CarComplaints.com Notes: We don't recommend the 2009 Maxima nearly as highly as the 2007-2008 Maxima, because NHTSA complaints show a pattern of the electronic steering column lock module failing.
When the module fails it prevents the car from starting, & Nissan dealers charge over $1,000 (!!) to repair it. Nissan recalled the module on some other 2009 models with the same steering lock problem, but for some reason they left out the 2009 Maxima. See this page on the Nissan Maxima Electronic Steering Column Lock (ESCL) defect.
If you're thinking about buying a 2009 Maxima, instead you might consider a 2007-2008 Maxima, or a newer model year.
If a manufacture is going to include safety devices in a vehicle then they should respond accordingly when needed. They brag about it has this and that rating on safety but when it's time to show and prove that feature is defective. Even Nissan has been contacted and they act as if they do not care that their safety device did not work, nor the fact that it significantly changed the livelihood for each individual involved in the accident in a Negative way. I haven't been able to find one attorney who's not afraid to attack the issue on hand when this has changed our life for the worse. Especially when a physician says that was a near fatal accident and the damages that you have received, we will have to live with for the rest of our lives.
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If a manufacture is going to include safety devices in a vehicle then they should respond accordingly when needed. They brag about it has this and that rating on safety but when it's time to show and prove that feature is defective. Even Nissan has been contacted and they act as if they do not care that their safety device did not work, nor the fact that it significantly changed the livelihood for each individual involved in the accident in a Negative way. I haven't been able to find one attorney who's not afraid to attack the issue on hand when this has changed our life for the worse. Especially when a physician says that was a near fatal accident and the damages that you have received, we will have to live with for the rest of our lives.
- Chip K., Martin, TN, US