chelito92105

Just wondering. I had a 1998 Sentra before and got it up to 200,000 miles and still ran very good (til it got stolen, the bastards) Anyways, just curious if our 02's are as reliable as the old sentras?

Highest mileage?

Captain Obvious

take care of them the same way as you would your older one and yes they are just as realiable
as far as miliage I have done tune ups on an 03 the other day with 197,xxx

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dbot

102000 miles but.... have had problems

chelito92105

What kind of problems?

dbot

well a plugged cat, led to the engine burning oil which i should have caught but i headed out on a long road trip and seized the motor had a new one put in (not knowing the cat was plugged) and that one started burning oil, got another one put in got the cat fixed, and now this one cylinder 1 is hitting the spark plug ACTUALLY HITTING it is leaving pits on the spark plug. so now i have traded in the SER for a maxima I loved the SER when it ran right

 

Captain Obvious

your plugged cat was due to something making the car run rich
I suspect that the timing was off way off
a plugged cat shouldnt make a car burn oil some other thing like blowby on the rings
these are not normal failures on these cars and you indeed had something break internaly and made it jump time
if you didnt have a check engine light I am very surprised and whoever checked it out for you only fixed the symptom (plugged cat) and not fix the problem (way off time)

now not to call BS but I kind of have to
a cylnder hitting a spark plug will not cause pits it will bend the crap out of the plug and leave holes in your piston and will send ceramic all over your engine

your pitting is not from contact you have a knock problem caused by improper time of the engine. which may sound like it hitting something

I suspect bad rings or improper timing without looking at it just future referance

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dbot

i have pictures of the spark plugs, the arms had been bent into the the ceramic and YES it did break many of them, NISSAN has said that it is more than likely the piston are or something that is loose and letting the piston rise too high. either way i loved my SER but i had 1 engine burn out the second burn oil and now the third has the piston issue