car had caught fire or if we were in a desolate or precarious area where we had been earlier that week. *ak
The check engine light came on while traveling. Vehicle was taken to the mechanic, and the engine coils were found to be defective. A complaint was registered with the manufacturer. However, manufacturer refused assistance.*ak......these coils have a flaw in design which results in one or more engine misfires. Nissan has improved the design in newer models. However, nissan refused to help customers. Total cost of replacing the coils was $750.00. *ak
Also reported on the 2000 Nissan Maxima
Other electrical problem
Misfire or rough idle
Other body or interior problem
Radiator or coolant leak
Engine sensor failure
Premature brake pad or rotor wear
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 41 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other engine problem happen on the 2000 Nissan Maxima?
Across 22 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 60,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 105,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other engine problem on the 2000 Nissan Maxima?
41 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 237 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed