2005 Nissan Maxima problems, complaints & recalls

2025-03-03 · Engine

“while driving my car down the road the vehicle randomly shut off lost power and i had to quickly pull into a plaza but was almost hit, looking through many different nissan forums a lot of mechanics and owners are saying that the original crankshaft/camshaft position sensors on the altima/maxima have experienced faulty mechanics over time that caus…”

2023-08-08 · Air Bags · 💥 crash

“on june 6th. 2019 my 2005 nissan maxima struck a disabled vehicle left in the middle lane of the long island expressway (a 3 laned highway). although i was traveling at 60 mph when the collision occurred and struck the disabled vehicle from the rear, the passenger airbag never deployed. this resulted in the passenger receiving significantly more se…”

2022-08-10 · Steering · 107,000 mi

“the contact owns a 2005 nissan maxima. the contact stated that the power steering would fail to operate. the steering wheel would require excessive force in order to steer the vehicle. the contact would frequently replenish the steering fluid however, the failure persisted. the dealer nor the manufacturer had yet to be notified of the failure. the …”

2021-04-03 · Power Train · 120,000 mi

“vehicle makes clunking, jerking noises and bad clunking sounds when you put it into gear or shift gears, digital gear display shows vehicle is in 5th gear all the time, accelerates very slowly.…”

2021-03-11 · Power Train · 275,587 mi

“i have an 05 nissan maxima and the transmission is shifting hard and erratically…”

2020-12-01 · Suspension · 45,500 mi

“the car has a sound as if it were metal fatigue in the front of the hood a hard blow sounds loud every time the car moves from one side to the other they have not been able to find the problem they say what is a factory defect i am afraid that it is a metal that is under fatigue and the engine falls on the ground running on the street.…”

2020-05-07 · Seats:front Assembly:power Adjust · 112,000 mi · 🔥 fire

“tl* the contact owned a 20005 nissan maxima. the contact stated that while sitting in the vehicle, the front driver seat began smoking without warning. the contact jumped out of the vehicle and called the authorities. the fire department arrived as the vehicle became engulfed in flames, the fire was then extinguished. a fire department report was …”

2019-11-12 · Power Train · 112,337 mi

“my car only has 112337 mile and needed to replace the transmission , now at 112954 have to replace the abs control module . the transmission was hard shifting/ jerking when you get to about 30-35 mph . so it cost almost 4,000.00 to fix and the the speedometer and odometer quit working after 500 miles with new transmission and took the car to elect…”

2019-05-02 · Engine · 157,465 mi

“vehicle was in motion and all of a sudden gears started to shift on its own , so stopped on the side of the highway and turned off my engine then i turned it back on after about 15 minutes and it was driving well until after about 10 minutes of driving the gears wouldn't go past 2nd gear…”

2019-04-24 · Unknown Or Other · 109,000 mi

“this danger of which i complain is not absolute to my vehicle but to all others that are made with such shortcut. in previous decades cars were made with a trunk key and or mechanical cable for opening. my 2005 maxima and most recent vehicles are made with only an electronic button to open the trunk. this is very dangerous. recently my car lost po…”