Is It Me Or Do 240's Always Have Problems?

[TonKpilS14]

It seems like once a week i have to get work done on my 240's... i wanna know if its like this 4 everyone.

2day my car all the sudden started bogging and the cat back is making a weird ass noise. seriously once a week something will happen and its more $$$ haha

[UfoZ8myCow]

Its just you.

I drive the living shit out of my car every single day and the biggest problem Ive ever had was I needed to refill my AC so that it would blow cold again.

[LB.Motoring]

Is it me or are 240's old cars?



OH i forgot.

they are.

suck it up.

[red89rps13]

that used to be me, june was a horrible month. my car would break down at least 2-3 times a week.

[JDMClifford]

ya, i think its only your machanic, if they did there job right the first time it should run for a long time if well maintained. i havent had any problems with my car in 4 months and have probably put 10,000 hard miles on my car since then.

[TonKpilS14]

Its just you.

I drive the living shit out of my car every single day and the biggest problem Ive ever had was I needed to refill my AC so that it would blow cold again.

this is my 2nd 1 and things still go wrong with both haha. i need 2 find a really clean ass s13 not a beater. my s14 was a bitch 2 though

[Z33dori]

ur not alone bro.......

[s13gold]

yeah you're not alone.

[TonKpilS14]

Thx,

that makes me feel a lot better haha.

but how do some people never have problems...

[ms!3]

old cars have problems. so yea. its not just you.

[SexPanda]

My car has a tendency to hit caveliers and corollas...

Does that count?

[gotta240]

I know i'll get flamed to shit for this.... but they AREN'T hondas....

They are nissans.... Not the top of the reliability chart to START with. 10-18 years later they sure as hell won't be the most reliable thing on the street.

[burnsauto]

Is it me or are 240's old cars?



OH i forgot.

they are.

suck it up.

+1

yes, thats awesome, lol.

[tdub377]

Mine S13 has not ran in a year :mad: but thats because I have been taking my sweet sweet time on my full wide body T70 RB25 swap...:naughty:

[ladiesman8527]

i've owned four 240's over the years and haven't had any problems out of any of them. i'd beat on them daily and they never gave me any shit. i think some people just don't take care of their cars until shit starts going wrong.

[!Zar!]

The cheaper you are, the more problems you will encounter.

[bigOdom1]

the lazier you are, the more problems you will encounter

[wannabe_drifter]

I guess it mostly depend on how the previous owner was with his car !!! (obviously)

If you buy it from a seventeen year old, chances are you are gonna have alot of problem (fuckin big mistake i did, fuel pump, water pump, ps pump, ball joints(3, yes 3, all in front !!!), tie rods(2), calipers (2), transmission oil seals (2), e-brakes cables, fan clutch, knock sensor.... in a year !!!)

So well yeah you're not alone... but once you take care of it, it should be good (hopefully !!!)

[yaba94070]

ya.. my cars always need work done to it since i bout it... lol
but its getting more relibalbe by the day

[drift freaq]

I know i'll get flamed to shit for this.... but they AREN'T hondas....

They are nissans.... Not the top of the reliability chart to START with. 10-18 years later they sure as hell won't be the most reliable thing on the street.

Indeed you will, hahahahaha seriously before you go so strongly dissing Nissan. Nissan actually is right up there in the reliability department. I have driven Nissan's all my adult life and they have been completely reliable.
Fact is if you own a car and don't maintain it i.e regular maintenance, its going to fall apart and become unreliable. Thats a fact, no matter what brand it is.

I can personally say, I drove the piss shit out of my Hardbody truck for 9 years all over the city of San Francisco up and down hills and whatnot doing delivery with it for 3 of those years. I changed a couple of starters and one clutch. I drove it socal sold it and its still on the road.

My current S13 daily I bought last January not even running right. Fixed that up right quick and proceed to drive it to the bay area and back . That was 10k miles ago and five trips to the bay area and back. I am about to take it on its 6th trip in the morning. I put 24k on my last daily my old Gun Metal Super Hicas car in a year and a half and 7 trips to the bay area and back. I sold the fucker and year and a half later the guy I sold it to sold it again with the same damn engine! It had 230k on it at the time. It has a SR in it now lol.

Its this simple you buy a car thats mechanically decent you take care of it it will run a long time. Nissans are right up there with Honda and Toyota in the longevity department. Oh wait some of you are to young to realize that Honda was very late to the game and the premier quality Japanese cars were
Toyota and Nissan.
If you think Nissan's are that unreliable then you should just sell your car and shoot yourself. Go ahead get all emo about it.

The car is only as good as the the person who maintains it.

[Tearlessj]

Get a MKIII Supra then say 240's arnt realiable. lol

[worangejuice]

fucking right, mine are just nagging problems, I just passed emissions with super duper readings, and it runs like a champ, all of a sudden today my car just started stalling at idle, I just seafomed the aiiv, and egr stuff, stalling again! and my CEL has been on for like a year, 32 EGR malfunction, hate it. I'm looking into removing it now that I passed smog in the great CA. So just nagging problems, yeah She'll be 15 yrs. old this year, next year she'll be legal!!! haha

[wangan_cruiser]

id say it depends who used it and how they maintain it. if you got your car from some kid who doesnt know shit about cars and all they care is try to drift and drift. that car needs to get checked out. i have some couple of probs on my car. 230k on the clock.... got it for $500 LoL not
bitching about it.

[BustedS13]

It seems like once a week i have to get work done on my 240's... i wanna know if its like this 4 everyone.

2day my car all the sudden started bogging and the cat back is making a weird ass noise. seriously once a week something will happen and its more $$$ haha

wait, did you just say "get work done"? uhhhh

[1Via!]

Thats odd...
The only way that I can tell that my car is working is that it does make weird noises.

[racepar1]

I beat the crap out of my 240 and it almost never breaks down so it's just u man. Maybe if you actually maintained your car you would be better off.

[BustedS13]

Thats odd...
The only way that I can tell that my car is working is that it does make weird noises.

true that. i figure if an s13 doesn't need work at least twice a month, then there's something seriously wrong :D

[WilloW]

I've been daily driving my POS S14 since 2002. I beat on it daily and the only thing I had to fixed changed was brake pads, tires, and all the other maintenance parts. I've been waiting for the KA to blow for the last year, but it still going strong. You just have bad luck dude.

[gotta240]

[quote=drift freaq;1526273]Indeed you will, hahahahaha seriously before you go so strongly dissing Nissan. Nissan actually is right up there in the reliability department. I have driven Nissan's all my adult life and they have been completely reliable.
Fact is if you own a car and don't maintain it i.e regular maintenance, its going to fall apart and become unreliable. Thats a fact, no matter what brand it is.

Although it is "up there" with toyotas and hondas, it isn't THERE. I maintain all my cars very well. In fact, i change the oil TOO often(every 2k. miles or trackday). I'm not saying they are HORRIBLE, but FROM MY EXPERIENCE, toyotas and hondas are MORE reliable... I beat the living piss out of my first honda for 3 years!!! Basically did nothing to it but change a seal and change oil...

Driving the nissan the same way or NOT AS HARD....Gone through 2 motors, a tranny, and more... Again...its part of the game...but I strongly disagree that Toyotas/Hondas should even be placed in the same category of reliability as NISSANS.... NO WAY>

[mRclARK1]

Me and Yuri concluded already awhile back that 240's = The Millenium Falcon of imports

Fun and great when they work... but they always have there little quirks, and most a jury rigged here and there in some form.

Now we just need Harrison Ford to pick up an S-chassis.

[SC_S13]

nobody can catch this baby......*clunk*

yep, han couldnt have said it better.


running 240sx FTW haha

[racepar1]

Although it is "up there" with toyotas and hondas, it isn't THERE. I maintain all my cars very well. In fact, i change the oil TOO often(every 2k. miles or trackday). I'm not saying they are HORRIBLE, but FROM MY EXPERIENCE, toyotas and hondas are MORE reliable... I beat the living piss out of my first honda for 3 years!!! Basically did nothing to it but change a seal and change oil...

Driving the nissan the same way or NOT AS HARD....Gone through 2 motors, a tranny, and more... Again...its part of the game...but I strongly disagree that Toyotas/Hondas should even be placed in the same category of reliability as NISSANS.... NO WAY>[/quote]


Man u've gone through 2 motors and a trans in how long?????? What the hell are you doing to your car? I've been beating the hell out of my 240 motor for 3 years now, it has 175000 miles and the only major repair was a head job and that wouldn't have been necessary if I would have checked the coolant regularly (water pump had a slow leak). From my experience a well maintained 240 is just as bulletproof as a honda or toyota.

[BustedS13]

240's = The Millenium Falcon of imports

Fun and great when they work... but they always have there little quirks, and most a jury rigged here and there in some form.

Now we just need Harrison Ford to pick up an S-chassis.

she'll hold together.

hear me baby? hold together.

[mRclARK1]

she'll hold together.

hear me baby? hold together.


"What a piece of junk!"
- Luke Skywalker

I want a wookie who will roar at people for saying that to, riding shotgun with me. :keke:

[ixfxi]

It seems like once a week i have to get work done on my 240's... i wanna know if its like this 4 everyone.

2day my car all the sudden started bogging and the cat back is making a weird ass noise. seriously once a week something will happen and its more $$$ haha

hey

dont blame us because your car is a rolling disaster.

if you want to do something about it, learn to work on it and maintain it.

any car can be a pile of shit if its not properly maintained, especially a pile of shit that is over a decade (or two) old

[k's_silvia2.0]

^YUP......Take of it and it will take care of you.

[Prok0]

Yep, maintain your shit and you wont have a problem.

Like everyone has been saying, its an old car, so you gotta give it a little love every now and then if you expect it to get the shit beat out of and still run like the day it rolled off the assembly line.

[BustedS13]

"What a piece of junk!"
- Luke Skywalker


watch your mouth kid, or you'll find yourself.... well, walking home.

[WERDdabuilder]

and you think you werent gonna have problems with the 240 before you bought it?

[xanavi_D]

my car ran PERFECT.

then i got an sr.....

[FusionR240sx]

my car ran PERFECT.

then i got an sr.....
+1 to that. hahah

its fun while it lasts

[Dirty Habit]

wait, did you just say "get work done"? uhhhh

I thought the same exact thing. Id rather work on my own car and fuck it up than have someone else fuck it up for an additional 90 bucks an hour.

[EndLeSS8]

I don't think you've met Mr. RX7 yet....

[UNISA JECS]

I drive my 91 240SX SE coupe everyday and do 740mile road trips about once a week in it back and forth from Turlock, CA to Fontana, CA.

[!Zar!]

I don't think you've met Mr. RX7 yet....

I have.

Were good friends.

Why you ask?

Because I'm not a water drinker.

[lukem80]

other than mine leaking out a few drops of oil daily from the oil pan... i've had no problems

my mom uses the nissan hardbody trucks on her postal route. she's owned about 8 of them over the years.. most were the SOHC 2.4.. she has a 02 now with a dohc.. pretty much the same thing as a 240sx with a different intake manifold.. she beat the piss out of them till 200K and had minimum problems.. mostly tranny.

nissans are pretty tough.. just gotta take care of them.

[speedstar01]

Is it me or are 240's old cars?



OH i forgot.

they are.

suck it up.

this is true, we are driving older cars here. but once all the annoying little things get fixed and old parts get updapted the 240 is a pretty tough and reliable machine. ive had no issues for about a year now (not including small minor 5 minute fixes....light bulbs, chaning old fuses, replacing old rusty bolts, etc. :love: i really :love: :love: :love: my 240!!

[exitspeed]

My first hatch was a beast. Ran great after the initial tune-up.

My coupe is a different story. Still working out the bugs with it.

[hellion240sx]

yeah i have spent sooooo much money on my S13 getting it fixed, but then again i got it in a baaaaad condition. aftre that its been fine. just recently got an sr, only problem was the tps. been runnin like a champ ever since. but now it is in the air getting a suspension overhaul. i beat mine up when it had the ka and never had a problem 169k. i tried to blow it up. well didn't try to hard. but damn near close to it. i got my S13 blacktop sr in june of 05 and have put only about 10k-12k miles on it :D and now i got an S14 thats only has a few problems that need fixing: its an auto, some wheels and tires, better suspension, more power! but it has only 41K miles on it so i'm not gonna give in to the modding demons anytime soon :D

[steve shadows]

It's You :-/

[axiomatik]

my car ran PERFECT.

then i got an sr.....

lol, I've had the opposite experience. Had all sorts of problems with the sohc. Since I went SR, 3.5 years of smooth sailing. Except for the turbo-to-manifold bolts like to loosen up every 8 months to a year, but that's it.

[frosti108]

when i 1st got my 92, i got it for 600 with a salvage title. never did figure out why it was salvage but i LOVED that car. took my 3 months to get it on the road with a clean title and when i did, i beat the living crap out of it every chance i could :D
never had any serious problems with it besides the mysterious overheating thing. never really figured that out. i was always trying to bleed the air out of the coolant but it never really fixed it... but yea i loved that car and it never really had problems. and you better believe i beat the crap out of it. now its my friend's and has an SR in it.

my 91 never had 1 problem except that it was ugly as crap from being crashed all up by the previous owner. i parted that out.

the 89 that i currently have, is a pos. i bought it with a blown timing chain for 100 dollars. i got another motor... all that crap. put it all in. got it running. and now the clutch is being ghey/. havent really figured it out yet, might be the transmission falling apart. but anyway, i have spare trans laying around so pretty soon ill be drivin this baby with the z31 turbo i put on. this will be my 1st sohc 240sx. i doubt it will have too many probs except for boost related things since this is my 1st time doing my own boost setup from scratch.

240sx FTW

[steve shadows]

people who can't handle basic mechanical or troubleshooting issues on 240sx and have so many complaints should just buy a Pontiac soltics. or that Saturn pile of shit.

RWD, forced induction, good to go.

they even have mechanics who work on it for you! under a warrantee ?! think of that

[BustedS13]

people who can't handle basic mechanical or troubleshooting issues on 240sx and have so many complaints should just buy a Pontiac soltics. or that Saturn pile of shit.

RWD, forced induction, good to go.

they even have mechanics who work on it for you! under a warrantee ?! think of that

nobody should buy a saturn, ever. buying a saturn at any point is like buying a hyundai with 100k on the clock. it just isn't done.

[TonKpilS14]

I beat the crap out of my 240 and it almost never breaks down so it's just u man. Maybe if you actually maintained your car you would be better off.


how do u know if i maintain it and dont?

:mrmeph:

[Maxstyle]

I really don't mind the little things to fix here and there. Keeps me busy. And gives me a reason to buy shit. I call it my motivation. HA.

[TonKpilS14]

Man u guys r so negative. i just wanted 2 know if u guys have probs 2.

i know they are destined for probs when i bought it. i do maintain my shit. and i dont even drive my daily driver hard. i replaced everything. just sometimes i feel like its not worth working on it so much 2 drive it so little.

[EndLeSS8]

I have.

Were good friends.

Why you ask?

Because I'm not a water drinker.

Mr. RX7 must really laek mudkips.

[!Zar!]

Mr. RX7 must really laek mudkips.

<3<3<3<3<3<3

[UNISA JECS]

Although it is "up there" with toyotas and hondas, it isn't THERE. I maintain all my cars very well. In fact, i change the oil TOO often(every 2k. miles or trackday). I'm not saying they are HORRIBLE, but FROM MY EXPERIENCE, toyotas and hondas are MORE reliable... I beat the living piss out of my first honda for 3 years!!! Basically did nothing to it but change a seal and change oil...

Driving the nissan the same way or NOT AS HARD....Gone through 2 motors, a tranny, and more... Again...its part of the game...but I strongly disagree that Toyotas/Hondas should even be placed in the same category of reliability as NISSANS.... NO WAY>


Man u've gone through 2 motors and a trans in how long?????? What the hell are you doing to your car? I've been beating the hell out of my 240 motor for 3 years now, it has 175000 miles and the only major repair was a head job and that wouldn't have been necessary if I would have checked the coolant regularly (water pump had a slow leak). From my experience a well maintained 240 is just as bulletproof as a honda or toyota.[/quote]

I dunno before owning a S13 240SX I owned 1991 B13 Sentra SR20DET and drove the shit outta it at 10psi allday everyday seeing 7,500rpm at a minimum 100 times a day atleast I drove this damn car just for the fun of it never had a problem other than breaking axles about every 2-3 months but then again im anal about things when it comes to my cars (mechanically) so.....

[KA24DESOneThree]

Replaced water pump and had a weird dizzy thing that only happened for a period of about 12 hours.

Otherwise I'm out there at track days redlining in 120* heat like it's nothing.

[shift_s14]

the lazier you are, the more problems you will encounter

...fuck:keke:

lol.