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Originally Posted by paul e

I had a 93 Maxima SE with the higher output motor AND a manual. It was a nice car for me, until…

I pulled into a parking lot and all of a sudden, a click click click from the tranny.

The tranny had a bearing go…at 80k miles. I have never ever had a manual tranny fail, but this one did, it was 1999 and I had been driving manuals for 30 years at that point. And I baby may cars. Nissan wanted $2200 -after a $200 discount to repair.

I later found out that Nissan had known about a bearing problem from a supplier, but also knew that it would not fail until out of warranty. Nice!
This was a few years after a Stanza XE had blown a head gasket at 30k.

I traded the Maxima in for a new 99 V6 Passat 5MT and drove that for 16 years until I bought the 16 340.

I will NEVER buy another Nissan/Infinity or any other junk they produce. Ever. For any reason.

I am sorry to hear. I also did have the issue with the input shaft bearing and I took care of it at 130K. The car died due to a rear end with a 160K and never had any other issues.

I have blow many VW 02J (Manual transmission if you did not know) mated to high output 9A engines (VWs 16V 2.0L) and I still do not call VW garbage.

You must have gotten really lucky with you B5 Passat because they were far from bullet proof. I still own VW despite all the issues I have had. My A5 GLI has been pretty much trouble free to my own standards.

BMW will give you issues so be ready.