# 2000 Maxima Ignition Coils

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-maxima-ignition-coils/6622>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [October 30, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-maxima-ignition-coils/6622 "2007-10-30T20:03:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![nselse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19adc/32.png) [@nselse](https://community.cartalk.com/u/nselse)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-maxima-ignition-coils/6622/1 "2007-10-30T20:03:59Z")

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I have heard these are really unreliable and have gotten a bid from a local garage (whm I trust) to replace all 6 for $1150. I have two questions:  
  
 1) I am wondering if this is something I can do myself as I am really mechanically imclined?  
  
 2) Do I need to replace all 6 or can I do them 1 at a time/as they fail?

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**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-maxima-ignition-coils/6622/2 "2007-10-30T23:20:34Z")

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The coils aren’t all that difficult to replace. Probably two or three screws hold the coil to the ignition module. After the screws are removed, you just unplug the coil from the ignition module.

Do you replace them all? No! Just replace them as they fail.

Tester

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**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-maxima-ignition-coils/6622/3 "2007-10-31T05:23:23Z")

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Out of six new ones, you could get three bad ones.