# 2000 Nissan Maxima

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-nissan-maxima/66135>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [July 10, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-nissan-maxima/66135 "2011-07-10T23:41:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![azettili](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@azettili](https://community.cartalk.com/u/azettili)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-nissan-maxima/66135/1 "2011-07-10T23:41:40Z")

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Hello, I have recently bought a 2000 Nissan Maxima. The “check engine” light is on and I am unable to figure out why. I have taken the car to the local advance auto parts to get a code reading, but when they plugged in the code reader it didn’t seem to recognize that it was already plugged in. Another thing I have noticed is that whenever I turn off the engine the trip meter resets to zero and if the AC was running before I turn the engine off, it doesn’t come back on when I start the engine again. Also, the clock doesn’t work. I am assuming the same problem is behind all of these issues. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? Please give me some suggestions.