2000 nissan-altima intake manifold gasket has failed at 44500 miles. Repairs are est. At $850.00. According to the nissan advisor the lifetime of the gasket should exceed 100000 miles. Nissan has a program to correct any unusual defects after the warranty is expired but they refuse to honor their agreement.
2000 Nissan Altima engine complaints
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1) normal driving - sel light came on p0304 and rough engine idle 2) intake manifold gasket failed - poor idle - will not pass emission test - 60k miles 3) replaced gasket after finding many other owners had same problem even after 32k miles. Nissan should fix this under an extended warranty but they refused. Here are details of the issue: there is an engineering or material defect on the ka24de engine in regards to the intake manifold gasket. From reading the posts of dozens of owners it appears it is happening to engines made in the 00-01 time frame. If this were just some random problem then you would expect to see about the same number of posts on p0304 and gasket leaks for any year car. Just about all the posts concern specifically 00-01. The first hand evidence I had is when I took off my intake manifold and checked the condition of the gasket. The side with the leak was at cylinder 4. When I took off the gasket, the material at the cylinder 4 side was what I can only describe as "baked". It was hard and brittle and would just crack or snap very easily. The closer the gasket was to the number 1 cylinder it remained more pliable. Obviously the gasket seems to hold up better closer to cylinder 1 because it is cooler there - that is where the passage for the coolant is. This problem causes a p0304 code to get thrown. That is a misfire at cylinder 4. Again, if this were some random problem - couldn't we reasonably expect a normal distribution of the cylinder misfire code from p0301, 302, 303, and 304? But that is not the case. I don't think I have seen any posts on anything other than p0304. There is extra heat around cylinder 4 above what the gasket material is rated for - which is an engine design issue. 2 cars verified so far happen to be california emission vehicles it seems plausible that the extra heat is related to the emission control devices these cars have - specifically the extra cat converter.
Normal driving he intake manifold gasket failed. He vehicle is running poorly, poor gas mileage.
While driving at an undetermined speed the vehicle stalled. The consumer had the vehicle towed to the dealer. The mechanic could not duplicate the problem. *ak
While driving at any speed engine failed. No impact reported. *ak the vehicle has been taken to the dealer twice but the technician could not find the cause of the problem.
When driving, gauges suddenly stop working. The tachometer, engine temperature gauge, fuel gauge freeze in place. The speedometer registers the max and the digital odometer went to zero.
Engine warning light came on and stayed on. The dealership replaced engine, problem reocurred.
While driving the vehicle shut off. Dealer notified. Ph
Consumers stated that car cuts off when engine gets hot. Please provide additional information. Ph
Please call if you have any new info on my car before its too late thanks!!!!!!!. No safety defect listed.
While driving on interstate 75 at speed of 75 MPH vehicle engine shut off, vehicle was towed to dealer location whereby service dept. Indicated the overheating was caused by driving in flooded condition when in true fact there was not more than 1" of water on the highway that afternoon. Service dept. Analysis was diagonised as driving in flooded conditions hence causing at 75 MPH the radiator fan blade to be pushed back over 3-4" towards the radiator causing the plastic fan blade to penetrate the radiatoir causing the engine to overheat. This dassumption by the service technicans makes no logical sense as the forces required to cause such damage is not logical. The fan blade sits at least 3-4" behind the radiator and would require great forces to move it forward in the opposite direction to sustain such an incident, there was no apparent damage to the plastic blade. Dealer and nissan refuses to accept warranty and as such I have had to involve my insurance company.
The failure happened twice today. I drove my nissan altima gxe in new york, ny on aug. 19, 2000 at about 6:30pm. When I was approaching traffic lights at speed about 15-20 MPH the engine died and emergency lights went off. I was able to stop and restart my car. 10-15 minutes later, while moving in slow traffic at about 15 MPH the engine died again and at this time both emergency lights and sound alarm went off. I was lucky once more to stop safely. I turned off the alarm using alarm key on the ignition key-chain and restarted car again. I used original nissan ignition key with "smart chip". Gas tank was 1/4 full. On july 22, 2000 my car had recomended by nissan 7500 mile interval service.
Consumer experienced exhaust system failure which resulted in exhaust fumes entering the vehicle and resulting in the driver feeling ill (headache, asthma attacks). Nlm
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