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All of the pre-2000 Nissans my family have owned or that my friends have owned seemed to be pretty decent (I loved my 1996 sentra). I'm really only referring to

• mattlondon 3y ago
  At some point around then I think Renault and Nissan got into some partnership. Since owning a Peugeot in the late 90s/early 00s I have sworn off buying french cars. It required several clutches, brake calipers, a gearbox, wheel bearings, exhausts rotted like fresh fruit ... you name it - over the course of perhaps 4 or 5 years it needed to be replaced (potentially multiple times). Least reliable car I've ever had. The thing that finally killed it was when pulling out across a busy road, the universal joint connecting one of the driven wheels to the drive shaft shattered, the drive shaft slipped out and got wedged between the inner wheel and the brakes and seized the wheel, and then it dumped a load of gearbox oil all over the road. As one of the wheels was now jammed solid it couldn't even be pushed out of the road and blocked traffic for an hour or so while we waited for it to be towed out of the way. I have had non-Nissan Japanese cars (Honda, Toyota, Mazda) since then and they have been flawless without needing anything done apart from standard servicing. Nissan are - in my eyes - french now.