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CarComplaints.com Notes: Here's a disturbing trend for the 2002 Nissan Altima: the engine starts burning oil like crazy, the catalytic converter goes bad, the head gasket blows and eventually the entire engine needs replacement. Sound familiar? Like a script from a horror film, these Altimas seem doomed to fail around 95k miles.
8.0
pretty bad- Typical Repair Cost:
- $1,800
- Average Mileage:
- 134,300 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 3 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
- replace catalytic converter (2 reports)
- not sure (1 reports)
exhaust system problem
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
Just started throwing money in the car, bought it with 87,000. miles and was loving it but the car but lost my air 6 months into owning around $1500./ Brakes/ but this year with 104,000. its been cam sensors/coils and now my Catalytic Converterssss yes on the Dual exhaust there are a whole bunch of these Cats and they are COSTLY.. would love to sell it but what to do ,...................
- Steve M., West Palm Beach, FL, US